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.
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Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 21, 2011 22:20:45 GMT -6
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Maya wasn’t anywhere to be seen just yet which meant she was moving, that could be good or bad. Too long in one spot and it looks suspicious, which was one thing they didn’t need on this already difficult mission. His attention shifting shortly back to the woman who continued the conversation, if it weren’t for Maya being here he would have wanted to have a little fun with her despite the danger it presented. It was always one of the perks to the mission. However Maya was there so it meant the fun would have to be cut down to a minimum.
Sam’s nostrils flared as he got another whiff of the women’s fragrance what ever she was using, it was sweet and again it reluctantly caught his attention something he was trying to focus on someone else who couldn’t be found. Bad habits diehard, Maya should be fine on her own for a few minutes they did have a few hours before it was midnight. ”Ruby…” Sam said as he turned to face her with a smile trying to be polite and at the same time charming, ”It suits you…” Sam said approving of the name and immediately thinking of her as a precious stone. Funny her eyes reminded Sam more of emeralds more than anything else.
”Business.” Sam said simply with not much of interested look on the subject as his lone eye scanned the scenery for Maya where ever she ran off t, however he didn’t seem like he was over egger to fond someone else. ”However, who says I can’t mix them? This get together was supposed to get friends and co-workers to have some fun right?” Sam asked shrugging slightly and looking back to the woman, ”Do you dance?” Sam asked having an ulterior motive for getting her out on the dance floor. ---
The sharpened yellow tinted teeth showed more as Louis smiled at the younger woman, it was impossible to resist he had never met a woman who could resist soon she would be putty in his hands to do with what he wanted just like all the ones before. All he had to do now was wait and hope no one would distract him from his target for this evening.
”Something wrong Mrs…?” Louis trailed off hoping his power of persuasion was taking a hold of the young woman, ”You looked confused? Can I help you with something?” Louis asked as he took a step closer and put one of his hands on the young woman’s shoulder.
>>”Ruby… It suits you… Business. However, who says I can’t mix them? This get together was supposed to get friends and co-workers to have some fun right? Do you dance?”
Ruby smiled a mysterious smile at the handsome man; she waited for a long moment before she answered.
"Sure. I dance." she nodded, allowind him to lead her to the dance floor. She moved smoothly, like a profeccional dancer; she almost looked like she was floating, despite the wicked heels. People glanced at her as she went, and some men did not even hide their jealousy. Once on the dance floor, the woman turned and arched an eyebrow at him, still with the same smirk.
"So?" ________
>>”Something wrong Mrs…? You looked confused? Can I help you with something?”
"Huh?..." Maya blinked at the dashing man who came over to put a hand on her shoulder. She shivered.
"Miss. Not Mrs." she muttered, feeling her cheeks turn hot. Did I just swoon? No way in hell.
Why do all the beautiful ones have to be guys?...
"I'm fine" she muttered, then "Maybe... I just need some air."
Right. Stay on the mission. She needed to see more of the mansion. Exits. Rooms. Back doors. Corridors. Kitchens. Bedrooms...
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 6, 2011 21:50:34 GMT -6
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”So?” Sam mirrored and stepped in towards Ruby and pulled her close to him till she was close enough to dance. His hand located at the small of her back Sam smiled and lifted his hand up for her to take. His eye shifting towards the high class around him he continued to look for Maya to make sure she wasn’t in any trouble and the way his stomach was dropping when he noticed that there was about a dozen men looking at him. They were looks of jealously no doubt for dancing with Ruby but they were the least of his concern, yes even though he was with the best looking woman in this half of the globe but he was busy looking for another.
”So I take it they are looking at you right?” Sam asked in a mocked tone as he started to move and sway like the other dancers all round them. His body turned and his eye shifted attention from Ruby to the crowds and then back to Ruby. She really did have pretty eyes. Blinking his one eye and shifting it back to the crowd he spotted Maya in her dress with a red face; even from where he was standing he could tell they were red. Sam turned and lost her as Ruby grabbed at his attention again.
He saw her for a second what was she doing and who was the guy she was with and why was her face red? It wasn’t anything immediately wrong he didn’t notice a crowd around them so he didn’t really feel the need to leave just yet, but right after the song was over he’d reluctantly have to let go of his dance partner.
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”Let me escort you outside, I think I’ll join you it is far too loud in here anyways,” lied Louis as he grabbed her hand and brought it up and kissed it before he turned and gave her hand a small tug as he led her towards a large windowed door that was closed due to the weather. Making his way out he spotted a few of his co-workers who rolled their eyes as they saw Louis take another woman somewhere.
Once the exited the room Louis turned to the woman and smiled, ”That’s better…” he paused and removed his jacket revealing a slightly pit stained white shirt under his jacket he now handed to the woman, ”It’s a bit chilly out here.... and I don’t think I got your name…”
>>”So? So I take it they are looking at you right?”
"They are looking at us" Ruby whispered with a smile, and swayed with him; once they got into the rhythm of the dance, her moves got bolder, yet still graceful, and she pulled on him just enough to make him dance for real, and still have the feeling that he was the one who lead her. The music seemed to grow a tad louder; the other couples danced too, twirling around them. Ruby smiled, looking into his eye, and her mile seemed to glow and they were swept up in the flow of the dance.
****
>>”Let me escort you outside, I think I’ll join you it is far too loud in here anyways,”
He kissed her hand ('they don't make men like that anymore', thought Maya, 'I gotta do that more often', thought Gawain), and Maya really, really couldn't say no to that. He was working for the big boss, so she did well to lure him outside, right? Maybe she could find out more information they could use for the mission. Yes.
>>”That’s better… It’s a bit chilly out here.... and I don’t think I got your name…”
She took the jacket; it was chilly out there. It was winter, for heaven's sake. And her dress was not exactly warm. She smiled at the guy. What a pity he was the enemy, he really looked handsome... Maya took a deep breath of the fresh, cold air, and she seemed to regain some of her senses. Focus. That's good.
"Marya" she answered with a charming smile, holding her hand out once again "A pleasure to meet you, mister...?"
Posted by Cold Steel on May 12, 2011 16:04:59 GMT -6
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”Us?” Sam asked curiously his attention drifting back to Ruby with a smile on his face as she pulled him closer and the dancing drew more of his attention. His eye locked with hers for a moment and Sam gazed into them oblivious to the surrounding area, oblivious to the security guards all getting a call and oblivious to Maya walking outside with the man she was with. ”You have beautiful eyes…” Sam stated his mind trailing off as his eye started to memorize her facial features.
Sam’s grip around Ruby’s hand tightened as he pulled her closer to him until the smell of her hair tickled his nostrils as the movements of the dance started to keep his mind wandering. Up until he spotted a suit off in the corner point at them to one of his buddies. His heart sank and he suddenly started to notice that a handful more of suits in the background were looking in his direction with their jet-black sunglasses pointed at him. Pretending not to notice Sam closed his eye momentarily and tried to focus on his thoughts and the plans he had gone over with Maya and what they should do if separated.
The plan was simple if something should happen and Sam did managed to get separated the best way to go about the plan was for Maya to mirror jump till she found him. If finding him wasn’t an option the mission still needed to be carried out, only after calling an emergency line that Sam had set up with Amanda. However calling Amanda was the last thing Sam wanted Maya to do even if he something happened to him. -------
Sam was here, that was all Louis needed to hear to set him on edge, Sam was a name he couldn’t forget he after all did happen to free him after the company switched management. He was a T.A.T. agent who went rouge and his files, which Louis had seen personally had been blacked out for the most part he remembered the face and all the missions that had line after line in blacked covered.
Louis shuddered ignoring the earpiece seeing as he wasn’t running the show and then looked back to Mayra, ”It is a bit nippy out here…” Louis said as his gaze shifted from Mayra to the entrance back to the ballroom only for a moment however. Snapping it back he took hand gently and turned it over and kissed it once again glad his mutation was becoming more effective outside. ”My name is Louis and your name, Mayra is a beautiful one.”
His yellow pointed teeth showed themselves again and he stood up fully hearing the music coming from inside the ballroom, which was dulled due to the distance. Snow was gently falling down to the already white landing. A flake of snow kissed Mayra’s cheek and Louis lifted his hand and gently placed his thumb on it brushing the flake away, ”Care to dance?”
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The security in the back started to move some shifted towards him others shifted towards the major exits, wondering how he was discovered or even if he was in fact discovered Sam continued to dance while looking out for exits that were not blocked. Sam’s eye twitched as he found a hallway unblocked, it was too easy no doubt they were trying to lure him down there… Sam mentally sighed and tried to think the best way to handle the situation. A direct assault to fight his way anywhere would result in some kind of injury to someone who didn’t deserve to be injured… like Ruby. The last thing he wanted.
Ruby smiled a brilliant smile, and they danced. The music grew louder, or just more powerful, it was hard to tell the difference, but something was happening. She smiled, and looked into his eyes, and danced, pulling him with her, and around and around and around they went, whether he wanted to or not. She was like a magnet, like the gravity of Earth keeping the Moon orbiting around her.
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>>”It is a bit nippy out here… My name is Louis and your name, Mayra is a beautiful one.”
"Marya" Maya corrected him by instinct; she spent so much time practicing the name not to slip that it came naturally now, almost as her own. As a gender-shifter, she was used to being conscious of her/his names anyway. He kissed her hand; she shivered. Yes, it was nippy out here indeed...
>>”Care to dance?”
"Sure" she nodded, glad to go back inside from the cold; it did not clear her head as much as she hoped. She needed to find Sam. So, she looked at the man for a long moment as he brushed her cheek, and then walked inside with him, handing the coat back to him as she looked around for Sam. Maybe he was dancing...
Posted by Cold Steel on Jun 10, 2011 20:05:42 GMT -6
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Sam’s feet kept moving even though he wanted to slow, the faster his dancing partner went he seemed to follow, no longer was he leading but he was following. Sam tried to create a little more distance between him and Ruby but it had little success, sure she was beautiful but his body as of now wasn’t responding exactly the way he wanted, which for the moment wasn’t his biggest concern so as his feet continued to move and his hips continued it’s momentum around and around his eyes fixed on the crowd pointing out every guard in the immediate area.
Two were blocking the south exit to the rest rooms while one was stationed near the closest window and three were stationed at the buffet table. Sam’s eyebrow lowered slightly the main entrance now had five guards, before it was just three. That was something he should have picked up on a while ago. His eye shifted to Ruby and he smiled, ”Is it just me or is it getting a little warmer in here?” he paused for a moment before he continued, ”What say we take our dance outside where there are less eyes on us,” he paused, ”Or would you prefer a drink?”
He was trying to get out of everyone’s immediate view, off to the side maybe where it was still crowded, yet wasn’t packed full of people that could possibly become a casualty. He was spotted now, he was sure of it, recognized on the other hand he wasn’t so sure. If the gaze of the guards continued he was going to have to find a way to escape them. Outside would be his best bet.
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The young thing was attempting to fight, not that she had much of a chance. It just meant she had someone she cared for that’s what it always meant, no matter she’d break eventually. Louis’s earpiece crackled again with a radio transmission that made the sharp yellow canines stick out more than before. Turns out he should have taken charge after all at least this way the uninvited guest could have been handled with already. Tough the methods that were taking place did seem to remain unnoticeable for the most part.
He never did like the sneaking, he preferred to be blunt, which sometimes meant trouble, but when you had a handful of armed attack dogs behind you it often turned out well.
Once he walked inside he took the coat from Mayra and handed it to a guard and continued on in towards the dance floor where he saw him. The eye patch was a nice touch but the facial features and figure of the body was easily recognized to one as experienced as him.
Watching the woman Sam was dancing with Louis smirked and then took Mayra by the hand. Working his way through the crowd and towards the dance floor he lifted her hand kissed it and pulled her in close to join Sam, and a few others on the dance floor. Now all Louis had to do now is just sit back and keep an eye out for the entertainment.
>>”Is it just me or is it getting a little warmer in here? What say we take our dance outside where there are less eyes on us. Or would you prefer a drink?”
The woman was not even breaking a sweat as they turned, then turned again. She seemed to be enjoying herself, even though her eyes were cold as ice.
"I am fine" she purred as they danced; she seemed to draw him closer to the guards with every step. "It is warm in here, though. I like the heat."
And they danced.
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Maya was pulled to the dancing floor, and even though she was occupied with looking for Sam, she couldn't help the small shiver that ran down her spine when the Louis drew her close. Damn that man and his irresistible charm. Was that how other women felt around Sam?...
Talking about Sam: there he was. Dancing with a decidedly hot woman. Go figure. He should have been focusing on the mission. Maya should have been focusing on the mission too.
Mission. Mirrors. Right.
"Excuse me for a moment" Maya said with the additional blush "I need to visit the bathroom." she untangled herself, then glanced back up at him "Do not go anywhere while I'm gone, all right?"
Posted by Cold Steel on Aug 14, 2011 22:28:05 GMT -6
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The pull kept him attached to Ruby; there was a pull now no matter how much he wanted to stop he couldn’t. The pull for the most part went unnoticed however as it was chalked up to a momentum that was created due to the current movements. His heart beat as adrenaline started to take hold. His pupil dilated slightly as he checked from suit to suit who were all staring at him. It was now clear that his cover was blown and that he only had one option and that was to leave after creating a disturbance of some kind. What that was Sam still didn’t know which one would be the best idea for the location.
His eye fixed on windows, it was snowing out there, not strongly but with a little motivation the snow could become a problem. He turned with his dance partner and his head locked on a large ice swan, cliché yes but that might have been a better distraction. All he had to do now was… his blue eye found his date being escorted in by a raggedy man that had no business dancing with Maya. He turned again and Maya was heading away from the dance floor as the man who had recently kissed her hand was now staring at Sam.
She was walking away; good she didn’t need to be here for this. Once Maya was out of sight Sam’s eye focused back on the swan, which was now shaking from the table till it fell and shattered. It was the distraction he needed. A few of the suits turned their head but before Sam could fully register what had happened next it was too late. He was moving on his own away from the group towards the hallway that had no guards his feet still twisting and turning towards the empty hallway that was now becoming a bit to crowded with a few guards and the guy that had become acquainted with Maya.
”Can I help you lot?” Sam asked still turning in the hallway even though the music hardly made it into the hallway. His eye trying to lock on those that had joined them with little luck.
Maya walked without hurrying towards the bathroom. She had to look calm. Even if some of the suits in the room recognized her as Sam's plus one, in most cases plus ones were only decoration, an accessory that no one should worry about. So Maya flipped her hair, smoothed her dress, and tried her best to look glamourous and stupid. It worked.
Once in the bathroom, she checked her reflecion in the mirror. She really felt pretty tonight. She was not into guys at all, but still, being appreciated by one with undeniable charm... Brown eyes narrowed as she looked at herself. Something was not right.
"Charm?..."
Shaking her head, Maya looked around to make sure no one was watching before she merged into the mirror, and started walking.
Files. She had to find the files Sam told her about, and be quick about it. Slipping from mirror to another, she mostly saw empty rooms, since most people were donwstairs, dancing and drinking and networking. Every once in a while she saw movement, so she quickly moved on, always ready to borrow someone's reflection if she needed to hide.
One empty room after another. Where do these people keep their files?...
*****
Ruby pressed a light kiss to Sam's cheek before she let him go and stepped back.
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 4, 2011 12:30:39 GMT -6
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“Thanks.” Sam said to Ruby as she kissed him on the cheek, “Never have worked between us though, and thanks but no thanks I’m not particularly interested in dancing with your friend Louis.” Sam said as he noticed his feet had stopped moving once Ruby let him go, his lone eye fixed on the shaggy guy who stepped forward with elongated canines and Sam nodded his head, “You must be Louis?” Sam took a step backwards and felt the heat from a few of the suits behind him.
Sam recognized Louis from seeing him with Maya moments before, glad that she was out of his sight Sam raised his hands up, “So is this the part where your men jump me or would you prefer a chase first?” Sam asked curiously as Louis grinned showing more teeth than before. The air was cold for a moment then Sam felt the two men behind him step forward. They slipped on some ice that formed under their feet and just like that Sam managed to instigate a chase for Louis and the suits hopefully long enough for Maya to find the files.
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Twenty minutes passed and after searching a few rooms (poorly and quickly) Sam managed to get captured, sure he could have prevented the capture but he had something about hitting women and he was surprised to see Ruby again, what was more surprising was she was naked when he saw her which was why he was too distracted to notice the stun gun she had near her person. Seriously Sam needed to stop letting his guard down around women.
Opening his eye after taking a bucket of cold water to the face Sam coughed and found himself changed to the wall. “Kinky… chains aren’t really my thing…” Sam smirked slightly as Louis stepped out from the shadows into a light that was above Sam. A classic interrogation through torture set up. “Pretty face indeed hides an evil mind.” Sam said shaking his head slightly brushing off the daze. A laugh in the background echoed, “Good to see you still retained your charm Sam, In fact I was worried you wouldn’t have fallen for Ruby’s charm.”
“You know me Gideon” Sam said looking at his predicament and raising his hands up to hold onto the chains that were keeping him to the wall, “You know me.” he lifted himself up slightly, “I like hanging around,” Sam’s feet dangled and he realized one of the suits must have took the liberty to place a few beatings about his person to prevent Sam from moving to much.
“So where do we go from here?” Sam asked as he noticed Louis rolling a cart from the shadows as Gideon moved forward, “Is that a golf cart battery?”
Who needs more than one office in his f*** house?! Maya was pretty sure she was not going around in circles, and she still did not find the right one. Most rooms had nice big mirrors, god bless snobbish rich people, but it still felt like a maze. And Maya had no clue where to look.
"Where would I hide files if I was a rich evil ahole?..." she muttered, shifting through a stack of papers on a desk "Cmoncmoncmon..."
"Looking for something, luv?"
Maya looked up. In the door there was one of the suits, with a cocky smile and no apparent weapon. He obviously judged the book by the cover, or, in this case, the X-man by the pretty dress. Which, kind of, made sense. What stupid superhero would go on a mission in heels and skirts? Come on.
"Yeeeaaaah.... no, I was just, kinda, looking around... got kinda bored of the dancing." Maya said with a charming smile, walking around the desk to sit on top of the papers. The suit came closer. Maya decided she would not touch the guy with a ten foot pole. Hitting him over the head, on the other hand...
"Are you sure you were not looking for something?... Or maybe someone?"
He kept coming closer. Maya crossed her legs. Gracefully. And smiled. And kept smiling.
When he was close enough, she headbutted him. Gracefully.
Posted by Cold Steel on Dec 22, 2011 15:47:15 GMT -6
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His body tensed up again, his teeth chattered shut and the veins on his forehead bulged. He let out a small grunt and then he felt the electricity cease again. It was the third time now and his nose started to bleed again where Gideon had one of his goons pop him in the face for being what he called a ‘smug ass’. “As far as I know T.A.T.M.A.H. was disbanded and all the agents went under but here we are. You and I, me working for pretty much myself and then your working for?”
He was bating Sam, it was obvious Gideon knew Sam wasn’t here on his own accord in fact from the things Gideon had been saying for the last few minutes Sam was surprised he was even bothering with the small talk. He wanted Amanda, it was obvious to Sam he was fishing for the name but due to circumstances Sam wasn’t at the liberty to discuss the situation he was in with Amanda. It wasn’t that he wouldn’t sell her out, he’d have now problem doing that. In fact Sam wanted to her name brushing the top of his thoughts and dancing on the tip of his tongue. But he knew she’d stick to her threat. The kids at the mansion were in danger and Sam wasn’t about tot put them in harms way.
”Why don’t you tell me what your doing here and who you are with or working for and then I can have Louis here stop playing with you?” Sam shook his head, ”and ruin his fun?” Sam said through a little sniffle trying to prevent more blood from trailing out of his nose. ”Sides I’m not really working for anyone, more a personal goal of mine to undermine your operations here what ever they are.” Sam smirked and Gideon frowned, ”And why would you want to do that?” Sam let out a small laugh and then shrugged pulling on the chains latched around his arms as Louis took a step forward with the cables attached to the battery. ”Haters, gonna hate.” Sam said simply as he shot his foot out and kicked Louis in the face with the ball of his foot managing to feel a small crack under his foot.
It was lazy on their part, event though his legs were beaten he still had enough strength to kick someone walking towards him. Louis let out a snarl and Gideon stepped forward before Louis could attack. Sam felt a sharp pain in his arm and he swung to one side. His arm was dislocated from behind and he let out a loud grunt his teeth grinding under the pressure his jaw put on them. ”This is getting us nowhere, Louis take him to a cell and keep him in one piece.” Louis growled and Sam found himself being lowered to the ground before he started to fade out of consciousness.