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.
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Posted by Sapphire on May 27, 2007 20:15:13 GMT -6
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Sapphire struggled about, smiling manically.SHe was in pain, she was in pain very much so, but she would never show it. She was Evil, pure and simple, but this was THIS sapphire. There was currently another sapphire, one begging to be realesed to stop the maddness. But the sapphire that was out now wanted to hurt Cassiel, she wanted to make him scream.
Sapphires Dark teddrills shot at the male's mind, trying to penetrate it to make him feel dark thoughts. "Why dont you embrace the darkness.? It will be alot easier that way."
((Okay maybe Cas can see sapphires horrid memories, if he does do you want ot write it. Like one Where sapphire was forced to punish Em?))
((nah, you make her own memories... I'll say waht they do))
Cassiel's smile was, at the moment, very threatening. "You don't know what you're playing with, little girl. I've seen darkness. I've felt darkness beyond your wildest dreams, I've held it and embraced it. I've become Darkness, and come back to the Light... there's nothing you can show me that will even begin to compare." As he spoke, it was evident that despite his youth, he was what most would call an old soul... in his case, literally. Power coursed through Cassiel, and it was evident that he could have easily done a number of things as she attacked. He could have telekinetically snapped her like a twig, he could have shut off her mind, and he definitely could have fended off the tendrils attacking his mind.
But he just smiled and let them slip into his mind. "But feel free to do your worst. It might tickle."
Posted by Sapphire on May 28, 2007 19:50:57 GMT -6
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Sapphire growled at him again before diveldging into his mind. But due to his amplified power, it backfired and instead of her seeing his darkest memories he saw hers and she had to relive them.
Young Ruby lay quivering on the floor, blood comming from her back. The girl was no older than 9 as blood flowed openly from her wounds. Emerald was right beside her, far more beaten up than the younger girl was, with bruises streching across her limbs and blood streaming from her back.
Sapphire stood close by, darkness flowing from her pores.
Ruby saw her older sibling and meekly whimpered, trying to reach out to her. "Sapphy...it hurts. I want to go home. Take us home Sapphy...Sapphy." Ruby whined to the eighteen year old.
Sapphire walked over to the nine year old and kicked her in the gut. The fox girl let out a cry of pain, tears streaming down her face. Before Sapphire could do another kick Emerald was upon her, knocking the eighteen year old ot the ground. The girls fighting spirit flared up again and she punched her older sister square in the face.
"YOU BETRAYED US! YOU HURT US! YOURE OWN FAMILY!" She screamed at her, clawing the older girls stomach. Sapphire knocked the younger girl off, onto the ground. Ruby ran to her fallen sibling, holding her big sisters head off the ground.
"Sapphy...why did you hurt emmy, why did you beat us? We didnt do anything bad. Now they are gonna take us away again and they wont let me and Emmy be together. Why dont you make them...I need my big sisters back." Ruby whined, holding her big sisters head in her lap.
Sapphire slowly got up and began walking away. "I do what I need to do for this family." She responded.
And as the memories flowed, Cassiel's mingled with them, freely visible to both of them.
He lay on the ground, six bloodthirsty boys standing around him. He was obviously in pain, but his mind saw as clearly as ever as he struggled to his feet.
"Oooh, he's getting up. Come on, freak, show us how tough muties can be."
"Oh, I'll show you tough all right..." he growled, siezing one in a telekinetic grip and slamming him into the wall. He was neither the meanest, nor the strongest, of the group... in fact, he was the one who was most panicked and skittish about the whole 'beat on the mutie' session, and Mike knew it. He knew it, and knew that the boy was pathetic enough to make an example out of him. "Is this. tough. enough. for. you?" he snarled, slamming the boy into the wall, ground, an a nearby fire escape at each word. The boy finally fell to the ground with a sickening crack, his leg bent at an angle that nature never intended... and in a place that nature never intended ANY bending.
The group of bullies scattered, screaming in terror, as Mike kicked the badly injured boy in the stomach as he walked away.
Mike blinked back the memory, but maintained the connection, letting Sapphire's powers do their work. She couldn't break it off now if she wanted to. But deep in her mind, all while her own memory played out, she felt something recognize that bit of light, that other Sapphire that was trying so hard to get out... almost like it was beckoning to it, holding a hand out for it to grasp onto. Cassiel didn't show a sign of this, though, as his face never changed from its look of angry, pained concentration. "Give it to me... Give it ALL to me."
((Okay this is gonna be a long post combining Ems and Sapphires so get ready!))
Sapphire groaned as she slipped into another memory, another degradation for the darkness.
Twelve year old sapphire groaned in pain as she lay on the ground. The child was only covered in a thin sheet, and there was blood pouring from open wounds. She whimpered softly, not even noticing the darkness surround her small form. Her powers had manifested earlier yes, but this seemed different to her.
She watched weakly as a being was spawned from the darkness, one that looked like a silhouette of herself. "Who are you...why are you here? Are you going to help me?" Sapphire asked weakly, unable to get up.
The being merely smiled. "Of course my little one but you will have to do something for me. Something that will make your power grow so great that great things will happen to you."
"I could save my sisters?!" Sapphire exclaimed, before letting out another whimper of pain. She felt the warmth of her own dark tendrils wrapping around her, trying to sooth her aching body.
"Yess....let me control you. You're power over darkness will expand and you will be able to keep your sisters safe from all harm. You just need to listen to me and fusionist...bide you're time and with me as you're guide he will let your sisters go." The being smiled.
Sapphire reached out foolishly and touched the beings hand. "I will do whatever it takes to protect my sisters." She vowed. The child felt a sudden rush and she screamed in pain as her body flowed with power. The darkness now had control over sapphire, and it created a new persona to help fulfill most of its promise to the little girl. Sapphire now stood, long black hair cascading the the ground, black eyes staring out into the distance.
"The power....isss...mine." She smirked.
Meanwhile Emerald was going to go up to the store and bring back some food. She took her motorcycle cause it would be the quickest way back and in her mind she could probably make it back quicker than if she drove the trailer.
She didn't notice the Semi pulling behind her until she heard the horn. The wolf girl accelerated passing a car up ahead to get on the outside lane. She heard the horn again to see the semi on the other side of her. She attempted to accelerate again but it was to late, the semi rammed Emerald off of the road, down the steep incline.
Emerald let out a howl of pain as she tumbled off her bike constantly hitting the ground until she fell to the bottom. Her helmet lay at her side and Emerald was flat on her back, unable to move. She was in pain and drifting in and out of conciseness. She saw the church creeps surround her and she let out a soft bark of protest before being dragged off to a nearby cabin.
From their the wolf girl had a collar attached to her neck and a chain leash to the wall. She had managed to injury some of her attackers but not badly. She was almost out of energy...she was in so much pain.
Ruby suddenly yelped, clutching her head. She watched Jamal run to her, frantically asking what was wrong. She whimpered meekly. "Emerald Is in trouble...We have to go save her! Bad men are hurting her."
Sapphire managed to hear the pups exclamation, due to her enhanced dingo hearing. "Emmy..." She muttered,
And this time, there was no memory from Cassiel... instead, he latched onto the darkness, drawing it into himself. The glow in his eyes changed, fading white, then golden, as did the glow of his wings.
"I've seen darkness... I've embraced it and become it... and I've returned to the Light." he repeated, and his grip on her neck finally weakened as he glided back into the air away from her. THey both floated in the air, linked by the darkeness that was being drawn out of Sapphire. Disturbingly, or reassuringly, however it would be regarded, he seemed to be siphoning it from her at an alarming rate. If she were going to attack, this would probably be her last opportunity.
And in the back of her mind, the unseen hand clasped firmly with the suppressed light within her, that had surrendered to the darkness for the sake of her sisters long ago.
Sapphire growled at him, or rather the darkness is. "I will not allow some girl to control me!" she excalimed, usig the remainder of the power to lash out at Cassiel. But She doubted it worked because as soon as she did the darkness that had controlled her was gone. And the Dingo woman was now in control of her powers again.
Sapphire's eyes where a light blue, much like her fathers, but her hair remained black. For the remanants of the darkness kept some parts of her unchanged. Now Sapphire was not evil anymore but she was not good. She was just Sapphire.
"Cassiel we need to help Emerald." Sapphire said urgently.
But Cassiel wasn't finished. The Darkness was swirling inside him, the tainted energies touching his soul. "We all choose between our darkness and our light... Your Darkness has dominated you for years, child. Now... embrace the Light!" With that, his wings spread wide, he surged forward and clasped her head in his hands, releasing the built up darkness he'd taken from her... only it had been changed, transformed by Cassiel's ability to take people's own pain as his own, so that it returned to Sapphire as a shimmering glow. The transfer was dazzling, and when it was over, both of them fell dazed back to the groun.
"Ugh..." Mike muttered, "Shall we never try that again?"
"Lets do it again sometime, im sure it will be a blast." Sapphire grumbled. Suddenly a strike of pain went through Sapphires head making her cry out in pain.
"Emmy....they are hurting Emmy!" Sapphire exclaimed, feeling her powers flare up. BUt this time she was in control of the darkness.
Ruby in the meantime was trying to explain things to Daria, Jade, Jamal and Linda.
"I felt something striking my head and then I saw the last things Emmy saw! Someone ran her bike off the road, then some scary guys in hoods took her away and chained her to the wall before it was nothing but red...." Ruby whined, "That only happens when she is hurt!"
"I will kill those bastards." Jade vowed, Ice cicles forming in her hands.
"We have to find her." Ruby yipped
((tag can you think of some inquisitony like ways people where torture cause that is what the guys are doing to emmy. So could you desrcibe that please in your next post. I knew I shouldnt have skipped that part of my text book.))
"We are the Church of Humanity! No longer will we stand for the sullying of our world with this filth, these abominations! Let this serve as a lesson to all mutants who think to spread their taint into this world!"
This was all being recorded. Emmy was tied, bruised and hurting from the accident, to a stiff wooden chair. Three other Church of Humanity goons were around her, ready for their turns. The first stepped forward, a butane cigarette lighter in his hand. The 'light' start to the video was the lighter slowly getting brought up to Emmy's hand. At a glance, the other two CoH goons were holding pliers, a knife, and various harsh-looking chemicals.
And across the room, tied to another chair, was a decent explanation of how they'd managed to find her so easily... slumped unconscious and in very, very bad shape, was Johnny.
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Mike felt the pain just as Sapphire felt it, chilling him right down to his soul. He might not still be crazy about the girl, but he... at least understood a bit better now... frighteningly well, in fact. It was almost as if there was some lingering connection between the two of them. And he HAD to help Emmy...
"Can you fly? It'll be easier to track her down that way," he said, an urgent tone in his voice as he stretched his mind out, trying to get a sense for where Emmy had gotten to.
Emerald let out a whine of pain, trying her best to squirm about in her chair. She was in pain there was no doubt about it,
"Johnny...wake up, Its me Emerald." Emerald managed out. She bit her lip as the flame kept burning her hand, refusing to give them the satisfaction of hearing her scream.
Sapphire looked at Mike, nodding a bit. "Sort of... I can form wings out of the darkness." Sapphire said, allowing the darkness to create wings for her, sprouting from her back.
"Can you possibly pinpoint her location?" Sapph asked, "Shouldnt we tell the others about this though? Im sure youre cat girlfriend will want to know."
"If she comes, everyone will follow her... including Ruby and her boy toy. I try to keep easy casualties away from things."
Evidently, 'sort of' wasn't a sufficient answer for Mike... his way was faster anyway. He scooped Sapphire up in his arms and took to the air, psychic wings spread as he glided through the town as fast as his telekinesis would carry him. "They're this way."
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"You want this little sadist to wake up? It took us an hour just to bring him down," the head Church representative laughed at her. "But just to reassure you that we won't be torturing HIM..." With that, the Church leader pulled a gun from his cloak, emptying it into Johnny's chest.
Across town, Mike's control faltered, as if something had collided with him in midair.
"JOHNNY!" Emerald Screamed, she struggled about in her chair. She snarled at the church men as she kept struggling.
"Johnny...no...why..no....YOU BASTARD!" She snarled at the church men. She knew it was useless she couldnt do anything she was helpess. She looked at her love tears welling up in her eyes"Johnny...dont leave me please, youre the only guy I have ever felt this way about. I would do anything for you...please dont die. I dont want to be alone again."
Sapphire's eyes widened, "Mike are you....oh god." Sapphire muttered, feeling the emotions from her yougner sister "Mike...youre broher......" Sapphire trailed off unsure of what to say.
((YOure evil mike Im crying at my computer over here. That and Im watching a really sad movie while Im typing.))
((yea, but blame it on me killing off a homicidal maniac... )) "...Might be getting what he's so rightly deserved for a long time. But it's not for those bigots to give it to them. Hang on." Their flight grew somehow faster, streaking toward a small building at the edge of town. Despite his claims of not caring if his brother lived or died, Sapphire could feel him unconsciously holding her tighter as they left a golden trail across the sky.
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"You'll be with your murderous little boyfriend soon enough, monster. But let's make this lesson a good one." One of the other Church inquisitors brought out his pliers, gripping the fingernail on Emmy's unburned hand's pinkie and yanking it out.
Emerald let out a scream, her feelings no longer in check. She whimpered softly, trembling.
"Johnny im sorry I couldnt protect you." she muttered, pain streaking through her form. Her mind drifted a bit, thinking back to when they first met, thier first kiss, Johnny comforting her, telling everything would be okay, him telling her that she was beautiful to him despite her wolfish traits.
Sapphire held him tighter, her heart dropping to her stomach.Emmy....my little sister....why does youre heart always get so broken? Sapphire thought.