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 vampyremage on May 27, 2010 17:59:33 GMT -6
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For almost two hours Meld remained in her little private training room, sparring with herself. She went through every move she knew, both those that had been formally drilled into her from years of training and those she had come up with herself, multiple times. By the time she actually exited the little room, she was exhausted but no longer angry and no longer feeling the strong urge to hurt someone.
The training had served two purposes The first, of course, had been to negate any violent impulses she had from earlier. The second, however, was to help her think. She had always thought best when doing something active and this was no exception. Having the time to herself to contemplate exactly what had passed between herself and Hunter earlier in the afternoon, she didn't blame him for saying what he had. The justifications she made her herself were not always solid and, in that case, he had been right. She had almost done a very bad thing and she deserved to be reprimanded for it.
Meld had just enough time to clean herself off before arriving at the main room for her session with Hunter. The first thing she intended to do was apologize.
Hunter was already waiting for Meld in the meditation room. Considering the excitement at lunch time he didn’t plan for them to have a proper session today. Instead he planned for them to continue their earlier discussion but in a much calmer fashion.
He smiled at Meld as she entered the room and he indicated she should sit in front of him. Once again he was sitting cross-legged in the middle of the room, as he did for most sessions he conducted in here.. She looked much calmer than she had been when he had last seen her. The work out she had put herself had probably done her some good.
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 18:13:36 GMT -6
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Meld was a little nervous about her session tonight, considering the way she had acted not only at the restaurant earlier but at the conversation later on as well. For someone who prided herself on her rationality, it was distressing to realize that there were times when she was far from rational. Her addiction to violence, it seemed, was worse than she thought. Perhaps the pride she took in controlling its expression was even partially misplaced.
Meld smiled back at Hunter, relieved that he didn't appear to be angry with her and sat down in front of him. "I'm sorry." It was a difficult thing to say but it had to be said. "I acted like an idiot. No, I acted worse than an idiot so, I'm sorry."
Hunter was impressed and a little surprised that the first thing she had done was apologised. Any lingering doubts over continuing the discussion with Meld vanished with the apology. “That’s quite alright,” he assured her, “I know how passionate you are about your cause. It’s just how you channel that passion that concerns me. I apologise for the harshness of my comments.”
“What I want to do today is continue our discussion from earlier,” he said “Now we have both had a chance to cool off let’s see if we can go back to it with a more objective and rational view shall we. For starters can you tell me some of the non-violent things you have done to help oppressed mutants. You alluded earlier that you did more than just fight.”
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 18:41:45 GMT -6
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Meld was relieved when her apology was accepted and one was offered in return. Perhaps she hadn't had much to be worried about, but she couldn't help it. Dealing with people had never been one of her stronger skills but at least Hunter's perpetual calm and understanding served to make things easier for her.
"Mainly I've worked to help mutants find a place to belong, to avoid the hassles that come with being a mutant, especially a visible mutant. You may have seen my posters around, here and there, about the city. I've helped mutants either into the Mansion or Sanctuary, depending on their mindset." She had been doing so for months and, although the number of mutants who had come to her remained low, it still gave her a sense of accomplishment. Every one she helped also served to help the cause. It was one fewer mutant that needed to be a victim of their blood and the prejudice of a human society.
He smiled approvingly as she told him how she helped mutants. “Good, I’m glad that you direct them towards the mansion as well as the sanctuary. Some are better suited to one place than the other.” Even with Syn no longer at the helm he still wouldn’t like to see young impressionable mutants sent to the sanctuary.
“Let me ask you a question. If you saw a mutant attacking a human in the street what would you do? The attack is entirely unprovoked and the human is not fighting back but just trying to get away?” This was a very important question for Meld to answer. If she could not sympathise with humans in a condition like the one he was proposing then there was much more work to be done.
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 18:57:04 GMT -6
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Meld had always tried her best not to treat different sorts of mutants any differently than any other mutants. Just because she had left the Order didn't' mean that they didn't still do good work and it certainly didn't mean that some mutant's wouldn't do better in Sanctuary than they would at the Mansion. She, for example, had never quite fit in at the Mansion but just because she could deal with the strain didn't mean that other mutants should have to.
"I would try to help the human without hurting the mutant in question as much as possible," Meld was quick to answer. She didn't approve of wanton killing of humans and, more specifically, killing randomly hurt the cause overall. Of course, in different circumstances her answer might be different and she knew that Aura had a tendency to do just that, but at least Aura tended to kill dangerous humans that probably shouldn't be left alive anyway. That and she'd never walked in on Aura trying to kill someone unprovoked.
“Good, I’m glad you disapprove of random violence. I’m also glad you would try not to harm the mutant. Now,” he said looking her straight in the eye, “What if the situation was reversed. What if it was the human who was attacking the mutant? What would you do then? I want you to be honest now and tell me what you would honestly do presented with that situation.”
Hunter was curious as to what she would say and how honest she would be about it. He knew it was a hard question to ask her but she’d just explained the perfect answer in the reverse situation. Could she honestly same the same when it was the other way around?
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 19:10:36 GMT -6
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"I would probably kill the human," Meld answered, voice dead. She was beginning to realize just how screwed up some of her core beliefs were. Why, exactly, did she think that a mutant life was more important than a human life? She wasn't like Aura who believed that humans were no better and little different than deer, so why did she feel justified in treating their lives as if they had such little worth? Was it because mutants were the underdogs and the trodden upon? Was that really justification?
"You don't need to tell me to be honest," Meld told Hunter. There was no accusation in her voice, she was merely stating a fact as she saw it. "Whatever my other faults, and I have enough of them, honesty was never one of them." If anything she sometimes had a tendency to be too honest.
Hunter nodded in acknowledgment that he need not question her honesty. Despite the various difficult subjects they had discussed in her time here Meld had not once tried to avoid the truth in anyway. She had been nothing if not honest.
“I just want you to think on that for a while,” he said gently, “Think why the mutant gets restrained as gently as possible and why the human is killed. There is a reason somewhere in your mind for those two reactions. What I want you to try and do is to find the reason.”
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 19:21:27 GMT -6
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Did Meld believe that a mutant life was of more worth than a human life? In some ways, she supposed that she did. She had never justified it to herself in quite so many words before, but that was what it came down to, wasn't it? So the real question was, then, why was a mutant life of more worth than a human life? After all, they both had the same mind and the same emotions. They both had friends and family, sometimes children and parents. The only difference was a little piece of DNA and the fact that mutants had exceptional abilities.
"I think, somehow, I began to believe that mutants were worth more than humans." Melds frustration at even being able to explain to herself why that should be showed through in her voice. "Maybe it had something to do with the way I was brought up, I don't know. My parents always told me the opposite, that mutants didn't deserve to leave, that they should all just lie down and die. Then I discovered I was a mutant."
So in a way you are rebelling against your parents by taking the opposite view to them,” Hunter said, elaborating on what Meld had said. “I think on a subconscious level you do believe that mutants’ lives are worth more than humans because your parents opposite view point cost you so dearly you want to strike back at them.”
He thought that they might have finally gotten to the root of one Meld’s problems. Her desire to kill wasn’t linked with her belief that mutants lives were worth more than human’s, or so he believed. Instead it merely acted as a focus for her desire to kill. Perhaps removing that focus would allow her to better resist her compulsion.
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 19:46:28 GMT -6
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The idea that Meld was doing everything she had dedicated her life to just to rebel against her parents was not an idea she could accept. Might that be a small part of the reason? Perhaps, but it couldn't be the entire reason. She was her own person and had left them behind years ago. She could not accept that they continued to control her life, years after the fact and hundreds of miles away.
"I've dealt with my parents," Meld answered, with finality. "I even went back to Canada to confront them and close that chapter of my life." And very much not kill them, much to her pride because it had been such a close thing. "I think its because mutants need defenders. Humans control everything, they are the majority and they have the power. Mutants have nothing and need defenders. Maybe I do overreact, sometimes, however." It brought back memories of a particular jewerly store owner who regularly had anti-mutant rallies at his shop. She and Aura had proceeded to rob him blind. They probably would have killed him too, had not two other mutants stopped them. They let the man go, only to track him down at his house and kill him several days later in an act of premeditated murder. Of course, they had almost died in the process because it had been a set up all along.
"Have you ever been attacked simply because you were a mutant?"
“I’m not saying that the reason you fight to end mutant oppression is just to spite your parents,” Hunter clarified, “But that the reason, or at least part of the reason, why you value mutant lives above human lives is because your parents drilled the opposite into you and you are rebelling against it.”
“I have been attacked for being a mutant long before the word existed,” he told Meld with a sad smile, “It took me a while to learn how to hide my eyes. Before I went to Tibet I had psychic abilities that I learned to use to continually fool people that my eyes were grey. Until then I couldn’t pass for human. People tried to kill me for being a daemon time and time again until I learned that trick.” It was one of the reasons that Hunter had killed so many in the beginning. He had believed that he really was a daemon.
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 20:07:51 GMT -6
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"Maybe," Meld admitted, with the utmost reluctance. As much as she wanted to deny that possibility with every fiber of her she simply couldn't dismiss it out of hand and still be honest with both herself and with Hunter. She hated her parents for everything they had done to screw up her life and the things she suspected them of doing to her sister. The idea that they could still have any influence at all over her was intolerable.
"I'm sorry to hear that," Meld replied. She really didn't know what else she could say to the man. The world she had grown up in was so different than the world he had grown up in. In modern day, the idea of someone being a demon was laughable but back then? "People believed in that sort of thing back then, didn't they?" What would her life have been like had she been born in that time instead of this one?