Title: Bart Montgomery
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'''Bart Montgomery''' was one of the three doctors that founded the [[Mental Assistance Department (Group)|Mental Assistance Department]]. After meeting with [[Ipiprix]] and inviting his former student, [[Enrique Graves|Graves]] to work alongside him, they had begun to work around the clock on creating a way to Cure humanity, Immortality.

==Biography==

===Bart's Beginning===
Bart Montgomery was one of the three doctors that founded the [[Mental Assistance Department (Group)|Mental Assistance Department]], which was its public name, the REAL name of M.A.D is the ‘Mortality Advancement Division,’ as the doctors behind the project would be working on making humanity immortal. Bart had met with [[Ipiprix]] shortly after Ipiprix had finished with his medical degree and started his research towards Immortality, and [[Enrique Graves|Graves]] was one of Bart’s students at a grad school, in a Biology class. Bart sent out an invitation to Graves to assist him and Ipiprix in searching for the last Nephilim, [[Immortius]]. And thus the three set to work, researching and making many attempts at trying to make their cure for mankind, with none of them working. One notable cure that Bart had worked on creating was Cure #43, the Stoneman Potion. This potion would calcify a subject’s tissues, giving them a stony exterior, which provides great protection for a subject, as well as greatly extending their lifespan, however, when the calcification would spread to the brain, most would suffer from brain death. Only someone with an incredibly strong mind could make full use of the Stoneman potion, and those who are just barely able to handle it are capable of moving through stone without consequence. 

Before starting his work with Ipiprix however, Bart had a son he named Cecil, [[Cecil Montgomery]], he was born on August 8th, 1998. Bart’s wife died in childbirth, and despite the pain and sadness of having to lose her, having his son around was what made all of the pain worth going through, a piece of her that was saved, in a way.

===Bart's End===
Things took a turn for the worse at the Mental Assistance Department the day that Ipiprix, or the person who once was Ipiprix, returned to the department. He exclaimed to Bart and Graves about the discovery of a species with the potential to make humanity immortal, Mind Walkers. Ipiprix had the doctors use the [[Mind Walkers|Mind Walker]]<nowiki/>s in a series of experiments with many human test subjects, tossing those that ended up deceased into a pit below the department named ‘Blasted Heath.’ One of these experiments which Bart was made in charge of was the use of Cure #49, Liquid Happiness on one [[true_faces]], Cure #49 being the extracted and pure happy memories inside one’s mind, by using the Mind Walkers and spilled into containers for storage and further experimentation. While Bart was experimenting, giving True Cure #49 from another, and having True’s Cure #49 extracted from his mind, he saw how inhumane using the Mind Walkers was for their goals and could not continue with the experiments. He declared Cure #49 a failure and pleaded for it to be discontinued, but Ipiprix, who the player will later learn contained a Mind Walker parasite within him, would simply not have any disagreements, and shot Bart Montgomery dead within his own office, and before he could die, he took away his happy memories and sealed his corpse within a safe in Ipiprix’s office, making a statement that Bart had simply gone on vacation to Australia.

The player will return Bart’s happiest memories to his spirit, within the game which represents his own joyless mind, [[R E J E C T I O N|REJECTION]], and Bart’s spirit will be seen after the Good Ending of [[Jalcrl Nwm]] reunited with his son and able to pass on, or comforting the still living Cecil in the True Ending from the beyond.

==History==
Bart_Montgomery joined on July 7th, 2018. His place, [[R E J E C T I O N|REJECTION]], was created on July 11th, 2018. When it initially released, the game featured a hidden teleport on the words ‘Stop Him’ which lead players to a room with one of the original memory cubes inside it, a blue cube with the number four written on its sides, as well as a map of the maze beneath the department and Mind Walker imagery throughout the room, such as a needle piercing the ground through the roof of the room and three red eyes lining the top of the room on a black background. Alongside this, the player would be able to click on seven paintings hidden around the map to create bridges to climb on and read more information about staying away from the Mind Walkers. REJECTION after the remaster has removed the teleport from the text, but has kept the painting finding mechanic, the map itself looks very similar but everything is much cleaner and more polished.

==Appearance==
Bart Montgomery has dark grey skin, indicating that he has lost his happiest memories, as well as [https://www.roblox.com/catalog/13655562/Brooding-Black-Hair Brooding Black Hair]. He wears a [https://www.roblox.com/catalog/229396134/TIGER-Black-Suit-Top Black Suit] and [https://www.roblox.com/catalog/229396215/TIGER-Black-Suit-Bottoms Black Suit Pants], and dons a [https://www.roblox.com/catalog/15637848/unnamed blank expression] on his face. 

==Personality and Traits==
While Bart Montgomery comes off as cold and emotionless sometimes during research, he actually deeply cares for the thoughts and feelings of others, and will refuse to go to extreme lengths for finding Immortality, if they are simply too painful for him to watch. A part of this care must stem from the fact that he is a father figure to Cecil and has lost his wife as well. Bart is also highly intelligent, as the other two doctors he works with are as well. Once a professor of biology, he has begun dabbling with making modifications to the human body with his research at the Mortality Advancement Division, and some of this culminates in his work with Cure #43, a potion which, as mentioned before, calcifies human tissues.

==Game==

===[https://www.roblox.com/games/2062556183/R-E-J-E-C-T-I-O-N R E J E C T I O N]===
''Main article: [[R E J E C T I O N]]''

REJECTION is one of the games that continues the Mental Assistance Department storyline, and contains one of the memory cubes needed for the main game. It takes place inside one of  Bart's only memories left after being killed by the Mind Walkers. 

==Group==

===[[Mental Assistance Department (Game)]]===
Bart Montgomery is one of the two Doctor’s at the Mental Assistance Department. Bart and Graves work with the Head Doctor, Ipiprix, to research and develop a way for humanity to become immortal.

==Relationships==

===[[Cecil_Montgomery]]===
Cecil Montgomery is Bart’s only son, he was born on August 8th 1998. Bart would take care of Cecil after his wife’s passing up until his own death, but Bart’s ties to Cecil did not end when he died. To Cecil’s luck, after infiltrating the Mortality Advancement Division and discovering the truth of his father’s sudden disappearance, when cornered by the Mind Walkers, Cecil found the Cure that his father specifically had made, Cure #43, the Stoneman Potion. He consumed the potion and managed to escape and set up a resistance team to later defeat the Mind Walkers, and as he sits and thinks of the bittersweet victory he endured at Jalcrl Nwm, his father’s spirit is with him, proud of him and all he went through. Alternatively if Cecil is to die at Jalcrl, they will get to meet again in the afterlife, reunited.

===[[Ipiprix]]===
Bart had met Ipiprix sometime around the start of his mission to finding immortality, and he had discovered that they shared interests in similar sciences, and a common wish to make sure that nobody would have to die again. They would work together, developing and researching potential cures until the day that Ipiprix came back from the Mountains of Madness, as after this date, and a disagreement Bart had with the experimentation of a new Cure #49 with the subject True Faces, Bart was shot and killed by the Mind Walker infested Ipiprix.

===[[Enrique_Graves]]===
Bart had first met Graves at a grad school, he was Graves’ Professor in a biology course, one of his brightest students. 5 years later, Bart would send Graves a letter asking for his assistance in searching for an immortal being in a desert, with hopes of that bringing humanity itself closer to immortality (as at this time, Bart had began working with Ipiprix), citing Graves’ skills at solving obscure puzzles and riddles. Graves would arrive to his aid (All of this can be found in this document, released by the MAD Official Twitter account on May 30th, 2021 ), and from this point forward Graves had worked with Bart and Ipiprix in creating cures for humanity, up until Bart’s death.

===[[Immortius]]===
Each of the doctors knows Immortius very little, but after learning of his existence within a desert, they sought him out hoping that they could use his immortality as a guide for gaining it for humanity as well. They had extracted some of his blood and tore out his eyeball for experiments, but all their experiments lead to nothing, anyone the blood was injected into would spontaneously combust.

===[[true_faces]]===
Bart only knew True as he was instructed to experiment on him using the Mind Walkers by Ipiprix, so he did. Bart tested giving True Cure #49 to consume, which did little one day, made him unnaturally happy the next, then crashed and became incredibly depressed the day after that. He then had True’s happy memories extracted through the use of a Mind Walker, and he painfully watched as True’s mental state decayed in front of his eyes. He had enough of this experimentation, Bart declared Cure #49 a failure and that it should be discontinued.

===[[Mind_Walkers]]===
After Ipiprix returned from the Mountains of Madness, he had encouraged Bart and Graves to begin working with the Mind Walkers in experiments, so they started, extracting the happy memories and memories in general from human subjects to learn the capabilities of the creatures and how they could benefit the Mortality Advancement Division with their goal, immortality. After Bart had used the Mind Walkers to experiment with true_faces, he had realized just how gruesome and inhumane the process was and wanted it to be discontinued, which the Mind Walkers could not have, as they had infiltrated the Mortality Advancement Division using Ipiprix as their parasitic host, in hopes of being able to test their abilities to their limits and expand their legions at the same time, so when Bart disagreed with Ipiprix on their continued research using Cure #49, Ipiprix shot Bart in his office, then had his happy memories drained just before he could perish, and Ipiprix then had him stuffed into a safe.

==Theories==

*'''Bart had protected his son from the afterlife from being harmed or killed in some situations.'''
**It was incredibly lucky for Cecil to stumble upon Cure #43 after being cornered by the Mind Walkers within the Mortality Advancement Division, the Stoneman Potion that was developed by his father.
**Alongside this, it is known that only those with an incredibly strong mind could survive the potions effects, and although Cecil fits this bill, he was able to remain in his stoneman state up until after his final battle with the Mind Walkers, regardless of how strong one’s mind is, surely they would have faltered after being under the potions effects for that long, much sooner.

==Trivia==

*When Ipiprix sent the claim out that Bart was simply ‘On vacation in Australia,’ this was not a random choice of vacation destination, as inside of the safe in Ipiprix’s office, Bart’s corpse is sitting next to the flag of Australia.
**This also has a double meaning to it, as when talking about Australia, some call it ‘down under’ in reference to its location on the globe.

==Gallery==
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File:CecilGallery2.png|Bart having his photo taken of his newborn son in his hands, tears in his eyes as his wife had died in childbirth.
File:EnriqueGallery9.png|Bart, Graves and Ipiprix together in the desert after taking out the last Nephilim’s eye. This can be seen within A L L.
File:BartGallery1.png|The classification document for the Stoneman Potion, created by Bart Montgomery.
File:BartGallery2.png|Bart Montgomery’s logs from the days he spent experimenting on True in You Look Happy.
File:BartGallery3.png|The bloody mess of a scene left behind after Ipiprix shot Bart within his own office.
File:MAD2.png|Bart Montgomery’s corpse stuffed within Ipiprix’s safe, sitting next to a flag of Australia and holding the key to the Operating room.
File:BartGallery4.png|The spirit of Bart Montgomery found within REJECTION.
File:EnriqueGallery4.png|The Doctor posters for Bart and Graves, Bart is crossed out as he is now dead.
File:BartGallery5.png|How Bart responds if the player hands him the photograph right away.
File:BartGallery6.png|How Bart reacts if the player interacts with him without the photograph in hand.
File:MAD12.png|Bart Montgomery, True_Faces and Enrique Graves having their happy memories feasted on by young Mind Walkers within A L L.
File:BartGallery7.png|Cecil and Bart Montgomery reuniting in the afterlife in the Good Ending of Jalcrl Nwm.
File:CecilGallery9.png|The spirit of Bart patting his son on the back after a long journey, in the True Ending of Jalcrl Nwm.
</gallery>

==References==
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfbBZAxzR6s Video of REJECTION Before Its Remaster]

[https://twitter.com/MADMythOfficia1 Mental Assistance Department Twitter]

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C_thBEkgYHTD4ApehnMQcq2rxae-EK1EhdEm-OGo7iU/edit Document Detailing The Connection Between Bart, Graves and Ipiprix]

[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EfWrrBAbmJXHwGz4RydwPQAeNMrLTb4EX2fbrFOuExo/edit?usp=sharing RMH Investigation Report: Bart_Montgomery]

==Further Reading==
[[R E J E C T I O N]]

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