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.
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 6, 2008 8:44:54 GMT -6
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Everything was going smoothly and Luke was just relaxing. From the sound of it Victoria was almost done with the paperwork and then all hell broke loose.
Debroah just sat with a shocked expression on her face completely unsure what to say. She had always been a strong woman so to see another woman apparently break down with no reason was deffinately a shock.
"Victoria..." Luke spoke up as he leaned forward in his chair and touched her shoulder with his right hand. "It's Ok... you're safe and you're doing well." He stunk at consoling upset women... completely sucked at it to be honest but suddenly a flash of inspiration hit him.
"Your parents would be proud of you Victoria... very proud."
Victoria felt Luke's hand on her shoulder and involuntarily the raised her hand. Her fingers found his and she grasped his hand lightly. Luke's statement touched a chord and Victoria quickly calmed again. The tears stopped and she regained some measure of composure, though her face was red and blotchy.
"I'm sorry." She apologised yet again.
To complete the document she had to release Luke's hand and it was with considerable reluctance that she did so. A tear drop had fallen on the page, running a little of the ink but not fatally so and there was still enough room for what she needed to write. Victoria steeled herself and wrote the single word that described her entire circle of family and friends. She wasn't sure if she could count Tris and Luke as friends yet, though Luke had demonstrated genuine friendship.
Next of Kin: None
Victoria signed it, her hand a little shaky, then gathered the sheets of paper together and passed them to Deborah.
For a moment she was silent, debating what, if anything, to say. Finally she decided that Deborah deserved some sort of explanation.
"I don't know how much, if anything Luke has told you. For that matter I am not sure how much I have told Luke." She could remember telling him about her parents but she couldn't recall much else.
She had made a start but now she wasn't quite sure how to proceed or how much detail to go into. Victoria sighed.
"I grew up in Castine, Maine. I am an only child. My parents were not well off and even with both of them working we didn't have much. Then by the time I was about nine it was obvious I couldn't continue going to school so M..." She chocked on the word but managed to hold herself together. "Mum quit her job and stayed home to school me. We used to go for walks in the evening, when it was quiet and so not too many people around. Three months ago I wasn't feeling very well so stayed at home while they went out for a walk. They were..."
Victoria had to stop and bite her finger, using the physical pain to distract herself from the emotional
"They..."
She didn't have much success the second time and had to repeat the finger biting.
"They were hit by a dunk driver." She ploughed on, glossing over the details but sounding very much like a young teenager trying to be grown up. "After I couldn't stay there and decided to try New York. I have been here... three weeks now."
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 7, 2008 7:24:12 GMT -6
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Luke and Miss Langstan both sat quietly as Victoria told her tale. Both of them had seen tragedies... even experienced a few but nothing to the extent of what Victoria had gone through.
Luke's Dad had died... true... Luke's Mom had run off... true...
But both of thos incidents had happened before he was old enough to understand it all. Before he was old enough to really develop a relationship with them. For Victoria, her parents had quite obviously been her best friends. To lose them after such a close relationship had been developed was more heart renching than anything he had been through before.
"The hurt never completely goes away Victoria." Luke spoke softly as he left his hand on the young woman's shoulder to hopefully encourage and comfort her, "But it will get better. The best thing to do is just focus on how proud your parents would be of where you are and what you're doing. You have a full time job in New York and you're living on your own. Those are big accomplishments and I know that your parents would be proud."
Miss Langstan remained quiet for the moment but her head was slowly nodding in agreement with what the blind man was saying.
Victoria smiled wanly, not sure whether to take the compliment at face value. Her parents and in particular her father, had tended to be a little liberal with their praise and over time she had come to doubt it's worth. It wasn't a conscious thing, just something that lurked in the back of her mind and subtle tainted Luke's compliment.
She also didn't think that she was doing all that well, feeling nervous and scared most of the time, anxious that she was going to say or do the wrong thing and find a door she thought was open was suddenly closed on her.
Balancing the account was that Deborah and Luke did both seem to genuinely care, despite only just having met her. With that in the back of her mind and having been brought up to be polite, Victoria couldn't let Luke's compliment pass without some sort of acknowledgement.
"Thank you." Her voice was soft but her tone was genuine. "And thank you for giving me this opportunity."
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 8, 2008 6:17:31 GMT -6
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"Don't mention it Victoria... it's no problem." Luke said softly before slowly removing his hand from the young woman's shouler and leaning back in his chair.
Clearing her throat, Miss Langstan tried to change the subject into something a little less awkward. "If you've got all of the papers finished then I'll get them entered into the computer and then we'll see about having payroll cut you your first check. I'm going to assume you have some things ot get done once you have the money." The last bit was said with a kind smile as the woman was already moving through the programs on her computer to get to the right screen.
Victoria felt a little disappointment when Luke withdrew his hand from her shoulder. She knew it was silly but she was young and couldn't help herself. She handed over both copies of the documents and waited for Deborah to do the necessary work. It was getting more real by the moment. She thought about what Luke said and felt that her parents would indeed have been proud of her. She was surprised that that thought brought strength and warmth rather than pain and sorrow. She resolved to try to always do things that would have made them feel proud of their little girl and that she would try to concentrate on the memories of the good times that they had had together rather than dwelling on the fact that they were gone.
For a little while she let her mind wander through some of those memories until she got the impression that Deborah had completed what she needed to do.
"What time should I come in tomorrow? The normal start time?" Victoria asked. The employment contract had stipulated the normal working hours but Victoria didn't know whether they would want her to arrive earlier or later on her first day.
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 9, 2008 6:32:02 GMT -6
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"Just come in at 9 tomorrow. After you've been here three months you have the option of remaining on a five day work week from 9-5 monday through friday or you can go to a 7-5 shift where you only work four days a week. Your day off would be random but you'll always have weekends." Deborah answered as she finished typing in the information. Immediately she lifted the phone on her desk and after a few moments of silence held a quiet conversation with the payroll department.
"They said your check would be ready in about ten minutes." Miss Langstan announced, obviously quite satisfied with both her own performance and the performance of the 'Jacobs & Jacobs' employees. "Victoria, be honest with me... is there anything else you need to get things straightened out with a place to stay and all that?"
Luke remained silent, allowing Deborah to take control of the situation. Maybe Victoria would respond better to another woman caring about her and maybe it would even make her more comfortable. There was no way to know for sure but he was glad to be out of the spotlight for the time being.
"I believe I can get it straightened out at the place I was staying. I will have enough to pay them for the couple of days I owe them plus two weeks. I am hoping between that and showing them the employment contract I should be able to get my room back." It wasn't the best accommodation but it was better than other places and it would have to do until she could get enough saved for the bond and initial rent on an apartment and find some people to share with her. At least she wouldn't have to leave her flute and laptop there, now that she could secure them in a locker at work.
She smiled to show that she was reasonably happy that she was telling the truth, not really realising how naive she sounded.
"I will leave my flute and laptop here if you don't mind. It will save me lugging them around, particularly if it turns out I have to look elsewhere for accommodation." She felt a little cheeky asking to leave them in the locker.
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 10, 2008 6:15:49 GMT -6
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Deborah nodded, accepting what Victoria said at face value. If she said that she was gonna be OK then she was going to trust her that everything was fine. "Well then welcome to the team Victoria." She said with a smile as she stood up from her computer and held out a hand to the other young woman, "I'm sure Luke can show you to the payroll department to pick up your check and then we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning."
Luke stood as well, gratified that things had been taken care of. "Thanks a lot Deborah... I owe you."
"I'll add it to your bill." Miss Langstan retorted after her goodbyes had been said to Victoria, "She'll be fine. Just relax Luke."
Nodding slightly to Deborah, Luke pivoted slightly so that he was facing Victoria. "Ready to go pick up your first check? I think it should suitably impress your landlord."
"Nine a.m." Victoria affirmed and added. "Thank you."
"I do hope so." Victoria said in response to Luke's statement that the landlord should be happy, suddenly feeling less confident than she had a moment ago. She did her best to keep the expression of doubt off her face but she was not sure that she succeeded.
"And yes, I am ready." Victoria smiled at Deborah and then led the way out of the office.
Such a good deed could not go unpunished. Victoria waited until Luke had shut the door and having ensured that there was no one else around, suddenly flung her arms around Luke, reached up on tiptoes and kissed him on the cheek.
"Thank you." She whispered and then released him and stepped back looking a little flushed, perhaps from embarrassment at her impetuous action or perhaps from something else. She did feel a little funny.
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 11, 2008 14:40:05 GMT -6
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Luke was flustered... really flustered. Victoria was an attractive young woman to be sure but she was just that; a young woman. For him it was more like being kissed by a sister or something, although he had never experience that either due to his being an only child.
"I... well... glad I could help Victoria." He finally said as he tried to get his brain working in the right direction. She was to young... and to innocent. There was no way he could even thinkin about pushing this any farther even though a part of him assured that it would probably be very easy to do.
"Call me if you need anything OK? You've got my card and my cell number is on there." Luke said quietly, his face turning very serious as he looked at the young woman. "I'm serious. If you need help or even just someone to talk to don't hesitate to call. Alright?"
If sex had been within her knowledge she might have wondered what he meant but she was an innocent, sheltered from the realities of the world. That wasn't to say that she didn't know about romance, in fact quite the opposite, having read her share of romantic novels involving genuinely charming, sensitive and caring men where things ended with a fairly chaste kiss As a consequence she didn't have a good understanding of what was involved in the end game, the bit that happened after that kiss.
"Thank you. I will." Victoria promised.
She couldn't help glancing at him quite frequently as they made their way to payroll. Victoria couldn't make the first move, even at the romantic level on which she operated and she didn't know how to let him know that she wouldn't reject him if he was to suggest something more than just friendship. The 'more' she was thinking of was candlelit dinners and walks in a park, possibly holding hands and perhaps a kiss.
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 12, 2008 7:18:50 GMT -6
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The payroll process was quick and easy since they already had Victoria's check printed out and ready to go. After she signed a board showing that she had received her check she and look were on their way to the lobby and then back out to the front of the building.
"I'm glad it worked out for you Victoria. If you have any problems Deborah will be around to help and like I said... call me if you need something." Luke said with a smile as they stepped back out into the sunshine and cool breeze.
The day was beautiful but Luke knew that she would have plenty to get done today. "Are you gonna be OK handling your landlord?"
Victoria thanked the wages clerk and carefully put the cheque in her purse, only then finally accepting that it was real. That she had a job and that it was not a fairly dead end one like sales assistant in a clothing store but one where there appeared to be opportunities to learn and grow.
She couldn't regret having taken the sales assistant job. It had, after all, led directly to her meeting Tris and Luke and to getting this job and it seemed that there was never gain without some pain along the way.
"I should be all right." Victoria assured Luke, "But if you happen to be free and don't mind, it would be nice to have some moral support."
It would also be nice to continue to have Luke's company though in light of how she had seemed to have embarrassed him when she had hugged him she wisely did not mention that.
Posted by Luke Jacobs on Dec 13, 2008 6:34:43 GMT -6
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"I think I can spare another few hours." Luke replied with a slight chuckle. From what he had seen of Victoria it had seemed like she might be someone that wasn't the best at confrontations... OK so that wasn't strong enough. She actually seemed like a person that was absolutely horrible at confrontations.
"Did you come by cab, subway, or walking?" Luke as he waited for the young woman to begin leading the way. Obviously he didn't know where she lived so he'd have to be following her. "Big brother only... she's a vulnerable young woman so let's keep the player out of this." He thought to himself, "Just think of her as an adopted little sister."