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 Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
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.
>>The message will save on my phone, I'll send it once I get back. Put it in the notes app, if you want to be sure.
Sveta realized that her plan might just work out. The thought scared her; it felt like she could jinx the whole thing just by believing it could work. At least the woman was not too scared to try to help her. She still remembered Akshay telling her to run, moments before she got pulled through the rip. Now she had a better idea of what he must have been feeling.
>>"Actually, most of them are fakes - they pretend they have something, believing they'll get some type of compensation for volunteering. But this is exactly that - volunteering. No compensation."
Good girl. The project was sounding less and less enticing by the minute. Sveta nodded. hoping that SUPER was buying the whole thing as they heard it. Her blood had been taken now, and she was still feeling strange about letting a doctor do that. Even if she was probably going to destroy her whole research the moment she got home, unless she had read the woman complete wrong.
>>"We're pretty much done here, let me pack up and then I'll escort you out of the building."
"Thank you." Sveta nodded. Now that the message had gone through, the rest was just pure acting. She had to keep sounding cool. "Have you even thought about... taking your research to sponsors? Someone that could help you find de mutants you might need? I would imagine people would be interested..."
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
Posted by Zelda Gray on Sept 13, 2017 23:01:21 GMT -6
Human
Bisexual
Taken By Jay
125
10
Jun 26, 2018 21:31:17 GMT -6
Zelda gave the blonde another smile before finishing packing her supplies up. Once she was sure Sveta was finished with her phone, she pocketed it and began to wipe down their secrets. She used alcohol pads to wipe down any area where they touched, to eliminate any fingerprints. "Please be sure not to touch anything now," she instructed Sveta. "Don't want to leave anything more suspicious than some dust being off."
Zelda was lying pretty much about all the project - her worst fears had been confirmed. SUPER was real and SUPER knew about her research - which meant they knew about her family. Maybe she should pack her mom up and send her to the West Coast. She could probably afford her mother a small apartment in Hawaii or Northern California somewhere with her salary from the hospital. That was a whole subject on if she'd even be willing to go, though. Ugh.
>> "Have you even thought about... taking your research to sponsors? Someone that could help you find de mutants you might need? I would imagine people would be interested..."
She eyed the girl and very quickly said, "No." She didn't really want to say anything else regarding that. She knew what Sveta was implying - would she go to SUPER. She probably needed to explain more than just 'no' though, for arguments sake, "The hospital only vaguely knows about my research, it isn't deemed high priority to know much about." She almost said something else - that the hospital agreed that her research could be more anonymous than typical due to the potential damage if someone found out about the volunteers. It was her main argument with that she had with the hospital - it could bring huge advances in medicine, but it had to be countered with the safety and protection of the That wouldn't have been good for SUPER to know, but honestly, they probably had already searched the hospital files and knew what the hospitals administration knows anyway.
>>"Please be sure not to touch anything now. Don't want to leave anything more suspicious than some dust being off."
Well, at least the woman was smart about covering her tracks. In a few moments, nothing was left suggesting that they had exchanged messages of any kind; they would be in and out without anyone noticing... well, anyone who did not already know about the whole setup. Sveta was supposed to gather information, and she, for all intents and purposes, did so. By the time SUPER moved on to recruitment, hopefully the doctor would be long gone.
>>"No. The hospital only vaguely knows about my research, it isn't deemed high priority to know much about."
"I see." Sveta nodded as they packed up "Well... maybe my blood will be the breakthrough you need? With de boosting and all... I hope I helped. Stay in touch if you need more, okay?"
Hopefully, she would not. She would let the other subjects know they were in danger, and then go take a vacation or something. But all the same, this was a start. Maybe she actually did a good day's work today?...
*italics are spoken in Russian* Thanks to Siren for the sig and avi!
Posted by Zelda Gray on Sept 14, 2017 22:59:50 GMT -6
Human
Bisexual
Taken By Jay
125
10
Jun 26, 2018 21:31:17 GMT -6
And they were done - Zelda had packed the samples, the packages, and everything else. She was ready to depart and began to walk towards the exit. She motioned for the blonde to follow her.
>> "Well... maybe my blood will be the breakthrough you need? With de boosting and all... I hope I helped. Stay in touch if you need more, okay?"
She smiled and nodded, "Of course." Zelda was probably never going to have contact with Sveta again, but she hoped the blonde would be rescued by her friend. There wasn't much she could besides hope for the best for her. Zelda didn't have the resources to do anything else - she couldn't fight against a conspiratorial government agency that she only learned about through the deep, dark web.
In either case, Zelda showed Sveta out discreetly. On a street corner, she smiled, "Thanks. I hope it works out." That was a very vague statement that she intended. In one hand, it could be that she hopes Sveta's blood will be the breakthrough she needed. On the other hand, it could be she hoped that Sveta gets free. Either way, it was probably vague enough that SUPER would presume it meant that Zelda hoped her sample would be the breakthrough she needed. Unless, of course, they already knew the whole set up that happened in the basement. Guess they'd found out.
Once back on her side of the rift, she resent the message in her phone to ensure it was delivered. She then deleted it and anything else of her. She triggered the alarm that sent a text that there could be a compromise to her volunteers. Then... She didn't know what to do. Should she just continue? Should she stop it? Zelda had a lot of contemplation to do - and for the first time in a while, she took a mental health day off work.