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 Kealey Shinbo on Oct 2, 2013 18:14:51 GMT -6
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"So you're not one of us anymore?" Kealey said, eyes narrowing slightly. Suddenly it was easy to be angry again, and she let it flow, "Maybe I'm not talking to you as a cop right now." That statement hung in the air between them.
"And while I appreciate you saying you won't make me look weak, I think I was doing just fine on my own. Thanks."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Oct 2, 2013 17:50:08 GMT -6
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Kealey shook her head, "No." she said, gently but firmly. "You saw that monster hurt someone." Even if Kealey had to admit that she was relieved that the woman's mutation had saved her life, didn't mean she had to change her mind.
"He was genuinely scared and confused and horrified. What he needs is help. Not jail."
That said, Kealey looked steadily at her husband, an inexplicable shudder running through her.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Sept 30, 2013 20:47:26 GMT -6
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Kealey shook her head at her husband and sighed, leaning against the back of the couch. He was so hard on himself sometimes that it was hard for her. Kealey didn't know what to do right now, short of using her power to make him feel better...and that was something she'd never even suggest unless he asked.
Things like this were hard, and they were just going to be hard.
"Doubting yourself makes it worse, because next time you'll hesitate, and you can't hesitate."
Kealey frowned, "He didn't know what he had done." she said, "And he needed help. Not what he'd have gotten from those officers."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Sept 26, 2013 20:40:26 GMT -6
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Well damn.
Yes. This was damn-worth. It was something else when you spent hours working up a great tirade, and lots of self-rightiousness in a big balloon of angst...then had it deflated by a well-placed dart of reason and apology.
Like the metaphorical balloon, Kealey deflated right there on the couch. She wasn't ready for cuddle and tears yet, but at least some of the tension from the day was melting away. Now, she was actually able to see how worked up Shin was.
She still stung though.
"You don't help either of us when you do that." she said softly. Admonishing her husband was such a rare occurrence, that the blond really didn't know how to go about the activity. "And you know word will get around."
She looked up and over, "Please don't put me in that position again. Do you think I don't worry? It's part of the job, and you're just going to have to learn to trust me."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Sept 26, 2013 20:15:18 GMT -6
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Kealey had to frown a bit at the feelings she was starting to register from Shin. She wanted to make him feel better, but at the same time this was really important to her. Those emotions though...they made it hard. The blond tried to keep drawing, but she pushed too hard and the tip of her pencil broke, streaking black across the sketch she'd nearly finished.
Heaving a deep sigh, she set the sketch book aside and took a moment to rub her temples. How did one even start a conversation like this?
It was simple. You didn't.
IN his bed across the room, Thorn whuffled and flopped over onto his side. A walk probably wasn't going to happen any time soon, so a nap seemed at the top of the order.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Sept 26, 2013 19:51:17 GMT -6
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The situation was even more serious than Kealey had initially thought. The sound of Shin pouring cereal was even irritating to her right now, and everyone in the surrounding apartments was in a good mood. A few years ago, she'd have been happy to be able to tell her emotions from everyone else's, but tonight she'd have been happy to have someone else to pin the whole thing on. It was hard, being angry at Shin, but sometimes it just happened.
He returned to the livingroom and sat down, and Kealey kept right on working with her sketches. If he didn't know she was upset about something, he deserved the silent treatment. At least for a while. Usually, Kealey was willing to make nice and compromise...but nothing about what had happened today was okay. The wife knew that her husband had had a difficult time today, and she wanted to be there for him, but he needed to realize some things for her too.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Sept 25, 2013 21:46:03 GMT -6
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Kealey was in the livingroom, working on sketches for her design job with a reality cooking show on the in the background for noise when the key turned in the lock. Thor lifted his head from his bed in the corner of the room, but settled back down when he realized who it was coming through the door.
The blond had waited for her husband all afternoon, knowing by virtue of her wedding band that he was safe and sound, and simmering over the situation they'd found themselves in that afternoon. The worst part, was that it hadn't even been hard to keep herself from texting him again. That meant she was really mad. A shower hadn't cooled Kealey's temper, and her sour mood hadn't done much for her sketching. Everything was coming out in sharp angles and stark, contrasting colors.
When Shin walked in, he was tired, and exuding all the feelings that go along with it. Kealey couldn't blame him for that, it had been a hard day. They'd talk about what she could blame him for though. Talking was the only way to get the poison out...
"Hi." she said simply, head still buried in the sketch portfolio.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Sept 25, 2013 20:47:20 GMT -6
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As they made a hasty retreat to the rendezvous point, Kealey couldn't help but scowl. That may have been the most ineffective she'd ever been in a crowd situation. The people had gotten angry again, the monster had escaped after hurting all of those people...and Shin had doubted her in front of all of those other police officers.
Something in the back of Kealey's head suggested that maybe there'd been an ulterior motive...something that had triggered the action beyond doubt in her capabilities. Unfortunately, the empathy wasn't in the mood to think about that. All that she could focus on was the moment when he'd said that maybe they were right and she should back down.
Once they were safe and sound at the rendezvous and the police were taking stock of the damage, Kealey looked around until her eyes fell on Shin. She focused on him for a moment to make sure he was as fine as someone in his position could be expected to be, then walked away pulling her phone from her pocket as she did.
"We'll talk at home. Be safe." She texted quickly, then made for home.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 26, 2013 22:04:25 GMT -6
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"And heaven forbid Sam do his own paperwork." Kealey said with a fond grin in the general direction of their fearless leader.
As for the wedding, Kealey beamed.
"It was lovely, and nobody can say it was unexpected." she said with a candid grin. "One day we might even go on a honeymoon. Things have been too busy for that. Shin with his police work, and then I signed a contract with a big company uptown. I'm doing all the designs for their ad campaigns. It's grueling...and their board of directors is ruthless."
Looking at her sketchpad as she spread mayo on her bread, Kealey sighed.
"I'm muse dead though. I need to finish the signature look, and soon...but I keep drawing blanks."
The blond shook her head. Drew was cooking and concentrating, and the emotions associated with those two things were honestly comforting, and something to focus on besides the normal bustle of the Mansion. Maybe brownies were just what she needed.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 25, 2013 8:35:54 GMT -6
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How had she been?
Drew's offer was simply too good to resist, and Kealey slipped onto one of the stools that had made its way into the kitchen over the years. It was further evidence that the kitchen was the real heart of the Mansion. Settled, Kealey shrugged her shoulders.
"Anything sweet." she said, changing her mind about the stool and heading for the fridge. "And I'll make a sandwich in the interim."
As to how she'd been, Kealey shrugged her shoulders, "I'm alright. Busy. People always said that things calmed down after the wedding, but it's just gotten more and more crazy for us." she said, pulling condiments and lunch meat out and setting them on the counter.
"What about you? It's hard to believe it's been this long. Please tell me you've been incredibly busy too, otherwise I'm going to feel even worse."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 24, 2013 9:54:43 GMT -6
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Drew moved to throw away the apple core, and Kealey sloughed her way into the kitchen.
For once, the Library simply wasn't cutting it for the blond, and she needed a distraction. Most of the time, being at The Mansion was a welcome distraction from every day work and life in general. It was good to remember that she was part of something bigger than herself that didn't involve fabric and pins.
That was the problem though.
There was something huge involving fabric and pins that the board wanted to see the next week, and the ideas simply weren't flowing like they should have been. The blond had brought her sketch book to work with her in hopes that the library would inspire something for the last piece she needed to make...the signature piece in an upcoming ad. It was hard designing for a business campaign. After staring at a blank page for several hours, Kealey decided that maybe lunch would be inspiring and headed for the kitchen.
There was a surprise there for her.
"Drew!" she exclaimed, mind instantly trying to calculate how long it had been since she'd seen him, and how much longer it had been since they'd had a good talk.
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Aug 2, 2013 10:36:34 GMT -6
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Things with the crowd were very quickly amping back up to a level that Kealey wasn't going to be able to control. In fact, she decided, they had probably passed that point. Kealey could feel Shin with the other cops, and his feelings were something they were going to discuss at length...but there'd be time for that later. For now...
The shard bands around the man in front of her disappeared, and Kealey gasped, keeping tight hold on his emotions. The last thing she needed now was for him to freak out again and start knocking heads together in the middle of the crowd that was quickly pushing in their direction.
There were so many more people than there were cops. Standing her ground, Kealey started strategically targeting members of the crowd. People stopped in their tracks, blocking other crowd members and slowing the general progress of the group. At its best, it was hard to move when one lost all motivation to do anything...at its worst, the feeling was momentarily disorienting. It was a quick fix though, and Kealey knew she wouldn't be able to keep up both her tasks much longer.
Then suddenly it was decision time, because the guy was running. Kealey saw him bowl over the cop with the collar control and free himself from his collar. Most of the other cops were distracted, and now he was running.
There wasn't really any choice in the blonde's mind. If the crowd continued like they were, people on both sides were going to get hurt. They'd reigned in that monster once...they could do it again. This might be the only chance they had to stop more violence in the crowd.
"I think it's time to go!" she called to the police. "I can't hold them much longer."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jul 30, 2013 9:05:23 GMT -6
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Keeping a man calm when her irritation was quickly building was something that Kealey found difficult. She managed though, working on compartmentalizing even as she shot a quick, narrow-eyed glance in her husband's general direction.
"I know what I'm doing." she said, just to remind him that she wasn't here as an innocent bystander who had been pulled into the mayhem. She had the X-Man uniform on, she had the boots, she had the com. In fact, she was the one who had brought the situation to the point where it was now. It chaffed her that now that she had gained the upper hand for everyone she was expected to step aside and let the 'professionals' do their job.
"I've got it under control, and I want to talk to him before you do." Kealey knew what had a tendency to happen to "cop killers" and it was funny to her that they so often resisted arrest.
The crowd was getting wound up again, and Kealey could feel it. Time was short, but in all honesty she was afraid of what would happen if she released her hold on the man in front of her. Yes, the collar might hold him, but if what he said was true and he had absolutely no control over his power...then would the collar stop if he changed? The police wouldn't stop it, for fear of him being on the loose again...so the blond stayed where she was.
"We can help you." she said to the man. "I will stay with you while they take you in, keep you calm, and we can go from there." It was the best Kealey could do. The police would never let her take a criminal from their custody, even if the mayhem he'd caused hadn't exactly been his fault. The...injured police had families, and those families deserved the closure of knowing that the person who had hurt them wouldn't do it again.
"It might not seem like it, but I know how you feel."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jul 27, 2013 15:50:09 GMT -6
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Kealey almost felt like she was punishing herself as she forcibly calmed the beast. What she hadn't expected was the part where he started to physically change. Every school child hears the tale of Jekyll and Hyde, but nobody ever really expects to see it in the middle of the street. What nobody really expects is to share Jekyll's emotions after the fact.
The police were angry, furious in fact, and they had reason to be. They were legitimately justified in their frustrations...but suddenly Kealey was worried for the man in the collar. He was still looking at her.
Slowly, she walked forward, completely heedless of the glances in her direction. Nobody tried to stop her, and she couldn't help but wonder if they would intervene if anything happened. When Kealey was close enough that she had to look up to maintain eye contact with the man who had wreaked so much havoc, she really took a look at what he was feeling.
It only took a few moments, and then the blonde's eyes widened.
"You really don't know?" she whispered.
"I'm going to keep you calm." she said, worried that if she didn't they'd relapse. "And we'll talk about it later."
Posted by Kealey Shinbo on Jul 25, 2013 7:03:38 GMT -6
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From her back, the sky looked tranquil and fluffy white clouds lazily made their way across her field of vision. It was beautiful, and it was a life preserver to hold on to while Kealey tried to find herself in the sea of emotions. There was no more of the paralyzing terror, and the blond managed to swallow the bile that had risen in her throat as the other officers had been brutalized. It was a step in the right direction, clinging to physical responses that she knew were her own meant that she actually existed.
Kealey blinked and closed her left fist. None of the officers had been Shin. She couldn't see him from her vantage point, but she could feel him through the ring on her fourth finger. They weren't her emotions, but they were familiar...and they were livid.
Clawing through the other emotions was hard, nearly impossible, but over a matter of moments the emotions at the furthest of her range began to fade into the background. The center of the crowd followed, and as she crept towards the close edge things became manageable and the empath rolled, finding her hands and knees.
Able to focus again, Kealey realized that while the emotions from her husband were familiar, they were almost primal. The blond understood. She was feeling less than tranquil, and as she pushed to her feet, her eyes locked on the monster who had wrought all the chaos.
She was shaky, and wove for a moment as she started to approach her husband, the crowd in the background still slightly stunned from their own version of the emotional backlash that had seen Kealey on her back. It would give her time to help deal with the situation at hand.
The mutant that her husband was restraining was like nothing that Kealey had ever seen. He brought back memories of a grocery store and times long past. His muscles were straining, and he positively emanated rage. The blonde looked for his eyes and saw nothing there but the emotions she could feel...the rage was predominant, but there was something else that made the X-man's blood run cold.
Elation and pure unbridled joy...there was something else, something fleeting, but it was too weak to hold on to.
Kealey tasted metal in her mouth and realized that she'd bit her cheek. Taking a deep breath and not wanting to break Shin's concentration, she held the monster's eyes and went to work, pushing down that rage and joy, looking for a handhold on the glimmer of something else she'd felt.
