Janitor

Your dimly lit hellhole of a closet.

Knowing the Janitor

At it's core, the job of a janitor is to keep the station clean. However, there is little incentive to do so unless you care about round score or personal objectives (you weirdo). That said, the janitor gets his own dimly lit office (the custodial closet) and has a variety of unique toys to play with. Coupled with having very little responsibility to the station, that makes the janitor a great beginner job. However! The janitor can be surprisingly important! As MadaloreGaming (Youtube) sees it, the janitor is the first line of defense against total anarchy. If a station looks like a shithole, the crew will act the same.

The Janitor's Arsenal

All of these items spawn in the custodial closet.

Mop: The basic floor-cleaning device. Using it on a floor will attempt to wash it. Before washing can occur, the mop must first be wet.

Mop bucket: The big blue bucket on wheels. Can hold a large amount of liquid to dip your mop in, but must be dragged around behind you. Expect it to be stolen constantly.

Bucket: The small blue bucket with a handle. Used to transfer liquids from a water tank to the mop bucket, though it's usually faster to click-drag the tank onto the mop bucket to fill it up to the brim in one go.

Buff-R-Matic: A big blue Zamboni-looking thing. It functions much like a segway, as you must drag yourself onto it, and you may be pushed off. Unlike a segway however, you will coat the floors with any chemicals you put in its reservoir tank. Comes filled with a mixture of water and space cleaner.

Wet floor signs: Put these down after you mop a busy intersection and simply point to them and sigh after people slip on wet floors. Mopping without putting down wet floor signs is general regarded as an open invitation for the crew to space your mop bucket (and you, if they're feeling particularly ornery).

Galoshes: The janitor's (mostly) unique footwear. Prevents slipping on wet floors when worn, though you are still vulnerable to space lube, ice and certain other chemical spills. Only two pairs of galoshes are found on the station: one in the custodial closet and the other in the small janitorial storage room. There may be another pair lurking somewhere in deep space.

Mousetraps: Besides killing the chef's only friend, these can be used to just annoy folks or for more nefarious purposes with the right equipment. Anyone who steps on an armed mousetrap while barefoot will be stunned and take damage.

Cleaner grenades: A powerful anti-filth explosive. Click on it while it is in your active hand to pull the pin, then throw it. Explodes in a big cloud of foam that will remove most filth, but make the floors wet.

Spray bottles: Some of your bottles contain space cleaner, others are empty and be filled with whatever reagent you desire. If you're more interested in doing your job as opposed to slipping people up, stick to space cleaner as it actually cleans up dirt and blood and what-not, unlike bottles filled with pure water.

Sponge: Used to dry up floors. Why you would ever want to do that is a mystery.

Trash Cart: A big green cart for stuffing litter (or corpses) into. Expect it to be pushed around and the items spilled. A lot.

Trash bags: Comes in two varieties: Standard (black) and bio-hazardous (red). Can fit a number of normal sized items into them, and can be disposed of easily in either a trash cart or in disposal chutes. (The two kinds of trash bags are functionally identical)

Crew Objectives

As a loyal crew member, you can sometimes be assigned some strictly optional objectives to keep yourself busy while you wait for something to happen. As a janitor, you can expect to see the following:

End the round medbay/brig/the bar spotless
There are a few different objectives like this, but they're all the same, they just want there to be no messes that you can clean up with your mop in the targeted area. With the exception of the bar and medbay, this typically happens without you doing a thing. But if you want to be more proactive, bug the roboticist for a cyborg arm and make a cleanbot. Deliver the cleanbot to the place the objective requests. Then walk away, you're basically done.

Syndicate Janitors

The Syndicate janitor is well-equipped for a messy, horrifying rampage. His cleaner grenades appear to be regular at first, but in fact lay down a mess of acid and space lube in their path. Anyone who holds still will be horribly burned; anyone who runs away or moves into help will smash their face as they slip on the space lube. Your regular cleaning grenades also serve as an excellent getaway tool, slipping up the security forces out for your blood while you run off unharmed. If you can gain access to chemistry, you can load your empty spray bottles with devastating concoctions or turn them into makeshift flamethrowers. Finally, the trash compactor, disguised as a regular trash container, will quickly turn any slipped victim you capture into a cube of meat that explodes into messy (and uncloneable) gibs.

You COULD use your maintenance and disposals access to skulk around silently dispatching and disposing your targets... but that would be lame. Traitor janitors are all about live fast, die young!

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