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.
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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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The much larger man sat up from his piece of animal skin and watched her as she considered thinking up another clever ruse, gave up, and blew a raspberry at the fire. Man, it was like she was a completely open book. Nothing covering up what she was thinking. Honestly, her and Elke had that in common, even if everything else was the exact opposite.
His eyes widened a bit as she got to then end of her explanation of what she'd really been planning... Wow.
They were miles from where that tree had fallen. The wind was still whirling loudly outside, the thunder echoing through the cave at regular intervals. And she was going to go out there... to make him feel better.
"...Gonna be honest, I dunno what to say to that. No. We'll start with no. But, thank you. You're... You're a good kid, Juniper. I'm gonna be fine. We'll be fine. Honestly, over the last week and a half It's become pretty obvious that there weren't a whole lot of people better suited for this bullsh@$ to happen to. I can't let you put yourself in that much danger for that. Phone's probably toast, and the crowbar.... It'll be there when this storm is done."
He looked down to the fire, frowning and then looking back to her again. "I mean it... Thank you. Don't, eh... Don't do anything reckless on account of me, okay?"
The X-Man turned Caveman would keep an eye on her for a while longer before sleep finally took him. They had a lot of work to do tomorrow, in order to make up for losing their camp.
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"She's not as violent now... But yeah, she ain't without her issues. I look at where people started when I judge where they are. You should probably try that a bit, too. Still... I ain't about to try and get her to go to therapy. She makes her own decisions when it comes to that stuff, and I can't think of anything short of a court mandate that would get her to go." He shook his head, looking down at the fire... It was getting a little low. Another bone in, and it picked up once more... They probably had about enough to last the night... The smoke wasn't too bad, too. Smell wasn't great.
"I don't trust guys like that... Always hiding something, or acting. There ain't perfect people out there. Not perfectly nice, not perfectly strong. It just don't exist." He watched her reaction as he mentioned curing, and sighed.
"You know I'm gonna take care of it... May need help." She was better at getting the brains out... though in this case, most of it was on the wall...
A good hour later as she snuck out, her raised an eyebrow as she mentioned having to pee. "You... waited, and plotted for over an hour, watching me to make sure I was asleep... to pee. Gotta ask again, what are you up to?"
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Did the man get a little defensive when she pressed him on his daughter's actions? Yes. He was a defender. He was protecting her in his own way. "She was 12... The last thing she remembered clearly when she did that was getting kidnapped by a defunct government agency that put her through a death bootcamp that forced her, among other things, to fight her clones to the death in leu of sleep." She stared at her, pointedly. "...So forgive her for being #@$%ing condescending, She was trained to be a child soldier and now she's going for a degree in... plant @#$^, I dunno. She's doing the best she can to be a member of society." He paused for a second, and sighed.
"Again... Not like it matters... That Xavier kid... You talked to him a lot? What was his deal?" The futility of it all set in after a bit. At this point it was all curiosity, like being able to talk to the author after the novel was complete. Might as well ask all of the burning questions while he could.
He shrugged. "It's all the same to me, I guess. Either way we do the same thing. Survive as long as we can."
He watched her for a moment as she stopped talking, looked outside, and asked him to go to sleep. His face went dead pan. It was like he hadn't just been bawling his eyes out. "Uh huh..." He looked over to the curing pelts, and sighed. "We gotta stay off the ground. Those will do, Gotta cure em soon, though."
After some preparationg, the bedding would be set up, and he would lay down on his side of the fire... The second she tried to sneak out, he would speak up. "Fresh air?" Of course he was on to her...
Her intentions were more obvious than the glowing parts in a video game boss fight.
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Damn... It was a strange feeling. He hadn't cried like this since that day in the alley, when he was just a young man who had lost everything. Sure, there had been a tear here or there, or a welling up during a great movie, tears of joy when he saw Jr, or got married. This was different.
This was years of feelings, rushing in like a relentless storm, its rain drops salty down his cheeks as he just... allowed it to come. He'd taken it all in stride for decades, trying to be strong for everyone he loved, or felt like he owed his best to. None of them were here. He would never see any of them again.
He barely even registered that she'd confessed to spying on his deeply personal therapy session. He let the catharsis set in for while before she spoke up again, and he pulled himself together, looking up and laughing in spite of himself when he realised she called his daughter satan.
"Eh, you don't know her... What she's been through. She's an amazing kid... Like her old man, but stronger. Elke... Out of anyone, I always know she's going to be okay." He sighed for a moment, wiping his face, and leaving it dirtier than it had been, though a bit dryer. "I, eh... You probably guessed. I don't do that a lot... Sorry you- Sorry you had to see that."
He shook his head at her last statement. "I ain't a fool... I know when to ask for help. I just... In spite of all of that, I still fail. I walked out of that office determined to win, to finally just acknowledge how bad it was and fight it head on. And here I am. It ain't even funny in a dark way anymore. I swear to god, when I meet the person pulling the strings on all of this I'm gonna punch them in the face so hard it breaks my fist."
Just like that, he was done crying. That feeling was replaced by a familiar one... A deep, simmering rage, and a need to move forward in spite of himself.
"Well... In the end, it all doesn't matter. We ain't making it past this. Figure we die of old age, and in a few hundred million years wait for this all to repeat itself. Heck, dunno when we are, maybe we'll get killed in a mass extinction event. Sounds like a way to go, eh?"
Posted by Saphirus on Sept 13, 2020 23:58:04 GMT -6
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The older mutant watched her as she responded. It was odd. She did seem fine. After all of this, she was either really good at lying, or she didn't mind being here a whole lot. He nodded silently, and stared into the obscenely gothic bone fire for a while.
She responded. He stared a while longer. "We are going to be here a while... Eh... I guess, I gotta say it... I don't see any way to get back. So... Might as well talk. Hell, people go insane if they do this alone, and... If we ain't talkin, we might as well be doin this alone."
He wasn't good at this. The truth was, he was here at the worst possible time he could be here. He'd just broken up with his therapist. His family was broken apart, and the city was still recovering from the deaging crisis. And here he was. In the past. About to live the rest of his life with a kid.
"@^$^ ain't good for me, kid. I miss my son. I miss my daughter... Juniper, I wasn't at Doc's office to investigate. I was there because... Life ain't been so great. And... I guess... I feel like it's my fault. I was... havin thoughts. Bad ones. So... I went to him to try and sort it out." He poked at the fire with a long rib bone, an absent minded task to keep him distracted from what he was saying. He felt the need to get it off his chest.
"I guess... I put value on myself as a protector. Someone who keeps people safe. And... When the times comes... I always seem to fail to protect those closest to me. When that happens, my life... falls apart. And I feel... Like a failure." He stared deeply as his vision began to blur. He'd never told this to anyone. Doc had said something like that to him at one point, and at the time he'd just gotten angry in response... But it was true. That #@$%ing bug was right all along.
"And now... Family needs me... and I'm here. And I ain't gonna be back... and.. #@$%. Juniper, I'm not- I'm not okay." There it was. The dam was broken, the tears flowed freely, and the man who some saw as an indestructible force of nature sobbed quietly as he stared into the crackling mess of burning bones.
Posted by Saphirus on Sept 13, 2020 23:22:16 GMT -6
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The moment of crippling existential crisis causing revelation passed with him leaving the space. The storm outside was almost a welcome reprieve from the thoughts in his head. They were never getting back. There was no one here with them. There was nothing here but them, giant monsters, and a dangerous storm.
She had the fire roaring by the time he was back, and he sat and watched in mild frustration at the ease in which she extracted the pelt of the animal. All those times he'd had to skin their prey... she could have just... He pinched the bridge of his nose as she held out the pelt, and he just sighed and pointed off to the side. The fire would be enough to keep him warm, and they had to let it cure so that it would keep.
One meal later, it was just them and the fire... he frowned a bit... The roar of the wind outside reminded him that they would be here a while. For almost two week now they had been silently avoiding having any real conversation. They both just went about and did their own thing. Now they were trapped in a cave.
There was nowhere to hide.
"... How you... Eh... How you holdin up?" It was a stupid question, but it was one he hadn't asked this whole time. Better late than never.
Posted by Saphirus on Sept 13, 2020 22:55:39 GMT -6
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She apologised. He was over it. Literally, hundreds of feet over it.
When they landed in the cave, he stumbled a bit, his vision and senses flooding back to him in time for him to feel the tempest outside and the giant animal inside. "NOT SAFE!" He roared as he dove in and ended the beast with one honestly unfairly overpowered punch. After painting the wall with the beasts head he turned to see her already working on a fire.
In here, it was still loud, but he didn't haeve to yell. "Was that... a @#$%kin sloth?" A giant sloth. Weren't they supposed to be cute or something? Damn thing looked like it ate dinosaurs for breakfast... oh, it did.
She started a fire with old dino food bones. "That's about as macabre as it gets, eh?"
He sighed and sat against the wall, taking his breath and brushing water from his face and hair. "That storm... It's massive... Might be in here a couple days. Water won't be a problem." It was overwhelming, but they really didn't have time to rest. He started trying to skin the danger sloth.
As he did, he looked back... she'd broken her phone to get a fire started. He'd lost his in the bundle... He'd only been powering it on to look at the pictures on it every few days... A frown passed over his face. He got back to work.
After a while they had meat cooking, and a hide beginning to cure.
He sat across from her, trying to ignore the blood on his hands, and that illuminated behind her on the wall of the cave. "... Did you look around... while we were up there?" He hadn't wanted to think about it... But he had. He always did that... caught details during stressful situations. It had been engrained on him living on the streets, and all these years fighting crime. He was an investigator at heart.
There was nothing out there. Trees, ocean... as far as the eye could see.
He sighed, and stood to walk toward the cave mouth. He needed to get cleaned up. Luckily, there was plenty of water about.
He returned minutes later, his hands clean and his body cold and soaked, desperately in need of the warmth of the fire.
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This was all going south very quickly. His reach for her hand found nothing but air, and he cursed as she yelled back at him. Damnit, how would they get to safety if she kept getting blown off into the wind? And now their stuff was crushed as well.
#@$%. The were going to die here. Before he could really process what was happening, she scrambled onto him, and he suddenly felt the strangest feeling...
He wasn't there. His sixth sense struggled to make sense of it as it suddenly dipped into somewhere else with her. And she was... inside of him... This was disturbing on a deep level. Also, he suddenly weighed almost nothing in the middle of a giant wind storm.
Together, as one, they were swept up rapidly into the sky as a massive gust blew through. It was insane how fast they went from ground level to hundreds of feet in the air. "FFFFUUUUUU-" They were airborn. The approaching darkness was clear, a roiling cluster of dense clouds in the distance... It wasn't even over them yet. It was this dense, and it wasn't even over them. The Hurricane roared to life before them as the breeze they were on abated, leaving them lingering in the sky, hundreds of feet from the ground.
"DAMNIT, JUNIPER! WARN ME OR SOMETHING!" He looked around, quickly trying to take stock of the situtation... The mountain was behind them. Could he navigate this? "OKAY, OKAY! WE CANE MAKE IT! HANG ON!" His vision tunneled as he started applying his mutation to their fall, steering them toward the looming volcano. She'd mentioned the cave... maybe it would be safe.
There was a seriese of curses as they started to go the right way, but stiff breezes threw them off, and he had to correct several times, but some time later they landed at the mouth of the cave. "IS IT SAFE?!" He called out to her as he landed, stumbling toward the mouth of the cave.
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It was getting worse. A lot worse. This was definitely no normal storm. The wind gust blew through, and its interactions with the area around him lit up his sixth sense. He could feel it. It was monsterous. "JUNIP-" He heard her respond, and gasped in releaf. They had to get hunkered down somewhere-
He felt a massive tree give in to the unrelenting gusts and crash down to his right. "F#@$!" This was bad. This was really bad. And it was about to get worse. A strog rush of wind blew the teenager right off her feet; he could feel that they were the only solid piece of her right now. "Damnit!" The X-Man jumped into action, dropping his crowbar with the bundle and pouncing forward, a leap assisted with his gathered energy from the day.
Quickly he lashed out for her, grasping her floating foot and letting himself drop down to the ground. He kept his absorbing side outward toward the wind so they he wasn't pushed astray by it. He thanked his sometimes inconvenient power set for its helpfulness in this situation.
Her, on the other hand. "Juniper! You have to stay solid!" He would keep a hand on her until she became solid once more. It was insane, the wind was so intense now that he had to yell to be heard. "We have to find cover!" He would reach for her hand, hoping it would be solid so he could grab it... If they headed toward the mountain... maybe they could find a cave or something? An outcropping away from the trees to take cover in would be ideal.
The sound of more trees falling in the distance made him look back... just in time to see a giant tree fall on the neatly packed bundle and his crowbar.
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He sorta zoned out, focused on the task at hand as she responded about the stars. He still wasn't looking to start a whole bunch in the way of conversation. Honestly, he couldn't think of who in this world he might have less in common with, and while they were stuck here, there was still hope for a return home, right? Some sort of key they'd missed, some mutant out there hiding, or location past where they'd searched that had the secret to a return home.
Maybe they wouldn't have to get to know each other, or talk in detail. Then again, it was hard not to, when she was the only person to talk to here.
"Yeah... Lotta kids have that stuff goin on these days." Insomnia. The thought of it was impossible to him at this point; he slept when ever he got a chance, what with the baby. A frown made its want on to his face. He missed him... Missed Elke. He was zoning out as she spoke back to him... A grunt of acknowledgment made its way out of his mouth as he half listened. Wait, what was that? Something about bears? Shit, that was actually something interesting, wasn't it? Damn, he was going to wonder about that. Not enough to ask her to repeat it, but it would bother him a little bit.
He looked up as she offered him some mushroom. There was a pointed silence for a moment as he stared at the random fungi in her hand. "Uh..." Wait, wasn't eating random forest shrooms a dangerous thing to do? He looked over to her and blinked a few times before stating. "No thanks... Your uh... Pupils are dialated... Are you okay?"
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Five days had passed.
There was a distant crack of thunder that rang out in a forboding manner. The only slightly cloudy sky turned dark and heavy with water laden clouds in what seemed like minutes. The wind started light, but grew heavier, and heavier, until you thought it might abate... But it picked up even more.
"JUNIPER!" Saphirus was yelling into the forest, as he tried to gather up the camp as much as he could. She'd gone foraging just a few minutes ago, but the storm was coming down fast. He cursed under his breath as he finished bundling up the cloth and hides they had repurposed for bedding, and looked up. The wind howled through the trees as the first heavy drops of rain started to fall. "JUNIPER!" He called out again. Hastily he used the repurposed shoelaces to tie the hefty bundle to his crowbar, lifting it with relative ease.
Where was she? He grimaced. If the wind picked up any more it would be rough for her... She spent most of her time doing everything she could to weigh almost nothing. That wouldn't do in gale force winds.
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It would be a bit strange living with him in this situation... He didn't often make eye contact, but he always knew where she was, and seemingly where other things around him were. He seemed used to getting little sleep, so his mental condition didn't seem to suffer from the strange sleeping schedule. Nothing seemed to outwardly bother him, honestly. Inconceniences were sometimes met with sighs, but he just trucked forward silently for the most part.
His fights with the creatures he hunted, or fended off were short, and brutal. He killed where she hesitated. He stubornly stuck to his original clothing even as the harsh circumstances and environment had them torn and beaten up. This was the longest conversation they'd had in... four days?
"Same with the south... I ain't ever been one for staring at skies, but I can't say I mind the view at night. I think you're right. I think we are alone here." He let the statement linger in the air for a bit as he started skewering a few pieces of meat onto a stick for roasting.
She shook his head silently at the thought of throwing her up into the air. "Too dangerous. You still don't know how much damage you could do to yourself if I throw you too high. Can't have either of us hurt." He looked down for a moment fixing the first skewer, and staking it into the ground before the ground fire.
Now was as good a time as any to talk more, right... "You... Ain't sleeping too well, eh?"
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He felt her coming before he saw or heard her. He'd gotten used to the feeling of just shoes, or an arm or shoulder approaching suddenly. Damn. He hadn't been able to get the fire started in time. He sat back in quiet frustration before sliding over and getting started splitting the wood into smaller pieces with a careful application of his crowbar and stored energy.
He looked to the rodent she'd brought, and then to his scorpion. Well, at least they weren't going hungry today, not that this place seemed at all lacking in things to eat. Most of them wanted to eat them, actually. He nodded a bit as she got the fire going, and turned to grab the big rat from next to her. He patted his pockets and then sighed, remembering he'd loaned her his fold out.
His dirty hand reached out for the knife. He knew she didn't like cutting them up. He didn't mind. Elke had shown him how during their hunting trips.
After they got all of that set up and running, he sat against the wall of their dwelling, looking down for a moment, and speaking. Gosh, it sounded odd to talk after pretty much a week of silence. "Eh... Still no sign of who ever put us here... Took a look to the... eh... East. Went as far out as the beach... Nothin..."
That's all they knew at this point. This place was geographically similar to Ney york... At least in the sense that they seemed to be on the east coast of a large continent... It didn't tell them much other than that, though. Had they really... time traveled? What sort of mutant could do that? Were they in an alternate reality? What in the world was going on? And why?
Why, after everything, did things always have to find a way to get worse?
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She was staring at him. He knew the look. "Sounds like a whole lotta not your business.." Man, he was in a foul mood. It was that feeling of saying something, and immediately wondering why you were being so rude. Maybe it was the talk he'd just had to have. Maybe it was her intrusiveness in asking about it. "Makes me stronger, gettin hit." He would mumble before reacting to the presence of the large incoming creature.
He wasn't successful pulling her into the bushes, and wasn't the type to hide while someone else was out in the open, so he stopped short of the bush and readied his crowbar. That was when, no bullsh$%, the girl sorta just... leaned a tree down onto it. He stared in a shocked manner as he watched her effortlessly make a tree stop having any mass or attachment to the material world, and then uprooted it, and aimed it at a giant dinosaur.
The damned thing didn't even stand a chance as the heavy plant squished its head. "... Uh... Maybe... More like we ain't here in 2020..." He turned to look at the chunk of street they'd left behind. Had they moved at all? Or were they...
IN DINOSAUR TIMES(Times, times, times). Roll opening credits.
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It had been a week. A whole week. Saphirus sat in a lean to made from branches and leaves and animal parts. Next to him was a dead, foot long scorpion. Before him was a stick with his shoelaces tied to a bow that the girl had down him how to make. He pulled back and forth on the contraption to try and get a coal started for a fire... It had rained yesterday, and by a bad stroke of luck, the makeshift roof had given in and the fire had been doused.
He'd been trying for an hour now. His stomach growled as he looked up at the sound of movement in the distant forest. Far off... He sat back and scratched his beard, taking a bit of a breather from the energy draining activity. There were still no clues as to how they would get back. After a break, he leaned forward again and started on the bow again, trying to start up an ember.
She got out alone. I mean, of course she did, she was incredibly powerful. How could a dinosaur keep any sort of grasp on her? Then again, how could a dinosaur even exist right here and now? As a stroke of luck the giant flying creature looked back and got a crowbar to the face for its troubles. As the tool fell he tracked it, and steered it back to his hand.
He hustled over to her, staring at the broken beast with a mixture of amazement and alert caution on his face as she asked questions. "Looks like it..." He glanced up to her as she pointed and shrugged. "It's dead now... But yeah, they're extinct. Supposed to be, at least." He froze as he heard the sound of a branch snapping in the distance.
"We, eh... We gotta get out of this clearing, I think. Maybe find some shelter while we find out what's goin on..." He immediately got to whaling on himself with the crowbar as he started hobbling toward the treeline away from the sound of the branch cracking, his eyes widening as he felt something drawing near.
A hissed whisper escaped his mouth. "Hide!" He reached for any solid part of her he could sense and tried to pull her into a nearby bush as loud thudding footsteps could be heard approaching.
Okay, so, this was fine. They'd been... teleported somewhere? He believed her what she said she didn't do it. He knew her powers. High level phasing. This... This had been a different mutant. Who, though? Were they here? How far away had they been taken?
He looked about quickly, trying to glean any details. No one had come with them, which was odd. There weren't very many mutants who could just... send other people away without also going themselves. It didn't make a whole lot of sense. "Yeah, okay, just... stay calm. We'll- We'll figure this out." He paused as he noted the spider webs in the trees above. Dang... Had they been sent clear to australia? Maybe somewhere down south? Or... Looking at the trees, the rainforests. The power level of the mutant that had done this... insane.
Like... Abyss levels of strong. "Yes, it's a volcano, calm down. We must have been teleported somehow, but like I said, we'll figure this ou-"
SKRAWWW! What the @#$^!
A giant lizard bird scooped Juniper up in its claws and lifted off. She... called it a... terrordactyle? Nope, not important. She was in danger.
He forced his dropped jaw to close as he fished out his crowbar. Normally, he'd have a bunch of energy stored up just in case, but he'd just been talking to a shrink for christ sake! He wasn't prepared for this. He hobbled quickly toward where the creature was lifting her off toward, and smacked himself a couple of times in rapid succession before flinging it at the monster's back with all of its might. He had to stop it before it got too high up.
