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.
“That’s something that you will have to find out on your own I’m afraid,” Hunter told Meld, “Whatever it is that will replace that for you is something unique to you. However I will help you try and find it, whatever it may be.”
“Now are you ready to try and tap into the emotions again or have you had enough for today?” Meld would set there pace here. Hunter would do no more than gently encourage her to continue. He was a guide, showing her the way instead of dragging her down it. Only by her will could she press on.
Posted by vampyremage on May 21, 2010 18:08:20 GMT -6
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Life wasn't easy. Funny how Meld seemed to have forgotten that fact. As a teenager she had dealt with competition and the difficulty intrinsic in the motivation to become the best. After her teenage years she had learned she was a mutant and, for two years after that, mere survival was the challenge. How did one come to terms with the fact that one was a mutant after spending her whole life being told that mutants were evil? And how did one learn to navigate the mazes of the criminal underground when one knew next to nothing about them? Yet somehow Meld had managed and beyond that, managed to excel.
The past year had its fair share of challenges also, in fighting the cause she had come to dedicate her life to but, perhaps, somewhere she had become complacent. Now Meld faced her most difficult challenge yet and that involved battling her own personal demons. How was it that her own self was more difficult to deal with that all of the trials and tribulations of the world around her?
"I'm ready to try again," Meld stated. She took a deep breath and sat back down. She was, after all, nothing if not stubborn with an undying will to succeed at anything she tried. She sure as hell was not going to let her own personal issues be the end of her.
“Alright then,” said Hunter with a small smile, “Before we begin I want you to relax completely. Go back to the memory again and replay that over and over in your mind. Let the emotion build up as you replay the moment. Don’t let go of the emotion at the end of each moment, but hold on to it and add the emotion of the next to it. And the next. And the next. Let it build and build until it becomes too much. Hold onto it until it becomes overwhelming.”
He still wanted to try and anchor this feeling in Meld and although she could not feel his touch she still was aware of her body. Once Meld had gone back into the memory and started to build up the emotion Hunter would gently take her wrists and cross her arms over her chest, opposite wrist to opposite shoulder. With any luck she’d be too engrossed in the memory and emotion to notice him doing it. While she shouldn’t consciously be aware of it subconsciously she should link crossing her arms with the emotions. If that worked then any time she had a nagging doubt that she was slipping she should be able to recall the emotion by crossing her arms.
Posted by vampyremage on May 21, 2010 18:36:10 GMT -6
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Meld went back to concentrating on her breathing, trying to bring her body back into a state of relaxation. It wasn't easy, especially considering what she knew she was about to do, but determination went a surprisingly long way. She decided on a slight change of technique, taking her mind entirely away from the dilemma at hand until the proper amount of relaxation had been achieved. Instead she played other images in her head, images of better and easier times with her sister and her classmates, images of winning martial arts tournaments. Only once she had managed to once again relax did she turn her attentions back to that first murder once again.
Once again Meld focused on the murder of the cop, trying to pull the little details back into her conscious mind. She remembered the smells of the hospital, the fear of the by standards all around. She felt the visceral reaction to the act build within her again, the horror that she could do such a thing and the disgust that it had been necessary. This time, instead of shying away from it, she attempted to hold onto it. That was what was needed, wasn't it?
Hunter watched as Meld relaxed herself first. She would need a clear head to attempt this and stimulating as their conversation had been she needed to put it from her mind and focus. Once she seemed to be replaying the memory and gathering the emotion he crossed her arms.
This time however Meld didn’t freak out and pull back. Instead she did as she was asked and embraced the emotion. As horrific an experience as Hunter knew this to be it was good for her. She needed this clear and strong. How much of this she could take he didn’t know, but as of yet she showed no signs that she needed to be pulled out.
Posted by vampyremage on May 22, 2010 9:18:33 GMT -6
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Meld continued to let the emotions build within her, a rare moment of feeling in a life of avoidance. The feeling that she conjured she imprinted into her mind. Would she ever be able to do this again? To remember the fresh horror of her first kill even beyond what she had felt way back then? She wasn't certain, but if nothing else she vowed that she would remember this day and this experience. Would it make her a better person or really make any difference at all? Again, she wasn't certain but all she could do was make the effort and hope it was enough.
"What now?" Meld asked. She had found a unique sort of calm, almost a peace when considering what she had done. Had she done something horrible and possibly unforgivable? Of course, she had taken a life and many lives after that. But it was her past and while her past coudln't be changed, her future could.
“Now we end for today,” Hunter said as he rose to his feet and offered Meld a hand up, “There are a few meditation exercise that I recommend but that’s enough for today. You’ve made great progress. I think you have the strength of will to see this through and survive.”
“Now on to a few practical issues,” he said, “You mentioned you might have enemies. Is the place you’re currently staying secure enough that you will not need to fight? I don’t want to see all your hard work undone by some thug who gets the wrong idea.”
Posted by vampyremage on May 22, 2010 10:59:08 GMT -6
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Meld opened her eyes slowly, feeling relieved that things were finished for the day. She felt she had actually made progress though towards what she was still a little unclear on. Still, she had been questioning her decision to come here yesterday but maybe, just maybe, she had made the right decision. She still wasn't certain that it would be possible to completely redeem herself or if she even wanted to go that far, but maybe she might at least be able to prevent herself from becoming the monster she was most afraid of.
"I'm staying at the Mansion," Meld answered. "Are you familiar with the place? They have a strict no violence rule on the grounds so I doubt I'd be attacked there. I'm mostly there only when its practical though, for sleeping and such. I don't...exactly fit in." Understatement. Even at the mansion she was known as a killer and few could accept her. Even among mutants her blades made her frightening and intimidating. "Its outside the Mansion grounds I have to worry."
“Then I extend my hospitality to you,” Hunter said simply, “You are welcome to stay here. My living quarters are up stairs and there is space for another. You won’t have to worry about people judging you here.”
Hunter’s apartment above was simple but relatively spacious. There was space for four people to live comfortably. It was missing some simple luxuries that people might expect. No TV or computer. What there was for relaxing were books and games like chess and mahjong. It was a relaxing place that Hunter refused to let unnecessary modern stresses interrupt.
Posted by vampyremage on May 22, 2010 12:16:20 GMT -6
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Meld blinked at Hunter, not quite sure that she had heard the offer correctly. Had he just offered to allow her to stay at his place? People just didn't offer her things like that. Well, unless she counted Aura and Abyss and maybe one or two others who resided at Sanctuary. E ven Ghost had only reluctantly accepted her at the Mansion and she was pretty sure she would never have offered had Meld not been forward about her need for a place to stay.
If the offer was true, however, it had its advantages. For one thing, she wasn't certain how long her welcome at the Mansion was likely to stay anyway. Things had been even more strained than usual after the human cult massacre she had so proudly participated in. "Are you sure you mean that?" Meld asked. Maybe he didn't quite realize what it was he was offering. Had he not understood the things she had done and was capable of doing in the future?
Hunter could see her surprise at his offer. “I would not say it if I did not mean it,” he stated plainly, “So long as you continue to obey my golden rule then you may stay here as long as you like.” Her past was no reason why she could not stay here. His was far worse.
If she turned violent Hunter was confident enough in his skills, and if needed abilities, to defend himself. However he didn’t think it would come to that. Meld was trying to set her life straight. She wasn’t here looking to hurt anyone.
Posted by vampyremage on May 22, 2010 12:49:53 GMT -6
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Meld nodded, taking Hunter at his word. He had been completely honest with her thus far, as far as she could tell anyway, so there was no reason to think that he may not be now. It was just so rare to think that anyone would be so willing to actually be nice to her, no strings attached. After all, she was still an almost complete stranger. Maybe he really was trying to make up for some horrible past.
"I don't need much," Meld stated. "Just a room and a place to create. A drawing table at the minimum, when it comes to actual metal working I have an arrangement for that in the city." Arrangement that included some amount of illigal money changing hands and a little threatening blackmail added to the mix, but aside from the day that the arrangement was made, no violence after that point. "And hopefully a tolerance for the fact that I'm a bit of a night owl."
“Room it a little Spartan,” Hunter explained as he started walking towards the stairs, “but should be comfortable enough. There should be enough space in the main room for drawing.” As they reached the top of the stairs Hunter opened the door and showed what he meant. There was a large open main room with sofas, a large table and chairs, well stocked book shelves along the walls and a piano in the corner with a violin on top. It had hard wood floors and a sloped glass ceiling that let the light in. There was little in the way of decoration. It was a simple but comfortable place.
“I hope you don’t mind classical music. Through there is the kitchen,” he said pointing to a door to their right, “It’s well stocked and you’re welcome to help yourself. However I am a vegetarian and if you want meat you’ll have to go and buy some. I won’t mind. Bathroom is through there,” he pointed to a door on the far wall, “That’s my room there,” he pointed to the furthest door on their left. There were three other doors. “You can choose any of the other three.” The rooms had a single bed and wardrobe. All had large windows and were quite specious. This was Hunter’s new home. Some would consider it a step down from the luxury of his old penthouse apartment but it suited Hunter much better.
Posted by vampyremage on May 22, 2010 14:53:02 GMT -6
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Meld followed Hunter as he showed her around the place. The place that was, apparently, to be her new home at least for a while. She didn't know how long it would last for, didn't know either how long she wanted it to last or how long he would want her to stick around but this wasn't the first time she had taken temporary accomidations somewhere and probably wouldn't be the last time.
"I don't mind classical music," Meld answered. "And I'm used to getting my own food anyway. This'll be quite a change compared to living with a house full of teenagers." She cracked a smile and if the smile was a bit tentative it was genuine. "I think I'll apreciate the peace and quiet of it all."
“It is most certainly going to be more peaceful here than the mansion,” Hunter assured her returning the smile, “Do you have anything that you need to get from the mansion?” While he knew people who did and had himself before travelled with nothing more than the clothes on his back it was likely that she had things at the mansion that she’d like to bring.
Looking at the clock on the wall it showed that it was half past two. That meant that Kai was probably already starting to work in the garden. “I promised to help someone in the garden,” he explained,” You’re welcome to make yourself or you can come and help in the garden.”