Mutation. Adaptation. Equality, superiority, and order. Darwin dreams darkly in a world where change outpaces the norm day by day.
The school that Charles Xavier dreamed of as a safe haven has overflowed; now, all students are referred on to Xavier’s Sister School for Gifted Youngsters, a mansion complete with its own team of X-Men who strive to maintain the balance in New York.
Others have sneered at the Mansion’s naive ideals, and gone through the Sanctuary’s Golden Doors to claim their proper title of Homo Superior.
Still others look beyond these petty squabbles to the world’s rotting roots; war, suffering, chaos. At Mondragon Labs Medical, there is a healer who will cure them all.
The Mutant Factions grow in strength and number day by day; their threat and promise hangs heavy over the human world. Homo sapiens have always been the favored child of Adaptation, however. In the minds of a few rare men and women, a force is rising up to silence these challengers to the throne.
Fear and hatred are the lot of all things new. In this volatile world, what will you swear to protect?
Where Will You Stand?
The X-Men
The X-men are an idealistic group of mutants whose goal is to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants and to protect the weak, even if it means facing off against fellow mutants to protect humans that may hate them anyway. They offer a safe shelter and an education to young mutants at Xavier's Sister School.
The Order
The Order is a group of radical mutants who have gathered in an effort to have their voices heard and demands met to gain an uppance in society, by any means necessary. They are led by a mutant and a fiercely vicious woman named Lori who houses the members at the Sanctuary. Join them and find your proper place in the world.
The Kabal
The world is full of distasteful chaos. It seethes with pointless hatred and cruelty. Let the X's and O's bicker like lovers in the streets of New York City; Slate's Kabal will bring the world itself to the worst degree of peace. Current takeover: Romania.
Newb Guide to MRO History « Thread Started on Jan 11, 2008, 7:30pm »
On this thread: 1) Current Plot: a blurb 2) Upcoming Plots 3) MRO History: blurbs of past site plots, in chronological order (check the very last post for the most recent plot)
None. Free-form it, people! Missions will be coming soon for all Factions, especially in light of the Kabal's November/December take-over of Romania.
Ongoing Plot: Rise of the Adapted
Proposed by Luke Jacobs In short:"What if the human race began to adapat to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtley... without the X-Gene." Humans that can negate the X-gene completely in the area around them: how will the world react to them? How will the government? Something new this way comes. This plot started on January 1, 2009 and has no end date; the Adapted are now a part of the MRO universe. All members should be familiar with the progress of this plotline, as outlined on the official announcement.
The Next Plotline
To be decided. Currently, the Morality Switch Plot seems to have the most potential.
Have a plot idea? Post it on the Plots board for discussion. Plot ideas can be proposed by any player; we'll then discuss it as a site. Popular ideas will get polished up and run by the Plot Mods.
How we got to where we are: MRO History
MRO was founded in October of 2005 by the wonderfully pink-texted Lady J (player of Tricity, the Mansion's headmistress). Adore her, all ye players. She and some others came over from a dying X-Men RP site to found their own active community. Hence MRO's "Prologue", the official history thread. The following posts will give you an idea of our history since then.
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Plots I wasn't here for and/or haven't read up on « Reply #1 on Jun 17, 2008, 1:57am »
If older members would like to PM me blurbs to put with these, that would be fantastic. Otherwise, please refer to the official announcements (click the title) of each for a plot summary:
Dorian King, codenamed Oppressor, founded the Sanctuary: New York's very own upscale homeless shelter, welcoming all in with its golden doors. In the levels underneath the glistening humanitarian main floor, however, Oppressor began to lodge the cast-off mutants of the city; those who had not found their way to the Mansion, or who had found it to be... not quite to their liking. From their ranks he began to recruit members for New York's first baddie faction, a group known as the Order.
At the Sanctuary's grand opening, the mutants Isabel, Syn, and Raptor caused a small-scale riot and killed many of the NYPD officers who responded to the scene. This became known among the officers of the force as the Sanctuary Police Massacre.
[Note: Over the following few months, as Oppressor's player became inactive, Syn took over the reigns of the Order.]
A 13 year old girl, Jacquelyn “Jack” Guy, possesses a dangerous mutation: any human who comes near her becomes deathly ill, and any mutant who comes near her experiences an uncontrollable surge of power into their own mutation: their power goes “haywire”. The Order rescued Jack and many other mutants who were being held at a research facility, but kept her (though not unkindly) at King Pharmaceuticals for their own dastardly schemes. In the following days, a string of seemingly random mutant and human kidnappings made little stir in the NYC news, but changed the lives of those involved. These captives were brought to King Pharmaceuticals, imprisoned, and subjected to exposure to Jack's powers. From these tests, the Order developed a prototype “Haywire virus”: injected into mutants, it causes temporary power boosts at the cost of severe hallucinations. Its effect on humans has yet to be tested.
The X-Men caught wind of the nefarious goings-on at KP, and set out in force to take Jack from the Order's custody. As they rolled out of the Mansion's garage at full throttle, a lone vehicle was dropping off the subject of a field-test at their front gates: Iris, infected with the Haywire virus. As the Order and the X-Men fought an inconclusive fight on the steps of King Pharmaceuticals which caught national attention and hastened the passing of the Mutant Registration Law, the students of the Mansion were desperately working as a team to calm a terrified—and unimaginably dangerous—Iris. Though they left the fight with Jack, the X-Men returned to a Mansion which was half-destroyed, and students who were reeling from their own fight. (PS: Ted helped a great deal in the Mansion destruction, when an Iris-induced injury made him furry for a time. )
In all the chaos, it is safe to say that no one paid particular attention to the house cat who briefly groomed its fur outside of the X-Men's war room. Back at Mondragon Labs, a powerful mutant by the name of Hunter Antonescu set into motion his own plans under the collective noses of NYC's other mutant powers. As the X-Men and the Order flaunted their public brawl and the Mansion frosted over, the Kabal was founded. It was a busy time.
It began innocuously enough: with the introduction of a Bill before the United States Congress. Pushed heavily by the Church of Humanity and with popular public support in the wake of the high-profile brawl outside of King Pharmaceuticals and numerous other terroristic actions by mutants in New York and nationwide, the Bill easily passed into law: overnight, it became illegal to be an unregistered mutant in the United States of America. All mutants had to be entered into a database and be fitted with either a bracelet or a collar that would deliver a searing electrical shock into their system if they tried to use their powers outside of their own homes. The most "dangerous" of mutants--including those captured in the police raids that left Xavier's Sister School and the Sanctuary devastated--were immediately shipped to state Detention Centers; aka, the Camps. As time went on, more and more mutants seemed to fall into that "dangerous" category, and little was ever heard from those who had been taken away. Meanwhile, eerily intelligent AIs known as the Stalker Robots became a regular sight, patrolling cities for mutants not in compliance with the Registration Law.
Needless to say, a Resistance formed from day one. Staged out of Mondragon Labs, the Resistance planned for months, training their members and conducting reconnaissance, including the capture and dissection of a Stalker bot. One agent for the Order, Sonya, even managed to acquire an unlikely ally on the inside. Two other Resistance members, Iris and Hunter, went undercover to stage a coup of one of the loudest advocates of the law: they worked their way up the Church of Humanity hierarchy until Hunter, in one gruesome night, attempted to kill every member of their ruling council. The immortal evil met his match in the immortal good that night, and the survivors of the massacre were given something to think about; but that's another story.
Finally, in May of 2008, the Resistance launched a successful breakout raid on the New York State Detention Center of Dangerous Mutants, showing the world just how 'dangerous' mutants could really be in the bloodbath that followed, and leading to the public revelation of the atrocities that were being committed at these Camps: beatings, rape, torture, murder; not even small children were being spared, as long as they cared the damning X-gene.
Within three weeks of the breakout, the Supreme Court ruled the Mutant Registration Law unconstitutional in a 6-3 ruling in the historic Erickson v. the State of California case. Mutants nationwide were freed; collars and bracelets were scrapped; the Stalker bots faded into the background. America's mutants were left to scrape up the pieces of their lives after nearly a year of the most blatant persecution yet to face them.
During January, in a logically ruthless sweep, Caleb “Slate” Swartz claimed possession of Mondragon Labs and all of Hunter’s former assets. The title of ‘Kabal Leader’ came with. A complete restructuring of Mondragon Labs and the Kabal ensued in the following months. April lead to its natural conclusion: a take-over of Colombia. One must start somewhere, in this world.
Using the front of rebuilding a rural school torn apart by the country’s internal violence, Slate launched a series of covert Kabal missions that landed large parts of the drug trade and military into his hands. His goal, of course: to fix what is broken. That is simply what a healer does.
During his month long humanitarian absence, Mondragon Labs was renamed Mondragon Labs Medical, and its conversion into an above-the-board research facility cumulated in the public announcement of its first medical advance: a cloned human heart.
Your character would know of that last. The rest? Heh.
From the Fall of 2018 to the Spring of 2019, our characters met old friends, forged new alliances across countries and continents, and faced the aftermath of a world in which the Haywire virus had claimed millions of lives—human and mutant, both. They lived.
Put yourself in their places when, on a June morning in 2009, they awoke to find that the past ten years—the future ten years—had been nothing but a dream. Hard won scars of mind and body were gone; lovers were on the other side of the globe; children had never been born.
There was no Haywire outbreak. There was no mutant rebellion in Australia; no safe refugee in Antarctica. The Gulf Stream was just fine, and no white-haired elementals were losing themselves trying to fix it. There was no World War III. There was only this.
Fragmented memories and feelings, spread far and wide.
Vials of undeveloped Haywire sitting in King Pharmaceuticals.
Welcome to the present, where it’s time to end what never began, for the good of the people we’ll never be. The future is in our hands. It’s worth fighting for.
For a listing of Future Plot threads by character, look here. Future Plot NPC profiles are here. During the Future Plot, MRO had a Fourth Faction. The following is a reposted from the Newb Guide to the Factions. Requiescat in pace, PAX.
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Founded IC on Christmas Eve, 2007. Allegiance: The lightest shade of gray. No base of which to speak. Unless your character has heard of this group IC, they will not know about them. To join, RP in keeping with their philosophies. They will contact you. Membership in another faction is no bar to joining.
Sickened by the violence prevalent in the X-Men, the Order, the Kabal, and the world, this group came together under the leadership of Katrina Dumonde and Caleb "Slate" Swartz. Its members strive to influence the world through the traffic of information rather than through violent means. If pressed into a fight, they will seek to creatively side-step the situation so that their actions cause damage in the lightest shade of gray. They do not claim to be either good, evil, or neutral: they are what they are. If your character is nonviolent in action as well as intention, it is likely that the members of this group will contact you. How they operate is not a matter for public concern.
The X’s are now backing up New York City’s police force.
In response to the escalating number of police deaths due to mutant crimes, the X-Men offered to train as deputies and be on call to aid in emergencies. The NYC police commissioner, while suspicious of their goodie-good mutie intents, has taken them up on the offer: any mutant threat in the city that calls down the police may now attract deputized X-attention, as well.
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Re: Newb Guide to MRO History « Reply #8 on Oct 17, 2009, 9:33am »
The Order Changes Hands Post-KP Brawl; executed by Lori.
Following the KP Brawl, Syn, the Order's former leader, was assumed dead. Garret, its rising star, was a traitor--and her presumed killer. Into this power void stepped Lori Faust, with the support of the Abyss clones and Isabel. She has begun to restructure things to her own liking. Time will show what the sharply intelligent woman has planned. For now, all we know is this: the X-Men are really rampaging drug addicts.
Touche, Lori.
King Pharmaceuticals, following its rebuilding, will be known as Faust Pharmaceuticals.
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