[Fortuitous]

I'm looking to make an adept who works with a monkey. With the rules from Street Grimoire, it is possible to give your monkey adept powers and by bribing my GM with pizza, I'd be I could get monkey brand cyberware, but I'm looking to find a way to make the monkey worth the investment and a valuable part of the duo. By giving him the linguistics power from Street Grimoire he can understand me, so that if I need the monkey to go get a chair and make a ganger comfortable, then fetch the pliers, or perhaps a banana for everybody, he can comply. That is a start. But I need more monkey based antics, possibly even combat aptitude.

Edit: To clarify, I'm primarily asking about ki powers I can give with qi foci, or via sharing ki powers, or cybernetics.

[JmOz01]

There are qi foci for animals

[Mittensworth]

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If you don't take the adept power 'Missile Mastery' for your monkey, I'm going to be deeply upset.

[Fortuitous]

This is my first post and I just registered to use this forum to reply to this.

If you don't take the adept power 'Missile Mastery' for your monkey, I'm going to be deeply upset.

That is amazing and my GM has already sent me death threats regarding potential poo throwing builds, however he said nothing about throwing anything else.

[Mittensworth]

Okay, yes he threw a pair of pliers at you.  But you should be glad-- you have no idea how long it took me to train him to stop throwing his... (GM interruption: Nope.  Shut it down.)

[Mittensworth]

Better yet, when you have him learn English via Linguistics, have him speak with a ridiculous high society accent and vocabulary.  Chide any enemy who makes any reference to poo throwing, that it is beneath him and he would not reinforce such a bigoted stereotype.  And then have him throw pepper punch.

If there is any question as to whether a monkey could physically speak English, set him up with a commlink and trode net or AR gloves.  He types whatever he wants to say, and it shows up as speech bubbles to anyone viewing it in AR.

[zeththeadeptork]

This is amazing.

[I_AM_ZHOUL!!!]

Since the fiction is full of cybered security animals, there doesn't seem to be any reason that you Monkey couldn't be similarly tweaked out. Muscle Replacement for that extra Throwing range & accuracy of that which will not be mentioned!!!!!!

[Fortuitous]

So, since there seemed some interest in this idea I finally got a day off and went through the books and found the adept powers a monkey could or should have.

Improved Sense: Direction Sense - Just in case the Monkey needs to drive you somewhere. A monkey Chauffeur should not get lost.
Light Body - Leap in the ways only a monkey can.
Voice Control - So your monkey can sound like Samuel L. Jackson
Wall Running - Monkeys should be able to go up the walls.
Berserk / Berserker Rage - So he can come at you like a spider monkey. Does require that your monkey has mental attributes exceeding 1.
Commanding Voice - When Samuel L. Jackson sounding monkey speaks, you listen.
Elemental Body - While amazing at first glance, the monkey in this case lacks a magic score which makes it just cool visual effects.
Linguistics - As Stated, allows the monkey to learn English, German, Swahili, and can serve as a communication specialist.
Missile Mastery - Monkey who throws ninja stars? Awesome. Monkey who throws poo to deadly effect? Probably gets you kicked from the table. Highly recommended.
Nerve Strike - If your GM allows this one, it may be one of the few ways I've found to make your monkey combat capable.
Skate - If you are going to use your monkey for reconnaissance, this could give him an edge.
Enthralling Performance - Despite the lack of a magic score, the monkey is capable of distracting everybody with adorable antics.