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.
Amber made a mental note to herself that she would seek out the library early the next morning and find Miss Dallas and convince her to teach her. She had always been a bit of a strange girl (other than the obvious physical strangeness) because she actually enjoyed school and learning. History and biology were her favorite subjects, though English was a lot of fun too. The only subject that she had any sort of a problem in was math, which she could quite honestly do without. Maybe she could convince Miss Dallas to teach her everything except for math? Now that would be wonderful.
When the library door was open Amber stared open mouthed at all the many books, more books than she had ever had access to before. She had gone to the public library a couple of times, of course, but this was right here in her house. Absolutely amazing! "And w-we can use this anytime?" Awe was in her voice, the awe of having glorious books at her disposal any time she pleased.
Realizing, however, that Amber was currently walking around with a little girl, a girl who did not appear to have the same fascination with books as she did, Amber regretfully decided to return to the library later. "You m-mentioned video games?" Video games were almost as good as books anyway and it wasn't like the library was likely to go anywhere.
Posted by Kaitlyn Faust on May 28, 2010 15:05:28 GMT -6
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>>"And w-we can use this anytime?"
"Whenever you want." Amber looked like she was quite mpressed by the library. She seemed like the sort of person who liked to stay inside and read books. It probably didn't help that the sun hurt her skin so much.
>>"You m-mentioned video games?"
Kaitlyn closed the door with a smile. "Yep. They're in the rec room. Right there," she said, gesturing towards another set of double doors further down the hallway as she began to walk towards them.
"The guys are prolly playing Modern Warfare now. Wanna join 'em?"
...You've heard stories about me? Don't listen to them! It's safe to sit next to me, really!
Books and more books and all of them there for Amber's use, whenever and wherever she wanted. Truly, how much more wonderful could things possibly get?
That question, asked only in Amber's own head, was answered just a moment later when Kaitlyn directed her to the rec room where there were more and better video games than she had ever experienced. The answer, in seemed, was that the only thing better than wonderful books were wonderful video games.
The only problem with the rec room, however, was all the people, people that still made her incredibly nervous. "I, uh g-guess we could j-join." Maybe once she started playing she would be more comfortable. This was a good way to meet new people anyway, wasn't it? And she probably should meet new people since this was her home. Besides, despite her relative lack of practice she had always been a natural when it came to video games. "B-but I'm going to w-win!" Ok, so maybe the stutter ruined the effect a little, but the feeling was still there.
Posted by Kaitlyn Faust on May 29, 2010 22:31:46 GMT -6
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Three couches formed a semicircle around the rec room's massive flat screen television. Five mutant men sat around the screen, four of which were actually holding Xbox controllers and playing the game on the screen. The one who wasn't playing had four eyes, two of which were on flexible eye stalks that poked out of his messy brown hair.
"Hey Eric," Kaitlyn called out to him over the explosions and gunshots of the game before them.
"Hey Katie. We brought your box." He laid one hand on the cardboard box sitting by the couch. It was full of Xbox controllers and had "SHRAPNEL" written on it. "You and I are up after this round."
Kaitlyn sat down on the floor next to the box. "Can Amber play too?" she asked with a nod towards the albino.
"Sure." Eric stared at Amber, scrutinizing her with all four of his eyes.
After a few moments, his mouth twisted into a half smile. "Amber," he said, "your eyes are really creeping me out. You know that? You really look like a freak." His eye-stalk eyes began to wiggle and glow, shining twin rays of light in random directions. His half-smile widened.
...You've heard stories about me? Don't listen to them! It's safe to sit next to me, really!
Amber stood two steps behind Kaitlyn as she began speaking to the four eyed mutant Erick. Her eyes were downcast and she began playing with her fingers out of nervousness at the whole situation. She wanted to play video games and meet new people, especially since Kaitlyn had turned out to be so nice, but she couldn't' help but feel out of place. Even if one of the mutants did happen to have four eyes.
"Amber, your eyes are really creeping me out. You know that? You really look like a freak."
For a moment Amber felt like she could just curl up into a little ball and die. How could he say such mean things especially considering his own eyes? Then she saw the grin and realized that he was just joking. That's what normal teenagers did with one another, wasn't it? Well, normal not withstanding the eye thing anyway. She smiled in return and even managed a shy laugh.
"Thank y-you for l-letting me p-play," Amber said politely, picking up one of the controllers. They had rented this game at the orphanage one weekend so she was familiar with it, even if she had mostly played at night after everyone else had gone to bed. Because of her odd sleeping patterns she had gotten more practice than most of the other children she had once lived with.
Posted by Kaitlyn Faust on May 30, 2010 23:19:59 GMT -6
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Kaitlyn looked at Eric, then at Amber. There was something distinctly wrong with what he had just said, or at least how Amber took it, but she couldn't put her finger on it. The fact that all ten of her fingers were soon occupied by an Xbox controller wasn't a help to her discernment skills at all.
And so the battle began. Eric and Amber made up one team, Kaitlyn and another mutant, Jared, made up the other.
"You shouldn't feel bad about your eyes." Eric said to Amber as the game went on, "You and I have some freakin' weird eyes. That makes us freaks. Kaitlyn, on the other hand..."
His voice trailed off as his character tossed a stun grenade at Kaitlyn's. With a flash and a bang, Kaitlyn's fourth of the screen became blurry and distorted. The xbox controller in the child's hands shattered into tiny flying bits of plastic and circuitry, and the game paused. Some of the spectators began to cheer. With a smirk, she reached into the "SHRAPNEL" box for another controller. It was nice to not be afraid of her own powers, even if it was only for one night a week. Thanks to her, the Sanctuary boasted the ability to hold a weekly Call of Duty tournament "with real shrapnel." It was one of those rare times when people actually encouraged her to use her power, even if it was accidental.
Eric turned to look at Amber as he continued to speak: "Kaitlyn accidentally blows stuff up like that all the time. That makes her a freak, too. We're all freaks here in the Sanctuary. I always thought it was better to just embrace the idea."
Once Amber had the controller in her hand, some of her nervousness evaporated. It was still there, just below the surface waiting to come out, but this was something she was naturally good at and, to make matters even better, people actually seemed to be accepting her. Although she wasn't the best player there, she was more than competent and it turned out that her and Erik made a pretty good team.
The idea that her eyes were actually something that Amber should be proud of, that being a freak was something to embrace, was still something of a foreign concept to her. Erik was the third person to suggest as much to her and she smiled at him in return. "It m-makes us s-special." Yes, that seemed about right. Wasn't that what everyone had been trying to tell her all along? That her eyes made her unique and special, that they meant she had some special gift, even if it was still hidden, that no one else had?
Amber jumped and almost went to hide under the table when the explosion went off, barely managing to keep her seat when she realized that no one else seemed to be all that surprised. "You r-really c-can blow stuff up," Amber said in awe. Now that was a pretty cool power, no doubt about it.
Posted by Kaitlyn Faust on May 31, 2010 13:40:29 GMT -6
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>>"You r-really c-can blow stuff up,"
"Yep." Kaitlyn took a closer look at Amber. "I think I got some of it in your hair, too. Sorry." She reached out to pick a blue shred of wire from the albino's hair before their battle resumed.
The games continued into the night, as did Kaitlyn's Xbox controller explosions. Supposedly these accidents were getting less and less frequent, and the girl's pride showed whenever this fact was mentioned.
Pizza was soon delivered to the rec room by a human, much to the delight of several Sanctuary residents, who went to great lengths to intimidate him with their mutations. A member of the dining hall staff would later apologize to the terrified delivery man and give him a sizeable tip.
It was later revealed that Eric was the youngest mutant in attendance other than Amber and Kaitlyn. He was part of a small group of university students who had decided to stay in the Sanctuary for free room and board instead of in the dorms among other humans. The other university students had spent Modern Warfare night studying and preparing for finals, and the older mutants in attendance derived great pleasure from holding this against Eric, who would only laugh in reply.
When it reached 10:00 PM, the majority of the other players decided that Kaitlyn should go to bed, although the child tried to sway them from this decision with copious pouting. "Kaitlyn," one of the men said, "you know that going to bed late can make it harder for young mutants to control their powers. It's not for your sake, it's for ours."
With resignation in her voice, the child wished everyone a good night and left.
After the Modern Warfare players were certain that the kid was out of earshot, somebody remarked, "I can't believe that she still falls for that one."
...You've heard stories about me? Don't listen to them! It's safe to sit next to me, really!