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.
....And she had just been airtackled by Hunter. "Crap." This made flight rather difficult and she was starting to drop. She bent down in midair with Hunter on her back which was impending her wings and then snagged her purple whip and snapped it to grab a random pipe that was sticking out of the wall due to Tris' blasts. Her wings dissappeared and she slammed her elbow backwards hoping to connect with Hunter's gut....
Tris watched in frustrated annoyance, twisting in her bindings and shouting a muffled warning to watch out that didn't get heard. Hunter tackled Kit who was coming to save her from her current predicament and Tris felt so powerless that she didn't seem to be able to do anything about it other than dangle there like a puppet on a string..... Tris screamed her pent up aggravation into the gag, as well as throwing her mental energy out again- this time her power coming out in a forceful sphere of heated air particles that surrounded her and moved with speed outwards in all directions........smashing into the walls and floor of the maze, and also comming up upon the fighting figured only alittle way from her.
.....another effect of this wave of the exploding air molecules was the fraying, and abused rope that had tethered Tris high about the darkness filled hole in the floor suddenly snapped with a loud crack.....and Tris, still trussed up like a turkey, was falling.....
((OOC: if anyone wants to recuse Tris, that would be just fine and dandy......if not, thats cool too ))
Calley's attention span, meanwhile, had come and gone. Zephyr wasn't talking to him anymore. Kitra hadn't even acknowledged his existence when she came to get her notebooks back. Tris and Hunter were doing bondage. He was bored.
Therefore, he was sitting on the floor, taking apart the rubber ball machine gun with only his fingernails and a lime green squeaky hedgehog.
Kitra struggled and fought, and the elbow to the stomach was on target. However, she was fatigued from the challenges of this training exercise, and so the force of the blow was negligible to Hunter. What wasn’t negligible was the concussive blast that Tris fired.
Unfortunately he was angled so that he took the brunt of it, shielding Kitra from the worst of it. But in his long life he had suffered far worse, and no bones were broken so he shoved down the pain and got on with it. Moving his hands quickly he grabbed the golden disk. Placing both feet on Kitra’s back he jumped off her, forcing her down and him up.
As he went up towards the lip of the hole he watched both Kitra and Tris fall. Extending his free hand he caught the edge and flipped himself up onto it. If either hit the bottom they’d get a soft landing, but would count as dead and so be unable to continue the mission. Tris was almost certainly done for. Only Kitra could hope the complete the mission.
If she foolishly tried to save Tris Hunter would attack again. All she would achieve by trying would be to ensure the failure of the mission. He now watched and waited, waited to see if Kitra could bring herself to abandon Tris for the sake of the mission.
Kitra yelped as Hunter kicked off her back grabbing the golden disc as he went. But, as her whip was still wrapped arond the pipe she was okay. Tris wasn't though, she was too far down already for her to get to Tris. ' Dang. Grr, Hunter.' "Sorry Tris." She yanked downwards on her whip and it resulted in her going upwards with the momentum. Kitra then concentrated on her wings once more and using the momentum to bring her up and over the pit and high into the air as she flapped her wings......
Then, she dive bombed Hunter. Yea not the smartest idea, she knew this. Er of course she did, anyway, back to dive bombing Hunter. A split three feet above him she lost her wings and rolled into a ball, thus making gravity really take over. Her intent was to crash land into Hunter use the confusion to grab the disc and take to the air again and get that dratted disc over the wall and into its spot. Now to actually crash land. 'This Is Going To Hurt'. And she braced herself......
Tris felt herself fading, falling fast into black nothingness.....and it was not pleasant to say the least......in fact, it was downright terrifying.....
....which turned out handy for Tris, seeing as her freezing thing activated by panic, terror, fear, all the fun stuff that being tied up and flung down a dark hole on her back would do for a girl.
Her survival instinct, her unconscious self, reacted in milliseconds....and, it seemed, knew her power better than she did.
A burst of heart stopping, panic filled energy..... and the air on which she was about to fall was frozen...... and Tris, the trussed up turkey, landed on transparent nothing with a heavy soundless thud as though she was smacking into a stone floor.
.......OWWWWWW.......though surprisingly no headache- it seemed if her unconscious mind activated this power for her, no migraine-y badness.....small blessing that considering.
.....Tris lay there in mid air, as spread eagled as the rope would allow, getting the breath that had been knocked out of her back.
....after a minute or two she began worked on the ropes that bound her...and after much effort, wiggled free.
Tris rolled over into her stomach......and another flash of bone chilling panic washed over her- if she wasn't careful she was going to get an ulcer.......but still, she was lying on thin air......Tris gulped- very thin air, over a pit of black emptiness. She scrambled as fast as she dared over to the wall- blasting it to good effect so she'd have some better hand holds, and urged her weary muscles to climb.
....to focus on something other than this most recent experience, she focused on the person responsible for putting her there- Hunter... Before Tris had been angry but she'd had no real focus.....now she did.......cold resolve settled into her veins, lending her strength and purpose. She looked up......she wasn't that far from the top, only alittle way to go.
(OOC: Kitra, I’m going to do some god modding here, just PM me if you want it changed)
IC: Hunter saw Kitra coming. He could easily have dodged her, but had a better idea. Extending his free hand he caught her mid air. Moving quickly he got to the edge of the pit ready to throw her in when he saw Tris climbing up.
It didn’t take him long to realise that she must have frozen the air to stop her fall, freed herself and begun climbing, blasting hand holds. However, both were running out of energy and it wouldn’t be long until they were collapsing from exhaustion. They had done very well, and it was just one mistake that had cost them the disk. But live and learn.
And she was caught in midair, why didn't she see this one coming?? Oh yea, 'cause she didn't think that's why. And now I'm being held over the pit and, "Aieeee!!!!!" That's right she had just gotten thrown down the pit. Oh wait she had wings, concentrate, concentrate, concentrate, ha! Now, to use them. She twisted in midair and flapped her wings really really hard. Finally managing to stop at the point where Tris was at. Kitra held out her hand. "Want a lift so we can annhilate him?" And yes she purposely said that loud enought for Hunter to hear.....
A shadow appeared over Tris, obscuring her vision....she looked up sharply, almost pulling a muscle in her neck.......before thankfully recognizing the shadow....
she finally stopped at the point where Tris was at.....Kitra held out her hand...."Want a lift so we can annihilate him?" And yes she purposely said that loud enough for Hunter to hear...
A crocodile smile swept across Tris's small features as a wickedly delighted gleam lit her eye, she nodded and held out a hand to Kit; "I'm thinking yes." she replied pleasantly and over brightly.
Kitra laughed and grabbed Tris around her waist and they went upwards. She was annoyed and Tris was annoyed and they both seemed to have surpassed them being tired. So, yea. Somehow, attacking Hunter became the best option. She grinned wickidly, "It's your turn Tris."
Kitra laughed and grabbed Tris around her waist and they went upwards....she was annoyed....Tris was annoyed and they both seemed to have surpassed them being tired so.....yea....attacking Hunter.....somehow became the best option
Tris laughed as well, swept up in the moment, as well as literally being swept up and away in Kit's firm grasp. They flew out of the pit and began gaining altitude on their super sneaky, super annoying super boss, Kits flight nor grip never faltering- for which Tris was rather grateful.....The girls both spying Hunter at round about the same time, Kit saying...
.....she grinned wickedly, "It's your turn Tris."
Tris's grin mirrored her flying friend's; "You got it." she affirmed before raised her hands and her voice to address the ground dwelling boss man, punctuating each statement with a blast of her expertly aimed explosive power that would come within inches of the man, forcing him to dive aside unless he could find shelter- the goal and motivation were simple really- to tease him, how fun.
"So Hunter......while we have your attention, I would like to express my displeasure with the way you've treated us...."
**BLAST**
".....coming at us with swords....I dont appreciate...."
**BLAST**
"....getting your other lackeys to attack us......I dont appreciate...."
**BLAST**
".....Hunting us down in a freakin ratlike little maze.......I DONT appreciate......"
**BLAST**
".....attacking my friend.....I dont appreciate!....."
**BLAST**
"....and tying me up and using me as bait and THEN leaving me to fall......SOOOOO not on...."
**BLAST**
"......and how it seems you are standing in the way of us and the objective of our mission......thats a bad plan........so hand it over." her voice getting progressively softer and more dangerous, before she stopped and seemed to reconsider.
".....actually- never mind, I'll do it myself....."
and she focused, paused, and 'sent' her immobalisation energy to his position.
Hunter watched the pair fly up and Tris start blasting. Ignoring her words he focused on where her hands were pointing and moved just enough to avoid a direct hit. The stone splitters that bit into him were ignored, he barely felt them. He could tell by the change in her words that she was going for her freezing ability again, and this time he did move.
Running backwards at full speed the attack missed, but he knew that one connection would be enough to finish him. The solution, remove Tris’s ability to freeze. To freeze she needed fear and panic, so he locked eyes. It was made easier as she was glaring at him. Subtly entering her mind he balled up all her fear and panic and shut it away, out of her reach. It would only remain that way for about half an hour, but that should be enough. With that done he stopped running and waited for their next move.
Hunter dodged everything!! He still got a few nicks from the flying pieces of rubble. He even managed to aviod Tris' freezing abilities!!! Um, ok then this is not working. Kitra closed her eyes and mentally went through her sketchbook. Nothing really a few swords, a cargo rope, hmm, nah if we can ever get Hunter slowed down a bit then I'll drop that on him. Ok not much to work with in this sketchbook. But, a slow grin appeared on her face. She did have her whips and she didn't need her hands to use them. Kitra chuckled slowly as the purple whip and green thorned whip materalized slowly and they slid down her legs and snaked their way through the air towards Hunter and started moving faster and faster around him. They had become a green and purple blur in her mind and if Hunter didn't do something they would wrap around him. Efficetively trapping him and enabling Tris and herself to get the golden disc and finish this frickin obstacle course. Er, she hoped.
He'd somehow dodged her freeze- AGAIN! that low down son of a..... oooo, she was so irritated right now.......wait, actually she wasn't, it was slipping from her like water from a jug.....that was weird- she always felt irritated and angry- mum always said it was the hair......but right now she felt strangely calm, and no longer afraid or feeling panicked.......just kinda numb.....weird, she should be feeling different........but it was good.
Tris didn't really bother wondering why she was suddenly feeling better, she just did, not being weighed down by fear and all the crap that came with it........she felt good and in control and powerful and revitalized.......and un bloody stoppable- which might make her reckless, but she didn't really care.
She Blasted her exploding power after Hunter some more- just for the hell of it really.......though before she'd placed her aim very carefully, the goal to scare, not hit and hurt or kill......she was scared of hitting people, seeing them get hurt.......though right now- not so much. Her aim was getting sloppy....Hunter had better watch out......
Tris wasn't really examining things right now, she didn't sit down to stop and think about the fact Hunter could be responsible for this, which was that while it was indeed a calming state of mind.......That he had effectively cut off the source, the activating spark, of her freezing ability.....for the next little while atleast.
What Hunter didn't know was that while his little hypno trick had worked to some extent.....it had also backfired alittle too- re: the reckless, no fear, I really dont care right now, thing. .......and also the fact the while, yes, the whole activating fear aspect of the freezing thing was gone right now.....Tris, having had been just through a rather terrifying, fearful, stressful experience- for her atleast. She'd been frustrated, angry, beyond pissed off......and was now resting cozily in the icy cold platus of vengeful logic on the other side. In technical terms, pounded by the flood of hormones and differing chemical levels and electrical charges - Tris's neurotransmitter, electrochemical and synaptic pathways were aligned and operating at peak efficiency to provide a synergistic channel between the higher and lower order parts of her brain.........Tris didn't know any of this, only that she felt more 'in the zone' than she'd ever had before- meaning, her powers were coming to her easier, faster, more powerful than ever. All this basically highlighting the fact that Tris was an open channel right now, summoning her powers from the deepest part of her unconscious mind- where her freezing power lived, with an ease she didn't usually command.
So till the hormonal surge of adrenaline, dopamine, and seratonin subsided, Tris now had conscious control of both her abilities.....at once- very new thing for her.
.....but might as well put it to good use. She focused on Hunter with renewed mental determination......throwing her immobalising energy out like a net......she was going to catch the Hunter if it was the last thing she did.
....Unfortunately for Tris, it might well be the last thing she did. She wasn't really noticing at the moment, but this sort of high order functioning required an excessive amount of mental energy, and that as well as the course so far were taking their toll on her body. Tris was right for now, but she was draining fast.......and soon her body would want to collect its debts...
Hunter’s psychic trickery with Tris did have the significant drawback of allowing her conscious control, but it was a risk he was willing to take, as conscious control was far more draining, so she could probably only maintain thirty seconds of immobility before passing out. That left Kitra with 30 seconds in which to do something.
She would have 2 choices. If she tried to carry both the unconscious form of Tris and the disk over to the finish Hunter would be freed form his stasis in time to stop her. If however she abandoned Tris she would cross the wall before the stasis wore off and Hunter could react.
Hunter only had enough time to back flip out from the circle made by Kitra’s whips before the immobility cast by Tris caught him. He had a fraction of a second to plant a smug grin on his face before his whole body was stopped in stasis.
(OOC: Ok, Hunter’s trying to make the point here that you need to abandon Tris to win. I don’t mind which option you choose, and neither will Hunter, but it’s Tris or win, not both. This is deliberately a hard mission to try and teach you two about making sacrifices. Zephyr and Calley would happily abandon one another to complete the mission, but you two wont, which is why there is this training. I’m not trying to be mean, but I am trying to toughen the pair of you up IC. After the session Hunter wants to debrief you and he has a lot of good things to say, even if you don’t succeed.)