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.
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And suddenly, that guy was there? He told the kid to stop, he stopped. Carrick ate. Possessively.
They needed to wrap up the whole situation now. A clean up operation. Carrick was eating all he could eat. Shin went to work gathering more food monsters and slinging them into the gryphon’s bowl. M
The August personage went about kicking dumplings and noodle beasts Carrick’s way too. Rapidly, they depleted the numbers. Now that the Japanese boy was not summoning further monsters, they could actually make headway.
Eat, Carrick, eat!
((Shin August double post in one, I forgot this existed))
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“Did I say social?”
He thought about it for a second. Damn.
“I meant super. Super special secret. Oops.”
—
The professor took her on the tour of the mansion. Some parts may have looked brand new, in fact all of it was new, repairs were most likely done by now. He showed her the kitchen/dining room area, the living room (they actually had modern systems, yay!), the outside (regrowing hedge maze, basketball hoops, etc), teachers offices, classrooms, not necessarily these things all in that order, and finally they assigned a room. Usually people had roommates, but not always. He had not even asked about luggage.
“Anyways, this is you. If you need help bringing in luggage, we can get someone. Someone will be along to tell you about classes, help you choose stuff, probably the headmaster. Welcome to the mansion! Be sure to make friends!”
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The kid was impressed with the power, just from description alone. They’d probably die if he turned into a Power Ranger. Although he generally did golden lion knight GARO, as a rule. Way less iconic.
She said she would show off her power, but it would ruin the furniture. Part of him wanted to jokingly say “forget the furniture.” But it actually was nice furniture, so—
Teachers have to get their own furniture, if they want nice things. And he didn’t want to replace it. He nodded at the comment. “Yeah. Outside is better. Or in the social super secret underground room we use for training, but shhh. Anyways, we’re done here. I’ll put this paperwork away. It is all entered. Do you want a tour?”
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Gaia, huh? Cool cool.
“That’s definitely a good one,” he agreed.
People could go back and forth on code names all day, but it all came down to taste and what was important to the person with the powers. Which is why they always got to choose. Unless their code name was profanity. Then it got a veto. Gaia was not the f-worder. He still remembered the intervention with that student vividly. They had been like a pokemon that day, saying their name often, and loudly. By comparison, Gaia was the best name ever!
Teachers did not make a habit of googling new students, home town, and powers to see if they had something dangerous on their hands. Usually if it was important, it got shared. Eventually. So Shin did not google Kansas City earthquake. He finished entering the data, instead. Just in time to answer a question.
Easy enough to show.
Shin, aka shard, summoned a shard. A forest green equilateral triangle, about two inches tall and wide. It hovered in the air above the extended index finger of his right hand.
“I make psychic barriers. They’re shaped like triangles. They’re diamond-hard, razor sharp, and I can make them all sizes and colors. Through the dynamic power of maths, I have figured out how to stack them in such a way it does not cut me. So I can use my razor sharp shards to make armor. I mainly use it to make cosplay. But I can also summon a flying tortilla chip, and use it like a hover board. Or make really big swords. Like a diamond, the power is multi-faceted………. I’m really sorry for that joke. Really. Sorry.”
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“Probably the original, but who knows?” Shin said mysteriously. “Someone may have brought a new once in since 2010. The world works in mysterious ways. And I don’t have time to check. I’m sure that you can find out.”
—
The mutant talked about their mutation.
“Neat,”’Shin said. “Flying is fun. Don’t see that with most earth benders. Does that mean a little magnetic flair, or maybe limited telekinesis… ooh, guess we will have to figure it out. Got a code name, yet? You’re Tori, earth is terra, so maybe blend the two and make tora? But that’s just Japanese for tiger, or some old book, hmmm.” He trailed off, after having thoroughly nerded out.
“Lots of people don’t know all the facets of their powers at first. That’s one thing we help people with. Teach them about themselves. For instance, I didn’t start out being able to fly. My power grew over time. And with a little creativity, I came up with new applications. You would not expect razor blades to be useful for clothing purposes, but—“
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What do people do at the mansion, Tori asked.
The honest answer would have been “rebuild the mansion.” There was no sense in going there, though. Scare the child, Shard. Rebuilding only happened after cataclysmic wizards did things. It was not a common event— it only felt like it happened whenever things got dull. To spice up the site a bit.
“School work is fun, right?” Shin smiled, knowing full damn well the answer was generally “not.”
“We train our mutant powers. We practice. We do school stuffs. There’s sports, and so on. I think the living room has some sort of video game system. It may only be a few years out of date. Dunno. Last I checked, we had an Xbox.”
That had been, what, two decades ago? One? You lose track of time.
He entered more data.
“So, is it okay if I ask about mutation?” Some people are particular. Good to get consent.
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The girl was a teenager, or at least, that was his immediate take. His eyes, which could calculate the exact measurements of objects in his direct line of sight could tell him the person’s height, the height of the gate beyond her, at the front of the mansion, and all sorts of other fun information, and he could run equations to get further information. But that did not tell him ages, only that she was taller than a toddler.
They introduced themselves as Tori. A prospective student. Their parents had sent them to the mansion. Clearly, that meant there had been paperwork. Yes. Papers clearly had been worked. He nodded. They could check that out, but surely the headmaster already had these things all sorted.
Oh wait. There were the fabled papers now. He was being handed them. Super.
He took them: “I will get these filed and sorted, thank you.” He said.
Now he had some new work to do. Hurray! He was not really annoyed, it was, after all, his job. He turned and gestured for Tori to follow him.
“My office is this way. We can get this done quick fast.”
~*~
At his office, he sat down at his desk. Pulled up his laptop. Entered data. Offered a seat.
“Only take a minute,” Shin said. “So, long way from home, I see. You’re not in Kansas City any more. I apologize profusely for the state of our barbecue,” he joked wryly, “but at least our pizza is memorable… if not good.”
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The driver waved back. Fuzzy dice swung from the mirror as they pulled away. If anything, you could say that this cab was rare. But ah yeah, forget it. The cabbie was not headed home, to Bel Air. Wrong coast.
~*~
Inside the mansion, the doorbell rang. It announced someone at the entrance to an Asian man in his mid thirties, all the way in his office in the middle of the mansion. He had dark hair, cut short, and hazel eyes with triangular pupils. He wore a white button up shirt and dark slacks. Hr looked up from his math assignments, which he had been grading. Was someone going to get that bell?
No?
He set down the papers, and rose from his dark wood desk. No rest for the wicked. And even less for the just.
~*~
A minute passed before the man arrived to open the front door. He smiled politely at the person there. An unfamiliar face. A new person.
“Hello, my name is Professor Shinbo. Can I help you?” The Asian asked.
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Noodles, buns. Food. Shin made like fruit ninja and got to slicing. The strange food creatures fell by the wayside. One, two, three, more. Shin deposited then on the floor. Carrick had a banquet before him, and Shin was a shard whirlwind of motion.
“It’s me,” the boy shouted In Japanese. “I. In the problem, it’s me!”
A share cut down a pork bun as it leaked at the boy. He snagged it with a hand, and curled it towards the gryphon.
Order, up!
Then he turned to the boy. Asked what the hello he talking about. He needed to calm down.
He babbled. In the background, a man rose with a sigh.
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Good. He heard what he had said… or else, his natural reaction to monster noodles was to eat them. Either way worked for Shin!!
He worked on his monster, even as Carrick shifted… and just like that, Shin owed Carrick a new set of socks. Clothing was shredded, the gryphon was free, and— heheh, everyone was kind of in danger.
This restaurant was in trouble. Idly, shin hoped the gryphon would not be too damaging to the place. That thought got silenced, and quick, as Carrick lurched towards his face with his beak.
Ahhhh!!!
Shin held perfectly still, and something from a horror movie got scarfed down by something from a monster flick. It felt like something out of an alien film, but now he was blending genre and confusing the subject.
If he did not move, Carrick could eat the noodles on his face, without eating his face. Shin did not move. And when the noodle monster was gone, he moved quickly, back and away from the boy gryphon.
”Okay. One down. Let’s just… no more noodles off of faces, okay?” He sent a single triangular green shard flying at a nearby patron. It slashed the monster off their face, with surgical precision. Thanks, Math Eyes. As it fell in midair, Shard turned the triangular barrier to scoop the monster up like a tortilla chip cradling nacho toppings. He deposited the monster at Gryphon’s feet.
”Order up. You stay there. I will bring them to you.” As Shard jumped to the next patron, he really hoped Carrick would listen.
Sounds from the back of the restaurant. Someone was stumbling out, a Japanese boy. He kept repeated “No,” in Japanese. Over and over. He looked distressed.
Shin fed Carrick another living noodle abomination, or tried to.
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He turned as another person entered the room. They were soggy on one side, and covered in sprinkles. They had a box of donuts.
“Hi!” He said. He… had general knowledge of who Skye was, even if they had never really had any training sessions together, or any Marvelous team ups. They were the person who had flashed the big bad, and blinded them. Yup. The mighty flasher. Real dazzling stuff. Like a fireworks jubilee.
>> "I feel like this could get messy real quick, unless you want to make everyone shard-forks and triangle knives."
He turned. “If it comes to that, you all can wait. I’ll fly to the store.” He was not making mental cutlery. It seemed dirty to have his mind in their mouths.
He handed a roll of paper towels to the damp Skye. “The good thing about sprinkles is you can wipe them off.” The frosting… might stain. But at least she could dry off. “I’ll hold the donuts while you clean up.” He offered.
Regardless of whether she gave him the donuts or not, they would find themselves opened on the table at its very head. Everyone knew the True leader of the X-men: their stomachs.
Shin took a jelly filled.
Then, he sat down. “Help yourselves.” His pancakes were ready on the serving station. With fixings. He had already made himself a plate with cakes and the now-ready bacon.
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Had he met a god?
“Think we all did, at the mansion battle.” Shin said. “Heracles or something?” His voice rose a little with uncertainty. It was really unclear, but the scuttle butt around the once-mansion was…. The man at least thought himself a god. And he had a magic weapon.
Shin shrugged.
—
>> It's hard to think where my powers could go from what they are but more range would be really nice or a human mode"
“I vote skunk wings.” He joked. But those other things were probably better.
—
He finished forming Porygon, then they were gone. Flying across the city. Only a few blocks, though. They passed over the group, and Luna asked if she could hit them.
20 foot range, huh?
He stopped moving over the group. It wasn’t like there were 100 raptors, there were maybe 10. He hovered 15 feet above their heads, not enough to have them leap at him, enough she could hit as many as she could.
“We will try that and see where we get. I’ll hold steady so you can aim, is it a cone attack or a straight line? You tell me where to move, I’ll move there. If they get mad and start rampaging, I will Shepard dog them around. How many shots do you have? And the main goal here is to flush out whoever caused this.”
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The teens name was Sawao Yamanaka. He liked singing and playing guitar. He had friends into music. One played drums. One played bass. One played violin. He wasn’t sure they had room for violin. He still wanted to include them somehow, when he started his band. Country music could include fiddles. Why couldn’t rock and roll include a violin? His major problem, of course, was his parents.
His parents wanted him working in the noodle shop. Sawao wanted to practice in his garage with his friends. He wanted to practice when they wanted him to work.
He was shouting at them in the back of the shop. He was angry. When Sawao got angry, his skin crawled. Not literally. Today was special, though. It was the first time his mutation had ever activated. So when Sawao got that skin-crawly angry feeling, he kinda sorta made other things crawl, too. Literally. Namely, the food in peoples’ bowls.
—-
Carrick said something.
This was so awkward.
A ball of ramen noodles launched itself from out of Carrick’s bowl, to violently hug his face.
Shin let out a sigh of relief. A moment’s reprieve.
A ball of ramen noodles launched itself from out of Shin’s bowl, to violently hug his face.
Wait, what?!
He panicked for all of a second, hands twitching uncertainly at his sides. Such a slimy, wet, sensation. Then, he slurped a little, chewed. Slurped a little more, chewed. The mass writhed. It was a little less, though.
Inspiration struck like lightning. Through a mouthful of noodles, Shin shouted: “C’rrcck!! EATDEM! Still noooooodz!!!”
He hoped Carrick was still hungry. Across the restaurant’, people were screaming, but muffled. Everyone had their own personal noodle monster to bear. Luckily for them, the X-men were on the scene!! And they were hungry.
Ok. One x-man and one trainee/student. And he was kind of full, but—
A pork bun launched itself like a football, into his gut. Ow.
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The explanation of the adapted effect on the skunk earned a nod from Shin. Pesky adapteds. Always doing… stuff.
€> "well i can eat chocolate bars and be ok, so i think coacoa will be all right.”
“Oh thank god,” shin said. A life without chocolate was wow.
>> "You know, i have never quite understood why adapteds are diffrent then humans. Their just people with powers to right? just one that shuts ours off. " she said miming flicking a light switch off as they enterd the shop.
Shin shrugged. “Ask Thoth. Or any god, really. Dunno why that specific one popped into my head.”
Was a good question though. What made adapteds special. Less human? More? Were they just the friction in basic human genes that had violently resisted mutation? They got in line as he pondered.
>> "Ever wonder how our powers choose us? Like why i'm a skunk and you command geometry"
He laughed. “No one commands geometry. It does as it pleases. And I think we’re just born how we are. We may be able to train our minds or bodies , in an attempt to influence how we develop, power growths and all of that. But maybe that’s just us trying to be true to our real selves. And the powers respect that. I really don’t know. Do we influence the mutation, or does it influence us? Or am I being too deep?”
He was being psychological and philosophical. He knew some got powers totally counter to everything they wanted in life. Some were detrimental. People are born with genetic disorders or diseases all the time. Mutations with nothing to do with turning sunlight into rock candy, or whatever.
All of a sudden, Shin’s communication device went ping ping. He answered. He swore.
“Okay. Be there.”
He turned to Luna. “Come on. There’s dinosaurs causing trouble and I could use skunk help.”
Without listening for a reply, he turned and walked out. He started summoning shards to form their ride. A pink and purple polygonal duck.
There were velociraptors, finally. A few blocks away. Mystic, probably. Sigh.
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> Shin As Mirror fought, Shin took a moment to readjust his… brain. His chest hurt. Maybe ribs were bruised, maybe cracked. Not broken. He would have noticed that. Far greater pain, but—
Nice shots, Mirror. He almost missed those, what was he saying?
Nothing, nothing at all. “… ow.”
Situational Awareness flooded him as mirror approached. No, oh no. As she went to raise a hand so she could place him in the mirror universe, he tried, really tried, to draw in the shards from his shield so that they would come with them. But it was a question of distance and the speed of thought. Mirror was closer than the shards. As they both vanished on the inside, the shards vanished on the outside. He should have signed up for extra dimensional roaming.
As he came out of the second mirror, Shin swore.
Jail?
“I’m gonna—gonna need time to generate more shards. Distance, poof. Glad your bandage didn’t poof or that would be bad. Good idea, jail, but— time. My ribs hurt. Thanks for the relocation… even if I complained.” He made a face. Then, Shard looked at the layout of the current battle.
Hercules had shouted his name enough he could place him. Jorge, the boss. He watched for a second as a tattoo vanished, and the electrical attack surged into the watery form. Hmmm
Into the comms, Shin announced: “Do his tattoos do anything? Unless my eyes— something— that one just, poofed.” Off the comms, to Mirror, Shin added:
“Mirror, want me to make a distracting reflective helmet so you can reach out and punch him into the mirror dimension through his face?” He did not wait for an answer, shin just stood and closed his eyes to focus on summoning shards. So many shards.