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.
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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 Allison on Sept 20, 2011 13:07:11 GMT -6
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Allison grinned. “Apparently, they’re poisonous enough that if you put them in a vase, the water becomes poisonous as well. And, pretty is poisonous a lot of the time, with nature....” She laughed. “Can you imagine if people could do that? Have poison nails or something, and the prettier you are, the more powerful the poison is? That’d make Hollywood interesting.”
She tapped her fingers on the table in nonsense patterns, glancing around for a waiter. Or, anything to entertain herself, really. Napkins and water would be plenty, really. Toothpicks with those would be even better. None of those were at the table, though, so she picked out some of the not-sugar packets and started attempting to stack them.
Maybe it would be easier if she had any clue how she was trying to stack them. Or how it was possible to stack them. Or cards, since they sort of kind of resembled cards, being rectangles. She was fairly certain triangles were involved somehow....
>> “Apparently, they’re poisonous enough that if you put them in a vase, the water becomes poisonous as well. And, pretty is poisonous a lot of the time, with nature...Can you imagine if people could do that? Have poison nails or something, and the prettier you are, the more powerful the poison is? That’d make Hollywood interesting.”
Agnes shook her head in thought. What if someone COULD do that? After all, it was not like mutant powers had any limits. Surely someone out there could have the ability to produce something that deadly on a whim! Thankfully she knew nobody like that and she silently prayed that she would never cross such a person. But in thinking of that, Agnes tilted her head and glanced at Lily.
She began to wonder…what was Lily’s stance when it came to mutants? After all, this was New York, surely she must know one or two of them or have at least seen one in action. It was hard not to get around this city without running in some mutant running amok. She herself proved that point. Even if Lily had never met a mutant before well…here one was! She was sitting right across from one. Then again…Lily herself could be a mutant and Agnes would never know it.
But as she looked up from the book, her musings were shaken by two things…first Lily seemed to be stacking sugar packets…and their waiter had finally arrived. The tall, blonde young man wearing a black apron smiled kindly down at the two girls.
“Welcome to the Greenery Café. Would you like to hear our specials today?” he asked cheerfully.
“Sure,” Agnes said with a slight smile. “So long as none of it includes Lily of the Valley.”
Allison grinned and hid a snicker at Agnes’ comment, and the waiter’s confused look, and dropped the sugar packets into a pile on the table while she listened to the list of specials. None were particularly interesting to her; nothing too out of the ordinary, though they all had some variant of the ‘special house seasoning,’ or ‘special house salad dressing’ or ‘special house barbecue flavoring.’ Really, could they possibly make any bigger a deal of it? She could admit that some house flavors were noticeably unique, but Allison had yet to hear of them being able to prevent cancer. At least most advertising made some attempt to have a reason for why everything they sold was special, even if it was completely arbitrary and made up.
Allison played absently with the menu while she waited for the waiter to finish talking, then ordered lemonade and one of the (apparently infinite) special house flavoring sandwiches. Once the waiter left she slid the menu back to the end of the table, then pulled the book over to herself and flipped through it until she found the page she was looking for, and slid it back to Agnes. “This section is interesting, on allergies. And,” she flipped back to almost the beginning of the book, “the list of household poisons is interesting, too.”
Once her soup was ordered and Lily had made her own order, Agnes smiled thankfully at the waiter and watched as he disappeared towards the kitchen area. She hoped that their service was not as slow in actually serving then taking orders. It would have been unfortunately if their slow help progressed into the rest of their dining experience. After all, it was not even busy in here and yet it took forever for them just to get the waiter to come over. What did they have signs that said “Ignore Us Please”? But the teen quickly let the thought go as Lily pulled her book back towards her person.
Curiously Agnes watched as she flipped through pages and then turned the book back towards her…
>> “This section is interesting, on allergies. And…the list of household poisons is interesting, too.”
Nodding Agnes smiled as she tucked another strand of hair behind her ear and took a gander at the pages that Lily was pointing to. She was actually quite surprised at many of the things listed and the effects that they could have. She had to nod in an impressive way as she continued reading, actually taking an interest in the information this book had. That was surprising, especially considering that they were just about to eat.
But as she read on, a thought struck her as she looked up to Allison.
“Um…does this book also have a listing for insect poisons?” she asked curiously. It never hurt to do her research.
Allison blinked at Agnes’ question, then nodded. “There’s a chapter on living things, so a lot of other stuff as well, it’s about a third of the way through the book.” She waited a moment, for Agnes to look for whatever it was she wanted and for herself to try to figure out the reason on her own before asking. “Why insects? They’re a bit more difficult to carry around than plants or chemicals....”
Unless you were one of those... unique... beekeepers who were able to get their bees to crawl all over them and never sting, anyway. And even then, if the bees never stung the keeper, it would be hard to get them to sting anyone else. And most bees couldn’t kill unless a person was allergic. Certainly insects would be Allison’s at least close to last choice of poisons to learn about; everything that made it difficult for her to use them, also made it difficult for anyone to use them against her.
...Well, there was an obvious solution to that, which Allison would have said was much less likely had she not been having the encounters she had been recently.
Jumping to conclusions was never a good idea, though, so she went back to stacking the sugar packets into a very low, wide, circular tower to distract herself from any potential giveaway expressions. The best way to keep from giving away that you’re hiding something is to forget that you are.
>> “There’s a chapter on living things, so a lot of other stuff as well, it’s about a third of the way through the book.”
Agnes nodded and flashed Allison a thankful smile. She then began to flip through the pages as until she found the section of the book on Insect Poisons. Lily seemed a little strange about the question Agnes had put to her, but she did not question her about it. As a matter of fact, she seemed to be patiently waiting while Agnes began to flip through the pages on insect poisons.
One of the things that always made her curious was why her wasps never stung her. She knew that they packed their own type of venom but Agnes had never been a victim to it. Instead they lived contently within her body. But that still made her question if their venom could still affect her. After all, just because they didn’t sting her, that did not mean she could not be affected by their venom. Best to learn about it because she found out too late that she could still be susceptible to it.
But reading just general information about it, she chewed on her bottom lip before she cast a glance at Lily. She was still sitting there, toying with her sugar packets before she finally spoke up again.
>> “Why insects? They’re a bit more difficult to carry around than plants or chemicals....”
“Oh,” she said with a small shrug. She did not want to fully explain to Lily about the fact that she was an mutant, but…maybe she could gauge her reaction to mutants in another way. She shrugged again. “Just, ugh, just curious. I…have a friend. She’s a, you know mutant. Her powers center around bugs. I just…I just wanted to make sure they wouldn’t poison me…” she trailed off as she closed the book and slid it back to Lily.