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.
“Yes,” Hunter answered, “Yes they did. I’ve seen people burned for being witches, hunted for consorting with the devil and killed for being daemons. Now most of the words can be replaced with mutant and still ring just as true.”
Human nature was to fear that which they did not understand. It was unlikely that was ever going to change. As belief in witches and daemons had declined he believed that given time humans would come to understand mutants better and things would smooth out. Of course that didn’t help those suffering right now.
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 20:42:42 GMT -6
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The thought of being burned alive caused Meld to shudder. She had almost been burned alive herself, once. There had been an explosion resulting in the house she was in burning down around her. She still had the scars from her near encounter with death and, even if she didn't feel pain, the smell still gave her nightmares sometimes. Burning flesh was a very distinct smell.
Meld sighed. "So demons and witches have been replaced with mutants. What are the chances that the world will ever see reason and ever stop simply trying to abuse and kill anything they don't understand?" Maybe the Order had things right after all. Maybe it was a matter of mutants needing to rule over humans as the only way to stop the cycle of violence and hatred.
“Black people were once hated and abused much as mutants are now. Yet if you look most people today abhor the idea of racism in that respect. Given time and the right action mutants will be accepted in a similar way,” Hunter said trying to reassure her.
What he didn’t say was that then humans and mutants would both find someone else to hate and blame for their problems. It was a never ending cycle and one that couldn’t be broken by having mutants take charge. He wasn’t sure that it could be broken at all.
Posted by vampyremage on May 27, 2010 20:57:22 GMT -6
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"There has to be more to it than just an endless cycle of hatred. There has to be hope for something better." The prospect of change and actually doing some good in the world was one of the key things that kept Meld sane and focused. If there was no chance of anything getting any better, then why would it matter what she chose to do or not to do? If people were just going to kill each other what did it matter if she helped them along every once and a while? Her cause gave her focus, it gave her a reason to live.
"If there's no chance of changing anything than what's the point? Why should I care if I kill every once and a while? Why should it matter what I do if society is so intrinsically corrupt with no chance of bettering itself?" Meld didn't ask in an effort to justify her own actions, she asked because it was something she needed to know. Everything in her life was centered around the fact that things could change and she could actually make some sort of difference.
“Because we can make things better for people,” he told her. While Hunter believed that there was always going to be hate in the world that was no reason to give in. “Humans have been hating for as long as they’ve existed. But they’ve been loving for just as long. There will always be those who hate and act upon it to hurt others. But equally there will always be those striving to make the world better. Over time more people are trying to make it better than make it worse.”
Hunter believed that the cycle of hate would never end. But it was shrinking. Eventually it would be come small enough to be easily manageable. He had no delusions about that being any day soon but some day there would be relative peace in the world.
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Humans and their emotions were just so damned complicated. Meld had always had difficulties keeping track of them and understanding them. Hate she understood on a persona level because it was directed at her so often but love was a different matter. She knew she wanted to be loved but it had been such a long time since she had felt it. Still, confusing or not, half understood or not, she still knew enough that it was a good thing and something to be encouraged.
"So its a matter of achieving some kind of balance?" Meld asked. It made sense and it might, just might, be something she could live with. At least that way she could actually feel like she was still doing some kind of good in the world.
“In a way yes,” Hunter agreed, “A lot of eastern philosophies are about balance. Trying to purge the world of evil is impossible, for there is the capacity for evil within all of us. But there is also the capacity for good. What is important is finding the balance. The current problems with mutants are very unbalanced. Eventually the balance will be achieved naturally, but there is no reason why we can’t hurry it along now is there?”
That was what Hunter had come to believe after spending time in Tibet. He was a prime example. Extraordinary capacity for evil, most of which he had indulged at one point or another. But there had always been the potential for him to do tremendous good. He was hoping to take that opportunity now and try and balance out some of the evil that he had done.
Posted by vampyremage on May 28, 2010 10:14:50 GMT -6
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Meld had never really considered the concept of balance before, as it pertained to individual and societal good and evil and she had certainly never considered it as it pertained to herself. But maybe it was, actually, something worth considering. Before she knew she was a mutant such questions simply hadn't been of much concern to her and afterwards she had been so focused on her personal cause that there hadn't been room for anything else in her life.
"Do you think its enough to strive for balance and not something better? In a way, isn't that like settling?" Because if there was any possibility at all of truly achieving something great, Meld was not willing to settle for anything less. She never had been.
“You might see balance as settling but that depends on how you set the balance,” he explained, “You fight to end mutant oppression. Does it matter to you whether this is by coexisting peacefully with humans, through dominance of them or by mutants having their own country where they can live independent from humans?”
“Each of those options requires a balance. The first needs you to balance mutants and humans equally. The second requires you to balance your rule least the humans rise up as you have. The third needs the balance of the nation’s right to rule and international relations. Would you view any of those choices as settling?”
It was the third option that intrigued him personally. A mutant nation would not be easy to establish, after all the world had already been divvied up. But then again the Jews were given their own nation after world war two. Admittedly things had not gone smoothly there but then if you are going to put a country for the Jews somewhere they are surrounded by people who hate them what did you expect? That was why he felt that the only way a mutant nation would work was if they were on an island. However he’d stopped working with the big picture. He just wanted to help where he could on a smaller scale.
Posted by vampyremage on May 28, 2010 11:48:30 GMT -6
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Meld carefully considered what, exactly, she was trying ot achieve with her battle towards mutant rights. The X-men had always seemed to strive towards human and mutant equality with each coexisting peacefully together and while Meld thought that would be an ideal solution, it had always struck her as being far to idealistic. Humans were simply not likely to coexist with mutants, they were to fearful and to prejudiced against anything different from themselves for that to work.
The second option was the one the Order most often preached and one Meld thought to be more realistic. Mutants had the strength to rule if they could get into the right position but, while always the more realistic of the two options, it had never felt quite right to her. Would ruling over humans as humans ruled over them really be any better than what they had now? Well, perhaps it would be better but the question was would it be better enough?
The third option was one Meld had not truly considered in the past but, now that it was brought to her attention as a possibility, it seemed to have real merit. A country for mutants run by mutants. "Each have their pros and cons," she answered carefully. "Coexisting peacefully would be ideal but its not realistic. Ruling over humans would be possible but only marginally better than what we have right now. Having a mutant run country, I think, may be the best of both worlds." Such wonderful things Hunter had caused her to consider.
Hunter couldn’t help but smile. It was good to see Meld thinking things over. To him it reinforced that she was not a killer, not at her core. She, like him, was drawn to the idea of a mutant nation. It did seem to have a lot of promise, but there were more than a few problems.
“I used to think at length about the possibility of forming a mutant nation,” he told her, “Although I’m no longer in a position to make it happen. There are two main problems. Firstly no other nation will want to have its borders with a mutant nation. Second, there’s no more unclaimed land in the world. There are other problems as well. The international community is not going to like a mutant nation but that’s something that can be overcome in time. One option would be for a wealthy mutant to buy an island, expand it and start inviting mutants to it. Things could develop naturally from there.”
Posted by vampyremage on May 28, 2010 12:03:19 GMT -6
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"We could always take over Australia," Meld smirked, her tone of voice suggesting that she wasn't serious. Well, at least she mostly wasn't being serious. She knew that there were any number of mutant in the Order and probably elsewhere as well that would have no problem taking over a place like Australia, either forcing everyone to leave and killing or enslaving those that refused. That didn't exactly seem like the best way to start up a mutant nation, however, especially if they wanted to have any kind of civil interaction with the preexisting nations of the world.
Meld sobered quickly. "There's plenty of unclaimed ocean out there and a wide variety of mutant powers. Maybe its a matter of finding and recruiting the right types of mutants, creating a nation, literally, from the ground up." While she had never personally met a mutant that could create earth out of nothing or cause mountains to form or anything like that, it didn't seem to be out of the realm of possibility. Mutants may not have nearly the population as humans, but in a world of 7 billions, surely even if only a tenth of a percent were born mutants, there must be a few out there with powers that could serve to help such a cause.
“It is certainly an idea,” Hunter agreed, “The making an island, not the conquering of Australia. If handled correctly and the international community is properly informed I don’t see why it wouldn’t work. The choice of who leads would be an important one, as it would be their responsibility to represent mutants to the rest of the world.”
This was an idea that Hunter was greatly interested in. If a mutant nation was formed he probably wouldn’t go to live there, but it would be a very interesting place to visit. Seeing mutants just going about their business and using their powers openly would be a fantastic sight.
Posted by vampyremage on May 28, 2010 21:00:51 GMT -6
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Planning on the creation of a mutant island utopia was something that Meld thought she could get behind. What if she could transfer all of her aggression and killing instincts into striving for something far larger and more permanent in the mutant cause than simply eliminating immediate threats? She wasn't a diplomat by any reason, but she could see many ways in which she might potentially be able to help such an idea turn into a reality.
"It would have to be taken one step at a time," Meld said thoughtfully. "Someone would have to speak with the international community, work with them. How far have you developed the idea?"
“Nothing overt, and nothing I still control,” Hunter admitted. He’d given up all his power and connections when he went to Tibet. “However I’m willing to help any group that is willing to try and make a mutant nation work in an advisory capacity.”
If people wanted to give this idea a real go then of course he would help. What he would not do was lead them. He’d held the reins of power before and abused them horribly. While he was happy to help anyone who wanted to try and do this would have to find someone else to be the leader.