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.
Walking into the school after having seen it properly destroyed only a few months ago, was... strange. Wandering toward the room she shared with one gender shifting mutant, one who's grave she'd visited in a dream, was even stranger. But on top of it all the circumstances leading her to the visit were the most awkward.
Megan had a lot of explaining to do, about a lot of things...as well as more than a few questions for her roommate. She wasn't looking forward to any of it.
...Maybe he/she wouldn't be home. Out with Ami, or something.
Half hoping she was right, Megan marched down the last hallway, and stopped before Gawainya's door. "... This is gonna suck so bad..."
Holding her breath, she steeled herself, slapped a crooked grin on her lips, and stepped inside.
Maya took a long shower after training. Lately there had been so many things happening with the team, the riots, the X-kids, Becca, new students... she started to feel like an adult. It sucked. Also, there was the whole deal with Sam, which made everyone else on the X team step up.
Angua drummed on the floor with her tail when the door opened, and made happy whining sounds. Maya wrapped herself in a towel and combed the wet hair out of her eyes, hoping to all gods that it was not someone who should have seen her fully dressed. Then again, they just walked into her room, so it was on them anyway.
"Megan?..." she blinked as her long-lost roommate entered the room. Maya grinned in disbelief "Where the hell have you been, girl?! They almost assigned me another roommate!"
Gawa--..er... Maya-clad-in-towel, appeared before her. Glancing from the happily whining canine, to her freshly showered roommate, she shut the door behind her. "Dead?"
Laughing at her own joke, she threw herself onto her bed and huffed. "They could have tried, but it wouldn't have stopped me from coming back. The unlucky fellow just would have had to learn how to share a bed, is all." Man, her bed felt great! That lumpy piece of crap she had at her other place was a bed of rocks compared to this.
After glancing at all of her stuff, she returned her gaze to Maya. All of the humor dropped away suddenly, and she realized that this was the first time she'd spoken to the girl since that goddamn dream.
"...It's.... nice to see you alive and well. I missed ya for a long time."
...Stupid tears... pricking at her eyes and junk. She contained a sniffle, beating back a wave of emotion with a stick.
>>"Dead?... They could have tried, but it wouldn't have stopped me from coming back. The unlucky fellow just would have had to learn how to share a bed, is all."
As someone who had been dead recently, technically, theoretically, maybe, Maya snorted at the joke. As if anything could have killed Megan. She was one tough chick.
Maya proceeded to get some panties on and a shirt, to look less naked. She was not bothered my her roommate's presence. She had seen worse.
>>"...It's.... nice to see you alive and well. I missed ya for a long time."
Shrugging the shirt over her head, Maya blinked as she looked at Megan. Was she serious this time?
"I missed you too, Megs." she smiled, plopping down on the bed next to the spider girl. "So... ya've lived the dream too, huh?"
Aiming a half smile at Maya, she nodded. "Unfortunately, yes." Her expression turned sour for a moment, and she playfully punched her roommate in the arm. "Way to go and die on me, team leader!"
Sifting through her memories for happier ones (and not finding much), she snorted. "...It was probably for the best though. Whatever that was, it was hell on earth. I wish I had died, too." Forcing a smile back on, she shrugged and fell silent, patting the bed so Angua could hop on up too.
>>"Unfortunately, yes. Way to go and die on me, team leader! ...It was probably for the best though. Whatever that was, it was hell on earth. I wish I had died, too."
"Yeah, people keep telling me that..." Maya muttered, turning red a bit partly from the memories, partly from... other things. "Got a shiner from Maxine that lasted a week and a half. Queen can pack a punch."
Angua hopped up on the bed and curled up on Megan's other side. Maya smirked.
"Well, it's over anyway, and it ain't gonna happen in real life. I can promise you that. It's gotten all too real already anyway."
"Tell me about it." Megan muttered back, scratching the dog beside her behind the ear. She'd made a similar promise the day after waking up. Frowning at a wall on the other side of the room, she sighed and plopped an elbow on one knee. She didn't feel much like talking about stuff like this right now, seeing as she was just happy Maya was alive and well.
The near constant feeling of nausea and dizziness, though, reminded her that there were still things that needed saying. Only thing was she wasn't exactly sure how to say it. She sure as hell knew she wasn't about to divulge the full story, though!
...Hmm.. maybe she could still avoid the whole thing and just skip town for, oh... nine months? A year?
"Wait... did you say Maxine?" She only knew that name from one place, for one reason. The Amazons. A group that her dream self and the Judge knew well, and had more than one discussion about taking them down. 'or die trying, as I recall...'
Squinting at the mirror walker, she pondered just what kind of woman the real life Maxine was. "You sure do know how to pick em', Maya."
"I'll bet it is." It seemed like every girl Gawainya knew had "it's complicated" tacked onto her name somewhere. Well, maybe except for Ami. They seemed to do pretty well together. With a chuckle, she took a deep breath and rolled her shoulders back, battling away the ill feelings as best she could.
"So. What mischief have you been up to?"
Megan cringed, and rolled her eyes to the ceiling. Now or never, right? "...oh.. you know, the usual. Getting into trouble... getting out of that same trouble..." She wiggled on the spot, fiddling her hands in her lap. The stupid ring on her finger glinted in the light, and she cringed again.
"I may have... um.. gotten myself into something I can't get out of."
>>"...oh.. you know, the usual. Getting into trouble... getting out of that same trouble... I may have... um.. gotten myself into something I can't get out of."
There was something off about Megan. She was a lot more... tame?... than usual. She looked paler too, ever for her, which suggested that she had been,or was going to be, sick. Maya tilted her head and followed the girl's nervous gaze to the ring. ... Wait a second.
Nerves got the better of her for a moment, and she scratched the back of her head.
"Meeeegan... what the hell?!"
Glancing at her friend, she followed her gaze and balked. "oh! Oh god no, not that!" That was a whole different story all together... "I mean, that's something, but it's not the issue here." Turning to face Maya on the bed, she calmed herself and crossed her arms over her chest. With every ounce of control in her body, she schooled her expression into a blank slate, and made sure not to fidget or bat an eyelash as the next few words left her mouth.
>>"oh! Oh god no, not that! I mean, that's something, but it's not the issue here..."
"Oh thank God" Maya sighed, laughing a bit "Because if I found out ya got hitched and didn't invite me ya'd be in..."
>>"Maya... I'm going to be a mommy."
"... big trouble my friend, wait, WHAT?!"
Mommy. As in, mother. First the ring, and now... that was just... Maya blinked, several times, and leaned closer, looking Megan in the eyes, trying to guess if she was being serious, or pulling the joke of the year.
"Um... you are kidding me, right?..."
She did not look like she was kidding.
"Wait... are ya... ya're saying ya're actually pregnant?!"
Then hormones kicked in and she burst into tears. Big, goopy tears. "...#$@% my liiife." A second later, her mood shifted, and she took a spike of anger out on an innocent-bystander-pillow.
"..Goddamn mood swings are going to be the death of me... I nearly punched an old lady in the face on the way over here!" Of course, that lady may have deserved it... Who pats someone on the tummy and asks, 'How far along are you?' without expecting a black eye?
Old people, that's who.
"I'm not made to be a parent, Maya. Kids make me want to break things." Sniffling, she got her emotions back under control temporarily, and hugged the pillow to her chest.
Whoa. Tears. Actual, real tears. Maya was more stunned than ever. The mood swing almost caught her off guard, but her combat reflexes saved the day. she held up a pillow that promptly got punched. Maya knew she was probably not the main target, but tensed for defense anyway. The male side of her brain was ready to be blamed on a primal level.
>>"..Goddamn mood swings are going to be the death of me... I nearly punched an old lady in the face on the way over here!"
Ow.
>>"I'm not made to be a parent, Maya. Kids make me want to break things."
Maya blinked again at the sudden change, then decided to go the safest route.
Maybe it wasn't the best idea to out Nate while she was so upset. She didn't want her baby-daddy getting tarred and feathered before it was even born.
"Besides, if you killed him, who'd I pawn the kid off on all the time?" Managing a lazy grin now that the secret was out in the open. Well, one of her secrets, anyway. There was still Trent, Vicente, and a hoard of unmentionables lurking around.
.. Not to mention all of that Roach drama.
Megan felt dizzy again, paled considerably, and sighed. "...A better question would be how am I going to tell him he's a daddy?"