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?
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It was a quiet evening at the Mansion, the girls were out doing whatever girls do when guys are not around, and Gawain was sitting in the living room, channel surfing. 'Sitting' might not be the appropriate term: he started out sitting but soon got bored and now he was lying on the couch upside down with his feet propped up on the back and his head hanging down. Too bad most TV shows did not look any better this way.
BREAKING NEWS did, however. It was also much harder to read.
"... and we just got a visual on the mutant standing on top of a 50-story office building. She... he... it has been up there for almost 30 minutes now and the NYPD evacuated the building and has the area locked down. Nobody is sure about the intentions of this person... but whatever he... she... it... God I am confused now... doing up there, it sure is not legal, and extremely dangerous. So far the person did not show any signs of flying abilities..."
Gawain squinted at the picture; it looked funny upside down, the office building hanging into the quickly darkening evening sky, and on top of it some kind of weird creature.
"Holy sh*t."
If that was a mutant... well, he/she/it was not Mother Nature's favorite child. Even from this point of view it looked distinctly green. Gawain changed the channel, just to see a different kind of 'Breaking News' typed across the picture.
"... is unbelievable! Anonymous sources just confirmed that the mutant is none other than teenage popstar Juliet Lee, also known as 'Candy', who so far managed to keep her abilites a secret... I don't know about you Tom, but I sure do not remember her being green at last week's concert, and look at the extra limbs... now science tells us the X-gene kicks in with puberty, but can a popstar really be unfortunate enough to turn into that on the office building..."
"Ouch" Gawain muttered with something between a smirk and a frown. A teen star turning mutant was a great joke on pop culture, but it somehow did ot seem fair to laugh. That creature on TV looked like a praying mantis as much as anything. Even upside down.
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Inactivity was not Saph's favorite... Er... Activity. He had never been able to manage with the burden of standing still. It was his lot in life right now, however, as he had to wait on applying for a job until the senior X-men got back. He had spent most of his time thus far just... messing around. He'd tried to read books too smart for him in the library, fooled around with his powers around the mansion, thought time and time again about visiting the much spoken of 'danger room', and sat around watching TV for too many hours. Still, he found himself bored once more, and unwilling to read another goddam book. So off to the TV he went! He paused as he realized when he got there that someone had beaten him to the tube; that kid that was on the horse in the Christmas fight... For now he would mentally refer to him as 'smoochy-face-ladycatcher' Cause he had caught a lot of ladies, and seemed to want to kiss them all as well. Kids. Then again he was very childishly branding him a name only a five year old would appreciate... Saph sighed as he leaned against the entrance to the living room, glancing with raised eyebrow at the young man... Why the hell was he sitting like that? Something wrong with him?
The announcement of breaking news drew his eyes to the television. He walked on over to a couch to get a closer look as the report sounded off. He laughed a little as the story unfolded. "Heh... Well, her career's F@#$ed..." He got out a few more 'heh's before he saw the creature, who was once a hair-curling floozy with a voice that he personally thought wasn't that great, a bit closer... She was hideous; he felt guilty for laughing. He paused and instantly felt even more guilty as the former pop star stepped closer to the ledge of the building... The camera zoomed in... Was she crying? Jesus he never thought he'd see a crying mantis before! Maybe a praying one... heh... get it? cause the name... no? back to business!
Saph looked back to the kid on the couch, and frowned. "Eh... The X-men would normally do something about this...right?" He turned to the screen once more as the reporter started talking about how they weren't going to bring in a negotiator for fear of the creature lashing out at them. "You wanna go for a ride, kid?" He knew where the key box for the garage was... wouldn't be too hard to borrow a car. It was a good enough cause, right? It was also something to do.
Gawain glanced up from his upside-down position at the older guy everyone seemed to know as the Masochist Man. If he really had some kink going on or it was just ecause of his powers, Gawain did not care to guess.
"Yeah, what will we do without her art..." he smirked, sitting up, mostly because he started to hear blood drumming in his ears. MM seemed to have the same opinion about the teen star. Still...
>>"Eh... The X-men would normally do something about this...right?"
"Like what?" he shrugged. Find her a new job more suitable for a giant praying mantis?... Bring her to the school. Most likely. Gawain sighed. "Yeah they prolly would."
>>"You wanna go for a ride, kid?"
No. Not really. Nope. Not at all. "Yeah, whatever. Ya think we can beat Animal Control there?..."
Gawain stood and stretched. "Grown-ups are away, X-kids come out to play." he started towards the door but stopped, turning back to the man for a moment. "Name's Gawain. Nice to meet ya. Let's roll."
Two dashing princes can't just leave a damsel in distress after all...
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Saphirus was more of a hobbling prince, to tell the truth. "I dunno... Maybe we just gotta tell her what she's got to live for...she would make a good B-movie monster. Y'know..." He shrugged as he hurried to the garage; he had found it in his self tour when he had arrived here, and hadn't been there since.
"Oh yeah... Name's Saphirus, long story... You can call me Saph... Eh... There's also people goin around calling me Masochist... I dunno what that's about, but it's got a good ring to it..."He arrived at the garage door, and pulled it open, reaching in the blindly search for the light switch." 'Click' The row of cars was revealed in the former darkness. "What do we have here?" He looked back to Gawain with a grin before stepping into the smooth cement floor. He looked closely at a few cars before freezing in place. He looked upon a god among mortals; a king of a car that made the others seem like peasants. "Oh my..."He stepped toward the car, hesitantly placing a hand on it... "A 2010 camaro... This thing's a beast!" He smiled widely as he looked it up and down... "This one... We are taking this one!" He seemed to buzz with excitement as he turned and ran on up to the key box. Locked. No big deal. He looked about for the wire that would lead to it's security system, and followed it on over. He unplugged it, and then strolled on over to the box, pulling out his crowbar to pop the weak little lock like so many pimples on a teenager's face. He looked for the keys to fit the car, and paused as he saw the name under them.
"Streak..." Well it should be fine, then, if it borrowed it, right? Streak was a nice enough guy, and Saph figured the guy owed him one after watching the security system torture him. He looked back to Mirror as he snatched up the keys and slowly closed the little door. "You ready to go?" He turned to plug the security back in, and turned to Mirror again after a thought. "You... Ain't gonna tell anybody about this, right?"
>>"I dunno... Maybe we just gotta tell her what she's got to live for...she would make a good B-movie monster. Y'know..."
Gawain shook his head as he followed Masochist Man to the garage. "Whoa mate, ya sure know how to make a lady feel better about herself..." he smirked. Of course, they will figure out something to say on the way there. Or they'll just improvise.
>>"Oh my... A 2010 camaro... This thing's a beast!... This one... We are taking this one!"
Gawain was not the kind of guy who asks 'you sure?' once something is decided, but looking at that car made him feel like making an exception. He didn't know the grown-up team all that well, but he doubted that even the most friendly and cute X-man would be happy about some Mansion kids... and the Masochist Man... borrowing his/her car. He knew he himself wouldn't. By the time he decided, Saph was already opening the car. Oh well. They probably didn't have vehicles reserved for students going on adventures anyway.
>>"You ready to go?...You... Ain't gonna tell anybody about this, right?"
Gawain grinned and got into the car. "Trust me, when they find out 'bout this, they ain't gonna find out from me."
At least I have the ability to find a quick way out. In case.
"So, what's the big plan? Try to talk a prayin' mantis out of goin' splat on somebody's windshield?..."
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"Somethin like that. I figure the cops are just waitin for her to jump so they can clean it up an call it a day. That's how people act when your mutation makes you look scary." He climbed into the drivers seat, looking over to the mirror jumper as he slowly slid the keys into the ignition. "From my experience, you just gotta show these people that there is still someone who gives a crap about em."
He smiled as he stared the car, adjusting the seat to his liking. "You know, A camaro was the first car I ever St... Ever owned." He started up the car, listening to the rumble of the engine for a moment before pressing the 'garage open' button, throwing it into reverse. "Eh.. You should prolly put yer seatbelt on." He quickly buckled him self in, producing that satisfying 'click-it' sound.
And then they were off! He backed out of the garage nice and proper, and turned the car around to head up slowly to the front gate. As the gate opened, he creeped on up to the street, looking left and right to make sure there weren't any cars or pedestrians... And then he slammed the petal to the metal. The sound of roaring engines and screeching tired prevailed for a moment as he jutted out into the street, and spun the wheel, swerving a bit to the left, but then righting himself as he rocketed down the road. Saph had the piece of mind to reach up and press the 'garage-close' button before he rocketed off toward their destination. What? If they didn't hurry, the poor mantis lady would die.
After a few minutes of intense driving that had to break one or two traffic rules, they were stuck in traffic three blocks away from the mantis lady's building. Saph grumbled impatiently as he tried to find a way to maybe get around this particular clog in the City's traffic arteries. It wasn't going to happen. Traffic was so slow that, should a dog be hanging it's head out the back window, a kid could reach out of the neighboring car, and, unbeknownst to his parents, feed that dog a burrito. Saph knew this because it was happening right in front of him. As the cars moved up a few more inches, he spied the dog wolfing down the bean and beef stuffed treat as the kid clapped happily.
"That's it... You willing to hoof it from here, Romeo?" He looked for a place to park.
>>"You know, A camaro was the first car I ever St... Ever owned."
Gawain snorted, chucling to himself. Yeah, right. "Don' sweat it" he waved as he fastened the seatbelt "Been there, done that."
Well, not exactly. Gawain never stole a car, he had no use for one. But stealing other stuff was right up his alley, and even though Masochist caught himself and bit the word in half just in time, it didn1't take a genious to figure it out. As if a guy like that would ever own a car like this in any legal way.
>>"Eh.. You should prolly put yer seatbelt on."
"One step ahead of ya." Gawain smirked. Fasten your seatbelts. Important rule for quite a few situations, including Zombieland and going out on a rescue mission with a guy nicknamed Masochist. And the driving style fit the name too. It didn't take Gawain by surprise; his first thought was it was a pity he didn't get to drive. Like this. It was probably for the best. When they get busted for stealing the car of one of the X-men, at least he wouldn't be the one who drove it.
The incredible speed was gone by the time they made it downtown, and it was not long before the traffic stopped altogether.
>>"That's it... You willing to hoof it from here, Romeo?"
"Sure thing, Juliet." Gawain nodded without a blink, and because he didn't have enough space to open the door on his side, he rolled the window down instead and climbed out in one smooth movement "Ya comin' or what?" he grinned at Masochist "I could prolly make it there in a minute or so, but I don' wanna leave ya behind."
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"Clever."
Saph had managed to find a place to park, wedged in neatly in between two cars that had parked way too close to the little lines. He watched in horror as Gawain exited through the window "Careful! Don't leave a scratch! I'm sure this paint job costs more than... well, my life." Saphirus leaned over his seat to roll up the window, not wanting the car to get stolen. He carefully opened his own door, making sure not to hit the hummer he was parked next to. There was just enough room to slide out and shut the door behind him.
After he got out, and walked out to the room, and took a deep breath, pressing the lock button on the keys, and then pocketing them. "I should be just that way." He nudged his head to the right of them, and rubbed his hands together lightly before popping them into the pockets of his long jacket. He started walking quickly toward their objective, following the little green men that showed them to their destination.
"Alright.... This is it." He walked past emergency vehicles and cops, all too busy looking up to notice someone crossing the police lines. "Hey, Kid... You got yourself a way of getting us up there, or do we gotta do it the old fashion way?"
>>"Alright.... This is it. Hey, Kid... You got yourself a way of getting us up there, or do we gotta do it the old fashion way?"
Gawain looked up at the building; it was annoyingly high from this point of view, and the little green person barely visible from below. The light of day almost gone and the offices empty, the glass surface made of hundreds of windows was quickly turning into a mirror, reflecting the lights of police cars and nearby buildings.
"I can get up there on my own" he said "pretty fast. But I can't take ya. You gonna be okay on your own, or you think we should go together?"
Hey, when did Masochist become the leader here? Gawain blinked at his own question. Just because the guy was probably more than ten years his elder doesn't mean he was... well, all right, probably he was more experienced too.
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"If you can get up there faster than me, then go do it... Stop her from jumping long enough for me to get there... Hey, remember, we are trying to talk her out of this but if worst comes to worst we may have to incapacitate her.. I don't want it to come to that, but I also don't want anyone to get hurt..." Saph gave one last nod to the young hero in front of him, and then turned to start hobbling.
After a brief search and a few questionable glances from office goers, he found the stairs and started climbing as fast as he could.
The next few minutes were a mind numbing pattern of so many steps, and then a turn, followed by so many more steps and yet another turn. He was breathing heavily as he rounded the half way mark... This whole thing made him wish that they made elevators that went to the roof...Then again that would make it easier to got to the roof to jump as well. He caught his breath for a second, and then forged onward... His calves complained greatly as he made it to the top, and used all of the force gathered from the climb to bust down the door, which she had barricaded.
Saph leaned back in the stairwell for a few seconds, took three deep breaths, and then stepped out into the light.
>>"If you can get up there faster than me, then go do it... Stop her from jumping long enough for me to get there... Hey, remember, we are trying to talk her out of this but if worst comes to worst we may have to incapacitate her.. I don't want it to come to that, but I also don't want anyone to get hurt..."
Gawain nodded, looking up at the building, then back at Saphirus "Race ya there" he said with a grin before pressing his palm against the glass of the front door, and merging with his reflection. Moments late he could be seen randomly appearing in windows tha reflcted the night lights of the city, going one level higher every time. He finally made it to the top, taking the stairs from the last level to the rooftop. He spotted the mantis mutant at once. It was kind of hard to miss her. Up close the situation looked even worse than on the TV screen.
The girl didn't simply change into a giant praying mantis. That would have been several shades of creepy, but logical at least. But she kind of stopped halfway into the tranformation: her eyes were shiny green insect-eyes, and her arms turned into the 'praying' legs of a mantis, but the rest of her was parts and pieces in various stages of trensfiguration between insenct and human. Gawain was not one to judge a lady by her appearence, but this one did look like a nightmare. No better word for it.
Yelling 'Don't jump!' at her also did not seem like a good idea. She was not right on the edge of the roof, but she was certainly close. Gawain walked closer, taking a longer way to let her sense him first. He was still a couple of feet away when she turned, head tilting nervously, and her voice - now edged with a buzing sound - called out. "Stay there! Don't come any closer!..." then looking at the boy with her insect-eyes, she looked confused "You are not police. Who are you? You came to laugh at me? Don't look at me! Don't!" she yelled, stepping back and listing her arms in front of her face.
"Whoa, easy there, Jules" the mirrorwalker held up his hands "I'm not goin' to laugh at ya. Promise." takind half a step closer to the girl, he coninued "My name is Gawain. I'm a mutant too. I'm here to help."
"Y-y-you can help me?" the mantis girl buzzed, more confused than hopeful. Someone was saying something in a loudspeaker at the bottom of the building. Gawain hoped he cold buy some time. He also hoped Masochis Man was good at climbing stairs.
"Yes, Sweetheart, we are from the Xavier place... you've heard of it, right?"
Saph chimed in as he approached slowly, careful not to move too suddenly, and to keep both hands out where she could see them. He had saved a little energy just in case he needed to knock her out... One touch to the back of the head would do it. He stopped as she started to move back toward the ledge.
He looked over to Gawain with an uneasy expression on his face, and then back to the mantis girl. Something was off... Something just didn't seem right.
"We help people.... That's what we do."
"How..." Her mandibles clacked for a second, and then moved rapidly in anger. "How the HELL do you think YOU can help ME?!" She took a step in toward Saph, causing him to step back in response, trying with some difficulty not to take a combative stance."Can you unFREAK ME?! Huh?! Can you make me look pretty again?!" She obviously doubted it.
Saph stood his ground as she swooned, stumbled a bit, and went back to crying... He then caught sight of the nearly empty half gallon of Monarch vodka, and then motioned toward it for Gawain to see. This was going to me much harder than they had thought... It made sense... There had been rumors floating around that she had been partying a lot in her off time; of course suddenly turning into a 'monster' would be good cause for binge drinking.
>>"How the HELL do you think YOU can help ME?! Can you unFREAK ME?! Huh?! Can you make me look pretty again?!"
Uh-oh. That was not good. Gawain could see Saphirus tense up as he nodded towards the bottle. Yeeeah that explains a lot. Isn't alcohol bad for bugs or something? It sure is not good for people...
It was also a very good question. Could they?...
"I am not sure, Candy." Gawain answered in a calm voice "It migh not be impossible. I've had my powers nulled before, so it can be done. Probably."
It was some kind of half-truth half-white lie with some wishful thinking. Quite an interesting mix. Hopefully the right one to get the mantis girl farther away from the edge.
He also had all kinds of reasons why she should not jump even if she was looking at a long and healthy life as a giant praying mantis, but he decided that could wait until she sobered up.
"Xavier's is a safe place. It's all mutants there, mostly our age. Nobody hurts you, nobody makes fun of you, and we definitely don't let the press in." he offered
And if you think you got it bad, you'll see...
The mantis girl swayed, with a look of confusion and unsureness. Gawain glanced at Saphirus. He was the grown-up on the site. She might listen to him... or might not...
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"R...really? Like... You can cure me?" She turned toward Gawain, now, moving not out of anger, but desperate hope. She seemed to have forgotten that she had blades for hands; she approached, stumbling this way and that in his direction, with blades out and waving about.
Saph figured the kid was quick and smart enough to deal with it himself. Besides, near death experiences built character. He took the opportunity to get in between her and the edge of the cliff... That took care of one problem... At least it made it harder for her to jump off the bat, right?
He also kicked the alcohol jug over, letting its contents drain onto the roof... some would say it was a waste, but Monarch wasn't exactly high quality booze anyways.
"I hate to get your hopes up, Darlin. Being a mutant ain't exactly something you can cure... It's just who you are. A lot of people learn to live with it, and they are happy, too. Hell, I'm sure there's a Roach man watching the news right now who thinks you're the bees knees."
>>"I hate to get your hopes up, Darlin. Being a mutant ain't exactly something you can cure... It's just who you are. A lot of people learn to live with it, and they are happy, too. Hell, I'm sure there's a Roach man watching the news right now who thinks you're the bees knees."
Facepalm. Gawain knew what was going to happen, and dropped to one knee a moment before the mantis spun around, blades swinging away inches above his head. Standing back up he made a face at Masochist Man over the mantis' shoulders. A face that said 'the hell are ya doing?!'
"Are you making fun of me?" she squealed "He's making fun of me! You said they won't make fun of me! You promised!"
"No he's not making fun of you" Gawain hurried to explain, catching up to the girl "He's tryin' to cheer ya up. Y'know, in his own weird way..."
And he thinks the idea of dating a roach is just what this lady needs. No wonder he's got no girlfriend.
"Why don't you come with us away from those folks down there, and we talk somewhere safe?..."