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.
Kate greatly doubted the existence of this supposed music teacher. She had been coming into this room almost daily and still had yet to meet them. So, either this teacher really didn't do their job very well or they didn't exist.
Kate passed the once again empty room with her phone raised to her ear.
"Mother I can't do this. I can't become close to these people and then have you call me back. I can't do that to them or myself... No mother, eventually you will break and I will have to come fix you. It's the same thing every time. You are okay for a little while and then you have a paranoid break and you scream and you yell and you scare me... What are you talking about? You are incapable of being a functioning human being... Well, if you want me to be one so bad I will. I will form a life here and leave the old one behind. If you break I'm not going to come to your rescue anymore. Even if you call I'm not going to answer. I am going to separate myself from you completely. It's the only way for me to have my own life. I'm sorry Mum. Goodbye." Kate hung up the phone and lowered it to her side in defeat. She knew this was the right thing to do, but it still hurt.
She stood there for what felt like hours staring out that large windows that drew natural light into the small room. She clenched her fists and her body heated up in frustration. The anger built until she threw her phone at the piano with a liberating scream. It landed with a crash, shattering into pieces. Kate's eyes widened as she saw what followed it, a blazing white fire ball. The piano went up like kindling upon contact.
Having gone through this before Kate frantically looked around the room for something to help her put out the fire. There were no fire extinguishers but there were plenty of instruments covered in dust blankets. She ran over to a timpani and pulled a large blue blanket off of it.
She tried to suffocate the flame with the blanket to no avail. The only thing she managed to do was light it on fire as well.
What was she going to do? This had to be stopped before the entire school went up in flames.
Another average day in the Mansion. The sun was shining, leaves were falling, Maya was skipping class, and somebody set the music room on fire. Yup. Just another day in the life of Mutant High.
There was already thick black smoke coming out of the music room when Maya pushed the door open, grabbing a fire extinguisher from the hallway on her way. "Stand back!" she yelled at the girl before she got to work, putting out the flames. She had used an extinguisher a couple of times before; this was the first time she actually used it for putting out fire. Well, there's gotta be a first for everything.
Also. Apparently, the Mansion had a piano. Correction. The Mansion used to have a piano.
"Jesus Christ." she sighed, blowing strands of stray hair out of her face as she turned atound to look at the girl "Are you all right?..." she blinked as she recognized the face. It was their very own, brand new resident fire elemental.
"Oh. Kate. Hi." she smiled "... well, that makes sense."
Kate watches as a girl she had never met came running in with a fire extinguisher to save the day. In minutes the fire was out and the remains of the piano lay dead on the floor.
>>Jesus Christ. Are you all right?... Oh. Kate. Hi... well, that makes sense.
Kate looked at the girl with surprise. She had been here for two weeks but couldn't recall meeting this girl at all. How in the world did she know her name?
"Excuse me but do I know you?"
Kate started her ritual to get rid of unwanted smoke when she accidentally lit something on fire. She walked over and closed the door trapping the smoke inside and then opened all the window. This would cool the room far more then Kate would want, but luckily her emergency gloves were always in her bag. She pulled them out and put them on making sure to tighten her scarf in the process. She didn't have a jacket so this would have to do till the smoke cleared.
"Actually... yeah, you do." Maya nodded with a sigh, and coughed, fully approving of Kate opening the windows. She looked at the wreck of the piano.
Oh, Sam's gonna have kittens. I doubt he even knew the school had a piano. But still. Soft kitty, warm kitty...
"You know me as Gawain." she smirked, turning back to Kate who was putting on her gloves. "I'm a gender shifter. It's okay, everyone has accidents with their powers from time to time." she nodded towards the piano "So, what was that all about?"
>>You know me as Gawain. I'm a gender shifter. It's okay, everyone has accidents with their powers from time to time.
The thought that someone could shift their gender was interesting. Odd but interesting.
>>So, what was that all about?"
Kate kicked a smoking piece of wood with the heel of her shoe and look up at Maya.
"My mother if you can believe it. The remnants of my phone are in this pile somewhere." Kate indicated to the pile, "Would you mind coming with me to get a jacket so we can bring all of this outside?"
She didn't comment on the gender shifting. Well, Maya didn't really mind. At least she didn't ask the same questions all over again. She could appreciate that.
>>"My mother if you can believe it. The remnants of my phone are in this pile somewhere. Would you mind coming with me to get a jacket so we can bring all of this outside?"
"Yeah... sure." she said, looking at the burnt pile that used to be the piano, and, apparently, a cellphone too. "Your mother?..." she asked a few moments later "Is... everything all right?"
Issues about mothers, that was a tricky thing. She could relate to that. She looked at the girl; she looked like she was cold. Jacket. Fire. Cold. Right.
"No though with my mother it rarely is." Kate looked at the remains of the piano for a moment longer before heading in the direction of her room.
She had never realized how much she resented her mother till now. She had never really had the chance to see the things her mother did to her until she was outside of them. How did that show that she cared? The woman was more insane that Kate thought.
"Oh." Maya nodded; she didn't really understand, but she still nodded. Following Kate out of the classroom she made sure to close the room. Nobody needed to know they - she - had just burnt a piano.
"So... you wanna talk about it or somethin'?" she asked as she walked with Kate "I mean... mother issues' kinda my specialty." she added with a smirk that didn't come out quite happy "Besides, y'know. We're gonna be getting rid of the corpse of that piano together. Might as well talk."
Talking was good. She still needed to learn that herself.
Kate thought about it for a moment walking silently with Maya at her side.
"I suppose talking about it will help me to not be so angrey with her. So why not?" Kate thought of a place to start before she remembered her first night at the mansion, "How much did you hear of what I told Andrew on my first night?"
>>"I suppose talking about it will help me to not be so angrey with her. So why not? How much did you hear of what I told Andrew on my first night?"
"Not much" Maya shrugged, glad Kate decided to talk. Glad for her, since it was healthy to talk about your problems instead of, well, setting stuff on fire; and glad for herself, too, since she was kinda curious. And at least they had something to talk about while they figured out what to do with the piano wreck.
"So, your mother's back in England, right?" she asked, as she walked, hands in her pockets. That was about as much as she knew.
"Yes, back in Kirby Hall... And so did I until two weeks ago.."
What was thee best way to explain her childhood. She knew it was far from normal. It prohibit made her sound rather crazy herself by association.
When I was littler my mother thought it best to separate us from the world because of what happened to my father. She wanted to protect me from the hatred and lack of understanding outside of our own four walls.
>>"When I was littler my mother thought it best to separate us from the world because of what happened to my father. She wanted to protect me from the hatred and lack of understanding outside of our own four walls."
Maya nodded as she listened. In a weird, overprotective way, it kinda made sense. She couldn't really judge a decision like that; she'd never been a mother, and hopefully, never will be. But Mom, she did something very similar.
"I can relate to that" she smirked, glancing at Kate "My mother kept me away from humans for years; being a boy and a girl, I was better off like that. So, yeah. It was just the two of us. I kinda grew up like that." she glanced at Kate again. "Sorry. Go on."
Kate looked at Maya in surprise. Maybe she wouldn't be as alone here as she had thought. She knew she may have been able to make friends but never thought any of them would truly understand what growing up was like for her. They could sympathize but could never understand. Living that way was something you had to experience to get what it felt like.
"Don't be sorry. It's nice to know that someone around here gets it. Growing up like that isn't normal. In all honesty I was worried about telling people for fear they would think me odd."
>>"Don't be sorry. It's nice to know that someone around here gets it. Growing up like that isn't normal. In all honesty I was worried about telling people for fear they would think me odd."
"Well" Maya shrugged "I guess it's not less normal than dealing with out powers out there. Of course, ya cannot spend your whole life like that. But..." she looked around as they walked down the corridor on the girls' wing "I think my Mom would be glad I found a place like this one. Y'know, it's safe and all." she glanced at Kate "So... if she kept you all locked up, how did you end up here?"
Kate sighed, "To tell you the truth I have no idea. I finished up my tennis lesson and then she took me inside and told me I was moving here in a week. She didn't even leave it open for discussion. I have no idea why I'm even here. She was so insistent on me being 'safe' that such a move made no scene."