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 a dark night, Serena hated the dark. It always didn't feel right, that and her father had been stabbed in the dark when he was working undercover. Not a fun memory. What mattered however, was that the dark creped Serena out a little
. While she was walking through the dimly lit, dreary gloomy street she wondered to herself what her brother was doing right now, probably at work still. However than something which Serena had not been expecting at all... Her brother, Jake, was standing there on the side of the street, by an alley. There was a man with him which she didn't recognise however... he was a tall, dark man wearing what appeared to be a lab coat. "Jake!" Serena shouted as she waved to him.
He wandered down the alley with the man in the lab coat. Baffled by her older brothers completely out of character, rudeness towards her, she ran towards the alley to see if he was okay. "Oh lords I hope he isn't drunk." Serena muttered to herself as she walked towards the alley.
When she arrived however she couldn’t see her brother as the alley was incredibly dark. Suddenly. She felt something very cold and metallic press up against the back of her head. Then heard manic laughter. A switch was flicked, some light appeared in the alley, she looked over to see Jake in the corner looking very annoyed. "You weren't supposed to follow me you dummy." he said in a nervous tone. the strain was clear in his voice, he didn't want her to be here, something bad was about to happen.
"Hmm, she looks a bit like you detective boy, is she your sister?" the man behind her said as he shoved her into her brother.
She turned and saw a man standing in a lab coat wearing glasses, holding a 38. Special pointed in her direction. She realised what was going on. Her brother had cracked the case. He had found the murderer, but the murderer got him cornered literally. Serena wanted to scream, but she couldn't find her voice.
Her brother stepped in front of her and threw his arms over her. She suddenly felt safe. Even in this situation he looked after her, he really was the best big brother a sister could ask for. "Leave her alone, If you must kill someone, kill me just please, let my baby sister go" Jake said, putting all of his emotion into his voice.
Serena wanted to protest, if her brother was going to be killed, she would go with him. She was cut off, by the killer. "Not a chance, tell you what I will traumatise the little thing, let her scream then kill her, after you" He laughed manically, them suddenly stopped. He pulled the trigger.
Jake didn't have time to think, he had thrown him self over Serena, several rounds hit him. He fell. But not before showering Serena in a spray of blood.
She fell to her knees and began to tremble. She wanted to cry. No tears came. She wanted to scream, her voice was not there. She lay, on her knees hands clutching the shredded, now dyed red shirt. The shooter beamed over her, almost seemingly fascinated with her and how she was so in shock she couldn't even cry for her big brother.
He then spoke. "Little blond creature, no tears for your pathetic brother?" He asked with a smirk, then added "No, then die." he pulled the trigger and heard a click. "Hmm no ammo left. Ah well" He tossed the handgun aside. "I will do it the old fashioned way then." he uttered. Then drew a knife, the blade stained with blood.
Serena heard his words did he just call Jake pathetic? "You'll pay." She said with a deadly calm voice,as she stood tears ran down her face, Pure vengeance sounding in her normally sweet voice. She stood up.
Then something astonishing happened. The blood on her clothes and on her brothers, became tinted with a blue aura, then it began to float off of the clothing and suspended itself in the air, in various sizes of drops. "You'll PAY!" She screamed. As the roar left her mouth the blood suspended in the air solidified and flew with incredible speed into the man. He was torn to shreds. Not a trace left of him except for a stain in the alley.
Suddenly the weight of what just happened hit her. The suspended blood all hit the floor. Her brother had died, she had just killed a man and she was... she was... A mutant. Serena realised that her brother would want her to pick herself up and leave. She closed his eyes, walked to the exit to the alley, turned. Gave her brother one last glance and then set off into the night. She was a mutant, a danger to society as radicals would put it."They're right, I am a danger to others". But was is her life now, this was being a mutant.
She walked out into another alley and made her way through the dark city, not knowing where she would go. She figured she'd just see where the night took her.
Dark boots clicked their heels across the sidewalks, and a slim figure made her way across town. Yawning to herself, she glanced at the sky, and frowned at the lack of moonlight that was out tonight. The moon had drifted down to the 'fingernail' clipping of light, and her energizing drink of light would fade in the next few days until the new moon passed. She hated this face of the moon, with it's tiny dribbles of light leaving a world of shadows in it's wake. It was like a smothering smog drifted across her powers, giving her the last drips of light to survive on until the light waned again.
Few people were on the streets tonight. It was one of the reasons she got out at night like she did. People tended to result in fights, and fights property damage, and damage was not something her record could handle right now. There were probably police reports of a mutant with glowing hands roaming through NYPD, and she didn't want to give anyone a reason to try and turn her in. She had gone to the store to get a few supplies; her inventory of microwavable food and fruit, and had enough in her bags to get her through the moonless days of the month when she would keep to herself.
Wandering the back alleys, she was used to the solitude they offered. So when she saw a figure moving through the night, she frowned to herself and slowed her walking with caution.
Tses took her hands out of her jacket, and peered at the girl coming into view. She was about Tses's height, hair a lighter color by the way it glimmered in the darkness, and face younger looking, probably still in her teens. She had a strange walk to her, like someone lost, and slightly bewildered, and dark stains seemed to be covering her clothes. While not the type of person to intervene in a situation, Tses felt her heart beat raise a little when she registered the dark areas were blood.
As she walked down the dark alley, feeling slightly weakened, she didn't know why. She heard the click of boots, she didn't have time to hide. She stood and faced the woman who had stumbled upon her.
She was a blonde girl, Like Serena, but slightly older looking. She stared at Serena for a second then posed a question. Serena thought for a moment why she would ask such a thing then looked down to see her brother's blood, still on her shirt.
"I... I.." she couldn't speak properly. It felt like the blood was not only staining her shirt. But her voice also. She felt as if all her energy was draining out of her with the sadness. She had been determined to get away from here. But as soon as she met this girl, all of her energy had left her.
She fell to her knees. Tears glistening in her eyes, she looked up at the blonde girl who was infront of her. "I don't know..." she whispered, barely able to control her voice. She managed to stop herself from outright crying, but just barely.
She continued to look at the other girl. "Whaa... what do I do?" She asked. Her hands, now shaking. She was barely stopping herself from having a breakdown. After all, her brother had just been murdered in front of her and she had found out she was a mutant all in one night. Hopefully this girl would be able to help Serena.
Tses felt taken aback as the girl started crying, and her hands clutched her groceries as they slid down her forearms into her palms. She would have almost welcomed hostility more than crying; tears were something she didn't know how to handle. She stood for a moment like a deer in the headlights, then slowly and cautiously approached, glancing around for someone, anyone to rescue her for this sudden and unwelcome visitor to her shadowy pathways. But she was alone, with a blood covered girl, on her knees at her feet.
Part of her wanted to turn and hurry the other way, lock herself in the apartment and pretend nothing had happened. But somewhere inside her, there were memories that held her in her place: memories of a time when an older mutant had found her starving on the streets and struggling to control her powers; that person hadn't run away, and they made Tses strong, and who she was today. In a way, she felt she owed it to the girl to help.
She was much older than Tses had been, that was true; and Tses didn't know what had happened. Maybe she was a mutant, maybe she was just a lost human. Either way, she could at least try to get the girl some guidance, and rid herself of the guilt Karma would smite at her if she didn't.
"Hey, calm down... Are you hurt? I..." Her voice didn't sound right for this situation. She wasn't motherly, not the guardian angel this girl needed. She was just a blond haired mutant in combat boots and a leather jacket; she looked more like a hells angel than anything else.
Serena tried to steady her breathing, it was a little bit of a cold night out and she could see the water vapour coming from her mouth. After a few deep breaths, the shaking calmed somewhat.
The girl sounded a bit overwhelmed by Serena. She didn't blame her. Serena was overwhelmed by Serena. "My... my brother... he is.. he's... dead." she said, in a shaky voice.
She glanced up at the girl in the jacket staring down at her. She probably doesn't know what to think. Serena didn't know what to think. out of all of the possible scenarios that she could imagine, this was the least likely.
"Blood... there was blood everywhere. The man, he shot my brother... in front of me." as she felt tears welling in her eyes again she began to feel a bit shaky and light headed.
She looked down at her hands. Her body was surrounded with that blue glow again. The blood started to glow too and then floated off of her clothing . "Whaaa... what am I?" [/cyan] she asked herself as the blood then hit the floor and she fell back again. Feeling very weak.
As the girl spoke, Tses felt that strange racing in her heart growing, and something that felt oddly like compassion filling her gut. The girl just lost her brother, and even in the dim night, Tses couldn't help but guess the blood now covering the girl was not her own. It was good and bad news; the girl was unharmed, but mental anguish was something else you had to deal with. Sometimes, the long term psychological damage took longer to heal than any bullet wound or scar. Furthermore, leaving her alone in this state would probably bring some unforeseen misfortune down on the moonlight-powered mutant. She would have to try and sort out this problem alone, in the dark, on a dim and dark and unfortunate night. Once more she contemplated that whole running strategy, but the tears... Ugh, tears should not be allowed...
Blood.... Her words spooked Tses back to the present, and then the girl began to glow in an odd blue color. For Tses, who had her own green-ish glimmer when she used her powers, it wasn't so unusual. But the glowing blood floating of the girls clothing was definitely a new trick. "You're a mutant, kid... And whatever power's you got are going to keep acting up unless you try to calm down. Tses cautioned her a bit too soon, and the girl collapsed backwards. Tses scrambled forward and managed to keep the girl from slamming her head into the pavement, but she dropped a few bags in the process, the last one digging into her wrapped hands. She muttered a few words under her breathe, but quiet enough she hoped the girl wouldn't hear, especially in her condition, and she gently readjusted so she was kneeling behind the girl with her arm under her shoulders and head.
"And yup, there you go... power overload... I know it's stressful, kid, but you gotta try and take deep breathes and relax. Powers tend to feed off emotions: until you get used to it you gotta take it easy." She remembered when her own powers arrived, when she was a skinny thirteen year old girl wandering the streets of Chicago. They responded to protect her, but for a few days after that she had spells where the glowing green energy would crawl up her arms, and she would desperately try to drag it off her forearms like it was a snake trying to attack her. Now that glow was a familiar friend; she wondered if it one day she would feel that comfortable too.
The blondes words confirmed what she had suspected. Serena was a mutant. She would now have to find a way to deal with that and this power. And she also suspected that the girl was right, she did need to try and calm herself down. Freaking out was not helping.
She'd caught her... This girl was helping Serena. She was thankful for that. Even if the world wouldn't stop spinning. She began to take deep breaths while being cradled by the older girl. Eventually the head spinning calmed down some.
Great so in one night, she'd lost her brother, killed someone and found out she was a mutant. then she'd been stumbled upon my this other mutant who was kind enough to stop and help her. This was not the best night for Serena so far.
Not only was she a mutant and had just committed man slaughter but she also found out that she had these weird powers. It did not help that the connotations that could be drawn from controlling blood were not exactly positive. Definitely not a calming factor.
"Thh... Thank you. My name is Serena." She murmered in a now much more controlled, but still clearly strained voice. She wiped the tears out of her eyes with her sleeve and then carried on trying to calm herself.
As the girl settled down, Tses tried to calm as well. She had a 16 year old newly realized mutant in her lap, with odd blood controlling powers, and there was hardly any moonlight tonight. What could possibly go wrong right now? It wasn't like the lack of moonlight would mean she would have little to defend herself if something weird and out of control happened. And it wasn't like a new mutant could accidentally cause freakish things to happen with little control over them. And it wasn't like a blood mutant could do weird things with blood or stop her heart or who knew what powers she had.
No, nothing could possibly go wrong. She had no reason to feel stressed.
But as she glanced at the girl, there was that odd little feeling that stirred in her gut. That side of her that spent all of those years looking after her younger sister, and that side of her that pushed Kelarii out of the window before the room collapsed. It was that side of her that cried in the alley after finding out she was a mutant, and that side of her that wandered after the mutant that found her, watching their every mutant and trying to live up to their expectations. Part of her couldn't escape that little corner of her heart that felt for this girl and couldn't leave her behind. Regardless of the moon; regardless of the mutant; and regardless of the blood controlling-ness. That little side of her forced herself to speak, and she inhaled deeply, and answered, "I'm Tses. And it's no big deal."
She may as well put a leash around her neck now and say 'woof'. She was tied to whatever responsibility would come now.
The girl said her name was Tses. An interesting name, then again Serena wasn't the most common name either. A warm feeling spread from Serena's chest throughout her body. This girl cared, someone actually cared. She looked up to see Tses staring down.
The eyes that came back actually reminded her a lot of her brother, lots of love and affection there. Just they didn't seem to want to show it. Serena however had lived with two members of the police force who were not very good at talking about how they felt. She was used to it.
"I don't know what to do..." Serena said. Truthfully and as calmly as possible. "It's just... my brother was always there and now he is gone. I don't know where I should go from here."
Serena was still feeling a little overwhelmed by emotions, but was feeling a lot calmer. Knowing what Tses name was helped somehow, gave her comfort. She wasn't alone, there were other mutants, there were others like her. She just had to find the right ones.
Tses tried not to fidget as she sat with the girl leaning on her arm. Her fingertips were tingling a little as her arm was falling asleep, but she didn't want to move too much and make the girl feel worse. When she glanced back and saw the girls eyes, they looked a bit too trusting and a bit too needy. Great, another puppy-dog for her to adopt. She was just making a collection, wasn't she?
"I'm not exactly the best person to turn to for advice." Tses murmured at first, glancing up at the sky as if looking for an answer there. "I mean, despite my glowing deposition, I kinda stick to myself." The sarcasm slipped into her words, then she sighed, racking her brain for options. There was the Sanctuary she'd heard of, but the mutant that mentioned that tried to stab her in the chest and she really wasn't sure that was the best welcoming card. Then again, she had met a few other mutants that came from a mansion somewhere outside of town. She heard they took in stray mutants. "I do know of a place you may be able to go though... there is a school in town for mutants..." She tried to remember exactly where the school was, but she spent so much time in the central city, it was a bit fuzzy to her.
"A school? Serena wondered what her school would see her as... Well at the very least they would find out about her brother, then then rumours would worsen. She'd honestly never paid that much attention to mutants so she had limited knowledge.
Although, it would probably be for the best not to go back to school, especially if she was around more blood... People would probably not view floating blood as common etiquette for a teenage girl. She'd said this was a school for mutants?
A school for mutants might be able to better tell her what is happening to her... they might be able to teach her more about her powers. And more importnatly the might be more people there from a situation similiar to her own which would understand what she is going through.
"Why not... Not like I'm gonna be going back to my high school after this" [/cyan] she gripped the older girls arm, without meaning to, not hard, the sort of way she used to when she was with her older brother. Just affectionately.
Tses felt the little gesture, and her mind went back into overdrive. Ok, first there were tears and now the younger girl had her captive by the arm. She was in over her head. But at least the girl seemed interested... Maybe those mutant kids could help her out. Shifting, she helped the girl sit up a little more, judging her reactions to the movement. "Still dizzy? It'll be easier getting there when you can walk." Memories were coming back to Tses of the grassy building a little ways out of the city. Maybe they could take a cab ride out there or something.
"Just do me a favor and if you feel sick, don't puke on me." That was probably the one thing that would make her skitter away from the younger girl. She wasn't going to sacrifice her favorite outfit for some throw up.
She gave a weak smile "Don't worry, I'm not feeling sick, just a little light headed and drained." She couldn't explain why, but she felt safe while she was with Tses. Like she understood what she was busy going through.
She definitely didn't feel like she was going to throw up though, if anything, her body just felt strained and fatigued. Her head was still pounding. But using Tses for support, she managed to stand up. She was feeling much calmer now.
As she got up, her head started spinning again. She instinctively put her hand to her head. Then after the spinning had slowed to a halt. She turned to Tses. "Okay, I think I am good to go." She said smiling to Tses.
"Thank you... really. I mean it" She said. Putting all of the gratitude she felt into her words. "You know, you remind me a lot of my older brother." She murmured happily.
Tses shifted her bag of groceries in her hand, and made she she had an arm out in case the girl started to collapse again. She fiddled in her mind for the name she learned: Serena. She stuck it up in her brain with a mental sticky note, and made note of it so she wouldn't forget. She was usually ok with names, but still didn't want to forget it.
Serena started thanking her again, and Tses tried to just smile and accept it. Then she said she reminded the girl of her brother, and her smile wavered for a second. "I'm not sure I'm the type of person you want to compare him too. But you're welcome... let's just try and find you someplace to stay."
She settled on the cab idea, and mentally calculated how much cash she had with her. It would be enough for the ride there, and most of the way back at least. If Tses needed to walk the last bit, oh well, she could use the workout.
When she was sure Serena wasn't going to fall over, she picked up her last two bags of groceries and swung them over her arm, then walked back to the girls side. "A cab is probably going to be the easiest way to get there, and we catch catch one out at the main street." That was the nice thing about New York. Public transportation could get you almost anywhere.
Serena nodded to the suggestion of the cab. She noticed that Tses hadn't pulled away from her holding her arm... Maybe she wasn't as much if a loner as she had suggested she was to Serena. it was... comforting.
As she was pulled through the darkened alleys by Tses she looked down at her clothing. She inspected it under the limited lighting. What she saw was very surprising... There was not a drop of blood, anywhere on her. Wow her power was potent...
The night left a chill on the air. As the breeze flowed through the dark alleys of the city it slid across her body, causing her to shiver. It was a surprisingly cold night out. Oh well, she would be in a cab soon enough and she was with someone who she knew she could trust.
As they left the shadows of the night and descended into the glow of the street lamps, Serena noticed a taxi had just let someone out and appeared to be waiting for a new customer to come and claim a seat and a ride. Good, the night would be over soon.
She could meet the other mutants at this 'School' Tses had mentioned to her, than she might be able to get some answers about what was happening to her and why it had happened. Maybe even shelter from the cold embrace of the night.
