Cleaning Lady

## About

The **Cleaning Lady** is a Rare Character and Trader that can be found and recruited at Final Hospital Trader Camp. She is depicted as a lady in an apron with a red headscarf.

She sells hospital cafeteria food at the price of 10 regular food, which fully heals a single character, as well as increasing their Vitality by 1 and their Morale by 4. The food can be bought an infinite number of times, however its price increases by 20 food after each purchase. Alternatively, she can be recruited to the party at no cost.

The Cleaning Lady uses the Ultra Mop, an unbreakable Mop with double the attack power, nearly double the attack speed, and 50% more knockback. No stats are revealed upon recruitment, however she will always start with 4 Fitness. She does not have a unique name as a party member, instead having a random female name.

## Encounter Text

### Upon Encounter

*There is a cleaning lady in here. She doesn't seem to actually be working. She sizes the group up.*

#### If no cafeteria food has been purchased yet

*I know what you're REALLY here for. You've come all the way here for the hospital food.*

*I can sneak you the cafeteria meal you crave, for a price.*

#### After purchasing at least one cafeteria meal

*Uh huh. Wow, you have a serious problem.*

*I can get you another one, but it will cost you.*

### **Buy cafeteria food (10 food)**

*Who should get to eat the Hospital Cafeteria Food?*

*THIS FOOD OF THE GODS WILL CONFER A BONUS TO MAXIMUM HEALTH, AND A MASSIVE MORALE RESTORE!*

#### Result

*[Character] is flooded with nostalgic flavors. At first, the entire meal seems to have a strange, stale aftertaste, but you'd have to be a fool to think that this wasn't intentional. It's all part of the subtle appeal of it, the masterful crafting of it not as a mere meal, but as a Total Food Experience!*

*There's even an extra jello! One Red flavor, one Yellow flavor! Incredible!*

* [Character] +1 Vitality
* [Character] +4 Morale
* [Character] Full Heal

### Upon Recruiting

*[Cleaning Lady] spins her mop rapidly around her wrist.*

*Time to clean up this mess!*

*Mop water soaks the group pretty bad.*

#### Full party

*The group is full.*

*Who would you like to replace to make room for [Cleaning Lady]?*

#### Party is not full and has a Charming character

*[Character] convinces her a to sneak out some Hospital Food!*

* Proceed to hospital food result (for free)

## Old Encounter Text (before MANDIBLE)

### Upon Encounter

*You find a woman in an abandoned town, resting in a looted store.*

*She's wearing a cleaning uniform.*

*I wear these clothes because they're comfortable and stain resistant.*

*And I use this mop as a weapon because it's a good weapon! That's all! Stop asking me questions!*

## Epilogue

"We really.... cleaned up!"

[Character] got rich selling a new type of mop that won't break when smashing zombies.

## Trivia

* If recruited without a full party and with a Charming character, she will sneak out a hospital meal for free. Since this happens after she has been added to the party, the meal can then immediately be fed to her, granting its usual benefits.
* Before the March 2022 MANDIBLE update, the Cleaning Lady was a driving recruit, meaning she would randomly appear during a recruit event on the road. In addition, her starting Fitness was random and her description was different: "isn't necessarily a cleaning woman. She might just like the outfit." Her old recruit event is still present in the game and can be triggered with console commands.
* A commented out line of code in the Final Hospital data suggests she would've started with a Shotgun with 20 ammo alongside her usual Ultra Mop.

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