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 Kealey Shinbo on May 31, 2010 2:15:13 GMT -6
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OOC - I went ahead and said that Shin turned after Kealey came into the room. If that or anything else isn't okay, just drop me a PM and I'll fix.
All the feelings, all the emotions, they hurt. Kealey kept her cheek against Shin’s door and tried to get a grip, tried and failed. Tears kept coming, her fist kept pounding until Kealey’s yells trailed off into soft half-sobs. Shin was in there, he had to be in there. Since they’d really become friends he’d been there whenever Kealey needed him, always able to chase away the bad, to rescue Kealey and make her feel safe. He had to be there, had to.
”Please” Kealey whispered one more time, and the door opened.
For a moment, all she could do was stand and stare, tears streaming down her face as she looked at Shin in the doorway of his room. Most of the details were completely lost on the blond and she moved forward when he requested, the final pieces of her emotional wall crumbling away as she noted the sleeping dog and the ducks on Shin's pajama pants.
He turned and Kealey threw herself against him, clinging to the front of the polka-dot hoodie as a torrent of words flooded forth,
”They’re dead Shin…they’re all dead and I didn’t do anything.” Kealey sobbed, clinging and attempting to pour out the words that would explain the state she was in,
”I could feel it….I could feel it all. She was singing, and he…no I was watching…then he hit the button and I woke up….and it was so real. Only it was real…then he was there…he was in my room and I let him go….”
The blond stopped talking for a second, trying to breathe, trying to understand. Shin would help her…he had to help her. Up Kealey looked finally, staring into Shin's eyes and pleading for help.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on May 31, 2010 20:25:48 GMT -6
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Before he knew what was happening, she'd hugged him. Kealey was still crying, and babbling. Shin was good, but... he didn't get most of it. It was coming so fast.
Dead? Singing? Watching...? Feeling... and then, she'd woken up.
She'd been dreaming?
No. She said he was there. But he who? Who was he? What was Kealey talking about?
She stopped talking for a second, and caught her breath. She looked up into his eyes, and asked what to do...
Shin's arm found its way around her back, pulling her closer. He put his hand against the back of her head, and cupped her to his shoulder. Her tears were still wet on her face. They soaked into his shirt... but that didn't matter. Kealey was so worried, so confused...and he was right there with her... but he was also concerned... and he knew... Shin knew... the first thing they had to do here was make sense.
He bowed his head against the top of her head, and spoke softly into her ear.
"Calm down. Start from the beginning. What happened? Kealey..."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on May 31, 2010 21:02:24 GMT -6
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Shin’s arm wrapped around her back and Kealey clung even tighter, letting all the emotions from the night simply pour out. It didn’t take as long as she would have thought. Shin was there, holding her, asking her to calm down. She could feel again, as her panic and the other emotions started to fade. He was concerned, and confused. It was the concern though, the alarm and quiet resolve that she clung to.
Kealey didn’t want to move, and for a second she clung all that much harder to the front of Shin’s shirt. Letting go meant talking about it all, facing what had just happened. It was the only way to get help though, and someone had to know what had happened.
Gradually her tears slowed to a trickle, and Kealey took a deep, shuddering breath against Shin’s shoulder. She didn’t move, didn’t know if her legs would hold her on her own, and she started to speak.
”I can’t control the emotions when I sleep…and sometimes they get into my dreams.” she said, her soft voice punctuated by small hiccups every once and a while.
”I’ve had the dream about the day in the church before…so many times. But it was different this time…” she stopped and shuddered, ”This time I was watching…and I’m the one who wanted to do it. Who wanted to kill all those people, and I did.”
The more Kealey spoke, the stronger her voice got, as a kind of calm numbness spread through her. Slowly, her hands unclenched from the pink, polka-dotted hoodie and she leaned back a little bit. Eyes dropping to the floor as her shoulders slumped.
”But then I woke up…and they were still there. Those same emotions…and I realized they weren’t mine…I tried to leave…to find someone, but there were more emotions. They…I think I passed out”
The words almost caught in Kealey’s throat as she tried to say them, ”He was there when I woke up…and he was young. Had to be a mansion student. He…came in my room with me and I was so scared when I realized the emotions were his.”
What would Shin do when he found out everything that had happened? Kealey didn’t know, but she knew she had to tell.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on May 31, 2010 23:40:02 GMT -6
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As she spoke, Shin listened silently, without judging.
When she slept, she couldn't control her power... all those emotions of others... infiltrated her dreams like bad cameos. She was dreaming about a church... sounded like a recurring one, and then...
He mentally tried piecing her story out in his mind.
Then, she changed perspectives.
He didn't know what church she was talking about, but it sounded important to her. He'd have to ask, to make sense.
She'd been the one... in her dream. She'd been the one who'd wanted...
Wanted to kill.
Shin's eyes widened slightly. That was huge. She'd wanted to do something in her dream, and she'd done it... but that wasn't her...
And it turns out, it wasn't. But somebody else in the mansion had housed those feelings.
He'd found her. Shin's heart beat faster as she told that part of the story. What had she been feeling? How had she reacted? Face to face with someone like that... fear, obviously, but the rest of those thoughts and emotions, she didn't clarify.
She let him go.
He didn't follow. He was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt.
"You let him go," Shin repeated quietly. Kealey didn't look at him, but gave him a quiet nod. Shin looked up at the ceiling, to the corner of his room. A spider was building a web. "I'd imagine it was a tough decision. I won't ask what you were feeling... I'm just glad you're safe."
Being in her room alone with a murderer, things could have turned out worse. He knew it was hard on her. She'd been crying. He understood it was all overwhelming... and she'd let him go. He still didn't get...
"I don't understand some of what you were saying, though. Church?" The more important thing here was her dream... that's what Shin figured. Dreams were major. Someone's emotions had broken into the sanctity of her mind, and made her think... thoughts she didn't want. That mattered.
Shin was mad at the man she spoke of for that. The rest? He didn't know. Whatever Kealey had chosen... well, it was her call.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 1, 2010 0:14:16 GMT -6
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Kealey paid attention as she explained. She paid very close attention as she explained what had happened. Maybe it was wrong, but she needed to know what Shin thought about the actions she’d taken. His reaction to what had happened in her dream was expected, it still shook Kealey to the core as well. In a way, it was worse than anything else that had happened. That faded as she continued, though, faded into the mix of concern, uncertainty, and confusion her story seemed very apt to bring out.
Shin said he wouldn’t ask what she was feeling when she let the killer go. He said he was just glad she was safe. Kealey looked at him then, measuring his face against his words and his words against his emotions. Again, maybe it was wrong, but she had to know. She almost started crying again when she realized he was telling the truth. The absolute truth. Suddenly, Kealey felt so very wrong for even questioning, this was Shin. Of course he was telling the truth.
”Thank you…” she whispered.
Then came the questions.
Kealey froze in the act of wiping her face with the palm of her hand and stared at Shin for a moment as he asked about the church. He was genuinely curious, and he was so concerned…when she showed up at his room like this, the questions had been inevitable. She’d answer, it was the least she owed him.
Moving back now, Kealey turned and made her way further into the room to drop down on the edge of Shin’s bed, only half conscious of him sitting next to her. She took a deep breath and started talking.
”I wasn’t born in the convent I talked about. Until I was twelve…I was just like everyone else. My parents, my sister, and I, we were so happy.”
The memory from the early part of her dream came back, jumping on the bed, singing songs, daydreaming and drawing pictures. Kealey sighed and shook her head.
”My sister was going to be a singer…she had the most beautiful voice. We were both in the choir, and it was Maire’s solo debut. She had the most beautiful red hair, and she looked so amazing standing down by the Sister playing piano. My parents had both managed to get off work that night to see. “ Kealey’s eyes flitted to Shin’s face before continuing.
”We were very poor, you see…they both worked a lot…but they’d come to the concert because it was so special. I’ll never forget it.”
“Maire had just started her solo…it was a simple version of the Ave Maria…she got a few words in and this daft man in the pew behind my parents leaped from his seat and started screaming about the IRA. Then he reached inside his coat, pulled out a button and pushed it.”
Kealey stopped and took a deep breath, voice taking on a dull quality as she spoke,”The last thing I remember before the fire is my sister’s face. She turned at the last minute…then it was just hot, hot and dark, and a huge chunk of the building collapsed.”
She shook her head again, ”When I woke up…it hurt so bad….and I was like this….so many emotions, so much pain. They were all dead.” she finished, taking a slow deep breath of air to try and keep herself from breaking down again.
”They were all dead, and there was nothing I could do…and I felt that tonight. I felt it, and I knew what it had been like to sit there and have to push the button…but I still don’t understand why. Why or how?”
That was almost it. There was very little else to tell, ”I was crazy. Completely crazy for the longest time. The hospital was a nightmare with all the emotions and I had no way to know how to deal with them. I was sedated most of the time for the next several months. Gradually it got better…so much better…but I still have the dream sometimes.”
Kealey looked at her hands which were folded in her lap, stared at them for a few minutes while she considered what to say, ”It’s wrong Shin..it’s wrong but even after feeling what that man must have been feeling, I can’t let it go. I can’t forgive. What does that make me?”
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He hadn't been expecting this much information. For a moment, Shin wasn't sure he was ready for it... but no. He couldn't go 'deer-in-the-headlights' to her. Kealey didn't deserve that. Shin listened on.
It was a lot to digest. So much... pain... so much anguish... turmoil.
Oh, Kealey...
She looked down at her hands, and Kealey was silent for a long time. Then, she finally finished.
>>”It’s wrong Shin..it’s wrong but even after feeling what that man must have been feeling, I can’t let it go. I can’t forgive. What does that make me?”
He reached out to cup his hand over her's. "Strong." Shin said. "Strong, Kealey... not many would be able to handle everything you just went through... even fewer would be able to make sense. It wasn't your fault... and I'll stand by your decision... I don't know what was right... or what was wrong... or how anyone could be like that... but I'll stand by you. I trust you. And..."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 1, 2010 19:34:02 GMT -6
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Overwhelmed. Shin was over whelmed. She’d said too much all at once. It hadn’t been what Kealey had intended, but once she’d started speaking all of the words had just come out in a rush. What was he going to do? What was he going to say? What did he think. Kealey took a deep breath, at least the tears had stopped flowing.
She waited, Shin…digested the information. Kealey ran over the story in her head again, why had she spilled so much. Why had she decided to burden Shin with all of this information? Why was she expecting someone else to help her pick up the pieces?
>>“Strong…”
Kealey listened as Shin spoke, answering all the questions she’d asked herself. His hand was warm over hers and she could feel the weight and truth of the words he was speaking. He thought she was strong? He was going to stand by her? Shin trusted her.
Kealey wanted to argue, she wasn’t strong. The only thing she was good at was getting herself, and others, into trouble. But she couldn’t find the words to manage the task. It felt good to hear someone whose opinion she cared about say those things. It felt good to hear Shin say those things. Kealey lifted her eyes from her hands.
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And.
>>”And?”
And...
He looked her in the eye. "And you need to forgive yourself, because it wasn't your fault. It wasn't you who brought those emotions to your dream... and you did the best you could getting through them once you were there. That guy..."
That guy...
"I don't want to forgive him either... but if he really did what you say, then I'm glad... you didn't try stopping him. We can't always be heroes, Kealey. Sometimes..." He squeezed her hand gently, and offered a comforting smile. There was a hint of sadness behind his eyes as he remembered the night with Roland. "Sometimes, we've just got to do our best..."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 1, 2010 20:53:59 GMT -6
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Shin was asking a lot. He may not have realized it, but he was asking a lot. Kealey’s head dropped again and her brows drew together as she tried to wrap her mind around what he was saying. Was that what all of this was about? Was she really blaming herself for what had happened in the dream?
Dreams were relations of sub-conscious, weren’t they? Dreams reflected a little piece of what a person wanted or needed in their waking lives. It all harkened back to the same questions Kealey had been asking herself for years. Did an empath have any control over her dreams?
Shin didn’t think so. He pointed out that it wasn’t her fault that those feelings had seeped into her subconscious, no matter what the outcome had been.
Everything Shin said seemed to bring the night’s events into perspective. Since the young man had ran from her room, Kealey had been so focused on the dream. So focused on the emotions she’d felt, the need to kill.
She’d had a murderer in her room, and lived through the experience. That was a victory, no matter how small.
Shin spoke again, and Kealey could feel the sadness behind his words. What he said was true though, very true. And it was something he’d said to her before…
”Oh Shin, I’m sorry I‘m such a mess…” she said, eyebrows drawn together as her hands curled into fists, ”It’s just awful when it feels like it’s not enough.”
Realizing she was squeezing Shin’s hand, Kealey let go, cheeks turning slightly pink.