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.
Cailyn glanced at the girl and then back at the box. Her eyes when big as she put down her tray and she grabbed the box and looked at the funny cartoon. She opened the box with some problems and looked inside. There was supposed to be a toy in it. She shook the box a few times and entered some content in a bowl located at her tray. The toy was on top and she picked it up and opened it. It was a little red car. She placed it on her tray and got some milk for it. She poored milk into her bowl and followed the girl again shifting her eyes to the toy she just got.
"This way then, Cailyn." She paused, then added, "Don't forget your pillow...."
Cailyn followed the girl through the hallways dragging her pillow allong. The hallways looked like a maze to her but the girl seemed to know the way. If she hadn't followed her, Cailyn would have surely been lost around this place.
They entered the cafeteria, the place of foods. She smelled the food and her tummy growled. She looked down and Shhh-ed at her tummy. "Wait your turn." she whispered to it. She occasionally mistaken the growling her stomach made for somebody or something talking to her. There weren't allot of people around and that was a good thing. Lots of people met lots of minds ment more stress for Cailyn.
"Here." She handed the girl a tray. "Dig in."
She grabbed the plastic tray and examined it. She had these before in the asylum but they where a little bit different. The girl seemed to know what she wanted and went straight for it loading up her tray with food. Cailyn watched her and then watched around the foods.
"What'd'ya like, 'lyn?" she inquired around the mouthful.
She looked around and her eyes fell on the cerial box with the cheery cartoon figure on it. Cartoons where fun and she wanted to try that. She pointed like a child and said: "That one." to the girl.
Cailyn heard some children run around and looked around a bit but then the door opened. A young man stood in the doorway with wavy brown hair and a pair of very unusual silver eyes. She smiled at him as her glasses slid a bit of her nose. "hello." she said as she straightened her glasses. On the background it was notible that there where children running around the hallways. She plan out exactly what to say but thought about it thought she just had to spill it out a bit. "I came here looking for the director of this school." she said with a smile. The sun shined and everything was running smoodly for Cailyn, truely a good day.
"Well, whatever. No bid deal. So, you're new, eh? Did Abyss get around to giving you a tour? If not, I'm hungry, and the cafeteria's pretty close. Ya hungry?"
Cailyn realized that she didn't even know anything about the place she was right now. The last thing she remembered was that she was on a bus full of madmen. She must have fell asleep on the bus. She didn't have breakfest yet since she woke up. Normally they got breakfast around this time and her tummy felt empty. She got up on her feet again and looked down at her stomach. She rubbed her tummy and said: "Breakfast?"
Cailyn pulled a big smile with closed eyes at her response. She liked people happy and that made her happy.
"Uh, be careful with the geese. They've attacked me before." Lee continued
This shocked Cailyn a bit. In her mind fluffy looking creatures where nice and never attacked people. Seemed she was wrong and that made her a bit sad. She pulled up a sad face and said: "But they look so nice." pointing at the duck. She didn't know if it was a goose or a duck. They all looked the same to her. Out of nowhere she felt like humming a tune. She had a feeling that the woman liked music and so did Cailyn. She hummed a soft and happy tune and softly moved her head a bit from left to right when she hummed it.
"What makes you say that? How can I not like you if I don't even know you? I'm just irritated that I have to do all of this work, is all."
That made sence to Cailyn somehow but still she had a feeling and a thought it was true. She nodded to the girl as she spoke and then replied with: "You don't like what i do." That seemed to be more accurate to what she was told. She started playing with her sock a bit feeling guilty about what she said. She shouldn't speak her mind like that and the whispers always told her to do that. Normally she obayed mostly because the guards would just lock her up again but now there where no guards and she could speak her mind. "Silly me." She whispered to herself.
Cailyn took a bus to the nearby busstation and stepped out of the bus. It was a nice sunny day not to hot and not to cold. A little breeze went through her hair as she straightened her glasses. She was wearing one of her darker red, long skirts with a white shirt to give a little bit more of a serious impression if she wanted to try and get a job at this school she heard about.
She walked through the streets to find this school. It was a beautiful day to be outside and Cailyn had a smile on her face. She lost herself a few times before she found the gates of the school. The school was enermous and it reminded her of a old mansion. It could have been a old mansion turned into a school though. She stood in front of the gate examining the school while she kept her leather briefcase/bag in front of her. She straightened her skirt out and she started looking for the doorbell. As she pushed the doorbell she softly said: "Ding, dong anyone home."
Character's real name: Cailyn Lyndall. Codename/Alias: Hymn
Gender: Female Age: 27 Nationality/Ethnicity:American. Birthplace: unknown Personality: She is a very over the top person, when she is happy she is very cheerful and over the top happy and when she is sad its visa versa. She is scared very easily and she enjoys cudling up with people. Because of her newly gained “sanity” she acts normal around people but is still a bit childlike. Notes (Hobbies, Phobias, Worries, ect.):
She likes doing puzzles, doing the fun stuff she missed in her childhood (mostly just playing around) and humming her hymn She enjoys biology and reading.
she is scared of Physical injuries and insects
Everyday clothing: She mostly wears long skirts in bright colors and a white, pink or light blue shirt to match it. She wears reading glasses to make her look more teacher-ish. She just looks like a young and fun teacher. Uniform (Optional. Required if eventually becoming part of the X-Men): Pajamas:underwear with a tank top.
Scars: slash marks on her lower arms. Burn mark going from her back to her side and a bit on her stomach. Tattoos:none Piercings:Her ears
*physical changes: She has long blond hair now.
History
After regaining her freedom she learned a bit more about herself through her powers. She learned to be more independent by staying at the sanctuary. She learned allot of things about biology from books and tv and she really liked that kind of thing. After staying 2 years at the sanctuary she gained more control over her abilities. She continued practicing until she finally thought her powers rivaled her fathers.
She sought out her father at his own office. She manipulated the members of the staff to keep themselves occupied and locked up while Cailyn and her father settled to score. It was a long and hard fight between the two of them without even landing a single blow on each other. They where in combat trough mind manipulation and reading. What her father didn't know was that the Cailyn's powers where boosted by the virus. He lost to her by a hair and Cailyn while under the effect of the virus somehow found a way to ad her fathers powers to her own. She did that by extracting the part of his mind that contained his powers and adding it to her own psyche. This asked allot of mental capacity off her that could only be achieved under the effects of the virus.
She went on trips, just traveling around looking for fun things to do until she got scouted by a modeling agency. They offered her a job as a model and she took it. It was a big adventure for her and it sounded like allot of fun. She had this job for about a year until she got injured in a photo shoot involving fire. She got scarred from a small spot on her back that comes round till her side and a small spot on her stomach.
After that adventure she thought that she would need to be educated to get a nice and fun job. Her interest in biology kicked in and she studied for 6 years to get her degree in biology and a certificate to teach it. Now with a decent education on her she lives life to the fullest enjoying every moment.
She still isn't a very mentally stable person. She is very childlike but at least she learned how to act normal around people. She wears very bright and friendly looking clothes. Mostly long skirts and shirts to match in bright and fun colors.
Description of ability(ies): She has the abilities described by the government as Insight and Dementation. She can manipulate the brain to make the subject think completely other things. She can confront them with there greatest fears or greatest joys. She can manipulate people by making them think they are doing the right thing. Her insight ability gives her a passive way of reading somebody's mind. This comes natural to her and things out of out people's mind just come to her without her even knowing it. She can know names of people before they have introduced themselves etc. Whenever she uses her dementation skills she goes into a trance, levitating her above the ground and making her hands twitch. And when that happens everybody who is around her hears a hymn, A soft, holy sounding song. She only whispers during her state of trance. The powers she gained from the virus and her father is the ability to do a certain type of body control. She can control certain movements of people's body by sending messages into their mind to make them move. This takes allot of energy from her and can only be done on one person at a time. Body control includes: basic movements (walking, picking up things), Making them talk (speech) and even making their body twist in uncomfortable positions (twisting there arms and legs into locked positions etc) When she uses this ability very thin strings can be seen on the person who is under this effect as if the person was a puppet.
Cons (weaknesses) of ability(ies): The hymn is heard by anybody who is affected by her powers. For her manipulations this could mean that people who hear the hymn can use it to snap out of her control thought she is very good at manipulating these days. Her physically weak body means that she can't take allot of hits. It actually means that she could be easily knocked out and hurt by anything that hits her. The strings from her body control can be severed, rendering the effect useless till she recovers.The wires are very fragile and easily severed and Recovering from this takes almost half a day because of the high amount of energy needed to control ones body. Switching targets for body control without the control being broken can only be done with after a hour. Controlling somebody's body can only be done when they are consious (example: asleep people can't be manipulated) this means the effect can be broken by a strong willed person who realizes he/she is under the effect of manipulation. Making somebody kill themselves is virtually impossible because of the mental barrier that needs to be broken to make somebody commit something to themselves like that. Fighting style (if any): none
"I wouldn't be wanting to play with the geese if I were you," Lee told the young woman softly. "They're bills are hard."
"Bills?" she thought to herself. Cailyn was thinking of the wrong kind of bills. She thought about payments and other stuff. She shrugged it off. If there bills would be dangerous she didn't want to go near them anymore. Thinking about getting hurt made her think about what the guards did and she didnt like that.
"bad ducks." she mumbled to herself as she pulled a sad face. She turned around and faced the woman. She looked her straight in the eyes and moved her head a bit forward examining her. "You are pretty." she said to her.
Cailyn didn't hear the full sentence until she cleared her mind again. Everything was "normal" for her now as the whispers became what they where again. Her breathing became normal again as she let out a sigh of relieve. She rubbed her head and sat back up again. "They don't want anybody to know." She replied to her question.
Cailyn noted the laundrymachine spinning. She never seen that before and she looked at it spinning her head a bit allong the laundrymachine. She shook it off as she remembered something the whispers said. "you don't like me." she said to the girl
She breathed heavy as the voices went a little less loud then they where before. She could hear the girl talking to her but she only made out half of what she said. The whispers where still running through her head and it was hard for her to hear anything else. She shifted from sitting on her knees to lying on the floor with a painfull look on her face hoping it would end soon. She had these kinds of things as soon as her powers developed and this was no news to her, it was just painfull for her. "I don't know. " she said a bit scared. "They just tell me." she added to the sentance.
"Geese aren't normally all that playful, you know,"
"duck, geese, duck, geese ,duck ,geese" She thought to herself. She shook the thought of and looked at the person talking to her. She was actually a pretty girl with long black hair and grey eyes. She looked at her from the ground and tilted her head. She noticed that she was starting and stood up. She patted the dirt of her pants and looked at her and said: "But they are fluffy." in a childlike manner.
She had no clue what the girl wanted but when she closed her eyes she felt something weird about her. Well a whisper told her something and she agreed she felt it. There was something about the girl that couldn't be seen by normal eyes. Her hand twitched and she turned around looking at the duck or geese. It didn't seem that she would be able to catch it and said: "Why won't you play mister duck."
"That would be Abyss," Vibe clarified. "Or possibly one of his clones."
She remembered something about last night that just hit her. "1 out of 7." she softly said to herself. She didn't know how or why she said or knew that but she just did. She rubbed the front of her head a bit. "So what can you do to make you worth the Sanctuary's time?"
The question confused Cailyn. She had no clue what she was talking about. She rubbed her head some more as she felt something coming. She closed her eyes in a painfull manner hoping this wasn't what she thought it was. The voices inside her where going beserk again feeding her all kinds of things. Her head shivered a bit as she no longer heard anything but the voices.She dropped her pillow and fell to her knees grabing the sides of her head as she tried to get over this. "Amplified , vibration." she said softly. This was something that most whispers where just screaming into her mind. She started breathing heavy as the whispered calmed down a bit and she regained some control again.
