Bestiary

Chase Lamont

Joint Division Director, Acquisitions Division (AQD) and Information Collection Division (ICS)

Few have skyrocketed to success in the way Chase Lamont has in recent years. Through a mixture of blackmail, nepotism — he’s the protégé of Benjamin Rushing — charm and genuine business acumen, Lamont has carved his way from Subdivision Director of ICS through to Joint Division Director of both his former area as well as AQD.

Lamont carries himself well, as enchanting as he is slimy. He’s inquisitive and obsessed with finding out everything about everyone who will ever work with or for him. When Lamont wants to acquire a company, he goes through every record, from company profits through to sticky notes on personnel files, so he can gain the ultimate advantage over every perceived threat. He needs to control people. He won’t allow anyone to gain an advantage over him. This need has become more apparent as he has taken on more responsibility while still holding his prior role. The rest of the Board see how well he controls AQD through the successful purchase of the RED Network, and let him have his megalomania. For as long as he serves Pentex, it is no issue.

Lamont’s suave charm and need to control others is a result of his being a bona fide psychopath. Starting in his university days with him picking up women and men alike before murdering them and violating their corpses. He chose victims from all over the country, selecting them from the lost and forgotten ones, from those with no one to miss them. Even now, he revisits the bodies of those he killed to reassert his control over them. He still hunts to this day. He keeps a small notebook that holds the details of the unfortunates upon whom he has successfully preyed. He takes the same attitude towards business as he does people — a tactic that serves remarkably well in a company such as Pentex.

Lamont has a gift; he’s able to read people, through body language, micro-expressions, speech patterns, and signs that are more esoteric. He is capable of identifying a shapeshifter without so much as a second glance, as part of the gifts bestowed upon him by the dark entities he serves. All of the Directors hold him in high regard except Mollett, who would happily see Lamont meet the same end as that visited upon his victims. She is outwardly envious of the power he has obtained but disgusted by his private habits. Lamont knows this and is quietly arranging the possible removal of Mollett, strongly considering taking over HRD if and when she disappears.