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.
Got a plot in mind?
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Loud. He was so, so loud. Kalos balled her fists and worked to get to her feet. She couldn't have a conversation with someone this loud and dangerous while she was laying down.
If he hurts me, they'll kill him. Maybe the Mansion residents wouldn't actually do a murder, but the thought did help calm her fraying nerves. Only safe people were allowed in here, as safe as anyone ever was at the Mansion.
Kalos' eyes widened at the glowing sigil. That was totally like one of the ones she'd drawn.
"How does-? Can I see-?" Kalos was tripping over herself to talk. She didn't want to engage with him too closely, but had also almost asked him to strip down so she could get a more complete inspection of his runes? Kalos shook her head to stop her from being over-eager and started again. "My mum draws runes now. We're mostly trying to find old references and... that kind of stuff."
So what was she trying to summon? Kalos realized she had stepped on the edge of her circle and took a step back to see it clearly again.
"I wanted uh- a protector." She shouldn't have to be embarrassed about that, right? Plenty of people couldn't or wouldn't fight. "I thought an animal might be... nice. It could fly, though. It doesn't have to be 'of the earth'. I guess."
> ”I should expect someone with your talents knows when a sigil is backwards, correct?”
Kalos pulled her hat down to cover her embarrassment and then got a compliment about the hat as well. Double whammy embarrassment. Though, she felt as if she'd misjudged the big guy.
"I've no clue what's backwards or not. I can't actually read any of this and it doesn't actually come with instructions." But. He did.
"Could you... do you have this one?" Kalos tapped the backwards rune. She could get a new paper and patch the circle, right? Perhaps all this work wouldn't be lost. "Or... do you have instructions, maybe? A book?"
The living room wasn't the ideal place for this, but Kalos had tried first in her room and the paper wouldn't lie flat. The wall and the bed were too close for the paper circle. She'd had to cut open and tape together 9 or 10 brown paper bags. She'd drawn it in pencil first, unsure of her copying technique since she was having to replicate what she saw on the screen after an internet search.
And it still wasn't working.
"Maybe it needs to be in marker. Or blood?" Blood would be gross, but history books sure loved blood. Did someone sell blood markers, maybe?
Kalos was flopped on her belly next to the edge of the circle and pulled down her oversized witch's hat while she contemplated where she might get enough blood to draw with. Oh, but wouldn't a lot of blood bring all the animal shifters in the house down on her head?
A certain someone ducked through the doorway and started talking to her. Like, he just started talking. As if that was just always allowed.
She peeked up from under the brim of her hat and decided the floor was not the right place to be for this conversation. The dude was large-- extra super sized to the point where he looked able to easily crush tiny human girl skulls. Kalos stood and brushed off the front of her dungarees.
"I can do magic." She insisted, "But it isn't working."
Wait. Waitwaitwait. It wasn't like she looked magical except for the hat. Kalos looked at Big Man with renewed interest. "You recognize this magic?"
But wasn't it, like, super old? The pictures of the papers on the internet had been crumbly and made of papyrus or something.
Kalos couldn't imagine her hair being straight. Short? Sure, she was only just now growing it out. But straight? It seemed like its very nature would have to be wrestled.
"But braids look super tight to your head skin." Kalos didn't even try to hide her staring. Staring at Gemma's hair was better than focusing on what was above the hair-- which was nothing. "Don't you miss, like, feeling air in your hair?"
Looking up as she was, Kalos caught her shoe on a lip between uneven sidewalk pavers and tripped. That micro-second of the feeling of falling was enough to upgrade Kalos' hand-holding to full on side-hugging. Thankfully, it wasn't much more of a walk from there.
A little bell rang over the metal-framed glass door and once they were across the thresh hold, Kalos realized she'd been holding her breath. She let Gemma go by inches, and had to admit that the little shop was... not what she expected.
Kalos regretted not dressing more witchily as soon as she'd stepped out the front door. She felt that visceral reaction outside the same as always: a cold splash of clingy fear. If she had let herself cast her one spell first, then she wouldn't have to worry about what was next... silly Kalos was still lacking foresight, even when that was her only trick.
"You can straighten it?" or, a more important question... "Why?"
As they walked, Kalos' grip tightened unconsciously. It would take a crowbar to dislodge her hand while they were not under a roof or umbrella.
Two words made Kalos regret how much she'd feared Gemma before.
> "Of course"
Of course they could go together. Of course Gemma wasn't of a mind to reprimand or belittle her. Of course she could even help smooth out her silly fears. Of course.
"I think my hoodie is enough. It's not cold enough for snow yet." Her shoes might be more of an issue considering how stiff and unused they were, but this felt like a "strike while the iron is hot" moment. If they didn't go now, there might not be a later.
"Ho-how often do you go?" She tried for casual conversation, gripping at what little they had in common first. "I don't- I mean, when I first came here my hair was very short." and unkempt and cut jaggedly. She'd done that herself after she'd been caught once by her hair and dragged back beneath the courts to move muck around. They'd ripped out chunks of her hair anyway so it seemed wise to take away any hand holds she could.
Since that sort of abuse was no longer a concern, she'd let it grow.
"I feel like it's taken forever to grow longer." Kalos hesitated as they neared the front door, offering her hand to Gemma first and having to move very deliberately over the threshold.
She wasn't going to stay in a cage, even if the cage was one of her own choosing. Not any more.
They could walk. They really could. There was nothing stopping them. Kalos shifted her weight back and forth between her feet and tried to measure how much courage she had inside of her today. She'd spent some here and she knew she had to save some for the salon that Gemma had mentioned because it was sure to be full of unfamiliar experiences and people.
If Kalos ever wanted to change, she had to continue to do things that were difficult for her.
"We can walk." She felt a splash of cold fear in her chest as soon as Gemma said "now" so Kalos sent a quick message in a group chat to both parents that she was taking a walk with Gemma.
But it was fine. She was fine. This was all perfectly safe. Still, she couldn't quite repel the cold spot of fear in her chest.
"Would it be alright if you hold my hand on the way?" She didn't want to get lost, after all. Or fall up into the sky.
With Gemma's sort of casual reply, Kalos was realizing that she hadn't thought this through, exactly. Going out meant going outside. Even though she had ventured outside more and more before... that was before. She hadn't left the Mansion since the incident.
She stammered for a moment before stopping and intentionally making herself calm down enough to speak properly. She'd better start by answering the question posed to her.
"Pink." She tried not to be too embarrassed by her choice, but her cheeks colored anyway. "People hardly recognize me, I hardly recognize me. I thought... it'd be like a transition, maybe."
Would it be alright? Did they have to get some kind of permission? Or-? Kalos had only left the Mansion grounds three or four times, now. Her record for that being okay was thus far limited to the times she had gone with one of her parents.
"How do you usually get there? Is it far?" She would for sure take her cell phone and keep it on her person, no! In her hand. Kalos fished out her phone from her hoodie pocket. Yes. Now she was ready.
Becca and Mirror were worried. They were so worried that they acted completely, suspiciously normal and fine as they stepped into the mirrorverse to go somewhere else. Without her.
That was… Kalos didn’t know how to feel about that, actually.
If she’d been her old self, fresh to the Mansion, she would have cried and begged for them to take her with them. She’d wanted to be able to stand on her own two feet, right? So… that was almost like she’d asked for it, really.
Becca’d mentioned that Kalos should go visit DocProf to be sure, but then she left. Kalos decided there wasn’t enough of a problem to bother. Physically, she didn’t have a scratch on her.
She yanked the soggy crinoline over her head and tentatively reached out toward the mirror her parents had walked through.
No. She might be curious, but Kalos wasn’t sure she wanted to look just yet. Even seeing her hand, all brown on the back with a pink blush on her palm instead of her proper coral… she didn’t feel like her. Like a stranger broke in and she was seeing through their eyes. She felt like an imposter in her own body.
Kalos disappeared into the bathroom and took the hottest shower of her life, scrubbing her elbows and knees especially, since they’d had spots she could never quite itch before and finally she could. Through the fog of the bathroom mirror, she finally gave in and looked.
Her hair was the same coily-kinky curl, but solid dark black. No more reds and pinks with threads of all the shades in between. Kalos wiped away more of the steam, took a step back, and looked at herself over all. It was like she’d been desaturated. And of course she had to step in close again to see her eyes. She looked left and right and marveled at the whites. She was so…. so normal now. Totally changed. Could she even be called Kalos any more? Did she want to be Kalos any more?
She went through her normal hair care routine: blotting, oiling, detangling, squnching, mousse… none of that changed. Kalos noticed she had toenails now. And fingernails. She dug around in the bathroom until she found Becca’s nail polish and painted each one of them a different color.
Kalos felt a little more like herself, then.
Herself, but different.
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ομαλός might be more accurate, but, like… ew. Who wanted to be called normal?
ισχυρός might fit her new personal ideal, but… Kalos did not feel powerful, even with different “powers”. Mostly what she felt was alone. Nobody but her mom had gone through a change like her. And Becca… Becca was needing some time to process.
μετασχηματισμός and πεταλούδα, metamorphosis and butterfly, were too on the nose…
Kalos scrubbed her fingers in her hair, not caring that it was flat on one side where she’d slept funny. Because she could now sleep funny. There was no “cage” or “crown” to keep her from sleeping on her hair. In fact, just because she could, Kalos ran her fingers through her scalp and down on through the ends of her hair, pulling a lock out so that she could inspect the inky blackness and shine of it. Things hadn’t been bad before, when she was a mutant. But some parts of her just felt free-er now. And yet some things she couldn’t get used to.
She pursed her lips and made up her mind. Kalos would continue to be brave, and there was one person who absolutely terrified her… but didn’t have to terrify her any more.
Kalos slipped out of her room and walked all the way down to the counselor’s office, barefoot. That was another thing she kept forgetting. Shoes.She ran back up and dug out some house shoes and ran back down. Gemma should be in her office hours now, but not forever.
”Excuse me.” Kalos knocked because she’d noticed that politeness went a long way with some people. ”Could I ask for a favor?”
Realistically, the answer had almost never been “no” even when Kalos should have been denied. Still, somehow Kalos always expected a “no.” She hesitated, but not for long enough for her to lose her nerve.
”I want to dye my hair.” Bravely, she forged on just as she’d practiced in her room beforehand. ”I need help. Or. A professional. Professional… help.” She finished lamely. ”I thought you might… know what to do…? Y’know?” Because of all the people here, Gemma’s hair was the closest in texture and color to her own.
That was... fine. Some mutants were born wrong. Not that Kalos would admit that to Becca, she wouldn't have understood since she had been born in way that she found more than tolerable. That's why it'd been a betrayal of trust to mess with Becca. She shouldn't have even been there. It had been Kalos' special day... only, even that wasn't enough for Aoife. She'd wanted her sister— maybe more than she'd wanted Kalos.
Eyes down, she let herself be tugged along into the mirrorworld a disappointed fog. It wasn't until Becca was stepping out again that Kalos balked.
She'd left her umbrella. Her phone. She was in a soggy dress, having actually fallen into the dang spring of water. And now they wanted to stop on the top of a building. The tippy-top. Like, only a sea of sky up above.
Kalos had done this so she could leave her old insecurities behind. She'd shed her skin. So she took a step out of the mirrorworld, but felt as if her legs were robot legs: working mechanically stiff and only vaguely under her control.
"Can we go home?" A fine tremor had started in her arms and legs. Despite her best efforts to not be afraid, she was squeezing the heck out of Becca's hand.
From half a step behind Becca Kalos watched. She saw Becca's shadow dip down before her mom drank in reality. She saw Aoife regrouping with the one she called "Unmaker" and she saw shadows she didn't understand around the edges of things. Some people filled those spaces. Some were yet unused. Kalos resolved to walk out the door, but her shadow died out quickly. There were too many unknowns in a room full of this many people.
It was too easy to fall into an observational role. Kalos shook herself and wondered if she could walk through Becca's shield. As soon as she'd resolved to try, she saw her shadow do it. Then disappear. She didn't need to try it now that she knew, her mind had changed.
Becca was clearly in crisis mode. It was a crisis that didn't feel all that impactful to Kalos. No one here seemed to want her dead, but they sure as heck all seemed ready to fight about it. A certain shadow caught her attention because it was in such an odd location, a person was coming out of a shiny bit of metal. The shadow flickered and died, but she spotted a different one not too long after.
And that meant Gawain was coming. Soon.
"Becca? Mom—" Kalos called for attention until she saw Becca's shadow turn to look at her, her face following soon after. The shadows sometimes changed before they happened so she had to wait for it to really happen. "We don't have to fight about this."
Kalos stepped up beside Becca, slipping her hand into her mom's soft hand.
She was momentarily distracted that her hand was soft now, too. She wasn't pink any longer, but now... still a contrast from Becca's skin.
"You didn't give her a choice, Aoife." Kalos called out angrily from the safety of the bubble and tugged Becca toward the shadow that was solidifying. Mirror had made their decision on their point of entry. It would be best if they were there and ready.
Kalos stumbled to her feet with Aoife's help. She could feel that she had toes, and somehow she just kept over-correcting her balance and wobbling backwards. It took longer than it should have for Kalos to process what Aoife had told her, and longer than she should have to open her eyes and see Becca at the other end of the warehouse.
"Mom..." Becca was kneeling before the old man and Kalos lifted her foot to take a step in her direction, but hesitated, and ultimately set her foot back down. Becca didn't look happy, but Aoife asserted that was because she just didn't see how this was going to pan out yet. In all honesty, Kalos wasn't sure that was true. Kalos had definitely chosen, but Becca... why would she? She was powerful, conventionally beautiful, and in control.
Kalos closed her eyes for one final gut-check. She wanted this still, right? She was still willing to break the chains of her past and move forward, to receive power. She could deal with Becca afterwards. Kalos would help her leave if this wasn't what Becca wanted, but first she had to have her surprise.
The building groaned and the earth shook for the briefest of moments. Kalos considered that her sign. She gave Aoife's arm a squeeze and the two turned away from Becca. It was her choice to make, and she was so thankful to have Aoife to help facilitate.
At Aoife's instruction, Kalos knelt in front of a bowl someone had scooped out of the ground, she put her hands into the glowing bubble of... of water? of power? and hesitated with the glowing liquid cupped between human fingers that were wholly new to her. Was this even real? A dream?
"Everything will be okay after this, right, Aoife?"
"Ye'll hae true power. Ah coudnae be mair proud o' ye in this moment. Drink up, Kalos."
She closed her eyes and drank.
If only Kalos could see the ramifications of today. If she could know how it all played out, then she wouldn't have to second guess herself.
Somehow the glowing water wasn't ending. Somehow, Kalos felt as if she was being filled from the cool liquid in her throat down more and more until the light branched into every corner, nook, and cranny of her being. She choked as it continued to pour in and scrabbled at her throat, overbalancing until she fell forward into the bowl of glowing potential.
Kalos wasn't at risk of drowning, even if the bowl wasn't nearly as shallow as it had looked. She pushed herself up out of the water and gasped for air. And when she opened her eyes she saw unexpected additions around the warehouse.
Shadows. Smokey figments as if the world were water and someone had dripped ink. Kalos saw a flurry of movement near herself and flailed against it. Her arms went through it... actually... they followed it. Exactly.
It snapped into place then. They were... decisions. A fore-shadow.
Kalos' head snapped up and her eyes glowed a steely gray. She wanted to see.
Aoife led her by the hand to the photographer who was no longer a photographer. Kalos squared her chin, unsure if she should protest, but... she had to give it up, right? She had to let being a gorgon go.
"Will it hurt?" She wasn't afraid, just trying to be prepared. The Germanic chanting fell off for only a moment so he could answer.
"Yes."
Aoife's hand was gone from Kalos' now. She balled her fists and bowed her head as asked, tucking her chin. As the chanting continued, blackness enveloped her like octopus ink. The buzzing in her skin magnified until the gorgon was trembling, unable to stop her body from shaking. She took a step forward— or tried to. Her knees were like jelly and Kalos crashed hard into the ground, catching herself with her hands. The buzzing was intense, but she refused to give in to it, to let it scare her.
She'd asked for this. She should see it through.
Except, parts of her were crumbling away. A dusting of pink fell down onto the floor below her. Kalos hugged herself and squeezed her eyes shut.
That when it started to hurt.
Her hands. Her eyes. Her blood.
There was nothing she could touch, or not touch, that didn't hurt. That didn't make her make pathetic mewling sounds.
Eventually, she heard someone— Aoife?— calling her name. Her muscles were knotted and Kalos couldn't seem to unknot herself.
"Is it over?"
The buzzing was no longer making her feel as if she was going to shake apart. In fact, it had left her so suddenly that she almost felt a phantom version of it. Like she couldn't deal with the lack.
What a surprise that this wasn't even the real surprise!
Kalos' mind raced as Aoife walked back to her and left her mom waiting.
It wasn't chocolate. That had already been discussed and, in deference to her white dress, discarded. The hum of potential ran under Kalos' skin once again. The dress and photoshoot had been everything Aoife had promised. This surprise had to be even better if it was the "real surprise" and the photoshoot, by comparison, wasn't even the main show.
> "Are ye ready for your real surprise?
The pink girl snuck a look at Becca, but she was waiting rather patiently. Whatever the real surprise was, Aoife had thought it was important that Becca be there. To... to witness? To join in? But whatever it was, she took some small satisfaction in the idea that it was for her first. Aoife had left Becca hanging. She'd prioritized Kalos.
"Will I need to be brave?" Kalos held her hand out in a silent admission that she was ready, that this was a yes.
Aoife seemed thrilled from the crown of her head on down through her toes. Thrilled, but contained. She knelt to take both of Kalos' hands in her own, almost like a proposal.
"Yer awready brave, dear'in. Ah ken how much ye'v struggled an' overcome. Ah ainlie wantae make thin's better fur ye fae this moment oan. A'm waantin' tae gie ye this gift." It was a strangely sobering sight to have Aoife so serious, holding both her hands and talking like this was life and death. Kalos was on the precipice of something huge: she could sense it even if she didn't yet know what it might be.
Aoife took a deep breath and made sure she had full eye contact before she asked. "Wull ye be pairt o' mah world? Leaf th' gorgon 'n' th' Mansion behind ye. A'm waantin' ye tae be free."
Kalos opened her mouth to say yes and then shut it again. She wanted to give the same gravity to this decision that Aoife seemed to be giving it.
Was this Aoife's world? Dresses and camera lenses and perfect days? There'd been a few people on set, but not a gorgon in sight. But also, there hadn't been anyone to make her feel stupid or small. Here, she was as beautiful as she saw herself.
But. Kalos liked being a gorgon. What would it mean to leave being a gorgon behind?
"What does it cost?"
She saw a glimmer of respect in Aoife's eyes. And maybe... anticipation. She could tell she was already on the hook.
"Ah wun't lie tae ye. Th' cost is yer power."
Kalos felt it again, that buzz of excitement and promise. Her power? What power? She didn't fight bad guys or even leave the Mansion. Not really. She couldn't.
But maybe... maybe if she left it behind... She might be free.
It wasn't that bad traveling with Aoife. Or maybe it was that Kalos blocked the how of the travel out and easily left that anxiety behind once they were inside and absolutely fabulous.
There were the clothes: coordinated but not matchy-matchy, the hair: related by curls, but not the same, and the makeup... ahhh the makeup. It hadn't taken as long as Kalos had hoped. She wanted to be pampered forever, to get massaged and painted into the best version of herself. She'd had to remind the artist that she blushed blue, but even though it was over in a flash, the result was a magical sense of flawless innocence.
Kalos stepped onto the set dressed in an opalescent white like a queenly soap bubble or a blushing and freckled princess. Like the kinds of girls she saw on Speedigram. But pinker.
And the set. It was heaven, Kalos was pretty sure. There was a gilded marble fountain and fluffy... fluff. It looked like clouds. Whatever the fluff was, it stuck to her crusty hands and crown so she tried not to play with it too much. There were bubbles that didn't pop and golden props like a gilded tea set they'd pretended to sip at together.
Aoife was not only a professional, she was engaging. She helped Kalos laugh at the right moments and taught her to find her light and pop her hip just so that way her body wasn't so flat.
> "Weel, if it isnae th' tois most bonnie models in th' world!"
Kalos looked quickly away from Aoife and squeaked Becca's name. Her hand squeezed around Aoife's.
She wasn't afraid like a kid caught with their hand in a cookie jar or anything. Nor was she squeaking like a kid who'd maybe for a half of a moment, been wishing that her mom had been Aoife instead of Becca.
Nope. Neither of those.
That was the squeak of all that AND the panic of I totally forgot to tell my adult where I was.
"Becca!"
She could not answer how much she liked the experience fast enough. "The makeup artist had so many colors and she kept having to mix them! There's a photoman and he's like totally in love with us. Oh! And look! Up there at the light? There's one they shine off a thing and then there's— there's—" Kalos made an explosion motion with her one free hand because words were not enough "—so many sparkles. It's the most magical thing."
Auntie Aoife had gotten Kalos a dress. A dress, a dress, a dress. The word bounced around her insides like a gong sonorous reverberation.
"I should very much like to wear a dress." The out was take it or leave it, but if that was the price? A dress, a dress. It wasn't as if she'd never had a dress before. But Aoife was the height of fashion. She was all the hips and so cool. If it was a dress that Aoife approved of, then Kalos wanted to be in it starting yesterday. Just as she'd wanted to be an adult since yesterday. This child thing was just so... not what Aoife was into.
"You would want to take pictures? Together? For work?" She was trying (and probably failing) not to buzz right out of her skin. FINALLY someone saw her absolute worth and beauty. FINALLY the world might see.
Kalos gripped her umbrella more firmly. Yes. This was coming, too. This was her safety net.
"Yes." She was entirely firm this time, even reaching for the gate to let herself out. "Yes. We'll have a great time." And she was so caught up that she didn't even think to send a message. This was Aoife, and she always took care of things.
"I do have one condition, though..." Kalos swallowed as she closed the Mansion gate behind her. "Will you hold my hand so we don't get separated?" If she could do that then... then they could go anywhere.
