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 Kealey Shinbo on Aug 9, 2011 13:05:57 GMT -6
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It wasn’t getting better, it was getting worse. Kealey stayed where she was on the floor, hands gripping her hair now as the emotions rolled through her in a constant wave of…everything. The emotions that she’d worked so hard over the years to learn to compartmentalize into their own little bubbles were all melding together into one giant bubble…
It was too much. The words had almost become a mantra, and the blond could feel the build-up inside the bubble, threatening to pop, it hurt. She had to find something to do, something to help, before her head tore itself apart.
She was still babbling, and there were tears, and she was frustrated. Who was even still there? Where was Shin? She couldn’t pick out one person from the conglomeration she was dealing with, so when his arms wrapped around her, she was startled, then she clung to him like her life depended on it.
Shin’s feelings were familiar to Kealey, more familiar than anything else in the world, and she was used to feeling them at proximity. But not like this.
As Shin cupped her face, Kealey gasped a little. The normal feelings were there, but with a sense of fluidity that was completely foreign. Her already taxed brain couldn’t process it at the moment, but something about the fluidity suggested…
Shin kissed her and the world melted, like a big melted pile of goop. Like that it was easy, so easy, just to push the emotions away. The tension lifted, and Kealey sighed against Shin’s lips. It was bearable now. She could think. The splitting headache reduced itself to a dull throb. But where had all the emotions gone?
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So scared. She was so scared. He held her. And then...
Something happened. Something foreign. This wasn't how things usually were. This wasn't how they went.
Once upon a time, he'd dealt with a sensory overload like this. It had come out in his head like a song. A crazy, inexplicable musical number. This was one of those situations.
At first he was afraid. He was petrified...
Then he was another emotion. Another. And another. Happy. Sad. Grumpy. Mad. Bored. Intrigued. Concentrating harder than could have been humanly possible.
No. Wait. That was a misnomer. He hadn't been one of those, then the other. He'd been all of them at once. It was like looking at the numbers on a grid and seeing each individual point for what it was. Except... NOT! It was hard to describe, really. And as his mind grasped, as he tried to lift or parse something from the emotions that danced like numbers in the foreground of his mind... everything got to be too much.
Shin flopped forwards, slumping against Kealey's shoulder. Unconscious.
Then started the crazy dreams. The crazy, wonderful, mixed up emotion-filled dreams. They were stranger than the usual strange that occupied his dreams.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 9, 2011 21:27:19 GMT -6
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Shin was there, and they were kissing, and all of the emotions that had been building inside of Kealey seemed to have drained away. In fact, it was oddly quiet in the empath’s head. Too quiet, she was almost numb with the lack of emotion, and it took her a moment to regain her balance. Her hands unclenched from her hair, the dull throb of her scalp joining the throbbing in her head, and things slowly started to slide back into focus.
Just in time for Shin to slump forward against her. Suddenly it made sense. Where had the emotions gone when the world had felt so fluid and Shin had been kissing her? They’d gone to him. How had that happened…that wasn’t something Kealey could do…was it?
“Shin?” Kealey said, worry liberally lacing her voice as he leaned against her. Gently, Kealey maneuvered Shin so he was laying in her lap and checked for vitals. Shin was breathing, and his pulse seemed steady…that didn’t mean anything though. If Kealey had pushed all of those emotions on him...the blond winced, remembering what it had been like for her.
”Shin…please wake up. I’m sorry…I didn’t mean to…” she said, shaking him a little. The numbness was fading now, and emotions were filtering back into the forefront of Kealey’s mind. Chief among them was worry, followed by regret. What had she done?
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Aug 13, 2011 18:50:54 GMT -6
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Sweet dreams were made of these. Who was he to disagree? Emotions. So many. Flowing through the city, like strands of music, weaving in and around buildings. But they weren't one strand. It was many. And it wasn't like many strings, but rather pinpricks. Needles of emotion. Those were the people. Standing like stick figures and looking to the heavens. Slowly, the stick figures started to dance.
Dancing can convey everything. Pain, joy, anger, whatever. Each stick figure's dance conveyed who they were. Not just what they were feeling, but how they were feeling it at a given moment. How they felt and how they reacted. Each person's dance was unique.
Shin was very good at compartmentalizing, and at assigning words and images to ideas, but try as he might, he could not fully understand all the dancing. It was beautiful. It was harsh. It was real.
Kealey called Shin's name, and in his dream, a new pinprick made itself visible. This one, he gave a face. Slowly, Shin tried to understand her dance.
Outside of the dream, Shin shifted, but did not wake, nor say a word.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 13, 2011 19:05:58 GMT -6
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He moved. Oh thank God. Catatonic people did not move. That meant he was just unconscious for the time being. Kealey rolled her eyes at herself, just unconscious. Shin was unconscious and she’d made him that way with whatever had happened when Jude hugged her.
Jude…where had Jude gone? And that blond woman who had been in the room when they’d gotten there? Kealey shook her head again, they didn’t matter.
”Shin? Come on Shin, you need to wake up.” Kealey struggled to figure out what to say…she knew how Shin felt, how overwhelming everything must be for him.
”Just find your own emotions and hold on to them. The rest is background noise. It’ll go away.” At least Keaely hoped it would go away.
What had she done? Suddenly, she wondered if she should be touching him, or if she was making things worse. Wasn’t that what had caused the problem in the first place? Pulling her hands back, Kealey looked down, eyes welling up slightly. ”Please wake up.”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Aug 22, 2011 20:08:54 GMT -6
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Why did everyone have to make such a big deal about a guy getting his sleep on? Sure, he looked unconscious, and sure, he was in a situation where he really should have been awake. Not asleep, or dreaming, or yawning sleepily and smacking his lips (which he was, and did, as Kealey neared tears, pleading). But hey. Apparently, he'd been super tired, and that just wouldn't do. If people really wanted to wake him, they'd just have to... shake him. Or smack him. Or pour icy cold water on his head.
Peoples emotions sure were interesting. He'd decided, after a time, that that's what the dances were. They sure weren't dances, that was certain. Too many variations. Although, to be fair, dancing had as much potential as the human mind could imagine. Emotions, Shin had decided. Are overwhelming. ... and dances weren't overwhelming, so.
Shin yawned. "Five more minutes..." He sighed. "Overwhelmed."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 22, 2011 20:15:46 GMT -6
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Shin…yawned, and spoke. Kealey nearly exclaimed with joy…then stared in slightly open mouthed surprise at what he said. He wanted five more minutes to…sleep. Because he was…overwhelmed. Well, the second part, Kealey could definitely understand. She knew what he was going through, she’d gone through it just a few minutes before. It had been too much for the blond and she’d been going through this since she was a kid. It didn’t matter…Shin was going to be fine. His brain wasn’t broken, she hadn’t killed him, or made him crazy, or anything like that.
Kealey breathed a sigh of relief and looked around Ghost and Sebastion’s apartment, wondering again where Jude and that strange blond had gone. Then she looked back down at Shin’s…sleeping form. What had happened? She wondered with a frown…and would it happen again?