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 Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 25, 2009 10:44:36 GMT -6
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Aurum took the card and turned it in his hand, examining. His eyes trailed over the thin blue text that described Jenni's name and position in the world. For a moment, he was taken back by a tinge of surprise. She was the Burrough's president? When she said she was in politics, he hadn't guessed she was that far up in the world. He shook the surprise away with an inward smirk and slipped the business card into his shirt pocket with an appreciative smile. "Thanks. Hold on just a second." Aurum's fingers darted down to his jean pocket, and extracted a wallet as the line lurched forward two people. He glanced over his shoulder, then shifted backwards to match the lines pace while he fumbled with a thin rectangle of paper within the billfold. He pulled a pen from his pocket and wrote something on the back of the card, then held it out to her between thumb and index fingers.
"My card." A thin smirk worked its way onto his face. On the face of the card, the logo for Full Circle was raised in a cute shade of ectoplasmic green. "I wrote my number on the back, in case you need to reach me. It's my cell. The work number's on the front. Oh, and..." A second card slipped out from under the first, rectangle running tangent in a two-pronged attack. On this card, a golden bee was emblazoned amid a few tufts of happy grass and a daisy. "That's for my family's restaurant. It should get you a discount on a plate of spaghetti or whatever your heart desires. It's my way of saying thanks for whatever you can do to help."
Posted by jennicarlson on Jun 25, 2009 19:19:42 GMT -6
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Was that surprise Jenni saw on Aurum's face as he read her business card? Well, it wouldn't be the first time, really. Most people didn't expect her to be in the position that she was. But then again, most people didn't really know what the Borough President did.
A moment later - he really was trying to hide that surprise, wasn't he? - Aurum pulled out his wallet, followed by a business card which he wrote on the back of.
Taking the card, make that cards, once they were offered, Jenni smiled in appreciation. "Thank you," she said as the line moved forward once more. Then she saw that they had definitely moved up in the line. So much so that the only person she saw between her and the table the author was sitting at was Aurum. "I think it's your turn," she said to him, looking over his shoulder toward the table.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 25, 2009 20:13:21 GMT -6
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"Ah," Aurum followed her gaze and his eyes fell on the clear path to the wildebeest. "So it is." With a smile, he stepped up to the table. The wallet slipped back into his pocket. At the table, Ms Wildebeest sat flanked by two helpers in black suits and shades. The one on the left passed her a book. The other put a hand to his ear piece, looking at the door as if on guard for some national threat. The Wildebeest lady picked up a pen.
"Who tooooo?" She drawled. The white of her teeth flashed against gray gums. Aurum cleared his throat and adjusted his collar nervously. Serious face time, serious face time...
"Aurum Mellitus, Ma'am." He managed.
"Anything special you want it to saaaay?" She smacked her lips as she shifted the tip of the pen as gently as she could on the inner front page. It moved like a crayon in the hands of a two-year old between her hooves.
"How about 'To Aurum and Full Circle. May your cause be just?'" Aurum offered with a weak laugh. Miss Wildebeest gazed down at him with the look a school teacher gives for a wrong answer.
"A bit looong in the tooth, isn't it?" She clicked her tongue.
"Then just 'To Aurum'!" The barista Barrister hastily amended. "Thanks." Miss Wildebeest nodded and finished her scrawl. She set the pen down and plucked a stamp up for the finish. With a downward press, her name appeared on the page in red. She brought the pen back in to add final touches, and nudged the book Aurum's way.
"There you gooooo~" She beamed her toothy grin. The security guard on the right waved his arm towards the main counter. "Thank you for reading my booooks."
"Thank you for giving a voice to the people. Your turn, Jenni." Aurum stepped aside, clutching his book to his chest. He gave her a conciliatory bow of the head.
Posted by jennicarlson on Jun 29, 2009 9:00:38 GMT -6
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As Aurum stepped up to the table to get his signed book, Jenni continued to wait her turn. Aurum and the mutant author appeared to be discussing what she would write in the book as she signed it for him, apparently having a difference of opinion at the first idea.
A part of Jenni could definitely understand; while what Aurum had requested wasn't all that long in and of itself, when you added it up for every book this woman would likely be signing that day, that was a lot of writing, and Jenni knew that her hand most definitely started to hurt after a lot of writing things out by hand.
Yet, another part of Jenni was kind of wishing for a similar personalization herself.
Then Jenni saw Aurum stepping to the side, saying it was her turn. Giving him a quick smile, Jenni stepped forward, giving Miss Wildebeest a smile as well.
"I'm so glad I'm getting the chance to meet you," Jenni said, her voice sincere but not gushing as the woman on the other side of the table started got ready to sign.
"Who tooooo?" Miss Wildebeest asked without really acknowledging what she had said. Jenni noticed that's exactly what the woman had asked Aurum as soon as he had stepped up to the table.
"To Jenni," She replied, the proceeded to spell it since no one thought to spell Jenni like her name was spelled, even when they were told it was with an 'I'.
"Do you have any quick suggestions that may, or may not, be in your book, to help improve human/mutant relations and interaction?" Jenni went on to ask as the mutant in front of her went on to finish signing her book.
"It's all in the booook," Miss Wildebeest replied, closing the cover and then holding said book out toward Jenni. "There you goooo."
"Uh huh," Jenni replied, suddenly not at all impressed as she took the now signed copy of the book and added it to the pile in her arms. She had been hoping for a little something extra, that's why she had actually come all the way here, spent the money on gas, all that. If Jenni had known she wasn't going to get anything more than what she'd manage to get out of the book, she would have just gone to a book store much closer to home to pick it up. And she would have been able to spend time with her son while doing that.
Stepping over to Aurum, Jenni tried to hide her disappointment with a small smile. "Guess I should go pay for all of this now, shouldn't I?" She asked.
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Aurum shifted his book in front of him and looked at the inner cover while he waited for Jenni. His hazel eyes trailed over the softly-flowing text, glazed over Wildebeest's signature, and bounced along the paragraph of the very first chapter. The dust cover slipped as he read. Powerful words described the need for equality, and how the media had built a stigma on various races through the past. Society’s current consensus towards mutants was just another social stigmata. Hands were burning, people were dying, and someone in the public’s eye was alaways getting crucified for something they’d done. In the brief moment between Jenni leaving him and his scanning the page, Aurum got a sense for the changes Miss Wildebeest was stressing. She made valid points, even if her book-signing face was hard-pressed to convey them.
Jenni came back, slightly disheartened but wearing a smile. Aurum folded the dustcover back into place and nodded.
“Pretty good book so far. The main counter is over here.” He led her to Shin, then set his book down for the Asian to ring up. “Two copies of Miss Wildebeest’s book. Put it on my account.” He turned back to smile at Jenni as Shin rang everything up.
“Alrighty, Aurum. Anything else?” Shin smiled.
Aurum stepped aside, making room for Jenni. He made a sweeping gesture. “Your turn.”
Posted by jennicarlson on Aug 2, 2009 1:37:34 GMT -6
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Apparently Aurum had started to read during the short time that she had been at the table getting her own copy signed. He said that it was a good book so far, and Jenni nodded. Hopefully she'd be able to get a lot more out of reading the book than she had gotten out of this signing.
But Aurum was leading her over to the counter now, so Jenni followed him, her books in her arms, until they reached the till. Then Jenni looked over at Aurum in surprise as he said that he was getting two copies of the book they had just gotten signed. Two copies, but he only had one in his hands.
"You really don't need to do that, Aurum," Jenni said, but the book had already been rung up, and the guy behind the counter was already moving onto her other books.
Pulling her wallet out of her purse, Jenni handed over the cash for the books, then turned to look at Aurum while everything was being put into a bag for her. "But thank you."
Taking the now packed bag, Jenni turned to look at Aurum again, a small smile on her face as she slowly made her way away from the counter so that people behind them could pay. "I suppose you probably need to get back to work, don't you?" She asked.
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A red light flickered as the scanner skimmed over the barcodes. Shin turned the copy of Miss Wildebeest’s book over and set it on the counter, moving on to the next one. His fingers fumbled, trying to find the bar code on it. He folded the dust cover back down as Jenni spoke to Aurum. He couldn’t help but overhear. Inwardly, he shook his head. Had Aurum really just purchased that book for her? The scamp. It was a good thing she’d accepted it. The guy’d gotten lucky. Shin had seen it backfire too many times to count. He set the last of her books on the little stack, took her money, and rung up the purchase. Scooping the books up, he jerked a plastic bag up from under the counter and slipped them in, alongside the receipt. He pushed the white plastic bag across the counter towards her, with the green Full Circle logo facing out.
“Thanks for your purchase. Have a nice day.” He smiled brightly. His bangs dangled as he tilted his head.
“You’re welcome,” Aurum replied, completely focused on Jenni. There was a certain chipper brightness in his eyes. He was also glad she’d accepted the gift. He shifted out of other customers ways as he followed her. Temptation pulled at him. The way she asked that question made it seem like she was leaving some sort of offer for coffee out there in plain sight, should he choose to take it. And he was tempted, really. All it would take was a backwards glance to tell him the Full Circle was busy, though. Shin and Ghost needed him. He couldn’t wander off from duty like that. He’d already risked enough straying from his counter to help her this long. Aurum shook his head once, politely.
“I’m sorry. I wish I could go on break right now, but they need me.” A smile hinted at possibility? There was always next time, when they met to discuss apprenticeships and what she’d found. ”Maybe some other time?”