The foundations of the MCO belong ultimately in examples set by groups such as the Bavarian Illuminati, the Rosicrucians, Anarchist Insurrectionists, the Ku Klux Klan, European gangs, and Chinese Tongs. However, the true beginnings can be found in the back alleys of the Intelligence War fought during World War One. While the seminal image of WWI is, of course, the horrific meat-grinder of men that was trench warfare during the Battles of the Marne and the Somme, there were other fronts as well. Besides the equally harsh Eastern Front, there was a lively war of espionage that was fought between the Intelligence services of the Central and Alliance power. Before WWI, Intelligence and Espionage had, ironically, been a gentleman's game played by professional diplomats. However, with the phenomenal increase of speed in both transportation and communications, the leisurely pace and genteel discretion of Intelligence work was abandoned for a more workmanlike, 'whatever gets the job done' approach. So, professional criminals, con artists, demimondaines, forgers, pickpockets, smugglers, burglars, contraband merchants, and even common thugs were drawn into subtle and often very lucrative world of international diplomacy, espionage and intrigue. Those who learned the ways of cloak & dagger profited greatly- those who bungled their lessons died. Foremost of these criminal opportunists plying the WWI Intrigue trade was Sir Simon DeVille, British swindler, forger, smuggler, blackmailer and all-around Upper-Crust Cad.
After the Armistice, the underworld fondly remembered those salad days, when the knowledge of a single piece of choice information could make you rich. Never ones to forgo a market that had proven lucrative, criminals set about restoring the shadowy world of intrigue in postwar Europe. Crime syndicates became more sophisticated than police departments were capable of keeping up with. Fringe political movements, such as the Socialist, Fascist, Technocrat, and others moved into this new social medium, and they both exploited each other. Added to this mix were the myriad 'Mystic Lodges' that explored the boundaries of the Occult with little regard for the Law or the safety of others. The call for covert operatives was so high, that in 1921, Sir Simon DeVille opened the DeVille Academy in Lucerne, Switzerland, which trained gutter urchins from around Europe (and later the Globe) in the fine art of Espionage and Covert Operations. In Asia, the various Triads saw their opportunity to be rid of the intrusive Colonial powers, and sent out waves of 'Sinister Asiatic Masterminds' to attack the Europeans on their own ground. While at first there was a certain degree of 'churn', of movement and daring-do for its own sake, eventually this garden of malice sent forth its most malignant blossom: the Nazi Party.
When the Nazis weaseled their way into power in Germany, the rest of the Shadow World just kept going on as usual- at first. But as Fascism became the predominant power on the Continent, the various factions and syndicates and players began choosing sides. When the German War Machine began the first steps of its deadly war dance, it was only too happy to use the various syndicates as pawns. However, the spy masters of the Reich knew the syndicates far too well to really trust them, and developed their own covert operations organs that were loyal to Germany beyond the next pay envelope. While the Germans loved to present a monolithic picture of solidarity, the truth was that the Third Reich was hideously factionalist and rivalry-prone. Almost every branch conceivable of the Nazi power elite had its own Intelligence and Covert Operations arm. While the Abwher was the official Military Intelligence and Covert Operations organ, the SS, the Gestapo, the Heer (German Army), the Luftwaffe, the Foreign Office, and even various German industries such as Krupp and IG Farben, all had their own covert operations branches. These rival spy networks competed vigorously for coups and master strokes, which sometimes achieved great things, but more often simply operated at cross-purposes. However, it did have the advantages of providing cross-referencing, and that if one agent or cell was compromised, its rivals in that area would still be in place.
Hitler and the Nazi elite placed a lot of confidence in German's ability to create 'Wonder Weapons'. As a result, the Nazis recruited legions of scientists and engineers who could generously be called 'eccentric'. Many of their efforts- the Flying Swastika, the Thunder Cannon, the Iron Giant, or the Zombie Legions- were impressive and terrifying, but not tactically practical. Still, the most impressive of the 'wonder weapons' were the 'Thema-Agenta' or 'Theme Agents', known to the West simply as 'Nazi Supervillains'. The Theme Agents, fell into three basic categories: the 'Volkshelden', who were Germany's response to America, Britain and France's 'Flag Heroes', were the 'showcase heroes' who appealed to German patriotism, or confirmed various notions of Nazi philosophy, mysticism or propaganda. Almost an antithesis of the Volkshelden where the Angsthandlers, or 'Fear Mongers'. The Nazis, Hitler especially, were firm believers in the use of Terror as a weapon. The Angsthandlers were deformed, monstrous and fearsome. Their job was to demoralize subject peoples, resistance groups and enemy troops wherever and whenever they could. The last, least visually impressive group of the three was the Schattenherren, or 'Shadow Lords'. While not as powerful or impressive as either the Volkshelden or the Angsthandlers, the Schattenherren had abilities that were better suited for the subtle work of espionage and sabotage. All three groups were mostly created by the aforementioned 'Eccentric' Scientists, who were all looking for ways of creating the Ubermensch. Even Hitler realized that their bizarre prodding into the barely understood was hideously dangerous. However, he also had thousands of young German men and women who, while eager to serve the Reich, were far from physically fit to serve in the Wehrmacht. He had even more young NON-German men and women who were far from eager to serve the Reich in ANY way, but who were regarded as expendable. It is estimated that 170,000 'enemies of the Reich' and 15,000 German youths were killed in the experiments that produced the 250 'Theme Agents'.
The Theme Agents served with distinction in WWII- by Nazi standards. By Allied standards, they were War Criminals. When the Reich finally collapsed, a few of the Theme Agents (mostly Volkshelden, who could blend back into the German population by simply shedding their costumes) tried to put their wartime activities behind them and get on with their lives. But most of the Theme Agents- especially the Angsthandlers, who had become monsters, even in their own eyes- were deeply embittered by their loss, and swore blood oaths to bring about a Fourth Reich. The Theme Agents joined forces with the Mad Scientists who created them and the various Nazi covert operations organs, and fled across the globe, with the intent of seeding new Nazi movements in South America, the Middle East, China and Africa. Some of the more fanatic Theme Agents carried on campaigns of retribution against France, Britain, Canada and the United States. Please note that even the fanatics didn't try this in the Soviet Union.
While it was rather low-key in the immediate post-war era, the Cold War developed into a bizarre three-way shadow war between NATO, the Warsaw Pact and the shadowy Fourth Reich. The 1950s were a golden age for non-partisan mercenary Espionage/ Covert Operations/ Terror/ Crime networks that played the three major players against each other. The war had created small armies of hardened veterans of both regular and irregular combat, who were either unwilling, or incapable for thousands of reasons, of returning to normal civilian life. These hard men and women filled the ranks of almost anyone who was willing to give them a cause, a weapon and a paycheck. Sir Simon DeVille's Academy provided the Criminal Spy Syndicates with the sleek, attractive, sophisticated, highly skilled and utterly ruthless special operatives that were the trademark of this period. There was a fashion during the era for these shadow nations to adopt acronym titles that spelled out fearsome names: HADES, FENRIR, TAROT, and so on. The Sinister Asiatic Masterminds managed to hold on, despite being caught between the West, the Communists and the Japanese during WWII. However, in 1958, the Network, a criminal espionage syndicate that Ian Fleming immortalized as 'SPECTRE' pulled off the operation that Fleming described in 'Thunderball'. While the hijacked nuclear warheads were recovered, the world leaderships were made painfully aware that their third-hand pawns had developed motives and agendas of their own, and would not be easily controlled. Worse, the Fourth Reich movements, as well as a few of the surviving Technocracy organizations had settled on a very disturbing strategy- repeatedly, they tried to trigger incidents that they hoped would escalate into World War III, with the East and the West destroying each other with atomic weapons. They planned to emerge from the rubble as the forces with the manpower, equipment and resources to build and take over the world.
While the 'Thunderball' incident was never officially confirmed, the UN and various national governments responded by forming batteries of 'super-spy agencies' to deal with the threat. These new 'spy' agencies fielded small but very effective forces of highly trained operatives with an amazing array of special gadgets and weapons, that operated without a lot of in-field oversight or review. Some of these agencies recruited and trained, or even created paranormally empowered agents using technologies acquired from captured 'Mad Scientists'. While these 'super-spy agencies' were hideously unpopular with their more conventional counterparts in the Law Enforcement and Intelligence communities, they were very effective in knocking out the 'Shadow Nations' one at a time. Also, there was the fact that the technology that helped create and nurture the Shadow Nations was turning against them. Satellite communications and jet travel shrank the globe to the point where it got harder and harder to build a secret base.
However, the most effective measure against the Criminal Espionage Networks came from a very unlikely source- the Movie industry. Sir William Stephenson, a.k.a. 'The Man called Intrepid', prompted movie moguls Saltzman and Broccoli to film a version of Ian Fleming's Dr. No, as a way of 'outing' the Network, and by extension, the other Criminal Spy Networks. Dr. No and the successive 007 movies were surprise box office smashes. The Bond movies and the slew of other 'Super-Spy' movies of the mid-60s dampened criticism of the 'Super-Spy' agencies and did something to the Criminal Spy Networks that they still haven't recovered from- they made them ridiculous. It's hard to be really intimidated by HADES or TAROT, when you can see an idiot like Maxwell Smart beating the cream cheese out of KAOS on TV every week. Besides costing them their sinister glamour, the Spy movies wore at the Criminal Spy Networks' morale. Seeing dozens of guys doing basically your job being casually dealt with by a single agent like that will get you down after a while.
Between the 'Super-Spy' agencies' successes, the changes in the technology and the political climate, and the increasing level of ridicule, many of the Criminal Spy Networks either lowered their profile greatly or shut down completely. While better funded and more politically secure, the Nazi Fourth Reich movements were also suffering. The expected resurrection of a Nazi state never materialized, and scientists became aware that an all-out nuclear exchange would result in a Nuclear Winter that would devastate the entire world, not just the target nations. The Nazi and Technocrat leaderships came to the bitter realization that their grand strategy was ultimately suicidal.
However, in 1962 there was a development that didn't cause a lot of waves at the time, but lead to far greater consequences. Biologist Stanley Leiber published his 'Report on the Impact of Aberrant Genetic Mutations on the Development of Paranormal Abilities'. The Leiber Report was the first scientific confirmation that that roughly 20% of the operative super-humans on the planet gained their powers from a genetic mutation, rather than from any external source. The Leiber Report was a calm, scholarly, non-partisan work that made no moral judgements about mutants. The same could NOT be said of a book that it inspired, which came out a year later.
Javier Magnusson's The Next Master Race was a masterpiece of rabble-rousing panic-mongering 'junk science' that crystallized many of the bigoted memes regarding mutants. Magnusson argued that mutants instinctively regarded themselves as a race separate and distinct from baseline humanity. He argued that mutants had subliminally distinct pheromones that alienated mutants from humanity, while predisposing them to other mutants. He argued that the use of mutant powers upset the chemical balance of the brain, causing megalomania, paranoia, outbursts of hysterical violence and psychotic delusions. He held that mutants feel an instinctive socio-biological urge to assert their dominance over baseline humans, whom they implicitly regard as weaker and inferior. He further asserted that mutants were innately more resistant to disease, radiation and toxic chemicals, and hence would regard atomic, biological, and chemical warfare as valid methods of suppressing baseline humans.
The Next Master Race came out less than 20 years after the end of World War II and the Civil Rights movement was under full steam in the United States, so the notion of arrogant, genocide-inclined supermen pushed a LOT of hot buttons. And in the meantime, the Baby Boom generation, bolstered by the antibiotic revolution in Medicine, was causing an unprecedented number of preter-human mutations to survive to manifest their powers in North America and Western Europe. The incredible coincidence of this 'outbreak' of 'mutant monsters' coinciding with the publication of The Next Master Race (or vice-versa) has been hotly debated ever since. While biologists decried the shoddy research of The Next Master Race, it remained on the Best-Seller lists for four years, and Magnusson was a constant presence on the talk show and lecture circuits, promoting his viewpoints until his mysterious disappearance in 1972.
One of the ongoing controversies regarding The Next Master Race is whether it instigated or merely foresaw the rash of 'Mutant Supremacists' that emerged in the mid-1960s. Groups like Blood Legacy, Eugenix, and the Inheritors of the World made repeated attempts to acquire or build atomic, biological or chemical weapons, almost using Magnusson's book as a blueprint. Always ones to seize a new advantage, some of the surviving Criminal Spy Syndicates 'took sides' in the 'Mutant Crisis', either pro-, anti- or neutrally mercenary. This brought the 'Super-Spy' agencies into the conflict, which had a dramatic influence on both sides. The new mutant extremists adopted many of their colleague's ruthless tactics and 'viciousness as a virtue' approach, while the Super-spies tended to see the mutants as merely a new manifestation of the Nazi mentality.
In 1964, the Mutant Commission Office was founded. The MCO was not originally created to be a policing organization. Rather, its original concept was to be a scientific facility researching the nature of mutant traits and psychology, and a clearinghouse for information about mutant powers, side effects, allergic reactions, personalities, tactics, organizations and possible long-term agendas, rather on the INTERPOL model. The MCO was not a branch of the UN, but a subscription organization that by charter had to obey the laws and legal procedures of the country that they were working in. Despite its rather bland concept, the mutant extremists regarded the MCO as a direct threat to them from the very beginning, and MCO researchers and archives were under almost constant attacks. The Super-Spy agencies adopted a 'my enemies' enemy is my ally' tack, and took the MCO under their collective wings.
By 1972, the party was pretty much over for the Super-Spy agencies. Most of the Criminal Spy Syndicates had either been destroyed, or had turned to more low-key endeavors. While there was an outburst of activity from the Sinister Asiatic Mastermind crews, Espionage Historians agree that this was more a 'last gasp' than a renewal. The global economy had hit a downturn, and financiers- both legitimate and criminal- had better things to do with their money than fund outrageous feuds by guys with fancy gadgets. Muslim Terrorists, who eschewed high technology and elaborate plots in favor of more conventional weapons wielded by fanatics, were commanding the world's attention. Also, the Super-Spy agencies had problems of their own. They had ignored Nietszche's warning about those who fight monsters, and had picked up some very nasty habits in the course of their wars with the Shadow Nations. They were used to fighting pitched, no-holds-barred battles with little if any civilian oversight and no personal repercussions for their actions. They were used to having lavish budgets that they weren't called to answer for. They were in many ways as arrogant, reckless and ruthless as the Criminal Spy Syndicates that they fought.
As the Recession of 1970s withered the prosperity of the West, Congress and the American people started questioning the Super-Spies' methods and tactics- and budgets. The more conventional Law Enforcement and Intelligence services took advantage of this to humble the 'Super-Spies' and bring the maverick agencies to heel. While there was no official sit-down meeting over it, the Super-Spies saw this as a bad thing, and sought new avenues of pursuing their careers. As one 'Super-Spy' agency after another came under scrutiny and had its budget trimmed and staff pared, individual agents started quitting and taking jobs elsewhere. Many of them found work with the MCO, where they still had friends whom remembered them from before. The MCO was a private organization with its own sources of funding. The various branches of the MCO became refuges for 'Super-Spies' from all nations and agencies. They even managed to transfer over files and esoteric equipment from their old gigs.
While the Criminal Spy Syndicates were lying low, the Mutant Extremists were vigorously competing with Muslim Terrorists for psychological impact on the world's Media. Though the MCO had no formal police powers, the former 'Super-Spies' arranged to have the MCO 'deputized' on a case-by-case basis to handle crises. As the MCO gained a reputation for being the people who 'handled' out of control mutants, the Super-Spies managed to take control of the MCO itself, turning it from the Research and Information Distributor that it had been into an active policing agency in its own right. The MCO had to negotiate the changes in its charter with each subscriber nation, resulting in the wildly varying scope of powers that the MCO enjoys. The Old School Super-Spies still regarded mutants as de facto Nazis and treated them as such, even as the Fourth Reich organizations still existed, though operating very much underground.
By the 1980s, the Mutant Supremacists were mostly a dead letter. All but the most psychotic of them realized that their mutant powers weren't enough to offset a 10,000: 1 disparity between them and the baselines, and anything that would kill that many people would most likely kill them as well. Mutant superheroes that routinely stood against the Supremacists put the lie to Magnusson's theory of mutants instinctively banding together against baselines. Many of the 'big name' Mutant Supremacist leaders, such as Tyrant, Abbadon and the Dark Madonna were dead, killed in very public conflicts with superheroes. Other leaders, such as Iblis or the Blood Messiah, were burned out from the conflict and simply didn't have the will to continue. However, the MCO saw the writing on the wall this time, and laid plans to perpetuate their brief. They began publicly focusing on the 'dangers' posed by newly emergent mutants, highlighting the rampages of teenagers who suddenly had powers that they couldn't understand or control- or didn't have the maturity to use wisely. During this period, the MCO forged its unofficial relationship with Humanity First!, with both seeing in the other kindred spirits.
By the 1990s, most of the WWII-vintage 'Super-Agents' had died or retired, and the Cold War-vintage agents were past their field operations days. New agents were being trained specifically as MCO operatives, and the tenor of the personnel changed. In order to counterbalance the 'Kinder, Gentler' breed of MCO agents, the MCO higher echelons started recruiting from the DeVille Academy, allegedly to 'improve the overall quality of the recruits'. But even with the influx of agents from the DeVille Academy, there has been a material shift from the 'Mutants are the Enemy' mindset of the 70s and 80s. Many of the rank-and-file MCO operatives have a more 'Cop' mentality, and there are even factions that seek to mend fences with the mutant community, seeing cooperation with civilly-minded mutants as a better long-range way of coping with Mutant Extremists than projecting a 'Final Solution' image. However, the Corporate Culture of the MCO has been firmly set. And, like the FBI, which still has strong 'Hooverite' factions, the upper echelons of the MCO still see mutants as The Enemy- and an excuse to perpetuate their jobs.
Generation 2 Story List
Second Generation
22 November 2015
7954
The Big Apple Comes With Calamari (Part 1)
27 December 2015
8992
The Big Apple Comes With Calamari (Part 2)
17 January 2016
8968
The Road To Whateley (Part 1)
01 February 2016
8031
The Road To Whateley (Part 2)
29 February 2016
7271
The Curse of the Dragon Queen
07 March 2016
9602
Islands in The Sun
14 March 2016
7679
Down the Rabbit Hole (Part 1)
21 March 2016
8827
Written in Blood (Part 1)
28 March 2016
10244
Written in Blood (Part 2)
04 April 2016
9798
The Big Apple Comes With Calamari (Part 3)
10 April 2016
9149
Down the Rabbit Hole (Part 2)
18 April 2016
9092
Written in Blood (Part 3)
25 April 2016
9301
Written in Blood (Part 4)
25 April 2016
9092
Blood Sisters (Part 1)
09 May 2016
9925
Down the Rabbit Hole (Part 3)
23 May 2016
9148
I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Part 1)
29 May 2016
9438
I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Part 2)
06 June 2016
9174
I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Part 3)
13 June 2016
9077
Blood Sisters (Part 2)
20 June 2016
9445
I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Part 4)
27 June 2016
8969
I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (Part 5)
01 August 2016
8781
Glimpses of the Sun
08 August 2016
9112
I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore (part 6)
15 August 2016
10568
Myriad Meetings (Part 1)
21 August 2016
8088
The Writing On the Wall (Part 1)
05 September 2016
9530
The Writing On the Wall (Part 2)
12 September 2016
9131
The Writing On the Wall (Part 3)
26 September 2016
8782
Following the Path of Cute
31 October 2016
8212
Eisenmadel 1: Summer of my German Heritage (Part 1)
16 January 2017
9488
Hunger
13 February 2017
8396
Good Cop / Bad Cop (Part 1)
06 March 2017
10005
Rises the Sun (Part 1)
27 March 2017
9146
Would the Last One Out Please Turn Out the Lights
31 March 2017
8076
Reinforce: Don't Call Me a Pretty
03 April 2017
9150
The Road To Whateley (Part 3)
10 April 2017
7710
Eisenmadel 1: Summer of my German Heritage (Part 2)
13 April 2017
9087
Rises the Sun (Part 2)
28 April 2017
10383
A Dragon Abroad (Part 1)
12 May 2017
9247
Dorms of Our Lives
14 May 2017
9328
Sunshine & Fury
02 June 2017
9477
Rises the Sun (Part 3)
04 June 2017
9391
Laura and the Village
23 June 2017
8275
The Autumn Leaves
06 July 2017
8607
Reckless Reputations
13 July 2017
9191
Meanwhile in Castle Groenwald
16 July 2017
8042
The Sorrows of Red October
23 July 2017
9062
A Dragon Abroad (Part 2)
04 August 2017
8541
The Haunting of Jennifer Kelly (Part 1)
18 September 2017
9439
The Hand You're Dealt
25 September 2017
8372
Dorms of Our Lives (Part 2)
22 October 2017
8525
The Haunting of Jennifer Kelly (Part Two)
25 December 2017
9301
Hunger (Part 2)
21 January 2018
8714
Like A Candle in the Wind
05 February 2018
9399
Glyph 3: Ink in her Veins (Part 1)
12 February 2018
8881
Glyph 3: Ink in her Veins (Part 2)
26 February 2018
9169
Glyph 3: Ink in her Veins (Part 3)
12 March 2018
8814
The Trouble with Karma
26 March 2018
9108
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 3
24 June 2018
9253
Flowers of the Sun
13 August 2018
9384
Tears and Fears (Part 1)
03 September 2018
11134
Tears and Fears (Part 2)
17 September 2018
9329
Khali In Mourning
24 September 2018
9291
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 4 (Part 1)
24 September 2018
8474
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 4 (Part 2)
29 October 2018
10915
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 4 (Part 3)
19 November 2018
8363
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 4 (Part 4)
03 December 2018
8286
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 4 (Part 5)
17 December 2018
8331
Dorms of Our Lives Season 4 (Part 6)
31 December 2018
8880
The Quantum Suicides (Part 1)
14 January 2019
9074
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted (Part 1)
20 January 2019
8986
The Quantum Suicides (Part 2)
27 January 2019
8774
Keeping Cool (Part 1)
10 February 2019
8878
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted (Part 2)
18 February 2019
9201
Keeping Cool (Part 2)
24 February 2019
9963
Ping Out
03 March 2019
9859
Class of 2020 - A Whateley Anthology
10 March 2019
9221
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted (Part 3)
18 March 2019
9202
Rises the Sun (Part 4)
15 April 2019
9162
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted (Part 4)
22 April 2019
8867
Dreams of Nightmares
20 May 2019
9393
Laura and the Fan Club (Part 1)
27 May 2019
9696
A Goldfish in the Ocean (Part 1)
16 June 2019
9423
Laura and the Fan Club (Part 2)
22 July 2019
8751
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 5 (Part 1)
12 August 2019
8937
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 5 (Part 2)
26 August 2019
8365
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 5 (Part 3)
08 September 2019
9231
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 5 (Part 4)
23 September 2019
9149
Calibration
30 September 2019
9397
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 5 (Part 5)
18 November 2019
9180
Laura and the Babysitting Blues
25 November 2019
8865
Business as Usual
08 December 2019
9493
Dorms of Our Lives, Season 5 (Part 6)
23 December 2019
9286
Rain on a Sunny Day (Part 1)
03 February 2020
8587
Goldfish In the Ocean (Part 2)
17 February 2020
8850
Laura and the Labs
25 May 2020
10270
Be-Wildered 1
31 May 2020
10255
Rain on a Sunny Day (Part 2)
15 June 2020
8019
Where There's Smoke There's Fire (Part 1)
07 September 2020
9378
Laura and the Chocolate Factory (part 1 of 3)
19 October 2020
10453
A Goldfish in the Ocean (Part 3)
02 November 2020
8522
Rain on a Sunny Day (Part 3)
08 November 2020
8326
Laura and the Chocolate Factory (Part 2 of 3)
07 December 2020
10512
A Goldfish in the Ocean (Part 4)
14 December 2020
8732
Laura and the Chocolate Factory (part 3 of 3)
28 December 2020
10400
A Goldfish in the Ocean (Part 5)
18 January 2021
8389
Under the Sea (Part 1)
31 January 2021
9475
A Goldfish in the Ocean (Part 6)
15 February 2021
8842
Bad Karma
28 February 2021
10760
Where there's Smoke there's Fire (Part 2)
02 May 2021
9078
Glyph 4: Putting Pen to Paper (Part 1)
10 May 2021
10020
Glyph 4: Putting Pen to Paper (Part 2)
14 June 2021
9632
Glyph 4: Putting Pen to Paper (Part 3)
12 July 2021
10257
Tales from the Dorm - The Questors of Wey-Talleigh 2
14 September 2021
11788
Where There's Smoke There's Fire (Part 3)
08 November 2021
9828
Glyph 4: Putting Pen to Paper (Part 4) 1
22 November 2021
11617
Born in Fire 1
30 November 2021
11138
Glyph 4: Putting Pen to Paper (Part 5) 2
07 December 2021
11947
Born in Fire (Part 2)
14 December 2021
10146
Born in Fire (Part 3)
03 January 2022
9650
Born in Fire (Part 4)
18 January 2022
10415
Making a Noise In The World (Part 1)
25 January 2022
10109
Where There's Smoke There's Fire (Part 4)
01 February 2022
10420
Making a Noise in the World (Part 2) 5
14 February 2022
9683
A Dragon's Tail (Part 1) 1
22 February 2022
10389
Cat And Mouse: Part 1 2
01 March 2022
10108
Rumble in the Arena (Part 1)
21 March 2022
9443
Making a Noise in the World (Part 3)
29 March 2022
8967
Rumble in the Arena (Part 2)
04 April 2022
8415
Parent's Day Panic
12 April 2022
12470
Rumble in the Arena (Part 3)
18 April 2022
7954
Rumble in the Arena (Part 4)
25 April 2022
8132
Fire Over Phoenix (Part 1)
02 May 2022
10169
So Not A Date (A Parents Day Incident)
16 May 2022
10421
Fire Over Phoenix (Part 2)
30 May 2022
8771
Regret
06 June 2022
9078
Triptych, Part 1: Solo Bransle for A Minor 2
13 June 2022
13420
The Last Freak Show
20 June 2022
12473
Triptych, Part 2: Count Zero Concerto
27 June 2022
12322
Triptych, Part 3: Arabesque pour une Garrison Chinoise
11 July 2022
10254
Maiden Starlight 1: Maiden Voyage
26 September 2022
7841
Home Sweet Homely
24 October 2022
7505
Slipping Away
31 October 2022
8426
Under the Sea (Part 2)
08 November 2022
7329
Weed 1: A Green Christmas
26 December 2022
6527
Misguided Genius (Part 1)
10 January 2023
8383
For Those Who Fell
06 February 2023
6689
No Good Deed
07 February 2023
6361
Sprite 1: A Little Problem
21 February 2023
5814
Cat and Mouse: Part 2
07 March 2023
5934
Icejack's Very Sucky, No Good, Combat Final
14 March 2023
6457
Horse Play
21 March 2023
6702
A Leprechaun Walks Into a Bar
21 March 2023
6091
Chain Gang (Part 1)
28 March 2023
6058
Carry On (Part 1)
11 April 2023
6352
Making a Noise in the World: Outro
17 April 2023
6031
Lady of the Ring (Part 1)
25 April 2023
6041
Alley Cat: Part 1
01 May 2023
6118
Flight of the Unladen Swallows
08 May 2023
6236
Maiden Starlight 2: Starstruck
15 May 2023
6336
Lady of the Ring (Part 2)
23 May 2023
6035
Lady of the Ring (Part 3)
06 June 2023
5339
Duty to the World
13 June 2023
6657
Lady of the Ring (Part 4)
26 June 2023
5595
Lady of the Ring (Part 5)
18 July 2023
5115
Lady of the Ring (Part 6)
22 August 2023
5991
A Dragons Tail (Part 2)
29 August 2023
5997
Lady of the Ring (Part 7)
04 September 2023
5415
Another Star in the Night
09 September 2023
4744
Lady of the Ring (Part 8)
09 September 2023
5670
Icejack 2: Back to School
11 September 2023
5727
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Foundations of the MCO
In order to understand the MCO, its rationale and corporate culture, you must understand how the MCO came about, the things that happened to bring it into existence.
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