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.
Sweet. It smelled sweet and tasted dry and yet somehow Jude's cushion felt wet. Little lips smacked as he worked his jaw shut. He could stand a few more hours of sleep. Something wet touched his forehead and the frenchman groaned and rolled over. He scratched his bare tummy and a tongue lapped at the side of his mouth.
Jude opened his eyes.
Small, black eyes mostly obscured by white curly fluff peered back at him.
Last night's education came rushing back to his ringing head. "Gerroff." He shoved at the poodle and she scrabbled for purchase on the couch cushion. She managed to loosen it from the couch before taking to the floor.
Jude needed to get the heck out of here before that guy called his Ghost.
The dark haired boy plucked at the shirt he had been given and sighed. Even he could not make the ratty tee fabulous. He pulled it over his head and scrubbed his sticky cheek on the excess fabric before leaving it on the upset couch. He would do better without it and this way he wasn't stealing. He nodded, pleased by his good and noble heart.
He crept toward the bathroom to check on how well his own shirt might be drying when he heard a squeak. A floor squeak. He could not risk it. He had to leave now before it was too late.
Shirtless, shoeless and hungover the little boy hailed a cab. It was not his finest moment, but with some tears and the last few crumpled dollar bills from his pocket, Jude convinced the man to give him a ride home.
The sun crested the horizon sometime on the way back to the Mansion. He had pleeeenty of time to get back in bed. The boy shimmied back under the fence in the low dip that he had used yesternight and yawned his dizzy way across the lawn.
All in all it was a good night. If he had been grownup he would have gotten at least a kiss out it. Err, well a kiss from a person.
In true sneaking out fashion, Jude found a nice window on the ground floor to shimmy open and climb into.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 11, 2011 21:10:57 GMT -6
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The only open window on the ground floor led into the living room. Sebastian had closed and locked all the other ones while he waited. It had been a long wait, but sure enough when the faintest tinges of pink started to show at the edges of the sky a little boy, shirtless and shoe-less found his way back home.
Sebastian waited patiently until the boy had managed to climb all the way through the window and had started to close it again behind himself before he revealed his position in the armchair by the fireplace by speaking.
Heh heh! Jude was so slick. His toes hit the plump carpet as silently as a cat. He eased the window back down. Easy... don't want to wake the—
> "Welcome home Jude."
The boy cringed. His shoulders rose up to his ears and back down again before he turned around in slow motion. It was a natural response to predation. Freeze. Move slowly. Maybe it won't eat you.
There he sat in a comfy arm chair by the fireside like a proper villain. Sebastian, his non-father father. The only one Jude had. All Sebastian was missing was a white cat to stroke and a minion to boss around.
Jude had the distinct feeling that he was about to get bossed around.
"Bonjour, Seb-hic!-astion. How are you zis lovely morning?" He stayed by the window. If things got ugly, he could always go right back out.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 12, 2011 23:23:30 GMT -6
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Sebastian stood and walked over to the window. He slid it the rest of the way shut and turned the lock neatly into place. He regarded the lawn.
"Te tell you the truth, I'm very tired. I've spent most of the night looking for someone rather than sleeping. I was quite worried, you see, that something terrible might have happened to him."
Sebastian turned to look at Jude then, "I don't suppose you'd be able to tell me what happened to him?"
He steepled his fingers and touched them thoughtfully to his lips while he awaited the boy's response.
The unicorn man locked the window with a cool efficiency that made Jude gulp. His brain (and teeth) felt pretty fuzzy and Sebastian was dancing around the subject. A small part of him hoped that his Sebastian wasn't actually talking about him.
"You should not worried. Everyone iz a mutant here. Mutant can fend on sere own." Now that his good mood had fully drained and he was well and truly trapped, he felt dead on his feet. A headache had settled in his midbrain and he felt like he was talking through cotton. The boy knew what he had said didn't come out exactly right, but there was no taking it back.
Sebastian wasn't yelling and somehow that was worse. There was something dangerous in his tone of voice all the same. For the first time ever, Jude wondered just how sharp the protruding growth of horn was on Sebastian's head. This morning, with the pinkish glow streaming in through the window, it looked dangerous.
More dangerous since he expected Jude to tell him where he had been… if he even was talking about Jude. The boy squinted his eyes up at the unicorn and considered sitting down. Feet made for an easier escape and he would likely need one soon.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 13, 2011 22:22:53 GMT -6
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Sebastian didn't think that an eleven year old future mutant quite qualified as someone who could fend for himself. There were uncountable horrible things that could have happened, that apparently didn't happen, since Jude had reappeared alive and well.
Mostly well, anyway. Jude's English was slipping, he was squinting more than normal, and possibly even swaying a bit. He also had no shirt or shoes and had been out all night, supposedly becoming a man. That was an alarming thought. Sebastian frowned thoughtfully.
"Do you think you were successful in becoming a man?"
He was still a little boy. Nobody wanted to hang out with a little boy. Nobody that he wanted to hang out with anyway. Not even the guy he had actually ended up drinking with had really acted like he wanted to be there. People made it seem like he was a constant liability.
All of that flashed through his thoughts and made rebellion swell up in his chest. Jude was not one to be depressed.
"A girl kizs me."
He puffed out his chest like he was proud, but in truth he would rather not have told Sebastian that at all. A kiss from a girl was not at all the same when it was actually a kiss from a girl dog! If he thought about it, that very well may have been his first kiss since he'd been back from the future. His first kiss ever in this timeline.
Jude started to turn green around the edges, his chest deflated rapidly.
He had assumed that Flipsy was a girl. Could Flipsy be a boy? Poodles all looked like girls to him. What if he kissed a boy? Did that matter more that his first kiss was stolen by a boy? or by a poodle? Was his kiss negated by the fact that he had barfed on he/she/it right after that?
He hiccuped so hard that his whole body shook and he stood with his mouth closed for a moment just in case there might be something left in his stomach that wanted revisit.
Only once he was sure that nothing would, Jude squinted up at Sebastian. The morning light was brighter now and his unicorn pale skin threw it back at his sensitive eyes like knives. "Can I go to bed now?"
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 14, 2011 19:54:30 GMT -6
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A girl. Really.
Sebastian wondered if it was on the cheek or on the forehead.
From the slightly green tint creeping in on the edge of Jude's face, that wasn't the only 'adult' thing he'd been up to. Sebastian hated seeing him look so sick and miserable, even if he did deserve it.
“Come here,” Sebastian put a cool hand to Jude's forehead. It quickly became much cooler.
“Now, I have grown up a few times now, and believe it or not I have learned a few things along the way. The first is girls and alcohol don't make you a man. Only time can do that.”
“And just because you remember growing up once already, doesn't mean that your brain and your body are caught up with your memories.”
Sebastian dropped his hand back to his side.
“The second thing I've learned is that the more you worry about growing up, the longer it's going to seem like it takes.”
Sebastian felt his forehead like he might be checking if Jude was sick. Jude felt like Sebastian was pouring cold water down his head. It was a uniquely sobering experience that left him wide eyed and momentarily breathless. The shadow of a headache lurked. Jude cherished it for the budding psychic power that it might some day become.
Jude nodded, still nervous because Sebastian was being entirely too nice about all this.
"Why did you grow up many times? Why would you ever want to be this again?" Jude raised his skinny arms. He wasn't even yet to the awkward stage of growth. His voice hadn't even changed. He was in every way a stupid kid.
"I don't want to wait, Sebby. I know what it is like to be a man. I know what it is like to be in charge of yourself and your power and right now I have none of that. I can't..." His treacherous eyes started to moisten. "I can't do anything!"
If he started his grown up life now, he could do so many things that he never bothered to think of before...
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 14, 2011 21:50:24 GMT -6
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Why did he bother growing up so many times? Why not just be an adult all the time? That was a fair question.
“When you're an adult, it's true that you have the power to take care of yourself. However, you also have responsibilities. You must be to work on time, you must work to earn money, you must pay the bills, you must buy groceries, wash the laundry, clean, and cook dinner, you must protect your children from harm and make sure they are properly educated, you must fix all the things in your house that break, you must look at the problems in the world and change them if you have the strength, and if you don't have the strength you must accept that you cannot do anything about it, no matter how painful it is.”
Sebastian wasn't always very good at that last one, at letting go when there wasn't anything he could do to change a situation.
“When you are a child, your only responsibilities are to learn and grow. And to let your parents know where you are. The rest of the time you can play, explore, read books, make friends, and have fun.”
“Adults forget how to play. They forget how to have fun and use their imaginations. Their brains are too busy worrying all the time about all their responsibilities to ever be able to spend an afternoon slaying a dragon or rescuing a princess.”
He put both hands on Jude's shoulders and looked him in the eyes.
“You've been given a gift, a second chance at being a kid. Don't waste it by trying to be a grown up. That will come soon enough, and this time you won't be able to go back again when it does.”
"I could do that and be grown up." He muttered, but the boy knew it sounded sullen, but he had already told himself that when he was older, he would still wear cool dinosaur tee shirts.
"I know what kind of sacrifice adult life requires, Sebastian. I've already been zere. I dedicated my life to-" Well, he had really dedicated it to growing his power, mutant or political, but gotten stuck in a self-less cause. "-to stop a global meltdown. I went from ze peak of my life and my ability back to ze dump of it."
Even if the dream hadn't been real, he had to believe that their effort to stop a climate cased apocalypse had worked.
"I don't want to be here. I don't want to do zis." Growing up sucked. Being powerless sucked. He was a complete zero.
But Jude didn't want to be helpless against the cruel whims of fate. He was going to take charge of the few things he could change and then put them on their head just because he could. And that required a little sneaking out and a little kissing. That mean he put a whole heap of defiance in his eyes when he met Sebastian's gaze. "You won't stop me."
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 15, 2011 22:35:08 GMT -6
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“No,” Sebastian removed his hands from the boy's shoulders and turned to pace back to the window,. “No, I won't. I can't watch you every second and I won't lock you up like a prisoner.”
“But if you want to be around to help save the world in seven or eight years, you need to be a little more responsible.”
“For example, a responsible adult would let someone know where they were going and when they'd be back. They'd call if they were going to be late. And if they needed a ride home, they'd just ask for one.”
Sebastian sighed, and shook his head.
“We may not be a normal family, but that doesn't mean we don't care about you. And worry about you. That isn't going to change no matter how old you are.”
Sebastian went to the window and while Jude's headache and wooziness was gone from Sebastian's touch, that didn't mean his mouth wasn't still cottony. He needed a drink. The normal kind of a drink a 11 year old might enjoy when his mouth was parched. Sebastian would not stop him. Jude had just been so sure of that. The unicorn man was just as passive as Ghost when it came to somethings.
"I'll be around. I'm young. I bounce back." And it didn't hurt that he had an in-house healer ready to take away his consequences. Though if he kept flaunting that in Sebastian's face, he wouldn't be able to live such a consequence free life anymore. And he did like living with Ghost and Sebastian, for the little that he actually saw them. It made things better to be around people who didn't always treat him like he was too little to understand.
As much as he liked to pretend that he didn't care what Sebastian thought, he didn't really want to disappoint him. The dark haired boy tugged at the hem of Sebastian's shirt. "If you hadn't found out, you wouldn't have worried. I didn't mean for you to find out." He knew that wasn't what Sebastian wanted to hear, but it was the truth. "I am sorry zat you worried."
Jude sighed. "If I let you know where I am going, would you let me go?"
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 22, 2011 18:39:03 GMT -6
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Jude was such a careful mixture of adult thoughts and childish behaviors. Sebastian couldn't help but smile at the way the boy tugged on his shirt, but he tactfully faced the window until he could keep his face straight. By that time Jude was basically asking for permission to go out any time he wanted so long as he told them first.
That was a tough one. It sort of depended on the circumstances.
“If it is safe and you tell us when to expect you back, then I don't see why not. If it isn't safe for you to go alone, one of us can accompany you wherever you need to go.”
He expected a flat out no. When he got a sort-of not really okay, Jude knew Sebastian was entirely too soft. "People don't usually take their parents to parties... Not zat I'm intending to go to any parties right now and I would tell you now if I was." He nodded oh so convincingly. "I would. Mhmm."
That might have been just a little too convincing. Jude coughed. "Well I had better get to bed and so should you, young man." Jude adopted the fatherly tone he had expected from Sebastian this whole time. In a way, getting away without punishment was making him feel weird. The little dark haired boy went on his merry little way toward the kitchen for a glass of water.
