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 rainewater on Nov 27, 2007 17:56:19 GMT -6
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Raina smiled. It was the first time she smiled in a long time, and it was beautiful. She followed the others ahead through the desserted city occasionally looking down at the puddles on the sidewalk seeing her blurred reflection. "Are you coming? she said looking over her shoulder at the child who was lingering behind them. The child thought for a moment and then nod its head following them at a distance hiding behind objects whenever it could. Once in a while it gave an assortment of childish noises. Raina caught up with the pup and waited for the others while taking in her surrounding. The hole above them in the sky was still there... and when she focused long enough she could see the snow blowing through it. She was warm now- but just thinking about the snow made her cold.
Posted by gorgan01 on Nov 28, 2007 16:30:28 GMT -6
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The unknown furred-one followed the beast, as did Raina with the small child in tow. Ted rounded the corner, saw something.. people. Their smell was familiar, somehow. Somehow. Then it hit him like a ton of bricks. They were his parents! He ran over to them, "Mum! Dad!" He baralled into them; and straight through them. He rolled along the ground, skidded to a stop. "Ow." He looke up in confusion. His prents were ignoring him, as though they hadn't seen him at all.
"Mum? Dad?" He stood up, and stood directly in front of them. They ignored him, and walked right through. Ted spun to face them, confusion and fustration becoming more apparent by the second. Then the beast ran up, and skidded to a stop in front of them. His mum looked down, "Hello there. Been a while since I last saw you." His father ruffled the beast's hair, like he did when Ted was little. He'd always hated that, but now he wanted nothing more than for his father to do something, anything to show he recognised him. But they stayed focussed on the beast.
"Why? I'm right here! Here! You can see me! How can you not hear me?!?!" He bawled at them in anger, everything else forgotten, but it still had no effect. "WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU!?!?" The beast ignored him too, lapping up all the attention he was receiving from Ted's parents.
Sara took a long circle around the parents. The tip of her tail flicking. Slightly with her steps. Carefully she put a hand on Ted’s shoulder. Not caring if Pups raised a lip in a snarl. “Are you alright?” She asked. Both about the fall and tumble, and about what was going on.
She couldn’t help but think of her own parents. At least Ted knew his. She never did, and if she had never met them, she had no knowledge of it. Parents were a difficult thing for Sara. When it came to her own, she didn’t know weather to hate them for what they had done to her, or mourn for them because they might have lived in the Hell she grew up knowing.
She stared at the couple in front of them for a moment before dropping her eyes to the snow at her feet. Right hand traveling back to her collar bone where her locket was.
Posted by rainewater on Nov 30, 2007 9:10:29 GMT -6
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Raina looked at the couple too. They were laughing and enjoying the pup. She reached out her hand and it phased right through them without even distorting their image. Her eyes darted to Ted who looked hurt. "Don't worry Ted.. I don't think they're real." as soon as those words left her mouth the child behind them ran to the two parents and joined them in petting the pup. "I think we need to keep going," she could see the hurt in Ted's eyes... but this was no place to stay put. It smelled of decay.
Posted by gorgan01 on Nov 30, 2007 13:25:58 GMT -6
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Ted shook his head. "Of course they're real. I can see them. How can they not be real?" But really, he did know they weren't, and he was just deluding himself. And he knew it. "Come here boy." The beast instantly bounded over to him, and sat in front of him. He climbed onto it's back, and sat astride it like a horse. "Where should go?" He tried to not look at his porents, who were laughing and continuing on their way.But tears were just beginning to well up behind his eyes.
Sara looked down one side of the path they had been taking. “I suppose forward is best.” She said simply turning and beginning to lead the way. They could always turn around and go back but what was the point in going where you had already been.
She stepped out in front of the group at a lengthy pass. Reaching a corner and turning left. Gradually the walls of the city became like bars of a cage. Darker. That stench of decay got stronger in Sara’s nose but she still continued on. Her stride lengthened and then broke into a run for something sticking out of the snow ahead.
A sword. A broadsword with a hilt like a cross with the blade. She knew that sword and skidded to a stop. Lifting the blade from the snow and looking around. “Ayesac.” The name was hardly spoken above a whisper but it seemed to echo from the sides of the building. Hitting the bars of her cage with it and coming back to her.
A clocked figure descended from above. Gliding down to her on large red wings. The rest of his features flickered in and out of focus. It didn’t help he was warring a long trench coat and a wide brimmed hat that threw a deep shadow over his face and head.
A flickering image of herself split off from her solid form and ran right up to him, throwing her arms around his thick shoulders, while he picked her up with hands that were clawed and covered in red scales.
Posted by rainewater on Dec 1, 2007 19:02:37 GMT -6
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Raina followed and walked in time with Ted. After moments of silence she reached over and held the young boys hand and gave it a squeeze. She knew how he was feeling- she felt the same way seeing her unborn child so vibrant in this distorted world. But somehow... she just felt numb. Raina noticed as she was walking that the ground below them had become translucent. Like they were now on a glass bottom boat- she could see life thriving beneath them. Women with fish tails and long hair fralicked (sp?!) through the depths surrounded by long flowely plants and colouful fish. There was more snow now- and as she pressed on the glass beneath them dissappeared. She looked ahead to see the cat-woman approach a stranger. It was odd how they were finding people in this world and yet they all seemed a dream. She wondered if Ted and the cat-girl were just characters in her own dream. A coo came from behind her and she saw that the child was following them again. The pup in tow.
The cat-girl kept going, and found a sword. As you do. Then someone dropped into view, and the cat-girl ran over to hug it. Raina gave his hand a squeeze, and he looked won at her from atop the beast. He gave her a small smile, trying to keep on a brave face. "Come on. Let's go talk to the lizard-man." The fact that the man was scaly didn't effect Ted in the slightest, as he rode up to the pair. "Hey there." The stench of decay cought Ted then, causing him to gag. "What the hell?" He looked around, expecting to see a pile of corpses.
Posted by rainewater on Dec 2, 2007 9:11:49 GMT -6
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Raina's nose shrivelled as well at the stench. "I'm beginning to think that everyone here is dead." she said reflectively to nobody in particular. She watched the scaley man interact with the cat girl and thought her theory must indeed be right as she remembered that Ted had never ,mentioned his parents to her... so maybe they were dead too. She couldn't remember her own parents. "Well, this doesn't seem much like heaven," she added. "I'd have thought heaven would be a little less... smellier... and maybe a little... warmer." she wasn't exactly sure what she thought heaven would be- but she knew it couldn't be this. "Nobody seems miserable either... so it can't exactly be hell. Do you think we're somewhere in between?" she asked Ted
OOC: To explain the stench, maybe we could find a pile of corpses f all the people Ted killed? Or if we want to keep the dream focussed on Raina, seeing as how it's hers, that's fine too
IC: Ted shrugged. "Everyone seems to act dead." He gazed over at his parents, who were walking into the distance, still laughing. He wanted to run over to them, and they'd turn, and hug him, and tell him everything would be alright. He forced himself to look away, he knew they weren't really there. He focussed on the furred/scaly couple, and only just heard what Raina said. "Maybe. It's not like I've got firsthand experience of the afterlife."
(or another thought. The smell could be Raine’s child if we are keeping it mostly around her. Just adding a little suggestion. I’ll just go with what ever you people say. Oh and if this helps this is a picture of Ayesac that my fiancé created a while ago. thereddragon.deviantart.com/art/RedDrakkonia-i-see-you-12919621 )
The red clawed, and scaled, hands went to pull Sara closer, but passed right through her. She only realized then when she went to lean forward for a closer embrace and felt herself slide into him. Like a ghost. Tingly and cold, where their to forms connected.
(*Try’s to do a good impression of what my fiancé would say since this is his character.*)
"Hey there."
“Aye” The red Scaled face looked up at Ted as he road over. His right hand came to the brim of his hat as he gave the other two a nod.
"What the hell?"
The tall red being’s eye brow raised and his nose wrinkled. “Oh and you smell real nice too.” Came his low voice. “Who are they?” He asked Sara.
Sara had pulled away slightly. Just enough to stand near his side. His arm was over her shoulder but still seemed to ghost through her. “I don’t know who they are. They didn’t say.”
“How rude.” Came Ayesac’s voice just above Sara’s ear and she couldn’t help but smile. Mean while the other two had gone on about something about heaven and hell and the after life. “I’m not dead.” He said simply raising his head. “At least I don’t think I am, but here’s a thought, friend. What if heaven and Hell were just what you made them to be?”
Posted by rainewater on Dec 13, 2007 13:35:27 GMT -6
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Raina watched with anticipation. As the scaled one adressed them she perked up. "Sure smell dead." she said in a way that didn't sound like her. "Well, since you know everything, where the heck are we?" she demanded trying to look as intimidating as she could standing next to Ted who towered over her.
Taz looked down on the group from the building smiling he ran alongside the top of the building and slid down the ladder fast and landed on the pavement "hey guys" he said smiling.
Posted by gorgan01 on Dec 18, 2007 16:57:20 GMT -6
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OOC: yep. this is a good ole fashoin dream sequence, and thus has no bearing on the real world (unless Raina feels like having Raina remember bits of it)
IC: Ted calmly waved at the new guy. there were lots of people here, it seemed. "Hi." The beast, ever on the alert, instantly placed itself between the new comer and Ted. "Good boy. You know what you're doing." It snarled at the newcomer, then reared up on its hind legs so that it towered over him, breathing hot breath onto the boy's head.