Lace Monitor

Lace Monitor

Rigger
MCT Rigger
Experiment Doer
Discord	LHOG
Reddit	elleelleellehog
Wiki User	Ellehog
Metatype	Elf
Street Cred	0
Notoriety	0
Public Awareness	0
CDP	6
D.O.B.	2041-07-07
Age	45
Folder	[1](Linke)
Priority	Metatype - D Attributes - E Magic/Resonance - D Skills - A Resources - A
#Max IGs/Ascension	1

Character Information

Summary

Brilliant MCT Doctor wants nothing more than to fund her experiments, starts running the shadows to get some extra cash on the side - taking advantage of quick wits and some experience driving to get ahead of the competition.

Goals

• Earn money. Lots of money. So much money.
• Continue doing her experiments, on whatever and whoever she can get her mitts on.
• Rise through the ranks of MCT however she has to.
• Return to Australia.

Background

Lacey Montrose was originally just a bright student born to MCT SINners in Seattle. She rose through ordinary corporate schools, with ordinary corporate schoolmates, ordinary corporate parents who spent little time with her, and ordinary problems. It was all boring. So, so intensely boring. So she'd experiment instead of living that dull life - picking apart insects to see what was inside, examining them under microscopes. The 'samples' she collected grew in size and complexity, and advanced from invertebrates to fish, amphibians, birds... Her parents punished the behavior every chance they got, but the field of medicine drew her in too thoroughly - and their attempts at control only made her angry. When she hit high school, she started acting out - doing drugs, throwing parties, drinking hard, picking fights she couldn't win. Classic oppositional teen stuff. The real trouble, though, began when she decided that merely practicing medicine (as her parents did) was too little for her.

No, Lacey had to get into research. And she was a prodigy - naturally gifted in schooling, aided along by the gene treatments her parents had purchased for her. A few years studying at the University of Washington brought her into a unique position - a school trip taken to Australia, under heavy guard from MCT security, as part of an internship program she'd managed to gain a foothold in, with the goal of finding medically promising wildlife. September of 2061 - a perfect time for a young mind to explore the continent of Australia. The natural dangers were bad enough.

Having half the expedition transformed in the first wave of SURGE, though - that was more than anyone was ready to see. More than a few died in the events that followed. Lacey, though - she just got a funny nickname and some weak adept powers. After all, her name was eerily similar to a certain lizard, and given that she had the right type of tail... and the fact that her SURGE expression had sapped her body's ability to react quickly, along with its ability to provide strength...

Being non-threatening helped her slide under the radar. She'd go on to be poked and prodded at, subjected to experiments constantly as she finished out her schooling - collecting a PHD in medical practice, then going on to specialize in genetics and biotechnology. Her physiology - though interesting to MCT - was not unique enough to justify dissection. Lucky her! She got to dissect her peers instead after completing her doctorate. Maybe she would've been bothered by this in the past, but something about being SURGEd made her colder - and not just in the sense of one who was now cold blooded.

Lacey Montrose - Lacey Monitor - Lace Monitor - she became known for jumping into equipment around the world, either operating from an anthrodrone, rigger-enabled operating room, or very rarely in person. One of MCT's many scalpels, serving to carve a path forward in the sorts of research that made weak stomachs shudder. Some people might have wanted out. Some people might have broken under the pressure of being one mistake away from being the next one on the table.

Lacey, though? She did it for herself. She liked it. She was good at it. She was alive.

Chimeric warforms, Project Rose Garden, and other projects too obscure to name collected on her resume.

But the boon times waned - and slowly, those experiments slowed. Bit by bit, she's gotten bored, the scalpel's edge dulled. Sure, she's taken side jobs in site security, in piloting, in driving. None have the same spark, though.

She needs something interesting. A new experiment. Maybe running will be it. Maybe running will just give her the funds she needs to do what comes next.

For now - her handlers have given her a long leash. It remains to be seen if that leash will be yanked taut once more.

Narrative Significant Qualities

Positive

Gift of Knowledge (SURGE, Magic Sense, electroception): Lace has been given a great sense of the world around her by the storm that laid her low in Australia. She came out smarter, with a sixth (and seventh) sense for the world around her.

Negative

MCT SINner: She is an evil woman working for one of the most evil organizations in rhe world. Even worse - she wants to be there and views it as a method of driving her own success.

Slimebag Lizard: Animals bark as she walks by, her heavy tail makes her drag her feet, its scaled surface greasy to the touch (leaving a trail along walls as she walks past). She's unpleasant to be around on many levels. Her physical changes have also left her weaker.

Run History

Name	GM	Metaplot	Threat	Date of Run
Tontine Trouble	Sarcarian		Deadly	10 September 2086
Hatching a Nest Egg	Sarcarian		Deadly	30 August 2086
Doctor Yamada, I Presume?	Sarcarian	Corporate Revenge Tour	High	23 August 2086

Affiliations

Contacts

Contact	Connection	Loyalty	Archetype	Profession	Aspects	Chips
Satoko Obara	6	1	Fixer	MCT project manager	As important as what you can do., Not worth my time, MCT upper class, Cybernetics cache, Nanotech apologist, Drone purveyor, Drone Spe-shell-ty, Worth my time, Mover and shaker, Behind closed doors, Emerged research	Even
Boozeman	1	1	Networking	Barkeep	Paranoid, A quiet place, Spelunker, I know where you can find him	Even
Takashi Kurosawa	2	1	Custom (A,G,N,K)	Former Shategashira of the Kanaga-gumi	Cyberware, Automatic Firearms, Handguns, Long Arms, Blades, Don't Talk Back, Place in the Sun	Even
Bellerophon	4	2	Generalist	Professional Paracritter Hunter	Artificer, Fantastic Beasts (and Where to Find Them), Pegasus, Reagent Hunter, The Most Dangerous Game	Even

In Character Information

Symbols and Signatures

Lace's persona is a long-legged lizard (surprise of surprises) - of the sort that flees rapidly and ditches its tail when attacked. It moves with legs flailing, and slaps marks on things by leaving behind the tail.

Matrix Search Table

Threshold	Result
1	A venomous lizard, originating in Australia prior to the Awakening.
3	A rash, abrasive rigger with a reputation for being an angry drunk. Known for being handy with a scalpel.
6	A rash abrasive rigger who practices medicine with a bottle of whiskey in her hand. There are rumors that she has ties to a larger organization - maybe the Yakuza, maybe something else.

Shadow Community Table

Threshold	Result
1	An abrasive rigger with a ton of energy and a big lizard tail.
3	A rigger with a drinking problem, who's more than happy to pick fights she can't win when she's had too much to drink. Medically quite capable, even when drunk.
5	A viciously abrasive rigger who cleans up shockingly well - able to dine with near-perfect manners and blend in with high-tier corporate Johnsons with worrying ease.

Assensing Table

Threshold	Result
1	Generally healthy, generally drunk, generally in decent spirits. Awakened.
2	Many cyberware implants in her head. Synthetic cyberarm.
3	1 Magic, 1.1 essence.
4	Quite a lot of cultured brainware.
5	Quite a lot of geneware.

SINs

Lacey Montrose - MCT - Real SIN.

Licenses: Adept, Controlled Substance, Driver, Drone, Pilot, Firearms, Restricted Augmentations, Matrix Software, Medical License.

Laurie Lovelace - UCAS - Rating 4 Fake SIN.

Licenses: Adept, Drone, Bodyguard.

Appearance

Clothing

Often found in a lab coat, but just as likely to be wearing a long armored jacket. Strongly prefers to wear long tops like dresses and such due to the tail making pants obnoxiously difficult.

Matrix Persona

Lace's persona is a long-legged, bright green lizard (surprise of surprises) - of the sort that flees rapidly and ditches its tail when attacked. It moves with legs flailing, and slaps marks on things by leaving behind the tail.

Character Plot Hooks

Here are characteristics of the character that GMs may take advantage of to add complications to runs, or to otherwise use when in use. If you want to use them in unrelated to runs, please ask first.

Aspect	Information	Related Run(s)
Hungry for Money	There's very little that Lace wouldn't do to try to get a bit more cash. Half the time she doesn't have a plan for what she'll do with it - she only knows that cash is what she wants.
Hungry for Power	Lace is just as greedy when it comes to taking power.
The MCT Connection	Most runners want out of MCT. This is not true of Lacey - she wants to move up the ranks and get access to more of those sweet, sweet corporate resources. This naturally puts her at odds with almost any runner she meets, should they learn this.
The Yakuza Connection	Lacey's also seeking to use a Yakuza connection to climb the corporate ladder - the interplay between MCT and the clans of Seattle is not lost on her, nor is her position of relative power over the Yakuza in certain respects. She'll be taking as much advantage as she can.
Ghosts of Experiments Past	Lacey has worked on many, many evil projects by MCT - among them projects to dissect technomancers and SURGEd individuals. While she was often on the other side of an anthrodrone for these interactions, there's little doubt that any who do recognize her for what she's done would be a prompt enemy.