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 starscream on May 26, 2010 20:16:44 GMT -6
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It took shana moment to think of a reply, this guy was like an archer who never missed a shot. "yes that is correct, my original reason for leaving my home country was because my issue, had become very hard to deal with there since so many people knew me and reacted badly, that it was easier for me to take the trip here to the mansion. " she said opening up to this man in a way she had not with anyone else, even kasumi, her closest friend.
"But the fear it came with me, i could not get away from it, becuse it's been in my head the entire time as you said. I think i have always known this but it's become so easy and instictual to run i do it without thinking" she said honestly. Mentally she ahd always been russing from the sitattion "I ahve wanted to make my body match my mind, but i lacked the funding for it not to mention all the regulations that go with it" she said with a bit of a sigh. She would need to begin all of it sooner or later. "When i first came to the city, a taxi driver threw me out of his cab simply becuse he realized my true gender though no one else has seemed to" she admitted.
Hunter nodded as she told him how her transgender nature had brought her to America. He’d never had a chance to be to Israel, after all it was a very young country, but from what he had heard it didn’t sound like the kind of place that would tolerate Shana. “That’s the problem with a land of freedom,” he said with a smile, “People are free to be a**holes.”
“If you had the funding would you go for gender reassignment therapy?” This was an interesting question. There were some transgender individuals who just didn’t want to go through with it but still very much felt the opposite gender to that of their birth. The procedure also didn’t make all your problems go away. Shana had been running from her transgender nature for a long time. It might take her a while to stop running.
Posted by starscream on May 27, 2010 1:45:53 GMT -6
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"Yes, their are many things TV forgets to mention about this country" she said half admitting her knowledge of it had been quite lacking and in many ways still was. "To be honest most of what i knew of this country came from TV and the internet" she said expanding further. Her own words spoke volumes to her, making her realize she had been terrabley unprepared to change countries like she did. "Everything looks so much greener on the other side of the fence i guess" she said.
"Yes, i would" she said quickly and she knew she would it was why she came here, her mutation had been an excuse, a good one since she really did need practice with it and to learn to control it better. "the reason i left was to blend in here without anyone figuring out my birth gender which for the most part somhow seems to have worked and change my body to match without anyone ever noticing" she said honestly, though the plan somhow sounded more flimsy now.
“So what if I was to offer you the funds for the therapy?” Hunter asked. It wouldn’t solve all of Shana’s problems, but it would be a start. He had enough in various off shore bank accounts that served as backups for if he ever lost the majority of what he used that paying for the treatment wouldn’t make a noticeable difference.
To help Shana he was willing to pay for the treatment on one condition. Once it was finished she’d promise to have some follow up session with him. He wanted to help make the transition go as smoothly as possible.
Posted by starscream on May 27, 2010 14:37:10 GMT -6
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"I couldn't ask that of you" she said honestly, feeling a bit unconformable with the offer. She did want it, more then anything, but it was a lot of money for someone just to hand her. It was strange yesterday she had been ready to flee from the man and today he was offering her everything she wanted on a silver platter.
"Plus....i don't think it would solve the real issue....iv'e been running for so long im not sure i understand how to stop" she admitted, having known this for a long time, but all her attempts to fix this seemed to get blasted apart by her own natural fear. "I think it may be better to deal with the real issues first, that way i can be sure im not just running again" she said, with a sigh, she wnated to take hunter up on his offer, but was it what she really wnated, oir was it just another way to run away? She had no answer for her own question.
“Had you asked for the money I would have given it to you,” he said with a smile, “On the condition that you come back for follow up sessions. But truthfully I’m glad you didn’t. Not because I can’t afford it, but because of what you said. The treatment would likely just be you still running. It takes a lot to admit it but you are right, you need to learn how to stop running.”
“And to that end you and me are going out Saturday night,” he said with a mischievous smile, “What you may not know is that New York actually has a thriving transgender scene. So I am going to take you to a transgender club where you can meet people like yourself in a much more casual setting.” He wondered how much panic his proposition would cause?
Posted by starscream on May 27, 2010 15:18:10 GMT -6
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"i could try......it's usually easier to be in places like that with others" she said truthfully, although she knew as time went on she would get more terrified. But with Hunter there she just might be able to do this, without being to terrified to enjoy it. "I guess the only way to get past things is to do them" she said though the nervousness was already apparent in her voice.
SHe was unsure how meeting others like her might help, but Hunter seemed to know very much what he was talking about, so she decided to try it. Hunter seemed like the kind of person who would keep her safe over all. "You know it's strange i never met another mutant is my home country but here they seem to be every ware" she said getting away from the topic a bit, trying not to dwell on an idea that would terrify he in days to come, though she figured was likely healthy for her.
Hunter was glad Shana had agreed to his proposal. By meeting other transgenders he hoped that their stories of how they’d come to be comfortable with themselves would help Shana do the same. For all his helpful advice Hunter hadn’t gone through what she was going through and had to place himself in her position rather than actually having been there.
“With the Xavier Institute and the Sanctuary New York attracts a lot of mutants,” Hunter said in answer to Shana’s unasked question, “Knowing that there are others like them who can help draws them here.” The parallel between this and their Saturday night plans was obvious.
“Speaking mutants how much training have you had with your powers?” he asked. Although she had her transgender issue being an uncontrolled telekinetic could pose a bigger problem. When you can move things with your mind it’s probably best to try and be in control of your mind. The mansion tended to run more combat oriented training sessions from what he remembered. For Shana he felt that control based exercise non combat exercises would be of more use.
Posted by starscream on May 27, 2010 16:39:52 GMT -6
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"Ah that must also be the reason for all the chaos on the news, so many people with power in one area" she said though she could not truly understand why they would want to harm each other. "I never could understand why people would want to harm each other." she said shaking her head a bit. "At home it was bad somtimes rockets going one way bombs the other, all of entirely pointless" she said before realizing she had gotten off the point, and she sheepishly tried to corale her mind back to what they were talking about.
"My powers? Largely just what i have done, i did a few training sessions at Xavoirs but....it just did not seem right" she said shaking her head. We played a game of ring toss with our powers and that was about it" she said having not really understood the exercise. "i kind of always views them as a secoundary issue to be solved later, though i did wipe out a laptop the other day, went through my window before i even realized it was airborne" she said highlighting her power issues.
Hunter knew more than a few things about hurting people. However Shana didn’t need to know the details. Instead he focused on her abilities. “Well I’ve worked with a few telekinetics,” he explained, “And so know a few exercises that might be of more used to you than those at the mansion. After all they have to cater for groups of mutants were I’m only concerned with you.”
“So what I want you to do is as you did before and clear your mind. Go back to your state of mind that you had when we were doing the exercise.” He slowly began to guide her back to the highly focused state she’d been in with the cube exercise. From there he would work on using that focus with her abilities.
Posted by starscream on May 28, 2010 20:33:16 GMT -6
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"Their are other telekinetics out thare?" she said surprised, though right away she guessed she should not have been. Of course their were others with the same or simmeler powers to the ones she had. "i just...everyone i met...their powers have been so different" she said explaining why she was so surprised at the prospect of other mutants having the same powers as her.
What they did before, right, she could do that, she was pretty sure anyway. Trying to push her worry aside she followed hunters voice guiding her back to the exercise she had done before, it still was hard to get there, the nagging voice in the back of her mind seemed ready to challenge her the entire way, but she did manage to achieve the state again. She almost wished she would never have to leave this state of mind, it felt so wonderful.
“While mutant powers are greatly varied there are some common themes,” Hunter explained, “Telepaths, telekinetics, those with animal like powers or enhanced physical abilities, elementals. While individual powers can be so varied and different they can often be categorised into broad groups. The same way people all have unique faces, but can be categorised by hair or eye colour.”
Once Shana had reached the focused state she had been in before Hunter moved on to the next step. “I want you to picture yourself floating in the middle of a vast white void,” he said as he helped her keep the focused state, “There’s no floor, walls or ceiling. Just you, floating comfortably in the middle of this place. It’s no effort to just float there. It feels perfectly natural.”
What Hunter was hoping to do was to get her subconscious to levitate her. She wasn’t trying to levitate herself consciously, just imagining herself floating. The focused state of mind she was in should mean that she wouldn’t notice if she started to levitate.
Posted by starscream on Jun 2, 2010 20:57:43 GMT -6
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Shana understood what hunter meant now, it made for more sence to her. It did not mean their were dozens of telkinetcs out thare only that other might have powers like hers. Aura closed her eyes and pictured herself in the void very easily, though it wa shard to maintain it. Though she manged after a few minutes of trying. She enjoyed this state and once again the temtation against leaving crept over her.
Shana's powers now unrestricted looked for somthing to play with and this time decided to pick her shoes. She hoverd slightly off the ground, however they pulled her feet up and Shana fell back, whacking her head against the ground, and breaking her from her trance like state, she groaned and rubbed the back of her head, which now hurt a little bit. She assumed it could have been worse and was grateful she could only lift smaller weights or she might really hurt herself some day.
Hunter chuckled light heartedly as Shana toppled over. It wasn’t mocking, more dismissing the issue. It wasn’t a problem. “What’s the most weight you’ve ever managed to lift?” he asked as he offered her a hand to pull her back upright.
He’d know a telekinetic who could lift tremendous weight with his mind. Fine control had been an issue and he had a tendency to crush whatever he was lifting. Shana might have a much lower upper limit than he had. However it wasn’t size that mattered, it was how you used it. If Shana couldn’t lift her own body weight then trying to get her to do so was a pointless exercise.
Posted by starscream on Jun 6, 2010 13:50:44 GMT -6
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"About thirty pounds and i can't seem to grip anything organic" she said actually referring to living things as she knew she could lift leather and dead sticks. "I can lift up and control many small objects, i have cooked breakfast using just my mind, however when i become distracted and stop focusing on keeping my powers controlled, i have issues, embarrassment causes issues a lot to" she said trying to explain to the man what she knew of her powers.
"i have lifted branches, a wagon, cups, knifes and a verity of other things with my power as well. I also seem to have to maintain visual contact with the object in some way or it starts to fall again" she said which was mostly true even if half the time it happened just on the edge of her vision so she did not notice until the object hit the ground again "But i ahve not practiced to much either so maybe that is why" she said unsure now if it was her own lack of practice that held her back.