Victor Monday

Victor Monday (Made with HeroForge)

The junker-doctor mayor of New Wells, Utah. After the NW6 defended his town from the Anti-Templar Marcus Bloom, he became a reliable ally to the group. Victor has made his town a welcome home for refugees of varying conflicts, and grown his community into a beacon in the wastes. He and Scott Blake later became founding members of The Union, a group dedicated to uniting and building up settlements.

## History

### Arc 3: Welcome to New Wells

On February 28, 2096, Victor was tinkering with the town's pump when he was notified a woman needed help with her car. He went to help her, and as he started messing with the car's bullet-riddled interior, the woman put a gun to his head. The woman turned out to be Bloody Anne, who proceeded to send her Combine soldiers in to secure the town.

Before the NW6's arrival, he was tortured by Anne's subordinate, Hayden, in an attempt to learn the location of New Wells lesser-known resources. Seven hours after the initial raid, he was given respite from the beating when the NW6 started killing Combine forces. He could do little more than wait as Hayden was sent to deal with the problem. Anne didn't get much more time with him before she had to make her escape. With the Combine's forces taken care of, Victor limped out of his home to meet the town's accidental liberators.

Seeing him beaten and bloodied, Addie healed Victor back to top shape, to his surprise. Victor thanked the group for their work, but admitted it would take some time to reevaluate their stores and scrape together Oasis's order. He mentioned another possible source to help them replenish their stocks : Dugway Proving Grounds. It was a military compound, rumored to be fairly untouched for reasons unknown. At least, not that people came back to tell.

That night, he gave the group an official welcome to New Wells with a large town dinner in the barn: the town's gathering space. It was there that Victor officially gave the group their mission: enter Dugway Proving Grounds, find their schematics for automated defenses, robots so he could create defenses for New Wells. Atom questioned Victor on his intent to share these resources with other settlements, which Victor assured him he would, to Atom's skepticism. Nevertheless, the group accepted the mission.

After the dinner, Victor, at Choc's curiosity, took the man to his workshop beneath his home. He showed Choc some of his projects, one a healing pack powered by ghost rays. He mentioned a gang called the Motor Heads may be around Dugway, with a reputation for being enhanced with shoddy implants. The two men spent hours in the workshop, creating a g-ray collector based off Victor's diagrams.

### Arc 5: Plague's Servant

During the NW6's absence, Victor had been working on improving his healing packs. When the group returned from Dugway and their encounter with Marcus, they found Victor with a crowd gathered around him. His improved invention took the form of a cube on his back and mini-gun-like body, and he used the device to transmit a type of ghost ray over a family. The rays healed their wounds. When the NW6 approached, Victor elaborated that a group of refugees had come into town, having escaped from a slave camp run by a gang called the Hell Riders. Jenny asked Tom if that was what happened to him, but Tom shook his head, seemingly quaking in fear. Victor turned his device on the group, taking away their scrapes as well.

Victor asked the group if they recovered the files he'd been looking for from Dugway. At the affirmative, he mentioned they could discuss what happened in his home. He also mentioned that while the team was gone, someone had come into town and started helping, had finished the meat delivery to Oasis for them. Quickly following the mention, River Mortem—Addie's Templar mentor and friend—made her way onto the scene, greeting them, and confirmed she was the one lending a hand around town. While Addie pulled her aside, Victor led the rest of the group and townsfolk to the barn for dinner. During the meal, Jenny used her syker abilities to project feelings and images into the minds of the town as she told what the group had faced in Dugway, and the evil they'd defeated. At the speech's conclusion, Atom gave Victor a dataslug, detailing information about the old military base's defenses and how they built android bodies. Victor gave his thanks to Atom and the team, giving out a radio frequency if they ever needed help in the future.

On March 13th, a week later, Victor was working on Mac's body when he was visited by Choc. Choc inquired about how to install a soul tap. Victor mentioned that he'd never done the procedure himself, but he'd seen it done, and knew how to do it. He agreed to help Choc with the process. Choc then disclosed what his group had been discussing about the Anti-Templar threat they were likely facing: Jenny had come up with a plan to dump drugs in the town's water. This would be done in the hopes to calm the fear of the civilians and lower the influence of their enemy. Choc mentioned it was the backup plan to their backup plan. Victor, after a pause, told Choc he wasn't a fan of the idea, but he had trust in the NW6 and what they thought was necessary. Choc told Victor what Jenny thought of the man they'd encountered on the road, how he was probably more than mortal, and his power had shaken her somewhat.

The next day, Victor was visited by Addie and River, who briefed him on Anti-Templars. Jenny mentioned she had a theory, that he could perhaps use a kind of healing gun on their enemy, who was a servant of Pestilence. Victor was intrigued by the idea, and agreed to work on a stronger version of his current healing apparatus. Choc visited Victor later on, and Victor took him to his lab and installed his soul tap.

In a later meeting with the group, Victor was present to hear Jenny's plan to use 'psychoactives' to help lower fear everywhere. When the talks shifted to how to deal with their Anti-Templar enemy, Victor agreed to share G-rays with Atom so he could make his ghost rock explosives. He also agreed to give the group supplies to help get any hostages out.

On the 14th, the NW6 returned from Golconda. Victor was greeted by a frantic Addie, searching for Gregg. He told her he hadn't seen the girl, and Addie thanked him before continuing her search. Choc approached him soon after, bleeding from his soul tap and asking for help. Victor chastised Choc for being reckless before healing his wound. Choc disclosed to Victor he'd gotten hooked on cocaine. Victor gave Choc his disapproval, and also his concern.

On the 15th, once the NW6 had gotten their rest, Victor met with them in his home. They'd found out their Anti-Templar enemy, Marcus Bloom, had developed a seemingly incurable ghost rock cancer. Victor agreed to look into the information they'd recovered, and if he could potentially make a cure that could destroy the cancer now holding him together. Victor mentioned that ghost rock was volatile, and could have adverse effects if handled with bare hands too much.

While the group talked about town defenses, Jenny let slip how a soul needs to be bound to a machine body to make an automaton, information Atom excluded from the dataslug given to Victor. Victor however, had made some connections between the data and Mac, and mentioned they didn't need souls when he could use tech spirits. He could call car spirits into mechanical bodies. Choc volunteered to help Victor with his defense preparations, and he gratefully accepted. Victor mentioned to the group how he's put in an order for medical supplies from the Convoy, and they should be there in a few days. Jenny told him she and Red would go as intermediaries to make sure no one from the outside attempted to infiltrate the town.

Over the next few days, Victor, Choc, and Atom worked on making spirit-powered automatons to protect town. With their help, Victor was able to make three of them.

On March 18th, Victor was sitting on his porch when he received a call on his CB radio. It was a distress call from the Convoy, saying fifteen people were on his tail and taking shots at his trailer and he needed help. Victor quickly alerted the NW6, and at Addie and Atom's urging, he told the Convoy driver help was on the way.

After the battle with Marcus, Choc returned to New Wells and arrived at Victor's home. Victor greeted him, and Choc went in for a hug. Victor comforted him, taking him into his house.

On March 21st, Victor was invited to Atom's gumbo dinner, sitting with the group.

### Arc 6: Hell Riders

On April 11th, Atom messaged Victor, telling him to make the robots he'd made act more human. Victor responded confused, mentioning he was working on it. Atom clarified that Marrla was in town, and Victor confirmed he knew her.

The next morning, Victor received a visit from Atom, asking for help to improve his riot shield. He gave Victor a schematic for a folding design that would, when slammed down, give 180 degree cover to those behind it. Victor agreed to work on the project, giving him a six hour estimate. Not long after, Addie arrived, apologizing for bringing an injured Red into his home and getting his blood all over the couch. Victor brushed off the concern, happy her companion was okay. Addie asked Victor if he would sell her any medkits, for future emergencies. He obliged, giving her a deal on them. Addie requested first aid training from Victor, to help shake the rust off her skills. Victor happily agreed, taking five hours to run things through with her while Choc took over work on Atom's shield. Choc also arrived with a deal: an almost new SUV for around ten grand. Victor agreed, and Choc took the payment in parts for projects.

On April 13th, in the early morning hours, Victor welcomed the NW6 back after their mission, refugees in tow. He helped put up temporary tents for the new arrivals, working to get them proper housing.

### Arc 10: The Summit

Victor agreed with Ike to meet in Junkyard as a representative of the newly formed Union. He and Scott had started uniting communities and pooling resources during their time between threats, and started to be recognized.

In early June, Victor met with Choc to help him adjust his new cyberware, and create a prosthetic hand that could work with his gun-like arm. Sometime after, Victor brought back his wife, Maya Hoffman-Monday, by moving her soul from her cancer-infected body to an android body he'd created. The procedure was a success, and the two were reunited. He also worked with Scott on a device to turn other liquids into pure water, something he'd been perfecting for six years.

On June 25th, Victor brought Maya along with him to the Summit, arriving with Scott in Junkyard. They were directed to the Pit after the incident with Mab, and he met up with the NW6 outside the now former arena. Victor admitted to Addie he was stressed, that he'd been practicing his speech for the meeting. Maya showed support for her husband, and Addie locked onto her, surprised. Victor introduced his wife to Addie, who greeted her, still a bit shocked. Victor also gave Addie a brief on his invention he had developed, hoping to help out other settlements. He also mentioned there was trouble stirring, and he could use some help uniting towns. Addie questioned what had happened to H3x, if he'd heard from him, and Victor mentioned he hadn't been able to get in contact with him for three days, not after he'd gone underground in Junkyard to help with a meeting between the Library and the moorlock families that lived below.

Shortly before the meeting started, Toussaint, in the guise of Anne Banks, approached Victor with a sample of blood in hand. She asked for him to run a test on it, to figure out what had contaminated it. Victor took the sample, mentioning he'd brought his equipment with him, and put it in his machine. Upon testing it, he found that it was tainted with a purely spiritual disease, something meant to erode the soul and tear apart the body as it did. Maya asked if, since it was spirit made, it could be banished. Victor replied that doing so risked damaging the person the disease was bound to.

During the summit, Victor introduced his water converter, mentioning his design was made to be reproducible by any junker. Toussaint offered to start creating the device on Denver's assembly lines. Victor later expressed skepticism at Toussaint's plan for selective aid to settlements, mentioning not all isolationist groups were malicious. After Toussaint's departure, and during the NW6's excursion into Junkyard's underground, Victor and Scott revealed the creation of a sub-group in the Union: the Vanguard, a group that would be specially trained to fight the monstrous servants of the Reckoners. Victor made a deal with Simon and Jo to construct walls for Boise in exchange for the Templar's aid in training the Vanguard.

### Arc 11: Damocles

Sometime in July, Addie visited Victor and commissioned him to make an engagement ring for River. He happily complied, making a matching set for both of them free of charge. At the end of the month, Victor greeted Choc as he arrived in New Wells, bringing a new test copy of a 180 machine gun.

### Arc 15: Chasing Coyotes

Victor attended Addie and River's wedding along with his wife.

### Arc 16: Rivalries

On December 4th, Victor arrived in Denver with the other delegates to meet for the second summit of the Iron Alliance.

Before the meeting, Victor and Scott were talking about Denver's plans at the Trade Center when King, Addie, Gregg, and Anya arrived. King asked to talk in private, and led the group up to the roof. King disclosed that they had made it past Hellstromme's safeguard's in Denver's system and accessed his files. They'd made the new password Victor's wife's name. They discussed cyborgs and soul taps that the files touched on.

After the summit's interruption from an injured Convoy scout, Victor helped her receive food, water, and medical care. He brought her in to a room to talk, summoning the NW6 to help figure out what had happened to the Convoy and act on the information. Victor greeted the woman, Lexi, on his way in, followed by Addie, Ghost, and King.