Melissa Rory

Melissa Rory is a NCPD lieutenant in the MaxTac division. Originally a cyberpsycho herself, after MaxTac aprehended Melissa alive, she was forced to join them, becoming one of its most prominent members.

Biography
Sometime before 2069, Melissa had herself implanted with the Higurashi 20-13 Mantis Blades, recognized to be of high quality, though with a certain flaw: they interfaced poorly with neural processors and a certain section of the prefrontal cortex. The Higurashi 20-13 line was discontinued in 2069 because of that flaw. On January 14 2077, Rory was likely driven to cyberpsychosis from her implant, and killed 14 people. She was a rare case of MaxTac apprehending a cyberpsycho alive, and after being reconditioned, she was forced to join their ranks. Melisa kept her Higurashis as a reminder of her actions.

Melissa met a mercenary by the name of V later in 2077, by which time she had already risen to the rank of lieutenant, and hold a senior status in MaxTac. Rory's squad arrived at a Jinguji store in Downtown Night City just moments after V defeated, or during the fighting with a cyberpsycho who had burst into the store earlier, killing its two guards.

After taking the survivors' statements — V and the owner of the shop, Zane Jagger — she commented to V if they had also felt the life of the psycho leaving his body. The merc asked instead if there wasn't a better way than just killing them, like taking them alive, to which Rory responded it only happened in extremely rare cases. V could also recognize her discontinued mantis blades, commenting that MaxTac preferred the Arasaka model instead. For Melissa though, those blades reminded her of the things she had done. Trying to rail back the aforementioned topic, Melissa asked V once again if they liked it when the cyberpsycho was killed, though the merc commented they were not as eager as her. After stating that she and V were not that different, Melissa tried to recruit them to MaxTac, V would either outright refuse or mention that they would think about it.

NPCD Labs computer message
A message regarding Melissa can be found while looking through the computers in the NCPD lab during the quest The Hunt.

Associated Quests

 * Bullets