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.
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.
It was her birthday. And they still hadn't talked. Dammit, school. Dammit, holidays. Always getting in the way. With all the family flooding in and out of the Mellitus household, she just hadn't had the time to escape to the mansion to beat the ever-loving hell out of Gawain.
Riley had told her not to give up. She had said she wasn't going to give up. And if she wanted to bring a celebrity into this, Mr. Astley had given her such advice, too!
Her birthday. Really. He hadn't talked to her for most of the month. She'd covered for him. And still. They hadn't talked about it. And it was her BIRTHDAY. Maybe storming off in a mad huff hadn't been the best course of action.
But still. Grr!!
She stomped down the hallway. The girl, she stopped. Turned, and... Amelia beat the crap out of Mirror's door.
He had not been expecting her; but he knew exactly who was banging on the door as soon as the hinges cracked. Only one person hated him so much, up to date.
The little ball of fury on the other side of the door could not have been anyone else but Ami.
Somewhere deep down Gawain knew this fight was coming... he just preferred not to think about it. It was one of those nasty situations that were not even your fault, but nothing you could possibly say would make any difference, because it looked so bad. In this case, quite literally. On screen.
Running his fingers through his messy hair, Gawain walked to the door, and opened it very carefully... if a punch was coming in first, he would be safe behind the door... for a while.
Uh-oh. That threw him off. She did not barge in, but she was clearly upset, he could tell from her voice. He was not getting out of a "talk" this time.
"Um, sure. C'mon in." he nodded, closing the door. That meant he had no escape route left, but it also meant others would not hear or see his girlfriend kick his ass... well. Probably not see.
>>"Okay. First off. What the hell happened? And secondly. Why didn't you come to me to talk about it, afterwards."
Double tap. Gawain was so, so dead. Died, woke up, zombified, and killed again dead. Super dead. Damn.
"You saw what happened." he sighed, folding his arms and trying not to look as guilty as he felt "I can tell you all the stuff about how I did not start it, but I guess it's your choice to believe me or not."
He glanced up at her.
"As for talking... I don't know. You just... looked very upset when you left. And made it pretty clear that you didn't want to see me..."
Amelia sighed. "Dude. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I've been busy with family coming in and out of my house at all hours. I've been hiding out at Aurum's to get away from them. And I was expecting you to come to me," genius..
"I'm pretty sure what Maxine was doing was all sorts of molestation. But at the time, I was just pissed and confused. It was your job to chase after me and tell me to stop. That it wasn't what I thought. To talk some sense into me. You blew it. ... you just stayed with the red-haired tramp." He really was stupid. How could he not have realized all these things?
>>"Dude. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. I've been busy with family coming in and out of my house at all hours. I've been hiding out at Aurum's to get away from them. And I was expecting you to come to me,"
Yeah, well. Mirror was only a half-time girl. That meant that half of the time he had no clue what girls were thinking; and the other half... was pretty much the same. Guilt trip, moving on to the next level.
>>"I'm pretty sure what Maxine was doing was all sorts of molestation. But at the time, I was just pissed and confused. It was your job to chase after me and tell me to stop. That it wasn't what I thought. To talk some sense into me. You blew it. ... you just stayed with the red-haired tramp."
Gawain sighed and walked closer, kneelig down to look at Ami without looking down at her.
"Look, Ami. I'm sorry. I really am. But I can promise you one thing: there is nothing going on with Maxine. She likes to mess with me, but so she does with everyone else. She doesn't really like like me at all. I know that for a fact. And she is not going to do that ever again."
Hmph. She closed her eyes and didn't look at him. She could believe that he didn't have anything going on with Maxine. He knew her. He knew how dead she would make him. And without having to resort to any violence at all. What she didn't believe was the bulk of his last statement. That, she had to shake her head at.
Amelia looked the gender shifter dead in the eye.
"She will. She'll try again. That's what she is. A cat who gets away with things, walking around, ignoring people, and deciding when and if she rubs their legs. I've seen her news segments. I've watched her stories. She nearly dated my brother, and it came down to Shin and I to stop him from calling her back. You have to be careful with a girl like that, kid. She will nuzzle you because she feels like it, then turn around the next moment and scratch your hand."
>>"She will. She'll try again. That's what she is. A cat who gets away with things, walking around, ignoring people, and deciding when and if she rubs their legs. I've seen her news segments. I've watched her stories. She nearly dated my brother, and it came down to Shin and I to stop him from calling her back. You have to be careful with a girl like that, kid. She will nuzzle you because she feels like it, then turn around the next moment and scratch your hand."
Uh-oh. Catfight was in the air. Had his life been not on the line, Gawain would have smirked. Yeah, it figured Maxine would be the kinda woman that all other women hate; he could see how that made sense. He could also see how that made his situation worse.
"Look, Ami, you don't know her, but I do." he sighed "And you are totally right. But I've been through a lot with Maxine, I mean, not together, but she kinda keeps showing up in weird places. And she did risk her life to help me find my mother. Whoever does that much for me, I'm not gonna just turn around and never talk to them again."
Her eyes dropped. That had felt like a slap in the face.
"I'm not saying never talk to her again... but." She clenched her knees tighter. "Be careful. And for gods sake, make it clear to her that you're mine and she needs to keep her hands off you. You didn't fight for me when she kissed you. Please. At least give me that."
>>"I'm not saying never talk to her again... but. Be careful. And for gods sake, make it clear to her that you're mine and she needs to keep her hands off you. You didn't fight for me when she kissed you. Please. At least give me that."
Have you seen what happened?! Fighting was not really an option...
Nope. Wrong answer.
"It's never gonna happen again. I promise."
He leaned in, trying to look in her eyes as she looked down.
Her voice suddenly grew cold. "But first, you ought to outline what exactly happened in that TV and how it even happened. You were in a TV. That's new. What exactly were you two up to. Inside a TV."
"Also, you missed my birthday. Might want to answer for that, too."
Ice, ice, ice. He was hers and she wasn't going to blush or look him right in the eyes just now. She wasn't going to get distracted before all the important questions were answered.
>>"But first, you ought to outline what exactly happened in that TV and how it even happened. You were in a TV. That's new. What exactly were you two up to. Inside a TV."
Good question. To the point. "Um, well..."
>>"Also, you missed my birthday. Might want to answer for that, too."
... oh crap.
When in doubt, be cheeky. Be very cheeky.
"... so, about the TV. That was me, I guess. I'm not sure what exactly happened, but... it looks like it's not just mirrors now. I... I can walk into movies."
That would have sounded a lot cooler if he was more sure about it.
"About the birthday..." he smiled a bit, looking at her with a mischievous glint and nodding towards the TV "Where would you like to go?"
That was him. In the TV. He could enter TVs now. That was cool. But also. Not a good distraction.
"I'd like you to answer the rest of the question, if you'd please. Why were you and Maxine in a TV? And what exactly happened that led to wacky TV hijinks in movies and on news shows."
He'd said 'movie', right? TV show did not equal movie in her book. Thus, Maxine and Gawain must have entered at least two different things to test some hypothesis, so Gawain could learn about his shiny new trick.
