Janitor
| CUSTODIAL STAFF | |
  Janitor |
Access: Janitor's Closet, Maintenance Difficulty: Easy Supervisors: Head of Personnel Duties: Clean people's trash and blood. Replace broken lights. Make people fall down. USE THE WET FLOOR SIGNS!! Guides: no external guides |
You point to the wet floor sign.
You are tasked with mopping up blood, oil, dust and vomit. Also under your purview is replacing broken or missing light bulbs and tubes, and picking up litter. It's more fun than it sounds!
Stellar Patrol, its not a job, its an adventure!
You have the most important time consuming, under appreciated and ultimately pointless job on the station. You keep small areas from looking shitty while the areas you've already cleaned are covered with blood and litter again. You'll clean floors, toss out junk, replace broken lights and overall, keep the station resembling a workplace and not an anarchist playground!
Equipment
- Galoshes that prevent you from slipping on wet floors and items such as bananas and the clown's PDA, but do nothing on space lubed floors
- Bottle of space cleaner that will sadly quickly run out and need to be replenished by chemistry
- Three space cleaner foam grenades
- A bucket for filling your janitorial cart
A lottoo few wet floor signs- A haz-mat suit thats hood will come in handy to prevent you getting facehugged by an alien and both pieces of which will protect against viruses when used with internals
- A water tank to fill your janitorial cart from using your bucket
- Two boxes of light bulbs to refill your light replacer or give to assistants so they can help replace lights
- A state-of-the-art light replacer used to remove broken light tubes from light fixtures and replace them with new ones with one click
- A box of mouse traps apparently to terrorise the poor mice that never leave maintenance without Assistance
- Two bear traps for trapping Space Bears or your colleagues
- And your
pimp-as-fuck Janitor cartno it was too good for this world - A janitorial cart which holds a mop bucket, four signs, mop, spray bottle, trash bag and light replacer
Most least importantly, you have your pride and joy purple soft cap to signify your duty to the station who to lynch when the Clown is wetting floors.
WARNING
Drop warning signs where you mop. People get pissed when you don't. You don't have enough to cover every area you clean and between lag and everyone running everywhere they're usually not spotted until people are already on their backs, but they can't blame you for doing the best you can with the tools you have!
Shaking up those you slipped is a great way to maintain favour with the crew. Smugly pointing at one of your signs is a great way to incur their ire.
The crew tend to be less then welcoming of your efforts to clean.
Also, if people are chasing you, throw a bucket of water behind you, or where they will run into it, as they likely want to steal from you (your shoes are valuable). Or fill your spray bottle with a little water to quickly take down huge amounts of people.
People assume if anyone slips, it was your doing, this may or may not be true. Often it was the god damn chemist with space lube, or a clown with a bucket of water. Intelligent crew know the difference between slipping on a wet floor and slipping on a lubed floor though.
Make sure the detective has cleared a scene before you clean up an area of some blood. Follow people dragging dead bodies to medbay, they leave massive trails of blood when they drag a body which means more work for you.
Don't be that asshole who finds the need to clean during a stationwide emergency, slipping people over who are in a hurry to get critical people to medbay or escape a loose singularity. Clean floors stop mattering when the shuttle is arriving in six minutes and half the station is destroyed.
People are going to accidentally charge your cart halfway down the hallway. Nice people will get on the other side of it and push it back to you. There's no avoiding this, apart from not using the cart and relying on the spray bottle, or on buckets of water held on your person. The latter would require you to carry signs too.
Cleaning Without Being Lynched
Your mop bucket holds 100 units of liquid. This does not need to be straight water. If you're able to get Chemistry to give you 50 units of ammonia and mix it with 50 units of water, congratulations! You've just created 100 units of Space Cleaner and mopping the floor does not leave it slippery. People will still assume that if you're mopping without the signs that you're creating a safety hazard, so make sure to correct them BEFORE they choke you to death.
Remember that your bottle of Space Cleaner can clean tiles instantly as well. If you aim sufficiently far from your actual position, you can clean up to three bloody tiles in a single spray. Extremely useful to clean up quickly your guilty trails.
By right-clicking on the spray bottle, it allows you to dump out the contents of it.
Spray people with space cleaner if they are covered in blood around their head and chest (but not if they have bloody gloves). This usually makes people happy, as Sec officers won't hound them as much. Some times the station needs a hero though, all you need to do is mop the right floor, or spray water at the right time to stop the worst fiend man has ever known.
Conspicuously Clean Floors
As a traitor you're going to have a tough time. While you are perfectly capable of cleaning up your evidence, you have very little access to the station. The best you can do is throw water in front of your target so he falls, drag him into the nearest maintenance tunnel, and beat him dead with your mop a fire extinguisher. Be practical.
Your garbage bag is handy for hiding objects in, as it's rarely checked during a search.
Setting bear traps can slow people down until someone else is kind enough to remove it from their leg. You don't need a low light area to hide it, you can place it under an object with a large sprite such as a backpack, or you can just leave it uncovered and wait for the inevitable runner to zoom into it without time to notice it and stop.
Your light replacer can also be used to set deadly traps. Emagging your light replacer will make all lights you replace be rigged with plasma, causing them to explode when they are turned on. Be cautious though, replacing an active with an emagged-light replacer will instantly cause the light bulb to explode! Turn off the light first!
Your galoshes and spray bottle/mop can be used in conjunction with water to create (visible) tiles that cause reasonably lengthy stuns on those who run across them, but don't affect you. You can also use your galoshes in conjunction with your cleaner grenades (which you can order more of through cargo) to create a large area that cannot be crossed without slipping (I believe it also applies to walkers) by anyone but hulks, fellow traitors with noslips, and yourself. Anyone caught on the foam area will not be able to move without falling over until it disperses. You can then cross the foam and walk into them on a non-help intent to push them over, provided you're pushing them onto another foam tile. This will stun them for long enough to handcuff them, choke them, beat them and cause extra knockdowns, or remove their headset.
You can often ask the HoP for more access to clean with. This may get you into the department your target works in.
You have maintenance as a janitor, despite the fact you're probably not going to clean there. The majority of positions (security most importantly) don't have maintenance. Use this to your advantage. You also have an escape chute in your custodial closet (your disposal), and a back door leading into maintenance.
