The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
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Posted by vampyremage on Jun 21, 2010 14:07:07 GMT -6
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Melf followed Aura up the side of the apartment building with relative ease, digging her claws into the soft morter that made up the wall. It was more difficult than it had once been to climb in such a manner since she now only had one clawed hand to work with, but still doable, especially when using her bladed tail in creative fashion. Once close enough, she wrapped the end of her tail around the bottom rung of the fire escape latter, hoisting herself up and climbing the remainder of the way to the roof.
Meld grinned at Aura, rather pleased the the morning's results. It was unfortunate that someone had to die in the completion of the mission, but the death had been necessary in order to ensure its success. Besides, he was only human or at least that's what she tried to tell herself. While she had never had an issue with killing those who killed or incited violence against mutants, her most recent victim was different because his only crime had been the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. She tried not to let that fact bother her and no hint of her moral dillemma showed on her face.
"I'm afraid the next few hours aren't likely to be terribly exciting," Meld answered, reaching into her bag and pulling out a gameboy. Since she knew there would be waiting involved, she saw no reason to be completely bored. "Students should begin arriving any minute now. Lunch begins at 11:15. We've got about 3 1/2 hours before anything of note is likely to happen." But when it did, it would be delicous.
"I figured as much" she said aboput their long wait for anything to happen. "The question is, if this works and they do get powers are they then like us?" she asked a bit confused on this part herself. If they were then that was great, after all that meant their would be less humans in the world and the drug could then be used to infect more people with greatness, untill it consumed the entire world. That would be the best case in her mind, then the utopia could begin.
If they were temporary however, then things got far more complicated, once their powers left them what were they. It was all confusing to her but this was why she did not lead, she failed to understand such things. Still her full understanding in her opinion likely was not even needed anyway. She had her orders and had been given the info that was required of her. "I wonder how long the effects will last" she said thinking aloud.
"Then again the effect could be nothing, or it could be foirever" she said knowing their were many way's this could go. She finnaily patched the webcam's into the laptop and began secureing the camera's in case of heavy shaking or explotions that might dislodge them from their places. This was the primary way she intended to collect data, as she felt it could be directlyanalyzed by lori and others, and their own accounts could be added in.
((OOC. I'm glossing over the whole waiting process, hope you don't mind.))
Cafas had watched them go in, had seen some movement in the cafeteria, and then seen them exit. It seemed their plan was going rather well, although he wondered what would happen to the students. It was seemingly a drug Meld would approve of, so he figured it either killed humans or something else fun like that, well, her idea of fun. They had come towards the built up area and he had lost track of them, but for the sound of scraping mortar he assumed was them. He was focused on the building. Sitting above the stairwell exit he waited. Bells rang, students ran around. Before he knew it the school bell rang for lunch.
Show time... maybe.
He watched for five minutes. Five nerve racking minutes. He didn't know what to look for. Eventually though, it displayed itself. First came the screams, then the riot. He had his mobile to his ear in seconds as he hopped down. Something was very amiss. Things were being thrown, people were crying, and smoke trickled from the gaps in the windows. He gave the information they wanted. Police, riot, location. Then he kept running. He flew down the stairs of the building and into the street. There really wasn't time for careful observation; there were fire and screams already.
Is that a giraffe human hybrid?
Sure enough it was. A boy's neck had extended to a vast length and was poking out a now broken window. The exit flooded with students, but some weren't getting far. He could see them falling and writhing, some simply spontaneously springing out with new features. C.J. figured it was the drug. A mutant outbreak like the one he was looking at? it had to be. Kids crazy powerful and out of control, that's what he saw. They were turning on each other in fear. Someone flew right past him, someone with fire springing from his eyeballs. Windows smashed and Cafas felt something invisible and solid smack him in the face.
Oh yay, nosebleed.
He tried to do something. Thinking was failing him and the sirens weren't even audible yet. In fact, the helicopters for the news were making it faster. He could tell, because one crash landed in the enclosed quadrangle he was running through, CNN briefly whipping past his face. The chaos had escalated quickly, and people were already hurt. Some cowered, others rampaged. The mob was displeased. He was narrowly missed by something green and unpleasantly globular. the culprit found the ground hard as C.J. ran past. He didn't know what to do any more than he had seconds ago, so he started yelling, as if it would help with all the noise. "Stop! Calm down! Just listen to me" He was thanked by means of a girl clutching bat ears and crying trying to rip his throat out. He normally would have drawn the line at beating on girls, but she was kicked a good foot into the air before crashing down, he wasn't taking any risks.
Posted by vampyremage on Jun 22, 2010 9:37:10 GMT -6
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Meld was hardly an authority on what was considered a mutant and what wasn't. If a human suddenly developed powers, did that make them a mutant? That was, perhaps, a question for philosophers not for herself and even if it didn't technically make them a mutant, perhaps the more relevant question was whether or not it even mattered. "I think in the important ways they'll be like us," she answered with a shrug. "Even if its only temporary they'll know, first hand, what its like to be a mutant, if only for a short while and that can only serve our cause." She had never been much for questions of philosophy.
As the time ticked on, approaching lunch for the students, Meld put away her DS and looked down at the school itself. She handed Aura one of the pairs of binoculars she had brought, to better view the amazing show that was about to happen. Aura and her web cam would document every glorious minute of the effects of the drug and Meld would be sure to remember everything about this day.
The effects of the drug were not gradual, popping up in the occasional person and then speeding up. No, it seemed to Meld as if everyone who unwittingly took the drug developed powers at the exact same moment. The first thing she heard was the screams, not entirely unexpected as humans, including those who were vehemently anti-mutant, developed powers and entirely random assortment of powers. After that things were difficult to follow.
Meld could see the smoke seeping out of the windows of the school and the mass exit of the students. The school itself, however, was unimportant, so much better to watch the students outside the school in plain sight. What she saw was nothing short of fascinating. The most immediately obvious change came in the form of those developing unusual features, faces changing to resemble animals, skins brightening to all colours of the rainbow, fur and feathers sprouting spontaneously from previously smooth flesh. It was truly remarkable the sheer variety of changes the students were undergoing while still remaining essentially human.
Only moments after the physical changes became apparent, affecting perhaps 1/10 of the students (it was important to keep track of these things), Meld began noticing other powers developing, every single one of them completely uncontrollable. She spotted a man with fire coming out of his eyes, clawing at his glowing eyes with his hand. A woman with glowing red tentacles coming out of her hands, flying about randomly. Fascinated and almost horrified, she watched as the tentacles sought out another student, wrapping themselves around the student and, a moment later, that student fell to the ground either unconscious or dead. Another boy with a field of dark purple energy around him that appeared to have paralytic effects to anyone who came withing its range. The number and variety of powers was enormously impressive.
The only appropriate word for what was going on far below them was chaos. Chaos, and perhaps riot. It was a beautiful sight and surely terrifying for those students who did not unwittingly take the drug and thus did not have powers of their own. For that matter, it was probably terrifying for those that did suddenly have powers and were completely unable to control them. "We should get down there," Meld informed Aura, putting away her binoculars. She wasn't certain what she intended to do, only that she had to see this close up. No one was likely to come to the roof and steal the laptop anyway.
As the time grew closer Aura began to consider things from a high perspective then she ever normally did. Truthfully she wished Miracle had lived longer, then she could have fought her these things. Were People who gained powers later in life still of their kind? If they lost their powers, were they still worth shedding blood for? "Maybe........Thing's in the woods were so much simpler, if it was human it died, if a friend was to wounded to make it back to base camp he died to........But now....things are so...different" she said honestly. If she simply killed every human she met in the city, she would already eb dead without achieving anything at all. "I guess we can only hope the effect is not temporary" she said deciding to hope that nature would pick them to carry on as their changes made them.
"I'll have to ask Lori about that" she finally decided. Lori was her leader, and her word law. Maybe she had to get past her old teaching's after all Miracle was dead, and it was Lori's words that mattered now right? But if that were so, did that mean her vow of absolute loyalty was also wrong? No that could not be, she had to uphold the central tenets in which she lived. Rubbing her head she fought back her own self doubt, she was a solider, and solders obeyed orders, no matter what they were. SO she would obey orders as well, if she could not at leats do that, then she truly was useless to anyone.
The effects of the drug, Soon drew her attention quickly the effect was impossible to miss. The sheer beauty of the event almost brought a tear to her eye. The giraffe mutant was the first to catch her eye and she briefly considered what it might taste like. Aura brought her hand's to her ears as a primal scream ripped through the air like a hammer, she hear windows shatter all around them, not fir the first time she wished her Aura blocked sound, as she smiled down below she watched as many physical mutation took place, including a boy, whose flesh was slowly thinning out. Aura smiled as she watched a girl look around, as her eyes locked on a car in the parking lot, it suddenly turned to sand which the wind began to blow away. One of the teachers who must have eaten the same food, Suddenly grew glorious white wings and looked terrified of them, almost getting hit by a passing car as he tried to run away from the chaos, as if it would help.
"Such wonderful beauty" she said with a bright smile on her face. "Yes...if they keep their powers.....they are our people" she said nodding if even to her self. "Your maybe right......But it will be very dangerous" she said entirely sure the strategical out look on this was horrible at best. leaping into a pack of hundreds of mutations rampaging out of control could well be suicide, but for now these people were mutants, even if she had to strike them down another day. Her conviction was further encouraged as the building shook a bit and looking down she could see a small crack in the pavement.
Posted by vampyremage on Jul 4, 2010 16:43:46 GMT -6
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Meld knew that actually going into the chaotic school yard was not exactly part of the mission, however she coudln't just sit by and let the students destroy themselves. The was still the question, for example, regarding whether the effects were actually permanent or not and if they were permanent that meant the students were mutants, or so close to being mutants so as to be unrecognizably different. And if they were mutants it was her responsibly to help ensure their safety. And if the effects were simply temporary and the students were still merely human? Then at least she would be close enough to witness the effects of the drug first hand. Perhaps there might even be the opportunity for Aura and herself to be the heroes for once, helping quell the drug induced riot.
"They are beautiful," Meld agreed with the one person she considered to be her closest friend. While not quite as enchanted by the powers of mutants as Aura was, she had always felt some attraction to them and curiosity regarding their seemingly eternal variety. "We should remain together," she suggested. "Less chance of getting unintentionally destroyed in the crossfire that way. Also, we may want to start on the periphery of what's going on. If we can subdue and recruit a couple of the students, we'll have a better chance of helping out the others. Or even if we're just able to subdue the students, we don't want this to become a suicide mission."
Meld climbed down the wall of the building, jumping the remaining few feet to land back on the ground. She waited for Aura to join her before running towards the school. Going onto the school grounds was clearly out of the question for the time being, they would almost certainly both be killed if they attempted that, but there was a growing collection of drugged and disturbingly powerful humans that were starting to filter off of school grounds. She ran towards the closest of those, a black haired girl who had several of what appeared to be glowing purple ribbons coming out of her her hands and arms. "You, calm down," Meld yelled at her. She held her shield up in front of her face, attempting to protect herself in case those ribbons were dangerous and, given the wide variety of mutant powers, there was a good chance that they were. One student at a time, she would do her part to calm the situation down.
Aura was still unsure of this process, this idea of getting between a number of out of control mutants who had no control. She had helped others control their powers and had watched miracle do so many times but those had been single mutants or small groups and Miracle had access to several very powerful mutants in-case things did get really out of hand. That was an option they did not have currently. Though she felt it was a bad idea, Aura hit a few buttons on the laptop, she wanted it to transmit as it went, so that if the building fell it would get through.
"Right...." she said as she moved the building edge and began climbing down the fire escape quickly. "The plan is sound" she said and it was, even if in Aura's opinion ill advised, keeping them selfs together would work to keep them alive longer. AT ground level things looked even rougher, as she watched as a kid grabbed another kidm and stuck to him, like a giant ball of glue. The other Mutant had evolved bee like features including a stinger which was proving vastly ineffective.
Aura approached a Mutant who was gown in size so that he was easily twice as built as Aura was, and a deep blue in color, he had also evolved another set of arms. He seemed one of the more calm individuals. "We need your help to calm down some of the others, with....whatever's happoning" she said feeling being truthful would;d likely get them killed. As she talked to him, she saw part of the wall around the front school door's start to give way.
Posted by vampyremage on Jul 7, 2010 21:16:26 GMT -6
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It wasn't that Meld wanted to go into the mob of humans who had suddenly developed mutant powers due to the help of herself and Aura, it was that she felt obligated to do so. It was their fault that this had occurred and, as her friend had pointed out earlier, if the powers were permanent then they would be mutants and therefore their people. She had an obligation to protect and help her people, even if they had only just become hers. That was what she fought her entire life fore. And if the powers were only temporary and they were still human at their core? Well, she couldn't live with herself if she took that chance.
The mutant with the glowing purple ribbons that Meld was currently facing, lashed out with one of the ribbons which wrapped itself around Meld's metal arm. It flared brightly, its purple glow growing so bright as to almost be blinding and began pulsing. In that instant, she was grateful for her metal arm, not certain what the ribbons did but quite certain that she didn't want to find out. "You, we need your help to calm down the students. We want to help them and the only way we can do so without anyone getting killed is to calm them down." The woman's eyes glowed the same shade of purple as her ribbons and, for a long moment, Meld thought she hadn't gotten through to the girl. Finally the girl nodded and the ribbon disengaged from her arm. She wasn't certain what the girl could do, but at least she had the means (probably) to defend herself.
A glance at Aura proved that her friend had the same idea as she had, trying to recruit one of the other humants to help them out. Meld returned her attention to the death trap mob school yard, trying to pinpoint something, anything, that might help her out. In the far corner of the yard she spotted a boy, probably not any older than 14, who was currently glowing and floating about a foot off the ground. Around him was an area of markably less chaos than everywhere else on and around the school yard. Meld pointed him out to Aura. "I think we can use him, if we can get that far."
The guy seemed to understand the plan, which Aura was happy about, she had no idea how well she could have fought him. He was less experienced, but who knew what kind of strength and power he had to back that up. For now however Aura ducked, as a green beam of energy passed over head and blew apart a mailbox across the street. Aura was a bit torn, on one hand chaos like this could bring an end to the human's if they they spread it fast and wide enough or at least give them a good foot hold. On the other if they were Mutants many if not most would end up dead, but was not their duty, to die so the future could survive?
"Maybe, But getting thare would be suicide" she said looking at the chaos surrounding the notable area around the man. She said counting a dozen problematic mutations between them and the mutant they needed The direct route was not possible, Aura felt they would be cut to ribbens if they tried, at the very least people would die, assuming these were even people. "I think i may have an idea however" she said with a grin to Meld.
Waving her new freind over she looked over the chaos. "How do you feel about flight, old friend?" she said glancing at the large blue mutant. It was a crazy idea, but if they went over the Mutants, they might have a chance, getting back out however would be an issue if things failed. "We can use the other mutant to calm other's as we go" she said the plan seemed to hold water as she formed it, time would tell if she was crazy or not however. The Large Blue Mutant picked her up and chucked her one handed over the mutant hoard and she landed crouched not far from the calming mutant without much issue.
Posted by vampyremage on Jul 13, 2010 10:32:22 GMT -6
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Meld knew that Aura was right. Getting over to the calming mutant was basically an act of suicide. Although the two of them were far more experienced than any of the children in the schoolyard, even though couldn't hope to consider actually going up an entire gang of chaotic, out of control mutants. They might be able to go around the perimeter of the school and thus avoid the worst of it and stand a chance of making it to their goal, but by that time it might be too late and precious lives might be lost. Unfortunately it was the only idea she came up with. Luckily, however, Aura, ever resourceful, had a better and much faster idea.
"Flight sounds like just what we need," Meld answered with a grin. What Aura had in mind, however, turned out not to be flight so much as projectile throwing. Despite her misgivings on the idea, after Meld saw the success Aura had in getting to their destination, she figured she didn't really have anything to lose in the attempt and took her place in line. A moment later, she found herself flying through the air, landing in a crouched position clear on the other side of the school grounds. She landed in a crouched position, not far from their target. After checking to make sure her friend had also survived the launching, she approached the man.
"We need your help," Meld told the glowing boy." It was an interesting feeling, being launched directly into his area of influence. As soon as she landed all of her fear seemed to seep right out of her and she was left with a strange feeling of calm and contentedness. Her mind, as far as she could tell, remained unaffected. She still knew, intellectually, how important it was to calm the school down, but the sense of urgency was completely gone. That was exactly the feeling she needed to give to the rest of the students.
"We need your help," Meld repeated it the second time, and after repeating it the boy finally looked down at her, giving her his full attention. "You appear to project an aura of calm. We need you to use that aura on all the other students, to prevent any unnecessary injuries or deaths." His eyes were strangely blank and she wasn't even entirely certain that he understood her.
Aura looked at the calming mutant and had to admit she felt very relaxed, almost enough where she could have just sat down and waited the entire thing out. The need to get things done had fade greatly and Aura felt a bit like she just smoked, only determination kept her on her feet. She docked as a desk flew over her head like a fast ball. She could not see who had thrown it however and instead took a defensive stance and looked around quickly. She heard another window shatter and looked up see it raining glass as something blew out hald the second story window's though Aura had no idea what it was.
Aura heard a sound that would break her of her normal stuper, but almost did not register with her current state of mind, police sirens. "meld, i think we may have a different issue" she said though she felt less urgent on it then she knew was right in the situation. "Is the field large enough? to bad we can''t magnify the power" she asked curiously looking around, glad she did not see lights. She breifly wonderd why they ahd gotten this involved before recalling the answer herself.
Walking she found the edge of the aura and stepped just outside of it, leaving the calm aura so that she could get a better sence of what was going on, from here she could spot fights beginning to break out amoung the panicked students who were not yet in the Aura. Aura took hold of the nearest agressive mutant she could find and pushed him into the aura and watched as the aura did it's job and calmed the mean dark skinned mutant right down.
Posted by vampyremage on Jul 22, 2010 11:16:13 GMT -6
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Being inside the aura of calm was a unique experience, bringing back hints of a former memory. Had she experienced something like this before? She couldn't quite recall although the hint of familiarity remained. It wasn't important to recall just at that moment anyway though, was it? No, of course not. Nothing was important right at that moment, or so it seemed. Fear, urgency, adrenaline, all of those things that caused a person to act seemed to seep out of her and the longer she stood in the aura's influence, the less pull they had. In fact, all she really wanted to do was sit down and bask in the sunlight. However, her mind remained active and alert and it reminded her of exactly why she was here and exactly what she had to do.
The boy began drifting slowly to the epicenter of the chaos around the school yard and as he got farther away the effects of the aura began to lesson. They did not, however, disappear entirely, leaving Meld with a curios detached sense of motivation minus the life preserving urgency that had been there previously. It seemed that the boy was somehow extending the radius of his aura though at the expense of its strength. She didn't know what its maximum range was nor did she know if it would be enough to stop people from killing themselves and each other accidentally or purposefully. "We need to round the students up and herd them towards the floating boy," Meld informed Aura. Her mind told her the action was important even if her emotional state didn't fully agree. She was used to detaching herself from her emotions, however, often doing so in order to enhance survivability in a life or death situation. She was, perhaps, more equipped to deal with their loss than many.
At that moment sirens began to be heard. Meld's mind told her that sirens were bad and even though she and Aura were presently helping to calm the situation, both of them were wanted for enough murders, including cop murders, that the presence of the cops would not work in their favour. In fact, because of their presence the cops might even neglect to help the students in favour of trying to capture two of the most wanted mutant terrorists in the entire city. "Maybe we should leave," Meld suggested. She didn't want to leave the students alone but she also didn't want to be captured by the cops and go to jail. Both options seemed curiously devoid of any real consequences, however. Her brain told her what the consequences might be, but she couldn't seem to care more than a little either way.
"Not much we can do here really, this kid eaither calms this down or he does not" Aura said sounding a bit colder then she meant. She believed at least until they could prove otherwise that these kids were like them now. She had decided this fairly quickly though and has also decided that she would ask Lori about what these people were to be considered. A New thought came to mind, if she killed one of these people, and they were mutants it would be murder.
The field was affecting her, however further from the centor it was weaker, it also helped that aura was already calm. "We need to grab the laptop" she said to her friend, splinting out of the boy's influince, she instently realized just how much it had effected her. Rushing up the Fire escape she quickly grabbed the laptop before realizeing the action was unneeded, she ahd set the device to transmit anyway. Grabbing it she made her way back down as the sirens began to get very loud.
Looking over the group, she did notice it was far calmer then it had been before, their were hardly any more windows breaking, and she only heard a rather loud impact once, after the boy went to the middile of the chaos. If they were not mutants, aura beleived they at the very least had a powerful weapon, to drop ona city to wipe the humans from the face of it, she barely considerd the mutant lifes that would surely fall as well.
Posted by vampyremage on Jul 28, 2010 11:13:23 GMT -6
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Meld nodded her agreement at Aura. It was so loud that talking was difficult anyway. They had done what they could to deal with the situation, such as it was, anyway. The floating boy would, hopefully, calm thing down enough for the other two individuals that had recruited to actually do something. Plus, the cops were coming which was both a positive and a negative. The positive was that they would, hopefully, be able to calm the situation further. The negative was obvious; if they caught either of them they would both be going to jail for a very long time, or worse.
Although Meld was still near the edge of the worst of the chaos, she was now on the opposite side from where they had left the laptop. However, given that they no longer had any need to enter the fray and the fray was starting to calm down due to the influence of their newest recruit, if only slightly, walking around the school yard wasn't likely to prove too difficult, or so she hoped. Vigilance was, of course, still essential, however as long as they remained on their toes she was confident that they would make it out unscathed.
The further Meld walked from the epicenter of the aura, the more she felt like herself again. Her tail eye blinked behind her every few seconds, helping to ensure that a stray mutant didn't take her unaware. She had to dodge frantically to the side as a snake-like fire creature suddenly came at her, vanishing back into the air a moment later. It was then that she noticed something unusual. The child who had sent the fire snake had a panicked look on his face. Given present circumstances, it wasn't the look of panic that was so startling, it was the fact that his skin was beginning to crack and split. He let out a scream of terror and agony, small fiery fissures appearing in his flesh, first few and small and then accelerating in pace and severity. Finally, fire began appearing in each fissure and, in a matter of seconds, the flames from each opening overtook the boy, leaving black ashes where once a child had stood. The entire process took less than a minute, from the first fissure until his disintegration, his powers having consumed him from the inside.
Aura nodded in a mixture of horror and fascination as a the strong mutant who had thrown him, suddenly doubled in size, but it all out of proportion, and the person screamed then clutched his chest and finnaly fell over, dead. Aura head an explosion somewhere nearby and figured it was likely another of these failed mutations. Yes these mutations were not like theirs, unstable to the point of allowing them only a few minutes of power before they were overwhelmed entirely, it would have been sad, had they counted as people.
Aura was trying to video some of the effects with the still attached web cam though it did not prove easy, as random as things were going. "Agreed, however on the positive side, we now know that they can not be counted as mutants, nature itself hjas spoken" she said simply the scene no longer causeing her horror. "We have no further need to be here" she said, as she swept the web cam shakily across the area panning to catch as much of the chaos as she possibly could.
Aura heard a car screech to a halt on the other side of the chaos. "It does seem we should depart" she said beginning her way away from the violence. She was worried that some of the transformations might not go as well, as these one's were and might be dangerous to be near. Overall she was at least happy that she now knew the drug was not making real mutants, but still the chaos could prove useful in large amounts. Clutching the laptop she glanced back once when she heard a scream behind themm but she could not see who it was.