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.
OOC post This is going to be Jaxon's blog, under the pseudonym of Mutany (yes I know it is spelled wrong, it is intentional), and is intended to be anonymous for the sake of RP. So unless your character has a logical reason for knowing that Jaxon is Mutany, please don't know or allude to knowing it. Pretty please?
If you want to treat it even more like a real blog, you can type up a pseudonym for your self and respond in character. I thought about doing it a little differently, like linking it to a real blog page on livejournal or something, but I didn't want to make it too complicated. I hope this works out as nicely as I am hoping it does, but it goes where it goes right? lol. Feel free to have some fun with your responses.
I wonder if the world will ever get used to mutants. I know I’m not used to mutants and New York is definitely not used to them. It seems like the city has been dealing with them for a long time, even though I only really noticed them about a year or so ago. That sounds dense but, I guess you don’t notice things that you don’t deal with until you have too.
I heard something is going on down town. Just rumors. Things that sound crazy to me but seem to be really scaring people. That mutants are claiming the area around downtown as their own, old fashioned mob style. I can’t understand why people believe it. Or that mutants are addicted to drugs and that’s why there was a big brawl a few months ago. It’s so strange sounding, and I don't believe any of it.
Every time I turn on the news or pick up a paper I see more humans and mutants fighting, in places all over the US... all over the world, including New York. Still, in my opinion, New York seems to be a pretty safe place for mutants right now. It's not perfect, but there seems to be less fighting than before. Maybe it's just because there is such a large mutant population, and a couple organizations to help mutants are there.
But I'm hoping that it's because New York is starting to accept mutants. Call me optimistic, but I think I'm hoping it is not fear keeping the peace. Maybe people are tired of the fighting.
I started thinking that maybe I should say hello properly. I don’t know you, but somehow it is easier to talk to strangers, like I can tell you things if you don’t know who I am because then I am not scared or embarrassed. So hello.
Right now I’m away from my family and my life, on a vacation of sorts, and I’m really starting to miss it. At first it was fun, pretending to be someone else because no one knew me. But now I feel like every interaction I have is fake, because I’m not being me. I want to go back to when my life was… well it wasn’t simple, but I understood it. I guess I just want to go back to being myself and having people know the real me. I miss my dog, my bed, my clothes…
I always thought the real me wasn’t related to all the outside stuff; looks, behavior, friends, family, belongings… I always thought my personality was separate from that stuff. But the more I’m away from that stuff the more I feel like I’m not me, and it doesn’t feel good.
I hope to go home soon. And I hope everyone finds their own home. Love Mutany
Looking back on my last entry, I guess I’ve gotten so used to not being honest about who I am that I wasn’t even honest with the invisible people out in the internet. I also realized that not telling you something could make people accuse me of having a hidden agenda. I think, in the interest of being honest that I should tell you.
By putting this out there I am exposing myself and… I am relying on the internet and my own computer savvy to keep myself safe. I am hoping that the unknowing and anonymity that is provided in this format, will let me be more open and honest and safe at the same time. So here goes.
I’m a mutant.
I don’t know if that changes anything, but I’m sure that word means a lot to different people. Stereotypes pop up and ideas and images. But I am pretty sure I don’t fit those ideas.
I don’t kill people and I don’t save people. Maybe I should pick one. But I’m new to being a mutant, so you have to forgive me for not being sure of anything. I was sure that I was human. Things change. I have to adapt. I hope the world can adapt to mutants too.
I am done with my vacation so to speak and it is time to get back to work apparently. I am back to my life, and I am happy about that, but I am unhappy about the unexpected work. I guess this is my time to step up, but I don’t feel ready. I don’t think I want to grow up yet, I’m not done figuring out what I want to do.
I can’t be the only one who feels this way. Not ready for the things life is thrusting on me. That was even before I found out I was a mutant. Add that and suddenly my world is spinning in the opposite direction and everything is different. My direction has changed even more than it had before.
I hope I don’t get stuck in this loop of my life… I want to get out and find what I love. I have my family back and I am willingly leaving my home again to help them. But I want my future to be mine. I don’t want to wake up someday living a life not of my own design. I’ve had dreams of that. I want MY future.
I’ve been looking into the recent activity in Romania. Has anyone else noticed? I’m sure I’m not the only one who has noticed. Something is about to happen. The government is making legislation against mutants, apparently mutants are being detained. Something that sounds like an education center on paper, but looks suspiciously like a concentration camp. Like the ones that were used in New York during the mutant registration. I hope something similar isn’t going on there.
It frightens me. That people don’t learn from other’s mistakes. It reminds me of something my mother always told me. “A fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man learns from the mistakes of others, and leaders learn from the mistakes of the past.” I later found out that it was a quote that my mother changed slightly, added to. But it worked for us apparently.
I hope the Romanians stop this before it gets out of hand, but too often it seems like it is easier to start something than to end it. I wish everyone in Romania safety.
Tomorrow is Halloween. What is everyone dressing up as? I know what I’m going to be next year. Sadly I don’t get to dress up this year, I have to work. Doesn’t that suck? Oh well. I’m not going to tell what I’ll be next year, it is a secret so no one steals my idea. It’s really good!
Well, winter is setting in, and the sky is getting gloomy and dark. It is getting cold and wet and dank. I usually love winter. All the cute hats, scarves, and jackets. A roaring fire, hot food, hot chocolate, cuddling with my dog, and bundling up with loads of blankets. I love all that stuff.
Wishing everyone a well winter and happy days ahead.
Well the holidays are fast approaching, and things aren’t getting better in Romania. People are being picked up off the streets. Locked up for no reason. Mutants and possible mutants are targets, people are being stopped at airports and other travel methods.
The camps are real. I’m not sure if they are up and running yet, but the government has stopped hiding what they really are. Mutant propaganda is being spread and it looks like the Romanian people are being turned against mutants. Mutants are scapegoats for the problems in the country. People are turning in their neighbors… family members.
Maybe I am biased. But this is wrong. And it is going to end badly for everyone involved. The Romanians are going to learn the hard way that was a bad idea. Mutants around the world will retaliate. It isn’t right, but it is what will happen, what they will be pushed to.
I should help. I know I should do something to help the people that are my people. I don’t have to know someone to know what is being done to them is wrong, and I don’t know these mutants. But I don’t know how to help. I am afraid, and I feel like a coward. I hope that I am the only coward.
I might not be able to stand up and fight, out of misguided fear or some stupid ideal. I want to but I don’t know if I can or even how. Please let me be just temporarily confused. When the time comes, I want to know that I stood up and did something. Small, insignificant, I don’t care. I just want to know I tried. I hope I get that chance.
I have never been part of a big family. Lots of holidays were spent with my small family and it was a lot like any other day, except we got a little more dressed up and ate foods we didn’t usually have. So I’ve always thought that was how Holidays were. I liked them but I was never gung-ho about them. That must be why I don’t have much to say this time of year.
I don’t get to be home for the holidays, but it isn’t the family dinners and polite conversation that I miss. I do miss my family but what I really want is to see how I would have spent the holidays with my friends. Everyone should be with their family on the holidays, whether it is your real family or your family of friends.
would you kill? would you save? are they the same action? people tell me they are not, but i think sometimes that they are. or maybe that they have to be, to really change things.
are mutants human?
i found your blog using google. you are on page thirty-two of the search results for ‘mutants new york’. i am a new york mutant, as well, but i am abroad right now. i think maybe that is why i am still awake. it is four in the morning. i think this is ‘jet lag.’
please forgive my lack of capitalization. i forgot how to do it on my phone. i am not very good with technology.
ps: who is silent hearts?
is ‘letters’ another name for ‘blog’? i did not know that.
also, if you want, there is a page i made with some friends that i am advertising on twitter. it has an e-mail to send to politicians to tell them to not support romania’s actions. my friends are good with the internet, and they made the page so that you only need to click on your country and your state, and write in your name and address (to prove you are a real person. politicians do not listen to anonymous trolls, they told me.) if you do that and hit ‘send’, it will send the e-mail to all of the senators in new york. if enough people do it, maybe they will listen.
this is the internet address. i copy-and-pasted it so it will be right.
Posted by amaranta on Jan 12, 2010 12:46:05 GMT -6
Guest
Dec 5 Letters to Silent Hearts
What is it that makes things happen? Is it a person, people, governments, religions, or groups? Is it nature; natural disasters or a boon of weather? I don’t know, but I think it is a combination of things, chain reactions that cannot be predicted or anticipated. I think one person can make a difference if the difference is ready to be made. A person can be a catalyst, the spark for change… Gasoline won’t catch fire on it’s own, it needs all the elements to be right, and then it needs something to light it. That’s what I think.
What can I do? Not much. I don’t think I am a catalyst. Maybe I’m not giving myself enough credit, or not trying enough. I’ve never been the one factor that tips the scales. I just don’t think I am that one thing, not a leader, not a trigger. I might be support, behind the scenes, helping arrange all the pieces so the catalyst can get things rolling.
If I could I would change the nature of people. Until that happens all the other changes will be superficial. But that isn’t possible, so the best we can do is educate. Teach people and hope that they make the right decisions.
I have gotten a question! I am very excited about that. So I will try to explain. I feel like I have a silent heart. I have read books and heard people talk about being led by their heart. I don’t hear my heart talking to me and I think I am struggling. I can’t be the only one who feels a little lost in this. And I always thought that journals were letters to your self, from the past you to the future you. So I think this is my way of communicating my heart to other hearts. Maybe that makes sense to someone.
I know how frustrating it is to not be able to do something useful, to try and just have the whole thing go poorly anyway. It seems that no matter how much we may want to, not everyone can go jetting around the world trying to help out wherever there is trouble. Maybe we both just have to do what we can from home. Thanks to perfectprime for the link, I'm going to forward it to as many people as I can to help build support for the mutant cause in Romania. I think it takes a whole bunch of people, not just one, to make a change. One letter to a Senator won't make a difference, but a hundred might help him change his mind on something; my dad was a senator, I've seen it happen! Perhaps the time has come to open up your silent heart and speak out what you feel!
I agree with you Mutany on the subject of education. I think that people fear what they don't know, so the more education people have the less nervous they will be about people who are different. It will probably take a long time to make a difference in people's minds. We had a civil rights movement to get equal rights for people of all skin colors but there are still racists out there. Hopefully someday we can all be treated as equals, but first we must all learn about our differences.
Are mutants and humans the same? No and yes. Mutants have abilities that humans do not have. Yet, we all can act irrationally or reason through something, make enemies or friends, destroy or create, hate, love, fight, or fight for peace. To me, that's what makes someone “human”, not genes so small we can't even see it.
White or black (yellow, green, or red), powers or not, we all have a job to do to make this world a better place.
=^.^=
P.S. Perfectprime, I don't think killing and saving are the same thing. If your goal is to have a peaceful world, you can't use violence to get there or it is meaningless. That's what “pax” means doesn't it? Peace? Look at the recent bombing in Romania; all it caused was chaos, death, and destruction. No one's mind was changed by that terrorist act unless it simply made them more fearful of mutants. You can't force people to change their minds, especially not through fear and killing, you can only convince them slowly.
