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 Pharoah Dynasty
An ancient sorceress is on a quest to bring her long-lost warrior-king to the modern era in a bid for global domination. Can the heroes of the modern world stop her before all is lost?
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.
Aurion was stumbling through the halls of Sanctuary, stumbling, falling and barely catching himself, and trying to hold back the retching his gut wanted to do. Though he had done plenty of that when he had first woken up, his body apparently was ready and able to continue. Aurion didn't know if he had anything left in his body except for his innards. 'Can you puke those up?' He thought darkly.
Aurion wasn't sure what he was doing, his first thought as he left the cafeteria was to find Allison and apologize, but as he started to look for her and head towards her room, he began to think that was a very bad idea. There was no way he was going to be able to face her. That was, if she would even have seen him or talked to him or anything. "Heh." Snort. "Might just have Aura kill me, not that I'd blame her." In fact he felt it would be what he deserved.
But something in him wouldn't let him go to her, wouldn't let him get on his knees in front of her to plead for her forgiveness, to say how sorry he was. No, whatever part of him that wouldn't let him do that was a jerk. A jerk that wanted him to suffer. It did give him another thought, an idea that could be just as bad, possibly worse.
An image of a red tail smashing through a door to kill a man popped into Aurion's mind. He froze where he stood in the hallway. Yes, he deserved to be punished. He had done Allison wrong, had nearly done worse. While some part wouldn't let him go to her, it was directing him somewhere else, to someone, a group of someones perhaps, who could give him what he deserved. Probably the only ones in Sanctuary that could do it, at least to Aurion's knowledge.
So he trudged along only half seeing the world around him. He checked the living area, asked around for the Red men, got an answer and followed the directions. They were not in the Training room as he had been told, so he made his way to the Gym. There was a lot of activity there, but he couldn't see any of the Red men. Not that they weren't in there, but in his slight daze, it was possible he didn't see them.
So he went to the Rec room thinking maybe one of them might be playing pool, watching tv, or something. Walking in, he wasn't quite all there. He didn't see Abyss or his brothers. He turned to leave.
"Hey, Greenie, you need somethin'?"
Aurion turned his head slowly, mechanically to the speaker. His eyes narrowed a bit.
"Woah." The girl, one Aurion had seen before but he didn't know the name of, put her hands up quickly. "Sorry, I couldn't remember you name. Look kind out of it ya'know? Looking for something, someone? I could help ya, maybe..." She trailed off a little unsure. When Aurion didn't answer right away, he looked at the others that were near her and shrugged.
Just as she was about to dismiss him and return to her seat, "Abyss, or his brothers." Aurion said in a half voice. "See him tell him Aurion's looking for'm, could ya?"
She and her companions looked at each other to see if any of them had seen any of the big men. When negatives came from all around she spoke again. "Yeah sure, will do. Maybe you should go to the infirmary, don't look so hot." There was genuine concern in her voice.
"Heh. Maybe." Aurion mumbled as he stepped out. In the hallway he turned in that direction. Perhaps a stop at the infirmary would do him good.
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A minute or so after Aurion left, a friend of the girl came to join them. He had come from further in the Rec room. Seeing the look on their face and catching a bit of their conversation on his way to them he asked what was up. They told him, with a little embellishment as teens were prone to do. "Oh," He turned and pointed back from where he came. "Right back there. I think it's Jupiter, maybe Saturn." Shrugging, "It's hard to tell them apart sometimes." He laughed as he ran back to tell the big mutant Aurion had been looking for him.
Jupiter Streched and yawned rising from a room that had been taken over by teens doing karaoke...He raised an eyebrow at the obvious absence of post apocolyptica, damn the muffin man, wait no the muffin man was the body switcher. What had they called him after the last round of future dreams? the sand man. thats what he and his brothers decided after the fact that the weird visions while sleeping were, and had to be induced by a mutant, they went with the sand man because there weren't any cool dream related female names...Venus said Succubus, but he then conceded that not everyone had as good a time as he did in the future.
He hated the guy, he would kill him if they guy ever gave him the chance, but seeing as he had premonitions he doubted he would ever get the chance.He set up and rubbed his temples as some lilac teen with feathers belted out a rendition of another bites the dust in the only way that karaoke was meant for. terrible.
He levered him self up and out of the room wearily making his way out of the rec room. A group of teeneage girls waved at him, and he raised a hand reluctantlyin response. this couldn't be good.
"Hi, um, Im Tina." she said in a peppy voice that instantly made him want to find a bottle of liquor, she had so much nasal in her voice added onto a high pitch that made him want to put his head through the wall.
"Uh huh?" he replied.
"Well, I was just wanting to let you know, that big green tail and teeth guy was looking for you. he went to the infirmiry but he said tell any of you big red muscley tail guys that he was looking for you. Kay?"
"Yeah." Jupiter said with a stunned voice, she said a hundred words in what would typically take him the time to say three. she needed less caffine.
Jupiter made way into the hallway fairly quickly a trip to the infirmy had him concerned, whoever messed with Aurion would find a reckoning coming.
He quickly made way to the infirmary catching up before his fellow giant entered into the room, he looked nauseated but other than that, no worse for wear.
"Aurion a girl that sounded like that little yellow bird on loopy tunes told me you were looking for me?"
Aurion stopped quickly when he heard the familiar voice. He hadn't expected that girl or her friends to actually find any of the Abyssi. Nor did he expect to make it to the infirmary, he had just been plodding along in that general direction. If he was in a better mood, that might make him laugh, since it was such a fitting place. At least it would be as long as the big man worked with Aurion and did what he wanted. If he didn't. . . Well, Aurion was no slouch, even if he was sure he couldn't really hurt the man, he was sure he could get that massive fist to hit him a few good times at least.
Aurion turned to look at the man, to look up at him in face. Aurion was hunched over quite a bit, shoulders sagging, even his tail looked pathetic as it dragged along the floor. "Jup." Since he was the first of them he met, Aurion defaulted to that one. He was also the one he felt most comfortable around, probably for the same reason. "I want you to hit me. Please. Hard." There was nothing in his voice or posture that said he was trying to pull Jupiter's leg, nothing to suggest he wasn't serious.
“You realize that, me hitting hard isn’t like anyone else hitting hard right?” He was pretty sure he did, but with his posture he was almost wondering if the lizard man wanted to die. “Are You feeling suicidal?” He wasn’t being cocky; he had hit people hard before they ended up as a questionable mess up against a nearby wall or floor. The kid had body armor and he wasn’t a delicate flower by any means but he saw no reason he should blindly hurt him.”
He would have to do better than that. “Tell you what, you give me a reason worth hitting you over and I’ll do it.” Jupiter rolled his neck and shoulders limbering up for what might turn into a serious fight depending on Aurion’s survival instincts.
Aurion's eye twitched at Jupiter's words. He was right, and Aurion knew it before it had ever been said. The big man's 'hard' was probably equivalent to a human hitting a mouse with a sledgehammer. Aurion might rate as high as a watermelon or even a cinder block instead of a mouse, but in the end the result would be the same. He wasn't feeling suicidal, but he did feel like crap and feel like he deserved to be hit. "No, not especially."
Aurion gaped a bit at the red man, "Wha?" There was no way he was going to tell him what had happened. "Common Red." His voice was almost pleading. "I deserve it, okay? Is that good enough?" He sounded pathetic even to his own ears. "You're the only person who can do it and make it hurt. Okay? So please..." Aurion felt like he was drenched in pathetic.
“You deserve it…” Jupiter shrugged his shoulders. Put one hand on his shoulder and let loose a solid hit to his chest, it wasn’t hard per se, but it would hurt. Without killing him. “Is that enough?” Jupiter looked him in the eyes. He wasn’t going to make him beg to be hurt. He trusted him enough to do so.
“Now then. What happened?” He was going to beat an answer out of him if he had to. What would possess someone to ask to be beaten by him, he didn’t know, but the kid had moxy and if he survived he hoped he would learn to better choose he choice of punishment.
Aurion nodded when he saw Jupiter ready a punch. When it hit, Aurion let out a grunt and a small rush of air. It hurt, but not as much as he wanted it to. Heck it hadn't even moved him beyond a rocking of his torso. He needed more, needed harder hits. There was no way he was going to be satisfied with just that one. "Again. Harder this time."
When the big man didn't immediately hit him again, which he had tensed for thinking it was coming, he looked at him. "Huh?" 'But I already told him!' He thought quite loudly. "I already told you. I deserve it. Isn't that good enough?!" Aurion couldn't help it, he growled the last bit out. Pulling his shoulders back as he stood up straight. Jutting his chin out at the man, "I'll make you do it. I don't want to, but I'll make you hit me." It would be obvious to anyone he was avoiding the 'Why?' question. Normally Aurion would never threaten like that, even though he didn't think he actually could get himself to attack Jupiter. He hoped the man wouldn't call his bluff.
"You think you can make me hit one of my own with out wanting to?" a wry grin came to Jupiter's face, He just might be able to but he sure as hell wasn't going to let the fact show. He could wrestle him to the ground if needed. "Why don't you just convince me you deserve it. what could you have possibly done?"
Aurion was sweet to his own kind, he hated humans, just like any sane mutant did, but beyond that he was a gentle giant. He highly doubted he deserved what Jupiter could dish out. Still Jupiter tensed for the potential skirmish. fist to claw, tail to tail, it would be the most fun he had in some time.
'DAMMIT!' The mental voice was very, very loud in his guilt ridden mind. Aurion couldn't help the tiny smirk that tugged at the corner of his mouth when he saw Jupiter's smile. Yes, they both know forcing the blows might not be possible. Physically Jupiter could easily restrain him, and that was not what he wanted or needed just then. Mentally, Jupiter had it right, Aurion didn't like hurting mutants. Especially when the mutant in question didn't do anything wrong. Jupiter had never insulted him, hadn't ever hurt him (the punch he asked for didn't count), never did anything to threaten any of the Sanc residents or any other mutant (unless they stood in the way of Order business).
He had no reason whatsoever to try and harm the big man. And they both knew it. That knowledge really make it difficult to try and hold that threat. It wouldn't be so hard if he could drudge up some anger within him, but all he could feel inside of him was remorse, disgust, self-loathing and hatred. 'I don't care if it was a dream. It was real enough to me, real enough for others to have the same dream. Real enough to remember dying. Real enough to change people, to change me.' Felling his breath catch in his throat he tried to swallow it away.
"Alli." Her name was choked out. Saying her name made his heart skip a beat before it kicked into gear. The negative emotion he felt for himself welled up to the surface. Instead of being aimed at Jupiter, it became self destructive. Bellowing "Hit me!" point blank at the red man, Aurion punched at him as hard and as fast as he could. He deserved to be hit, to be beaten. If he hit, not even hurt, just hit Jupiter, it would just mean he deserved it more. Which his sudden shift to self destructive was completely okay with.