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.
Koga glanced at Saphirus and thought at Slate hoping he would pass it along. " I'm not sure if the island is or can listen but best to keep stratergy quiet if possible. "I'd be more inclined to send Jorge and Locke with them. Water cools lava most efficiently, and if the island does decide to erupt Locke might be able to form a trench to guide the flow in a single direction. It will leave us with a hell of a run to the village until the island realizes what they are up to but I think we are up for it. the volcano has to take priority over the possible survivors, not much point in surviving if you win death by eruption." Koga grabbed a pair of tonfas out of his duffel bag and got ready to fight some mammals.
He glanced at the other members of the group, if they wanted to work this in a different way he was game for it, but he didn’t see Saph and himself doing anything up there that they couldn’t handle besides the pair of them could offer plenty of distraction in the mean time.Even with all of the adrenaline and madness going on he couldn't help but be impressed with Jorge's water dome. "move towards our goals on three?"
Blarg, Network training has become more time consuming than I had imagined it will be, Once I get more of the network terminaology and what not down things should return to normal, til then I will get in every chance I can. this isn't Im leaveing so much as, if you were wondering why I have taken slow posting to the ultimate level(I make snails jealous.)thought I would stop in and say whats up.
Koga’s eyes shined in the light. “I wass jusst going to out run them, to be honesst.” He started to stretch his muscles in case someone woke up and they needed to go another round or four. Or Blondie decided that lizards were best served crispy.
He nodded politely, confirming her suspicions. “I don’t need to guesss ass far ass your credintialss go. The company you keep is much less discrete than you are, not to mention the history of your company. To be perfectly honest, I’m a bit ssuprissed to ssee you walking on the street alone, much lesss at all.”
He was sure that she likely had done wicked things that needed punishing, but today she showed compassion and done what he might have in the same situation. She certainly helped him today.
Koga’s eyes widened as the wall exploded behind Shadow McTelepants. The order was going the distance for some human fall guy. Maybe it was the principle of the matter. If they wouldn’t let you take a pawn, think of the links they might go to if you went after a rook, knight or a queen.
Koga cringed at streaks angry tone, The lady was just doing her best to make sure people were safe. He could respect that, however, he didn’t have much time to take his eyes off the people in front of him. Things were intense, Silver streak formed a line with him and Alex, they were sizing up and…then Alex who was proving himself more and more capable every moment, let go of sanity and started destroying the shop..more than the order was. the floor started to groan and then the teleporter was falling and gone. Alex made his escape and he hoped that Streak would make sure the kind samaratin made it clear of the door way. He was going to kill them with kindness.
Koga leaped onto a shelf and ran across it and then dived toward the exsplosive girl and her nervous counterpart. His feet landed dead center of the teen males chest and his arms reached for the girl, hopefully knocking all three clear of the building and debris.
Koga quickly pulled the relaeases for the parachute and un did the buckles as he moved toward the quicksand but, Locke and Jorge had it taken care of. “Not in particular, but anywhere you have ssand and water near each other you can have quick ssand, there iss an area ssomewhere below that sspot that iss retaining more of the water than it can releasse. Natural but treacherouss. Animalss running toward danger however iss not typical of most sspeciess, particularly non predatory birdss.”
He glanced at where the sun was and oriented himself and realized that they were about 50 yards north of the ideal entry, however that would be a small issue. “A mile inland and about fifty yardsss east.” He hiked his duffle bag onto his shoulder and was thankful when Lodestone made her landing and took a defensive position. With his hands now free and a second to think about not dodging incoming he pulled a pair of roman candles out of his duffle bag. A zippo found in its way to his other hand and he started firing back at the monkeys, He thought animals might be an issue and there are two things you can count on animals to hate, bright light heading to them in miniature meteor form and water in high pressure streams. Seriously, you could fend off most bears with nothing more than a water hose and Jorge had the covered. He wasn’t concerned about fire as the level of humidity would discourage any worry of grass fires.
“ Sslate any chance you can take a pssychic look around the issland for angry animal manipulatorss? Alsso a note worth having, That volcano, iss ssuppossedly inactive. The Ssmoke ssuggestss otherwisse.”
That’s about when the detective expletive’d and splashed into a big mess as the trees started attacking. The trees were attacking, the ground was attacking, the animals were attacking, and the mountain was smoking. He wasn’t entirely sure that cover would be enough.
Koga shook Slate’s hand and carefully made sure not to squeeze it too hard, he certainly did not have any pent up emotions that was ignoring or letting go of. The Age of Sebastian was therapeutic in that he spent years helping Katrina get safely to the man before him, She loved him and that was that, he put his grade school crush on Katrina carefully and gently where it belonged. He was estatic to be with Gina, still for the life of him, he couldn’t quite see what Katrina saw. It didn’t help that he wore the same face as that obnoxious Tiger. He doubted however that Slate would know a thing about him.
Koga wasn’t what any physic would consider an open book, he certainly wasn’t immune to having his mind read however. His black orbs carefully studied Slate. ~don’t mind me. meeting the better man can be a hard pill to swallow. Its all personal baggage and today certainly isn’t about that. Lets make this mission a success shall we?~
Koga glanced around the room astounded but not to surprised hear that Saph would not be the onlyone jumping without the parachute. Magnetic Manip, Kinetic Manip, healing and telepathy, water Maip, Earth Manip, Stealth and reckon. They were what gamers called the perfect group, one tanks, three casters a healer and a rouge. If he had glasses on he would have pushed them up the bridge of his nose.
Koga grinned at Rebecca and her shield, if he had noticed the shield he might have offered the bag as another option for ammo.. “That looks quite a bit more effective than paperclips and thumb tacks.” He so needed a code name….How could he have gone all these years with out realizing he needed a code name? perhaps he was always just trying to get people to purnounce the names he had correctly for the time being.
“Current point of entry putss uss at one mile ssouth of the village proper, there are asss of a month old ssatellite rendering, three other visible encampments. Firsst coursse of action according to the handbook.” Yeah, there was a handbook. “ iss to asssesss the ssituation, we can hardly resspond to a problem, without knowing what the problem is or itss causse. Until the initial asssesssment iss made, I recommend we sstay within sshouting disstance.”
He could have told them twenty eight reasons the village was placed where it was, the preferred dress and couple hundred cultural facts about the people. Those were not important however. One fact that did seem a boon to know was however. “The nativess do sspeak Englissh.” Do, he was being positive here, no need to break out the dids just yet.
And they were jumping out of the plane...Saph, Rebecca and Jorge made their exits. No team break? Koga hoped out of his Chair and went to Locke, He read something in his file about having an earth affinity He didn’t get to go too deep into, nor did he want to, but he assumed he had some issues with being off the ground.
“Locke, I Am going to help you get into your Chute. Sslate follow along closse.” Koga grabbed Locke’s Chute and pulled him to his feet, they didn’t have time for pleasantries, and much like a band aid it was a good idea to pull it off quick. Koga helped get all of Locke’s straps into place as,
He watched to make sure Slate was getting his in place as well. “Thesse Chutess are the ssame kind they usse in basse Jumping, we are dropping from a lower altitude sso the ride iss going to be over fairly quick. Count to ten, at a normal rate and pull your Chute. One onethoasnd two one thousand and so forth. The ssooner we jump the ssooner we are on ssolid ground.” He grabbed the back pack that Lodestone turned down.
“ Locke hang on to this, if anything goes wrong, Rebecca will be able to guide you down safely. Other than pulling the chute at ten one thousand, Hold onto it.” He pointed out the only pull string on the parachutes, base jumpers only got one try.
~Slate, You should be able to survive the fall if anything goes wrong with your chute, so if something goes awry, walk it off? Please let Rebecca know any assistance to Locke via the back pack will be appreciated.~
He quickly put his parachute on, “Gentlemen, letss do this!” He grabbed his duffle bag and waited for the other two to make their jumps. Giving either of them the encouragement or push they required.
Koga’s eyes widened as a sleek blade grew across the room, Perhaps Alex was better prepared for the situation than he had thought, He certainly didn’t see that coming. The orderling ducked the blade and was on the move and either his eyes were playing tricks on him or he was disappearing in the dark.
Shade launched a knife across the room and Koga moved to intercept it striking it out of the air with his Tonfa, before it had a chance to make good on its destination. The blade that was flying toward him however he only managed to hedge slightly It sliced through his jacket and left a deep gauge in his upper right arm. He grit his teeth and moved up to the edge of the light in front of Alex and waited for the man to close, He was dangerous he couldn’t let him any closer.
“Alex, get to Ssilver sstreak, I’ll hold him up.” at least he planned on holding him up, if he could disappear, who knew what else he could do. He didn’t intend on finding out until he had at least pummeled him a bit. He stood ready to strike at the man the moment he got close enough.
Koga sat in the Jet, on the edge of his seat, His laptop had all sorts of information saved on it about the island in question, he didn't want to chance the blackbird's connection being sketchy as they were flying fast and he had much to learn, they didn't get much warning, 'Its graduation day, You've got a mission, get what you need and get on the plane. Koga Opted for his duffel bag, It was packed full of every toy and tool he could think of over the years that might be useful on a mission. It was heavy. He planned on leaving it on the plane, and going back to it if they needed it. With the utter lack of information they had to go on, they could be walking into anything, a plague outbreak, a super predator, a Tribe gone primal, or something simple as major communication errors.
Koga looked over to the sassy redheaded scotch, for the first time since getting on the plane his eyes were scanning over the layout of the island via satellite images. or the shreds of information about the secluded tribe that lived on the island...or lives on the island, they might be ok. could just be a communication issue, how great would that be, go to an island help fix a satellite dish and go home an x-man. not that the tribe was actually that advanced, they apparently only communicated via boats that stopped off on the island typically dropping off or picking u[ items for trade. at some point someone noticed that the tribe members were missing or silent or hiding.
"We have to be ready. Unfortunately, for jusst about anything, The issland is pretty ssmall, sso, whatever the isssue iss, it sshould be apparent, fairly quickly. Sso, long asss we work together, I doubt there is much this group can't handle." He glanced around the plane, yeah, this team of trainees packed some major fire power. " I haven't met all of you, My name iss Ryuichi Koga, you can all call me Koga. My mutation iss Reptilian bassed, I blend, wall crawl and consstrict. and while my xgene doessn't pack asss much punch asss a lot of yours doesss, I make up for it by keeping in tip top shape and learning everything I can to give us any possible edge. Should we go around the room really quick and let everyone else know who we are working with?"
He reached down and plopped a back pack that was next to his duffel bag down next to the red head. "I believe everyone Elsse'ss abilitiess sshould be well ssupplied on the issland. There iss probably going to be a lack of metal however, sso I took the liberty of raiding the office for you. the main back is paperclipss, the ssmaller one iss metal tackss and sstapless." Yes he had managed to take a peak at the other trainee's files while in said office to see who was making the trip.
Koga nodded to the first question letting the dire situation he was in settle for a moment as he worked it out. “I’m ninety percent ssure, I’ve obsserved a couple locationss that are linked to the order and have sseen too many familiar facess for it to be coincidence. They’ve alwayss been overconfident about having to cover their trackss. It issn’t too much of a sstretch to connect a x-gene bassed drug to a mutant crime organization that ownss and operatess a pharmaceutical company. Proving it however, a bit more tricky.”
He nodded through his tail about protection, it figures they would build up the classic rackets while they are at it. “The right decission can be the dangerouss one, but you’ve got my resspect.” Koga fished the card out of the trashcan, that could come in handy. “Ssee what I mean about being cocky? I’ll hang onto it if itss the ssame to you. Could be usseful in a ssting. I’m glad you are taking me a sseriouss, I doubt we have much time to make a break for it.”
Koga grinned knowingly at his introduction but didn’t bother mention that he had been observing him for weeks and may have gotten a pretty good idea of what the man was about from his perch. He might have even strolled through the shop a time or two wearing different more common skin tones. “Grab what you need Alex and lets get you out of harms way, I’m not saying you can’t handle yourself, Im saying it might be best to avoid confrontation until after the gavel strikes the wood in the courtroom, after that. Besides being good in a fight and having someone to watch your back can’t hurt. He waited in the shop until Alex grabbed necessities. He was glad he was moving quick.
“Letss go.” Koga replied.
When a third unwanted voice chimed in. Koga’s hands fluidly went to his back and stepped between Alex and the hooded figure. He produced a pair of Tonfas with a fluid motion that were holstered at his back. Things were about to get ugly and fast, he had a bad feeling that things were going to escalate quickly. He had hoped to remove him from the area and thus cooling the heat on him, his home and his business.
“We are, I ssuggesst you take thiss opportunity to do the ssame.” he replied , knowing that the man was more likely to escalate the situation further. A flick of his wrist tapped one of the Tonfas to a communicator.
Koga succeeded in seeing pain explode onto the still growing man’s face. His toe had gone from the size of an almond to a large grape to a plum, and it was putting him well past twelve feet at this point. He was going to need more than a pinky toe hold on the guy. Kong started to push his weight towards Koga, and well he couldn’t help but think of that old poker song. ‘You have to know when to hold em, know when to fold em! And know when to climb them and pummel there face until the job is done.’ At least he was pretty sure that was how the song went. Regardless as the weight of the heavy well muscled leg started to press he relinquished his hold and pulled back. He was off balance and distracted for just a moment.
He took a step to the side and started to scale the man’s side, if he could make it to his chest he could attempt to render the giant unconscious. And luckily the oaf’s arms were flailing about trying to catch his balance. He propelled himself forward and up until he was in the man’s face, things were about to get harsh and he couldn’t risk the broken bones. He didn’t think he could count on his counterpart to help him out if he needed medical attention, then again he wouldn’t have expected her to intervene in the first place. He was still growing! What had he gotten himself into?
Koga made his way to the man’s shoulder as he got his footing and two large hands were coming his way fast. The problem with being large was, your weak spots got bigger too. In unwitting synchronization he slapped the giant…on the eye.
A bellow of pain echoed through the air, accompanied by the percussion of a trashcan meeting a man’s head over and over and over. Koga spun away from the man’s eye and the hands now holding it in pain. And held on to his ear as he stumbled just enough out of the alley way and into the street to get clipped by a city bus. The giant flopped forward and bad luck, gravity and the brick wall of the alleyway did the rest of the work for him. He hopped lightly off of the man and headed toward his unlikely counterpart.
Koga waited for a moment for the little birds to disappear and rolled to his feet. He stood next to someone he would in any other situation consider a foe, it was too weird to contemplate just this moment.
Karaoke lisped something at them around a fat tongue that he must have bitten, because the power didn’t quite work right, it was a dull ache opposed to a shrill pain. Karaoke then clapped his hands together and then he could only hear white noise. New York was not a quiet place and now it was silent. Koga spun and grabbed Lori at the waist and propelled them both out of the way of impending doom. She called him kid but he was a good half a foot taller than her. He’d comment later when they weren’t being attacked and he could hear again. Look at that she didn’t shock the hell out of him.
Ok, how was this going to work. Pressure points game on big man! He leaped forward once more hoping that Faust would trade dance partners with him for at least one pass. He grabbed the pinky toe and twisted it like he was trying to turn the car around, there was a pressure point in the smallest toe, that could cause pain in the neck, he dug his fingers into that spot with a vengeance. Stupid M heads.