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.
Katrina's goals were admirable. Most people her age wouldn't be thinking about serving their country but would instead be focused on how much money they could make or how much popularity and fame they could gather. Instead, Katrina was thinking about being in the military and maybe eventually going into politics to further help her home land. It was refreshing to hear but it was actually the last two sentences that Paul focused on.
"Save the world?" The words had been spoken and already Paul knew that it meant something important. She wasn't talking about saving the world while being in the Air Force because she had said that all of those dreams were moot if they didn't save the world right now. Were things really that bad? Paul knew from reading the news that the world was in chaos but was it really that close to the brink? And if it was, how could she be so sure about it? Had Alister seen something?
"Who's trying to save the world and what are you all saving it from?" For some reason Paul felt like that might just be the most important question in their conversation. What was really going on?
Was it okay to tell a grown up these things? So far they had only trusted other kids and Eros with this information. Any one was a potential helper, though, so it made perfect sense to share with him everything she knew.
“'We' includes everyone who works at this shop. Alister saw something, a fiery apocalypse that we're trying to avoid. We know who starts it, but we don't yet know how or why he starts it. So that's what we're trying to find out. That, and how to stop it.”
Except trying to stop things that were going to happen didn't always work out how you'd expect. Sometimes trying to stop something only made it worse, and when you were trying to stop something really big and really bad, making it worse was not a good idea at all.
Even though Katrina had terrible experiences with intervening in big awful things thus far in her life, she still couldn't just ignore it and let it happen. Hope forced her to believe that she could somehow improve the situation. Fate wasn't going to win every time.
A fiery apocalypse... she was trying to stop a fiery apocalypse. It was actually the sort of situation that every great hero dreamed of, at least in the stories. A chance to show their metal and protect friend and family from the ravaging hand of death. It was the defining moment that set a person apart and made them into something special. But that of course required a hero and Paul knew that he was no hero. As much as a part of him might have wanted to leap to his feet, utter a battle cry, and charge into the fray a much wiser part told him to hold back. He was hearing one side of the story and actually it was only one persons side of the story. All of this came from Alister but yet everyone trusted that he was telling the truth about what he had seen.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." Paul murmured more to himself than anything as he leaned back in his chair, contemplating what Katrina had just told him. But that of course begged the question as to which side he truly stood on. Was he one of the good men or was he the evil that hoped good men would do nothing? Really things weren't as black and white as most people wished they were and Paul knew that he fell somewhere in that shade of gray. He wasn't some monster but neither was he a saint.
"There some thing that I think all of you are forgetting." He finally spoke, after several minutes of silent deliberation, "The first is that not only Alister has seen this but also the man whom you believe will start this. How do you know that he's not out to try and change it himself? How do you know that he doesn't want to prevent it? The second thing is something that I remember reading some time ago called the 'observer effect'. Basically it says that the mere act of observation will change the phenomenon being observed. By visualizing the future, Alister and this man have already changed it."
These were the times when Paul truly wished he had studied more philosophy over his life time. Thankfully he had all the time in the world to make that a goal for his future but for the moment he needed to focus on the present. Katrina deserved to get an answer though she might not like the answer he actually gave. "I am willing to help until I learn more." He met Katrina's eyes, somehow hating the fact that he was probably disappointing this young lady but also knowing that he had to remain true to himself, "If over time I see that this truly is a threat that might bring an apocalypse then I'll be in the trenches with everyone else. Until then, I am willing to gather information to find out more but that's really all I can offer."
No, Paul wasn't a hero but after having survived a World War he also knew that he really couldn't allow the world to fall back into that sort of situation again. Not if it were at all preventable.
>>"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
And sometimes evil triumphed even when good men did do something, even when it was the exact right thing to do. That was the tricky thing about knowing the future, whether it was from visions or history textbooks. Heroes did their best, and the outcome still sucked, but what choice did they have? They were heroes, and they couldn't do nothing because evil would triumph.
As for those two points they were all forgetting, “Oh, believe me, I haven't forgotten. I feel like a broken record with the number of times I've repeated that. Alister thinks that if he keeps observing he can keep making changes until the future visions show him an outcome he likes better.” Katrina wasn't so sure that this strategy was a good one, and it was fairly clear from her tone.
“As for Sebastian knowing about starting the apocalypse, he may very well know about it and be trying to prevent it, but that doesn't mean he won't start it by accident. So really all we can do is watch and wait until we can find out if there is one event that triggers it all, and then stop that event from happening.”
Katrina nodded to him encouragingly. He didn't have to worry about disappointing her. “Gathering information would actually be a big help. Then maybe there won't be trenches in the end.”
"I wonder how that actually works... can you really keep making changes over and over because of the future you've seen?" Paul wondered quietly to himself, as a thought struck him, "Or does the vision already take into account a persons interference?" Things were getting far to deep and out of hand for just a simple immortal like Paul so he decided it was probably best to see about wrapping things up. He did have a whole lot to consider.
"As for Sebastian knowing about starting the apocalypse..."
The rest of Katrina's statement entered his mind but Paul was busy focusing on the very beginning. Perhaps without even meaning to she had given him some very useful information. Sebastian, one of the immortals he was searching for, was the one they believed would start the Apocalypse. Paul did his best to keep his voice neutral, not fully revealing the information that he had plucked out as vitally important. While Alister was one of the center points to this whole situation it seemed that Sebastian would be the opposing pole. The polar opposite if you would. Obviously finding Sebastian was now becoming much more important than Paul had originally thought.
"I'll let you know if I find out anything interesting." Paul responded with the best smile he could manage in the situation. After all, they had just been talking about the end of the world after all. Standing back to his feet, Paul offered his hand to Katrina for a hand shake as his way of saying goodbye. "It's been nice meeting you Katrina. Keep using that mind of yours... you're far brighter and more intelligent than many people your age. I must admit that I'm interested to see where life eventually takes you. I'll be in touch with you or Alister if something vital comes up."