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 Liz Sundance on Jul 20, 2010 20:33:37 GMT -6
X-Men
Metazoa
Chartreuse
Straight
960
9
Sept 9, 2024 8:03:10 GMT -6
Zek
Fear started seeping into Elizabeth as the van moved every foot farther away from her fellow students. Only seconds after they had zoomed out of the alley (she guessed), she’d heard a strange cry, like a wounded eagle. Had that been Carrick? She knew he was slightly birdlike, judging him by his wings. And he’d been shot. Fear began trickling into her even faster, as she realized that these people probably had no scruples about killing her. If only Meld would show up about now. Meld would rescue her from these people in a heartbeat. As awesome as Haylee was, there was no way she could catch up to a van or compete with guns. Carrick could possibly be able to catch the van by flying, but he wouldn’t stand a chance against them.
Liz squinted in the darkness at the two men who sat in the back of the van with her. She couldn’t see anything of their faces, as they were covered from head to toe in black, even making it hard for her to see them at all. There was a single person up front, and that was the driver. A three person gig. At least it isn’t seven people with machine guns, Beth thought with relief. From her position on the floor, lying on her side, Liz tried inching away from the two men who sat right by the back doors. Not that it would help her. One of the men noticed her and she knew he was glaring at her, even in the darkness. She froze, scared what the man would do.
As the van moved on, probably running red lights and stop signs and breaking speed limits, Elizabeth’s terror grew. Where are they taking me? What are they going to do with me? Just the anticipation and her creative mind were enough to terrify her. That’s why it took a little tickle in her hand to remind her that she could still do something, even if it was just to help Haylee and the others to locate her.
Dropping the barriers in her mind, randomly surprised by the relative quiet, Liz took the fear that had been festering in her mind and multiplied it many times. Then she broadcasted it to every single animal in her range several times. If she had learned anything from her encounter with Meld, it was this: hordes of animals in extreme terror caused by the unknown made a very big trail for anyone to follow.
Outside of the vehicle, sleeping pigeons exploded into flight. Bats began swarming. Dogs began barking. Cats bolted and ran up the nearest surfaces they could find. Mosquitoes and moths fluttered everywhere, crashing into everything. Liz hoped the trick wouldn’t become her trademark. And of course, all the rampant fear she had created was free to do what it pleased, including run through Elizabeth’s deactivated barriers and the empath herself. The result bolstered Beth’s own fear to much higher levels than before.
Kai was running. Running to catch up to the speeding van and the kidnapped rescuer. Running flat out, even though his mind had yet to really catch up.
A few seconds earlier he had been panicking about his roommate almost getting shot. Or had he been shot? Because the next thing to happen was clearly not ordinary. Carrick began to change. He shrieked as his clothes were ripped to shreds and within a matter of seconds, there was a magnificent lion-bird hybrid standing where his normally Angel-like roommate had been. Apparently he could turn into a gryphon. Did I know he could do that? Kai asked, dumbfounded.
The Carrick-gryphon took flight, putting to rest his concerns that he’d been injured. That left only two teenagers in the alley, yet this moment was also short lived. The girl who’d kicked butt took off running down the street.
Maybe she’s a speed mutant? But then, it became apparent that that wasn’t the case. She also could not outrun the speeding van. And Kai decided that the least he could do was follow after her so nothing happened to her, as well. He took off after those few seconds of hesitation, running with his sights set on the girl a few hundred feet ahead of him.
“Wait for me!” he huffed, trying to conserve as much oxygen for his lungs and muscles as possible.
Much to his surprise, she actually seemed to listen. The girl slowed… but only to jack some guy’s car and then speed off. Kai slowed to a jog. Well that’s one way to do it. He probably never would have thought of that method of catching up. But now he was stuck. By himself. With one pissed off former red-car-driver. This really wasn’t his day.
The Van was moving quickly unfortunately for those who took Elizabeth they weren’t moving fast enough at least not fast enough to lose the Gryphon that was tailing them by flying overhead. His head was fixed down wards as his body was high above the tall apartment buildings in the area of the city they were in. Just as hawks and eagles stalk their prey waiting for a good moment Carrick waited for his on the van. The van and all who were in it were his prey they needed to be taught a lesson and as long as they didn’t have a gun pointed at him directly he was planning on educating them.
His massive wings flapped once then twice as the van came close to traffic light and started to slow, why they were slowing now he didn’t know but didn’t feel that it mattered much, they were stopped for a moment but that was long enough for Carrick to fly directly overhead of the van. The longer he followed it the longer his ears picked up creatures barking and screaming out for something, turning and maneuvering away from a flock of pigeons Carrick caught one with his massive beak killing it instantly, no pain very quick the only way to kill a creature of a sky.
He didn’t kill it for food no it served a better purpose and the fact that he was still full from his night out with Kai earlier made it easier to do what he was about to do. Flying a bit lower and faster than the van was moving Carrick turned and opened his beak and dropped the dead bird onto the hood of the car as he flew in the direction the van was coming from. The dead pigeon landed on the windshield with a nice splat and a poofing of feathers.
The driver must have panicked because the van swerved as Carrick circled ready to finally pounce his prey as the van ran up the sidewalk and slammed on the breaks. Luckily for Carrick and Elizabeth the roads weren’t that crowded. Head low and talons near his chest Carrick dove quickly and slammed his talons into the roof of the fan feeling the thin layer of roof put up little resistance to his sharpened talons. Letting out a fierce screech Carrick pulled them out and slammed them back in an attempt to scare the kidnappers out of their get away vehicle.
Looking in the rear-view mirror, she spied the green-eyed boy standing next to the former owner of the stolen borrowed red vehicle. She pulled a sharp U-turn and earned the honks of several cars and a few rude gestures, but ignored it. Now was not the time to obey traffic laws (and plus, it wasn’t her car anyway). As she turned, she noticed the local animals suddenly burst into hysteria: dogs were whimpering and barking, cats were looking about wild-eyed and making unusually high-pitched cat noises, birds were in massive flying frenzies in the sky. It was as if there had been an explosion of fear in the air, and animals were the prime targets.
It smelled of Elizabeth’s doing. At least this means she’s still conscious…and alive, Haylee shook a little at the last thought, but still took some small hope from it. It also meant that she was still close by. With any luck the gryphon was already nearing the van and would be able to handle the kidnappers until…until what? Until two teenage mutants, one with useless abilities, and another with unknown and potentially useless abilities, came as backup? Wait, wait she had to stay positive, she had to stay positive. She had to, lest the gravity of the situation completely—
The car’s former owner had a phone out and was dialing someone furiously as he walked onto the sidewalk. Hopefully he wasn’t calling the cops. The girl quickly sped down the street, rolling the window down as she stopped abruptly in front of the boy, passenger side facing him. If her former driving instructor had seen her, he’d probably cry as she threw all the road etiquette she had learned out the window. “Hurry, get in!” She shouted urgently. The girl heard the man shout and looked through the driver’s side window to see him running towards them. “Hey, I’m just borrowing it! I’ll return it!” Either way, she didn’t want to confront him now.
Posted by Liz Sundance on Jul 24, 2010 19:02:22 GMT -6
X-Men
Metazoa
Chartreuse
Straight
960
9
Sept 9, 2024 8:03:10 GMT -6
Zek
Elizabeth huddled against the wall, watching the two kidnappers by the door with terror. She froze and held her breath each time she thought they moved or looked her way. She shivered and shook whenever she didn’t think they were watching. She kept thinking that at any moment, one of them would decide to just shoot her and end her. But she didn’t know anything! She hadn’t done anything! She hadn’t even gotten a look at the mugger’s face! Why’d they take her? A tear slid across her cheek, travelling perpendicular to her face to fall on the floor. Why was this happening to her?
Fear had gripped Elizabeth in its icy grasp, strengthening its hold each time she sensed the boiling fear from another animal. As her own fear grew, she broadcasted it unintentionally, causing any animal within range of a good-sized house to become overwhelmed with a baseless fear. All in all, the fear kept growing and multiplying each time it circled through the vicious cycle.
Then, from the front of the van she heard a faint plopping sound, like someone dropping gelatin. But on a solid surface, like a windshield. And then the van rapidly spun, rolling Liz across the floor and slamming into the backs of the front seats (the only two seats in the van). Then, just before she could access the pains the trip had given her, she flew up and dropped back to the floor hard as the van evidently ran over something. The driver quickly threw on the brakes, causing Liz to abruptly twist and slam her nose into the back of a seat.
For the moment, pain and confusion took over Elizabeth’s fear. What happened? Liz managed to roll over, until she was facing the back of the van again. She winced as the slight impact jarred her nose. She could feel something wet began trickling over her lip and down to cheek. Blood. But before she could ascertain the rest of her injuries, a quick tearing sound came from above and Liz could see the light from streetlamps slightly pour in through several little holes in the roof. The light cut out quickly and several more noises came from the roof. A scream buried itself in her mouth, blocked by the muffling duct tape.
Her eye widened in fear at whatever was attacking the van and had caused it to stop. Nothing could get worse than this. She almost thought she was dreaming, but surely the damage she’d taken in the van would’ve awakened her. Shaking in fright, Liz watched as the faint silhouette of an arm raised and then she heard two puffs of air as two holes appeared in the roof by the other holes, letting in a bit more light.
She’d had enough. Liz brought her tied hands up to her face, looking like she was saying her last prayers. She took several deep breathes, trying to cut out everything around her. It wasn’t working, but maybe she could still do it. Somehow, Elizabeth managed to achieve proper concentration. And as her senses cut out and she lost all contact with everything, he spirits soared. Instantly, she was safe.
Liz allowed her conscious to melt into the mind of the moth she had captured, taking refuge from everything that was happening to her.
The angry guy who's car just got stolen dialed numbers furiously, punching his cell phone with such vigor that Kai was concerned for the poor molded pieces of plastic's safety. The man shot him an angry and suspicious glance as he approached.
Kai raised his hands, trying to prove his innocence with just one glance. Which he was almost positive would have worked if the car hadn't suddenly reversed and come to a stop in front of the two of them. The girl motioned for him to get in, completely ruining the whole gamble. Kai shot the guy an apologetic look and opened the door with a yank.
“Let's hit it!” He informed the driver dramatically. Just like in the movies the car sped away from the curb with a squeal.
They zoomed along the road. There were surprisingly few cars on the road for New York, so Kai could clearly see the events unfold in front of them. Carrick in gryphon form swoop gloriously down from the skies and distracted the car. The van careened wildly out of control and came to an abrupt stop. “There they are!” Kai shouted unnecessarily, pointing like a mad man just in the off chance that Haylee didn't see it.
His time limit on his shift for now was irrelevant even if he knew it hadn’t been long since he turned into his better half, all that mattered was helping Elizabeth who did as far as he could tell nothing to kidnappers. Then again he doubted she had to do anything to get kidnapped other than make yourself look weak. Which Elizabeth seemed to pull off, otherwise someone else would have been the target. His talons sunk into the roof again and he let out another screech this time instead of the back of the van he slammed them down towards the front.
Before he could pull his talons out and slam them back in he heard one noise than another the firs one he approved of the next one not so much, the sound of a car door opening could be heart to the left (driver’s side) and then there was a puncture sound to the right where no doubt one of the guys had a gun and was in turn trying to ward him off.
Another shot was fired and the van roof released the bullet hardly slowing it. Carrick mentally cursed and released another screech and opened his wings and jumped backwards to where another door opened it was there he saw her. She was down on the ground and her eyes were shut. Elizabeth was out cold… it caused Carrick to stop for a second, was it his fault she was like that?
A second went by and his tail behind him flicked as a man in the van (who had opened the back doors) looked at Carrick with fear and pulled up a knife, it was clear that he didn’t have a gun. Carrick took a step forward one talon touching down on the pavement then another. In his panic he turned his knife towards a fallen Elizabeth and that was when Carrick lunged. Head reaching into the van Carrick’s beak snapped shut on the man’s leg and then with a quick jerk of the neck and a jump backward Carrick removed the man with the knife, throwing him in the process. Turning his attention to the drivers side Carrick jumped around and let out another screech as the driver pulled a gun.
(OOC: One gunman is in the van, one is in front of Carrick and another was thrown from the van)