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.
Tses held two cardboard boxes in her hands, looking at the colorful labels of food imprinted on the side. Little red swiggles seemed to swirl into the mess of noodles on the front of the box, and a happy anime smiley face pretended to eat the food. The other box was identical, but with blue swirls instead of red. It was a complicated choice to make: noodles... or noodles.
Tossing both boxes into her basket, she moved towards the produce section. At least she'd try to get something healthy, but Tses hadn't cooked in over ten years, and it was skill she wasn't quick to fall back on. When she first hit the city, her employer had her working once a night, hacking into personal files and identifying possible mutants, or working the streets, stealing wallets and other paperwork to earn her paycheck. It seemed simpler in those days. She never thought about the mutant files she turned over. She just knew it meant money in her wallet to get another meal, another week in the apartment. Now, she'd interacted with a few mutants, both good, and bad. But she didn't like the jobs she had to do, and wished there was another way to survive. What was better? Stealing someone's money, whether human or mutants, or stealing someone's information.
The good news, well, at least for her conscious, was that her type of hacking wasn't needed at the moment. Mutants were exposing themselves fast enough on their own they didn't need someone to identify them. Tses kept out of the way, for the most part, but with human mutant tensions it was harder to avoid conflict.
"Did you hear about that video on the web? That gargoyle girl getting beat to death by the cops?" Someone said on the other side of the fruit. Tses contented herself by trying to pick the 'perfect' apple, listening in for a moment.
"Serves her right. About time something started happening to control them. I had to call insurance two times last week for structural damage caused by them! My rates have gone up nearly 20% because of 'Mutant Protection Liability'." A voice grumbled. "Last week, someone blew up a car in front of our apartment. I heard at least two cops died because the mutant attacked them!"
"They're dangerous. I'm telling you, if I saw one, I'd probably beat them with a stick as well!"
Tses felt a strange feeling in her gutt as she listened to the voices speak. She hadn't heard the latest gossip, and certainly nothing about this video. Normally, she couldn't give a care about other mutants, but something about the way these people were talking irritated her. Who did they think they were, rejoicing at someone else's near death beating! What did that mutant do to them? Guilt weighed in her heart and she put another apple in her basket, sighing. Then again, what did mutants ever do to her? She was a fence rider, just trying to stay afloat in life. But she wasn't helping with this situation anymore than she was hurting it.
Tses walked to the front of the store, and set her basket on the counter. The two boxes of microwavable noodles were nearly covered with the apples she subconsciously kept stacking on top of them. The clerk looked surprised, and cheesily smiled up at her. "Making a pie?"
"Does it matter? Just tell me the total." Tses snapped. His smile vanished and he glared a little.
"Hey, just trying to be testy. What's your issue?" He grumbled, and Tses glared. She was irritated, and his attitude wasn't helping. He rang up the apples as Tses glowered, and then turned back to her. "Do you want paper, or pla... what the hell?" He was staring at her hands, and Tses looked down in confusion. Her face went pale as she realized there were tiny snakes of green energy crawling across them. Her stomach plummeted. Normally she was great at controlling her powers. But she was so caught up with the thoughts in her head, she let her powers off their leash. "You're a mutant!" the clerk said, more in awe than in fear. Behind her back, Tses heard a different reaction though.
"Hey! I've seen that glow before! You were the mutant the cops were after outside my apartment last week! I had to pay $2,000 even after my insurance claims to clean up what you did!" Tses turned to see the speaker, and barely got her hand up in time to deflect the punch towards her face. The force drove her back into the register, and the cashier yelled in surprise.
"Hey, not in the store guys, come on!"
The other two men weren't listening. Tses scrambled over the conveyor belt, made a sloppy jump to the shelf, next to it, scattering tic-tacs and candybars across the floor. The two men tried to grab her as she darted away, but her quick climbing brought her to higher ground, where she glared down at them, arms seeming to billow with rage induced green energy. It was daylight, so she really didn't have much power to work with. But she was taking a tom-cat stance, puffing up her fur and trying to make herself look bigger; even if she couldn't do much, her powers at least looked intimidating.
"Back off, or we'll have more property damage to debate over!" She snarled, and tried to ignore the slight shaking of her hands. Underneath her, the metal shelf protested the unaccustomed weight, and other customers were starting to stare.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 18:02:10 GMT -6
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Ty walked into the grocery store, gloved hands stuffed into the pockets of his black leather jacket. He didn't need much, just--wait. What was it he needed again? He knew he came in there for one thing, and one thing only. But for the life of him, he couldn't remember.
The mutant scratched his head, deciding to walk to the back of the store, and work his way up. Hopefully he'd remember when he saw it. God he hated when this happened, which...was alot. But it seemed like he was just off lately.
He often found himself thinking about her. How much fun they'd had the one and only time they met--even if they did find alot of trouble. Seemed like she had the same knack for it that he did. That said...she'd probably end up dead, if she wasn't already. Yep. Dead. Just like everyone else he took a fondness to.
....Crap. He was at the front of the store again and still didn't have what he was looking for. He didn't even realize he'd made it that far. ....Reese's cups. That was it. Reese's cups.
Making his way to a checkout line that wasn't crowded with customers, he noticed there was a conversation going on a few aisles over. Some talk about mutants. Hearing that broke his heart. How people could be so cruel sometimes.
Then, the conversation turned into a commotion as a new voice emerged, apparently one of a mutant that didn't have her powers fully under control yet. Just like him. But he could've sworn he recognized that--
Suddenly shelves tipped over, and something darted by him, climbing on top of the shelf next to him. At this point, Ty forgot all about his candy. Again. Even though a whole case of Reese's cups had fallen at his feet, along with tic tacs and everything else.
"Tses!?!" The good news was, she wasn't dead. The bad news was there was a chance they'd both be by the time this was over.
"Look...why don't we all calm down?" he said firmly, moving so he was between the shelf Tses was perched on and the two men. "There doesn't have to be anymore trouble. I think that news story was more than enough trouble for quite some time." His mind raced. He really didn't want to fight. Not again. Especially not here. Not now. Ty had no IDEA why stuff like this seemed to be becoming the norm for him.
Tses heard a voice somewhere in the corner of her mind. It trickled to the front of her brain in what felt like slow motion, and caught her attention like a small flickering in the corner of her mind. Amongst the fighting and the arguing, someone was... talking to her. Someone familiar. She glanced down towards her right, then ducked as someone chucked one of her apples at her. The single glance was enough to see the red hair of a boy she had grown acquainted to not so long ago, and her emotions raced from pleased to see him, to mortified.
"Fancy running into you here." She said, deflecting another apple and glaring at the two men. One tried to shove past Ty, the other was continuing to pluck apples off the conveyor belt. Meanwhile, the cashier was frantically trying to keep his customers at bay, leaving the four individuals to their quarrel.
"Great to see you and all, but you know, you seem to have caught me at a bad time!" Tses flinched as one of the apples hit her in the head, and the green energy seemed to 'swoosh' over her form, then die with her irritation. All that was left was a little flicker. She jumped from the candy shelf across the aisle to the magazine display, stumbling but trying to keep distance from the angry men.
"Get out of our way, punk! This doesn't concern you!" The man snarled, trying to keep Ty back as his friend scrambled around the shelves after Tses.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 18:35:27 GMT -6
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"Yeah, I noticed," Ty replied, looking over his shoulder only brief enough to flash her a grin. But instantly he got back serious, icy blue eyes glaring at the two men. He knew he couldn't take them. He didn't stand a chance. But it was debatable as to whether Ty was gutsy, brave, or just plain crazy.
Ty quickly aimed a punch at the guy's throat, hoping to--crap. Gloves. The punch, thanks to his forgetfulness, didn't do as much damage seeing as how they were gloved. But maybe it would still be enough to create some distance.
Turning around, he broke into a run, passing some abandoned shopping cart and picking up....a shower curtain rod? Oh well...have to do what you have to do. Running up behind the guy who was after Tses, he swung the stiff plastic rod like a bat, aiming at the guy's back.
"Tses, we should probably make a break for it!" he yelled, shooting her a look that said he knew he didn't stand a chance here.
Tses glanced back, and her face flushed when she saw Ty try to attack the two men. It oddly reminded her of the small dog that startled him into giving up the wallet. He may not have size to his advantage, but the sudden ferocity of his actions was enough to throw the men off their game. Taking the moment to her advantage, Tses created two handfuls of explosives, and let them scatter across the store. Tiny explosions rang out like gun fire, and shoppers screamed and took cover.
The man who took the shower rod to the back seemed annoyed more than anything else as he turned to face Ty, but Tses took the opportunity and kicked him in the back of the head, hard enough to knock him over, but not enough to seriously injure him.
"Well what are you waiting for, run!" She yelled at him as she scrambled across the shelf, jumped to the ground and stumbled towards the door. She put her last bit of power into a small explosive that blew the glass door outward, and raced into the parking lot, glancing back to see if the boy was following.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 18:51:04 GMT -6
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Okay, so the curtain rod was worthless. Or maybe the problem existed on the end of the curtain rod. His end.
His thoughts were interrupted however, by what sounded like gunfire, but he soon realized it was Tses's explosives, saving his butt yet again. Tossing the rod behind him, he took her cue to run, following her as she blew out the door, which...okay maybe that was a bit much. After all, those automatic doors did open rather fast.
Nonetheless, he raced through the opening and into the parking lot. Though they were still in danger, he was at least relieved that she was okay. Then again, despite her 'bad luck,' she was tough. What reason did he have to be worried?
"Okay...where to?" he asked, constantly looking over his shoulder.
Where to? The question entered Tses's mind and she glanced over her shoulder as she maneuvered around vehicles. "Where to? Good question. I haven't exactly been making friends lately... You know, the whole 'blowing up the neighborhood' thing. Tends to irritate people." She tried to give a little laugh, and it was cut short as she dodged a taxi trying to pull into the parking lot. She skittered to the side, ignored the cussing through the window, and started back towards the city center.
The mid day traffic was heavy enough she slowed her pace, and started trying to blend into the crowd. Cars roared past, pedestrians pushed into each other, and clusters of people sat gossiping at news stands. She hadn't noticed it before, but the normal hustle of city seemed to have an edge to it, and suspicious glances were being passed in every direction. "I don't know what is going on lately..." Tses muttered, glancing to see if Ty had kept up.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 19:09:42 GMT -6
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"Tell me about it..." Ty muttered, also dodging the idiot cab driver as they ran. Finally, they slowed, and Ty was a bit winded from all the running.
Looking around, he too noticed the city he was all too familiar with had more of an...intense...atmosphere. "I don't know either..." he murmured, looking around. "This is crazy. Crazier than even I'm used to." He spoke softly.
His voice dropped to a whisper. "Wherever we go, we need to find somewhere open. That way we can split if we need to. I don't think we could handle many more run-ins like last time." Constantly, Ty looked over his shoulder. Maybe he did have a lot in common with that chihuahua after all...
Not very big or strong, maybe a little jumpy, but ready to protect if need be...And there was the fact that technically....he was following her.
Tses sighed, and grumbled to herself. "Unfortunately, you don't seem to have picked the best person to hang around. My record in this city is steadily going downhill. Seems everything I touch blows up in my face..." She flinched mentally at the poorly worded sentenced, and rubbed her gloved hands together. At least there was no gunfire this time, and so far they had only been attacked by a few apples.
Tses ran through her list of places she could go in her head. Her apartment was out of the question, in case they were followed. Abandoned buildings hadn't gone so well last time, and it was hard to talk about anything stuck in this crowd. That left the park, which was a little open for her mind, the zoo, and some restaurants and shops along the way. "Getting off the street is probably going to be the best idea. We can lie low in a store, or grab some food... or the zoo. I think hiding in the open is sometimes smarter than in the dark." Life was starting to feel a bit dejavou. Run, explode, hide, duck cover, run. She wished she hadn't let her emotions get the better of her. She could have made it out of that store with apples in hand.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 20:07:38 GMT -6
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Ty nodded at her list of options, thinking each one through. "Judging by our location, a store would probably be our best bet. After all, there's plenty of those in this area." His breathing was heavy, as he was out of breath, but his eyes looked about for the perfect place to lay low.
"Let's see...There's another grocery store over that way," he said, pointing. "I believe that one has a dining area, so we can just chill. And grab a bite if we need to. And it's pretty big." At that moment, Ty looked over his shoulder, then took Tses's gloved hand in his own, leading her to the store in question rather hurredly, in case someone from earlier was catching up to them. He couldn't see anyone but...he just had this feeling.
One moment Tses was glancing around for something to do, the next she felt her hand grabbed and herself being propelled in another direction. She was startled, her muscles tensed, but surprisingly, she didn't punch him in the shoulder and snatch her hand back. She heard him mention the restaurant type area, and tried to keep up with the information presented, but her mind was now buzzing with conflicting information.
Someone is touching my hand, defend and attack!Someone is trying to protect you. Someone cares what happens. retaliate!stand down
She took a deep breathe, and silenced both voices. "Well, considering I just lost my dinner for the week, finding something to eat could be useful."
Behind her, she thought she heard voices, but refused to turn around in case there were cop cars. With her luck, there would be cop cars, but somehow, she was sticking to the whole 'if I can't see them, they can't see me' mentality for now. She picked up her pace, so she was running with Ty instead of being dragged behind him. It took all her control not to take the lead. She wasn't very good at following people.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 20:34:07 GMT -6
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"Alright," Ty replied, leading her closer to the building in question. "Food sounds like a good idea to me too. And maybe you can get your shopping done here, too. Hopefully." Looking back over his shoulder one more time, he swore he heard the word "mutants" but he wasn't sure if he really did or if he was just being paranoid.
Nonetheless, at least she was running with him now. Any other time and maybe he would've thought more on the fact that they were holding hands. But as of now, getting to a safe spot was more the priority here.
They made it inside, and Ty's eyes scanned the room as they walked through the automatic door. "Oh good...nice and quiet...not too crowded. Perfect," he murmured. "The dining area is over that way, I think." He pointed with his free hand before heading in that direction.
The blond haired mutant was relieved to step inside, and took in her surroundings. The grocery store was smaller here, but people seemed to be quiet, and keeping to themselves. The noises from the street were shut off by the automatic door, and the smells from the restaurant drifted to her nose. Her stomach grumbled, and she realized how hungry she was. Her breathing was still a bit ragged from running, and now her legs were starting to burn. Hopefully, they would get a little time to rest before anything else happened, otherwise she was going to refuse to wake up in the morning because nothing ever worked out.
"I can probably find my way across the room now, you know." She murmured, wiggling her hand pointedly. She gave her teasing smirk so he wouldn't get offended, and kept in stride with him to prove it.
Posted by Ty Fisher on Dec 7, 2012 20:52:07 GMT -6
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Ty blushed lightly, not realizing he'd never let go of her hand, even if they were both glove-covered. "Right. Sorry," he murmured as he let go, then shook it off as he saw the smile. He felt even better when she still kept stride with him. Okay that didn't make it so awkward.
When they neared the dining/deli area, his stomach gave a growl. "Okay....food sounds really good right now," he said with a chuckle, heading over to see what all they had and glad there wasn't much of a line. He smiled, realizing they might actually get to rest and not have to worry about trouble for a little while after all.
There was one thing Tses managed amidst all the running and chaos in the grocery store, and that was a small slight of hand while she was in the produce aisle. Even before the confrontation in the check out line, she managed to snatch the accusing human's wallet, figuring she was low on cash and it could come in handy later. Somehow, she managed to keep that even when everything else hit the proverbial fan. She took the lull in the chaos to pluck the wallet from where she shoved it just inside the lip of her boot, and held it up between two fingers, smirking at him.
"Good news, lunch is on our friend back at the grocery store." She fished out the bills that were inside it, and grinned as she held up a few twenties. It was enough to get a meal or two and some food, even with New York's wallet breaking prices.
