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 ladyspade on Sept 12, 2006 16:31:57 GMT -6
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Daria drove up to the university smiling. The campus was in the heart of the city and the students walked hear in there..or skated. Even though it was filled with punk rockers, goths, preps and the few scattered ghettofabs, Daria knew her ears and tail would cause her more attention than she wished to draw. She there fore kept her hood on and her tail wrapped around her waist. She couldn't put it in her pants leg she would be too inclined to move it.
She'd already taken an advanced placement test for her IT classes, rendering her capable of taking a shorter more rigorus set of classes desinged for her to earn a teaching degree in the field.
Her first day went smoothly as her professors expressed their impression and admiration for her knowledge and passion for technology. She ignored the advances made on her by some of the male students- it only made her want to have lunch with Mike more. She did manage to make a few friends who were her partners on a computer project in her second half of her class.
When the day was almost over Daria pulled out her cell to call Mike and tell him to meet her but she saw that she had a voicemail from the contractors for the restaurant. She'd been procrastinating when it came to all the business meetings she had to attend and decided she might as well check it out. She left Mike a message stating that they should meet for dinner instead of lunch telling him where she was going. He would understand the importance of course.
When her class was over Daria walked outside, got in her car and drove off towards SOHO where she was supposed to meet the contractors in a cafe for coffee.
Posted by ladyspade on Apr 23, 2007 15:38:52 GMT -6
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Explaining her absence to her teachers was...odd. However they were impressed that she'd kept up with the work enough, through email and phone calls to earn passing grades on her missed tests.
The course was completely over but she tingled excitedly over the idea of teaching students at the mansion.
Emerald had a big race soon and Daria couldn't wait to go to it and cheer her on.
Posted by ladyspade on Jun 16, 2007 20:24:04 GMT -6
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Thanks to Mike's 'mind boggling' help, Daria had managed to stay awake for her test. She did exceptionally well but, since she expected so much from herself, she was sure she could've done better.
She didn't have time to dwell on it. It was wednesday, she was going out with Emmy and Ruby to celebrate her engagement, and then the weekend was devoted to giving Mike a belated birthday surprise. She was happy and it showed as she whistled her way into the girl's restroom. She ran her hands under the hot water, trying to relax them since she'd been gripping her pen so hard for an hour and a half.
Bathrooms are full of smells, naturally, and so perhaps Daria didn't think anything unusual about smelling others in the room. However, Mike's powers were begining to fade, as he'd warned and her fatigue was messing with her senses. Her hearing was a bit off and her reflexes slowed.
"Hey mutie." A voice from behind her said. She turned around just a bit too late and was slapped in the face with something hard and heavy. A woman was standing with a wooden board. Daria was forced back into the porceilin sinks, her lower backhitting the edge painfully. She hissed. "What the hell are you doing here? Didn't think we'd find out?"
"What do you want?" Daria asked, her claws unsheathing. "What do I want?" the woman laughed and several more people came out from the stalls. "We want you dead." she raised the board again but this time Daria managed to lash up with her knee, breaking the board with a tae kwon do snap kick. The woman stepped back.
"You have got to be kidding me," Daria said. "Even all eight of you don't have a chance. So I'm giving you a chance...to run." she warned, cracking her tail like a whip.
The woman just shook her head as her teammates advanced. Daria placed her hands on the sink behind her and lifted herself up, wrapping her legs around the first attacker's neck and twisting it; he fell to the floor. The next one fell as well, to a double kick to his face.
Two women managed to slam Daria into the wall of the bathroom, beneath it's only window. She retaliated by dodging forward and knocking them both to the ground, and then knocking them unconcious with two quick, yet forceful, punches.
The last three fell in similar fashions without managing to get a hit in on Daria. She pinned the woman who had been holding the board to the wall.
"I gave you a chance, now tell me; who do you work for?"
"Church of Humanity." the woman responded, almost too quickly. "we're going to purge the world of freaks like you." and then she smiled.
Daria smiled back and lifted an angry claw but just then someone burst through the door, something sharp hit Daria in the arm, and she didn't even have time to fight back, she fell to the floor.
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The remaining, uninjured members of the kidnappers, carried Daria outside to the back of the building and put her in the back of an unmarked truck. They assumed they were unseen, but somewhere Ruby and Emerald awaited Daria, perhaps in the parking lot where the cat girl's car was parked. The parkinglot adjacent to the back of the building...able to see everything that happened.
Both the wolf girl and the fox girl had been outside by Daria's car, waiting and waiting. As if sensing something was up, Emerald growled instinctively, pushing Ruby behind her. The fox girl looked at her sister funny as she followed Emerald.
Emerald ducked behind a truck, making Ruby do the same and both teens saw the church of Humanity put Daria in the back of a truck. The siblings exchanged frightened glances before finnally Em spoke.
"We need to follow them." She said
"Right!" Ruby exclaimed, "Shouldnt we call mike?"
Em shook her head, "We call him when we need him. Besides he is a psychic I bet you he already knows something is up."
Unkown to Emerald Ruby had dialed texted Jamal to tell Mike what was going on. The fox girl followed her older sibling into Daria's car, her eyes widening.
"Emmy what are you doing?" Ruby asked her older sister, who was siting in Dars driver seat.
Emerald grinned evilly. "You are going to help daria by hotwiring her car so we can follow them."
"WHAT?!"
"Just do it!"
Ruby whined softly, as she put her finger on the ignition, after a few moments the car turned on. She buckled her seat belt just as Em shifted the car into reverse.
"Emmy do you drive a car like you do a motorcycle?" Ruby asked hesitantly just as Emerald back Daria's car out the parking space.
Emerald merely grinned as she floored it, speeding after Daria's kidnappers. But she made sure as to keep her distance in order not to alert them of her pressence.
Frankly, the residents of the university probably wouldn't even register Daria, after Mike's entrance. After getting the message from Jamal, he'd suited up in no time flat and flown top-speed to the campus. He was a golden streak in the sky, psychic wings unfurled, as he thundered down, landing hard at the exact spot Daria's car had been parked in. His telekinesis, amplified as it was by his rage, protected him from even any discomfort on the landing, but under his feet the pavement was indented and cracked. His eyes blazing briliantly, he looked around, trying to find the trail... until he finally located the worried mind of Ruby.
He closed his eyes, concentrating. He hadn't tried doing this before, even though he knew that a part of him, ages ago, had learned how to do it. Zadkiel and Sandalphon could do it, so he could as well. I am Zethari... I am thought... I am feeling... the physical world is but a transitory state... I am... thought...[/color] And not even quite knowing how he did it, he vanished. Ruby could feel something of a... pressure on her mind, like river flowing through it, then suddenly Mike was in the car with them. "You rang?" he said, dryly.
Ruby yelped in surprise, ears perking up immediatly. She hugged Mike.
"Yea!"
Emerald growled irritably at her younger sibling. Her tail lashed back and forth.
"I thought I told you not to call him till we needed his help!" Emerald barked
"I didnt! I texted Jamal to tell him!" Ruby shot back, sticking her tounge out at her elder sibling.
Emerald rolled her eyes, gripping the steering wheel with a death grip. She was worried as well but she didnt like to show it. She knew what crackpots could do and she didnt want Daria to get hurt.
The wolf girl had not yet noticed her hands were starting to turn into large clawed hand like paws untill Ruby brought it to her attention.
"Damn it.." She muttered under her breath, trying to shift her hands back to normal size. WHen she succeded she sighed deeply, "Looks like I am more stressed out than I thought."
Mike smirked. "Please. Everyone always needs my help, they just don't know it." He focused his mind ahead of them, keeping a lock on the van they were chasing. With another stray part of his mind, he tweaked both Ruby and Emmy, calming them instantly. "Need to keep straight minds for what's probably ahead," he said. "What did I miss?"
"Well I think Daria has been kidnapped by the church of Humanity." Emerald replied. She growled irritablly when they where at a stop light, which caused the wolfess to drum her fingers on the wheel.
"They had the same scent of The Church of Humanity so I assumed thats who they were, but...they also had a mixture of other scent to. So maybe something else is afoot, but what we do know is that these church pyschos are proably going to do the same thing to dar as they did to me."
Mike's eyes flared. "Whoever they are, they'll wish they'd never heard of a mutant when we're done with them."
He pulled out his cell phone, and started dialing the school. "I'm going to have Johnathan send a car to cross paths with us somewhere." He looked at Ruby with one of his 'this isn't up for debate' looks. "It'll take you back to school so you can let Tricity and the others know what's going on."
"Ruby... do you happen to remember a nap I took that lasted a few months?" Mike said, trying to keep calm.
"But..."
"No buts. I know you know how serious this is, and I know you want to help all that badly... but we're not going to risk you getting hurt too. It's bad enough that I'm pretty sure I won't be able to force Emmy home, too."
Posted by ladyspade on Jun 17, 2007 20:33:49 GMT -6
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The truck sped on throuh the back roads of the city, out of Manhattan and into Brooklyn. Inside Daria was slowly coming back to conciousness. Her head was throbbing and she couldn't see straight.
She was tightly chained to a metal table and she couldn't move or teleport. She'd bitten down hard on her tongue and lip and could taste warm blood. Around her, dark, blurry figures moved, chanting...even though she could've sworn they hadn't been chanting before she'd made it known she was awake.
"what's going on?" she said, even though it sounded like "wagagon?" "Shh, mortal. We're purifying you." One of the figures said.
"Purifying me?" she demanded. "What do you mean?"
"The world is better off without the tainted ways and existance of Mutants." "What? Tainted? I've never done a thing to you!" "You were born, Mutie, that's all it takes. You're like a virus, we must kill you as you come."
Daria hissed, or tried to. "That's ridiculous, I should've killed you all for hurting Emmy and now I'm going to make sure I do!" she bucked wildly but she was too weak and too tied down.
It was almost as if her mutant strength was gone.
"I would kill you now." a voice said. "but I'm more interested in what makes you tick." Daria felt something cold and sharp hit the skin on her stomach and move down to her lower abdomen. There wasa tugging and she screamed, a scream audible enough from outside the van, before she passed out.
The van was heading for a warehouse, not an abandoned one, either, it was busy but closed and locked shut, black smoke coming from it's chimney.
And as she screamed, from where they'd pulled over momentarily to transfer Ruby to the school's car, Mike curled over in his seat, clutching his head and trying to muffle his own screams. When he managed to sit back up, he pointed to the road, his eyes glowing gold again, tinged a bit with red at times. "Drive. Fast," he said, his voice rasping a little.
Emerald heard the scream, a low growl escaping her throat. After she heard Mikes rasping voice she nodded and floored it again.
"We need a theme song for this car chase you know that?" Emerald asked, in attempt to calm both of thier nerves but knew it wouldnt work. "Screw it, Im gonna kill these church losers when I find them."
Posted by ladyspade on Jun 18, 2007 20:57:44 GMT -6
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The procedure, if it could even be called that, lasted only a few minutes because they were pulling into the driveway of the warehouse. But Daria's pain, which she couldn't 'feel' since she was unconcious' was immense. They didn't want to kill her yet, they were making her wait for something...
The large gate of the warehouse didn't open until one of the men gave a signal, then it opened and let them through. The warehouse was locked save for a few windows that were sloppily painted black.
They wheeled Daria inside, not caring that she was jerked awake. As soon as she was, her body was gripped with immense pain. She tried to scream but nothing came out. So she took a deep breath and tried again sucessfully. Her eyes were spotting again and she wished she would faint.
Her voice was simply a series of animalistic groans and hisses which they ignored or, in some sick way, enjoyed. Daria looked down, as best she could, at her stomach and almost heaved, but when she did so, blood gushed from her wound with her evey move. They'd cut deep and wide.
She felt dizzy. Oh my god. she thought in an eery calmness. I'm going to die
Sadly her head rolled to the side and through her tears she saw her engagement ring.
Mike would be able to feel her desperation fade and feel her hope waning into nothingness.