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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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 Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 17, 2011 22:10:36 GMT -6
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More eggs were eaten, and then, whatever else they'd prepared. "You may have to avoid me getting used to this coffee," Shin commented, as he ate. It was good. Must have been all the sugar he'd added to it. And the cream. "I had Aurum coffee once. Tastes like smoke. Although Aurum other things are pretty grand. On that, we can agree."
Somewhere out there, Aurum's ears were burning. Breakfast was good. Not as good as his. But. He'd have been indignant about that coffee. Thankfully, he wasn't there to be indignant.
Breakfast ended.
"Help me put away the dishes?" Shin asked. As he lifted his, he casually focused on armoring his arm to look sleek and orange, like a certain arm from a certain anime character's signature attack. The fanboyism. It would have burned certain minds. He set his dishes in the sink.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 17, 2011 22:38:24 GMT -6
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Kealey grinned at Shin’s comment about the coffee. If he could get used to making her eggs, she could happily get used to making him coffee. Assuming that this train of thought meant that the matter was settled, the blond continued to smile. Everything was working so well. So very well. It had to be a sign that this had been the right thing to do. It sure made things easier on Kealey…that was for sure. She hadn’t even realized how much strain the Mansion was putting on her and her powers. This was bliss, for more than one reason.
Shin asked her if she’d help him with dishes, and Kealey simply nodded her head, grabbing her plate and making her way to the kitchen. It wasn’t until she was putting her own dishes into the sink with Shin’s that she noticed what he’d gotten up to.
”Ahhhh.” she said, mind scanning to try and lock onto the obvious reference. It didn’t take long, ” Scryed. Very nice.” The dishes were in the sink now, and they could stay there for the moment. It never even crossed Kealey’s mind to ask the how. When Shin started talking about math, sometimes she wondered if he switched to Japanese and she simply failed to notice.
“Let’s see….”
“That’s a glove, a sword, and now the whole arm. You’re getting very close to the whole upper body.” she noted with a bright and proud grin. “I like the reference too. You do the series great honor.” the blond said, then turned back to the dishes.
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Heh. As if that was all.
"I think maybe," mused the Asian. "If I can master the spirit gun, I can use the recoil to launch me around like exterminating bullets with the Bullet Arm." He glanced at her with a small smile. "But who said the arm was the only thing I'd managed? Remember I said this was something I'd wanted to show you before?" Since then, there had been practicing. He had a whole new trick.
A rag ran over the surface of a plate in Shin's hand as he worked on scrubbing. On his face, a look was perched that told details. Like how, just maybe, he had more to show.
"Do you think I'd be more handsome than Saejima Kouga, too?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 19, 2011 18:40:08 GMT -6
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Kealey listened with her head tilted as Shin explained his ideas about how he could improve his work with his powers. It wasn’t all that hard to imagine after watching the animes, and she couldn’t help but smile as the mental picture of Shin doing the things he said ran through her mind. His powers were so cool.
Shin kept working on his plate as Kealey finished hers and she went to work on the pan he’d used to make the eggs. That look on Shin’s face…it seemed like there was more to say on the matter of armor and showing off. Between that and his emotions, the blond was curious…very curious. She was just about to ask, when Shin posed a question of his own.
“Um…yeah.” she said immediately, with a small chuckle and a bright grin. ”No contest.”
”How come? Have you been working on that armor too?”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 19, 2011 21:56:20 GMT -6
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"Close." Shin smiled, glancing over his shoulder at Kealey. He set down the plates he was working on, then took a step back, away from the sink. Then, he got to thinking.
The Asian bowed his head for a moment, focusing. The arm armor separated and floated away from him in the air, turning and awaiting reformatting. Shin lifted his arms, like Magic Mickey casting a spell. Suds flicked from the ends of his fingertips, sailing across the room.
"Drumroll, please." He announced. He didn't actually wait for a drum roll.
Numbers ran through the Asian's head as he focused hard on summoning a very special white jacket. With his mind.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 19, 2011 22:38:42 GMT -6
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Hmmm, she was close with the armor guess, but not completely right. Her head couldn’t tilt anymore, so Kealey simply turned as Shin moved away from the sink, watching. She was close with the Garo guess, but it wasn’t armor…what then?
She didn’t have to wait long, and didn’t even have time to give Shin the drum roll he requested. The shards that had made the arm armor separated and floated, and slowly started to reform themselves. It wasn’t armor this time, Garo or otherwise, but it was a very familiar, very epic coat.
Kealey grinned, “That is amazing.” she said, stepping closer to get a better look, ”And you make all that without any sharp edges?”
” Do you mean it to go over the actual coat, or in place of it?” Lots of questions, but she couldn’t help it, she was curious.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 23, 2011 23:42:47 GMT -6
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>>”...And you make all that without any sharp edges?”
"Rounding," the Asian nodded.
As for the coat question. "Either works. This one is a bit more bulletproof than the one you made, though. Which protects it for occasions where I don't much feel like concentrating, I guess." Although if she meant would he layer it on top of the coat... "I'm not sure I'd just put a layer on top of it, though. Maybe if it were pants or a shirt. Hm. I hadn't really thought about it." He thought he'd been more decisive, but! Apparently, he'd been wrong.
As for decisive thoughts. "But I'm sure I can master doing more impressive things with this. Whatever I choose. Hey. I might even be able to use it to make you costumes, Kealey. With my mind." He donned a serious face. Okay, the serious face shattered into a smirk. "Would you like that?" He hoped so. The possibilities were. Endless.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 0:10:39 GMT -6
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Kealey nodded her head in understanding as Shin explained a little more about the coat. It was a good point, and his shards were more bulletproof than anything she could possibly make. It was good, the safer Shin was when they were on missions, the better. Even if it meant he didn’t wear the coat she’d made him as often. She smiled.
Then, Shin had presented another idea.
He could make her costumes…with his mind. Kealey smiled, she knew that smirk, and she nodded her head. ”I do like that idea.” she said, a matching smirk slipping onto her features. ”Besides. It would be great practice.” She nodded her head again…practice, so that he could be better prepared to use his skills when they were really necessary. That was the motivation here.
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"I think," Shin noted with a disarming smile. "The lady should decide what costume she wishes to wear. One would not be a gentleman if they were demanding." Heh heh. That'd get her.
Shin yawned, vanishing his coat and letting his concentration slack as he stretched his arms over his head, then he added. "Plus, it saves me from staying up long into the night, thinking about it." Thinking was hard. He'd leave the thinking to her.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 8:09:21 GMT -6
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The coat disappeared, and Kealey shook her head. It really was something special that he could hold all of that together just by thinking about it. The mechanics were fantastic, and mind-boggling…but awesome.
As Shin tried to push all the work for his idea off on her, Kealey grinned what she hoped was an equally disarming grin right back at him. He stretched, and she shook her head. Shin thought he had the whole thing worked out, huh?
”It is true that a ladies choice is the usual method for things like this… she allowed, thinking for a moment before continuing and wondering if there was social protocol for the way one used their boyfriend’s mental powers to make clothing, ”Unless the lady in question wants to wear something of the gentleman’s choosing. Then he really must concede.”
Two could play the chivalry game, and as to thoughts of such things keeping him up all night...
”You stay up too late anyway. At least you’d be thinking about something fun.” she teased, just a tiny the tiniest emphasis on the fact that he didn’t sleep enough.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 14:36:41 GMT -6
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She had him. She had a point. If a lady asked, the gentleman had to decide. And yes, it might be fun to stay up late thinking about such things. Because he really liked... Math.
"You're right," Shin consented, head bowed in a knowing smile. "Why are you always so right?" Really, it was some sort of freak mutant power she had. She always had no trouble convincing him of things. Her logic was always gorgeous, and he had a thing for... beautiful minds.
"So, tell me." He smiled up at her, sweetly. "What costume am I thinking of you wearing again?"
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 16:39:03 GMT -6
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Kealey had to laugh when Shin asked her how she was right so often. She easily could have turned the question around on him, though, and asked the same thing. Between the two of them, there were probably not two people who were right more often in the entire city. Maybe it was part of why they got along so well. It didn’t matter, Kealey simply shrugged.
The question got flipped again though, and the blond shook her head. It didn’t seem like she was going to win this battle no matter how hard she tried. “I don’t know…” she grinned. ”It’s not fair to put me on the spot, I can’t think of anything now!”
She looked at the ceiling for a moment, it was too hard to keep a straight face and concentrate when she tried to look at Shin right now. What was she going to have him make her?
”Well, I never have gotten around to making that Sailor Moon costume…” she said, then shrugged her shoulders, eyes coming back down to Earth with a matching grin, ”Or if you wanted to try something you’re more familiar with…you could always try my uniform.”
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 16:51:14 GMT -6
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She was so cute when she was thinking. Kealey shook her head, and Shin tried not to be smug about it. He kept up that sweet smile, all the way through her efforts to discover an excellent costume suggestion. Finally, she came to one. Two, actually. Sailor Moon... and her costume.
"Hm," Shin tapped his lip thoughtfully, glancing away for a moment as he considered her suggestions. They were excellent suggestions. He liked them. Still, he made a show of considering, of turning them in his mind and weighing the pros and cons.
Had she thought he had wanted something strange? Oh, whatever could have given her that idea! Certainly nothing he'd done. Shin laughed at the thought. "Maybe I should just start with something demure, like baggy sweatpants and a sweater." He paused for a second, then frowned to himself. "Although, I guess I just unsold myself on that idea. Baggy stuff is really detailed and hard to work on. Lots of stuff to compute. The less complicated the outfit, the better, starting out... I guess less is more. Hrm." He looked at Kealey, then arched an eyebrow. "I guess I could start with a simple red bow?"
Heh heh. That had the potential to be a fun starting point, indeed. Shin did not smirk. Okay, maybe a little.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 17:19:07 GMT -6
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Oh man…he’d meant something demure. Like…baggy sweatpants and a sweatshirt? Boy…Kealey’s cheeks were sure pink all of a sudden, and she had the compulsion to go back to scrubbing the plates. So what if they were already clean? She cleared her throat and was just about to comment that something like that would be fine, when Shin went on talking.
Apparently, the baggier something was, the more difficult. That meant that at least for now…less was more. A blond eyebrow rose to that revelation and the blush subsided a bit. Maybe….just maybe, he’d been teasing her about the sweats?
A few moments later, that thought was confirmed, and Kealey burst out laughing, some of the pink returning to her cheeks at that particular thought and the smirk on her boyfriend’s face.
“Well…I did suggest that working on something you were familiar with might be a good idea.” she said, and the bow was familiar.
Posted by Tetsuya Shinbo on Jun 24, 2011 18:06:30 GMT -6
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Oh, it seemed she liked that idea. Good.
"Yup," Shin nodded, beaming with pride. "It would be good practice." Because as everyone knew, practice made perfect, and practice could be fun.
The future held lots of different options for costumes Shin could make with his mind. They ranged from the simple, all the way to the most difficult things (like bulletproof wedding dressings or, wait, had he just contemplated a bulletproof wedding dress?). Shin stopped, thought about it, hm'd appreciatively at the idea, then hauled his mind back on target.
"I guess we should probably save practice for later, though. We've got a lot of fun unpacking to do." He eyed the way to the room with a dumb grin.