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 "Chief" on Sept 18, 2017 19:04:13 GMT -6
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Jack didn't dignify the child with a response. Merely shot her a withering glance and watched her go. She wouldn't let her off that easily. Maybe it was that her other job was acting as a bouncer for a nightclub, but-- Jack had the unique ability to cut right through any bulls**t that students might throw her way. Jack similarly remained silent as Allegra continued with the "woe is me" antics from before.
"Dey got rid uzz unish-nent at duh stake years ago," the prawn remarked. It was her attempt at humor, however droll. Her eyes pinched in amusement at her own remark, even if Allegra didn't appreciate it.
"Gotta choose 'etter s'riends," was Jack's somewhat-sympathetic pronouncement. It was true. Even if she was over-the-top and entitled... everyone deserved a decent friend group... or at least a decent friend... She heaved a sigh, "Dere are sun good kids at diss school. Sun really nice kids. Kids who won't try and nake an *ss outta you and den kiss-utt to duh teacher."
She didn't name names. They both knew who she was referencing.
"Just gotta 'ut your 'est soot sore-ward," the prawn mumbled, "May'e gizz the s'reaky lookin' kids a chance, too."
Lavender eyes slid towards Allegra, checking to see if she understood the prawn's drift. Some of the really good, worthwhile people looked like Jack, is what she was saying. Don't write someone off just because they didn't look like a person.
Posted by Allegra on Sept 19, 2017 16:29:42 GMT -6
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“They should bring back the stake for certain witches,” Allegra said. “I know someone who deserves it.” She looked in Lilly’s direction as the girl walked off and hoped Jack would agree.
“I’ve met some really good friends here but I wish I had more. I was so popular back at my other school,” Allegra said. “I just don’t feel like I fit in here. People here are just so different from back home. I haven't found a lot of people that are interested in the same stuff I am. That's why I thought me and Lilly would be good friends. I just want to be a normal girl and I’m so tired of having to explain what my mutant power is because my power is totally lame. I bet people here look down at me because I don't have an awesome power. Do you think people talk behind my back? You're security, so you must know stuff. Have you ever heard anyone say bad things about me? Could you let me know who?"
Allegra thought about what Jack said about giving the freaky looking kids a chance. “I would never be mean to anyone because of how they look,” Allegra said. “But I can’t see me being friends with someone that looks like….” Allegra was going to say someone that looks like Jack but decided not to. “I mean, what are people going to think if I’m hanging out with someone who obviously looks like a mutant? It’s one thing to support mutant rights, but it’s quite another to be seen with one. I had a blue skinned guy try to ask me out. I’m not racist or anything but how would it look if I dated a bright blue guy? What would people say? What would I tell my friends? What if we decided to have kids some day? I don’t want a blue skinned baby.”
“Again, I’m not against blue people. You’re kind of blue. Well, parts of you. And blue's fine. People should be whatever color they are and look however they
look. I totally support that. It’s just that my life is different and it doesn't fit in with that. Does that make sense?”
Allegra was always the type that defended people and tried to accept them. She even went so far as to befriend a couple nerds here which was something she'd never do at her old school. She was becoming more accepting but when she listened to her own words, she wondered if she was an awful person.
Jack said nothing in response. She did not agree... but she also knew that Allegra was miffed, and a lot of angry people said thing that they didn't necessarily mean. The same went for drunks. With very little prompting, Allegra began to spill about her struggles with making friends at Xavier's.
"Wouldn't 'e a high school wiss-out gossi'," the prawn said noncommittally, sighing. Truth be told, she never paid attention to that sh**. Most of the time, when kids talked smack, it was impossible to say who they were talkng about because said kids were smart enough to not name names. But with Allegra's attitude, it wouldn't be any stretch of the imagination that she was belittled when she wasn't paying attention.
>> "I would never be mean to anyone because of how they looked."
Jack shot Allegra a look. A drawn-out, "you've-got-to-be-f***ing-kidding-me" kind of look. She'd screamed at Jack. Right in her face. That wasn't exactly a kindhearted gesture. The look persisted. No wonder she was having troubles making friends, she couldn't "be seen with" someone with visible mutations.
"Dat nine'd-set is 'rolly what's gi'ing you issues," the prawn said simply. You couldn't change kids just by telling them they were wrong... you couldn't change anyone. People had to want to change, "Hard to nake s'riends when you 'can't 'e seen wiss' hal-s uzz duh student 'ody, es'ecially in a snall school like diss..."
The two came to a halt in front of the security office, and the prawn turned the handle to the door, pushing it open and holding it open for the teen. A yellowish fan of fluorescent light spilled into the hallway, revealing a desk with a high counter framing its edge, and a man sitted behind it.
"Oh, you got her!" the normal-seeming attendant said brightly, "Certainly took your sweet time coming back over, though, Jack."
The prawn made an agitated chirr, "Had to deal wiss an interru'tion."
"I hate gossip!" Allegra shouted, louder than she had planned. "I don't care if high schools since the days of the cavemen were full of gossip. It's awful and it's mean and I just know everyone is talking about me and it really hurts."
Jack shot Allegra a look and Allegra wasn't able to interpret the prawn's facial patterns well enough to know if this was a 'you've got to be kidding' me look or a 'I would really like to eat you for a midnight snack' look. Either way, Allegra didn't care for it much.
"Hard to nake s'riends when you 'can't 'e seen wiss' hal-s uzz duh student 'ody, es'ecially in a snall school like diss..."
Allegra really didn't have a good argument to that one. Jack was pretty much right with this one.
"I know I should be more accepting but......" Allegra sighed. "You know that I'm not mean to anyone, right? I just don't hang out with certain people." Oh god. That sounded bad didn't it.
"And that blue guy who I won't date. It's not just because he's blue. If he looked normal, I wouldn't date him either. He's a total dork."
But what if he had a great personality but he just looked a little less.... blue? Would Allegra still not want to go out with him? She was ashamed to admit that she probably wouldn't.
"I'm not an awful person!" Allegra repeated again. She didn't have time to protest anymore because they entered the security office. There was a new person. A normal looking guy. Allegra could try to talk her way out of punishment with him.
"None of this is my fault!" she told him. "I was...." Oh, who was she kidding. She tried to sneak out and got caught.
"I was the reason Mr. Jack got delayed," Allegra admitted, She still thought Jack was a guy or at least a male giant shrimp. "I tried to sneak out. I broke the rules. Then I was really rude to Mr. Jack about it. It was all my fault and then I acted like a big brat. I have nothing to say but I was wrong and I'm sorry. And it won't happen again."
She turned to look up at Jack. "I really am sorry," she said.
Allegra tried to make a case for herself-- that she wasn't mean, she just avoided certain people-- but the argument didn't hold any water. Sometimes the worst thing was being excluded, as opposed to be outright attacked... at least, for a teenager... Jack seemed unconvinced, and offered little commentary in response, beyond a faint, "Didn't say you were one..."
Honestly. There were some people who were probably pretty decent, who acted like d**ks to mutants. It's jsut the way the word was. The prawn stood passively behind Allegra as she attempted to plead her case with the security officer behind her desk. Did she see the screen full of security cameras behind the desk? He was the guy who'd radioed Jack in the first place, the one who'd sent her out to intercept Allegra. She quickly sensed that it was an exercise in futility and fessed-up. And apologized. Whoa.
The prawn shrugged. What was she sorry for? Being a brat? Sneaking out? Everything? It would be tedious to press for details.
"It ha'ens alot," the prawn assured the blonde, opting for a vague response, "Don't sweat it."
The man behind the desk finished filling out a sheet of paper, and placed it on the counter. It was a detention slip, detailing the date she'd do her detention, the reason she was being referrred, and her name. All it requried was her signature.
"Sign, please," the guy behind the desk said smilingly. He glanced Jack's way. The prawn twitched her brow in response. She didn't even bother correcting the fauxpas in gendering Jack. As if the kid needed to be embarrassed further.
Jack didn't say much but that was probably for the best. 'He' was all business but Allegra got the feeling that 'he' might actually have a heart under that carapace. Or maybe she was just hoping for a friend right now.
The guy behind the desk passed her the detention slip. "So if I don't sign this, I don't have to do detention?" she asked after she signed it. She really wasn't looking for an answer to that question. She was just curious why she was signing it to begin with. Honestly she was ready for whatever punishment they felt like giving her. She was too tired to fight it.
"I've never had detention in my entire life," Allegra said. "Am I supposed to bring anything or do anything? Is there like a dress code?"
She was sure that it would be awful whatever it was. She sighed and turned to Jack.
"I'm not a bad person," she repeated for the umpteenth time. "And I don't hate mutants or anything like that. In fact, I tried standing up for a mutant at the beach. My friends were making fun of her so I defended her. But then they made fun of me too. And the mutant girl and I really didn't have anything in common so I just left a couple minutes later. I don't think I really fit in with mutants, you know?"
Allegra looked at Jack. "I'm sure you're a nice guy but it would just be weird if someone like you went to the beach or went shopping with my crew back home. And if I tried to be friends with someone like you, they would just make fun of me and cut me out. Then I'd be more lonely than I feel right now."
She yawned obviously exhausted. "I hope you don't think I'm being mean or anything," she said. "I'm not a bad person and I don't hate mutants. I said that before, didn't I? But it's true. It's just that my whole life went to hell since I came here. I don't fit in and I think everyone knows it and they hate me."
Allegra looked ready to cry. This whole night had been emotionally exhausting bringing out the teenage drama queen in her. She tried to calm herself.
"I bet it's hard for you too, huh?" she asked Jack sincerely. "No one else looks like you. And I bet people are afraid of you when they first see you. Isn't that really lonely?"
The guy behind the desk chuckled at that and shook his head, not really in response to Allegra's question, but in a "kids say the darnedest things" sort of way.
"Hone-work," the prawn said in response to her question, "Sun-sing to work on."
The prawn nodded her head as Allegra tried desperately to make her case. She really, truly, didn't think she was a bad person. Sure, there were "bad people" in the world, but a lot of the time it was just "normal people" who made bad choices.
>> "I'm sure you're a nice guy but it would just be weird if someone like you went to the beach or went shopping with my crew back home. And if I tried to be friends with someone like you, they would just make fun of me and cut me out. Then I'd be more lonely than I feel right now."
"Dey don't sound like great s'riends," the prawn murmured, her tone devoid of judgement. That was very passive-aggressively mutantist, and also nothing new.
Then the kid just went to rambling. She was starting to sound like a scratched CD with all of her protests. Jack took to shepherding her out the door, not-so-subtly prompting her towards bed.
>> "I bet it's hard for you too, huh? No one else looks like you. And I bet people are afraid of you when they first see you. Isn't that really lonely?"
A wry expression flickered across the prawn's features, particularly through her eyes.
"You sink?" was the prawn's droll response. She "bet" people were afraid of her? She screamed in Jack's face! The prawn shook her head, "Got it all wrong, kid. I's got a good network uzz s'riends. Nost solks who don't gizz nee duh tine uzz day, dey aren't worse ny tine."
"Homework?" Allegra asked. That sucked but it was better than the alternative. They could just have easily made the people in detention do other work in addition to homework. She'd have to do homework anyway so she may as well do it in detention so she'd have more free time some other time. It was really all a wash.
"Dey don't sound like great s'riends,"
"Hey, you don't even know my friends!" Allegra shot back. "Where do you get off being all judgy like that." She sighed. "Well, maybe some of them aren't that great. I don't really like most of the girls I was sneaking out tonight to see."
The prawn was motioning for her to leave and it was pretty obvious Jack wanted Allegra to go to bed. But Jack said something that pretty much blew Allegra's mind.
"Got it all wrong, kid. I's got a good network uzz s'riends. Nost solks who don't gizz nee duh tine uzz day, dey aren't worse ny tine."
"Wait, youhave friends?" Allegra asked. Well, that didn't come out so well, did it.
"I'm sorry. That sounded kind of bad," she said. "But honestly, how does someone like you have friends?"
Open mouth, insert foot. That sounded even worse.
"I mean, how do you do it?" Allegra asked. "You have to admit that you don't look like everyone else right?" she asked. "So how do you go about making friends that actually care about you? And how do you not care what other people think? I gained a couple pounds and I was afraid to walk out of my room afraid what people were going to say. Sometimes I'm afraid to speak up because I'm worried people would think what I've said was stupid. I've always been like that. I guess because my mom always put me down and told me I wasn't good enough. My entire life that's all I heard so I started to believe it."
Allegra looked up at what passed for Jack's eyes. "How do you do it?" she asked sincerely. "How can you be so confident that you can be comfortable in your own skin even when people are talking about you or, in your case, even afraid of you? I've never been able to do that."
The prawn was quiet as Allegra protested, a low chirr escaping her. She didn't get anything out of being "judgy", as the girl had so artfully put it, but where was the lie? Allegra also realized this, so the prawn rested her case.
Allegra tried to work her way through the prawn's m.o. How wasn't she scared? That was the first misconception. That Jack wasn't scared. When your mutation was always on, you always carried a fear that someone might attack you for simply existing. You saw that kind of thing all over the news. It went beyond just being self-conscious, like Allegra was describing. Every day, you took your own life into your hands by leaving the house.
"Don't has dat luxury," the prawn said, "Uzz always 'eing scared."
For perhaps the first time that night, Allegra was actually looking Jack in the eyes. Lavender eyes with feline pupils stared back.
"Cun on," the prawn urged, "It's late."
She wasn't going to stand holding the door to the office all night.
"You're always scared?" Allegra asked. "If I looked like you, I wouldn't be scared of anything." Then she thought about it. It was obvious that Jack was a mutant and would always be a target. Even though Allegra was a mutant, she could easily blend in and had just taken that for granted. Jack didn't have that luxury.
Allegra yawned. Her adrenaline rush was wearing off and sleep was calling to her.
"I'm really sorry for everything," she said. She wanted to prove to Jack that she was trying to be accepting of mutants. Spur of the moment, she ran over to Jack and took a selfie of the both of them.
"I'm sending this picture of us together to my friends at the club to show I'm all mutant rights," Allegra said. After she hit send, it hit her how wrong this actually was. She hadn't asked Jack's permission and she really should not have used Jack as a knee jerk statement like that. Jack was a person with feelings, not a mutant accessory that Allegra could use to make a point.
Allegra just stared down at the floor in shame. She really had no clue how to interact with mutants and it seemed that everything she did just made things worse.
Overall, Jack seemed unflapped about the whole thing. A silent affirmation was nodded when Allegra seemed unable to believe that Jack might be scared of everything. Her pupils constricted when the teen snapped a picture of her, but she showed no outward sign of minding. She worked at a nightclub-- involuntary involvement in selfies was all part and parcel for the course. It was only when the kid seemed to visibly regret the impulse that Jack reacted.
Her hand moved on its own accord. A heavy primary hand settled on Allegra's head and ruffled her hair. Kids were stupid, sometimes. But you couldn't hate them for being what they were-- stupid kids. They couldn't do anything about it.
"Slee' well, kid," the prawn clicked. Maybe she should've said more. But what else was there to say? She'd said what she'd wanted to.
"Next tine you try sneaking-out, try 'eing nore... sneaky," the prawn teased. And, with that, she slinked in the opposite direction down the hallway.
Normally Allegra would have gritted when Chief tussled her hair like that, but Allegra understood that it was just a friendly gesture. Allegra may have done and said some really stupid things, but the security officer didn't seem to hold it against her.
"Well, goodnight," Allegra said. "Sorry if I was kind of a pain. See you in detention, I guess."
She waved good-bye to Jack then trudged back to her room. She looked in the mirror and saw how awful she looked. Even worse, her dress and shoes were trashed. Not only that, but she missed a night out with her friends and lost a friend in Lilly. Well, actually Lilly was never a friend to begin with. Her other friends at the club probably weren't either.
She took a last look at the selfie she took with Jack. Maybe it was possible to be friends with someone like that. She had recently made friends with nerds, mutants and freaks. And those folks were actually pretty cool.
The night may have been a total waste, but Jack had given Allegra some useful advice about fitting in at this new school and at life in general.
Allegra crashed on her bed and fell fast asleep. It was the best night's sleep she had gotten since she arrived here.