Hayes M.

**Hayes M.** is an employee at Monogon and is associated with Arthur Ford. He is a congenial but somewhat clueless security engineer who worked with Ford on cybersecurity efforts for MythOS City.

## History

Hayes presumably trained as a cybersecurity engineer at some point in his life, and was hired by Monogon Industries to take part in a top-secret project known as BONEWORKS. He worked for Ford (the director of security) and befriended him during their time working together.

### BONEWORKS

During the events of *BONEWORKS,* Hayes is booted from MythOS along with the rest of Monogon's team. He attends a company-wide emergency conference in OldMyth. Afterwards, he uses his technical knowledge to hack a broadcast into MythOS City, and is able to remotely contact Ford via television screens. Hayes expresses confusion that Ford hasn't been booted, but requests that his friend travel to the Time Tower and reset the System Clock, which should reboot the simulation and bring things back to normal. Hayes is unaware that Ford is the cause of the anomaly, and has betrayed Monogon.

Later, Hayes is able to again contact Ford. He confesses that Monogon is in a state of panic, and distrust has been sowed between the BONEWORKS engineers and the Sabrelake security contractors. Hayes believes the hack was an inside job from Sabrelake, and reiterates that Ford should hurry to the System Clock.

By the time Ford reaches the Time Tower, Hayes and the other engineers are able to remotely view MythOS. Hayes contacts Ford and tells him that something is controlling the nullmen, and theorizes privately that they are attempting to open a gateway to the Void. He wishes Ford luck and cuts communications.

Later, Hayes is somehow able to communicate with Ford in the Fantasy Land simulation. He warns Ford that security agents have discovered Ford's treason and are closing in on his real-world location. Hayes begins to question Ford's alibi, but is interrupted by knocking at his door. He tells Ford to leave the simulation and runs.

### BONELAB

Hayes does not directly appear in *BONELAB,* but references to him can be found. He cleared the BONELAB elevator for emergency deployment.

## In Game

* *"Yo, Arthur! Over here! How are you still in the city? The board's calling an emergency meeting for all Monogon employs. All of MythOS is on lockdown, it's crazy over here. I have no idea how you weren't kicked, like, nobody else can log in."*
* "*The system clock being frozen... might have something to do with it, so if you could make your way to the core tower, you might be able to manually restart it and let us back in."*

* "*Hey! So, everyone's kinda freaking out over here, uh, there's a rumor from security that someone broke into the complex and coordinated a breach in Myth. I don't know why, or who would even know how, but uh, I think it's an inside job.* *I mean, these Sabrelake private security guys are not to be trusted. So, once you've reset the* *Clock, we'll be able to get a better picture of what's going on."*

* *"Okay, so, little update. We can see what's going on, and something is definitely controlling the Nullmen.* *They're pulling gravity cores from the system clock, maybe to open some kinda void gate? I don't know, but all I know is that this is super dangerous, so... good luck man."*

* *"Dude, they found you in the old offices. I mean, like, the physical world version of you. How are you even still in there? That doesn't even make sense, I mean, technically the- (loud knocking)* ...l*ook, you gotta get out of there right now."*

## Trivia

* Haye's Monogon Employee ID is MGE #7338-A.