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 Apr 21, 2012 20:20:39 GMT -6
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He was still mad at her, but he was making more of an effort to control his emotions now. Kealey almost breathed a sigh of relief. It was hard having someone else in your head, and it was making her irritable to feel him being so irritable.
He approached the fridge, and Kealey looked at him, blue eyes big and questioning as he reached out and grasped the handle. He wanted inside.
She moved quietly out of his way.
Her older self had seen something in Tetsuya, and that meant she trusted him. Kealey figured she’d just have to give it a try too.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Apr 21, 2012 20:32:51 GMT -6
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The Asian ducked down in front of the fridge and found the mustard. Mustard found, he retreated back to the counters and finished making them sandwiches. He hoped she liked hers that way, as opposed to some other way he had not prepared.
To the cabinets, he went. Then, back to the counter. He put the sandwiches on plates.
Tetsuya turned and walked towards her, holding out a peace offering towards the blond.
He smiled weakly.
It was just beer, for heaven's sake. And she was still a cute girl. He could deal.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Apr 21, 2012 20:36:55 GMT -6
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Mustard. He’d wanted mustard.
Kealey beamed, even though Tetsuya wasn’t looking at her. He was getting less mad by the moment too. Maybe this whole emotion thing wasn’t too bad, the blond decided. At least when people weren’t mad at her, anyway.
He made the sandwiches, two by the looks of it and Kealey decided that unless he was really hungry, she was going to have some explaining to do to the friend who was coming over to help them.
He retrieved two plates, put one sandwich on each and offered one to Kealey.
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It did not take a translator to explain that statement to him. The smile did it all. He smiled back and nodded. Then, he moved over to the table and sank into a chair. It was time for lunch.
He found orange juice in the fridge at some point. They had some of that, too. Oh, and ice cream. It was their fridge, after all. It wasn't stealing!
So, they ate. And ate. And made pigs of themselves.
Koga had hopped of the bus after the phone glitches and hung up on the confused youth. The last he had heard was that they were hungry…so He went into a pizza joint ordered a half supreme half pepperoni and a half cheese half veggie. He was covering all of his bases. Who know s what the teens would want to eat. He grabbed a two litter of coke and paid, He waited patiently as the pizza cooked and then made his way out onto the street once more.
Catching a ride would be trickier now that his hands were full. So he made his way onto the top of a bus stop. from there he hoped on the 17 to take him the rest of the way to the apartment, it took longer than moving from car to car to get ahead, but it also kept the food out of danger. He made way to the apartment building and was about to buzz the door when a tenent came out just in time for him to slip in, he made his way up up up the stairs and to the door that he was pretty sure was the right apartment.
“hello, it’ss Koga” he said once in English and again in Japanese. That should at least let them know that they had the right guy.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Apr 30, 2012 20:29:44 GMT -6
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So. They’d eaten the sandwiches, and a lot of other things that Tetsuya had grabbed from the fridge and brought to the table. It had all been good. There hadn’t been much talking, but that made sense considering the fact that they couldn’t understand one another. Hopefully this friend would be willing to translate, Kealey wanted to know more about the boy sitting near her.
It wasn’t long before a knocking came at the door, and Kealey hopped up from the table, making her way to open it. Despite everything he’d said on the phone, the appearance of the boy on the other side came as something of a shock.
He really was reptilian. And he had pizza. In spite of the quasi-meal she’d just eaten, Kealey’s tummy growled at the smell.
”Oh my.” she said, trying to adjust to the new emotions on the scene. They were different from Tetsuya’s, and it made the little blond want to move back over by him. It wasn't that the new boy's were bad...they were just not as familiar or comfortable for some reason.
”Please come in. Tetsuya made some food and I didn’t know how to tell him you were already bringing some…but the pizza smells excellent and I’d love to have a piece.”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Apr 30, 2012 21:34:39 GMT -6
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The Asian teen knew that smell quite well. It was that amazing cheesy familiar smell with a hint of tomato and bread. And other good stuff. The smell of the incredible. He'd just eaten a mountain... and he could have gone for some of that, too. The smell on its own brought him to his feet. There was also the prospect of meeting the jerk they'd talked to on the phone, and dealing with his sorry ass/thanking it. That was good, too.
Tetsuya got up. Followed Kealey to the door. And blinked.
The Asian hung staring by the entrance, eyes locked on the lizard man. He was so... so... COOL!!!!
He'd heard of mutants before. Or maybe seen them. Although it had largely been on TV or in comic books and movies. And maybe it hadn't so much been MUTANTS as it had been PEOPLE WITH POWERS or KAMEN RIDER or SUPER SENTAI. But.
The guy looked like he had a lot to carry. Without asking, Tetsuya moved to offer his help with carrying some of the load.
"Please, allow me to help." He said to Koga. "Thank you for the help."
Gone were any feelings of hostility he may have once held, or protectiveness over his Kealey. The guy had brought pizza and he was a walking talking lizardman, which was too cool for words. He got a 'pass'. He could live.
For a moment he was stunned, it was on thing seeing some of his class mates the same age he had met them, but it was so very weird seeing two adults drained down to the age of tweens. They were so adorable! Koga smiled politely at Kealey, the ‘Oh, my reaction was just too cute to even bother being offend or hurt over, if oh my was the worst humans said of mutants, he doubted anyone would ever have issue with each other.
“Abssolutely, I bought the Pizzas with all of uss in mind, and to be honesst it will probably hold us all over long enough to figure out the situation.” He then repeated himself in Japanese. He would likely do that a lot tonight.
After tilting his head at Shin and his initial expression and seeing it melt away into …awe? He handed over the circular treasures.
“Thanks for the assistance.” He stated in Japanese.
He then knelt down to Thor and pet him. the dogs tail wagged back and forth excitedly, as if he was wondering if he was the one gone crazy. Koga imagined that Thor must’ve thought it was nice to see someone still smelled and looked the same as they usually did…if you ignored the changing shades of grey. “So, first things first. You guys want me to translate anything for you?”
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Apr 30, 2012 22:02:51 GMT -6
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Tetsuya took the pizzas from their new friend, and Kealey watched as he walked away and the new boy bent down to pet the doggy. Now that everything was getting said in Japanese and English, life was going to be so much easier. All those things she’d wanted to say could now be said! In fact, the offer had just been made!
Kealey’s mind went blank. All those things she’d wanted to know, all those things she’d been wanting to say had all just flown out of her brain. Instead of saying anything, Kealey just blushed.
She’d asked questions on the phone, but then had been too shocked by Tetsuya’s appearance with the photo to wait for an answer. Getting down to the facts would be the first step to understanding.
”Figuring out basics would be good.” she finally managed, pushing her hair behind one ear as she tried to sort everything out. Boy, dealing with two other peoples’ emotions was hard, her head was starting to feel all jumbled. Wanting to sit down, the little blond started walking the same direction Tetsuya had gone, gesturing for the older boy to follow.
”This is our apartment?” she asked, ”And I think NY means New York? And…and…we’re in the future?”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on May 10, 2012 22:01:03 GMT -6
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First English, then Japanese. The Asian nodded at the Asian. Pizzas. Good. Great. He was a teenage boy. He could eat these. Tetsuya vanished into the kitchen with the pizza, setting it down on the table. He came back in time to hear Koga offering translation skills (twice).
Was he going to do that every time? He supposed that would probably get tiring for the lizard man. He sympathized, but also. Too bad. He was grateful for the help.
He waited for the blond to finish talking, then Tetsuya chimed in helpfully. "Also. Can we eat?"
Koga looked to Kealey with sympathy in his noir orbs,He was excited to help and relieved to be here. “ Are you feeling ok? I’ll try to calm down and you can tell me if that helps, I can teach you some meditation techniques later. Maybe that will help.” Koga took a deep breath and calmed himself as if he were about to go into battle, one must have a clear mind he reminded himself. And exhaled slowly and quietly.
“Yess, thiss iss your apartment, Yess we are in New York City, and I am ssure it sseemss like the future, but really it’ss much more confussing, ssomething happened lasst night to make a lot of mutantss, or x gene possitive people to revert back to an age and mindsset and memoriess of their youth..” And turned to Shin and repeated again everything that he said to Shinbo.
He nodded to Shin. “Of coursse we can eat.” He turned to Kealey and repeated the same in English. Koga then spotted a lap top and a camera. He walked over to the laptop feeling a bit more free then he might of sense he was trying to help the owners…and the owners didn’t know they owned anything. They would be ok with it.
He pressed his finger to the pad and shook it back and forth. Yes! The lappy was on and not password protected, he would have to talk to them about protecting their info later. He clicked the internet icon and logged into babble fish.
“If you guyss want to sspeak with each other, you can transslate back and forth on thiss ssite, and you wont have to have me interfering if you want. The grammar getss a bit rough but I think the general point will be made. Alsso, I am sso taking picturess of you guyss together like this.” He had his wedding present worked out. Who else could get cute photos of them together during their youth? Nobody but Koga.
He then walked into the kitchen and proceeded to grab a slice of pizza.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 4, 2012 10:41:09 GMT -6
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Meditation techniques? He'd try to calm down? Kealey nodded her head, all of this was getting to be a lot. A whole lot, and she was starting to panic a little bit.
The teen was explaining everything twice, once in English and once in Japanese. They could communicate now, and that was helpful. Kealey tried to take in everything he was saying, and rationalize it with what had happened. Okay, she could deal with this...it actually made more sense that they'd reverted to a previous age. This was their apartment, and they were...X-gene positive.
Okay. She followed. Tetsuya was going to eat.
The guy moved again and Kealey watched as he played around with some kind of thing on a desk. Cautiously, she moved forward, watching as he fiddled with things and typed on a keyboard. Wait...was this a computer? There were words then, words about typing and translating and privacy.
"You can keep doing what you're doing." Kealey said....this translation was working for her.
And...pictures?
Into the kitchen the lizard-boy went, presumably to get some pizza. Kealey moved to stand by Tetsuya again, maybe hoping that he'd hold her hand or something.
"Do you know how to fix us?" she asked the pizza eating lizard boy.
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The most important thing said in that entire flood of information was, of course, that they could eat. It wasn't a few seconds before Tetsuya was rummaging in cupboards for plates and forget it, he gave up on that a second later, and it wasn't 5 seconds before he had a slice from one of the boxes on the counter in his hands and was chowing down.
Thor wanted pizza too, it seemed. But Tetsuya didn't share.
>>"If you guyss want to sspeak with each other, you can transslate back and forth on thiss ssite, and you wont have to have me interfering if you want..."
Etc., Etc. He had pizza. The lizard guy was talking. The words sort of drifted in one ear and out the other amid a taste explosion. Being in the kitchen while Koga was not also affected that. And what he heard.
It was a good thing there were more than one set of ears in the house. It was too bad, though, that Tetsuya did not have a second set of hands. The girl would simply have to get her own pizza and like it, thank you very much. He smiled at her behind a mouthful and nodded to one of the boxes. His look said 'Good!'
Koga shook his head slightly, " Stuff like this has happened before, typically for a mutant to affect this many others, it would be draining in some form or fashion and is likely to ware off in a day or two. worst comes to worst and I'll see about doing some detective work and tracking whoever is responsible down." It sounded good in his head, how he would actually go about doing it though was something different entirely. Koga concentrated on his breathing and demeanor to help calm the girl as well if possible.
He scooped up a slice of pizza before the boy Shinbo inhaled it all. This could only make the overall mood for the girl pleasant, a happy tummy was a happy teen after all...or less angsty?
"Sso, what do you guyss want do in the mean time? watch some moviess or ssomething? I rented Avatar on the off chance you wanted to watch ssomething that will seem so amazing!" Cgi and graphics had improved wildly since well, these two were actually this age...the first time besides...if he could get them to snuggle on the couch his photo op would be perfect.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 12, 2012 8:13:42 GMT -6
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Tetsuya seemed to be more concerned with pizza than anything, and while it looked good, Kealey was still full from the sandwich so she simply smiled and shook her head. Their friend said that things like this had happened before, and that they usually wore off within a couple of days.
Then he suggested that they all sit down and watch a movie.
Watch a movie? When all of this stuff was going on? Kealey frowned slightly, it seemed like they should be doing something to help...or at least...something.
"Are you sure that's alright?" she asked, leaning against the counter as she studied the reptile-boy. "I mean...a movie sounds really nice, but...." she let the thought hang, because she didn't really know what. Besides, the two boys were very happy from their pizza, and that made it really easy to be happy too.