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.
OOC: I agree, those nicknames are hysterical. Keep them up!
IC: Ted noticed that he began to get several looks from people as he ate more burgers, and shrugged. "I've always been a big eater. I just need to work it off, so I'll be back in the pool in a bit." The last of the moisture was beginning to dry now, it was almost time for him to be back in the pool. "Anyone going to join me?"
((ooc: *cracks knuckles* I'll see what I can do, Teddy-me-boy and Iris-me-Lady.))
Calley shuddered at the Bottomless Pit's sudden invitation to go swimming. "No thanks," he politely declined, eying the water suspiciously. "I've had my bath for the day."
It suddenly occurred to him that being unwilling to get in the water was a good way to get one's self tossed violently into the pool. He looked around, trying to keep the sudden rush of paranoia off his face as he downed his third burger. Arrgh-! Everyone here was bigger than him. Except Nika, but he didn't think the cat girl would toss her fellow cat mutie into the water. Gah-! And if Loch Ness Ted there decided to toss him in, he couldn't even fight back--he might (on an off-chance) land a good hit on the guy. Better to be wet than eaten. But not by much.
Deep breaths, Calley, he thought to himself, polishing off burger number four. I'm sure no one's thinking it but you.
Posted by gorgan01 on Jun 23, 2007 10:34:40 GMT -6
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As Calley refused his offer, Ted began thinking that he would be one of the best targets for lobbing into the pool. But he still had his burgers to finish, and he wanted to see if anyone felt like joining him in his fun and games. He downed his last couple of burgers, finally deciding that he should stop before he explodes. Better to soak people with water, as opposed to his insides. Then he spotted the watergun; it had been left near the pool. Ohh, so tempting... Tedbegan considering how difficult it would be to fill up the watergun without anyone noticing, then remembered the fate of the last guy to try using it. Maybe it was cursed? Either way, best to leave it alone. He'll settle for tossing someone in the pool, always much more fun.
"It's a pool party though. You have to get in the pool at some time, I just figured I'd do it right away."
He walked over to where Nika was sitting, and sat down beside her in the grass. He took a sip of his drink, but grimanced slightely. He could taste the pool water on the can, and aparently that didn't mix well with sprite.
Taking her plate, she set to eating her freshly made steak with relish and gusto. It wasn't often she had good barbeque, and it wasn't often she got to share it in the company of a good looking man who happened to seem to like her cooking. Smiling back, she had to fight a beaming look of pride as she saw the approval in Hunter's eyes.
"You look contemplative. What's on your mind?" asked Fiona, as she popped a couple of green shreds of lettuce in her mouth.
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jun 23, 2007 23:35:12 GMT -6
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Iris chuckled at Calley's remark, and the paranoid expression on his face. She stood up and ruffled his hair.
"Aw, c'mon Calley. You were doing fine earlier. Just need a bit of practice."
She walked over to the pool and sat down, sticking her feet in. A reflexive shiver went through her as the water chilled her. She glanced back and Ted and grinned at him.
"I'll still be amazed if you don't sick from all that meat. Or cramped up." She giggled quietly. "Just be sure to point it that-a-way." She motioned away from the rest of the party.
She slipped back into the water, and headed for her now-favorite-spot under the waterfall, passing several 'Abysses' along the way. She paused along the way to retrieve a few of the floating cans and set them on the edge of the pool near Nika, Kesuk and Nail.
"Shame on you Nail! Littering the pool like that," she teased, and winked at Nika mischeiviously.
(OOC: As this is in fanfic I don’t mind everyone getting a bit creeped out by Hunter, but just for the record, he has had four hundred years to perfect acting completely normal. So if I meet you in the main boards please don’t be creeped out unless I’m doing something creepy (say, sucking someone’s blood) or you’re telepathic and can sense my true motives.)
Hunter turned back to Fiona. “I’m just wondering why everyone else seems to be keeping their distance from me. Have I done something to offend them?” He was beginning to wonder if any of them could read his mind.
If that was the case he could have a serious problem. So far he had killed every telepath he had met to keep his secret, and if he had to kill someone here he would have to kill all of them, and that would be no easy feat.
A single red giant looked like they’d be a challenge, but seven of them… not to mention the boy Ted who apparently unless killed in a single strike transformed into some sort of raging monster.
While Fiona was physically capable by human standards, she should be little trouble unless she got a chance to put her power into effect. Calley, while little threat, could easily escape if he transformed, so he’d have to be hit early.
It was looking impossible, so if there was a telepath he’d have to try and lure them aside and kill them while no one was watching, as it seemed impossible for him to defeat everyone here, and even if he could, it’s likely some would escape.
His expression never changed from one of a joking smile at his comment while these thoughts rushed through his mind. He seemed to be letting his social mask slip, as Fiona kept asking him what was on his mind, and few of the thoughts were suitable to be voiced aloud.
Ted finished off his burgers and grinned back at Iris. "Trust me, just need to work it off." He went to put his plate in the bin, and then used all of his stealth to sneak up behind Calley. Youare so done for. He braced himself as he came right up behind the innocent cat-boy, and then grabbed him. Lifting him bodily from the floor, he ran towards the pool, making sure he didn't loose his grip. He then leapt in, still holding cat-boy, and then plunged underneath a huge splash. Ted resurfaced, looking extremely pleased with himself. He grabbed a can and hauled himself onto the side, again looking perfectly innocent as he sipped it, waiting for cat-boy to come back up. He spotted that Iris had gone by the waterfall, and shot her a smile. "Not bad, eh?"
...And he was under the water. And in a giant Ted-hug, which was almost worse. And while it wasn't the smartest thing to struggle against Rageasaurus Ted, his body casually took note of "underwater" and jut as casually flipped his brain to "off". Fortunately, Teddy-Wets-The-Beddy had already let go of him and was swimming off. Unfortunately, Calley's brain didn't reboot that quickly.
And that is why, when he bobbed to the surface, he was a sea otter. A good thing: sea otters floated. 'Cause just because he was a sea-faring mammal now didn't mean he'd miraciously learned how to swim.
A bad thing: it took him a full minute to figure out those retractable front claws of his. But when he did, he grimly raised one little otter paw, extended just one claw, and flipped Ted Will Soon Be Dead over there an otter's version of the bird.
As soon as he figured out how to stop floating on his back and looking adorable, he was going to go over there and pee on the guy's leg. A 90 pound, four-and-a-half foot burger-stuffed otter had to have some nasty smelling stuff in its bladder.
He sadly watched his swim shorts floating past, and nearly drowned reaching for them. And hit his head on a passing can of Coke, too.
Posted by gorgan01 on Jun 24, 2007 10:05:10 GMT -6
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Ted watched the little otter as it tried to swim, and laughed. He had at first thought that an actually otter had got into the pool, and then realised that cat-boy had disappeared. "Come on, otter-boy, like this!" He got back in the pool and swam past, overexaggarating his arm movements. He picked up the swim shorts, and contemplated doing more nasty things to the small mammal, but decided that he had been mean enough. He left the shorts on the side and in one deft movement flipped the otter onto the side. He climbed out the other side of the pool, not sure what otter-boy's reaction would be. He wasn't sure how he'd taken it, not being particularly good at reading otter expressions, but he guessed that he would be fairly pissed. Noting its claws, he made sure he stayed well away from the man-of-many-mammals.
Posted by Cheshire on Jun 24, 2007 12:45:12 GMT -6
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Calley
Calley stood on the poolside, dripping sullenly. Beasty Boy there had gotten him out of the water. This was good. Humiliating, but good. Maybe he wouldn't pee on him after all. Peeing in front of the Ladies probably would have been tasteless, anyway. But given the man's mocking little swim around him... oh yes. Something had to be done to him.
It was a moot point at the moment, since he wasn't quite sure how to walk yet. A sea otter... this was a new one. He tried out his legs one by one, glaring at them until he figured out which switches in his little otter brain made them twitch. Finally, he managed a sort of drunken-otter lurch. He looked across the pool at Walking Dead Ted. Across the pool... was too far. And he wasn't quite sure what he was going to do to the guy yet, anyways. Instead, he hobbled over to Iris' waterfall. On his way, he snatched a lemonade out of the cooler and carried it with his mouth to a seat that was dry but still near to his favorite Lifeguard. If anybody was going to pick on the otter who couldn't swim, he wanted a sympathetic lifesaver nearby.
Grumbling otter curses, Calley sat down and began the long and complicated task of opening a pop tab with his teeth. It would be at least ten minutes before he figured out how to be human again. Ten minutes was a long time to think up horrible things to do to a person.
Posted by gorgan01 on Jun 24, 2007 13:54:33 GMT -6
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Ted watched otter-boy hobble over to Iris. He has trouble walking? Oh come on, what did I do? Ted considered saying sorry, but nah. That was way too easy. Besides, this was fun. What is the best way to annoy a lame otter? He thought that otter-boy still looked peeved, but that was to be expected. Being an otter that can't swim in a pool probably wasn't a fun thing to be. Ted shrugged, and wandered over to the bar. Remembering the tab that the "appear at girl's side at the slightest thing" man had given to everyone, he got himself a beer and settled back on his deckchair. He closed his eyes, but kept his ears wide open. He had no idea what otter-boy could do with those claws, and had absolutely no intention of finding out.
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jun 24, 2007 15:13:44 GMT -6
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(OOC: No worries Hunter, we just like to tease. We promise to be good and play dumb on the main boards. ;D )
Iris shook her head again, slightly envious Ted could put away that much food without any guilt. She floated back to the fall and let the water drench her, to get herself used to the chill again.
"Gah! PutmedownputmedownOHHELLSNO-!"
Her eyes opened just in time to see Ted and Calley dive headlong into the pool. She ducked under the resulting wave and steadied herself against the pool wall. When she surfaced again she saw Ted attempting, and failing, to look innocent.
"Not bad, eh?" In answer she made a face at him, and sent a wave of water his way.
Then she noticed there was a creature floating in the pool where Calley should have. Not having been there for the earlier mutation conversation, she didn't notice at first. She wiped the water out of her eyes, but all she saw was the otter, and no Calley. She ducked under the water again, looking around. Still no Calley. She surfaced again. Ted was on the side of the pool holding a pair of swim trunks that she swore Calley was wearing a minute ago.
She covered her mouth, doing her best not to laugh as the poor thing seemed to have trouble both swimming and walking. It was chattering too, and looking at Ted. She could almost guess what he was saying, and it only added the hilarity.
He plopped down nearby, and began trying to open a pop can. She ducked under the water one more time, then surfaced again near him. She held out her hand.
"You want some help with that?" It was impossible to keep the grin off of her face, but she was hoping that he would be too busy being mad at Ted to notice. "So, I'm guessing this..." she indicated the human-to-animal change, "wasn't exactly planned?"
Calley just stared at her. It was the best answer to that question. A long, blank, unblinking stare. Finally, he dropped the can, and rolled it towards her with his muzzle. Then he looked back at Kill Ted quite meaningfully, and flexed his claws. He would have mimed throttling the guy, but he'd settle for that. He looked back to Iris, and huffed a melodramatic sigh. Given an otter's lung capacity, it was one of the most melodramatic-est sighs he'd ever pulled off.
Posted by Iris/Rayne on Jul 4, 2007 21:35:35 GMT -6
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Iris popped the tab on the can, and set it in front of him. She turned and covered a laugh with a cough. <"If he keeps up that stare, I'm gonna crack up!"> she thought. The sigh didn't help. She shook her head.
"I wish I had a fish that you could stick in his shorts," she remarked, glancing back at Ted. "Or a frog." The image was too ridiculous, and she ducked below the water to avoid laughing aloud. It was a good minute before she surfaced again, still grinning.