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...?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Posted by ashbrooks on Mar 16, 2009 21:16:18 GMT -6
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She was apologizing. Saying she was sorry, and standing up. And walking away. All because he had gotten...upset, panicked, freaked out because she had asked about his powers.
Frowning, Ash turned his head and watched as she was walking away.
And then he closed his eyes and sighed. "Wait, Kealey," he called, keeping his voice quiet, yet it still sounded loud in the stillness of the library. Standing up, Ash walked toward her, his longer legs closing the distance faster than she had.
But once he caught up to the blond, Ash wasn't sure what to say. Just because she knew, somehow, that he was a mutant, that didn't mean that he was willing to talk about it. "I thought you said your purpose might very well be to help people here," he said. Changing the subject could be a very good thing, as long as it worked.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Mar 16, 2009 21:42:58 GMT -6
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She almost made it out of the Public Records room. Almost. Kealey's cheeks were flaming, and she was sure her cheeks were bright red. The nuns had always said that God wouldn't have made a face blush like hers if it wasn't meant to do it well and often. Kealey's heart was pounding in her chest too, she even felt a little light headed. Part of it was her own panic over the things she'd been considering doing, part of it was the residual burn from Ash's feelings.
He called her name and even though he hadn't really raised his voice, it echoed in the high ceiling'd room as if it were a cave. Kealey didn't stop though. She needed to get away from him, from the temptation to use her powers for something other than pure. If something had been driven into Kealey over the years it was that she should never ever use her powers for personal gain. It wasn't right. She needed to go to church, she needed to confess. Too much had almost happened, she'd wanted it to happen.
Footsteps, then someone came up next to her. Kealey didn't turn her head to look at Ash, she just kept walking, her eyes down on the floor. Then he spoke, using her own words against her. Kealey stopped, head still down, eyes still on the floor.
"I...I'm sorry Ash." she said, "I just panicked...you were so panicked...then I realized what I'd done and what I almost did..." It was the same thing...confession would have to wait, it didn't matter if she was in torment, after all, someone was asking for her help. Ash was right, she couldn't run. Not yet, he was still panicked though, even if it was under the surface, and now he was full of deception as he pointed out her earlier comments about her purpose.
Her hands were shaking, Kealey took a deep breath and turned slightly to look up at Ash, "You have to calm down though." she said imploringly, "I almost lost it there..."
Posted by ashbrooks on Mar 17, 2009 7:03:00 GMT -6
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She didn't stop, not until Ash had come up beside her. Then she stopped, her eyes on the floor, as she apologized to him again. But rather than avert his own eyes from her flushed face, Ash looked straight at Kealey as she spoke, apologizing that his panic because of her question had made her feel panicked.
"What did you almost do?" Ash asked, now quite confused. What could she have almost done that would make the woman this apologetic?
And then she, was she begging him to calm down? This whole thing with her being able to feel his emotions was more than a little strange, because outwardly Ash looked calm and collected. Inwardly, well yeah, that might have been a bit of a different story. But, while he might not like what she had asked to have caused him to feel this way, Ash had still been raised in Texas, raised right by both of his parents, and with how Kealey was looking at him at that moment, with how she was asking...So Ash tried to pull the remaining panic into check.
"So Kealey," Ash asked after a couple of moments. "Are we going to head back and get to work, or are we standing here talking some more?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Mar 17, 2009 19:34:16 GMT -6
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Kealey had wanted a chance to confess the wrong she'd almost committed, and now Ash ws giving her the chance. She looked at him, wondering if she was actually going to be able to share with him the horrible thing she'd nearly done without his permission. Not here though, not in the doorway of the public records section with people milling in and out around them. The table wasn't exactly private either, but it was better than where they currently were.
He didn't want to let her walk away, and while he managed to calm down a little Ash's emotions were still confusing. Now he felt some kind of duty, duty as he asked her what they were going to do. "Let's go back." she said softly, nodding her head, then turning to walk back to the table.
Once there, Kealey sat, waiting for Ash to do the same and studying the backs of her hands which she'd folded on the table in front of her. "You asked me a question a minute ago." she said, "Before I decided to come back. You asked me what I'd almost done."
This was hard, Kealey wasn't used to admitting her wrongs to anyone other than a priest. Especially not to the person she felt she'd wronged, finally she managed to drag her eyes up to Ash's once more and she leaned forward, talking softly enough that their conversation wouldn't be easily overheard, "I can't just feel emotions Ash...I can change them. Make them more or less prominent if I try really hard. I almost did it to you...I was so confused, and irritated, and then you started panicking. I caught myself thinking about doing it...to benefit myself...that's why I freaked out."
Well. That had gotten interesting. Kealey realized she'd just kind of blurted all of that out and just sat there for a second trying to figure out what else to add. Nothing immediately came to mind. So she waited, she waited for Ash's reaction, tuning herself into his emotions too. Ash seemed to be a man whose face didn't necessary give away his emotions, and Kealey wanted to know.
Posted by ashbrooks on Mar 17, 2009 20:33:26 GMT -6
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It took a moment or two, as if she was thinking about what she wanted to do, but then Kealey decided to go back into the Records room with him. So Ash turned, walking with Kealey in silence now back to the table they had been sitting at.
Waiting for Kealey to sit first, Ash then reclaimed his seat as well. Kealey was looking down, Ash noticed. But she was talking, slowly and quietly, but explaining what she had meant when she said what she had almost done.
Ash just leaned back in the chair and stared at Kealey when she had finished. She was able to alter people's emotions, not simply feel them? She had been about to change his emotions until she had stopped herself and walked away?
That was...How did Ash know what he was feeling then was really what he was feeling? If Kealey was able to alter emotions...
No, with how apologetic she was, with how she was talking about freaking out about simply thinking of doing, Ash knew that what he was feeling was actually him. At least he did once he actually thought about it.
He was still looking across the table at her and was still leaning back in his chair while she was leaning forward. "You can actually change what people are feeling?" Ash asked, his voice very quiet. "Any time you want to?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Mar 17, 2009 20:56:12 GMT -6
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He was scared at first, no worried was a better word for what Ash was feeling. Of course he'd question what was going on in his head after her admission of guilt. Ash leaned away from her too, and for a few moments Kealey worried about what his reaction was going to be. Then, slowly the fear disappeared, the worry faded and all that was left was confidence.
Kealey could only guess what the confidence was, that Ash had decided that he had nothing to fear from her. Kealey almost laughed at the notion of being frightening. Ash was much larger than she was, but there had still been a moment there when he'd actually been worried. Twice in the short time since he'd found her on her ladder in the Religion section.
She was still leaning forward on the table when Ash spoke. He was so relaxed now, compared to the way that he'd felt a few moments before. The calm spread through Kealey as she concentrated on it, and she took a deep breath, running her shaking hands through her curls and nodding her head at Ash's question.
"It's not quite as simple as that..." she whispered, eyes dropping to the table. "I can only work with what's already there. I can't put the feelings in someone's head. Only change the degree to which they're feeling it...but yeah. I can do it any time."
Ash hadn't said anything about his powers, here Kealey was, baring all her secrets and he hadn't told her anything. Looking up again, Kealey dropped an elbow on the table and rested her chin in her hand. "That's everything...now you know everything." There was something liberating about that, and it seemed like everything was okay. That was something almost completely missing from Kealey's life to this point. Social interaction that involved confrontation and resolution...and it had just happened.
Kealey couldn't help but smile a little bit at the thought. Ash didn't know as much as he thought, there was something to be said about spending ones social life in a library.
Posted by ashbrooks on Mar 17, 2009 21:51:53 GMT -6
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As Kealey started talking again, she lowered her eyes to the table. At least what she said made Ash feel a little better, if she was only able to intensify or lessen something that was already there rather than place any emotion in someone.
Kealey seemed to be getting more comfortable as she sat there, though, now resting her chin in her hand as she once again looked across at him.
And then Kealey was smiling. Right after telling him apparently everything about her powers. That was so much more foreign a concept to Ash than everything else he had heard and seen from her that Ash couldn't figure out why she was smiling.
Leaning forward, Ash rested his arms on the table and looked at the blond across from him. So she had told him everything about her power, and yet he had still refused to even verbalize the fact that he was a mutant.
Then he shook his head. "What is that smile for?" He asked, still confused by that. Then he leaned forward a bit more across the table, his voice dropping even more. "What's it feel like to be able to be so open like that?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Mar 17, 2009 22:12:09 GMT -6
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It seemed like the smile was all it took. As she'd spoken Ash had gotten even more comfortable, the mistrust fading slowly until it was completely gone. He was at ease, at least for the moment, and that meant Kealey was able to completely relax. The smile was genuine, and he knew it.
Kealey scooted back, just slightly, as Ash leaned forward on the table and she blushed slightly, "I've never had anyone actually forgive me for something without asking me to say this many Hail Mary's or that many Our Father's. You listened to what I had to say, and I can tell you accepted it. It's nice." she said simply as an explanation. It was true. Absolution had always required penance in the past. Not this time though, it had just required explanation. It really was nice. Being social was good.
Then Ash asked a question that made Kealey grin even more broadly. If she knew anything, Kealey knew that the question Ash had just asked was the closest thing she was going to get to him actually admitting that he was a mutant too. Then she actually thought about the question he had asked. Why did it feel like to be that open about her powers. Brows furrowed together, Kealey searched her feelings, trying to pull together and answer that would describe it.
"I don't know anything else Ash." she settled on, "I couldn't exactly hide what I am when it started either." her eyes averted and her face darkened slightly at the memory, "I didn't have the luxury of discretion. The situation in which my gifts manifested made it impossible. It took me a long time to learn how to deal with this, and it took a lot of help." Kealey paused for a second, "You saw a few minutes ago what can happen. Now just imagine what it would be like for me in a situation where lots of people were panicked, all at once."
That was enough of that, she was bordering on complaining, so Kealey smiled again. Genuine again, if slightly smaller, "So I guess the more succinct answer to your question is that it feels really nice. You know, so I don't have to worry about you finding out and reacting down the line." Down the line. Kealey didn't even realize she'd said it.
Posted by ashbrooks on Mar 18, 2009 8:47:36 GMT -6
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She was surprised, though happy, that he had forgiven her. Or at least wasn't upset because of what she had done. The fact of the matter was she hadn't done anything, she'd simply thought about doing it, and had changed her mind, left before she did do something.
This girl was so...Ash didn't even know what word to use to describe her. It had to have been because of that whole nun thing; Ash couldn't think of a single person who got so upset simply because they had thought of doing something.
"There's really nothing to forgive, Kealey," Ash said. And really, there wasn't. Maybe if she had actually changed what he was feeling, but she hadn't. "Plus, I'm not Catholic, so I couldn't make you do that anyway."
She hadn't had the chance, the choice, to try and hide her powers because of what they were and how they had shown themselves? Ash was very different in that regard, shadows were fairly easy to hide, especially when the entire family had more serious things to worry about.
Kealey was smiling again when she finished, saying that it felt really nice to be open because she didn't have to worry about his reaction later when he found out. Which had Ash frowning. It was already too late for that. His mother was going to be shocked, upset, maybe even angry that he had hidden this from her for so long. Coming clean about it now might not actually be a good idea. Even if it did feel good to finally be able to be completely honest.
He'd have to think about it. Long and hard.
But maybe it wasn't too late this time, with Kealey. Maybe this was something he was going to have to change about himself. She already knew he was a mutant, had already asked what his power was. He could try it, test it out, see how it actually felt for him to be open.
Glancing around the large room, Ash decided it was far too crowded, and too bright. Well, one step at a time, he thought. Kealey's form of showing was quite a bit more subtle than his, anyway.
"Shadows," Ash said softly, turning his eyes back to Kealey with a serious expression. "I can create and control shadow people."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Mar 18, 2009 9:42:59 GMT -6
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Kealey laughed, a true laugh full of mirth when Ash pointed out that there was nothing for him to forgive and that even if there were, he wasn't Catholic. "Oh Ash...I wouldn't need you to assign a penance...and chances are when I go to confession this week I'll have to do it anyway. Though, you surely made things easier for me by handling this so well."
He was fighting inside himself, Kealey could feel the conflicting emotions again, there was something in him that Ash was trying really hard to decide. She wanted to ask, she was curious, but she'd be prying again so she kept her curiosity to herself.
A woman a few tables over found something that surprised her and Kealey made a little, "Oh!" sound like she'd been the one to have a startling realization, then she covered her mouth with her hand. Darn residual feelings. Then Ash spoke, so quietly that she barely heard what he was saying. Kealey leaned forward, just in time to catch him saying that he could make and control....shadow people.
Kealey laughed, she couldn't help herself, Ash had been so secretive, so protective of his powers. Kealey had thought they had to be something sinister, but shadow people ?
"That's what you're trying so hard to hide?" she said, then realized that she'd just laughed at Ash when he'd done something that just thinking about a few minutes earlier had made him panic. Kealey's eyes widened and she gasped, hands flying to her mouth again, "I'm so...so sorry...I'm..I....oh my goodness, I can't imagine what you have to think about me"
She couldn't help it though, she dropped her hands and smiled, albeit apologetically, "I guess...I'm just surprised. You were so protective of your secret...I was thinking it had to be something sinister. Don't you feel better now though? Having it out there?"
Posted by ashbrooks on Mar 18, 2009 10:04:24 GMT -6
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She was happy he had forgiven her, glad that he had handled what she had told him so well, and yet was still going to tell some priest about what she had thought about doing in confession? Ash shook his head. Catholics didn't make sense to him.
He had thought, he had decided to try being open about himself, about his powers, had actually told Kealey what he could do. And she laughed.
Ash glared, just as Kealey's hands came up to cover her mouth and she started to apologize. That was it? As if simply being a mutant wasn't big enough. Though, Ash realized as Kealey's hands dropped back to the table once more, maybe to her it really wasn't. Ireland hadn't had anything like the Registration Act, didn't seem to be as harsh toward mutants. Or at least Ash had never really heard much of anything regarding mutants there in the news.
His glare softened, but remained on his face.
"Only a handful of people know what I am," Ash said, keeping his voice quiet so others couldn't over hear him. "Never mind knowing what I can do. And the first thing you do is laugh. So no, I'm not feeling better." In fact, Ash was kind of angry. "Mutants are feared and hated simply because of what they are, not necessarily their powers. There's a reason people hide."
With that, a slight shake of his head, Ash stood up. "I should really get to work," he stated, his voice returning to a more normal volume for being in a library.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Mar 18, 2009 11:59:24 GMT -6
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He didn't take it well. She'd laughed at him and Ash didn't take it very well. The look on his face said it absolutely as clearly as the anger rolling over his emotions, pushing everything else to the back burner. He was actually angry with her now.
Kealey watched, slightly horrified with herself as Ash leaned forward and spoke again, quietly, but she could feel the anger boiling under the surface of his voice.
"I know..." she said, eyes wide again as he continued, "I'm....I'm sorry...I was just...."
Then Ash said he needed to get to work and he got up from the table and walked away. Kealey couldn't believe it, he'd just walked away. Part of her wanted to get up and go after him, go after him like he'd gone after her a few minutes before. She couldn't though. Something was stopping her from getting up and following the man who'd just shared his darkest secret with her and gotten laughter in return.
Cheeks flaring up again, Kealey watched Ash as he walked away, then quietly slipped out of the chair she'd sat down in when they'd returned to the table. This time, she made it out of the Public Records room. Back up the stairs Kealey went, back to the section of the library that she called home during her buisness hours. Only, her shift was over.
It was the only place Kealey knew to go though, the only place where relative emotional silence would let her work out what she was really thinking. Back in the stacks, Kealey leaned up against a book case and ran her hands through her hair, grabbing it at the back of her head. What the hell was wrong with her?
Looking up at the books, Kealey realized she needed to get out of the library. So that's what she did, first to the employees area to grab her purse and other things, then out into the street. She knew where she was going. The streets were familiar by now, and as Kealey entered the church she heaved a deep sigh of relief when she saw the confessional. This was where she needed to be.