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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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?
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Posted by Luke Jacobs on Sept 21, 2009 7:26:08 GMT -6
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They were at the office and Rupert was broaching the subject that apparently was so important to him. "A dream?" Luke thought, suddenly battling off the feelings of panic that were trying to rush in, "Rupert had a dream to?! Why the hell did they both have dreams and I didn't?" None of this was making any sense and right now Luke was feeling more and more foolish for not talking to Raina earlier but there was really no helping it. The decision had been made and there was no turning back now.
"Maybe I'll pick up a donut and coffee at the kitchen and take him one." Luke replied with a tight smile, not even realizing how close Raina had actually come until her hand touched his shoulder. He did his best not to jump but the slight stiffening in his muscles showed that he was surprised, "I haven't had a chat with him in quite a while."
And then Raina asked the million dollar question. It hurt to know that he was in a situation where Raina even had to worry about him doing something as simple as walking down the hall. Normally her worries had more to do with his late night activities or the X-Men mission he had been sent on. Walking down a hall should not have been cause for concern!
"I'll be fine." Luke replied with a slight nod before raising his voice just a touch louder and addressing the other man, "I'll see you later Rupert. You two have a good talk."
Turning away from Raina, Luke slipped out of the office and slowly made his way down the hall. The steady tap, tap of his cane was muffled by the carpet and soon the sound itself dissapeared as he made his way down the stairs. "Donuts... bleh."
Posted by Rupert Kelley on Sept 27, 2009 1:59:21 GMT -6
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Raina sent Luke away. As nice as the man was, Rupert wasn’t sad to see him go. Whatever it was between these two... it could go with the man, off down the hall. For donuts. Rupert followed Raina’s red hair into the office; she shut the door behind them.
That way she propped up her head on her hand was beyond words; that, right there, was Raina. His wife. Something in his chest hurt at that thought.
>> "Rupert Kelley... You looked less worn in the dream. Relaxed, peaceful, well... except when it came to Alice or the baby."
His breath caught in his throat for a moment. “Well,” he replied quietly, a hesitant smile on his lips, “I did have you with me, then.”
‘Then’: because it wasn’t a dream, so much as a time. So many people seeing it couldn’t be just some freak chance. That was the future.
Posted by rainewater on Sept 30, 2009 18:02:41 GMT -6
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Raina stared across at Rupert with a smile on her lips. Then, she let out a long kept in sigh and gave her famous grin. "Well... I guess I wasn't crazy." she stretched herself back in her chair and crossed her legs leaning on the other arm thinking. "I knew I couldn't have been the only one to have the dream. I'm glad to know you had it too."
Her whole body relaxed at the thought in fact. This was everything she needed to know, and probably Rupert as well. "Strange, wasnt it. Everything was different, so peaceful, and so natural." she admitted. "I liked the school we worked for. I liked the people. I miss them." she added staring off into the room for a moment.
"Ah.." she shook herself out a bit and sat a bit more proper. "So, what do you think caused this dream? You and I had it... but others knew about us in this dream as well. Others had it too. " of course she had her own theories about another mutant, or maybe some drug.... she was interested in what Rupert thought. "I must say you're rather calm about this. I can't admit to being the same when I woke up thinking Id just had a baby."
Posted by Rupert Kelley on Oct 14, 2009 2:10:53 GMT -6
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>> "Strange, wasn’t it. Everything was different, so peaceful, and so natural. I liked the school we worked for. I liked the people. I miss them."
Strange? Strange was sitting across from Raina, having this conversation. Strange was like knowing they’d walked out of each others’ lives months ago, but sitting here now, feeling he’d never left. “You can still see them, you know,” he said. “Some of them. Do you remember Tarin and Lee? Alice’s parents? They run a shop downtown.” He ran a hand through his hair, somewhat shyly. “I went to see them a few days ago. They remember.” As for the others—he wasn’t sure. He seemed to remember a Katherine, or a Katrina, or Katelyn—some ‘Kat’ name. One of the Academy’s founders. And a blonde woman who taught art—and occasionally looked like Sara Nobes. Yeah, right. That was obviously his memories, getting in the way of the dream itself. It was impossible for the lioness to have been there—for one thing, she couldn’t just turn her mutation off. For another thing? There wasn’t a future for her: she was dead now. He’d seen to it, himself.
That was another thing he’d have to tell Raina, eventually. Just... not today. Not right now, and not right here. Not while it felt so natural to be sitting near her.
>> "Ah... So, what do you think caused this dream? You and I had it... but others knew about us in this dream as well. Others had it too. I must say you're rather calm about this. I can't admit to being the same when I woke up thinking I’d just had a baby."
He shook his head. “ ‘Calm’ wouldn’t have been my word for it, either. I—when the dream ended for me, I was holding her. Or him. I can’t even remember anymore—I just remember a nurse handing it to me, and then... I was holding it, Raina.” He looked into those grey eyes, a helpless smile on his lips. “I was holding our baby when I woke up. I could still feel it in my arms—its weight, its warmth. Its smell. It was real. Even if no one but us had had that dream, you can’t tell me that wasn’t real. We had a baby together. We—we were changing the world. We were good people. I was a good person. Something let us see the future, and that had to be for a reason.”
He drew in a nervous breath. The last he’d be taking, until she answered him. This was it, then. “I want you back, Raina. I want to try this all again. If you’ll have me.”
Posted by rainewater on Oct 14, 2009 12:43:25 GMT -6
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"Tarin and Lee.." she said absentmindedly. Those names were coming up a lot- Alice's parents. She remembered them now, and even Naveed and Luke had mentioned them both to her recently. "yeah... it was like something out of a book, so orchestrated." she stood up while he continued talking and paced around the room a bit. Her mind was still a fire with theories of what could have caused the dream.
It was so surreal to be having this conversation with Rupert Kelley, a man who shot her, several times, entrapped her, betrayed her, and yeah broke her heart. She hoped it showed how much of a bigger person she was now that she could do this- not that there was anyone around to even witness it. She was at least proud of herself. She got herself over Rupert. Sure it was... uncomfortable... to be around him, but there was no blushing, no flittering heart, no butterflies in her stomach. She was proud of herself for making herself feel or at appear to feel so unaffected. Naturally she didn't want to be thought of as crazy, but even more so she didn't want Rupert to have any control over her emotions anymore.
When he started talking about the baby her face grew solemn and she watched him. "We did have a baby Rupert-" she began ready to unload her own bombshell interrupting him while he added that he was a good person and then finally took a breath.
His whole reason for being there suddenly erupted.
This was it, then. “I want you back, Raina. I want to try this all again. If you’ll have me.”
She stared with a blank face for a moment, not really processing what he'd said. Still going on the thought she'd started. '...we did have a baby Rupert..." she continued though this time her voice sounded almost staticky like it wasn't entirely present. "not in some dreamland future world either. A real baby. It was growing inside me and I didn't even know, until it died inside me in the camps."
That's when what he said finally processed. After her own mouth had been running along ahead of her brain. "You really think that future is possible?" she asked without any inflection. "I'm still a freak you know." she pulled her shirt neck down to reveal the thin circlet scar that ran around it. "I really should have told you, but your actions as well as the rest of this city pretty much proved that I was right not telling you."
She eyed a glass of water on the desk forgetting that her ability to transform has been halted somehow since the dream "go ahead, throw it on me, see what happens. I wont melt like a witch but it still wont be pretty." her words were loaded but again they still came out so robotically. "I dont have some magical power to control things. I can barley manage my own life right now let alone have any ambition that would lead to what I did in that dream... we've barely just rebuilt and re-established this place here..." she waved her arms around the room.
The thing was, in this very instant, Raina wasn't thinking of Luke or the idea that Rupert might even still be in love with her. For the first time since everything happened Raina was actually feeling like a victim who deserved retribution.
"I even tried to change myself for you. Found out about some miracle cure bullshit-" it was clear she'd worked herself into a lather since she couldn't recall ever swearing in front of Rupert "-that was going to make me not be a mutant. That landed me nearly dead and with a crazy Doctor who's still been bothering me to this day! I couldn't even get away on a vacation with my boyfriend-"
That's when it hit her. Rupert didn't know. Rupert hadn't made the connection, he hadn't figured it out, if he'd thought she'd been holing up here single without a hope for anyone else but him he'd have been right ... almost a year ago. She'd been with Luke now since the beginning of last winter. Only a few more months now and it would have been a year. And they were going to move in together damnit! Even if she was pissed he hadn't told her he'd lost his vision!
"My boyfriend." she stated "practically fiance" ok, stretching it a little bit but by God she was riled up. "Is that sweet sincere man who unknowingly brought you here to be your emotional support." she paused to let that sink in for a moment. "You said this future stuff happened for a reason? Well I think our whole mess of a relationship, the camps, everything happened so I could find Luke." she was finally starting to calm down now. In letting out this anger she held suppressed for Rupert for so long she was starting to let go of a bit of the anger she was feeling for Luke currently.
"Luke loves me" she said and she believed it "for me. For who I am, who I was, and who I'll be." she felt her chest burning saying these words. "and Rupert... this dream may have you thinking you miss me but it's based on a lie." she took a step closer to him "you're afraid of me. You're afraid of all mutants. And you should be, I could freeze you where you stand. Make your blood freeze moment by moment in your veins or make you a permanent ice mummy fixture in my office. "
She stopped about a foot away from him eyes penetrating and nostrils flared. So much for unaffected. "You know I'm right"
leave it to Raina to take his one verbal sentence and turn it into a book.
Posted by Rupert Kelley on Oct 17, 2009 7:36:46 GMT -6
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S***. Rupert Kelley ran a hand through his short curls, and didn’t evade those angry gray eyes. Yeah, he had a lot to be ashamed of. But not that. Not those things she was saying.
“I heard about the baby,” he said, quietly. “After the miscarriage—that nurse called me. I heard.” ‘Sorry’ didn’t cover it. ‘Sorry’ didn’t begin to cover it. It was his child, too—his little girl, or little boy. His mutant, or his human. His blood. What he’d done to Raina had killed it: that, he’d have with him the rest of his life, along with what might have been. Raina only had what might have been. Let that extra burden be his apology; words could never come close. He didn’t even try.
“Raina, I was working with the Resistance, from day one.” Day three, if you wanted to get damn technical about it. “I didn’t tell you—I couldn’t tell you.” He made sure to look into her eyes. His next words weren’t accusing: they were just the truth. She had to understand this part. “From the moment we met, you’d lied to me. Maybe things would have still ended up the same if you hadn’t—maybe I’d have just dumped you, and still shot you at the round up.” Maybe he wouldn’t have. She’d robbed him of that decision, when she first decided to play at being human. “The fact is, I couldn’t trust you not to tell the others—and I couldn’t trust that word to not get back to the other guards.”
“When the breakout happened, I was the one who sabotaged those drugs they were feeding you. I was the one who shut off the collars. I was the one—” he swallowed, thickly, “I was the one who let all those people get killed, so you freaks could get out.” The guards at the Camp? They hadn’t been good people. But they’d been human, and a hell of a lot of the mutants in that Camp hadn’t exactly been good people, either. “I did it for you. I did it because—because, damn it, I love you. Even if you’re a mutant.”
“After the Camps, yeah, I dumped your ass.” In a public park, where children were playing. Like their kid might have played, someday. His muddy hazel eyes weren’t apologetic. “Do you now why I did that, Raina? Because I still loved you. I loved you, but I couldn’t get that bloodbath out of my head—what your people had done, and what they were capable of. I let you go, because I didn’t want you to change. Not for me.”
He might have been speaking a bit more loudly than necessary, by this point. It was hard to tell, past the blood pounding in his ears. “Yes, I’m afraid of mutants. You’re the damn future, and half of you spend your time shoving that in our faces while the other half plays in some kind of delusional kiddy pool where we all have a happy future. Mutants are going to be the death of us. I know that. But I still love you.”
“I love you for who you are, even if you’re a freak. I love you for who you were, even if you did spend the entire time lying to me. And yeah—I think I can love you, whatever you become. That dream—call it whatever you want; but you must have felt it too—our child, or future; that was real. We could really make that happen. We could be those people. We could be out there changing the world, making the difference this school of yours is always preaching. We can do it, together. Don’t you want that?”
There was an odd note in his voice; almost pleading. He found that he was sitting on the edge of his chair, leaning towards Raina, but he didn’t remember when he’d started.
That future—he wanted it. He wanted it so bad, it hurt. He hadn’t killed anyone since that dream. He’d made nice with Tarin and Lee. Hell, he’d even started going to church again. He’d been shown something he’d have never believed, after the Camps: that he could be a good man.
She could be happy with him; she could be madly in love. She could have that beautiful baby that he'd held in his arms.
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Raina felt the colour drain away from her face as Rupert explained what he'd done to help the mutant cause. But if he was with the resistance why shoot her to begin with? That night could have gone so differently if the raid just didn't happen. They could have gotten away some place safe, avoided the whole thing. He was right in that he didn't trust her not to tell the others - like she could talk anyway? but at the same time she felt like she wasn't only protecting herself but the mansion by not telling Rupert.
He sure made it hard to hold a grudge. "I'm angry." she finally breathed out. "I'm angry, now." she emphasize. "But I didn't carry it around." she explained. "I..." she searched for the words and hesitated. "I haven't been angry with you this entire time. I didn't hold things against you." The momentary release of emotions had her playing herself off as the victim with her rant but now that it was finally off her chest she knew she didn't feel it anymore- and really didn't feel it all that much to begin with. Obviously a sympathy card wasn't going to work with Rupert.
"You sound like I did." she said backing down from him a bit- despite the fact he was leaning on his chair she almost felt like they were dancing the tango with all that energy and their bodies so close together. "I said all those things, hopelessly deluded... for so long." her face looked a bit older saying those words as she found her own chair and sat in it. Her eyes were beginning to sting.
"The dream felt real to you, but I lived it twice now. Twice I've had a baby ripped away from me. Twice." her shoulders heaved a little as she fought back tears. She wasn't thinking she hadn't transformed the last time she got wet and she wasn't thinking about now showing emotion in front of Rupert anymore.
"I think this dream has you deluded. You probably wont feel this way in a few more days or weeks."
The idea of them getting back together was actually gobstopping. Even if Luke wasn't a huge factor or even in the picture, Rupert just wouldn't be dating a mutant he'd be dating a performing mutant! What would he think of her work at the aquarium? Why was she even thinking about it this much or caring?!
"It was just... a d-dream." she stammered. "Probably brought on by some psychic mutant or something..." she trailed off. She didn't want to be here anymore. at this cross roads where it was Luke or Rupert. Rupert was supposed to stay hating her. It made it easier to be happy with Luke.
"I uh-." she cleared her throat and stood up dabbing at her eyes a bit but trying to hide it. "I really should go find L-Luke..."
there was a vibrating sound from her desk and she looked over to see her phone buzzing. Apparently she'd been getting messages and not knowing it through the whole conversation. "It's Sam." she said pulling it close to her face and tilting it to see through the glare. "Some team leader meeting or something." she saw that the forwarding message had been sent to some familiar faces, including Luke. Oh. So she really would see him soon. Her scapegoat comes true.
"I uh.. it was... nice seeing you." she forced pushing her chair back into the desk and hastily tidying things trying to look preoccuipied. "You know your way out?" she didn't wait for an answer "see you later." she said regretting it instantly as she hurried herself out the door.
yep. That's how Raina was going to deal with this for the time being. Utter denial and avoidance. No Rupert, no problem!