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.
>> "That's not... what even..." he gaped "That isn't even..."
Part of Panu wished he had three more camera angles to catch the look on the X-Man's face, probably it would make for good replays later tonight when he was laying in bed and grumpy.
Another part of him thought that, maybe, Gawain was not faking his reaction. That maybe Panu had misunderstood.
That part of him made the rest of him feel a little guilty, which was a stupid never-helps-anything emotion and he tucked his shoulders in against it as the man talked some more. Angua, who was his favorite person in the room, and probably in the whole Mansion, dropped her head on his knees. He gave her ears the Best Scratching Ever.
>> "What I'm saying is... as a kid, you should have the option to not pawn your powers out to anyone. You shouldn't have to find the biggest shark, to feel safe. That's all. Options."
He had 100% misunderstood Gawain's earlier words. But he couldn't say that, it would make him seem stupid, like maybe he hadn't gotten nearly as good with English as he thought he had. (Or maybe he had been trying not to understand.) Apologizing would be even worse, real villains never apologized, except if they were being Sarcastic or Classy and he didn't feel like being either right now. He just wanted to pet a dog and then wake up back in California and find this was all-a-dream. Even better would be waking up back in Finland, but it had been years since he had lived there, and it was getting harder to picture himself really being there.
Angua retreated from his ear-scratching with a big doggy smile, and moved back to Gawain. Panu tucked his hands back in his lap.
"Why did you pick Mansion as your option?" he asked. "Mirror-walking is decent power, unique and useful, but not strong enough others care that you have it. Very independent. You could go anywhere. Why here? Please not sales pitch answer about justice and friendship, probably I will throw up on carpet."
It was hard to conduct a conversation with a child that was so unlike most other children. Gawain did not talk to mini-villains often enough to know what to say, or not to say, to make Panu understand what he wanted him to understand. Angua was some help, but she was mostly in it for the scratches. At least his second attempt at explaining kept Panu from running out of the room.
>>"Why did you pick Mansion as your option? Mirror-walking is decent power, unique and useful, but not strong enough others care that you have it. Very independent. You could go anywhere. Why here? Please not sales pitch answer about justice and friendship, probably I will throw up on carpet."
Well, at least that was an easy question.
"I followed a cute girl here." Gawain answered promptly and truthfully. "Before, I lived on the streets, mostly, for years. But then I came to New York, and met her, and she was the first girl I really liked. And she lived here, so I snuck in. And then I stayed." He shrugged. Long story short. "She left, eventually. A long time ago. But by then, the Mansion was more of a home than any I had before."
