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.
Scars/ Tattoos/ Piercings: Pierced ears Other features: she doesn't like to wear make up and so looks younger than she is
Everyday clothing style: dull, dark colours. jeans, hoodies, vest tops and t-shirts. no logos or fancy brands, minimal jewellry, 2 pairs of converse (one black, one denim) and a pair of leather boots. Uniform: n/a
Sleepwear: in winter she wears an oversized dark blue hoodie with a pair of grey tracksuit bottoms and in summer she wears a green t-shirt with a pair of black cotton shorts. Miscellaneous clothing: she owns a cream short dress that she wears on special occasions but it is starting to wear a little.
Character
Personality: Darcy is well and truly, one of the lads. She has a lot of boy friends but no boyfriends. She is socially awkward when it comes to romance and prefers to kick around a football than go out on a date. She doesn't really embrace her powers and therefore is not fully in control of them yet. Although she sees herself as vanilla there is a fire inside her which shows when she is seriously annoyed at something. She doesn't really like being the centre of attention and likes to blend in with the background. She is intelligent but not overly so and definately not creative or musical. Everything in her life seems to be worn and dulled.
Hobbies/ Interests: she likes sports, mainly football and netball. She likes walking, swimming and running to clear her head. She likes crime novels and movies but is actually quite squeemish in real life. Job or part time job and description: n/a
Fears/ phobias/ concerns: she doesn't like blood, snakes, movies that don't have any point to them, people who put way too much time into their appearance, people who try and copy her accent... Special talents: she can touch her nose with her tongue. Impressive I know.
Morality
Good/ bad/ neutral/ other: neutral at the moment. Darcy hasn't really had the chance to see who she might become. Her willingness to follow a crowd can affect her judgement. Although she may believe she is good at the moment she has only just turned 19 and therefore just starting to get her own life away from her family. She needs to find who she really is, or what her friends want her to be.
Mutations
Mutation description: Darcy has the ability to, shall we say, age things.This is a power that comes in two forms.
1. Decompesition - If she wants to she can take non-living organic objects and have them decompose in her hands. She has tried with plastics and metals but it doesn't really work. Obviously, the larger the object the harder it is to do this and the longer it takes to age them and the more concentration is needed. Larger objects take up to 10 minutes decompose completely however smaller objects or objects with simpler structures (peices of wood, plants ect.) can take a matter of seconds. The largest object she has tried this with is a dead cat and it was extremely difficult but not impossible. This part of her powers doesn't affect humans. She has to be touching th eobject for her to decompose them. This power can be turned on and off at her will. It should be noted that Darcy can decompose a lot small simple objects consequelatively without feeling tired or drained. This is lost however if she tries to decompose a larger complex object or if she tries to decompose two things at the same time. This is the reason why she hasn't tried to decompose anything larger than a cat. She fet physically drained afterwards and on the point of collapse.
2. Aging - If you are in the vacinity (a five metre radius) you feel tired and your bones begin to feel brittle after about 10 minutes. The longer you stay in the range the stronger the feeling of weakening is.Other affects can include joint pain, general lack of energy, brittle bones and if they spend more than a week in her vacinity some temporary visual affects (sagging, whitened hair). This is also the same for a large/medium sized animal (from a dog sized animal upwards) However a smaller animal feels this at a much more accelerated rate and depending on the size of the animal can lead to death. At the moment she doesn't do any lasting affects to humans with small doses (less than 15 years of continious exposure) but prolongued exposure to her can give a person arthritus, the first signs of dementia ect. This is only known due to her mother and father who, even though they are only in there late fourties, look older than her grandparents. However, her older brother who fled the nest before she was 10 is perfectly healthy. She can never keep and plant alive more than 2 days and she can't keep count of how many goldfish she has flushed away.
the amount of time it takes for something to die is as follows:
-small insect (flies, bees, wasps) - 2 hours -large insects (large spiders, cockroaches, butterflies) - 4 hours -small cut plants (single roses) - 6 hours -small animals (frogs, fish, small birds) - 1 day -a bouquet of flowers (a small shrub) - 2 days -larger animals (blackbirds, mice, moles) - 5 days -large plants (ivy on a house, overgrown bush) - 2 weeks -even larger animals (large rats, cats) - 4 weeks
These figures are just a guide. If the animal is young it obviously takes longer to age them. It also depends on the complexity of the plant and how long they usually live for. For example, she would have to stand next to an oak tree for over 50 years for it to die. If something leaves her vacinity then the aging reverses, it usually takes about half the time they were in the vacinity to go back to how they were. For example a person who spent 10 minutes withdarcy would only take 5 minutes to reverse the aging affects. This is a passive power. She cannot control it.
Strengths: she kill small animals and make it look like natural causes? Weaknesses: she slowly killing her parents and has a lot of dead flowers and mouldy fruit.
Fighting Style
Explanation: run away and hope the other person might be exposed to her long enough to have temporary knee pain? Pros for fighting style: she doesn't get killed Cons for fighting style: it's improbable.
Faction Allegiance Unaffiliated
History Of Your Character
Darcy was the second, unplanned child of Mary and Patrick Johnson. Her brother Micheal, who was 8 at the time, possesses no powers and didn't really like her very much. They grew to like each other over time but at the age of 17, Mike moved out of the house and came to America to seek his fortune. What he found however was a small box appartment above the kebab shop he works at, in New York. Darcy, lived in the outskirts of Dublin for most of her life and became used to not having her brother around.
Ever since she was born her powers seemed to have been there. Her mother found it strange that all the flowers people gave her at the hospital wilted as quickly as they came. When they took baby Darcy home, they knew she was special, just not that special.
By her 7th birthday Darcy was well equipped with her powers and would wind up her mother endlessly by rotting away the vegetables or food she didn't want to eat until she got what she wanted. Patrick believes this is why she grew up to be so lanky.
They made her promise not to use them in front of anybody other than them but the girls in her primary school (and later secondary school) seemed to sence decay around her and therefore avoided her completely. The boys however, accepted her as their own. There's something to be said for that.
Her best friends Ben and James were extremely sad to see her go. When Darcy turned 18 she finished her a-levels after getting 3 B's in Maths, Physics and Psychology, and moved in with her brother in New York. It was he who actually proposed she move into the mutant school and she agreed to make him happy.
Roleplay Where did you learn about this site?: search engine Do you have any other characters on MRO, if so who: no Sample RP:
"But Mike..." Darcy whined, scrunching up her face to show her reluctance.
"c'mon Darce, ya don't belong here, living in this dump" Mike sat down on the couch next her and turned off the TV. His accent had changed a little, and he had an american lilt.
"with my powers a dump is perfect for me" she said indignantly throwing a cushion at himin an attempt to lighten his mood.
"Darce, stop, I'm not playing." He frowned at her and she stopped laughing and straightened up, she hated when he was mad, and he often was these days, "look, Darce, I'm 26 and I can barely make rent wit one person living under me roof. When ya said ye'd be coming here, I expected ye'd be getting a job." he sighed.
Darcy and looked down at her feet. The fact is that she'd been looking everywhere for a job, but in he economic climate, that wasn't so easy to do. "I'm sorry Mike." she said, "I'll go, it'll be good to meet knew people that are y'now, like meself."
He looked at her, both pleased and ashamed of himself. He hated the fact that he had to kick his little sister out, but it was something that had to be done.
"I'm looking forward to it." she said smiling, hoping he wouldn't see past the facade. She turned away from him and turned on the TV. They didn't speak for the rest of the night. nothing more needed to be said.
