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.
Site adaptation by Sen, Lix, and Tempest. <3
Nightmares Are Strange Creatures (Syn, Isabel, NJ)
Neena glanced around in slight confusion. Usually she enjoyed her dreams, as they often took on the appearance of her homeland. But while the vast savannah of the Serangheti stretched into the distance as always, something obviously was not right.
Rainclouds dominated the sky, obscuring the sun and moving as fast as little trains. A chill wind ruffled the unusually dry grass, and even the tree appeared scragglier than than normal. A deathly still settled over the land.
And the colors.... or lack thereof....
It was like looking at the negative of a photograph. Everything that should be dark was light, and light was dark. Even Neena's skin had turned a sickly gray, and her hair was as white as snow.
"Okay, who messed with the color controls?"
Her voice echoed as if in an empty room. Definitely not right.
She began to wander, trying to figure out what in the world was going on.
Normally Syn didn't dream, or at least she didn't remember her dream. The few she did remember were events she had taken part in. One example would be when herself and her sister Deathstar were still living with their parents. Though this was often just before Deathstar killed their parents by draining them of their life force.
This dream, however, was much different. Her house was not there. Instead a vast landscape sprawled out around her. It kind of reminded her of the movie The Cell. Things had a familiarity about them but they weren't all correct.
Taking in the sight for a moment the girl started walking in hopes of finding a way out.
Well now, wasn't this interesting? Isabel couldn't remember the last time she'd dreamed so vividly. Nothing really seemed out of the ordinary to her at the particular moment. Except for the photo-negative. That was new. Other than that, there was nothing supremely odd about her situation. All kinds of strange things happened in the young mutants dream. Like that one time when Mayor Swiss of Cheddarton asked for her aid him and his Gouda citizens in fending off the hoard of rodents that threatened to gnaw his lovely yellow and orange city to the ground. However, this environment didn't seem to be edible. It was familiar, though. Africa maybe? This ought to be fun.
Only one other thing stuck out to her. The world was upside down. And surprisingly leafy. On further inspection the answer was easily revealed. She was in a tree. Correction: She was in a tree, hanging upside down. Promptly amending the situation, she climbed to the ground and set off in a random direction. It would do no good staying in one place. Especially if she was upside down. Can you imagine the headache that would result? Not exactly her idea of fun.
After a few moments of wandering she stopped for a moment. That lion at the last left turn had been maddeningly unhelpful. Honestly, what kind of direction could she find with an answer like "Ribbit"? Stupid Lion-toad. Consider that the last time she ever asked one of them for help. Oh, now wait one moment. Was that... "Syn?" Now what was that young woman doing in her dreams? And made of human flesh, no doubt. Hm. She'd been Mozzarella last time she'd featured in a dream.
"Hey Syn!" Isabel called, quickly making her way over to her waking world leader, easily falling into step with the photo-negative mutant. "Any idea what's going on here? I tried asking the Hyena back at the watering hole, but he just burst out into tears. I don't even know why I bothered. They're so terribly emotional, those Hyenas." Dream worlds. Go figure.
I’m just a well-adjusted gal who likes to leave a serious amount of mayhem in her wake.
Neena paused to scratch her head. While she couldn't feel fear, she sure could feel confusion. And she was feeling it rather keenly at the moment.
Nothing in this place made sense. She'd run across very few animals so far, far fewer than should be in such a place. And those she did encounter were all mixed up, and not just sound-wise. She decided to keep her distance, in case the cheetahs remembered they were not supposed to be eating fruit.
However, keeping her distance proved to be rather awkward as well, since when she walked, she didn't seem to get anywhere. But when she stopped, the land beneath her feet continued.... or maybe started, to move. Very treadmill-esque, indeed.
Off to her left, she spotted two figures. She blinked, and zoomed in. Two young girls, at least ten years younger than her and of different race, if the black skin tone had been inverted like her own gray skin indicated.
"Jambo!" she greeted them in Swahili, and attempted to walk toward them.
Attempted. She seemed to be going in circles around them. How frustrating. Finally she shrugged.
"Sorry," she called out. "But I seem to be on a spin cycle. I'll try the other way." And she proceed to circle the opposite way, again without making much progress. She stopped, and frowned.
"Well, I dunno, but apparently there's something about you two that my feet dislike. Can't imagine what."