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.
(sent Nov. 11) If you are interested in slaving away your free time in a position of dubious respect and large responsibility, boy do we have a job for you! All Mods work on a volunteer basis and as much fun as it may sound, it's also a lot of work. Please read over the requirements and think carefully if you will be able to fulfill the position.
New Mod Requirements Ability to load Gmail. We do most of the daily Modwork through here. If you can't load it, for whatever reason, we can't actually use you.
Ability to log onto MRO and the Mod email everyday, and post/reply to messages. Depending on the day, this could use five minutes of your free time, or it could take three hours. Usually it won't be too bad, but when things hit the fan, decisions need to be made quickly: hearing from all Mods helps keep those decisions fair, so we need Mods who can get online regularly.
Ability to stay polite and professional at all times, and be a good role model to other players both IC and out.
A strong and abiding addiction to love for MRO. We need long term Mods, yo.
Mod Responsibilities Mod mail duty. This includes handling new member applications, power growth requests, attribute profiles, and other miscellaneous e-mails that come through. You'll be trained in on this, never fear. The primary reason we need new Mods is to help handle the deluge of emails we get every week.
Mod Board discussions and decisions. We have discussions on everything, from player concerns to rule revisions to who gets to open the next bottle of brandy. This part is both easy and hard: you've got to share your opinions, comments, questions, and concerns with the rest of the Team, and you have to work with the rest of the Team to reach a consensus on the issue at hand. Once the final Mod Team decision is reached in private, you must be prepared to stand by it publically. We're allowed to have our own opinions on the Mod Board. Everywhere else, we are the Mod Borg: public Mod infighting does not help the site and is not allowed.
Confidentiality. New Mods are going to have access to pages and pages of past site dramas, and will get to take part in all the pages to come. They will learn more than they ever wanted to know about their fellow players. All Mod information must be kept confidential, both to protect the players involved and to shield the sites' innocents from the latest budding drama. The less people who know about what Player X is saying about Player Z's mother, the more everyone can just have fun and RP.
PM writing duty. When a decision is reached on the Mod Board, a PM usually follows. These can be happy PMs or sad PMs. Whoever's got the free time and motivation usually does the honors.
Question answering. As a Mod, players will ask you questions; if you have a good grasp of site rules and policies, most of these are easy to answer. If you're ever in doubt, you can always ask another Mod, or post on the Mod Board.
General look out duties. Keep an eye on threads, the Cbox, etc for any iffy behavior, and correct it where you see it, or bring it to the Mod Board for discussion.
Miscellaneous. We reserve the right to sell your soul to unforeseen Mod duties, as needed including but not limited to running the MotM contest, updating the Taken Mutation's list, or contributing to site graphics.
How this will work: First Round: For the next seven days, we'll accept new Mod applications through PM.
Second Round: The current Mod Team will deliberate on the Mod Board and discuss the candidates. This part will take as long as it takes; probably a few days to a week. At the end, anywhere from zero to two new Mods will be selected. Likely one. When the decision is reached, the new Mod(s) will be informed by private PM--once they've got their shiny new Mod accounts, we'll tout them out onto the Mass PM stage for all to see. Then shall begin the process of breaking their spiri— Err, teaching them the ropes.
Yes.
No breaking of the spirit. What so ever.
How New Mods will be judged: Lots of factors. Among them: other player's recommendations; behavior OOC; length of time on MRO and activity level during that time; quality of their own character applications; their mod application responses; etc.
Note: if you're a new member who's interested in being a Mod, don't let the "new member" part hold you back. It will count against you—significantly—but other factors can outweigh it. Last time there was a call out, one of the players selected had only been playing on MRO for a few months. The worst that happens is that you put your name in our heads for next time and we take a little extra care to unofficially groom you to the task in the mean time.
To apply, copy the following code into a new message, and send it back. Don't stress about your answers; this application is only one factor among many.
Code: [b]Character name(s):[/b]
[b]What do you think the role of a Moderator is, on MRO?[/b]
[b]Why do you want to be a Moderator?[/b]
[b]If you had to recommend one member (other than yourself) that would make a good Moderator, who would that be? Why?[/b]
You have seven days to apply. (Submissions close on Thursday, November 18) Late applications will not be accepted for any reason, just as late votes on the Mod Board would not change a decision made in your absence, nor late replies to a new member's application convince them that MRO is a good place to RP.
Please nominate someone you feel is worthy of winning the MotM title for the month of October! List the reason(s) you think they should win and share a couple links to their recent threads that you have enjoyed in particular.
Nominations will close on November 17 in order for us to get next month's rolling a little bit less than a whole month late so get your nominations in while you can!
So cute! I probably will never stop saying congratulations, Pixicat. Also, it's discrimination for them to exclude you due to your "condition" so if they ask you don't have to answer. Problem is they might not ask and still will discriminate. Blah.
As for myself, my family is more distracting than I thought (cute lil niece! ahh!) and work has been scheduling things outside of normal hours which had me entirely drained and hurting. I may squeeze out posts randomly, but I wouldn't expect too much out of me before November. c_c
Only one round of medical testing left for me and that'll go down Monday. Feeling a lot better physically this week over last. That means you should see more of me (hopefullydon'tjinxit,guys,yeesh.) I am going to try to attempt some kind of getting caught up before starting any new threads.
Calley, I fully expect to hear about/see evidence of this boy on the cbox some day. If he's a keeper, that is.
I am sorry to those I owe posts to especially Raven and Zephyr who have been waiting the longest.
This has been one of the most frustrating weeks of my life. I have a client from hell, a bank that randomly duplicated charges in my account for over $1,300 worth of missing money, an infection that seems resistant to medicine... all of that piled on top of a death in the family.
We've decided last minute to go to the funeral (there is no body, it was rather tragic so he was cremated) and it's in a different state. I'll be able to lurk, but posting will be virtually if not actually non-existent until at least Monday. Again. Sorry for any delays in posts or sig-making.
Behold: the new New York boards! In response to the rampant posting that's been drowning the main NYC board, we've tinkered with all the NYC-related boards to split up the traffic. Thank you to Ahorta for raising this topic, and to everyone who voiced their opinion in the discussion! The new boards and descriptions are:
NYC: Commercial Shops, malls, and businesses of the city.
NYC: Residential Apartments, homes, hotels, and card board boxes.
NYC: Recreational (formerly Times Square) Restaurants, bars, clubs, and tourist hot spots.
NYC: Green spaces (Formerly Central Park) The city's parks and beaches, including Central Park.
NYC: Legal and Educational Police stations, courthouses, town hall, libraries, and university campuses.
NYC: Shadowy places Alleys, sewers, wharfs, warehouses, and other dark corners.
NYC: At large (Formerly New York City) Hospitals, churches or streets: if it doesn't fit elsewhere in the city, it goes here..
Also introducing: Karma Week! Because really, why not take a week to rampantly up each other's karma scores? If you've been enjoying someone's posts, like talking to them in the Cbox, think their avatar is sweet, or just think they'd look better with a +1, hit that "exalt" button. Spread the <3.
The Lori skin has been updated! The pretty-but-unreadable blue has been replaced with a darker, also pretty, and much more readable green. Enjoy!
Proboards recently gave the Mods a new toy: at the bottom of every post is a new "Report to Mod" option. Reports then appear to all Moderators, in a central message system. It's pretty slick. If you happen to see something that needs reporting, want to ask a question on a post, etc, feel free to use this feature. Thank you!
General Reminders
Remember to keep your profiles and any posts you particularly care about backed up. Proboards. Server fires. It happens.
Remember that MRO Map? It's really been fleshed out lately, and given a main page link under the "MROverse" category at the top of the page. If you have a location to add, just shoot us an email at <MutantRevolver@gmail.com>.
Happy karma deluge,
The Mod Team Historian, Calliope, Sennyo, Blue Badger, and Mister Yuck
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The bookmark feature can be found at the top of any thread, right above actual thread content. It looks like this: Or, if you are editing or creating a new thread, there is a gear drop down that looks like this:
Once you click the dropdown, you'll see this menu: Select the "Bookmark" option.
Well isn't that nifty? But what exactly did that do?
Once you have bookmarked a thread, head on over to the forum's top navigation menu (ignore the extra moderator options. Shhhh. You see nothing out of the ordinary here.) Hit the "Bookmarks" link, or you can follow this link to your Bookmarks page.
Once you're there you'll see a glorious page with all the threads you have elected to Bookmark. Right now, mine looks like this: It's quite long. Not only are my threads on there, but threads that I like to stalk. It's good fun.
PRO TIP: You may or may not know about the "Switch Account" button at the bottom right hand corner of the forum. It's cool. But it's nowhere near as cool at the "Switch Forum" button, which looks like this: It's oh so super hella handy if you have more than one account, but can be useful for at a glance information, even if you only have one account. Once you click "Switch Forum" you are taken to this page:
Never lose a thread again! Happy thread responding!
Hurricane My-Mother is in town and she's proving to be detrimental to my posting habits. She'll be leaving this weekend, but expect posts to be slow on my end until Saturday.
Well, it is finally started. You can view the map here.
If you don't see a location on the map that you want to be there, let me know! I'm working on getting the rest of the locations listed above on here, but It'll take time to track down graphics and pick the right areas. The more you describe it, the easier it will be to place.
