Editing Shamrock (section)

===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.