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.
No injuries, excellent. Maybe he should open with that in future, given how it could immediately rule people out. It just seemed a very personal place to begin. His tired brain didn't even care enough to file away the thought for later discussion. It wasn't like he was doing too many interviews for X-man positions. It'd probably be months between them.
"I don't want to sound pushy or anything..."
Pragmatic and forward were lodged away under Juliette as points in favour. He could always use more logical heads around when his passion got away from him.
His features turned apologetic as he began to answer. It wasn't an easy prospect at all, but the city just never bothered to give them a budget. Deputised them and then left them on their own. It was honestly one of the things that most annoyed Cafas, given that they were so keen to use the x-men for every moderately difficult situation. "Um, kind of but not really. Room and board at the Mansion. Being an X-man really does cut into the career aspirations. Not that the X-men are at risk of running out of money if you expense things to them every now and then. There are always teaching roles going at the school though." Not that it was much of a consolation.
Cafas fished his phone out of his pocket and loaded up a new contact. He filled in the first name Juliet and then handed the phone over to Juliette. "We should probably exchange numbers. I'l need to organise a try out for you anyway if you want to go ahead. I know it's a lot to ask for room and board." He did offer a smile, despite his feeling that they may just have lost an invaluable addition. It had been much easier, joining while just bumming around at the Mansion. No job or life to give up.
I'll plan the try out anyway. Hopefully she'll agree.
Room and board. That wouldn't be entirely horrible. It definitely wouldn't be the same as living in her current apartment, but it would mean she wouldn't have to give up the position entirely. It would mean, though, that she would likely have to get a car if she wanted to keep volunteering at the sanctuary, which would be expensive. With the added cost of gas, it would eventually rack up. Plus paying off her student loans. Those were not cheap. She had a little bit saved up, but it probably wouldn't cover everything. It would be something she would have to look into later.
Teaching was a possible option. She had never really seen herself as a teacher, or intended that for her life, but it could work. Juliette probably had enough knowledge to handle a biology class or something along those lines.
"Yeah," Juliette nodded. Trying out couldn't hurt. Then at least she'd know whether or not she even could do it, after all, and she had been the one to approach him. Finances could be figured out later. She fished out her phone from her pocket and held it up, ready to enter in a new contact. She began to read off her own number slowly, once she was certain that Cafas was ready.
"Thanks for taking the time to hear me out," she nodded to him. He seemed like he was very busy, and he had actually taken the time to listen to her. Plus, he had been genuinely nice to her.
Cafas made sure to double check the number with Juliette, just so that his silly tired brain couldn't totally mess up a potential candidate. With so much to offer, he was rather hoping she'd still want to join after finding out it was something of a volunteer group. The idea they perhaps got paid did go some way to explaining some people's kind of apathetic attitude towards them. Like they were being really well rewarded for risking their lives, not marginalized by elements of both mutants and humans, and some accommodation if they needed it.
Though the fact you can't seem to leave once you're in does very much lead to good retention of members.
She was thanking him. Cafas was thinking, off in his own tired world, and she was speaking. That was rather rude of him. He focused back in and reaffixed a genuine smile. "Not at all, thank you for getting me out of that." He motioned with his head towards the not yet dispersed group of fans. "I'd much rather speak to one person about something I genuinely care about, than thirty about something I regret more with every indecent proposal." He offered his hand to shake, because he really couldn't think how else to end such a meeting.
"Keep your phone on Juliette, and I really hope you decide to continue with this process. It's a hard life, but you'll never be without back up, home, or friends."
He had double checked her number. That was good, at least, it meant that he sort of cared enough to make sure that he had gotten it right. She knew then that the interview had at least not gone horribly wrong.
She took his hand and shook it, somewhat surprised by the professionalism of the gesture. The meeting had been far from regular, but something about a handshake just seemed so ordinary. Then again, there really wasn't any other good way to end a discussion like that one.
>>"Keep your phone on Juliette, and I really hope you decide to continue with this process. It's a hard life, but you'll never be without back up, home, or friends."
She nodded quickly, still thinking over her options in her head. It seemed foolish to just let the opportunity go to waste, though. She knew full well that she would regret it if she did. "Thanks, Cafas, I will. I can figure out the whole financing situation later. Obviously the world needs a little help right now."
Juliette glanced at the dwindling crowds and the quickly rising sun. She had stayed there much later than she had intended to, and kept someone else for just as long. "I'll let you get back home, though. It's late."
