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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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?
MRO plots are player-created the Mods facilitate and organize the big ones, but we get the ideas from you. Do you have a plot in mind, and want to know whether it needs Mod approval? Check out our plot guidelines.
>>"Hey, Kasumi... it's Shin." Pause. "I think we should break up." Another pause. Even longer, this time. "Okay. Bye."
Shin palmed his head as the phone call played back for him in his mind like a bad cassette deck recording. Grainy, brainy, rainy... rewinding at the part where'd he'd said and done... what he'd done... and ugh.
It left a bad taste in his mouth. Though, possibly that was the hangover. The lip-smacking good hangover. Shin didn't even want to get started on what had happened the night prior... or even, the morning after. With Aurum, and Kealey, and ugh... had they really needed to crash at her house? And...
He kicked every thought related to that whole issue to the curb. There was no need to contemplate that. He'd left that. Grabbed the first city bus he could away from that. Returned to the mansion, kicked himself to his room, and flounced the bed.
And that's when he realized. That's when he remembered what he'd done. And. That's when the real self-pity party had started.
Dammit. He hadn't wanted to end it like that. He'd done it for all the right reasons. There was no use denying that, but... he hadn't wanted to hurt her...
But life without death is just impossible... He grimaced. Something had had to end. There probably wasn't any other way around it. He couldn't avoid... confrontation. But he could try.
And so, Shin tried. He tried the only way he knew how. By throwing himself like a dart, straight towards it.
So ends the story of how Shin arrived in front of the door to Kasumi's room on this fine afternoon in the 1st week in January. Shin's fist rapped on the door. How the next story plays out, he thought to himself... all fell on him.
Posted by angelsilverrose on Feb 27, 2010 1:11:08 GMT -6
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Ever sense that phone call Kasumi was not the same. Sad falling into herself. Shin left her over her phone. Heart broken and alone a very few of her close friends know what happened. Yet she is heart broken she has not really talked to anyone. She is laying in bed with her I-phone playing a song. Just something to dround out her pain yet it really did not work. Kasumi tears up as she closes her eyes trying on to her side curling up in a ball.
Kasumi hears a knock on her door. She stops her I-phone. She sits up as she wipes her cheeks. Her hair is down while she has on a black tank top with white shorts. Kasumi has lost a bit of weight when she is upset she does not eat. Yet she has been eating enough to keep herself going that is all. Her skin is very pale form not being in the sun.
Soon she opens her door it is Shin she looks down she closes her eyes as she mutters "Hi." That is all that she can pull herself to say right now. Some of her hair falls over her shoulder her eyes were so bright there is no light with in them. Kasumi is truly sad over this she has not been seen around alot. Just keeping with in her room that is all. That is all Kasumi wanted to do was to stay in her dark hole. Hoping that the pain will some how go away.
Yet Kasumi knows that it will not go. She just wanted to be alone most of the time. Her room that was always clean has a few things around it. She does not want to do anything. Kasumi still wonders what is the point to it? She can not see a point to anything right now. After everything that was said and done she wonders what she did that was so wrong? Kasumi still can not make scene of it with in her mind and heart.
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>>"Hi."
"... hi." Shin replied. He didn't smile. It was odd not smiling when he looked at Kasumi. Usually, he couldn't help but be happy. Now, though... "We need to talk." They needed to talk.
And it was going to be hard. Probably the hardest thing in his short life so far. But he had to, and so... "Can I come in?" He pointed a finger towards the door. She looked like she'd been crying. The least Shin could do was explain his reasons why.
Posted by angelsilverrose on Feb 27, 2010 20:48:26 GMT -6
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Kasumi soon nods. She soon turns her back walking into her room. Her eyes are down as she sits on her bed with one leg resting under the other one. She wraps her arms around a big frog plush that she has. She knows that is going on. Kasumis eyes are still down the dim lifeless green. She is not going to beg or anything like that. What is the point?
Kasumi lets out a sigh as her hands grips the frog. She knows that he left her yet it took him so long to tell her why he left her. She still does not know what happened. She would like to know running her tongue down her dry lips she is ready for anything. She knows this now. Heart brake is something that she is not fond of.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Feb 27, 2010 21:00:50 GMT -6
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Kasumi was silent as she retreated back into her room. Shin followed, quietly. He felt almost like a stranger. She was acting so distant. Suddenly, everything had changed... and he wasn't sure if he liked it.
She sat down on her bed, and Shin pulled up a chair. He sat down, and folded his hands together, leaning forward in the chair. Her eyes were still down. He followed suit.
For what seemed like a few seconds, but felt like minutes, they just sat there, in silence. Then, Shin spoke softly. His lips curved downwards in a negative slope.
"I'm sorry, Kasumi... I... I never meant to hurt you. It's just... something happened. And it isn't your fault."
Posted by angelsilverrose on Feb 27, 2010 21:07:58 GMT -6
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Keeping her eyes down. She holds back her tears with all of her might. All she can do is nod she speaks "Then why did you do it over the phone?" her voice has such a deep pain in it. Her hands grips the frog even more. She had to know. She felt so alone so hurt in all of this.
Kasumi is not sure what she is feeling right now. But most of it is pain. She feels some what numb at the same time. Why is it so hard for her to let herself fell? She has no idea why but it seems with each passing day she becomes number and number to things. All kinds of things. Even her eyes show that she is a little bit numb right now. It could not be she can feel all of the pain at ounce.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Feb 27, 2010 21:26:56 GMT -6
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>>"Then why did you do it over the phone?"
Shin gripped his knees. He took an emotional breath, and let it out. "Because if I didn't, I wouldn't have been able to say it at all..." He'd been drunk, he'd been emotionless, but those didn't matter. He'd done it on logic's behest. "Kasumi, I can't do it anymore. I can't date you while we're both X-men, on the same team. I worry. And I'm an idiot. And I make stupid mistakes..." His brows furrowed as he stared at the floor of her room. He was such a jerk...
Posted by angelsilverrose on Feb 27, 2010 21:34:17 GMT -6
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Kasumi looks down so this was about her being an X-men? Wanting to do good in the world? Yes that one day she was almost killed but that was by a person that she thought was a friend. Kasumi closes her eyes tight. She puts the frog on the bed she walks to the window and crossing her arms over her chest. She can not come to terms with it.
After a little while she speaks "I will get hurt no matter were I am at and what I do... I much rather be in the part of something good other then doing nothing at all..." She did not want Shin to see her cry and that is what she is doing. She keeps her back turned as she cry's some. Yet even with her back turned her voice gives her away "Back in the camps I did worry about you yet I did not get hurt. Not becues..." She stops there she will not let him know. No Kasumi can not tell Shin that.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Feb 27, 2010 23:15:00 GMT -6
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Shin looked up, and followed her path from bed to window with his eyes. Her back was outlined against the light of the window. For a moment, it hurt Shin's eyes. He looked away.
>>"I will get hurt no matter were I am at and what I do... I much rather be in the part of something good other then doing nothing at all..."
That's right... this breakup. It hurt. And she'd get hurt no matter what he did. He couldn't stop every thing in life from hurting her... but he'd rather try and lose than fail before he began... he opened his mouth to say something, but stopped. Her voice gave way.
>>"Back in the camps I did worry about you yet I did not get hurt. Not becues..."
Posted by angelsilverrose on Feb 28, 2010 1:43:24 GMT -6
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Kasumi closes her eyes tight trying to stop her voice form braking "I love you Shin that it is why it is so painful. . It pushed me to do better so I could see you again.." Her hand grips the window frame. Her head drops. God this is so hard he is leaving yet she loves him. Her back is still turned her eyes are opened looking out the window. After keeping with her thoughts for a few seconds "I am not begging you or anything.. But I had to let you know that."
Kasumi wanted to tell him in a better time. Yet it did not seem to come. She did not know what to do anymore. Her life seems to be going down the drains. She done things this year that she only dreamed of doing. She is proud of herself of everything that she done yet with this. She wonders if it was all for nothing.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Feb 28, 2010 15:00:05 GMT -6
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>>"I love you Shin that it is why it is so painful. . It pushed me to do better so I could see you again.."
Shin was crestfallen. He loved her, too. And that's why... that's why... he couldn't see her. It hurt.
He wanted to tell her, wanted to let her know like she'd wanted him to know, but Shin wasn't certain. He wasn't sure he could get her to understand. He rose from his chair, and stood. Triangular eyes trailed over her back.
"Kasumi, I-," Love you, His mind finished. His voice stopped in his throat. He couldn't finish it. If Shin told her, he had a feeling he wouldn't be able to stick with his decision. It wasn't like he'd never dated before. He'd had girlfriends, but her... none had been as serious as her. Shin loved Kasumi. He wanted to protect her, keep her safe and warm... but what he'd decided the night before was important. Shin shifted the lump in his throat, and forced out words. "I think it's right... that thing I decided? I think I had the right idea... " Not letting her get hurt. That was one thing. But, this... "I know you want to help people. I do, too. And I'm not going to ask you to stop. I just can't work with you, if you are... at least, not intimately. It isn't you, it's me. And..." His face twinged. "I should go."
He turned. His back was towards her now, his face towards her door. Shin's head was bowed. For a moment, he just stood in silence. The distance between them was immeasurable. Not even with triangle eyes could he do the math.
Posted by angelsilverrose on Feb 28, 2010 21:05:48 GMT -6
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All that Kasumi could do was nod. Soon she is biting her lip tears streaming down her cheeks. She leans her forehead on the window. Tears just stream down her cheeks she can not bring herself to speak anymore. The pain is cutting her like a knife. Evey thing just shattered from under her feet. Kasumi wraps her arms around herself. She is crying so hard with out a sound.
Kasumi is useing everything with in her not to make a sound. Yet her small shoulders a shaking with the pain. She as a lump that she can not get down she opens her mouth yet no sound comes out. This all seems like a nightmare to her something that she did not want to see or hear. Yet it is all so real why does this have to happen?
Keeping with her thoughts the pain she has with in herself. It is the best that she can do right now is not to cry in front of him. Even if her back was turned it is not in front of him. Right now that is all that matters. She does not know anymore then that she can do.
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He had to go, and so... he left. Shin didn't say anything further. He just walked out the door. This was all so stupid. He was stupid. In the end, his attempts to protect her had only gotten her hurt.
It was the same... the same principle, darn it, of trying to guard loved ones with a razor sharp shield. Eventually, someone involved had to get cut. It had only been a matter of time...