multiple transient sims within a montecarlo loop via ocean

Is there anyway to use ocean to cause spectre put multiple transient
simulations inside of a monteCarlo loop? Basically what I want is

1) roll the dice on my statistics blocks

2) set a design parameter to some value

3) run a sim

4) use alter to change the design parameter

5) run another sim

6) go back to #1

What I can do is

desVar("MYVAR" 2.3)
monteRun()

desVar("MYVAR" 6.2)
monteRun()

but this causes the dice rolling to happen multiple times. I can use
?startIter and ?numIters to control things, but I don't want to have to
spend the overhead of rolling the dice multiple times when it is not
needed.

In other words, the

awaiting artil process initialization ....

**** Performing monte carlo loop for `mc1'

part of the analysis takes a rather long time so I don't want to repeat
it when it is not required.

Thanks
-Dan