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.
>>"Ze whole operation isn't bad just because they might have some idea that are bad. Zey just need someone to stand up to zem every now and again to say no when no needs to be said. I'm not carrying ze world."
Yes he was. And he was being so grown up about it. Sveta held his hands and watched him as he spoke. If it was true that he really had been grown up once before... she could catch half a glimpse of that now. He was good. Not a good kid, just... good.
>>"You make me want to be a better person, Svetty."
Awww.
He brushed a lock of hair behind her ear. Sveta smiled a special smile for him.
"You are a better person" she said, resisting the urge to ruffle his hair "You are a great person, Jude."
Leaning down, still smiling, she kissed him on the forehead.
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No. He wasn't. She didn't know the half of it. How pissed would she be if she knew that he had done this, the dinner and everything, all for a kiss? He shook his head at the curious look in Svetlana's eyes.
> "You are a great person, Jude."
He felt so guilty. This was his moment. These were words he had wanted her to say. She was even leaning down, lips first. He wanted to squirm away but he sat still like a condemned man anxious for the axe.
If the world lay still and quiet like a placid lake, Svetlana's kiss was a drop that sent ripples throughout everything. Her lips made contact with his forehead and it felt like a lance went through his brain starting at the point of contact between them. He froze, absolutely rigid with his eyes unfocused.
He felt a singularity that he had never felt before. Like everything was one or like he had stepped outside of time for a moment and was looking at everything all at once.
He felt invigorated and invigorating.
Jude breathed a shuddering breath, unaware of how long he had been holding it all in and closed his eyes. When he opened them again, Svetlana was there. He felt everything all at once. Happy and sad, guilty and vindicated, excited and strangely calm. "You did it." He touched his forehead where the faintest sensation still lingered. Somewhere deep down, he hadn't thought she would. He had hoped, but... with how badly dinner had gone... "Why did you do zat?"
He was a mutant now. He knew from Future Sight that he wasn't a telepath, but not even the Oracle knew what his genes would settle on. All his futures had been so varied. He felt jittery. Giddy, almost. Hyper activity? Well that was a sucky power.
Svetlana pulled back to look at Jude with a smile. He looked... dazed. Shining eyes, blush, the whole deal. She chuckled.
"Because you are sweet that's wh..."
And then, Svetlana got hit by her own powers.
Her eyes widened in confusion as a familiar wave of her own aura washed over her senses. She was used to the constant coffee buzz that kept her awake night and day, but this felt different - it was not coming from her. Growing stronger with every heartbeat, it made her head spin.
"What... no."
No no no no NO. Jude couln't. He wasn't. He didn't. He was.
Sveta covered her mouth with her hands as she stared at the boy. One thousand coffee shots were drumming in her ears.
I did it again.
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Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jul 23, 2011 9:46:04 GMT -6
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It was spaghetti night, and Kealey hummed as she set the garlic bread on the table and sat down across from Shin to eat. Spaghetti night was wonderful, especially when there was parmesan cheese…which there simply had to be.
Something about sitting at the table with Shin, and eating dinner while Thor chomped happily on his crunchies in the background just emanated such a feeling of happiness and warmth that it was almost Kealey’s favorite part of the day. At least until she thought about other parts of the day that were equally as awesome. All in all…days were pretty awesome these days.
It made it easy to ignore the other emotions in the small apartment building. Sure they were there, in the back of her head, they never really went away. They were distant right now, though, and Kealey wasn’t thinking about them. She was thinking about eating and chatting, and figuring out what else they were going to do. Maybe she’d bug Shin to start working on driving with her…or maybe she’d see if they could go flying. It was going to be a clear evening.
All those things were in the front of Kealey’s mind…until they weren’t. Suddenly…those emotions who had been nestled quietly in the back of her head, changed. Sharpened somehow. The blond blinked at a clatter, and looked down to see that she’d dropped her fork on to the plate. This was strange, Kealey felt like she’d just finished a really large coffee with lots of sugar. Her eyebrows drew together, and she tried to figure out what was going on.
The emotions, Kealey focused on them. Two people at least, one was full of a bit of wonder, excitement, hyperactivity and a wash of other things that cancelled each other out. The other was shocked, and maybe even a little scared.
Kealey looked over at Shin, then down the hallway in the direction the emotions were coming from.
”Shin…we need to check this out.” she said, thoughts slightly muddled by emotions that weren’t her own. ”Something is wrong.” she added, already rising from her chair and heading for the door.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jul 27, 2011 20:57:34 GMT -6
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Silverware clattered. Kealey had dropped her fork.
Thor looked up from his food dish at the people. Suddenly, they seemed more excited than before. More aware. Dogs can sense these sorts of things. Something had put them off ease.
Kealey was worried. Shin was worried, because Kealey was worried. He felt like he'd just drank a load of soda pop, and couldn't keep his feet still. His eyes were widened. His heart, racing slightly.
The blond rose, and the Asian followed suit, pushing his chair in as he went after her.
"What's this feeling? That has come over me...?" He asked.
He was worried, for Kealey. Worried about what she had sensed happening. What had happened? What would they find? And why did he have this feeling of foreboding?
Jude was on his feet on his chair in an instant. How could he possibly explain. How could she possibly know that what she had done was a good thing? That now he could be helpful… and that now he couldn't touch her.
But he wanted to.
Jude reached out to catch hold of Svetlana's arm to gently draw her hands away from her mouth. He felt so… conflicted. Sad and relieved and happy and guilty. He couldn't possibly process all of it.
"Svetlana… Are you…" Okay? That was possibly the stupidest question he could have asked. He tried again. "Can you feel zat?"
He didn't even know what he was. This was so risky even just being here, but for the moment he shoved those concerns aside. It didn't matter. She had kissed him. Of her own free will. His heart just couldn't seem to slow down. In fact, when they touched it only seemed to speed up.
Jude drew her hand toward his chest and placed it over his speeding heart. Could she feel that?
There was no way he could ever hope to kiss her pouty, perfect lips. She would never allow that from him until he was a man, he was sure. So instead, he drew her hand up to his lips. Such a simple and old fashioned gesture.
He kissed her hand and thought his heart might stop.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jul 30, 2011 13:16:27 GMT -6
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Shin was following her, but Kealey couldn’t make herself pay attention. Something was making her jittery, like all of her nerve endings were buzzing. She could almost hear the sound, and the emotions that were going along with it were getting more and more frantic as she locked on to them. She felt like she should be bouncing off the walls, but instead Kealey felt hyper focused on what she could feel. Out of the apartment she went, and down the hall, socked feet quiet on the floor as she approached Ghost and Sebastian’s place.
“It’s in here….” she mumbled, almost to herself as she reached out a tentative hand towards the door. It was unlocked and swung open easily on its hinges to reveal the scene inside.
There was a blond there, and she looked startled and shocked. She was startled and shocked, she was also a little…scared? What was wrong? Her eyes swung to the other figure in the room.
”Jude?” Kealey said, standing in the doorway and wondering if this was what a lightning rod felt like during a thunderstorm.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jul 30, 2011 13:50:45 GMT -6
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When he'd followed Kealey, Shin had been hyper. His power had worked as usual. As his eyes moved across his grid of vision, he saw objects, judged distances, and took numbers in. Everything converted nicely, quickly, and at his own pace.
As Kealey reached the door, things proceeded as normal.
As the door opened and New York in its entirety got hit with a jolt of java, things got confusing.
It wasn't that Shin's powers were affected in any way, whatsoever. They weren't. Everything proceeded as normal. Really. But what didn't was how jumpy he was. How his eyes flicked from place to place in the room faster than he was used to. How he felt the need to switch targets, to be unfocused. To notice the ceiling, the furniture, the people, the ceiling, the furniture, Kealey, the furniture, Kealey, and Jude with a back and forth, 'hop from target to target', glance. There was a gait to his gaze, and his mind didn't quite want to keep up with it. It was the type of thing that happened usually, when too many things in the world were moving around. It was why he had scaled down his usage of shards, focusing more on one task, rather than twenty... on summoning shard armor or shard cubes, rather than a storm of razors. Too much rapid-calculation too fast had the bad side effect of making him woozy.
A woozy Shin was an unhappy Shin. Shin was very woozy. Shinny Woozy was aware that Shinny Woozy was very woozy. Wasn't he?
He was.
Shin found the wall of the room, and sank back against it, closing his eyes so he could focus. He was just too damn hyper. 'Hey, look over here! Stuff!' 'Hey, look over there! More stuff!' 'Things!' It was all too much.
"What's happening, Kealey?" Shin muttered, in a tone that made it sound like any moment, he'd get sick. "Get them to stop. Whatever. It is that's making me spin." He slapped a hand over his eyes and stifled an 'urp'.
Crushed. Jude felt absolutely crushed by her adamant insistence that he not touch her.
She was the love of his life. His sun, moon and stars. Every romantic thought he reserved for this woman alone. He tried to draw in breath to say something that would take the betrayal out of her eyes. He never thought that he would miss being a human so much or so soon. The ease with which she used to touch him contrasted sharply with this new modus operandi.
The door opened and Jude saw one of his favorite people walk in. "Kealey!" His heavy heart lifted ever so slightly. Kealey would know just what to do! She wouldn't make fun of his tears or the guilt of betrayal or the utter sense of loss or the love. She wouldn't make fun of them because she would feel them too. She would feel exactly how real and cutting they were to him.
Svelana had found her way to a chair. Jude found his way to Kealey. He launched himself into her arms.
"I wanted to be a mutant, but I didn't want zis!" As soon as he had his hug, the jittering feeling in his chest started to slide away. Kealey was awesome like that.
There were people in the room. Sveta's head was spinning, but she turned to look, afraid it was the police, or someone who decided to kidnap her for her powers, or...
... oh no. Not Jude. Never Jude. She would NOT let them take him. For her powers. Not ever. No sir.
By the time she stood to confront whoever burst through the door, Jude was running past her throwing himself at the other blonde.
... men.
The guy who followed sank down and looked sick, and Sveta had no idea what was going on.
"It will pass" she said in a hurry "It will pass it will pass. It is my ability, if you do not touch me it will pass. Jude just... I just kissed him... he is a mutant, I tink, he has my powers... just... it will be over soon."
She sank back onto the chair.
"... I shouldn't touch mutants." she muttered, defeated.
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Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jul 30, 2011 15:08:22 GMT -6
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There was a soft impact of a small-person running into her, and Kealey’s brain took a second to catch up to what was happening. Jude wanted to be a mutant, but didn’t want what had happened? The emotions in the room were significant…and Shin was sick. He was confused, and Kealey was confused. Out of instinct she hugged the boy, patting his back a little awkwardly as he confided in her.
The other blond was freaking out. She was saying something to Shin, but Kealey was having a hard time concentrating on the words. The emotions, they were like an approaching train. Something was building…and it felt so heavy.
Too heavy. Her hands stopped patting and hugging and fisted in the fabric of the boy’s suit.
Suddenly, it wasn’t just the room they were in, but more. Much, much more, and Kealey could feel it all at once, sharply. More sharply than she’d ever felt before. Suddenly she was everything in the room at once, worried, devastated, confused…and more, so much more. Then same was true for the next room, and the next, and the next…all the way to the next building. In every room, every emotion in every person in the blonde’s normal range, was amped up into crystal clear clarity and impossible to ignore. Not just vague, moveable impressions, but a barrage. Kealey couldn’t find the separation between herself and everything else. She was lost. Random words and babbled sounds escaped her as she tried to explain what was going on. She couldn’t react, didn’t know how to react. There were too many different emotions pulling her in too many directions. To say it was overwhelming was an understatement.
Suddenly, legs like jelly, Kealey sank towards the floor, hands releasing Jude’s clothes and going to her head as if they could hold on and root her to the spot before she was carried away in the flood of emotion. It felt like she was losing the battle. It was too much. Much, much, much too much.
“What’s…happening?” she managed in a voice that hardly sounded like her own.
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It would pass. But what was it? Her ability!? No touching? Jude. Kissing!? Her powers? TINK!??!
She shouldn't touch mutants...
"You shouldn't touch minors..." He muttered sadly, right back at her.
Like a rubber band, his mind snapped! Away from the distraction that was a witty one-liner to a saddened damsel in distress, over to a more important damsel in distress! He couldn't see without opening his eyes to see her. That... tended to be the usual way of the world, actually. He needed to see. Even if it caused discomfort, or even pain.
Shin opened his eyes.
The whole world was woobly. Woobly wasn't even a word, but it fit. Wobbly. Woozy.
Kealey was on the floor. Jude was there. Why was Kealey on the floor!?
Shin didn't care that the whole world was woobly. Didn't care that some woman had kissed Jude and ripped the world in two. Kealey was babbling, and cringing, and she needed his help!
Like a knight in shining armor, he braved the wavering world around him to come to her side. In his mind, it was like leaping over hurdles and pillars of falling rock. In reality, it was only a few feet. He reached her.
Shin hugged Kealey.
Last time. Last time. His emotions had helped calm her mind. He cupped her face and kissed her. In the moments leading up to the hug and the kiss, he just might have shoved Jude on his butt and out of the way. Just might have. If he had, it was the Frenchman's own fault for getting too close to his gal.
If Jude thought that he had crazy feelings before, hugging Kealey brought on a whole new whammy. As he expected, the woman calmed his jitters. But as the jitters slipped away, Jude started to feel worse. Less energetic, more sad and happy and confused and focused and heartbrokendevistatedoverjoyedsurprisedelated—
A hand caught his shoulder and Jude was on the ground. Kealey was on the ground too, but they were no longer touching. In fact, Jude had the distinct impression that he had been shoved backward.
"I—" He breathed the words and clutched his head. His dark hair stuck out between his fingers at odd angles. "I didn't do it."
And then they were making out. Seriously. This was too much.
All of everything that was assaulting his chest and heart started to slide away. Jude was on his feet and flinging the front door open to escape by the time he felt like a normal kid again.
By the time Jude was getting to the ground floor, his vision was starting to go griddy. No. Really. It was starting to look like an 80's arcade game overlaid his sight. His mutation was seriously out of control.
Was that really his biggest problem right now?! Sveta blinked at the guy in disbelief as the other blonde collapsed. That was just so... American? Jude got shoved out of the way as the guy crawled over to the girl who was obviously his girlfriend, and obviously a mutant, since she did not look so well after being touched by Jude.
"Hold on, it will pass." she muttered again, not sure what she should do and trying to stay as far away from the three of them as she could.
>>"I— I didn't do it."
"No, Jude, you..."
And then he ran.
"Dammit" Muse carefully walked around the couple in the doorway and then ran after Jude. She would not let him run away like that. He was confused and his brand new power was messing with his mind.
"JUDE! Stop, don't go!" she called after him as she ran down the stairs. She did not dare grab him, it would only make things worse, but she ran none the less. "Jude! Please!"
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