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 Aurum Mellitus on Dec 11, 2011 13:36:58 GMT -6
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"When's your birthday, by the way?" Aurum asked, as he set out the ingredients on the counter. Today, they were making beer-battered fish and chips. He had it on good authority that people liked that sort of thing.
He turned to Riley, smiling as he arranged everything neatly.
They'd been going out for a while now, and he still didn't know hardly enough about her.
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 11, 2011 22:43:03 GMT -6
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Her birthday?
Riley cast a sideways look at Aurum, watching him as he gathered ingredients for the dinner they were going to make. Together. Riley wanted to make the point that if she helped it was at the risk of great peril to their meal, but Aurum had seemed so enthusiastic about the whole thing. What was it about him that made her give in? Well. It might have been those eyes...or that smile...or maybe a few other things as well, but that was all beside the point. Aurum had asked, she'd given in, and here they were.
And now he was asking for things...like birthdays.
They'd been...dating for a while now, Riley supposed, and they were taking things slowly. Very slowly. Dates, talking, chit chat, all the things that normal people supposedly did all the time, that were completely foreign to Riley. Birthday knowledge led to presents, and presents led to other things and blah. What was she going to get Aurum for Christmas? It was already December and...she was mentally dodging his question.
"In May. The ninth." she answered simply. It was just another day. The brunette didn't expand, and stood for a moment before turning the question around on her date, albeit a little shyly. Riley was as uncomfortable asking for information as she was giving it.
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 12, 2011 22:21:58 GMT -6
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Interesting. Their birthdays were close. It would make it easier to remember if things worked out that long. Riley filed the information away and studied the assembled ingrediantes.
Did she like beer-battered fish?
Riley shrugged, she didn't have anything against fish.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 12, 2011 22:25:06 GMT -6
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"I've never asked about that," Aurum commented. He looked her way. "But I've noticed. You don't drink." She probably had her reasons. Maybe she didn't want to talk about them? Maybe she simply didn't like the taste. Whatever the reason, he didn't feel the need to dig, so long as he knew the outcome. If she really wanted to share, she could. Whenever she felt like it.
"Don't worry. I'll make everything just right. And you get to help."
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 12, 2011 22:35:29 GMT -6
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Aurum didn't push. That was the thing about Aurum, he never pushed, and that's probably why she felt like she could share. How much would he want to know though? Surely not everything.
"I don't." she said. "Officially."
Riley thought about it for a few minutes, trying to gather her thoughts. She could give a little more.
"Remember the dead guy in the apartment? With the ginger ale?"
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 12, 2011 23:27:27 GMT -6
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Riley shrugged. "Wasn't the first one I've seen."
Leaning against the counter, Riley thought for another few moments, taking her time and choosing her words carefully so Aurum wouldn't get the wrong idea.
"When you show up in New York with a portfolio and tell everyone you’re a model, they tell you to network." she explained. "Doesn't matter if you're only 19 or 20, they take you to parties, and say they'll introduce you to all the right people."
"Most of the parties are in dives, and lots of unsavory things happen...even if you're not participating in most of them."
"There was this girl that I palled around with from time to time. She hit the parties way harder than I did, and one day she overdid it. People found her on the bathroom floor. They weren't even going to call the cops. They thought it'd ruin the party."
Riley shrugged. "I'd be damned if that was going to be me. So I don't touch the stuff, Any of it." It was what it was. And now he knew. The question was, how would he react?
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 13, 2011 21:20:22 GMT -6
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Tough question, with a tough answer.
"That was the only dead body I saw....I think." Riley said pensively. "But it wasn't the only horrible thing. Drugs, alcohol, they do insane things to people." she wasn't going into detail, it just wasn't her thing, but Aurum was a smart guy, he'd get the idea.
"But yeah. It had to be all or nothing at the time. Then it just got to be habit."
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 13, 2011 21:26:59 GMT -6
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"That would have to be tough," He agreed. About the stuff people did. The insane things. And maybe, the all-or-nothing.
The way it sounded to him, at that point in her life, it had been the most firm thing she could do to keep from falling to the wayside. The way it sounded to him... "You couldn't do things in half-measure. Back then." He said, in an understanding, if-questing, tone.
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 13, 2011 21:42:09 GMT -6
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He got it. He was good at getting it, even if he was a little questioning there at the end.
"Yeah." she admitted. "Exactly. I had to do something. Going complete sober was the best way I could think of at the time. Worked out for the best too. It let me focus, and that was hard enough without the liquor."
"I like to think that I've gotten better...but it's never seemed necessary to stop."
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 14, 2011 21:58:58 GMT -6
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"I Listen," He said simply. It was a useful skill, but lots of people didn't know how to do it anymore.
Riley was an interesting woman. If what she said was true. No half-measures. Really. Had to be intense. ... Except, he still thought she'd be able to handle things with restraint. Riley had held back on one thing, already. Maybe she wasn't the same person she'd once been.
The subject had been broached. There wasn't really a reason to barge their ways into that conversation right now. Aurum liked alcohol. Alcohol was pretty amazing. It was kind of this thing that went with many realms of fine dining. And he was sort of an expert on it. Riley hadn't had alcohol in a while. She probably knew what she was missing out on... did she really have to keep on missing out?
They'd deal with that topic later. For now... "Soooo..." Aurum trailed. He nodded towards the ingredients. "Cooking?" Yup. Cooking. "Do you know the first step?"
Posted by Riley Sommers on Dec 14, 2011 22:17:53 GMT -6
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He listened.
Well. Yeah. That made sense. Leave it to Aurum to come up with the simplest answer to what should be a simple question.
Listening really was a sort of special skill though, wasn't it? It was easy to nod your head and look at the spot between someone's eyes while thinking about anything and everything else. Actually listening took skill.
Riley was impressed. At least until they moved on to the cooking part of the evening.
He asked if she knew the first step, and Riley deadpanned.
"Do you even need to ask?" said the girl who hadn't known the alcohol was cooked out of the beer battered fish.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 14, 2011 22:43:45 GMT -6
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He did not.
For the next several minutes, Aurum spent his time coaching Riley, and teaching her how to fry delicious beer-battered fish and chips. He did his best. Showed her neat tips. He thought it had been fun.
The end result of fun was delicious fish. Fried, hopefully, to flaky perfection. Oh yeah, and some really good potatoes.