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.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 10:45:54 GMT -6
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As people shifted around them, they slipped through the crowd (like Luke Skywalker slipping through the narrow trench towards an exhaust port on the Death Star).
Shin was excited. And pleased with himself. And holding Kealey's hand. He had something to show her. And he'd told her that she would be impressed.
"You'll love it." He reiterated, mind focused on the surprise.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 10:50:06 GMT -6
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Kealey was getting a surprise! And she was so excited! As they wove through the crowd in the city, Kealey kept a tight hold on Shin's hand so she wouldn't lose him. She was giddy and excited because Shin had told her that she was going to love whatever it was they were going to do. Getting separated in a crowd would be bad, especially with all the emotions flittering around. Besides, handholding was nice.
Shin reiterated that she was going to love this surprise, and Kealey beamed at him. "I'm sure I will!" She just hoped it was soon, otherwise the blond thought she might burst from the anticipation.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 10:56:21 GMT -6
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Daniel Tripp was excited. And pleased with himself. His day so far had been great. He was succeeding. He was really succeeding. He was on top of the world, and nothing was going to bring him dow--
"Stop right there!" The police officer sneered. He trained his gun on the man. "Put up your hands. I'm an officer of the law."
-- down. He finished the thought. Well, eff you buddy. That was one way to ruin a day. Now he wouldn't be able to say he'd robbed that convenience store and gotten off scot-free.
Turning, Daniel Tripp drew his gun and fired. He clipped the officer's shoulder. And just for good measure, he fired off a few more rounds haphazardly into the crowd. Call it an underhanded distraction. Call it what you will. He called it his escape plan.
And then, he ran.
~*~
One never really knows what surprises life will throw. For Daniel Tripp and Tetsuya Shinbo, things had been looking up. Then, they'd both gotten a nasty little surprise. For Tripp, it was having to escape from a police officer and having to discharge his weapon. For Tetsuya Shinbo, it was Tripp.
~*~
Blammo. Shin's grip on Kealey's hand faltered as the bullet hit his chest and knocked him from his feet. Horror and surprise passed over his features before his eyes drew shut.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 11:06:54 GMT -6
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Kealey wasn't someone who had been involved with a lot of physical combat. Even since she'd become an X-Men. Normally she stood back and watched things develop, helped with her powers where she could, and worked to keep everyone calm. It's what she did, it's what she was good at.
But now she knew what it felt like to get punched in the gut.
The gunshots didn't sound anything like she expected gunshots to sound. They were a series of pops instead of booms. People were screaming, and running now, panicking, and Kealey wanted to run too. Grab Shin's hand and run.
Only, his hand wasn't in hers anymore. He wasn't standing there beside her, excited to show her whatever surprise he'd had in mind. He was on the ground.
Someone was screaming, screaming really loud, except as Kealey looked around she couldn't find them. In fact...nobody was running, or making any kind of sound. The whole crowd had stopped, arms at their side looking around as if they had absolutely no desire to do anything else.
It took her a moment to realize that she had done that to the crowd, removed every spec of emotion until they simply stood, and that she was the one screaming as she dropped to her knees beside Shin.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 11:11:12 GMT -6
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There was no blood.
There was only Zuul. Er. Pain.
Ow.
His eyes crept open.
"Kealey? What happen--." Oh. He remembered now. He'd heard a big bang, and felt a big bang, then pop pop popped over onto his back. It sure was a good thing he'd been getting ready to show her his new shard armor.
Shin dusted a few flattened bullet shells off his chest.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 11:30:27 GMT -6
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She'd stopped screaming, and the people in the street had started to shake off the extreme apathy that had overtaken them a few moments before. Some of them wondered why they were simply standing in the middle of the road while a madman fired shots. They started to mill again, some running towards wherever it was they'd been going before, and some gathering around to see how badly the Asian kid on the ground had been damaged.
Kealey was doing the same. Shin's eyes opened and she coughed out a little relieved sob, he wasn't dead. He moved then, dusting pieces of something off his chest...right where he'd been shot as he asked her what had happened.
"Shots...I don't know..." she said, trying to wipe her eyes on the sleeves of her coat. "One second you were there...then you were here..." she hiccupped, nearly frantic hands tugging at the collar of his hoodie. Her nails screeched down something as she tugged, and she paused, looking with her head tilted. The stuff...it was silver and shiny and gave her a flashback of a day quite some time ago. The two of them snuggling, her hands reaching up to touch the glove that Shin had made over his hand...with triangles...from his mind. He'd wanted to show her....
"You did it...." she breathed, tears still flowing freely.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 11:39:21 GMT -6
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His eyes fell to his hoodie.
"I really did it." He agreed with a gut-dropping frown. "Aw, my hero of life hoodie! It's ruined!" There was some irony in that. There were also some BULLET HOLES!!!
But the shard armor shirt underneath it was fine, and had protected him for the most part. Silvery and light, he'd modeled it after the mithril shirt from the Lord of the Rings movies. Well. He supposed it had served its intended purpose by stopping the bullet from skewering him like frodo with the troll, then. It had actually worked.
"I'm glad it worked." He stopped fiddling with his ruined hoodie, and looked up at Kealey's tear-stained face with a more-restrained tone. She'd been crying. She'd actually thought-- "Are you alright?" He asked. And worry flooded onto his face.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 11:50:58 GMT -6
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His...hoodie. Shin had just been shot, but he was worried about...his hoodie. Kealey groaned a little and tried to pull herself together. People were watching and she was sitting in the middle of the street crying. Shin was obviously alright, and some of the crowd was already starting to disperse. Sirens wailed somewhere in the distance, and Shin was agreeing that he was glad.
His attention swung back to her, and he asked if she was okay. He'd been shot, was laying on the ground lucky to be alive, and he wanted to know if she was okay. Her hands wouldn't stop shaking as she tried to push her hair out of her face, then smooth out her jacket.
"No...." she choked, tears starting all over again. At least she was honest.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 12:04:41 GMT -6
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"Help me up..." Shin said.
He grimaced as he tried sitting up himself.
"We should probably go to the hospital... just to make sure. It still really hurts..." But he was alright, so. There was hardly reason to complain. She'd just have to be strong for him. Even despite the tears.
"But don't worry," He added. There was a glint of a smile in his eye. "I'm not letting go of your hand as long as I can until we're done there. I'm not going anywhere." Except the hospital! He guessed.
Oh well. One couldn't be perfectly perfect with every word they said.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jan 15, 2012 12:11:12 GMT -6
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Shin wanted to sit up, and once he tried doing it on his own, there was really nothing else for Kealey to do besides help him get the rest of the way there. She thought he should probably stay where he was, just in case he had broken ribs or something, but nonetheless she helped.
The ridicularity of the whole situation struck the blond again as she sat there. Shin was the one who'd been shot, yet he was the one comforting her. She really needed to pull herself together. Taking a deep breath she nodded, about what she didn't know, but it was a silent acknowledgement that she wasn't going to fall to pieces anymore.
Shin promised he wasn't going anywhere, and Kealey took his hand and nodded some more, the shaking subsiding slightly in Shin's warm grasp. The hospital was a good idea, and as the sirens drew closer, Kealey recognized the pattern and tone of an ambulance.
"A hospital would be good..." she said, voice a little steadier. "Just to be sure."
Blue and red lights approached and slowed, and paramedics flooded from the rig like ants from a hill. They could check Shin out all they wanted, but they were nuts if they thought she was going to let go of his hand.
