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.
That magical moment when the clock rolls over, when one year becomes 'last year', and 'next year' becomes 'today'. She'd been plotting for it. Christmas had come and gone. It had been a Gawain day. She'd had to postpone any plans because of that.
They'd met. They'd exchanged gifts. She'd given him a kiss and a hoodie, then told him she'd see him next year... but that he was to pick her up before Midnight in her room on New Year's eve, before then.
It was a little after 11PM. Amelia sat on her bed with a duffel bag by her feet, waiting. Idly, she glanced at the clock. It was nearly time.
She even had her resolutions worked out. She was going to try out something new.
Christmas came and went. It had never been an easy issue in Mirror's life, at least not in the past 6 years, but it still worked out fine, considering that Mom was still not back. Ami was here, however, and that made everything better. They met, they kissed, he gave her a present. He could tell that was all she wanted.
But New Year's, now this was different. He could tell she had something planned. He showed up carrying a backpack, prepared for a midnight shift and possible partying; one could never tell with Amelia...
"Hey Panda" he knocked on the mirror before he looked in, just in case "You ready to celebrate 2012?"
>>"Mhm. Let's pop over to the mansion first. Need to drop off your gift first."
Gawain arched an eyebrow.
"Gift?"
He knew better than to ask; holding out a hand, he helped her into the mirror, and walked their usual way back to the Mansion. They came and went countless times in the past weeks; he could do it without much thinking at all.
"So, that's the big plan? Are you gonna tell me, or do I get blindfolded?"
"I was thinking we'd go for a walk on the mansion grounds underneath the moon." It was a waxing crescent. Not a full moon, which was too bad, but. It did cut down on the freak werewolf attack or two. Also. "Is there anywhere we can put Angua up for the night?" She asked, as innocently as possible. Damn, that might've been a hint.
>>"I was thinking we'd go for a walk on the mansion grounds underneath the moon."
"That sounds nice" he smiled. Walk under the moon, he could do that. He liked nice quiet time better than wild parties; he had fewer opportunities for them. Especially with Ami staying out late. That was not usual.
>>"Is there anywhere we can put Angua up for the night?"
Gawain took a double take. Wait, what?
"You're staying over?"
Dammit. The next second he felt like facepalming himself into oblivion. That... was not romantic. Gawain turned red.
"Um, I mean. Angua's been sleeping in the living room lately, she has a spot there."
>>"Good. We'll have to figure a way past mansion security, I guess. I hear it's tough. Damn. Where's an invisibility cloak when you need it?"
She skipped the comment. Good. Maybe she didn't notice?...
... yeah, right.
"Fortunately enough, I'm officially an X-man now" he grinned at her "Which means we're safe on the grounds. It's not the first time I'd be takin' a walk at night."
He led her to the back door; the mansion grounds were quiet. Most students were either in sleeping, or out downtown, celebrating the new year...
He wrapped an arm around her to keep her warm. It was cold outside, but at the same time peaceful and surprisingly quiet; somewhere the city and the rest of the world were celebrating, and he did not mind one bit.
>>"So, did you get everything you wanted for Christmas?"
He sighed a bit and pulled her closer as they walked.
"No" he said quietly "But I got enough."
Leaning down to press a kiss on her temple, he smiled "How about you?"
She dragged that kiss a bit lower, hovered his lips over hers, and said, "Nope." Then she kissed him. And when the kiss broke, she commented. "But I think I will soon."
Then, it was back to innocent shoulder-hugging and arm snuggling. It was cold, after all. No need to stop dead in the middle of the mansion grounds when they could walk.
And once again, Gawain's thought moved on and than stopped to do a double take. Wait, whut? What did she mean by that? Damn woman was all kinds of mysterious. Maybe it was just a new year's eve thing?...
Walking on, he mused about that for a while but he stopped for fear that his head was going to hurt. Some time later, he shivered, but this time not from the cold.
"Um, Ami?" he muttered "I'm gonna be shifting soon. Mind if we go back to the Mansion?..."
Oh he was used to shifting awake by now. He noticed a lot sooner, and did not fall asleep so easily; maybe it came with the way his mutation changed, or maybe it was just practice. Either way, they made it back to the Mansion easily in time.
Once back in the room, Gawain fished the Maya clothes he prepared out of his backpack.
"It won't be long" he smiled, kissing her on the forehead before he started for the bathroom "Be right back, Panda."
She walked over to his door and made sure it was locked.
Then, she walked over to her duffel bag and opened it up. She had to get changed, too.
One can get changed into an over-sized white T-shirt and shorts quite easily, if they set out to. Those horror stories about women taking ages to get dressed aren't always well-founded. She got dressed and ready before Maya came back out.
