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.
James had knocked a few times on Raina's Office door, to find that she wasn't around. He didn't let that keep him however, the papers could wait a bit. The 23 year-old had arrived at the Mansion late that morning, and already he felt quite at home. Most of the boxes had been unloaded in his room, and he was taking a break from unpacking, also to eat a bit of dinner. He looked down at the map one last time, swallowing the remains of his hot dog. "So, the Danger Room must be just around the corner.." he muttered to himself, finding himself in front of big metal doors.
They opened just like in some Grocery stores, and he curiously stepped inside, looking around for someone. The room was empty, and it occured to him that he had no idea how the Danger Room worked. He sighed, dropping the gym bag he'd been carrying around with him. In it was a bottle of ice cold water, along with clean towels. He hadn't been sure if they'd be needed, but he hoped so. Getting used to this place would be fun, if only he had someone to show him the ropes.
He walked over to what seemed like the Control Room, and then sat down at the computer. He was good with computers, and maybe this wasn't so hard to get together. "Raina said something about the Danger Room, was it papers about it? Maybe how to use it..." he said to himself, now walking back to his gym bag. In it, was also the Newb Pack he'd gotten earlier today. He crouched down on the floor, searching quickly through everything.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Mar 13, 2009 20:33:09 GMT -6
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Shin’s day had started out relatively simply, in a roundabout way. He’d woken, eaten breakfast, and gone for a run. After a routine training session at the dojo downtown, he’d returned to the mansion for lunch, and plopped down in the library for an after-lunch read. That’s where everything took a turn for the worse… as he walked past the rows of books he glanced at a computer on the table, and what he saw –blew his mind-…
A desktop screensaver with moving shapes!!! It warped and shifted from triangular shapes to circular, never seeming to stick on the same shape twice. With each geometric shift of its arc, a new form was created and a new image cast. A passing thought struck like an arrow into the bark of an ancient oak—he could do that sort of thing, couldn’t he? Glancing around, he saw others in the library. It’d be no good to pick up the challenge there, so gathering his resolve he left for the danger room.
He was lucky he hadn’t encountered the flying toaster.
~*~
Slipping into the danger room, Shin glanced around. Nobody there. "Hmm..." He walked over to the control panel and cued up a session, letting the lights dim and a spotlight fall on the center of the floor. Sitting down in it, he focused his mind in a meditative stance. Triangular shapes took form in the air around him, slowly warping, lengthening, shortening, expanding and contracting. Tilting his head, Shin worked on forming new shapes each time. First, he arranged them into one big square, then he made them smaller, working some degree of roundness into the shape. Round and soft were things Shin had rarely practiced, or used... still, a soft touch was twice as valuable as a sharp one. Gritting his teeth, he expanded his focus. Triangles flew out into one large Dodecahedron, scraping noiselessly against their brothers to crunch and tighten into a simpler curve. Then, as all the triangles messed together into the framework of a sphere, they shot out into the shape of a rhombus!!
James grabbed the papers, and, still in a crouching position, he leaned himself on his knees to read through the Danger Room papers. He didn't pay much attention when the doors slid open, or when the echoing footsteps of somebody walked away from him. He'd known somebody had been coming before he or she opened the door, as he felt his own senses tingling a bit. Finally, he came up to a quick paragraph on how to use this place, but there wasn't many things helpful. Hardly anything he hadn't already figured out.
He put the papers back in his bag, and then spun around. What he saw then, made him speechless. There was a Man sitting in the middle of the room, and he was making bright, colorful figures alter from one geometric shape to an other. Now, that was something you didn't see everyday. "Hey man, I don't mean to interupt, but can you help me out with this place? I can't quite get the hang of it." he said as he slowly approached this asian boy.
His own abilities were in tact right now, so there was no chance that an accident like when he'd been with Ghost, could happen again. Lately, he'd been practicing harder to keep his concentration, even in the wildest and scariest situations, and to be honest, he'd gotten a little better. "I'm James, by the way. I moved in here this morning." he added now that he was about 10 feet away from him.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Mar 15, 2009 11:42:30 GMT -6
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"Huh?" Shin blinked, his concentration snapped. The geometric shapes flew outwards, dissipating into molecules in the air 5 feet from the brown-haired man. Shaking his head, Shin climbed to his feet and found himself. Working with all that concentration, he hadn't even noticed his legs going numb. He tapped his sleeping leg against the ground twice before turning his head to face the man.
"Um, sure? Yeah... okay." He took a few steps towards James, still a little woozy. It was a good thing the guy'd been ten feet away when he startled Shin. Those shards had flown halfway to him... it could've been messy. Why hadn't he noticed him? Shin guessed he'd been concentrating too hard. Stashing the 'off-feeling' for now, the Asian walked over to James and offered his hand.
"I'm Shin. Nice to meet you. What'd you need help with?" He looked towards the wall-mounted control box, then up towards the God room above. It wasn't really all that hard to set up a simulation, but for a newcomer, it must've been overwhelming. Since he was here, there was obviously one thing he was interested in. "What kind of simulation do you want to try out?"
James leaped backwards, a little startled as the Shards of brilliant colors came tumbling everywhere, missing him by only a couple of feet. "Sorry, didn't mean to startle you." he said with a half-grin, just realizing how concentrated the fellow had been. He really hadn't meant to startle him like that, being stabbed by sharp, pointy colorful shapes was a very interesting way to die, but not for him. He wanted to die like a hero, with a lot of action and after completing a long list of amazing things.
He shrugged mentally, nodding as Shin introduced himself. "You're a Mansion Greeter, aren't you?" he said, remembering his name being mentioned a few weeks back by Ghost. He was a Greeter along with Raina, and two men named Sam and Shawn. "Just the Control Panel in general. How to use it basically." he added casually. He looked around at the metal room, still not able to imagine the things it could do. He looked back at Shin, "Well, I have no idea what kinds of things this thing does. How about you pick first?" he said shrugging.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Mar 22, 2009 20:39:57 GMT -6
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"Use it? Why, you just press buttons of course." Shin pressed a few in demonstration, and a giant squirrel popped up in the center of the danger room. Shin turned to smile at it. It winked at James. Shin pressed another button and it vanished. "Sam programmed that in one day. I guess he decided to save it for posterity's sake. For more complex things, though, the danger room responds to voice commands. There's the control panel and the God room upstairs."
His head rose to look up.
"That room's there for people who want to get fancy or supervise. Really, there's no limit to what the danger room can produce save the imagination of the programmer..." The squirrel vanished after giving James a little wave. Shin smirked. "Some people just have more imagination than most." The buttons beeped as Shin's fingers flew across the control panel, setting up something else. James had asked him to, after all. It wouldn't do to disappoint.
The metallic walls flickered transparent blue as the air around their bodies bubbled up and got watery. Two spheres of air cushioned around their heads like helmets as the danger room took on a 'deep sea' feel. A passing school of goldfish swam away as Shin gestured to the completed scene. The danger room stretched out before them like the bottom of the sea, with light blue shelves of rock rising into outcroppings, seaweed dancing on the floor, and a black chasm in the center of the room. Sun light trickled down from the surface in vague pillars of light as fish passed by above them. A manta ray raced a turtle nearby - the turtle won, of course.
"Just one of the many amazing possibilities the danger room offers," Shin noted as he floated, legs treading water to keep in one place. "Just watch out for sharks."
James nodded, "Simple enough, then." he said with a sly grin as he glanced over at the Squirrel. He was good with computers, this mustn't be so hard to get, right? I mean, how hard could pressing buttons be? The only thing that could go wrong was lasers destroying the entire school, and giant Squirrels on a rampage. Yeah, nothing could go wrong if he tried to experiment... Then his eyes darted upwards, fallowing Shin's. The God Room... seemed, goddy.
"I could get used to this school." he muttered as Shin explained what the god room was for, and how this Danger Room could reproduce pretty much anything. As Shin's fingers zoomed across the panel, James's mind wandered off a little as he imagined scenerios that could test his combat skills, and get his abilities stronger, and in better control. He remembered the Muggers when he'd met the Cat-woman Sara, he needed to get stronger, so he could help out furthermore in cases like that one.
When James came back to reality again, he found himself in the not-so-reality he'd been expecting. Water, a lot of it. "This is insane." he muttered, too soft for anyone but himself to hear. He floated in the deep water for a few seconds, taking in all of this. "I don't think I've ever wen't scooba-diving before." he said, putting a little emphasis on the 'I don't think' part. After all, he only remembered the three past years of his life, and since he'd lost 20 years, that meant there was a lot of time for him to have done things like this.
"So, what happens if someone decides to come in the room? Will the entire Mansion drown in water, or will the Danger Room flick back to normal?" he asked curiously, his voice coming out in a echo as he swam around a bit, avoiding a big sting ray as it swam above his head.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Mar 24, 2009 20:54:30 GMT -6
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"You know..." Shin paused and thought about it, holding his chin. "I. Don't. Know. Probably nothing eventful, since this water's just an illusion and the floating feeling's just controlled anti-gravity boosting, but... it's one heck of an image." Hitching a ride on a passing dolphin, Shin shot by James. He waved his hand in the air like a cowboy swinging a lariat, then jumped off at the last moment and drifted to the edge of the wall, catching it on his fingertips and skittering down to the control panel.
"Simulation, off. Ease us out of it." He floated back down to the ground as the oceanic illusion faded into metallic gray. "So, what do you think, James? Want to try and set up a simulation of your own?"
With a slight bow he motioned to the free control panel. All yours, bud.
