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.
Impulsive. Sarah mouthed the word to herself for a moment. Then she thought about what Nate had said about the curator. That... that did not make Sarah feel any better about all of this. But, she would probably end up meeting "former acquaintances" of Nate's quite often in the art world. It wasn't that big of a community.
>>"There were probably smarter choices than risking my probation, but I guess the minuscule chance of running into you was too much to pass up."
The brunette shook her head at her old... at Nate. Sighing, she grabbed the arm of his jacket and started for the door. "There are easier ways to get a girl's attention," she huffed back at him.
As she pulled him out of the gallery, Sarah made sure to send the smirking curator a glare. He did not know their business. Sarah kept walking until they were a block away. She didn't know the exact distance he was allowed so it would have to do. If their conversation ended up being longer than a few minutes, she knew of a coffee shop nearby, though she wasn't sure about the connotations of that move.
"Did you ever use anything we did together to help with a crime?" Probably shouldn't be having this conversation in the middle of the sidewalk, but she wanted to be standing and so sidewalk it was. "Is there any way my work can be connected as part of any crime?" Sarah stopped. She had loads of questions but figured it would be best to go piece by piece. She'd probably get more as they kept talking.
Sarah was not overly amused by Nate’s cheesy explanation for risking his freedom just to come see her art. She did not yell or make a scene, instead chastising him in a huff. He was happy to hear she sounded more annoyed than angry, and even then her annoyance was directed at his poor decision making.
The younger artist made the forceful choice to change the venue for their reunion, and Nate had little say in the matter as she grabbed him by his arm. If he really wanted to stay there, Sarah would have struggled to impose her physical will on the man, but he had no reason to stick around in the gallery any longer. He had his time to appreciate the portrait of Parker, and now he had something more important to occupy him.
After being dragged a block away from the gallery, she let him go and led off with a question that must have been on her mind since the words “conman” and “art thief” came into play. Before he replied, he looked at his arm and mumbled, ”You know, the dragging was unnecessary; I wanted to come, y’know.” He did not mind being pulled along, and found it funny more than anything to imagine the sight from an on-looker.
Returning to a more hushed, serious tone, he replied, ”Honestly, by the time I met you, I had already been legit for a while. I was dating a cop before you, remember?” Sarah actually met Nate while he was still technically with Quin, even if their relationship was falling apart at the seams. She reacted to the news of his past poorly, as he always expected, so now it was Sarah’s turn to see if she had it in her to forgive his past.
”I’m sorry for how things went down, and for showing up today and springing this on you. You’re just… someone I missed when I was away.” Since getting out of prison, it felt like Nate was starting over, so having Sarah around in any capacity would at least return something familiar and normal to his life. ”You don’t owe me anything, but I’d love to just get a coffee and catch up with your life sometime. Try to be friends.”
A thought occurred to him after the proposal. ”I mean, unless there’s a territorial boyfriend that would not be cool with that idea. Sarah was beautiful and talented, so he could not be surprised if there was someone in the picture, and not every boyfriend was comfortable with exes hanging around.
>>”You know, the dragging was unnecessary; I wanted to come, y’know.”
Sarah rolled her eyes. "If you didn't want to come, I'm sure you would've made your sentiments known." She was a small woman and she knew it. And Nate... Well he wasn't small by any standards.
She listened though. Even though she was angry and mad at him, she listened. She remembered the cop from before, when they had first met. Back when everything was simple and easy. He had offered to get his girlfriend to help find her wallet if they couldn't find it themselves. Closing her eyes, the brunette could almost picture herself back then.
Missed her. Well, it made some sense. He had been in prison for years. But catching up... Trying... Those were things she could do.
>>”I mean, unless there’s a territorial boyfriend that would not be cool with that idea."
Sarah burst into laughter. "No 'territorial boyfriend'. And I can't promise anything, but," she smiled a little, "I wouldn't mind a coffee. Just so long as you're straight with me from here on out." That was really all she could hope for really. Anything between them, friendship or otherwise, would be tinged with the lies by omission from years ago. But if they could, she wouldn't mind another friend. "There's a place not too far from here..."
Nate was surprised at how nervous the conversation had made him. After coming clean and apologizing to Sarah, everything was in her court and she could decide if it was worth letting Nate back into her life in any capacity.
It was comforting then to hear Sarah laugh. Her laughter was always so genuine, and a guaranteed way to make him smile. He did not mean for his comment to be a probing question into her love life, but it would be a lie for him to say the thought did not cross his mind after he spoke. It was premature and selfish to think they could get back to where they were before, but he could rejoice as they started to take the steps toward friendship again.
And yes, a small, foolish part of him could rejoice that he was reconnecting with a Sarah who was still single. It was not his fault the men of New York were apparently dropping the ball while he was away.
She knew a place where they could go to chat over coffee, so he gestured with his hand. "Fair enough. Lead the way and I'll follow. I want to hear some stories about the rise of a new star in the art world," he teased, glad to go wherever she wanted (within the restrictions of his probation, of course.)