Setting

MRO is a "real world with superpowers" RP: while we have our share of costumed heroes and villains, they draw the same share of weird looks and media coverage that they would in the RW. We have regular over-arching plots, but the majority of threads revolve around how our individual characters try to live their lives. Mutants, humans, and Adapted humans (see below) are all playable characters.

In the MRO!verse, the existence of mutants has been increasingly common knowledge since the early 90's: by now, everyone not living in a cave has at least heard of them, though many people still may not have met one face-to-face, especially in more rural areas.

The overall situation between mutants and humans is somewhat tense, but for most people, life goes on: the majority of humans are just trying to work a job and keep bread on the table, without thinking any harder on mutant rights on a day-to-day basis than they do on gay marriage rights. Whether they love or hate the idea, it's more of a water cooler topic than something to get really worked up about. Mutants don't always have the luxury of ignoring the inter-race tensions, however...

Mutants have seen groups like the Church of Humanity fighting to limit their freedoms—in 2007, lobbyists succeeded in convincing Congress to pass the Mutant Registration Act, effectively making it illegal to be a mutant in the United States. Though the Act was overturned a few months later, the scars and distrust from that time remain. Every day, mutants with visible mutations or those who use their powers in public can expect to draw looks from human passersby--some of curiosity, but some of fear or loathing.

Not that the humans' fear is unjustified. Humans have been subjected to an ever-increasing mutant presence, especially in big cities. While some mutants are clearly out to benefit the world—like healers who open community health clinics, and the X-Men's partnership with the NYPD to take down mutants criminals-the bad can overshadow these. In NYC alone, mutant brawls and rampages leave hundreds of bystanders dead every year. Every human in NYC lives with the knowledge that they could be killed today; maybe not even through outright murder, but through some senseless accident caused by a mutant who can't control their power.

We live in a time of change--does it give your character hope, or fear? Human or mutant, they would have good reasons to feel either way; our world is not a black and white place.

Unique to MRO

The X-Men & NYPD's relations

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The Sanctuary

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Adapteds

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Atlanteans

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The Syndicate

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Haven

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SUPER

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Audubon X (AKA: Birdwatchers)

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MRO Timeline

Note: This is NOT required information to get started RPing!

This timeline is for people who like knowing what's come before in the storyline; only characters that were actually in the thick of things would even know about most of this, so if you're a new member, you don't need to read this unless it interests you. For some plots, a more detailed summary is posted here.

default color = public knowledge, and fair game for all to know from newspapers, the internet, etc.
this color = things your character won’t know unless they learn them IC from another PC


Fall/Winter 2005

• MRO was founded in October. Following the events on another (rather dying) X-Men RP, Xavier’s Sister School was rebuilt and reopened, with Tricity, Cassiel, and Daria as its first X-Leaders.

Spring/Summer 2006

• An errant faction of the US Military, under the command of General Whitmore, began a plot to control mutants using strangely powered gemstones. A mysterious virus briefly struck through the Mansion’s students, as well.

Fall 2006

• Several Mansion students were kidnapped by General Whitmore, and taken to the labs of Doctor Fusionist for experimentation; the X-Men rescued them, destroying the labs and its creators in the process.
  
  
• The Order was founded by Dorian King, aka Oppressor. Mr. King was the wealthy owner of King Pharmaceuticals. In a generous philanthropic move, he constructed an upscale homeless shelter known as the Sanctuary; with its golden front doors, it was destined to become one of the city’s new icons. At the grand opening in November, however, Isabel Duskmoor and two other unidentified mutants ( Syn and Raptor) started a deadly riot that became known as the Sanctuary Police Massacre. (At this point in time, the Sanctuary welcomed both humans and mutants; mutants were lodged semi-secretly in the Sanctuary’s lower levels, and Order members were recruited from their ranks. The Sanctuary has been public knowledge since its conception. The Order wasn’t, and still isn’t.)

Winter 2006/2007

• The Order raided a medical facility, acquiring Jacquelyn “Haywire” Guy, whose mutant ability killed all humans around her and caused mutant powers to boost far beyond their owner’s control.

Spring 2007

• The Order kidnapped mutants and humans off the streets and brought them to King Pharmaceuticals for experimentations. Their aim: to create a “Haywire virus,” with which they could bring humanity to its knees.

Summer 2007

• The Kabal was founded by Hunter Antonescu, at the newly opened Mondragon Labs.
  
  
• The Order’s leadership passed to Syn. The X-Men caught wind of the Haywire kidnappings, and the first KP brawl ensued.

Fall 2007

• The US Congress passed a nationwide Mutant Registration Law; those who did not immediately comply—or those with “dangerous” mutations—were tossed into the Camps. Both the Mansion and the Sanctuary were destroyed in government raids. Those who escaped came together at Mondragon Labs, where New York’s Mutant Resistance was formed.

Winter 2007/2008

• The Camps sucked.

Spring 2008

• In a bloody breakout, the Resistance succeeded in freeing the inmates of the New York Camps. Meanwhile, in California, a lawsuit that had been working its way up the legal system finally reached the Supreme Court: in one sweeping vote, the Registration Law was overturned. Erickson v. California, 553 U.S. 580 (2008). The damage it did, however, continues to linger. (New members: If your character was living in the US during this time frame, they would know about the Registration Law and the Camps. If they were a mutant, they either had to hide their power from authorities, voluntarily register, temporarily leave the country, or get tossed in their own state’s Camps. We recommend the first option, since it saves you knowing any in-depth plot details.)

Summer 2008

• The Mansion and the Sanctuary were rebuilt; the Sanctuary gained a new reputation for being unsafe grounds for humans to tread.

Fall 2008

• (The Future Plot started. Premise: The Order released its Haywire virus ten years in the past: now, in 2018, our characters were dealing with its global repercussions. This plotline was a collective dream shared by some—but not all—people around the world. If you were not an active member during this plot, your character would not have shared in this dream.)

Winter 2008/2009

• Slate took over the Kabal. Caleb "Slate" Swartz became the CEO of the newly re-named Mondragon Labs Medical.
  
  
• (The Future Plot headed into WWIII. Hello, thermonuclear chemical agricultural ebolapox mutant human warfare. Oh, and Adapteds in Australia, a mutant colony in Antarctica, and telekinetic meese in Canada.)
  
  
• The first PC Adapted hit MRO's screen. Adapteds have since become a persistent plot element at MRO.

Spring 2009

• The Kabal took over the Colombian drug trade, and through it, most of the country.

Summer 2009

• The Future Plot dreamers woke up, with scattered memories of what they’d seen. In order to destroy the Haywire virus before its release, they converged on King Pharmaceuticals, destroying both building and virus in the resulting brawl. The Order's Leader was reportedly killed by a traitorous member of her own team, throwing the Order into grief and confusion; Lori Faust stepped in to fill this power void as the Order’s new Leader. King Pharmaceuticals was rebuilt as Faust Pharmaceuticals.

Fall/Winter 2009-2010

• In response to the growing number of police deaths, the X-Men have put themselves on call to aid the NYPD as special deputies.
  
  
• Romania, in an ill-planned repeat of history, passed its own Mutant Registration Act in November 2009. All Factions converged there. Through dangers untold and through hardships unnumbered, the law was overturned on January 1, 2010.
  
  
• While the X's were away, the X-Kids played. With a giant clay Cthulhu, who attacked Central Park on Christmas Eve.

Spring/Summer 2010

• Muse arrived, fresh from a Russian bride mail order. City-wide illusions, neural bombs, and the destruction of Mondragon Labs via tornado followed (...it got better). To the general public, it sure seems like large-scale mutant power displays are getting more and more common. Freaking power boosters.
  
  
• The Order embarked on its Drug Plot, with the creation of two drugs: a legal drug to awaken inactive X-genes, and a street drug to give straight-laced humans a little taste of mutant power, simply called "M." These drugs have become persistent plot elements at MRO.

Spring 2011

• Slate turned the Kabal over to Lenna, unaware that his trusted employee was a double agent for the Order. An Order/Kabal merger followed; Mondragon Labs is now part of the Order's turf, and the Kabal's members either joined the Order or went their separate ways. Lenna Solderberg became the public CEO of Mondragon Labs Medical.

Fall 2011

• The birth of Meese. <3
  

Summer 2012

• Age of Sebastian Archive. in the regular timeline, an immortal unicorn with delusions of godhood began gathering his apostles and granting them immortality. Three years in the future, our characters dream of the end of the world—an apocalyptic setting brought on by something the unicorn will trigger, here and now.

Winter 2012/2013

• Riot Plot Archive. Tensions between humans and mutants rose when a video depicting police brutality against a young mutant hit the internet. They rose further when the cops involved were exonerated. And when the cops attacked a high-profile mutant reporter and proved how unrepentant they really were? All hell broke lose. A week of rioting in the streets followed, with some mutants trying to put out the flames, and some just watching the world burn.
  

Fall/Winter 2015

• Ambrose Jaager, CEO of Jaager Worldwide, formed Ragnarok, a chaos cult bent on destroying society as it exists, and building a new world from the ashes. He established a secret facility beneath the New York headquarters of Jaager Worldwide, and began recruiting.
• A mysterious benefactor donated "Monitoring Emergency Tactical Automatons" or META bots to the NYPD in an attempt to curb the rate of police deaths when faced with mutant criminals. Controversy arose as the robots nearly immediately began to malfunction, causing several public incidents. While some malfunctions were certainly the result of damage, or bugs in the coding several key incidents were orchestrated by Ragnarok, through young Technopath Panu Harmaajävi, Ambrose Jaager's adopted son.
• The Order dissolved after years of decline, its members unable to hold their hard gained turf in Brooklyn for want of leadership and direction. Thus ended their long reign as chief villainous group, though some insisted their glory days could be restored.

Summer 2016

• June 24th saw the news break of the bombing of a mutant shelter in Odessa, Texas. This news sparked protests calling for peace across the country, the first in NYC, the mutant capital of the country, where the X-men made a public statement calling for calm.
• In the wake of the Odessa attack, protests continued over the country. Some, however, were not content with peace. Violent attacks became increasingly common, and increasingly audacious. Ragnarok claimed many of the mutant perpetrated attacks though they were responsible for just as much of the anti-mutant violence. The violence peaked one month after the Odessa attack with the catastrophic Ragnarok bombing of most bridges and tunnels into and out of Manhattan, and the massive riots that followed.
• Four days after the riots begin, Ambrose Jaager came forward with a plan for peace. With the assistance of emotion manipulating pheromones Jaager rallied the gathered crowd behind the idea of a nation solely for mutants that he dubbed "Utopia".

Fall 2016

• Talk of Utopia continued, creating riffs in the population, while the newly completed settlement opened its doors for the first tours.

Winter 2017

• Utopia was destroyed by a covert government group.

• Haven, a faction with the goal of creating a safe world for mutants, was created by Devon Hadden. 
  
  

Spring 2017

• After the loss of its leader and a decline in member motivation, Ragnarok dissolved. The chaotically-minded people of New York once again began to roam the streets alone.

• Strange occurrences of time anomalies began to become more frequent, boggling the minds of scientists and civilians alike.

MRO Timeline 8/24 - Present

Note: This is NOT required information to get started RPing!

This timeline is for people who like knowing what's come before in the storyline; only characters that were actually in the thick of things would even know about most of this, so if you're a new member, you don't need to read this unless it interests you. For some plots, a more detailed summary is posted here.

default color = public knowledge, and fair game for all to know from newspapers, the internet, etc.
this color = things your character won’t know unless they learn them IC from another PC


Summer 2024

• A sorceress has unleased an army of villains upon New York City as cover for her schemes - Kicking off a new site-wide plot. Plot logo!