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.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 6, 2024 14:58:13 GMT -6
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Mr Drake seemed to agree with her thoughts about when warning labels had appeared on various things. Emphatically agreed, based on the hand movement.
If that was the case, why had he asked in the first place? Not that it actually mattered much.
Especially not when he mentioned that maybe thinking danger sounded fun was an 80s kid thing, as though he were talking about himself.
Lee looked at him quizzically. While Lee had been born in the early 80s, she only had a handful of memories, if that, actually from the 1980s. No, Lee was quite solidly a 90s kid, and the man standing in front of her was easily younger than her no matter what criteria she used to make that decision.
And maybe they had called it the danger room for legal reasons? Unless that had been done by someone Lee had never met, well before she had met Sam and Shin, that didn't sound like the reason to her.
"Then wouldn't it have made more sense to name it the 'power training room', Mr Drake?" Lee asked. "Or even simply the 'training room' rather than the danger room?"
Posted by Ashton Drake on Sept 15, 2024 8:28:34 GMT -6
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The 80s slip up had got her looking at him, and strangely. He didn’t smile about the comment, played it close to the chest. Whoops. Yeah, he did look way younger than an 80s kid. So what if his youngest memories before the age change were of stuff like hair bands and really good rock and roll? That did not mean a thing. But he would share if anyone ever asked. Just an old geezer, rambling about the good ol days.
Music these days. Not enough hair rocking. Too much emotion. Not even the right kinds. Stuff like asking what you’re made for because you’re unhappy, or whatever, when you could be focusing on how happy you were, or how happy you would make someone else, although there was that song about someone being happy… and it was mostly catchy and annoying. A real worm for your ear.
He Did like some modern music. Recent rock, some flavors of old. Maybe u2, the foo fighters, hozier, royal blood… He needed to check some out, too. The lemon twigs was supposed to be 60s-70s feel, dirty honey! He had friends that helped him on the music scene. Turned him to stuff like Allah las. Natural child, Greta van fleet, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Phanerons, Holy Wave, Triathalon… He even liked the Mars Volta. Stuff like that. Foxy Shazam, specifically their self-titled album and The Church of Rock and Roll. White Reaper sounds like early Cheap Trick. He could go on. But this was all internal monologue. Nobody was listening (not even him).
Miss Smith said:
“Then wouldn't it have made more sense to name it the 'power training room', Mr Drake? Or even simply the 'training room' rather than the danger room?"
He winced a little. Mr Drake.
” But it’s dangerous… “ He said sardonically. ”And you can call me Ashton. I’m off the clock. As for the room, yeah, maybe power training is pretty literal. The war room sounds melodramatic, too. But they probably mostly use it to play cards… not a lot of going to war lately. Except there one time they did, and it didn’t get used at all… the headmaster must enjoy melodrama.”
They were getting pretty far from the original thing He had meant to do today.
” Have you ever seen the danger room?” As thin asked curiously.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 18, 2024 16:29:39 GMT -6
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She hadn't questioned the 80s kid thing out loud, and he didn't say anything else about it. Though as Lee thought about it, Michael had said that they'd lost ten years when they were deaged. And Quin had been deaged as well.
Had that whole thing been far more widespread than Lee had thought. Or it had just disproportionately affected mutants, which wouldn't surprise her, and she had only avoided it because she had only really left her apartment when she'd had to.
How many years was it possible for someone to have lost in that?
"'War room' would have been an even worse name for it, Ashton," Lee replied, though there was a hint of humour in her voice. "Even more so if you actually think that they would actually all gather together and make a plan before rushing into a dangerous situation."
Then Ashton asked if she had actually seen the danger room before, and Lee nodded. "I have, though not since the rebuild."
Technically true, the mansion had been rebuilt since Sam had taken her to the danger room to help sort out her people radar. Lee just wasn't sure how many times the mansion had been rebuilt since…
Posted by Ashton Drake on Sept 20, 2024 14:51:41 GMT -6
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>>> "'War room' would have been an even worse name for it, Ashton," Lee replied, and Ashton blinked.
Did she not know what they called their board room for discussing missions? Granted, he knew about it mainly from Jorge, and the man was a full X. But still.
Her humor was overshadowed by the fact she thought it funny, the idea that the x-men would get together prior to a mission, and talk about stuff. Rather than rushing off, blindly. Ashton was not an X. But he felt offended for them, by proxy. Seemed a terrible thing, to think the men in the X-men would rush off blindly, 9 times out of 10. And maybe a little sexist? Were there women on the team? They needed more women. He thought maybe the majority of women were married… he’d heard a rumor about it… and heck, even married to each other. Which meant not single. Which was a shame.
Yeah, the x men definitely needed more women in the team. More members, in general. And that was spoken by a guy who planned to join. Not just someone who appreciated the insights of the fairer… and smarter, let’s face it, folks… sex. She was probably right. Dudes probably did barge into danger, all braggadocio and ice armor, or water whatever, or whatever the hell it was the Asian did with his mind.
He totally missed the humor, yeah. He kind of stone faced past Ms Smith’s joke. So he made small talk. And she had seen the danger room once before, but not since the rebuild. She was not entirely clueless about it. Okay. Gave her opinion on it and who she would want exposed to it, a bit more weight. Better than someone who just hears danger and says “I don’t want it.”
”Well I was just about to go. If you wanted to see the new and improved room. But you were busy, weren’t you?”
At this point, he realized maybe he was artificially extending the conversation, and maybe he needed to let the woman get on with her day. Stop being selfish, monopolizing a woman’s time. Unless she wanted to kill the time, that was. With him.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 20, 2024 19:24:24 GMT -6
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Ashton didn't seem overly happy about her slightly joking comment about the XMen not really planning things out before rushing into situations. Not too pleased, but either not upset enough or unaware enough of how the team actually worked before missions to argue the point.
Or it was true, but he didn't like an 'outsider' pointing that fact out.
Not that it mattered much in the grand scheme of things. The XMen had their place, and Lee had her opinion of how they filled that space. Those who needed to know her opinion on the XMen knew what it was and why she felt that way.
That was the part that was important.
Ashton, apparently, was going to be heading to the danger room. Heading there then and now. And was inviting her to come check it out now that the mansion had been rebuilt.
Except he thought she was busy.
Lee quickly pulled her phone out to check the time then shook her head. "Actually no. I was going to head home because apparently it's 'not cool' for me to visit my son when he's trying to hang out with his new friends. Otherwise no plans for at least a couple of hours."
Turning back toward the door, Lee started walking. "They didn't change the floorplan down there, did they?" she asked over her shoulder, not bothering to look to see if Ashton was following her. She didn't need her eyes to tell that.