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.
It hadn't been easy telling Sam she needed to leave the mansion greeter / secretarial post. She had not been sure how he would react. Amelia had had the job for a while, but it was time. She needed to focus on her career.
A lot went into police academy. She had signed up for it through a state law enforcement program, and paid the tuition.
She had spent over 700 course hours training. It had taken her around eight months to complete the training. Amelia had had to train her mind and body. She'd woken up early every day to get to classes that started at 5am, and she had went to bed at 10pm every night. She hadn't stayed at the academy dorms as a live in recruit. Amelia had stayed at home.
There are residential academies and there are courses that are non-residential. Since she had started before she was 21, she had chosen to live at home during that time. She had had to be twice as determined than everyone else. Everything was regimented. Focused. Hard.
The academy put focus on adherence to rules. Appearance was one of them. She had forgone makeup and wore appropriate dress the entire time. Amelia had put herself on a strict curfew that had basically "killed her" to the outside world. Her life had been put on hold for nearly a year. No friends. Mainly just family, and the job when she had time. The mansion had gone without her glowing smile for a good long while. And that had been on top of going to college classes and burning through her science degree.
Forensics was interesting. So was law enforcement. Crime scene investigation was a great profession. There were great opportunities for lab technicians, too. Both great options! But she had wanted to be a police officer. She had wanted to do something and make a difference in the community. At one point, she had beloved she could do that with the X men. But then she'd realized the X men were doing police work, and she could do that on her own. The X men could do so much more. But they didn't. So she would make a difference in her own way.
Amelia didn't want to be a hero. She didn't think of herself as a hero. That was one reason the X men thing clashed with her ideology. To her, Amelia felt that people could make a difference and help people without becoming super heroes. And if super heroes existed, they damn well needed to do better than to just help the police. They needed to help the world. That's what she wanted to do. But to start out, she wanted to be a cop.
Sadly, the CIA hadn't returned her calls. Somehow, she had thought her recommendation from Miri would have done more.
80 push-ups and 250 crunches a day was the starting goal. She did 90 and 260. And then 100 and 270. That was pretty good. When she had started, Amelia had been much less than that. She had been fit. Soccer. Basketball. Running. But she hadn't done sit-ups and crunches at that rate. The going had been slow. She had started with the recommendation from California she had read online. Then she had raised the bar.
Apparently, two thirds of new recruits can't pass the fitness tests when they first start. She had worked extra hard to beat her initial assessment.
Here are criteria men and women law enforcement hopefuls must meet in Vermont. For men: bench press 99% of body weight. 38 sit-ups a minute. 29 push-ups a minute.
For women: Bench press 59% of body weight. 32 sit-ups per minute. 15 push-ups per minute.
She met those goals. For push-ups, she exceeded them. 20. And 35 sit-ups per minute.
When taking down criminals, you need muscle. You also benefit from knowing how to bring people down without hurting them. Self defense tactics, as well as nonlethal takedown tools like batons and pepper spray are covered. For Amelia, self defense was easy. She had been training in aikido for years. The next topic was guns.
Miri had taught Amelia basic firearm safety. Miri was Amelia's baby sitter, and family friend. Also a CIA badass who she didn't get to see much. They'd gone over the basics and she had gone to shooting ranges now and then during her free time high school through college. Gun training in police academy came second nature.
Pistols. Shotguns. Handguns. She trained in usage and practiced her marksmanship for them all. For the test, she needed 90% accuracy over them all. 84% pistol accuracy on three back to back targets was one part of the test.
She learned how to drive a police car in emergency situations (emergency vehicle operations course, EVOC).
There were about 230 hours out into academics, 40 hours into driving, 113 in firearms, 100 In human relations, 105 hours in law, 98 hours in tactics, and 142 hours in physical training. 828 total hours. So yeah, she trained.
Law involved things like search and seizure, hostage negotiation, observation skills, responding to adversarial questioning, and many other topics. Classes also involved ethics. Important subject. She vowed to never betray her badge, her integrity, her character or public trust. She knew she would, have to hold herself accountable for her actions. She always had. It was just more of the same.
Finally, came the big exam. She passed.
She went through all of that. Except the last bit. After all those hours, after all of that, she still needed to go through field training with a certified police officer. Which brought her to the present.
