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.
Geo frowned when Lori began talking about his father, it started surfacing old memories. Geo was so weak back then, he couldn't fight back or even keep his powers activated long enough for it to make a difference. "No but I damn well outta be, I could level a F***in city block if i wanted to, tell me that kind of power doesn't demand respect. You heard about the Statue of Liberty being replaced? That was me. We deserve so much more respect then we get." Then she sat up and slid close to him. He looked up and into her eyes, which seemed to just continue to draw him in. She continued to talk about how mutants were superior and humans were swirling down the drain. Her hand touched his knee and his instinctivly sat on top of hers, a smile formed on his face when she called him 'Kitten', not a wicked one like before but charming.
Her hand retracted at his laugh and a frown formed on his face again. Then the questions started back up. No catch, no price, you just get a ring when your needed, or a home if you need one. We're a free reign group, you live where you want, do what you want." Geo loved that about the Order, the fact that he could leave whenever he wanted and there were no real ties. Then she asked about the plan and all that could come to Geo's mind was, "Ever here of Haywire?"
"No catch, no price, you just get a ring when your needed, or a home if you need one. We're a free reign group, you live where you want, do what you want."
Lori's turn for a bitter chuckle. "Nothing in this life is free." She shrugged. Obviously whatever the price was, it was entirely nominal to Geo. That or he walked in grace with the leaders of this place. A whole city block hmmm? He probably wasn't kidding, and from what she'd seen he probably wasn't even done developing his power. Lori was kind of new to this mutant thing. Call her a later bloomer, but she felt some camaraderie with Geo in that respect at least.
"Ever hear of Haywire?"
She looked up as she mentally scanned through her knowledge banks. A small frown formed as she was drawing a blank. She didn't like to draw a blank. Lori leveled her eyes with Geo's again. "You say it like it should be capitalized. Haywire." She repeated the word with the same inflection that Geo had. "I've heard of wire used to bale hay and the expression that something can go crazy... can go haywire." She shook her head and then carefully focused her eyes on Geo again. She wasn't about to miss a single detail about this. "...Somehow I get the feeling that's not what you're talking about."
Geo shook his head at Lori's attempted definition of Haywire. "No, let's just say it's gunna rock the foundations of anyone who isn't sided with the Order." He had a feeling like he shouldn't be telling this to a person who hadn't even decided to join yet. Geo leveled eyes with Lori, "You'll learn alot more if you join us, if not then you may never know." Geo formed another smile on his face while looking at the beautiful blonde. "So whats your story, or do you wanna play games again 'Emily'
"No, let's just say it's gunna rock the foundations of anyone who isn't sided with the Order."
Interesting and yet she still wanted to know more. The Order. Was this 'The Order' something she should know about? She scanned through their conversation, picking things apart in attempts to place what the Order was and how it might be a 'side.' Sides made it sound like war. The only 'war' they'd talked about wasn't overseas, but a squabbling between subspecies (namely sapiens and superiors) about dominance. The Order. It was another one of those capitalized words.
Geo seemed to realize that he'd started to spill some of their precious secrets. He leveled his eyes with her and fired off yet another recruitment spiel, "You'll learn alot more if you join us, if not then you may never know."
Ah. He had her pegged after all. A parched knowledge drinker, dying of thirst. "You know for a supposedly easy going, come-and-go type of hush hush organization... you guys are still have secrets." She threw her hands up like it was unbelievable, though she was actually surprised she'd gotten as much as she already had. It was almost hard to believe he was stonewalling her after all he'd spilled already. Ah well. She wasn't about to belittle what information he'd already let go.
Geo grinned again, knowing he'd cast a good hook. Jerk. "So what's your story, or do you wanna play games again 'Emily'?"
"So quick to change the topic?" She grinned and shook her head thinking of something she could actually tell this kid. There wasn't even anything of worth to tell in her book. "You're probably not gonna let me live down the Emily thing for a while, huh?" She chuckled and side-stepped the question. "Like Geo is even your real name. That'd be convenient, an earth user named after the fundamental nature of his power?" Verbally, she jabbed at Geo in a playful way to get the words flowing again. So what if direct questions weren't working anymore? Perhaps she could still come at it from the side.
Geo shrugged and smiled as Lori commented on his secrets, "We're good like that." Geo chuckled to himself before listening to Lori again, "Well i guess that depends Lori, are you gunna stick around long enough for me to actually tease you?" She then countered with a comment on his given name. "Geo is what I started calling myself when i got my powers, it's simple but suggest great power. My mother named me Tristan but they rejected me so I got a new start. I stopped going by that when i came here."
"We're good like that." She rolled her clear blue eyes.
"Well i guess that depends Lori, are you gunna stick around long enough for me to actually tease you?" She laughed along with him. It was good to laugh like this. "Fortunately... or unfortunately" She shrugged wondering which he would pick now and which he'd pick later. "You've intrigued me. As if you can dangle those kinds of carrots and not expect me to stick around long enough to taste one." She wrinkled her nose playfully at him.
"Geo is what I started calling myself when i got my powers, it's simple but suggest great power. My mother named me Tristan but they rejected me so I got a new start. I stopped going by that when i came here."
"Tristan? Like one of the knights of the round table?" For a guy who gave up his given name, he sure passed that out easy enough. Though it was only fair. He knew her real name. "Cool. Though, I guess I can understand the need to start over." She licked her lips eying him again. Where to begin?
"The Order." She began carefully. "That's your secret organization's name, right?" It was best to begin at the beginning.
Geo cocked his head at Lori, "Hark! Is that a decision?" He smiled and winked, he was starting to like this chick, her sticking around, if only for a little while, was gunna be fun. She wrinkled her nose and it seemed adorable to him, almost daring.
Then she began to speak again, "I honestly have no idea, never talked to my 'rents long enough to find out. I loved the idea of starting over, becoming a whole new person." She then licked her lips, something Geo often took as a sign of 'Kiss me you fool' Geo began to lean in again but she blocked him by throwing a verbal wall at him. "Yeah thats the name" Geo said, a small bit of disappointment in his mind but not letting it show on his voice, unfortunatly his face did anyways.
"Hark! Is that a decision?" He smiled and winked.[/i]
"If it's so come-and-go do you even need an official, 'I'm a member of the very secret organization called the Order' decoder ring or whatever? I mean come on. You just need a yes and I can learn all your secrets and leave, right?" She then offered him her arm. "So open my veins so we can sign me up in blood or whatever."
Geo then leaned in slightly. Which didn't bother her except he seemed to expect something. Luckily her words were well timed for another block. That was 2 and 0 in favor of Lori so far. He confirmed her suspicions about the Order with slight displeasure in his eyes. She couldn't help but laugh a good hearty belly laugh.
"Unfortunatly no, the decoder rings got recalled last month, aparently too many people were sending each other naughty messages." Geo joked. Then Lori held out her arm, telling Geo to sign with her blood. Which he took as a yes. "Just wait till tomorrow and talk to Abyss or I can take you to meet Syn. They can fill you in on all the secrets you ask."
Lori seemed to have noticed Geo being verbally blocked and laughed, so Geo decided to kick it up a notch. Geo took a hold of her arm and wrapped it around his neck, he then leaned in again, this time not to be blocked by a wall of words.
"Unfortunatly no, the decoder rings got recalled last month, aparently too many people were sending each other naughty messages." She laughed. So he did have a sense of humor, though unfortunately she was going to have to wait around until tomorrow. That meant spending the night at the Sanctuary. Geo seemed to be realizing the same thing as he took her arm and ducked underneath it, pulling her off of the bed and toward his fast approaching lips.
My, my this one was persistent.
She slipped her hand between their lips just in time to physically block the kiss, (3-0 for kisses) though their noses were touching, eyelashes brushing, and she was rather forced to take a seat on his knee. It was that or strain awkwardly on her tiptoes and remain off balance. Really she didn't want to hurt the kid's feelings, but if worse came to worse she was planning to drop his mini fridge on his head.
"Geo." She spoke with a slight laugh in her voice. She was clearly flattered, but not that easy. She also was having a hard time deciding how old the kid was. Once second he was like a kid and the next... "You trying to chase me off?" She didn't back off one bit, speaking against the fingers that were the only thing separating the two.
Geo felt it was a sure thing before a split second before contact he had a hand in the face. He clentched his eyes closed and swore silently to himself, his pride just took a major blow. "Now why would i ever want to chase off a beauty like you?" He said, not even an inch from her face, damn that flesh and bone wall. Geo then smirked as his mind kicked in, there it was where the hell had it been the past half hour.
"Sorry, i get a little over zealous around blue eyed beauties i guess." He shrugged, she was now sitting on his lap, he was liking this. He had a gorgeous girl sitting on his lap in his room only inches away from his face, to quote Ice Cube..'today was a good day'.[/color[
"Now why would I ever want to chase off a beauty like you?" There was no hiding her emotion when they were at point blank like this. Amusement and cynicism flashed behind her eyes. "No offense, kitten, but you seem like a f***-and-run." Actually, that was probably her, but either way it presented a problem if she was supposed to stay until morning for that magical introduction into the Order. "You want me to stick around? You gotta earn stuff like this, besides..."
She slid her hand out from between their lips, leaning back slightly though not too far so she could watch his reaction to her next words. "I'm almost entirely sure I'm too old for you, peppermint." If he got to tease her about Emily then she sure as heck wasn't going to drop the schnapps.
Geo was a bit shocked at Lori's first comment, she just came right out and said what she thought, no beating around the bush with this one. "On my defence I have never hit it and quit it, I don't do one night stands well. Now two night stands on the other hand..." Geo teased. Then Geo's eyebrows shot up, "Keeping a score on me now are we," Then Geo leaned whispered, "How far behind am I?"
Then Lori said something that caught him completly off guard, she said she was too old for his drink. Geo simply closed his eyes and smiled. "It's gunna be like that is it." He then opened one eye and looked into Lori's doe eyes, "Whats age anyways?" He whispered.
She didn't seem one bit ashamed of what she'd said even when Geo was. "On my defence I have never hit it and quit it, I don't do one night stands well. Now two night stands on the other hand..."
"Oh, I hear on the second date you can get to the freaky stuff." She teased right back, batting innocent eyes at him despite her tongue's subject matter.
She laughed heartily again when Geo's eyebrows shot up. "Keeping a score on me now are we," "Always." She interjected. He leaned in close and whispered, "How far behind am I?"
A slow and devious smile matured on her lips. She'd have to think about that one, honestly, but he seemed mildly offended when she bashed his drink choice again. Yep, still a kid. But a kid who was amusing to no end! This was a fun game.
He closed his eyes, a smile on his lips. Pouted for a bit and then opened one eye, peeking at her. "Whats age anyways?" He whispered.
"Oh, I don't know. A temporal measure of how long you've been alive and learning?" She pulled her free hand in to support her chin in what she deemed would be a scholarly way. She was, after all, a scholar.
"Oh you bet," Geo said to Lori's comment on the freaky stuff, then shifted his weight a bit before resetting his arms around Lori's waiste. "So whats your idea of a manly drink then?" He asked, a inquiring look on his face. He like this, just talking to her alone was fun, even without kissing. And 'Cat and Mouse' was his favorite game so he never minded playing with a girl who played hard to get. He simply had to use self control and be patcient.
She then gave him her definition of age, though he questioned as of whether or not she had a dictionary in her hand. "Oh, lil miss webster over here are we?" She then made a scholar pose and the way she posed made Geo want to try and old move but he fought it, leaviing only a hand twitch.