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.
Ic: Raina opened the door to the musty old library and walked in. It wasn't in such bad shapes thanks to the robots. Still a little smelly and dusty but the perfect empty place for a meeting.
She had asked Iris here... hoping to chat with the woman about the procedure she was thinking of undergoing. She knew if anyone understood what she was going through it wouldbe Iris. She didn't think the young woman had recovered yet from the haywire incident, and Iris knew about Raina's mutation in entirety. She would keep her promise to Flloyd. She'd talk to someone else.
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jul 14, 2008 15:17:00 GMT -6
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Iris made her way to the library quickly. Raina had sounded strange on the phone, but she couldn't pin down why. She just wasn't.... well, cheerful? Maybe? Off-handedly, she wondered if something had happened with her secondary mutation.
She poked her head in the doorway and looked around.
"Hello? Raina?"
She spotted the young woman nearby, and fully entered the room, after checking to be sure no one lurked in the hallway.
"Hey there. Are you all right?" Both her tone and expression conveyed a measure of concern.
Posted by rainewater on Jul 14, 2008 16:20:09 GMT -6
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Iris didn't waste any time making sure Raina was OK as she entered the room. She smiled knowing she had a friend. "Yeah, mostly. Sorry. Didn't mean to worry you I just really need to talk to someone." she pulled out a chair from the table she was sitting at for Iris and then adjusted hers. On the table was all the research she'd done on one particular doctor and his claims for having a cure. She had newspaper cutouts from articles about mutants who'd been cured. The mutation never did seem to be anything too extravagent but it was giving Raina hope. "I thought you might understand the best." She didn't say anything yet. She knew Iris's eyes would fall upon the table. "I don't want to talk to just anyone... I don't think they'd understand." her own eyes fell to the floor ashamed.
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jul 14, 2008 19:46:17 GMT -6
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"Yeah, mostly. Sorry. Didn't mean to worry you I just really need to talk to someone."
Iris felt a bit relieved and walked over to the table. Her gaze landed on the numerous articles and papers there.
"I thought you might understand the best. I don't want to talk to just anyone... I don't think they'd understand."
She heard what Raina said, which worried her even more, and she took a closer look. One phrase stood out from the others: Mutations Cured.
For a brief heartbeat, she inwardly panicked. During the Registration Law, the CoH had advertised such 'treatments' on the internet, in an effort to find in-hiding mutants. She quickly shuffled through them, looking for names she could identify. Nothing stood out, but that didn't totally alleviate her concern.
Finally she worked up the nerve to ask, "Raina, are you sure about this?" She turned to see that Raina was staring at the floor. Unsure what else to do or say, she stood up and moved to hug her friend.
Posted by rainewater on Jul 15, 2008 20:14:10 GMT -6
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"I just... I... uh..." her voice became broken as her eyes filled with tears. "Everything thinks it's just about Rupert... but it's not just about getting him back. Rupert was right- everything he said was right about me- I need to do something for myself now. I need to do something without everyone else inflicting their values and politics." She sniffled a bit ruffling through the papers.
"I know it's a scary thought all of this." She let herself be hugged by Iris. "But can you understand? If you thought your mutation could be cured would you try it?" she passed Iris some specific articles "This doctor, he deals with mutants that are mainly water based. I think that covers both aspects of my mutation."
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jul 15, 2008 21:49:51 GMT -6
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"I just... I... uh... Everything thinks it's just about Rupert... but it's not just about getting him back. Rupert was right- everything he said was right about me- I need to do something for myself now. I need to do something without everyone else inflicting their values and politics."
Rupert? The name sounded familiar, but Iris couldn't match a name with a face.
"I know it's a scary thought all of this. But can you understand? If you thought your mutation could be cured would you try it?"
"Oh, in a heartbeat." Iris frowned. What she wouldn't give to be a normal human....
"This doctor, he deals with mutants that are mainly water based. I think that covers both aspects of my mutation."
"That makes sense...." Iris took a closer look at the article Raina pointed to. His name wasn't one she recognized from the CoH files. She took the time to read the whole article.
"Well," she finally spoke up, "It looks authentic enough. But I don't know. Have you done any other research on him? Or maybe looked up his past patients?"
Truth be told, Iris felt a bit envious. If there really was a way to reverse, or cure, mutation, then maybe....
Posted by rainewater on Jul 16, 2008 7:43:55 GMT -6
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"I know." admitted Raina "It does sound hard to believe... but I phoned some of his earlier patients. It wast hard because they were all in the phonebook or at least had business e-mails and his patients allow him to use them as references to his treatment. Everytime there was a sucsess it was put in the articles..." she knew that didn't cover what happened to the not so sucsessful but she wasn't going to let herself think about that now. "I want to go check it out. Maybe meet with him. Ask some questions. I'm afriad to go alone..." she lifted her eyes to Iris. "We don't see each other much but I know you understand this where others wont. Would you come with me Iris? Please?"
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jul 16, 2008 21:01:36 GMT -6
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"I know. It does sound hard to believe... but I phoned some of his earlier patients. It wast hard because they were all in the phonebook or at least had business e-mails and his patients allow him to use them as references to his treatment. Everytime there was a sucsess it was put in the articles..."
Iris winced slightly at Raina's phrasing. How often were there failures?
"I want to go check it out. Maybe meet with him. Ask some questions. I'm afriad to go alone... We don't see each other much but I know you understand this where others wont. Would you come with me Iris? Please?"
Iris bit her lip, many thoughts running through her head. She glanced back at the articles on the table. It just seemed too good to be true. Maybe she should tell Raina she should do some more research, just to be safe. They could always meet with these 'cured' mutants in person. Or maybe she should find out what the success-to-failure rate is. Or....
Or maybe this doctor was legit, and she was just trying to find a flaw....
She glanced up at Raina, and the expression she wore. This was obviously important to her. And there couldn't be any harm in just asking questions. You had to ask question to learn, right. And maybe, just maybe.....
Slowly she nodded. "I'll go with you." She paused, then added, "Just.... please, don't make any hasty decisions. Okay? Nothing you may regret in the future."
Posted by rainewater on Jul 17, 2008 8:25:56 GMT -6
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Raina leapt up out of her seat with her arms around Iris before the words "thank-you." could even leave her mouth. "Thank you thank you thank you." she said over and over again. "You wont regret this, we'll figure it out together and I wont mke any hasty-decisions..." she exclaimed while pouring over the table and gathering up all her articles. "This will be good. This will be really good."
