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.
That was a surprise. She had been imagining some hairy old gypsy with too many piercings and wile pirate makeup. "...So.. basically this place is run by kids. That doesn't sound disastrous at all..." Her frown deepened, and more little blue eyes peeked out from her hair, intently watching their larger brother play on the mans hand.
... They wanted to play too! Megan ignored the tickling sensation of many little legs scurrying down her neck, as a handful of spiders tumbled into her lap and skittered toward the horned one. The paused on her knees and the bench by her feet and stared up at him, little mouth parts twitching with excitement. Megan snorted under her breath at them, but made no move to call them back. The more the merrier, as it was often said. "Why not go back with the wife, and see if they can get anything from her? Maybe she'd see something that would help you out?"
Then again, it could also traumatize said wife. She shrugged, still frowning in a troubled manner. "... So, you're a unicorn... and you heal things?" She was tempted to demand where his pot of gold was, until she remembered that that was Leprechauns. Not unicorns.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 12, 2011 11:50:07 GMT -6
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May 18, 2013 11:53:12 GMT -6
The surprise in the spider girl's voice proved Sebastian's assessment correct that fifteen and younger was too young to be running a business in this culture. He wouldn't even let Jude get a job yet, not at eleven, not when he had to focus on school and growing up and thinking about what he had done to deserve being grounded for the rest of his life.
"I think I'd rather try to change my destiny on my own. No more help from oracles. I just wonder if I shouldn't inform the authorities about the kids..."
And speaking of kids, a whole handful of spider kids tumbled down out of her hair to rest in the bench next to him. In size relation, they looked like the younger siblings of Freddie, each with their mother's pale blue eyes. He couldn't help but chuckle at their seemingly wistful postures. He lowered his other hand in an invitation for them to climb aboard, too.
Who would have thought that the thing that would cheer him up after such bad news would be a bunch of spiders crawling up and down his arms as cheerful as kids on a carnival ride.
"Yes," he responded to her second question, "I can heal most injuries and illnesses. I run Iris Clinic, which is near Central Park and I am realizing that I never properly introduced myself. My name is Sebastian Csendes." He would have shaken her hand, but a spider was busy bungee jumping off his finger at the moment.
"Eh... what would the authorities do? Slap them on the wrist and tell them to go home?" Cops rarely ever seemed to do anything right, and she highly doubted that they would believe some guy who claimed to be a unicorn and was supposed to end the world.
...or maybe she was just bias. "If this guy who gave you the vision is a mutant though, you could probably get MRC involved. I'm told they handle all the mutie affairs. What was it Gawain had called it? Mutant something something crime unit... or something." She needed to pay more attention when that kid was speaking....
Turning her attention away from the spiders, back to the man, Megan nodded her head in greeting. "I'm Charlotte." Charlotte no last name.... Just Charlotte, because she was too damn lazy to invent one. "...A unicorn man who heals people. Huh. Do you like... shift and stuff? Are rainbows involved?"
Okay... maybe she was getting a little carried away with the unicorn thing, but she just couldn't help but wonder.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 14, 2011 10:17:34 GMT -6
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May 18, 2013 11:53:12 GMT -6
Sebastian had no idea what the authorities would do. In his experience they usually stuck kids in orphanages when they couldn't find parents for them. Somehow he doubted that would actually help them.
He also didn't know anything about the Mutant Something-something Crime Unit. He simply shrugged.
“Charlotte, it's nice to meet you.” Another thing he didn't know was that her name came from a rather well known children's book. It was a pretty name and he had no reason to suspect that she might be teasing him.
He did know that the conversation was serving as a good distraction from his earlier emotions. She was helping him to clear his head simply by asking questions and answering his own.
“I can change into a more horse-like form, but it does take quite awhile and I'm afraid a demonstration would leave me rather exposed.” Just in case she was curious, because she seemed like the curious sort, and he didn't really feel like losing all his clothes on a park bench in the middle of the city.
“How about you and your spiders? Do you have any special tricks up your sleeves when it comes to these little creatures?”
>>“I can change into a more horse-like form, but it does take quite awhile and I'm afraid a demonstration would leave me rather exposed.”
Oh... because that didn't bring up colorful, vivid images. A coy little smile curled her lips and she giggled to herself. Naked horse men running around the city was something she wasn't necessarily opposed to seeing, but meh. People and their blasted modesty. Megan glanced at the spiders tumbling around on his fingers and palms like school children.
"Well, they kind of do things themselves. I did teach them how to dance, though. That's kind of a trick." Capturing her fingers between her lips, she let out a short whistle to get a hold of her spiders attention. The little fuzzy creatures paused, the larges intent on ignoring her in favor of playing with Sebastian's thumb, until a smaller one bumped into him. Once all eyes were on her, she raised a finger delicately. "Gentleman, if you please. Why don't we show Mr. Sebastian here our best shimmy? Ready? Go!"
The arachnids scrambled to get into awkward lines, and held themselves up on their back legs, front legs held elegantly in the air above them. Megan hummed a little tune for them to follow and wagged her finger along to the beat. They did alright, bobbing and shuffling along, until one bumped into the largest and an all out brawl broke out on Sebastian's hand. Megan's finger dropped, and she sighed into her hand. "Ah... they hate being upstaged. Break it up, you two!" The spiders ceased fighting, begrudgingly, and went back to making a big toy out of the unicorns hand. Megan frowned, and tried to think back to what had been said.
Oh, that's right... "But yeah... get out of here! I've only ever seen unicorn men in cliche Japanese cartoons. If I could changed into a horse I'd be galloping around New York twenty-four seven!" She would, too. And maybe... maybe she'd let someone rider her too. Just to get the whole horsey experience.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 15, 2011 23:38:54 GMT -6
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The tap dancing was quite impressive, for as long as the little guys held it together. Having a spider fight on your hands, though, was a bit alarming. Luckily no one lost a leg.
>>“But yeah... get out of here!”
Sebastian blinked in confusion, not sure why she would be dismissing him in the middle of a conversation. If she wanted him to leave, though, he would. He stood up and started walking in the other direction, spiders and all.
She didn't notice him get up at first, and simply rambled on to herself, earning a few questioning glances from a couple as they passed. It wasn't until she turned her eyes back and noticed him walking away, that she realized what had just happened.
He had ditched her! Her cheeks flushed red for a moment, and then she realized that he had taken her spiders with him. "Hey!" Megan scrambled from the bench to follow after, leaving a lonely coffee cup sitting abandoned on the bench. "Don't think i'm letting you run off with my kids there, Sebastian." Not without proper compensation, at least! She fell into step beside him, and eyed him grumpily for a moment. The little spider party crawling about on his hands paused their games to eye her back, before deciding not to get involved until they absolutely had to. They still had yet to explore his arms, and try to string a web together from one hand to the other.
"Where are you off to anyway?" She tucked her hands into her pockets, and watched him from the corners of her eyes curiously.
Posted by Sebastian on Jun 27, 2011 16:14:12 GMT -6
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Sebastian turned his head to watch Charlotte hustle to catch up to him. He kept on walking, but slowed his pace until she was by his side.
“I'm not kidnapping them.” He hadn't meant to, anyway. He probably would have just let them off in the park or somewhere they'd have a good chance to catch lots of food in their webs.
“I thought you wanted me to leave,” he stated, blinking his confusion again. Hadn't she said to 'get out of here'? “Perhaps I misunderstood.”
Sebastian formed the his thumbs and the pointer fingers of each hand into a triangle to let the spider children string their webs between them if they so chose. Without really having planned it, his feet were taking him toward home, and since it was on the way, towards Full Circle Bookstore where Ghost would be working right now.
The spider lady was right. He did need to talk to his wife about what he had seen. He just didn't really want to. She had been working so hard, spending so much time with Dr. Ingram, doing so many tests, trying to find the answer... he didn't want to take away any small spark of hope she might have that those trials weren't in vain.