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 Quincy Archer on Aug 12, 2012 22:24:10 GMT -6
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What a night. A dull headache pounded behind Quin's eyes and she sighed and squinted behind the dark sunglasses that were as much a part of a Detective's Uniform as the badge. Sleep last night would have been great... she couldn't help but think as her partner maneuvered their trusty Taurus through the mid-morning New York City traffic.
Interviewing potential witnesses was a tedious job at best, and when it was over something as mundane as a serial cat burglar in Manhattan, it was worse. Most, if not all, of the upper-class apartment tenants was simply convinced that their treasure was going to be the next to fall prey to whoever was breaking into apartments and stealing entire safes from alcoves in walls.
Quin had bigger fish to fry. How long had it been since Na-....Stephen, had stood on the threshold to her apartment and been turned away? Days? Weeks? Hell, had it been a year already? It didn't matter, Quin's mood had worsened with each successive day as she tried to figure out what she was going to do, and the lack of sleep wasn't helping. This was a moral, and personal dilemma, and the nature of the beast made it hard to confide in anyone.
The light turned in front of them, and the front car didn't move. Quin stared at it harder, and it still didn't move. Finally, the thing crept its way into the intersection and made the slowest left turn in the history of traffic.
Then the light turned red.
"UGH!" the redhead exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air before slumping back into her seat, "If I wanted to spend my day stuck at stop lights, I'd have signed up for a traffic detail. This is fricken ridiculous."
Yup. Arms were crossed. Full on huff mode, engaged.
Posted by Ashton Drake on Aug 13, 2012 17:13:22 GMT -6
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Ashton grimaced, hands gripping the steering wheel just a bit tighter. "Believe you, me," He agreed under his breath, "There are a lot better reasons to have been up all night, too."
Cases like this didn't impress him. Basic thievery was basic. How was this mutant-related? And if it was, then the mutant was a crafty one... and this was boring. Not quite his usual fare. Way more... detective work. Way less... smacking things with bricks. Or maybe that was all fiction in his head, this was how things normally were, and he was grumpy and his inner cave man was showing. In that case, substitute rocks for bricks. Which were basically rocks that had been painted red. When hitting things with rocks, the red paint usually came after, not before. "Yup," He announced, knuckles white as he slumped just a bit closer to his steering wheel. "Definitely need coffee..."
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 13, 2012 17:30:02 GMT -6
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Jules
"I don't drink coffee." Quin muttered as the people in front of them finally started to drive. He should have known that by now. They'd been partners for ages, saved each other's asses, gone through multitudes of cases, and he couldn't even remember that she hated coffee.
Or...maybe he'd just been talking about getting some for himself.
Quin heaved a sigh.
"It's not like I'd have slept anyway." the redhead said, glancing sideways at her partner. The decision now was tough, did she open the can of worms that involved seeking advice, or did she just keep her mouth shut?
Posted by Ashton Drake on Aug 13, 2012 17:47:49 GMT -6
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He didn't say anything, just focused on the road. Still couldn't believe she hated coffee. It was like, the one tiny thing that confused him about her. But it wasn't major. Not even tiny, really. Tea wasn't all bad. Just... not his thing. What was his thing? Apparently, staying stopped at lights. Luckily, that ended again.
On, they went.
He let his silence tell her that what she thought on the matter didn't matter. She could hate coffee all day, but he still wanted some. And...
Just as he opened his mouth to let out a tiny yawn, she said something that would have made him spill his coffee on a regular day. Thank Goodness he lacked it!
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 13, 2012 18:13:30 GMT -6
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Quin winced. How the hell was she going to explain this without implicating...Stephen, or giving away too much of her life story? Directing a sideways glance at Ashton, Quin mulled things over for a second. Did he even care? Sure, he was a great partner, she even would have called them friends...but was this the sort of thing to share?
It was worth a shot. If worse came to worse he'd be his hardass self and tell her to can it.
"Nathan lied to me." she said quietly, looking out into traffic and at the cars in front of them.
"Not just a little one either. It's not another girl, or anything like that...but this was big...huge in fact. He came clean when I called him on it...completely. But I don't know what to do."
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 13, 2012 19:57:13 GMT -6
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Quin visibly winced at the question and kept staring ahead at the traffic as it started and stopped in front of them. This was the hard part, and part of what made her so darn angry at Na- Stephen. Not only had he lied to her, but now he was asking her to lie by proxy.
”There were things about himself that he wasn’t honest about. Not at all. It’d be wrong to go into all the details, but it’s a big deal.”
Quin sighed, at least she wasn’t getting all teary eyed. That had been the first few days. Now she was all cried out and all she could do was frown at the fact that she didn’t know where to go from here.
”He’s sorry. Of course he is, but I don’t know if he’s sorry for what he did, sorry I caught him, sorry for everything that caused this…”
That was a lot. Finally, Quin looked at her partner.
Posted by Ashton Drake on Aug 13, 2012 20:58:49 GMT -6
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Ashton didn't know a lot about what Nate had done, but he knew one thing. He didn't miss a beat when he said "You seem awful torn up about it, Buttercup. Must've been some pretty huge lies. Or at least, big to you."
"If it makes you feel this way, maybe you need to think about that, and why that is. And what it means." He made a turn. "I don't like seeing you upset."
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 13, 2012 21:56:04 GMT -6
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"I'm not even upset anymore." she said on another sigh, too preoccupied to even yell at him for calling her 'Buttercup'.
The good news, was that Ashton's advice was pretty much what she'd told herself to do. The bad news was...she was already doing that. It wasn't helping. Still, she nodded her head.
"I know..." she said softly. "I'm trying to work through it. I don't feel like I can just walk away..." They were getting too personal now.
Posted by Ashton Drake on Aug 14, 2012 19:42:03 GMT -6
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What would he do? Ugh.
"Not date men." He drove through an intersection. "But I might be biased, there."
This question, he could avoid. Because really, this was her situation, not his. He wasn't the one who would have to deal with the consequences of her choice.
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 14, 2012 21:44:38 GMT -6
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"At the rate I'm going, I just might give them up. Doesn't seem worth the trouble." Quin muttered, staring forward again as they made their way through the traffic. Ashton hadn't really been much help. Either he didn't have the kind of experience she needed advice about, or he didn't want to share.
Quin supposed she understood. The last thing she wanted was for him to know that she was dating an ex-con, who'd never been caught. Just the thought made her bristle. The redhead stopped that line of thinking, it wouldn't do any good just now.
" Perspective helps. More than you would think. I know this is something I have to work out on my own, but I just don't even know what to think right now."
Back she leaned. "How can someone lie to you about practically everything, and tell you they love you in the same breath."
Posted by Ashton Drake on Aug 14, 2012 21:47:27 GMT -6
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Ashton's eyes shifted her way.
"Do you really want me to answer that?" If it was something she wanted to figure out on her own... him telling her what to think just didn't seem right.
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 14, 2012 21:52:46 GMT -6
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"I'd like to know what you think."
Perspective. Like Quin had said, it helped in situations like this. Just because Ashton said something, didn't mean it would be true. The jumble of thoughts in her head needed direction though, whether it was away from or towards what he was thinking.
Posted by Ashton Drake on Aug 15, 2012 17:27:38 GMT -6
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He turned his focus back to the road, hard look on his face. "They can't. Not if they love you, at least... and if they do, it's the wrong kind of love. I wouldn't want to be with someone like that."
They were nearly to their next stop. Just a few more minutes. He could see it ahead.
"But that's just me," He added. Not that the addition mattered one bit.
Posted by Quincy Archer on Aug 15, 2012 17:45:22 GMT -6
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Quin nodded her head.
"That's what I figured you'd say." the redhead commented, sighing and leaning back in her seat.
"He had an explanation for everything...and it was more lying by exclusion." Quin winced.
"I'm totally being that girl, aren't I? Making excuses."
Of course Ashton was going to say what he was saying, he tended to look out for her and this whole situation had her a mess. Quin appreciated the sentiment, but the situation was far more complicated than she could explain.
"Thanks though. I think I needed to hear that I wasn't overreacting before I could think about things with a clearer head."