Colin Moriarty

Colin Moriarty is Megaton's crime boss and the owner of Moriarty's Saloon in the year 2277.

Background
Colin Moriarty was born in 2227 and has lived in Megaton almost his entire life. Moriarty's father came to the former United States from Ireland with his young son, and amassed his wealth using the nearby trade routes, which helped secure Megaton as a trading hub in the area. Colin's father died during a raider attack in 2241 and his son inherited his wealth, including the saloon. According to Andy Stahl, Moriarty urinates in his bar's still.

Daily schedule
He spends most his time in the saloon, and goes out for a smoke break every day leaning on the rail out front.

Related quests
He tells you where your dad is and tries to get you to do a job for him, and tells about how he saw you when you were a kid.

Moriarty has a computer which contains valuable information on the game's main quest. To access the information, you can either pay/speech Moriarty for it, get the info from Nova, the local prostitute working for Moriarty, or convince Gob, the ghoul bartender, to tell you how to access his boss' computer.

If you tell Moriarty you don't have 100 caps to buy information on your father, he will give you a cap raising task. He wants you to find a woman called Silver and get his money back. You can keep all 400 caps Silver drops, assuming you didn't tell Moriarty that Silver is gone, if you acquire the information an alternative way; otherwise, she drops only 100 caps (which you can still keep).

Other interactions
You can pay Jericho 20 caps to let him tell you Moriarty wears a key around his neck that unlocks Gob and Nova's pay stash, but this was cut from the final version.

Effects of player actions
If you kill Moriarty, Gob takes over the Saloon and changes the name on the sign.

Appearances
appears only in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * Moriarty may accidentally die or wander away. See Fallout 3 bugs and Recovering missing NPC in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * His name may be a reference to IGN editor Colin Moriarty.

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Colin Moriarty