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.
Hunter was walking towards Dr Ingram’s lab. He wanted to put the good doctor on Stalker watch, gathering every scrap of data they had on the machines and beginning to formulate counter measures.
One thing he had noticed from Calley’s footage was that something had happened to one of Abyss’s clones to turn them into a human. That was why Hunter had sent someone to bring Abyss down to Ingram’s lab so he could talk to him about it.
Hunter turned as the door opened to see Abyss entering. He’d only just arrived himself, nice to see he wouldn’t be kept waiting. “Abyss,” he said in a pleasant greeting, “Come in. I want to talk to you about something that happened to one of your clones.”
“I managed to get a recording of the battle at the Sanctuary off of the government and saw one of the clones get turned into a human, or at least that’s what it looked like. If you’re willing I have one of the world’s greatest scientific minds willing to try and turn him back into the mutant he once was.” Hunter waited to see how Abyss would react. He had discovered that many mutants were adverse to scientists, and Dr Ingram’s bedside manner was not the best.
“This was caused by some substance entering your body,” Dr Ingram explained as he entered through another door, “Most likely a chemical compound of some description. I’ll need a blood sample to analyse what has caused it, but it shouldn’t be difficult to synthesis a countermeasure.”
“Abyss, Saturn, this is Dr James Ingram, my top scientist,” said Hunter, introducing the doctor. If you wouldn’t mind following him he’ll lead you to where he can begin working on a way to reverse this process.” Hunter turned to Ingram and have him a look which told him not to push his luck with their big red friend. The doctor made no response, but his self-preservation instincts were still fully functional and he knew not to anger a man of Abyss’s size and strength.
Dr Ingram pulled out a hypodermic needle and after rubbing some general aesthetic into Saturn’s arm, something he wasn’t in the habit of doing, he took the blood sample. Taking the sample over to an advanced microscope he placed a drop on a slide and slid it under the microscope.
On a large screen an image appeared of Saturn’s cells. Attached to them where what looked like small grey machines. “Nanobots,” Ingram explained, “they’re suppressing your x gene, hence you reverting to a normal state. But if you look here,” he said pointing to a nanobot that was not attached to a cell, “they are degrading. Were it not for the void you would be normal already.”
“As it is you have a few hours more until you return to your mutated self. However,” Ingram went to a vial of silver fluid, placed it into a machine and began typing. A minute or so later he removed the vial and loaded it into a hypodermic needle. “I believe that I can bring a premature end to your condition.”
He dropped a small amount of liquid onto the slide. More nanobots could be seen, but these ones attacked the nanobots bound to Saturn’s cells, and did nothing to the actual cells themselves. Ingram turned to face the pair, holding up the needle to see if they wished to wait, or take the treatment.
“Spend an hour an a half outside the void and you should be back to your mutated self,” Ingram answered. He was actually quite intrigued by the big mutant and his “void” mechanics. The tape of him putting a cat into the void had been taken and he was studying it in an effort to try and workout some of the laws governing the void.
He continued to hold the needle, incase Saturn wasn’t willing to wait.
Ingram’s aim was spot on. He quickly emptied the vial into Saturn and stepped back to wait. Nothing happened for a few seconds, then his skin turned red, his muscles bulked out and before long he was an identical copy of Abyss.
“22 seconds from receiving the counter measure to returning to normal,” said Dr Ingram, setting the needle aside, “Factoring in that some of the nanobots had already been defeated by your body’s immune system I predict a 30 second time period for counter acting freshly injected nanobots.”
“The nanobots that I injected should now be breaking themselves down and will have passed from your body within 24 hours, or at least the 24 hours you spend in this world. Unless there is anything else you need I have a lot of work do do, largely revolving around defeating these Stalkers.”
Ingram nodded cordially to the pair as they left. Once they had exited the lab he reactivated all the security systems that he had disabled to allow them in. With the arrival of the resistance he had been informed of the capabilities of all present and updated his security to compensate.
The offer of a favour from Saturn was intriguing, and the man’s phenomenal strength might come in handy for an experiment when a large amount of force is required and building a machine to do it is impractical. However, for now he had an interesting enough prospect to deal with. Saturn’s blood.
With the nanobots defeated it was now a pure source and he immediately set about replicating it, as well as studying the sample he had. A skin colouration and enhanced strength would be obvious changes, but the clones were an interesting prospect. He wondered how Hunter’s unique physiology would incorporate that ability.