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 Kealey Shinbo on Jun 4, 2011 8:09:25 GMT -6
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The apartment…was full of stuff. How, Kealey wondered, had she accumulated so many things in an apartment she had barely lived in? It boggled the mind. Things were a little cramped at the moment, and the closet situation had been a little dire at first, but Kealey had adjusted, and thrown out more clothes than she thought she’d ever throw out. The action had made sense, she hadn’t worn most of them in over a year, and if she desperately needed something, she could simply make it. Shin had needed room for his clothes. There were still a lot of boxes around though, Shin needed room for his stuff.
It was interesting, fitting their two lives together, and now the apartment showed definitely signs of early .co-habitation. Kealey couldn’t remember a time in her life when she’d been happier. These were things that just a few years ago she’d have never thought were possible for her. They were things that other people did in their normal lives. It was nice waking up every day and realizing that you weren’t simply having a bittersweet dream. That all those things were true.
Coffee was great too, and Kealey was standing blearily in the kitchen making it. She didn’t know where Shin was…all that mattered was the coffee that was brewing in the pot right that moment. It was easier to be a coffee addict when one didn’t have to walk a mile to the kitchen.
The only problem was…the darn the coffee pot was filling...so...slow. The blond watched it, pushing her shorter hair behind her ears. There was more unpacking to be done...she needed coffee.
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The water ran. It ran for its life. Not blindly. Not foolhardily, tripping, rising, and falling again. Oh, sure. It got lost occasionally in an alley arm crook, took a wrong turn down a shoulder blade or someone's back, but it knew. It knew where it was headed. So few people in life, so few things in life, can truly say they know where they are headed. It knew. It knew. It was headed down the drain.
A knob turned The water cut. The curtain made a sound as Shin pushed it aside, and reached for a bath towel. He wrapped himself in forest green. So close to 'forest greeb', that color. Forest green. What was a greeb, even? It sounded like an animal. A weird one. At least Kealey's pink towel didn't happen to almost barely share a name with some demented freakish mythological woodland animal. With two towels, a his and a hers, there wasn't room for mistakes like that. Shin would risk wiping his face with (just maybe) woodland creatures. Kealey could go with the sure thing, and stay pink. If she even knew the thoughts that went through his mind, or the heroic sacrifices he made, picking forest green, her cheeks would be a sure thing, too. All the things he did for her.
A minute and a half later, Shin stepped into the kitchen, hair color-streaked, pajama pants checkerboard black and white. He stretched his arms behind his tank-topped back and yawned, smacked his lips. Took in the aroma.
"Smells good," He fired a sleepy smile like a rocket, Kealey's way. "Pour me a cup."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 4, 2011 18:43:13 GMT -6
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Sure there were others in the little block of apartments, but they were a very mellow group to live around, and some of them were hardly home at all. Needless to say that excepting Shin’s, emotions outside her own were scarce. It was a welcome relief, because she was so used to Shin that it was almost like being all on her own, and Kealey smiled at the coffee pot. It had finally filled.
Shin appeared then, and Kealey grinned at him over her shoulder as she reached into the cabinet and grabbed two mugs . The mugs were promptly filled with coffee, and the blond moved to the fridge to grab milk.
Holding out one cup for Shin, Kealey nodded at the milk and sugar. ”Morning.” she said, liberally adding sugar and milk to the coffee before taking a sip. ”Mmmm.” she intoned, ”I think coffee tastes better here.” Or then again, maybe it was just the lack of everyone else’s opinion on coffee.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 11, 2011 21:04:06 GMT -6
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Coffee procured, Shin waited. Sugar was needed, for full-time waking. So much sugar. Not quite as much as Kealey. They had similar tastes. Aurum probably would have done an acrobatic pirouette off the handle or something. 'Such a good beverage,' he would say. 'Ruined by sugar.' Of course, sugar wasn't ruining it. It was fixing it. Speaking of sugar.
"Do we have any Sugar-blasted Sugar Os? Or did I dream up that fantastic creation?" He yawned, then chuckled at the thought. "All this sugar. We'll get diabetes."
Shin scuttled sluggishly to the toaster, and made toast.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 11, 2011 23:11:26 GMT -6
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Shin asked about sugar cereal, and Kealey automatically reached for the cabinet holding such things. What had Shin said they were called? She grabbed what she hoped was the appropriate box and held it out towards him with extreme confidence that he would be able to find milk and a bowl by himself.
He pointed out something about diabetes and Kealey had to laugh as she sipped at her coffee. Shin looked awful comfortable in his pajamas and awful clean after his shower. ”I think we’ll be okay. Just need to moderate.” she pointed out.
Turning so she was facing Shin, and leaning against the counter, Kealey grinned.
”So.” she said, ” What do we need to do today? More unpacking? More closet cleaning? I think you need more space.”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 13, 2011 20:56:16 GMT -6
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Unfortunately, no. There was no such thing as his dream cereal. But what Kealey held out would be just fine. Shin took it, with a smile. He set it down by the toaster, alongside his coffee, then started the toast. Then, he set about locating cereal fixings, in cabinet, fridge, and Beyond. He set it all on the table, then pulled out a chair.
Shin paused in his seating and cereal-eating operations, glancing up towards the beautiful blond in his/her kitchen. What did they need to do today? Hm. Quite a question. A very good question. Very question-y. Shin snuck away from the table, moving towards her with a point on his mind. Kealey reached, he made his point. He pulled her into an early-morning 'thank you' kiss. "Thank you," explained Shin. "For the breakfast. I think we can think about the unpacking and closet cleaning after we eat. Do you want me to make you some eggs?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 13, 2011 21:17:17 GMT -6
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Kealey was starting to wake up. Shin's fresh-out-of-the-shower, ready for breakfast emotions weren't hurting the process. He was getting ceral and toast ready, and she was drinking coffee. It was all she really wanted to put effort into at the moment.
This was how Kealey operated in the mornings. It took her a while to get things rolling. Shin went to sit down,and the blond stared at the toaster, wondering if it would be too much effort to get bread and put it in there. She'd just set her coffee aside to try when Shin came back. He didn't immediately answer her questions, but kissed her instead and thanked her.
Kealey returned the kiss and grinned, just about to ask what she was being thanked for when Shin beat her to it with an answer. Breakfast apparently, and he wanted to know if she wanted him to make her eggs. Oh man...eggs...that she didn't have to make. It was almost too awesome. Yeah. Unpacking and cleaning could definitely wait.
"I didn't do anything but hand you a box." she said, "But you can thank me like that any time you want."
She glanced at the table where Shin's toast sat, looking lonely.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 13, 2011 21:51:28 GMT -6
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Shin beamed at his girlfriend. "Any time."
As for toast and eggs... when had extra toast gotten involved with this equation? Shin had no qualms about that. He nodded. He headed to the fridge to fish out the egg carton. He got to frying.
"Those GARO pictures look great in your room, by the way." He added, as the pan sizzled. "Which reminds me... I, uh... never actually did show you what I had intended to show you, when I proposed this arrangement." Derp. He'd forgot! Shin glanced over his shoulder at her, and made an innocent face.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 13, 2011 22:15:20 GMT -6
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And so the egg cooking began. Mmmmm fried. Perfect for breakfast. Kealey worked on getting the toast started, then leaned against the counter to watch him kept listening as Shin kept speaking. An eyebrow rose when he stated how good his Christmas present looked in her room, but she filed the information away for, the following moment. A correction was in order.
He pointed out that there was something that he'd wanted to show her. Kealey was puzzled for the moment, face scrunching up slightly as she tried to work out what he was talking about. The day they'd gotten their hair done, he had mentioned that he had something to show her if she was good.
"What is it?" The blond said, face unscrunching and breaking into a grin.
"And Shin," she said, reaching over to gently poke him as he cooked, "It' our room."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 14, 2011 15:51:31 GMT -6
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He’d show her after they were done eating? Now how was that fair!? Kealey pouted, just a little bit, but realized that she probably wasn’t going to get her way on this one. Shin used the proper term for their room and she grinned. Maybe it was silly, but she just wanted the details right.
It looked like the eggs were almost done, and the toast had just popped, so she set about buttering it and getting out proper plates and utensils for eggs.
”I’m holding you to that. I was distracted the last time, but not this time.” she said, added, just for good measure, ”Can I guess in the meantime?”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 14, 2011 17:29:20 GMT -6
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"I don't know." Shin focused intense spatula action into lifting a couple of eggs from a frying pan, onto plates. "Can you?" It seemed illogical to think she could not. She was a wonder at guessing, after all. It was not as if some Adaptoid were around, nullifying her ability to think or do math or guess or anything. He grinned slightly to himself as he served up his query. He was being facetious, fo' certain.
Eggs on plates, he turned and placed them on the table at the appropriate seating spots.
Shin plopped down perfunctorily in his chair. He waited for her, then dug in.
Prayers, it seemed, were not a part of the Shinbo household's pre-meal routine.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 14, 2011 17:40:06 GMT -6
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Kealey actually rolled her eyes when Shin turned her question back around on her based on a point of grammar. A genuine laugh accompanied the action though, and after Shin turned with the plates, she followed him to the table with toast and sat down. He dug right in, and so did she, thinking for a few moments about the question she was going to ask.
It needed to be a good one.
” Did….you figure out more cool stuff to do with your powers?” she asked, gesturing with a piece of toast. Because the sword had been cool. Not nearly as cool as flying…but pretty darn cool.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 17, 2011 21:50:18 GMT -6
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Shin kept on eating. Yes, she could ask him. Did that mean he'd answer? Nope!
The Asian made a point of chewing his toast extra loudly as he avoided 20 questions games. It didn't help that she'd hit the nail on the head with guess 1.
Practice had become a daily thing, at the mansion. Every morning, early, or every late night, when he couldn't sleep. Some different things had been accomplished. A lot of numbers, crunched. The exact details of what those practicing sessions had entailed was incredibly boring and mathematical. She need not know details. What mattered... were results. And eggs.
Toast finished, he moved to eggs.
"I really kick eggs ass," Shin noted appreciatively, as he held a speared bit of eggy on his fork, in the air.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 17, 2011 22:04:47 GMT -6
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Shin didn’t answer her question, and Kealey rose an eyebrow as she watched him chew his toast. It was tempting to point out that she knew his mother had taught him better than to chew like that, but she didn’t want to start that conversation this early in the morning.
It was hard not to ask more questions, to seek more information, because Kealey figured that she was closer to right than he wanted her to be on a first guess. She smiled a little to herself. That had to be the case. She’d been right too soon. She worked on her food and waited patiently while Shin ate his toast, wondering exactly what progress he had managed to make.
He commented on the eggs, and Kealey grinned brightly. “You really do, but you’d better be careful, I might get used to this.” She wasn’t going to let him bait her into begging for information. Kealey ate more eggs.
