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.
The nonstop blush that had tinted her cheeks since Saph had taken her from the mansion once again seemed to die down a little with the promise of food. It seemed that her older companion had learned to ward off her blossoming agitation by bribing her with an assortment of things... but ice cream was at the top of her list at the moment. "Can I have three scoops of cookie dough please?...oh, uh, in a cone..." The wide eyed look the vendor gave her, accompanied by a glance at her thin frame and then a shake of his head, was all to familiar to her these days. He had even had people outright laugh at her when she ordered something they considered too big for her to actually consume.
She always proved them wrong. With her cold treat in hand, she paid the man, dropped her change in his tip jar, and turned back to her handsome part- oh dear! had she just thought that? Blinking in surprise, the color jumped back into place on her cheeks and the gorgon coughed abruptly, nearly choking on a mouthful of ice cream. After hacking up a ling or two, the frail girl adjusted her scarf- courtesy of Lovely fashionista Juka- and fought back the deep brown blush.
"Sorry... it went down the wrong pipe..." A sheepish smile accompanied her words, and she stepped out to join him, walking by his side. "Where should we go next? I recall you mentioning that you wanted to get something while you were here..."
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Andrea had been blushing ever since that... incident. He hadn't said a thing about it, but she was still willing to spend time with him, so that was good, right? He didn't know, he'd never spent time with a girl quite like Andrea before. He smiled as she ordered her gigantic ice cream, and leaned on the vendor's cart, looking over to her slowly. He looked her up and down, and spoke in a very casual tone, trying not to be too obvious.
"That scarf looks good on you, y'know?" She would probably blush again... He liked making her blush. After a moment he realized that the vendor was staring at him, and he paused, clearing his throat and standing upright. "Eh... I'll have a scoop of vanilla, in a cone please." He turned towards Andrea again, putting both of his hands in his pockets to fish out some money to pay for his food. These pants were a little tighter than he was used to, so he was stuck for a moment with his hands in his pockets... "How much?"
Aura had her orders, kidnap Andrea so they could run tests on her. Though Aura considered the green skinned lady to be her friend, her orders were clear. So Aura had watched the green for days tailing her where she could. It had been long process but Aura needed to make sure this mission was a success. Her partner as far as she kenw would be in position as well. As the ice cream vendor opened the freezer he dropped a ice cream scoop on her head, she stayed quite but glared at the man, pointing to a picture of his kids and began to cut it with the aura around her finger. Still just becuse she was on a mission did not mean she could not eat while she waited, so aura used her scoop to scoop up and eat ice cream which tasted heavenly, while some of it, she even asked for another scooper.
The man got the message, He had at first been very reluctant to let Aura start her plan for many reasons, Aura had put them to rest when she revealed to the man she knew where he lived, and where his kids went to school and could easily make things very bad for him. After that he cooperated with no argument. Aura had also reminded him that his house was being watched in case he chose to call the police, a lie but he did not need to know that.
Aura heard Andrea's voice and got ready, the ice cream vendor confirmed it but gave her the signal she wa snot alone. Aura sighed, but nodded that she understood. Not the animals fault andrea was being social, still it would be a bad day for whoever she was with. Then She heard another voice she knew well. The sword guy she had met in the hospital massacer, he had surprised her with how violent he could be, it was to bad really.
As the vendor opened it again for the sword man, Aura Leaped out of the freezer with her half frozen half ice cream caked hair flowing out wildly behind her. Aura had a ice cream scoop in each hand both filled with cookies and cream. "TWO SCOOPS!" she yelled as a battle cry throwing both scoops at the sword man before she leaped right for andrea recalling her power, she would be the more dangerous of the two. Aura formed a hammer bringing it down from above, aiming right for the top of Andrea's head, hoping to knock her out in a single blow, after all they were in the middle of the mall.
Isabel had, admittedly, been rather lazy with the assignment Lori had given her. Perhaps it was some kind of reluctance influencing her motivation to kidnap the mutant girl, but either way, she'd be there when the plan was executed. She didn't exactly like the idea of kidnapping mutants, but she'd helped to do it way back when with Haywire, so she could do it again.
Aura had been more than willing to do most of the work, anyhow. She'd staked out a place to sit in wait, gathered information on the target, threatened innocent civilians. The works. Isabel, on the other hand, had been content to focus most of her energy on learning the facts about their target from the information provided for her back at the Sanctuary.
Andrea Gordon, the gorgon mutant. Easy to spot in a crowd due to her exotically colored skin and eyes. A touch that could turn things to stone and a stare that could send someone into a coma. She sounded as if she could be formidable, were it not for the sight of her. She was so very thin and delicate looking, and her mannerisms betrayed her in giving off the impression that she most certainly was not a fighter. Covering her eyes would do the trick to avoid falling into a coma. The hands could be mildly problematic if she got a chance to remove her gloves. Overall, it shouldn't be too hard.
What she hadn't been counting on was for the girl to have company. He didn't look like he'd be too much trouble, but looks could be deceiving. However, with both her and Aura there, hopefully ti wouldn't prove to be too difficult in at least separating the two. If push came to shove, she could act as a distraction and occupy the young man long enough for Aura to whisk away the green girl.
She tried not to stare, trying not to attract the pair's attention. She'd fitted herself into a little niche on a ledge by one of the escalators, a potted plant obscuring at least a portion of her body. She wasn't really looking to hide. Her odd sense of fashion would have likely ruined the effort anyhow. In the least she could try to look unassuming. If she sat quietly and didn't move much, she'd blend into the background nearly as much as any other mall-goer.
She stopped scanning the newspaper in her lap for any articles about mutants when she heard Aura shout. Dropping the collection of pages onto the floor, she scooted out of the corner she'd fit herself into. As a large pink hammer formed in midair, she picked up her speed, a thin cord of bone curling into her hand as she moved, the tip inflating into a small, weighted ball. Aura was aiming for their target, that left the young man to the bone manipulator.
Closing the distance between herself and the trio she began to swing a short portion of the cord in a circular motion in order to gain some momentum to it. Just as she was nearly on top of him she swung the weighted end toward the young man, aiming to wrap it around his neck and then pulling it back roughly, hoping to knock him off his feet. It wasn't an attempt to do any serious damage. She'd only strangle him a little. Just long enough so that he'd be out of the way and she and Aura could make their getaway.
I’m just a well-adjusted gal who likes to leave a serious amount of mayhem in her wake.
Licking her ice cream, she had turned to wait patiently for Saph to order his own. Her eyes off into the food court, brown tinted cheeks tucked into her loose hair. He thought it looked good on her... the scarf Juka had bought. Her lips turned up into a hint of a smile, and she drifted away into dream land for a moment, still licking at her mountainous treat. Saph liked her.. that much she knew for sure. Why, however, she still hadn't been able to figure out. She could still remember their brief kiss, and how much of an idiot she had made herself out to be because of it... The Greek remained in her dreamland, until a shout from behind startled her back to reality. She recognized that voice...
"...Aura?"
It was a short, surprised gasp, before she managed to turn fully and realized that the girl was rocketing down on her, with a pink hammer closing in. Andrea didn't even have time to shriek before hammer met skull, and skull lost. Her vision went black instantly and the Gorgon slumped to the floor, her ice cream splatting down at her side. Such a waste... Andrea didn't care however, for she had slipped into a dream again, one chalk full of Hammers and Ice Cream cones.
Saph had been having a good day. He'd gotten to wear his new clothes, which he'd gotten for free, he managed to get Andrea to talk to him, and go and get food with him again, and he was even in for a good treat of ice cream... or so he thought... A crazy kid hopped from the ice cream cooler and screamed a ridiculous battle cry before jumping at his little green hopefullymorethan friend.
"Aura? What the-" Whack! She'd hit her! His look of surprise turned into one of the utmost rage, and his hand quickly slipped into his coat for his crowbar. Just then he got a tingle in the back of his neck; that one that told him that his body was about to move without his command again. Not now! he thought in a panic, why did his body have to mess with him at the worst possible times? He felt himself begin to spin around, but fought against it, tripping over himself, and ending up lower and back farther than where Issy, who he hadn't even gotten close to noticing, was aiming. He didn't have time to comprehend what was going on before the weighted end of the bone manipulator's chord, and getting smacked in the temple with the weighted ball, rather than getting wrapped around the neck.
The off balanced, and dazed man stumbled off to the side, and then right over the second story balcony, falling down into a fountain on the first floor. He'd twisted in the air like a cat, against his will, so that his right side hit the water and he wasn't harmed, but he still lay in the fountain, dazed from the blow to the head.
The plan had gone perfectly, her hammer had struck hard but not hard enough to kill and Isabel had been able to take the other out without much trouble. Only now did she realize her mistake on his identity. She had never met the male mutant who they had no use for anyway. One day she hoped she might be able to talk to him and learn his power, but now was not the time, she picked up Andrea and pulled her up onto the ice cream cart, after all it had wheels.
"Got an exit plan?" Aura asked her teammate, despite their discretion, they had gotten some attention from people, enough where Aura kept her aura up, just in case someone decided to get brave. Aura reached into her pack and lobbed a small cylinder down the hall that made up the area of the mall. Though small the home made pipe bomb exploded throwing bits of shrapnel into several human's. Aura had hoped it would serve as a distraction and in a way she was right.
Now people were running around screaming but they were paying less attnetion to them. It was hard not to want to start slashing humans almost indiscriminately as they ran around. It would have been quite a bit of fun. Resisting the Urge, she looked down at the male they had hit as well, she briefly considerd grabbing him as well, but then figured it might be to hard to get back out with him as well. Decideing against it she tried moving him out of the way to help clear their path as she considerd their escape options. She wrapped a piece of fabric around the green skinned ladies eyes so that she would not be able to hurt them as easily. With a spark of inspiration she opened the cart and shoved Andrea into the compartment she herself had been in.
Well, that hadn't exactly gone according to plan, but at least it had worked in Isabel's favor. Casually she leaned over the railing to look down at where the young man had landed, the length of cord in her hand raveling back up in through her palm. He'd be feeling that in a few hours, if he managed to pull himself out of that fountain. It was probably lucky for him that people were naturally curious about a disaster, and since he didn't seem to be bleeding everywhere, they'd likely be more willing to pick him out of the water.
Unfortunately for them, it also meant that the authorities would likely be notified and be on their way soon. Particularly after Aura had lobbed a pipe bomb down the hallway. It certainly was a nice touch, it just meant that any shred of discretion they might have had left was out the window. It was just as well. Subtlety had never personally suited her anyway.
"I figured we'd wing it," she replied as the green girl was deposited into the ice cream cart. That'd be a fun mess to clean up later. "First thing's first, we need to find a door," she continued, looking around at the people scattering. Taking a moment to ram a hook of bone into the cart, she then started to move. She'd help pull the thing, and Aura could push.
Going out the back end of the mall would probably be the best idea. They'd have to get to the first level anyhow, and either end of the building should have a ramp of some sort, which would be a necessity if they were hauling a cart with them. "We should be able to get out a door at the back that leads to the parking garage," she proposed, shoving at anyone that got a little too close. "It should be easy enough to hijack a car in there and make a break for it."
I’m just a well-adjusted gal who likes to leave a serious amount of mayhem in her wake.
It was cold, in Ice Cream'otopia.... even though she had taken the fire pill that captain Hammer Head had given her when she had first stepped foot on its cookies n' cream streets. Inwardly, she winced, recalling how bad it hurt to burp fire for a few minutes, until the nasty side effects wore off and a nice warm feeling had taken root in her tummy.
'You know, Nelly, you really do go great with chocolate syrup. I must say Mr. Mixed Nuts was quite on the ball with that one...'
The Greek announced, one arm wrapped around Nelly the sugar cone's shoulder. The other was busy holding a giggling ice cream cone close to her mouth. The cone was aptly named Carrie, as it had introduced its self before Andrea had started to eat it...
'I also never knew that Rocky Road was actually named after a person... I am very glad I came here.'
Nelly patted her arm with one crunchy, delicious hand, and grinned. 'We are over joyed to have you Andrea! It's been forever since someone had spoiled out ears with such compliments!' Andrea paused, licking her giggling treat, before glancing up and to the left... It was a shame really, that she had been sent in my the Hammer nation to destroy Ice Cream'otopia once tasty morsel at a time...
'Yes, it is. Now, where is this mayor you were talking about Nelly....?'
Saph snapped to consciousness to the sound of an explosion, and burst from the water he'd been laying in. He took a huge breath, and looked about in a panic, trying to register what had happened.
He panted heavily as he looked about, seeing people running in every which direction, screams coming from the left and the right... He heard the pained cries of the injured, and immediately his mind snapped to Andrea. Oh god! They'd been attacked! Why? What had they done to deserve this? He looked up to the ledge he'd fallen off of, and used the force he'd collected slamming into the ground to jump right back up, sending waves of water out of the fountain below him. He landed and climbed over the railing, looking around urgently... In one direction a crowd of people were running and pushing, in the other... carnage... His heart skipped a beat, and he started moving as if possessed toward the place where the pipe bomb had gone off... He was looking for one thing; something he hoped desperately not to see... Within the next few seconds he felt relieved and selfish all at the same time... Andrea hadn't been caught in the blast...
Where was she, then? And... Did she know the people who had attacked them? She'd said a name... Maybe they'd taken her! He turned and ran in an attempt to catch up with the kidnappers, painfully unaware that he was running in the wrong direction, and that he would never catch them.
Aura kept pushing, admiring the bone spur that was helping her, it was a thing of beauty, though their was little time to truly admire it. She had not worked with isabel to much, but recalled that she was the one who had brought her into the order, or accepted her anyway. Snapping back to what they were doing, Aura lashed out and cut deeply into the arm of a panicked man who bumped into her, more out of reflex then anything else, she did not even look to see the damage she had done, though the blood that sprayed on the cart gave her all she needed to know.
As they neared the back of the mall they came to a pair of dual elevator shafts as well as an escalator though Aura figured the latter would not be good to use, she was unsure what endurance the gorgan mutant had but figured it would not be to her benefit to die on transit and Aura would likely fail the mission in that case as well which was in many ways worse, to aura. Aura hoped the green skinned lady would not take it to hard that she had knocked her out somewhat violently.
Aura could see the back doors from whare they were and could see the single rent a cop thare trying to talk into his radio, which wa snot going well from the noise level in the area. As for as Aura could see he was unarmed as well. Not showing her disappointment, Aura kept going until the reached the elvator, which was already open and ready for them with a few people inside looking confused by the violence and panic they were seeing from the glass surrounding the elevator.
Isabel was quick to obey the subtle and not-so-subtle shifting of the cart as Aura changed its direction, this time heading toward an elevator. It would be an inconvenience to climb into one and wait for it to take them down to the ground floor, but it would have to do. She wasn't entirely sure if they elevators could be shut down somehow by the mall personnel, but seeing that the walls were only glass was reassuring. If the need arose she could likely break that glass and climb the rest of the way to the ground.
Just in case the rent-a-cop had a set of keys or some such that could inconvenience them, she quickly aimed a small spike in his direction and sent it flying. She'd been aiming more for the radio, but because of all the moving she was doing, she was a little off target, the spike instead embedding itself just below the heel of the man's hand. It worked just as well. He'd have to drop the radio, leaving him unable to call for backup at least for a short while, and would require that he tend to the wound before taking any action against the pair of kidnappers.
Releasing the hold the spur had on the cart, she vaulted into the already occupied elevator and moved as quickly as she was able to clear out the occupants. It wasn't that hard, particularly after a few non-lethal jabs were delivered here and there. Having bodies lying on the floor of the elevator would only get in their way and prevent them from getting the cart properly inside.
Once the last hysterical passenger had scrambled out of her way, she made way for Aura to get the cart into the elevator and then hit the button that would bring them to the ground floor. And wishing the damn thing moved faster. It was more than frustrating waiting for the thing to slowly reach the bottom floor, settle itself properly, and then finally open its doors back up.
Then she was moving again, but only after regaining the hold she's previously held on the cart. It only took a brief moment to reorient herself before figuring out which way they should be traveling again to find the doors. Unfortunately the elevators were located in the center of the mall, so they still had a little ways to go. Fortunately, it was pretty much a straight shot to the back doors and into the parking garage.
"Just a little bit further and we're home free," she commented, unsure if Aura could actually hear her over the noise the hysterical shoppers were making. All they should have to deal with would be people getting in the way, and at the most a few more rent-a-cops attempting to stop them. It shouldn't be too difficult to get out, provided a police squad or two didn't beat them to the door.
I’m just a well-adjusted gal who likes to leave a serious amount of mayhem in her wake.
The cart bumped slightly, and Andrea was jolted from her delicious dream. Even without opening her eyes, she knew something was off. First of all, why was it so cold...? She groaned softly, barely audible, and tried to move her hand. Her arm was tucked under her at a difficult angle, probably a painful one too, and it was fast asleep. Her legs were similarly cramped up, but she figured that was probably more from the cold than anything else.
The fingers on her free hand wiggles slightly when she willed them too After a pause, she blinked. Why was it so cold? She lifted her head in the meager room allowed, and felt a wave of dizziness wash over her, and plopped it right back down into the coldness. She could feel the cold melting against her cheek, and blinked again, thoroughly confused. Why was it so cold? A pink tongue poked out and touched a drop of the wetness on her lip. It tasted like ice cream.
Why was she laying on ice cream? If raising her head caused dizziness, and laying it down made her cold, she settled for a happy medium and rested her throbbing head on her free arm. Oh, her head hurt. When had that happened? She could feel an acute pain just above her left eyebrow, and behind the flesh wounds she could feel a horrible headache setting in. Blinking once more, she frowned. Why was it so cold?
Nausea set in quickly, and she closed her eyes against the spinning darkness. She really didn't want to throw up all over someone's ice cream, that would be bad. Why did her head hurt in the first place...? Had she hit it on something? Her fingers reached up to brush away some hair sticking to her forehead, and came back coated in a sticky red substance. More ice cream? No... No. Ice cream didn't smell so bitter. She blinked, and laid her head back down, waiting for the nausea to pass...
Aura admired the bone spike Isabel used to disable the man's hand and wished she had that kind of range. She took notice of the terrible music the elevator was playing, which for some reason seemed to make her further annoyed. Aura slashed at the arm, of someone who ran from the elvator as she got it, the music ever louder. SHe was glad when it started moving down, she hoped it would make it all the way to the ground as she had no way to get down otherwise.
Wishing the thing would move faster, Aura ran her Aura blade down the glass, drawing a thin line in the glass as they went, careful to apply just enough pressure that it would not shatter. She was quite glad when the doors opened up and she was able to push the ice cream cart out of it, the bump was enough to shake the cart pretty bad, but Aura kept it moving anyway, almost forgetting she had a cold passinger to keep alive.
The back door quickly became visible, though no actual cops were thare a few rent a cops were helping people to exit the mall. They did not even seem to notice the cart and it's determined kidnappers. "Good" she said as she heard Isabel's comment to her, though things had seemed to get more crowded. She was right Aura realized they were rather close to getting out of the mall with little issue at all. "Wonder what they need her to do exactly?" she said understanding what they were making but not understanding why they needed spaciffic mutants.
Isabel didn't bother answering the question Aura posed. She probably wasn't looking for an answer anyhow, but in any case the ribboned mutant didn't want to think about it. The idea of mutant experimentation didn't exactly sit well with her. She'd helped to kidnap mutants before for such purposes, but she'd had nothing to do with the resulting imprisonment and various rounds of testing. She'd help bring them in for the sake of her Faction, but she wasn't so sure she'd be able to comply if she were asked to do much more than that. It made her much too uneasy.
Instead she did her best to try and keep the cart from jolting around too badly as the wheels bumped over uneven bits of flooring and swerved around people that didn't have enough sense to get out of the way quickly. It wouldn't do much good to deliver a subject if she was too broken and bruised to be any good for the inevitable testing. The mall cops that were getting in the way, as expected, also served to help keep her mind occupied.
Thankfully there weren't many standing around, and they all seemed to be occupied with the crowd that was rushing past them and heading for the garage to make their escapes. In any case, they could prove to be somewhat troublesome if they spotted the rampaging pair, since most of them carried at least a can of mace, if not a tazer as well.
When they were within a reasonable distance from the rent-a-cops, she sent a cord of bone whipping ahead of herself, wrapping the end around the legs of one man and jerking it roughly to one side, using both the body and the length of the thread to take the legs out from under the uniformed individuals. Once they were down it was just a matter of maneuvering the card around the groaning bodies and through the doors.
It was a lot quieter outside when there weren't walls on every side of them trapping in the noise of the screaming mall-goers. Though to make up for it the number of vehicles speeding out of the garage and out onto the street made crossing the structure more hazardous than it should have been. "You got a car we could use, or do we have to find one for ourselves?" she asked, risking a brief glance back at Aura.
I’m just a well-adjusted gal who likes to leave a serious amount of mayhem in her wake.
