Moira Brown

Moira Brown is the 24-year-old owner of Craterside Supply in Megaton. She makes the Lone Wanderer complete tasks that will help her write her book, The Wasteland Survival Guide, which Three Dog says will get you killed faster than you can hug a death claw.
== Biography ==
A self-styled inventor, Moira grew up with an uncommon curiosity about the world in the trading community of Canterbury Commons. Sometime before 2263, she moved to Megaton. She's read almost every book that's come through the town.
Although Moira's reading has taught her a wide variety of useful bits of knowledge, she has nearly no actual experience with the world, so she doesn't always understand how it can be applied outside of her workshop. After a recent accident with a domesticated centaur, Moira was inspired to write a book to help others survive in the wasteland and avoid similar dangers.
Moira is the owner of Craterside Supply. She spends the day sweeping and trading as well as conducting odd experiments. She opens the store at 8:00 a.m. and closes at 8:00 p.m. The Megaton Craterside Supply store is also her home, and she sleeps upstairs.
If the Lone Wanderer is caught trespassing after hours, she will become increasingly upset. The only time she will leave her shop is if Megaton is destroyed in the quest "The Power of the Atom". If The Wasteland Survival Guide quest is completed before Megaton is destroyed, she will instead stay near the entrance to the ruins and only has the option to repair equipment, lacking an option to trade.
After the guide was completed (with the help of the Lone Wanderer), it achieved considerable popularity, managing to reach places like the distant Mojave Wasteland in less than four years. By the time of Fallout 4, The Wasteland Survival Guide had become a series, with multiple guides on subjects ranging from self-defense to hunting and farming, many of such issues can be found in the Commonwealth.
By 2297, at age 44, she continued to run the Craterside Supply and the distribution network of The Wasteland Survival Guide. On 10th September, she began work on a biography of the Lone Wanderer.
==Personality==
Moira has the strange enthusiasm for science, but despite her quirks, Moira really does not have an ulterior motive aside from wanting to help people with what she discovers from her experiments. In fact, her driving motivation behind her actions is to aid the entire Wasteland, courtesy of publishing the definitive guide on how to survive in a post apocalyptic world. Seeing as the guide got as far as the Mojave Wasteland in just four years (boosting The Courier's survival skills), it seems that the Lone Wanderer helped her extensively in her research.
If the Lone Wanderer blows up Megaton, she does not die. Instead, she is ghoulified. If the "Wasteland Survival Guide" quest is started, or she is met and gives the armored vault jumpsuit to the Lone Wanderer, she can be found at Megaton ruins. If the quest was not started, she can be found in the Underworld, whereupon she will claim she was 'out-of-town' during the detonation and is apparently unaware of her recent affliction. Depending on how the Lone Wanderer breaks the news to her, she will either fall into despair or remain positive.
Convincing her that is a bad idea to write The Wasteland Survival Guide will result in a 30% discount on her wares, as well as an increase of her Repair skill from 24 to 54 (72% condition). Karma will be lost, but the Dream Crusher perk is given to the player character. This will also make her considerably less positive and more gloomy.
==Quotes==
Event/Topic 	Quote
Meeting Lone Wanderer in Megaton. 	"Good to meet you! I'm Moira Brown. I run Craterside Supply, but what I really do is mostly tinkering and research."
Meeting Lone Wanderer in Underworld. 	"Hey, new in town? Good to meet you! I'm Moira Brown. I take care of supplies and repairs here, but what I really do is mostly tinkering and research."
On her book. 	"Well, it's a dangerous place out there in the Wastes, right? People could really use a compilation of good advice. Like a Wasteland Survival Guide! For that, I need an assistant to test my theories. I wouldn't want anyone to get hurt because of a mistake. Nobody's ever happy when that happens. [...] I'm still working on that survival guide that I told you about. Great idea, but I need help to test some of the theories. Oh, did you reconsider helping me out? Because that'd be super awesome!"
Lone Wanderer requests the armored jumpsuit.	"Oh, sure. I mean, if you're going to be my assistant, it's in my best interest that you stay alive, right? Besides, I guess the original owner isn't coming back to pick it up, so you're the closest thing to an inheritor. Here!"
Explaining what she does. 	"Why, I'm an inventor, a tinkerer, and a general genius of junk. One person's junk is another's treasure, you know. And traders bring in lots of junk, so I get dibs on anything particularly nifty. Sure, I don't have as much to sell, but it's more fun this way!"
The book's progress 	"I'm still working out the kinks in the first chapter. I'm calling it, 'Survive'. It's about dealing with the day-to-day needs out there. Finding food and water, avoiding hazards like radiation and traps. That sort of stuff."
First task. 	"So, how's the scavving been? Got the food and medicine from that Super-Duper Mart?"
The book's progress 	"Oh, I'm writing up the second chapter right now. It's called, 'Thrive'. It covers the various ways to get ahead and stay ahead of the various predators out there. And how to patch yourself up if you don't!"
Second task. 	"Oh? Feeling a bit under the weather? Or a bit over the Geiger-counter? [...] Well, you're alive... That's the good news. But there was a little side effect. A teeny, tiny, um, mutation. But it seems to be benign, at least. Here, take a few radiation chems, as my little way of saying, "I'm sorry I twisted your DNA like a kitten with a ball of yarn"."
The book's progress 	"In the last stretch, now! The last chapter's going to be called, 'Revive'. It's all about how we can rebuild society and humanity, learning how to use old tech, preserving knowledge, building communities, and so on. It's a little ambitious, yeah. But why aim low, right?"
Third task. 	"How are those hot little potatoes? Because, you know, they're on the ground, like potatoes. And hot, because they, um, explode... Anyway, what's up? [...] How are those hot little potatoes? Or whatever. You know what I mean."
The book's progress 	"Oh, I've been doing a bit of research into ways to communicate with Centaurs. I mean, they should be able to talk, since they're mostly human. Or, at least, parts of them are mostly human. Sort of."
Fourth task. 	"Oh, I can't wait to hear how the repellent's working!"
The book's progress 	"I was considering a new way to make irradiated ground fertile again with some mixture of brahmin dung and crushed rad-away. Of course, even if that works, the real problem would be irrigating the fields. And that'd require water."
Fifth task. 	"So, are they intelligent? Do they have a leader? Some sort of king? Or priests? Or some sort of scaly community center?"
The book's progress 	"I've been contemplating the possibilities of domesticating Mole Rats. I know it seems a little gross, but milk is milk and meat is meat, right?"
Sixth task. 	"Well, how do you feel?"
The book's progress 	"I was playing with an idea for an elevated brahmin feeding system, so they don't have to strain their necks so much. But the caravan master said, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it"... I guess that applies to improvements, too. Oh well."
Seventh task. 	"Any luck finding out how Rivet City got started?"
The book's progress 	"Just taking care of business, as always. Sorry, I can't really talk now. I've got lots of work to do. Lots of dull, dull work."
Eighth task. 	"Fiddle with any interesting technology, lately?"
Ninth task. 	"Is it there? Are there books? Can I go borrow some?"
Greeting 	"Huh. Did you know the human body can survive without the stomach or spleen? Oh, what's up?"
Greeting 	"You know, I think I've found a new way to prepare Radroach meat. Still tastes like old feet, though. Anyway, what's up with you?"
Greeting 	"Hey, don't mind the smell. I was just testing a few chemicals, but it's perfectly safe to breathe. Really!"
On house themes. 	"Some people don't like living in a boring old house. Purchase a theme from me and I use all of my design abilities to set your place up in the manner you request. You can choose from the Vault, Raider, Wasteland Explorer, Science, Love Machine or Pre-War themes."
Vault theme. 	"Feeling a bit homesick, are we?"
Raider theme. 	"Into the blood and guts look, eh?"
Explorer theme. 	"Longing for the great outdoors are we?"
Scientist theme. 	"You're the intellectual type, eh?"
Love Machine theme. 	"Feeling a bit anxious, are we?"
Pre-War theme. 	"Feeling a bit nostalgic are we?"
Notified of ghoulification. 	"Don't be silly, I just got some gunk on my face after the explosion... but that doesn't explain why it peels away in strips. And oozes. You know what? I think I'm turning into a Ghoul! This is fascinating! Now, where can a Ghoul like me go to study these effects in peace?"
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== Trivia ==
* Moira has a second repellent stick in her desk upstairs.
* Her inventory replenishes every Monday and Wednesday.
* If her terminal is hacked, her current experiments can be tracked.
* Her corpse appears floating in the swamp in Point Lookout in the sacred bog during the hallucination.
* Moira's voice does not change after becoming ghoulified.
* Even though Carol in Underworld says it takes months or years to become ghoulified, Moira will instantly become a ghoul if Megaton is destroyed.
* Even if the Lone Wanderer tells her they blew up the town, she will not become hostile or even angry.
* Though she does not have a shop in Underworld, she will still sell things and offer the "Wasteland Survival Guide" quest.
* Despite her originally hailing from Canterbury Commons, there is no history of her or her family in the town.
* Moira wonders if mole rats can be tamed and domesticated. Although she does not learn this in-game, Pumpkin in Fallout 3 and Snuffles in New Vegas prove that they can.
* If the Lone Wanderer blows up Megaton, Moira will walk to Underworld. This makes it extremely likely for her to be killed on the trip there, due to a combination of several threats, a less-than-straightforward route, and Moira's observed unwillingness to defend herself.
* If one has the Broken Steel add-on and had previously entered the Holy Light Monastery, it is possible that Moira could be killed by the ghoulified Mother Curie III.
== Licensing ==
This article contains content derived from the "Moira Brown" article on Nukapedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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