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.
Lee looked at him with fear, stewing in her silent reflection. Devon’s lips pouted as he stared at her, ready to let fly with a torrent of stormy weather. Surely Lee – unless her real name was Shirley! – was Shirley Lee a name? He’d never really met anyone name Shirley.
>> ”You’d hate if I wasn’t a mutant?”
Devon blinked. Wait what he thinking about? Oh yes. “Mmmhmmm,” he tucked his chin into his chest and nodded slowly, still pouting.
>> ”I can honestly say that I’ve never heard anyone say that before.”
Laughter filled his throat before his lips parted, letting out weeks’ worth of frustration. “Not publicly anyway, and still rarely in private, but there’s truly special people out there if you know where to look,” he commented wryly. Because his eyes were dark he gestured out with both hands then lowered the one with his glass. It was half empty already!
She seemed hesitant. Devon dragged his glass across the bar as he came around to the other side. No human would delay this much. Still, he hoped she didn’t freak out and prove some in denial, self-hating mutant. Ugh. Lame. Gross. >> ”Alright, yes, I am,”
Devon shouted, “Yes!” as he flung himself at her, wrapping her in his arms. “Yes, yes, yes, yes,” he laughed as he shook her slightly. He leaned back and lowered his head, “I’m so glad. You are special, don’t ever forget it, even if the rest of the world looks down at you. Jealousy and fear is for them, not for you. You are a mutant.”
Stepping back, he chuckled, grinning all the while as he lifted his head to gaze up at the ceiling. “You are so hired,” he nodded. “But now let’s do it. What you’ve always got to do when you meet another mutant. There’s no escaping it. What can you do?”
Lee now knew that there were at least a couple special people out there in the world, she’d managed to find Jason after all. Though she really didn’t know what Devon meant by ‘if you knew where to look’. It’s not like she went to certain places because she was a mutant, special as Devon had called her. Jason didn’t either, he was trying to hide in plain sight just as much as she was.
As she hesitated in answering whether she was a mutant or not, Devon made his way around the bar finally, and Lee kept her eyes on him. Though she did notice how empty his glass was, again.
The moment that the words were out of her mouth, Devon was launching himself at her, and Lee tensed, readying herself for a fight. Only to have him hug her. That was just as surprising to Lee, and she simply sat there as the younger man shook her slightly as he hugged.
Finally, Devon backed off again, and Lee relaxed. Only for her to frown. ”I thought I was already hired?” She questioned. And yet another very weird situation in just a matter of minutes. Not once in her life had her mutation made her more favourable for something, especially a job.
Then he asked what she could do, and for a second all Lee could do was blink at Devon. ”I siphon energy from people,” she finally answered. ”It’s not a whole lot to see, though. Unless you want to suddenly take a nap on the floor here.”
Devon laughed, “Stop! Yes, you were hired. Now you’re so hired!” He swung back behind the bar as he asked her of her specialness. The screwdriver was being poured before she’d had time to finish her first sentence. Siphoning energy?
His dark eyes widened, but softened back to their normal white sclera and blue irises. “Oh do I seem like the nap type?” he chuckled and shook his head. “But I guess that’s why you’re so hyped up eh? Well I guess maybe you can help us get the troublesome types to bed when we need to? Sometimes the handsy or the rude just need to chill, right? Right.” He nodded and took a sip.
“I control the weather,” he shrugged a shoulder and took another sip. “Let me know when ya need a beach day. But now let’s get upstairs and fill out your paperwork. I can tell you about some of other programs, but at least here you never have to fear being yourself. I’ll introduce you to some of the other mutants when you’re ready.”
Lee just kinda shrugged when she heard Devon’s question about naps. ”It doesn’t really matter if you’re a nap person or not if I decide you need to have one,” Lee told him. It was true, if she wanted to, it didn’t really matter how tired he was, she could make him pass out.
But he wanted her to actually use her powers to help with troublesome customers? ”Uh, I mean I would be able to help with that…” Lee said slowly, unsure. Yes, she knew that she could do that, but it went so against how she’d lived her life, hiding her powers and keeping her head down that she wasn’t sure she would do that.
He could control the weather? To the point that all she had to do was ask, and he could provide perfect beach weather? That was so much more amazing than what she was able to do.
But then it was right back to business. Lee nodded when Devon suggested going up to take care of the paperwork, though she was a little nervous about it. Still, she stood, nodding again as she continued listening to him. As she listened, Lee thought. It was going to come out since they had an actual HR department that handled hiring. Plus, in this day and age being a mutant was much more scandalous and taboo than being an illegal alien.
”I think I’d like to meet some other mutants,” Lee told him. And, though she was standing, Lee didn’t otherwise move. ”All things considered, I should maybe give full disclosure before we head up.” Lee paused, taking a breath before continuing. ”I’m not exactly legal in the country.”
