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.
Of course the tea was hot. She'd boiled it herself. But with the many burns she'd brought him in their short time together Maya understood the warning. Her tactile sense was not what it used to be.
So it made perfect sense that her cup slipped from her fingers when the vampire asked to be terminated. She didn't expect to know the whole story, but... any man in this position, any man brought so low... Sebastian was on his feet and Maya wasn't even sure when that had happened. She lowered her face and slowly sopped up the spilled drink with one of those last minute addition napkins.
Darkly swimming words of death and damnation. Sebastian's arm barred the way. But surely he had friends? Coworkers at least? Every time the man forfeit his life made her heart squeeze. She'd only met the man and she could offer no eternal companionship. She couldn't save him. Suddenly, she didn't even have the heart for tea.
"If you relinquish your life... I'll take it." She didn't sound sure at first, but it was sounding like a better and better idea once it had started buzzing around in her brain. Maya used both hands to set down her cup and watched the tea slosh inside the porcelain. It was better than meeting either immortals' eyes.
"If you can't make use of a hundred lifetimes— give me one, half of one. I could use you for good." He probably wasn't offering, but it was better than wasting.
If he would go ahead and live his life, he might find out there were things worth living for. If he needed someone to get him back in the habit of living, well, Maya made for a decent boss at the Full Circle. How hard would it be to manage a vampire?
Hunter stopped talked and took a moment to try and regain his composure. After a lengthily pause he looked up at Sebastian with a weak smile. “I have been called many things in my time,” he told the other immortal, “but never a coward.”
The smile faded. “It just all seems so pointless,” he admitted, “I’ve given up blood. I’ve opened Spiritual Balance to help people. I think I’ve started to actually help some of them. But it doesn’t make up for the deaths I’ve caused. Nothing will. Who am I to offer help to people? All I’ve ever given people is pain and death.”
Looking first Sebastian and then Maya dead in the eye he asked, “What can I do to make things better?” People say the eyes are the window to the soul. Looking into Hunter’s shining silver eyes you could see that his was in turmoil. He didn’t know what to do. What he needed was someone to guide him, to show him what to do next. How could he even begin to make up for all the things he had done?
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 15, 2010 11:43:06 GMT -6
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May 18, 2013 11:53:12 GMT -6
Sebastian turned to look at his wife. He hadn't expected her to say something like that and it left him confused.
“Maya, what do you mean by that?” How was she supposed to use part of Hunter's life? She couldn't absorb years off of someone or anything like that, so what was she talking about?
To Hunter and his sorrowful silver orbs he answered, “I honestly don't know. You could try to save lives somehow, or do something to contribute to the well being of others. You could track down the families of the people you've hurt and apologize somehow. Live your life. Love someone. Appreciate life and the world around you.” Sebastian shrugged. Maybe Maya had a more solid idea?
Sebastian was misunderstanding. She could tell right away.
"I-uh, well, I don't mean to impose Mister Vampire, but Sebastian…" She looked up from her cup with wife eyes. Eyes that begged to bring home a lost puppy or fly to europe to meet a boy she dreamed about once. "He's lost. He wants someone to show him not just tell him." Was she offering to adopt him? No. She'd already done that once and that was enough.
Maya slipped out from behind Sebastian's arm and from her chair. She turned and sat on the other side of the table next to Mister Antonescue.
>“What can I do to make things better?”
"Stop trying." She pulled the bud vase from the tray and put it in front of the vampire. He had given her those flowers as an apology. "Start doing." Flowers weren't doing, but they were close. Oh they were nice and the fact that he had thought ahead enough to bring her something and something for her employees was also a very nice. Nice, however, was not good. He could just as easily brought a hammer and nails.
"I don't know you very well, sir, and I don't have all that long comparatively so you probably won't think what I have to say is very... uhh... good? but I think that you're living inside here." She poked at the air near Hunter's temple. "And that gets lonely even in just one lifetime."
Hunter managed to push aside all the thoughts and memories that currently clouded his mind and focused on Maya. He took a moment to really think about what she had said. Self pity and wallowing in the memories of the past wasn’t helping anyone. What he had done weighed heavily on his mind but allowing himself to succumb to it was not the way.
With a deep breath he sat up straight and smiled gratefully at the pair. “Thank you,” he said, “Both of you. You’re right Maya, I can’t let the memories of what I did keep me from doing what I must. And thank you Sebastian. You have given me hope that immortality needn’t be a lonely road to damnation. I know what to do now. I just hope I’m strong enough to do it.”
What he was doing at Spiritual Balance was a good start. He’d helped people who needed it. Meld, Shana, Verdigris, Andrea. All of them where starting to live better lives thanks to him. It was a small start but he had all the time in the world to help. And who knows maybe now he might be able to enjoy life the way it was meant to be enjoyed.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 15, 2010 21:47:19 GMT -6
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Sebastian bristled slightly as Maya evaded him and went to sit next to Hunter anyway. He let his arm drop back down to it's side. She took far too many risks for his taste, but then, she always had. At least now he could kind of keep an eye on her and make sure she didn't get herself killed. She just had to make it difficult for him.
Sebastian gave a curt nod to Hunter's thanks. He wasn't sure he deserved to be thanked, but he would accept it in any case as was polite. It was wise to be polite to a vampire sitting very very close to a loved one.
>>>“I know what to do now. I just hope I’m strong enough to do it.”
Sebastian really hoped so too.
“Good luck, Hunter.” It was also a good bye. “If you need anything else, here's a card with the phone number of the clinic.” He grabbed a spare one from the stack on the desk, it was only a few feet away and he didn't turn his back the entire time. He handed it to the other immortal with both hands and a slight bow, as was customary in Japan. He also managed a smile.
Hopefully the vampire's business here was done for a long time to come.