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 Andrew Leroy on Nov 4, 2010 22:19:58 GMT -6
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Kate was curious about how he'd come to know a detective. It was an interesting enough story he supposed.
"I met Detective Jorge Cervantes for the first time on the scene of a hostage crisis. More specifically he was one of the officers trying to end the crisis and I was one of the hostages. The leader of the people holding us hostage was this guy with huge hands. Not huge like a normal human could possibly have but mutant huge. One of his hands engulfed my entire head. I'm not just saying that as a pretty figure of speech either. He had my head in one of his massive mitts and threatened to...well squeeze.'
'He never got a chance to do that but he did drop me out of a second story window. Jorge saved me from hitting the pavement. After the whole thing was over I did some digging and searched him out so I could thank him for saving me. He offered to teach me to box and that's that."
There was quite a bit more to it actually but that was the condensed version. Andrew didn't say anything about recent events. The last thing he wanted was to make Kate afraid of him or make her despise him. Moving on Andrew listened as Kate agreed with him on why he liked books. It brought a smile to his face to hear someone else share the notion. Moments later she proposed a trade of sorts. He could teach her to bake and she could teach him to read music and round out his Russian as well. Two pretty Russian tutors? Maybe his luck wasn't entirely bad.
>>I met Detective Jorge Cervantes for the first time on the scene of a hostage crisis. More specifically he was one of the officers trying to end the crisis and I was one of the hostages.
Kate looked at him surprised. She never would have guessed that something like that had happened to him., he didn't seem to be overly jostled about the whole thing. Was this just another aspect of life in the real world she was going to have to get used to? She pushed the thoughts down and listened to the rest of Andrews story. He was the matter at hand, not whether her mother was right or not.
>>... After the whole thing was over I did some digging and searched him out so I could thank him for saving me. He offered to teach me to box and that's that.
Kate smiled at Andrew's face. She could tell that he felt that this Jorge person was obviously important to the boy. Someone he admired and cared about.
>>That sounds like a good idea.
"Maybe I could join you one night soon and you can bake and work on Russian at the same time."
Posted by Andrew Leroy on Nov 15, 2010 15:42:43 GMT -6
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Kate seemed a little surprised about his whole hostage thing. Well, she wasn't used to the outside world so it was to be expected.
"I just have bad luck Kate. Normal life is generally pretty dull and uneventful. Mind you as mutants we've got less chance of normal than others but still. Don't take the bad things that have happened to me as what is normal."
It wasn't like she was going to end up shooting someone or anything. In her case it would probably be more like burning someone to death but the premise was the same. Being as sheltered as she was it wouldn't be fair to expect Kate to deal with the harsher aspects of life just yet. If it came to it and he was around then he'd deal with whatever it was rather than have her have to. That was a depressing train of thought and Andrew steered away from it quickly. He considered Kate's idea.
"That sounds like a good way to use the time. At least I'd be getting something done besides baking."
Learning Russian was a more worthwhile use of what should have been sleeping time than baking was. This way he could justify one by means of the other.
>>That sounds like a good way to use the time. At least I'd be getting something done besides baking.
Kate smiled at him again, some of her worry being lifted, "That sounds delightful. Diner and a lesson."
Kate looked at Andrew's face as they talked, he had seemed a little distant and closed off every time they talked about something rather unpleasant, more so then usual. Kate knew that he had had a rather hard past and wasn't used to opening up to people about what he felt.
She must have looked at him for 10 minutes before she spoke, "Um... Andrew?"
Posted by Andrew Leroy on Nov 16, 2010 16:43:56 GMT -6
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He chuckled a little. That was one way of putting it.
"Yeah I guess you could call it that."
After several minutes of quiet Kate spoke up again. Something in her voice seemed concerned and he wondered if he'd let his face show his emotions while he'd been thinking. Just in case he added that as another thing to his list of things to improve on.
"Yeah Kate?"
Andrew tried to put some collected calm into that statement as if to say that he was perfectly alright. Hopefully that would stay whatever question she was going to ask. He didn't want to talk about it and if she asked directly he'd tell her no. It might hurt the friendship they were building but that was just how it was going to be. His friends would not know that he had killed someone if he could help it.
Kate heard the forced calm and collected in his voice. She had heard it to many times from her mother not to know the fake from the real. Her mother was always putting on a front and Kate had learned to see through all of them over the years. But this had also taught her that sometimes people act like they are fine because they are not ready to talk about it.
Kate thought for a moment before decided that she wouldn't prod more, "You make it seem as if I'm not already used to bad things. I would think that you would have figured that out by now, considering the conversations we have had," Kate looked down at her shoes as she continued, "I've seen my share of bad, Andrew. That bad is how I can tell when someone is trying to hid how they feel. My mother used to do it all the time. I'm not going to ask you about it, but I want you to know I might understand. Sometimes I actually think I understand the bad better then I understand the good. So much of my life has been the former. I live in a pri..." Kate looked up from her shoes at Andrew and suddenly stopped and shook her head to dissipate and thoughts of such things, "Never mind."
Kate smiled and Andrew once again, not doing a very good job of hiding anything she was feeling. She had almost let slip the one thing she had never told and would probably never tell anyone. She had spend so much time building up these walls and every conversation with Andrew seemed to slowly tare them down. Whenever she was around him she seemed to say anything. Things that she wouldn't' even tell her best friend came tumbling out of her mouth, and for some reason it didn't bother her that much
Posted by Andrew Leroy on Nov 16, 2010 17:33:10 GMT -6
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Andrew just smiled. He could tell what she was trying to do. Getting someone to open up by entrusting them with something from your own experience was an old tactic. The kind of bad she was used to was not the kind of bad she'd run into out here. He could pretty much guarantee that. She'd been sheltered. The kind of bad she was used to was likely emotional hurt. Not that that was anything to dismiss. Such things could get pretty bad. It was just that what he knew of her past pretty much disallowed a lot of the bad that could happen out here from touching her.
"I'm sure you've had your share of it. No one has had the perfect life. However the kind of things you saw back in your home probably haven't prepared you for what could happen out here. Whatever else she did, your mother protected you from that."
He gave a wry chuckle.
"Listen to me. I'm fairly new to this too. I had a good life before the mutation. Heck, before I came to New York even. Whatever you're used to, it's different out here."
Andrew stopped himself before he said anymore. If he kept talking he might say it by accident. Not like you could take something like that back.
"But why worry about bad things? It's a nice day today."
>>But why worry about bad things? It's a nice day today.
Kate smiled at his blatant subject change, "Your right. It is beautiful and we should enjoy it," Kate wrapped her arm around his and looked out into the park at the passers by and people enjoying the day.
They walked and talked about random things until they exited the park to find David waiting to take them back to the mansion.
Kate really did have a good day. Who would have thought that a horrible experience could lead to a good one?