Editing Shamrock (section)

==History==

===Background===
Shamrock was kidnapped from another Earth and experimented on by Cauldron. She was subject number 777 and picked the name Shamrock after passing roughly a year of testing. Where her power was tested and trained.<ref name="18.f e4">“Because we’ve been where you’ve been.  These two don’t remember, they had their memories taken,” Shamrock said, “But I didn’t.  I remember what it was like in there.  And I get why you’re afraid.”<br><br>“You were in there?”  Maddie asked, her eyes going wide.<br><br>Shamrock nodded.  “One moment, I was going to bed in my temple-school.  In another, I was in a cell.  A cot, a metal sink, a metal toilet.  Three concrete walls, a concrete floor and ceiling, and a window of thick plexiglass with a drawer.  You might know the kind of cell I’m describing.<br><br>“They drugged me, then they waited until I started showing signs that something happened to me.  It took them a while to figure out, because my power was subtle.  When they had an idea of what I could do, they gave me a coin.  I had to flip it when the doctor came.  If it came up heads, I got to eat, I got fresh clothes, a shower.  If it didn’t, I got nothing.  I realized I was supposed to control it.  ''Decide'' the result of the toss.  When I got good at it, they gave me two coins, and both had to come up heads.”<br><br>“How long were you there?” Maddie asked.<br><br>“I don’t know.  But by the time I saw the chance to escape, I had to roll twelve dice and each one had to come up with a six.  And if it didn’t, if I got more than a few wrong, they found ways to punish me.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/interlude-18-donation-bonus-4/ Excerpt] from  [[Interlude 18.f]]</ref> Likely being prepared to be placed in some heroic team, in line with the organizations' goals.<ref name="SB1">Cauldron's habit was to take all of the human experiments that turned out well, brainwash them, and then place them in larger organizations to support said organizations, fighting the natural tendency for parahumans to seek conflict (and thus making forming large committed groups hard). Shamrock could well have been slated for the Protectorate, Red Gauntlet, the Suits, or even the Nemesis program (being brainwashed with an auto-lose trigger against one client who paid a good sum, so that client could get a better position and climb faster in rep). - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15078112/ Comment] by [[Wildbow]] on Spacebattles</ref><ref name="15.z">She was at the cloud-level when the door opened.  She stepped into the brightly lit corridors of Cauldron’s testing laboratory and strode down to the cells.<br/><br/>Thirty cells, filled with subjects.  Thirty-one now.  The cells didn’t appear to have doors, but the individuals within were all too aware of the dangers of stepping beyond the perimeters of their cells, or of trying to harass Alexandria as she strode by.<br/><br/>Only two-thirds of them were monstrous, affected by the formulas.  Others would go free with alterations to their memories.  Some would have fatal weaknesses inserted into their psyches, reason to hesitate at a crucial moment against a certain foe. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2012/11/08/interlude-15-donation-bonus-3/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> After she had progressed far enough she was given the chance to pick her code name, she choose Shamrock.<ref name="18.f e5">Maddie glanced around, then nodded.  “When… when they tested you, did they give you a name?”<br><br>“They gave me a number at first,” Shamrock said.  “I couldn’t use my real name or they’d punish me.  When I passed a year of testing, they let me pick a codename.  I picked Shamrock.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/02/14/interlude-18-donation-bonus-4/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 18.f]]</ref>

At an unknown point either before or during the events of Worm, she escaped Cauldron and found herself on [[Earth Bet]]. According to The Number Man, Shamrock is one of the only people to have escaped from [[Cauldron's Base|Cauldron's custody]].<ref name="21.x e1">No use to the Number Man, but essential for Cauldron in vetting universes and finding individuals.  Most individuals.  There were some, like the Dealer, and triple-seven, who’d escaped.<br/><br/>[...]<br/><br/>“That’s two escape attempts in two weeks. [[Cauldron|We]] had three in the last four years before that, only one successful,” he said. -
 [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/04/27/interlude-21-donation-bonus-1/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 21.x]]</ref> After finding freedom, she circulated through high-stakes gambling rings, leveraging her power to her advantage.

===Story Start===
Faultline became aware of Shamrock with the help of private investigators in the spring of 2011 and set out to recruit her.<ref name="I5"/>

===Post-[[Battle against Leviathan|Leviathan]]===
Shamrock accompanied her team when they crashed a [[Merchants]] drug party, using her power to avoid being hit by Scrub's blasts. During [[Burnscar]]'s assault on [[Palanquin]], Shamrock assisted [[Labyrinth]] in activating a mechanism that flooded the street, dousing fires.<ref name="11.c e1">“What ball!?”<br><br>Elle couldn’t tell her, not without letting Burnscar know.  She could feel the ball making its way down the last slope, dropping down the far left, to where the mechanism and the lower half of the puzzle had been devastated by Burnscar’s fireball.  Shamrock would get a glimpse of the ball through the hole in the wall, as it dropped down… ''now''.<br><br>Elle felt the almost imperceptible influence of Shamrock’s power.  The woman was a telekinetic and clairvoyant on the smallest of scales, capable of making small changes and knowing how to use them to make big things happen.  The ball moved a few millimeters to the left, hit a splinter of wood and bounced toward the right, spinning.  It landed, and the spin of its rotation coupled with the help of an additional nudge carried the ball to the right, and down into the chamber behind the statue.<br><br>There was a rumble, and water began pouring from the stump of one arm and the urn the statue held.  It poured down around Shamrock, flooding out onto the street to quench the fires on the ground level.  Soon it was only the patches of flame on the walls that remained. - [[Interlude 11c]]</ref>

===Post-[[Slaughterhouse Nine]]===
Shamrock became romantically involved with Gregor the Snail and was with the rest of her crew when they infiltrated Madison and convinced [[Matryoshka]] to leave with them in their search for answers. After returning to the hotel room she accompanied Faultline down to the lobby, but returned to the crew's rooms just in time for [[Contessa]]'s attack on the team.<ref name="18.f e6" /> Shamrock also attended the battle against [[Echidna]] along with the rest of her crew when [[Tattletale]] purchased Labyrinth's help opening the portal.

===[[Gold Morning]]===
In the final hours of Gold Morning, Faultline's Crew was relocated to Earth Bet. As the dying [[Khepri]] tried to rally the parahumans against the main threat, Shamrock temporarily disabled [[Narwhal]] with a single bullet.<ref name="30.6 e1">Three more questions, rapid fire.  One word each, ''names''.  The woman with the mask only heard the first syllable of each response before moving on to the next.<br><br>She gave a command, an order, and a red haired woman in a black skintight outfit turned, aiming her gun at a wall.<br><br>The bullet ricocheted off the wall and flew right through our group.  My forcefield woman went down, and the crystals we were riding fractured, coming apart enough that we fell to the ground.<br><br>Only the string tying me to the clairvoyant kept us together. - [[Speck 30.6]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
Together with the [[Faultline’s Crew|Palanquin]] people she attended emergency power testing of [[Case 53]]s, arranged by [[The Wardens]] to see if any of them could be useful in the fight against the [[Titans]].<ref name="II19.a">[[Infrared 19.a]]</ref> She later joined the direct fighting and went along with other C53s against [[Titan Fortuna]].<ref name="II19.4">[[Infrared 19.4]]</ref>