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.
Aura loved her new job, though she had, had to learn how to dress and since it was needed she had. Aura was dressed in a nice black blouse, and a long black skirt and a briefcase to match. That was how it started anyway, thew local drug gang had taken the attack awhile back personally. Now the brief case had bullets in it, her blouse was ripped, and the wall dripped with the blood of the gang embers. Aura breathed hard looking around, these bones would be of no use. She had no way of knowing the ambush was coming and no time to discriminate where she struck and the horrific scene showed her sloppy work. Gripping her shoulder she winced, the cuts were deep, she had learned showing up with her aura on, made people not only fail to answer the door, but run out the back. Aura could hear the sirens, they were close, of course gunshots had been fired, and she was on the edge or order territory, an imaginary line she herself had made up, by how willing the police were to reply to an area.
Knocking what was left of the door aside with her Aura hammer she walked out the front door. Not her best exit. The other issue was her Aura, it was up in all it's glory and made her look like she had a pink highlight. The aura kept her safe from further attack and it kept her wounds closed, as they had nowhere to bleed to. The pain would go away however, still she understood she was much to late to escape without being seen, Neighbors shrieked and ran as they saw who exited the building. They knew the face, Aura, no real name, not known anyway, live footage was across the Internet of her broad day light murder of a Respected scientist in broad daylight. The highly televised event of her and Meld killing over half a dozen police then kidnapping an entire church full of people and forcing their pasture to torture them to win their escape. Aura had to smile, as she breathed a bit hard, they knew her, they feared her, The human scum were afraid, like she had been. Maybe it was the pain maybe it was the last shreds of teenage normalcy she had left but Aura called to the now scattered crowd. "Flea like the vermin you are. Animals disgusting animals, every one of you" she yelled.
She dropped the gun she had stolen from the man, the same man's head ensured it would never fire again. The weapon was useless and Aura knew she had more fun on the way looking down she recalled the pain from her stomach, the black hid the wound, and it had not hurt a major organ, but it had been deep. Aura began to move, heading away from the scene, every foot she could make, every step brought her closer to safety. Her earlier assessment the police would be coming came true as she saw blue and red light getting close. Fine they two would feel her wrath, the wrath of the order. ripping off the blouse she revealed a black tank top, letting the wind take the shredded garment she kept moving still less the fifteen feet from the house.
Elli was apprehensive. Okay, scratch that. Elli was scared. She and her partner, Gerald Butser, had gotten the call to multiple gunshots, possibly a gang fight breaking out. Them and about ten other officers. That was what made it really scary. Elli had a sneaking suspicion that it was more than just some sort of shootout, she had a feeling that it was something much more dangerous. She had just recently gotten her badge, a week and a half ago, and this looked to be her first real taste of action. She was excited, truthfully, to finally be doing some real good, not just giving out traffic tickets. Still, she also honestly hoped that the problem could be resolved without violence. Not only was that better for all involved, but Elli wasn't all too confident in her ability to fire the gun after the last incident. "You ready, Gerald?"
Her partner smiled, in the driver's seat, and said "Always, Elli, you know that."
Then they were turning down the small street where the incident was happenning, apparently they were the first ones to arrive. "Dispatch says backup's about five minutes away, and not to do anything drastic until it arrives." Elli said, opening her door and taking cover behind it, just in case any trigger-happy people were about, especially since the woman up ahead seemed to have seen battle recently, and was obviously a mutant. One never knew what kind of abilities they had, so it was best to be safe.
"You know me, Elli. Subtle is my middle name." Butser, unlike Elli, didn't take cover and instead stood up, his hands relaxed by his side. Elli knew he was going to try and talk the lady down. However much she hated it when he tried his 'charms' on her, she did have to admit that Gerald had something going that most ladies seemed to like. "Hey! Why don't you quit glowing quite so menacingly and maybe we can head back to the station and talk about this?"
"Oh yes, let's go to the station, yes of course why would i ever do anything else" she said sarcastically.Her Aura began to flow as it reshaped itself, Aura mentally tried to work in as many angled surfaces as she could, as she did she kept talking, taking only a few steps closer as she did. "Oh wait i recall, last time you threw me in a cage and left me to rot. This really is a hard choice my friend, i can surrender and likely die like a caged animal or i can run, what would you choose my fine friend. No, Human lies will not ensnare me, how stupid do you think i am? wait....don't tell me your the cannon fodder they sent to keep me busy...........it's to bad really, the girl's quite pretty" she said almost finished adjusting her Aura.
Her right form formed a pink blade, reaching six inches from her fingertips, the other shaped into a spinning drill. "How about this, run home, now, get back in the car and tell your people nothing was found. Your no different then the human swine a just killed for their cowardly ambush. "I will be free, Victory is Life!" she said, her eyes taking on the looks of a predator, and indeed she was selecting which of them to go after first, but then another idea crept into her mind and she smiled at the man. "Maybe i was wrong, here take this for your trouble" and with that Aura thew a pipe bomb she kept in her bag at the the car, aiming for the hood. It likely would not kill them, but it would give her time.
Aura turned and ran, the pain was bad, and she could not ajust her Aura fast enough to keep streams of blood from traceing paths down her stomach. Yes, running was not a good idea, but she had to. She had to live, their would be time to kill these two fools, turning her Drill into a hammer, she approached a fence and slammed it with the hammer hard, snapping the weak boards in half as she did and sending one flying across the yard,. forcing herself through the hole she kept moving, slowing down a bit as she did, hoping the cops had been smart. Though they seemed to fail to see she was dangerous, were they really that stupid?" If so she might be able to work with them and she hoped if they did they would take her words as those of a delirious woman. Still that was luck Aura lacked so she glanced back anyway and she had used a bomb.
"Oh yes, let's go to the station, yes of course why would i ever do anything else. Oh wait i recall, last time you threw me in a cage and left me to rot. This really is a hard choice my friend, i can surrender and likely die like a caged animal or i can run, what would you choose my fine friend. No, Human lies will not ensnare me, how stupid do you think i am? wait....don't tell me your the cannon fodder they sent to keep me busy...........it's to bad really, the girl's quite pretty" The woman took a few steps forward, and Elli readied her gun, though she doubted it would do anything.
"Keep you busy? No, we just want to reach an agreement without violence!" Gerald said.
"How about this, run home, now, get back in the car and tell your people nothing was found. Your no different then the human swine a just killed for their cowardly ambush. I will be free, Victory is Life! Maybe i was wrong, here take this for your trouble" The woman threw some sort of cylindrical object at the hood of the car, and Elli and Gerald both dived to the side instinctively. They had that drummed into them in the academy, so they escaped the worst of the blast.
Elli almost immediately recovered and took off running, sprinting really, after the strange mutant. When she reached the fence instead of smashing through it as the mutant did, she vaulted over and landed on the other side, rolling over her right shoulder, and kept running with little loss of momentum. Gerald, on the other hand, ran up the wall and dove over. He always was a showoff. In that situation their parkour experience came in very handy. Elli had a clear shot at the mutant and, though she didn't think it would do anything (or maybe because of that) she fired twice. The bullets richoched off of the mutant's aura and did nothing, as far as Elli could tell. Gerald was huffing into the radio, keeping dispatch updated as to their position.
She had been slow, and they had taken her gift personally it seemed. They were either really brave or really stupid, Aura was just not sure yet. Then the pretty one outpaced, her and her male friend was behind her. A good tactic, if you were the predator that was, for pray it worked much worse. They really should have waited for backup, prepared as she was, the bullets the woman fired struck and and ricocheted into the fence around her. She had felt the impacts and though they glanced off, they still did some damage even if it was hard to tell for people, from pistols her aura could hold out awhile normally, it would be harder now but doable, she hoped, she knew because she could tell how strong her aura was mentally. She took eye contact with the female for a second, her look was cool confident but not entirely able to hide her pain. "Just like swine to make a poor choice. They really did send you to die" she said shaking her head.
Even then she turned quickly and charged the man on the radio not even sure if he had his gun out, she would have to endure it and if not she would die trying, these people would take her only to the cage. With a fierce growl she covered the short track of land, and slashed at the male officer, her blow aimed for his Kidney, she had no time to be creative and was trying to make every shot a killing one if she could.
Time was still passing as well, and every moment she spent with the cannon fodder, they would get more of them, cops in this city reproduced like ants or something. "I will die before i fall, can you say the same?" she said, her words meant to intimidate, get them to run. The girl must have realized her gun alone was not going to cut the slack and the man, had she hit the man, she risked a glance over to him to check, hoping she had landed the blow on target. Aura may have looked fifteen, but she was better trained then many humans in combat, heck had she been at full strength, she would have just charged the car, and impaled them.
"Just like swine to make a poor choice. They really did send you to die..." The mutant charged Gerald, and though he dropped the radio in time to withdraw his baton, and even draw back for a heavy swing, but it was to no avail. The blade of pinkish light sliced through his clothes and neatly entered his kidney. Not an immediately fatal wound, but a mortal injury nonetheless. Even with immediate medical attention, which wasn't available, Gerald would probably die.
"I will die before i fall, can you say the same?"
"GERALD!" Elli screamed, and fired again and again, emptying her clip into a neat 4-inch circle on the back of the mutant. That was six more shots that didn't seem to do anything, but Elli didn't care, she just drew her baton and charged, hoping to beat the living hell out of that mutant before she had the chance to do any more harm.
Just as she drew the baton, however, she heard the sound of pavement crunching as backup pulled up behind her, guns out. Elli dropped to the ground immediately, getting out of the line of fire, and they opened up on the mutant. Most missed, probably, but at least four or five shots probably hit somewhere on the mutant. Elli was screaming "NO STOP!! BULLETS DO NOTHING!!! GET SWAT OR SOMETHING HERE!! SHE'S A MUTANT!! BULLETS DON'T WORK!!!" The officers either didn't hear or didn't pay attention, for the triggers kept getting pulled, and Elli almost didn't notice the tears falling down her face.
The day was young and it already sucked really bad. The seven dead Humans today eight if you included the moron beside her, who fell to the ground, likely passed out from the pain. The wound would be fetal, one look at told, her five inches went through the man, had she been closer, her aura would have stroked his spine. The she felt the impacts against her from behind and felt her Aura fade a bit, grow a bit smaller, that just left her, she would take just as much time, as she charged her with nothing but a stick.
She turned hearing heavy foot steps and took a few steps forward a she saw they wer epolice,a nd these one's had fire in their eyes. They knew her, they wanted her dead, maybe she failed to reach Isabells sheer numbers, but she also often mutilated her dead. They were so determined they failed to really aim and a hail of lead struck all around her, several struck her at once and pushed her back a bit, as they ate into her aura. Aura picked up gerald's corpse as best she could she smiled at the woman again as they fired.
The next round riddled the man with bullets a she pulled it up in the way, though once struck her knuckle and bounced off. She could feel her node bleeding, and she was sure the wound in her arm was worse now. Her odds were looking bad, and even so she ran, her leg was burning but she ran, not for the open, no the cops would have an easier time there, she needed something enclosed, something like, she smiled, they were going to love this, she also found out why they had stopped firing, and not only because of their friends accident with friendly fire.
Aura jumped, and her arms now covered in spinning drills shattered the already cracked window of the large building. The brick building was quite large and their was a big sign out front that read. Fletcher Elementary school, she turned to see if they were going to follow, and ignored the screaming first graders, whose classrom she ahd just annexed into their war zone. breathing hard she quickly made her way to the door, the teacher keeping the kids in the far courner.
Elli was in shock. Mentally, not physically. Elli was unharmed physically, at least for the moment, but she was screaming on the inside of her head, calling for the death of that mutant. She didn't just want to kill that woman, she wanted to see her bleed. Not only would her going free pose a threat to all humanity, Elli was certain, there was still the matter of vengeance. She had killed Gerald, that mutant had, and Elli would bring her in for a lifetime of jail, since she seemed to fear that the most.
Elli dove through the window after the mutant, baton in hand, and ignored the streaks of pain from where broken glass had dug into her arms, leaving bloody runnels in her once shiny new uniform. "It's going to be alright, kids, just stay over there and you'll all be fine!" Elli said, trying to keep the anger, sadness, hurt, and yes, the fear out of her voice. Elli was afraid. She had just seen that mutant take an enormous amount of punishment and come out none the worse for wear. She knew she didn't have a snowball's chance in Brazil of beating the mutant, but she also knew that she didn't have to beat the mutant. She just had to keep her there long enough for SWAT or something to arrive. And then try to not die afterwards. That second part would probably be pretty damn hard.
A thought flowed into Elli's head, unbidden, and it strangely filled her with even more resolve. Just think of what Cafas would be thinking at your funeral... "It doesn't have to end like this, you know that. You come in without any further fuss, I'm sure we can arrange something. Once you do this, there is no turning back." Elli knew, and of course so did the mutant, that no arrangement could be met. The mutant was well known in the force for her police killings, and would be undoubtedly given the death penalty if caught.
"Can't even find the decency to be honest with the kids huh? How annoying, I even was willing to let you go to. I mean what reason do i have not to just take as many of you to grave as i can? The few Dozen police killings maybe? or perhaps the bank robberies, that jail we destroyed, the church hostage crisis, maybe those three from xavoirs i hospitalized, the property damage and i forgot how many of those alleyway people, but you know it might be fun to let you catch me, my friends would love to tear your jail and police friends apart. So try and think of them to if your capable of that much thought. The only real question i think is how many people do i have to kill in order to get out of here, you can follow me, but any of these kids would make as good a shield as your friend did" she said laughing a bit, it really did give new meaning to the phrase human shield.
Despite her boasting she knew full well the condition she was in, she had only survives the bullet hail earlier as most had missed or had bounced away before to much damage could be incurred. The body had taken most of the next wave which had saved her, but now they would try and surround her.Aura tried the door it was open, she slipped into the hallway bumping into an adult, without even checking who he was Aura brought her drill to his side, the blow wa snot fatel but it was enough to make him bleed and she had felt the Resistance of bone, ribs most likely.She picked through her pack quickly and found the .9 millimeter she had taken from a cop a few weeks prior. That woman would have no way of knowing just how bad a shot she was.
She had no idea how much more fire power that lady had and was trying to avoid a direct conflict of she could, best to conserve what energy she had, after all she might be in for a longer morning then she was hoping even now. Useing her Aura like this was not helping her wounds at all, still she could walk and so she would move. Back in the woods to stop while wounded meant your friend killed you, it was really kind of sad no one would come to kill her. She looked back over her shoulder to see if the woman was still following her, the hallway was lined with classrooms. As soon as she saw the police woman she would fire the few bullets still in the gun in that direction, she knew she would prolbely miss, in fact she was positive of it, but it would make ehr hesitate she hoped, make her break off the pursuit. "c'mon cannon fodder, be smart for once" she mumbled to herself.
"Can't even find the decency to be honest with the kids huh? How annoying, I even was willing to let you go to. I mean what reason do i have not to just take as many of you to grave as i can? The few Dozen police killings maybe? or perhaps the bank robberies, that jail we destroyed, the church hostage crisis, maybe those three from xavoirs i hospitalized, the property damage and i forgot how many of those alleyway people, but you know it might be fun to let you catch me, my friends would love to tear your jail and police friends apart. So try and think of them to if your capable of that much thought. The only real question i think is how many people do i have to kill in order to get out of here, you can follow me, but any of these kids would make as good a shield as your friend did"
Elli waited through the mutant's tirade, trying to look unafraid and confident for the sake of the children. When the mutant was done talking, Elli put a hand on her hip and said "I'll take that as a no, then? Very well." Elli was surprised, then, when the mutant went through the open door. She was trying to run? Elli figured that she would attack Elli, try to kill her. The sounds of death coming from the hall, however, were not surprising, and Elli prayed that whomever had been so unlucky as to have gotten in the mutant's way had not received mortal wounds, though it was not likely.
Resigning herself to what awaited her through the door, and offering a comforting smile to the kids, Elli walked towards the hall. The teacher, finally mustering his courage, approached Elli and put a hand on her shoulder. "Surely you do not mean to go out there?"
Elli shook off the hand and strode purposefully out of the door, sending back "That's exactly what I intend to do."
"But that is suicide!"
Maybe... Elli saw the mutant a few strides down the hall, and took a running step or two in her direction, before jerking with a small spray of blood as a bullet went through her left shoulder and another grazed her right knee. The other bullets from the poorly aimed but almost point blank barrage missed by a well-dispersed margin, and Elli's momentum and stuttering step forward crashed her into the mutant. Elli screamed in pain, almost blacking out with the impact.
The woman hit Aura with surprising speed, the gun fell from her hand and skittered slightly down the hall. Even as the momentum knocked her to the ground, the impact cuasing her weakened Aura to flicker slightly, as it did the true extents of her wounds were made more obvious, as floor flowed from the wounds. had she been normal, had she not been able to stop the bleeding she would have been passed out all ready. As it was the pain was immense flowing through her body in shooting pains. She knew pain well, having fought nearly every day since her powers came, but this was a worse case then most.
Her Aura was getting weaker and she knew it, she has to escape had to get away and it was mattering less and less on how she did it. Forming a hammer in her hand she swung it at the head of this annoying peace of cannon fodder, hoping to kill her in a single blow then escape. She felt her hammer hit something hard, weather it was the women or the wall she was not sure, either way she began walking to the exit, trying to conserve her strength now. "Looks like i might join you yet my friend" she said, letting the hammer flow back into the aura and as did it appeared to get thicker and more pinkish.
