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.
Kyle had paused to allow Sky to take in the sight of the Sanctuary, but upon seeing her state after her arrival, Kyle opted to wait a moment longer. Unlike himself, Sky's mutation did not grant her an inhuman amount of stamina, so the exercise of swinging and running across the rooftops had apparently taken it's toll on her. Perched on a set of pipes, Kyle wasn't even huffing in the slightest, his forehead shined with only the lightest of perspiration in the sun's light.
Of all the things Kyle enjoyed most about his powers, the increased stamina was by far his favorite part. Where all other men would tire and need to rest, Kyle could keep on going. It made training his body that much more effective, gave him an edge in combat and, on days like this, gave him the chance to go from place to place in entertaining fashion.
Smiling at Sky's question, Kyle shrugged his shoulders slightly. "Well, it's not exactly advertised clearly, but most people know where it is. Some because they reside there, most because they don't want to go near it." Kyle chuckled lightly at that, knowing that he knew several of the reasons why one might avoid the place. 'Well, you're about half right. I do spend a ridiculous amount of time training, but I can't take all the credit for my current lack of exhaustion."
Standing upright, Kyle stretched his arms and legs for a moment before grinning once again. "Maybe I'll tell you if you can manage the rest of the way." Before she could say anything to that, Kyle was off again, diving, sliding, jumping and running over anything that crossed his path in near perfect order. It was only a short distance left to their destination and if Sky could manage to keep up the rest of the way, then he might actually be inclined to tell her.
Posted by Skydancer on May 1, 2012 11:24:12 GMT -6
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It was good to know that Skydancer had at least been in the right general area of Sanctuary, though she had to question again how she had managed to miss it. It wasn't exactly a small or subtle building and yet somehow she had taken a wrong turn along the way and didn't catch so much of a glimpse of the place. She just didn'e like engaging in actions that made her seem incompetent.
"You aren't the first person to hint that Sanctuary has some dangerous residence," Skydancer answered keeping her expression neutral. She wasn't going to judge, not until she saw for herself what was what. The more she learned the more certain she was that she should approach the place with caution, but that wasn't the same as approaching it with preconcieved notions of how its people were. Caution was common sense, in this case, not judgement.
"If your lack of exhaustion is somehow linked to your mutation, at least I don't have to feel too bad then," Skydancer stated with a grin. Otherwise it would have stung just a little bit that he should be nearly fresh and she should be panting. It didn't take her long to recover her breath, but it was nevertheless a rare experience to meet someone with more stamina than her who had so nearly become an Olympic athlete.
"You better believe I can make it to the end!" Skydancer accepted the challenge, racing ater Kyle. Maybe her mutation didn't enhance her stamina, but she'd be damned if she would let him succeed where she failed.
Kyle didn't slow in the slightest when Sky started to catch up to him, even when he started replying to the words she had spoken before they had taken off again. He was far from being out of breath and he'd spent enough time running across rooftops to be able to talk and play at the same time. Kyle did have to choose the right timing for the words, however, so that Sky could hear him over the sound of roof gravel and metal being hammered upon.
"Dangerous only if you're a human or belong to the police force made of mutants. To anyone else" he had to dive under a set of pipes that were in the way, rolling up to running once again, "that's part of homo superior, Sanctuary is the safest place on Earth. Everyone" low bridge, have to jump over it by one handing it."looks out for one another, even if someone there doesn't like you."
They were only a short distance away now, so descending would soon be the name of the game. Kyle's eyes were already looking for the fastest way down, skidding to a stop near the roof edge to ponder his options quickly. His eyes never left the area before him as he heard Sky arriving just on his tail. "Well, considering the distance your power lets you cover, you should feel a little bad that I beat you here. But don't worry; everybody loses now and then right?"
There! A runoff from the drains on the roof. With a single leap, Kyle caught onto the long pipe and sliding down it with ridiculous ease. When he got close to the ground, Kyle pushed off from the wall and landed with a thud on top of a garbage bin that had a plastic lid, falling forward and landing with a thud on his shoulder. Luckily, this wasn't his first time, so instead of crashing and burning, Kyle was rolling to blunt the majority of the damage.
Kyle was cracking his neck when he turned to Sky; he wasn't exactly sure if she'd beat him down or had come down right behind him. Didn't matter either way; they had arrived. Grinning, Kyle motioned to the building they had come to stand before. "And as promised, here we are, with time to spare. Welcome, Sky, to Sanctuary. I hope your stay will be a pleasant one."
Posted by Skydancer on May 5, 2012 12:45:35 GMT -6
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Skydancer had the feeling that if she didn't spend multiple hours almost every day training she never would have kept up with Kyle despite her mutation. It allowed her to do a lot, including travel to places and in ways that very few others could even imagine, but it didn't help at all when it came to endurance. Endurance was something she had to build up the old fashioned way; by engaging in cardio every day in order to ensure that she remained in pique physical condition.
Skydancer nodded in acknowledgement of Kyle's words, not bothering to waste her breath in making a reply. She opted to go over the pipes rather than under them, taking a running leap and wrapping a tube around the topmost pipe and allowing her momentum to assist in vaulting over them. She came to the bridge next and went up another level, using a second tube to wrap around the handrail and swing her up. She then jumped off the bridge and down to the lower level and continued running, keeping just behind Kyle's lead.
Descending back to the ground was never a problem for Skydancer, so long as she was 3 stories or less from the ground and even if she was higher, it just required a couple of extra steps. Three tubes shot from her body to the ground and arrayed themselves in a triangle around her body. At that point it was simply a matter of walking off the edge and having them lower her to the ground. She arrived at nearly the same moment her obstacle course partner did.
"Well, that was quite a rush," Skydancer stated with enthusiasm, after taking a couple of minutes to catch her breath. "I think I'm going to like you." She grinned and glanced of at the building that was Sanctuary.