Moxie

Information

Player: LegendaryFro

Character Full Name: Moxie Crankbolt

Character In-Game Name: Moxie

Nickname(s): Crank

Association(s): Gnomeregan

Race: Gnome

Class: Rogue

Age: 44

Sex: F

Hair: Black

Eyes: Blue

Weight: 60lbs

Height: 3'2”

Appearance

Crank is usually found wearing thick leather with bits of metal bolted to it. Most of her leather garments are blackened from her engineering work, though some are purposefully colored black. Her left eye socket has been fitted with a gnomish monocle, a device that has restored vision to said socket. The area around her left eye is plated with metal, both to affix the monocle over her eye, and to cover the irreversible scarring caused by the burn. Using her technical prowess, she has crafted her own robotic arm to replace what she lost in Gnomeregan, complete with attachable weapon hand that covers her more dexterous robotic hand during combat.

Personality

Her experiences have left her bitter and short tempered around those she does not know. This makes diplomacy in her presence rather difficult, as she tends to get physically and verbally abrasive when things are not going her way. She is far less short tempered towards other gnomes and, in many cases, around dwarves. All others, however, can “eat s**t and die”. When she is not beating up those who evoke her wrath, she enjoys quiet time with her inventions, either improving on them or practicing with them. She pays begrudging respect to those of superior technical skill to her, and is somewhat more apt to become friendly with fellow engineers, should they show a mutual respect for her.

History

Before the fall of Gnomeregan, Moxie was like most other gnomes: curious, adventurous, and most of all, happy. In addition to her natural gnomish draw towards tinkering and engineering, she had a peculiar fascination with getting into places she wasn't supposed to go, often getting her into trouble as a child (though this only egged her on). As she grew, so did her curiosity, and her ingenuity. She resolved that, rather than having her off limits expeditions cut short, she would find new and better ways to keep herself hidden from authority. She quickly found that the term “cloaking” was not to be taken literally, as a moving cloak provided very little stealth potential, but as her engineering prowess grew, so did her stealth capability.

Moxie began her foray into serious engineering at the age of twenty five, with the “Base Opposing Levitation Treads”(or BOLTs for short), a pair of heavy boots that, as the name implied, allowed the user to levitate and thus reduced noise. The first models were impractical, to say the least. They were bulky and uncomfortable, and although they achieved their goal of “stealthier footsteps”, they also resulted in loss of traction and helpless slides into walls or shelves when used. It took the mischievous gnome five years and many painful falls and “joy” rides into shelves before her design was perfected, but with its completion came a whole new world of possibilities. She wasted no time in moving on to the second most desired invention of her childhood dream machines, the CLOAK (Centralized Light Obscuring Automated Kinematograph). With her new found confidence and the technical knowledge she had gained working on the BOLTs, she made great progress on the project, her first fully functioning prototype completed within four years. Unfortunately, her revelry over its creation was to be short lived.

War had erupted across Azeroth, and much to Moxie's surprise, even her underground home could not escape the tides of battle. The trogg invasion began, and the gnomish woman's world began to crumble around her, both literally and metaphorically. Steam pipes burst and metal beams fell from the roof above as the gnomes fled their city, and Moxie was unlucky enough to get caught in the destruction. A trogg managed to smash a steam pipe as the gnome ran by, and through the rock-hard creature took the brunt of the boiling hot blast, shrapnel and steam from the eruption tore into the woman's left arm and boiled the flesh of her face, leaving her left arm limp and useless, and her left eye blind. Determined to escape with her life, the stalwart gnome managed to stumble and crawl to the city's gates before passing out from pain and blood loss. She awoke weeks later, her arm amputated and eye patched, and vengeance alive in her mind.

In the years since, Moxie has worked tirelessly on several rehabilitation projects, as well as re-creating her old inventions. She was lucky enough to be wearing her BOLTs at the time of her escape, and has since added three more inventions to her repertoire: her long awaited CLOAK, MOXIE (Mechanical Ocular X-ray and Infrared Emulator), a yet unnamed combat-ready prosthetic arm, and the DAGGER (Detachable Armored Gnomish Gripper with Extendable Razors). Though she has little formal training in the arts of combat, her mechanical attachments and vengeful, die hard spirit make her a formidable opponent.