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.
If Kalos ever got a tattoo, she thought "No one can make me" might sum up her feelings pretty nicely. Maybe on her hand. Somewhere really visible.
> "But I think you maybe should know..."
For fun? She was kidding, right?
"Gross. You and Becca don't do that, so why would I? Bluh." She added a few extra barf sounds for good effect. "Actually, I can't— AND REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO— imagine anyone at the Mansion acting like that." She felt rather smug at her assertion. People were nice here. No way anyone was doing s-e-x.
Okay, so Kalos equated sex with babies. That was an easy one to talk about. In fact, it would have been a lot harder to do it the other way around. She clearly did not like either idea.
>>"Gross. You and Becca don't do that, so why would I? Bluh."
Maya felt her cheeks flush. On the one hand - Kalos might be the only person in the Mansion who's never accidentally walked in on Becca and Mirror? Even with an adjacent room? Go team. On the other hand...
"Ummm...."
>>"Actually, I can't— AND REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO— imagine anyone at the Mansion acting like that."
Oh boy. Oh, sweet summer child.
"Okay, okay, hold on" Maya held up a hand at the very teenage-y barfing noises "Kalos what... um... what do you think sex looks like?..."
Kalos turned purple in a rush of embarrassed anger. "If I have to explain to you what suhheeee- what- what- what THAT looks like you're doing it wrong!" She wished that she hadn't sat down. In a rush to get her legs untangled, her coral toes were getting snagged on her mustard yellow joggers and the caps were trying to dislodge. She wanted toes. And she wanted joggers. She did not want to have to explain exactly what went where when making babies.
Frustrated and embarrassed at trying to make a quick exit and failing, Kalos refreshed her near head to toe blush and tried to make her pose look intentional. With one-leg up and one bent knee, maybe it wouldn't be too obvious that she'd sat too hard on her toes and gotten them stuck. Kalos glared at the toes of her free foot. One toe cap taunted from where it had snagged and then popped off. She grabbed it and put it back in place. Stupid toes of betrayal.
This was a conversation that Maya clearly didn't want to have either, and yet here they were. So it was important to Maya that they talk about it. Realizing that, Kalos took a deep breath and set her jaw. She would not cry. She would not cry. There was no reason to embarrass herself in front of her hero any worse than she already had.
"You have to be naked. Maybe not all the way, but you have to- there's parts-" She hugged her knee and dared to look up to see what was on Maya's face. "Do I have to say it?"
>>"If I have to explain to you what suhheeee- what- what- what THAT looks like you're doing it wrong!"
Well, at least she had an inkling that Mirror was doing it. Also, excellent comeback. The kid was quick. Even if horribly embarrassed at the moment.
Kalos flailed, and seemed to want to bold out of the room and the conversation. She got somewhat tangled and froze in an awkward position. Maya shifted, ready to catch her if she actually tried to faceplant off the bed.
>>"You have to be naked. Maybe not all the way, but you have to- there's parts- Do I have to say it?"
"No. God, no." Maya sighed "Alright, kiddo, take a breath, okay? I'M just trying to make sure that... whatever you think it is, you don't... have the wrong idea. And honestly, I'm with you on that part, sex looks pretty weird from the outside."
Maya advised her to take a breath and Kalos took that advice to heart, again working to unknot her shoulders. At least Maya wasn't going to make her spell it all out. And thank goodness this wasn't a Gawain day. If she'd had to look at Gawain and think about this stuff... nope. She wasn't even going to go there.
Sure, she'd asked Gawain to marry her, but she'd been thinking more in the vein of protection. Back then, she'd thought every woman needed a husband to stand for her and she wasn't about to go to the surface without someone on her side. In the time since, she'd learned that just wasn't so on the surface. Gawain/Maya, Becca, Gemma, Chase and Toby, Jorge... they were all on her side. She was sure of it.
> "I'M just trying to make sure that... whatever you think it is, you don't... have the wrong idea."
"It is for making babies." Thought that wasn't quite right. Maya had said some people did it for fun... Kalos couldn't puzzle out why, though. So she'd have to ask.
> "And honestly, I'm with you on that part, sex looks pretty weird from the outside."
Okay. Well at least they had that in common, but it did give her pause. "Do- Was she really going to ask? Kalos found something else to look at, ANYTHING else to look at. "Do you know what it looks like from the inside?" Okay. She'd blurted that and it made no sense. Kalos hurried to get her real question out before something else weird fell out of her mouth. "I mean, why do people...? If you don't want a baby? I mean. Why?"
Once again, Kalos seemed to calm down a bit. Maya was winging the whole thing all the way, but the kid had not bolted yet, and that was a win in her book.
>>"It is for making babies."
"Yes. I mean, that's the biology of it."
Kalos was clearly not a fan of that part, which, honestly, was a relief, because the last thing Maya wanted to deal with was a baby-crazy teenager. Small blessings. Many parents would have paid a telepath for this attitude.
>>"Do- Do you know what it looks like from the inside? I mean, why do people...? If you don't want a baby? I mean. Why?"
Okay, that was a solid question. Maya scratched the back of her neck.
"Well, um. I really don't know how else to say this, but... people do it because it feels good. Like, really good. When it's done right."
Huh. The fact that sex might feel nice had literally never occurred to Kalos. What she had seen was not a great introduction, she decided. People's faces twisted up into almost pain... even the mad King...
"I guess it's a little like kissing. People seem to enjoy kissing." Now that was something Kalos had actually seen. There was lots and lots of kissing happening at the Mansion. And people tried to sneak in more kissing all the time. Did that mean people were trying to sneak sex all over the place?
"If it feels so good, why do people make sounds while-?" A thought struck Kalos. A strange and unwelcome thought.
The sounds people made while kissing were usually softer and... happier? All she knew of sex sounded worse, almost nightmarish. And, she'd heard Maya and Becca having nightmares before...
She couldn't help it. She tried not to look, but her head was turning slowly and against her will so that she was facing Maya and looking at her. REALLY looking at her.
"You've had-" she raised her eyebrows and then pointed at the door, the thin and flimsy door that separated Kalos' room from Maya and Becca's SHARED room with a SHARED bed where they SHARED nightmares. Only, Kalos ws realizing those probably were not nightmares. "You did it right over there and I was over here!"
>>"I guess it's a little like kissing. People seem to enjoy kissing."
"Yes. Kissing is also nice." Baby steps. Kissing was more public, therefore easier to observe in its natural habitat. Kissing was also teen-friendly. It was just all around a good place to start.
>>"If it feels so good, why do people make sounds while-?"
Maya could literally hear the record scratch in the room as the conversation jumped the curb and headed straight for a pet store. The crash was inevitable, and slow-motion.
>>"You've had- You did it right over there and I was over here!"
CRAAAAAASH
Maya turned bright red. When did this whole thing turn around to her being the teenager that needed to feel embarrassed about being caught having s-e-x?
"Yeah, that's... um. Yeah. We do. Sometimes have sex." uhhhhhhhhhh...
Embarrassing, yes, but more so for Maya. This opened up a whole realm of questions that Kalos could only ask because it was Maya and she trusted Maya not to lie or sugar coat things too much. Plus, she started it.
"Why are you loud? Is it always loud? Why is she loud? Is it very different as a man? You know, I thought you guys were having bad dreams, I almost walked in!" What if she had? That derailed the question train momentarily.
Wow. Just- w o w. Surely, not every adult she knew had done it, right? But it couldn't be bad if her heroes were doing that. She was so used to thinking of it as a bad thing- a really, really terribly bad and totally unwanted thing.
Another thought had Kalos inspecting Maya and her reactions once again.
"Do you want a baby?"
Were they doing it because of that? Was she... being replaced?
The flood gates were now open, and Kalos realized that she had the upper hand in the conversation. Welp, at least now she was asking questions. Really awkward questions, but valid questions nonetheless.
>>"Why are you loud? Is it always loud? Why is she loud? Is it very different as a man? You know, I thought you guys were having bad dreams, I almost walked in!"
"Whoa!" Maya held up a hand, chuckling against he better judgment, and suddenly wishing Becca was a part of this conversation, because she sure as hell was never going to live it down "One question at a time."
Also, they needed some kind of a sock-on-the-doorknob system, apparently. And maybe soundproofing.
>>"Do you want a baby?"
Blink.
"Wh... oh. No. Um, yes, but, no. Not right... no, that's not why we do it." lord knew they had a brood of children to keep alive already, plus two semi-AU babies "We do it for fun. And I'm sorry we are loud sometimes. It really depends on the person if they are loud or not." Becca for example, she was Exhibit A on the 'loud' side, not that she minded "And yes, it is different as Gawain. But both are good."
Kalos scraped her fingertips together as Maya struggled to settle on an answer to her question. Not right now was a good enough answer for Kalos. And now that she knew there were other reasons to do it, We do it for fun was almost too much information.
Cue preteen yakking sounds.
"It's okay if you're loud. Now that I know you're both okay I will NOT go in. I won't worry about you anymore, either." It was embarrassing to admit how small those sounds had made her feel, how ineffective. What could she do against a hero's nightmare? She could hardly battle her own.
She went back to burnishing the tips of her fingers.
"Chase isn't a toucher." In fact, physical touch seemed almost painful to him at times. It was part of the reason why she loved hanging out with him. He was so totally safe. "I haven't even had a kiss. So you don't have to worry about me."
Should she have? Even if she 'should have' by the standards up here, she was behind in a lot of things. She would just go at her own pace, like she had been.
>>"It's okay if you're loud. Now that I know you're both okay I will NOT go in. I won't worry about you anymore, either."
"Daww." Sweet, sweet coral baby. Maya smiled and reached out to pat her on the head; she would have ruffled her hair if she had any. "If I had known you worried about us, we could have talked about this sooner..."
Kalos, even as a preteen, was a very precious child. Maya was happy she ended up living in the Mansion.
>>"Chase isn't a toucher. I haven't even had a kiss. So you don't have to worry about me."
"You know, there are people who don't like having sex." Maya noted, sitting back "That's okay too. And it's okay to try things, as long as you are careful. And as long as you both know what you want, and what you don't want to do. That's important."