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.
An outfit change? Lori doubted a simple outfit change would stop trigger happy snipers from doing their thing. "A change of clothes sounds good, if you don't mind." She watched Red's every move carefully. He was harder to read.. maybe it was the red skin or the tail.
"I am Abyss, my brothers call me Neptune." Neptune, Venus... Abyss. She shifted the puzzle pieces around in her mind. Greek gods or planets? She allowed herself a discerning once-over with her eyes. Probably planets, Venus was a girl... but then he had mentioned something about girl's clothing. She'd only seen brothers though... no sisters.
"And I believe they, will be ok. If i didn't I doubt I would have the mind to talk." Another interesting factoid: he hadn't corrected her use of calling them brothers... So destroying a brother would affect his mental status? As in, pissed off or were they actually connected somehow? She stowed that question away for a later date.
"I am not sure exactly what occurred outside, but I didn't intend on any trouble to come to , quite the opposite in fact. I am afraid the one that is awake, you will want to avoid for some time yet.." People never seemed to understand just how much one could give away wit their words. She stowed several other facts away for later processing. Abyss.. or Neptune... or whoever he was had to have some connection she didn't know about... perhaps he'd gotten a cell phone call or something to be able to know that one ... brother was awake. It was also interesting to note that Red--err Abyss hadn't intended harm. That meant his brothers had acted independently of his... wishes. Though they were the ones that seemed to come out with more harm.
Lori visually checked herself then. She had a nice raspberry on her elbow that extended up her arm toward her shoulder that was oozing red. Another few small ones resided on her knees. She'd probably have a few bruises from Geo's man handling, but all in all not too bad for a rough night out on the town.
"speaking of which if you are going to be taking anything from Venus's room, I am the one that will have to get it for you."
"I'd really like to change clothes even though I'll probably be staying indoors until tomorrow... if that's okay." Lori sidled back toward Geo and watched some interesting expressions cross Abyss's face. Either what she'd said was very shocking or he'd heard something she couldn't. He was a mutant so hearing things she couldn't was very possible.
"Peer presure?"
Lori smiled at Geo and reached past the box of cigarettes to steal the butt hungrily from his mouth. "No thanks, I quit." She took a long drag from his already lit cig like a dehydrated person might drink water. A mixture of emotions flit across her face before she blew the smoke off in the opposite direction. "Deathsticks'll kill you, you know." She offered the cigarette casually back to Geo, clearly unconcerned. "That's why I quit."
Geo's mouth hung open for a second when Lori took the cigrette from his mouth and took a puff. It took guts to do that not to mention it was a major smoker flirt. "Well I like to live dangerous," Geo said as he took back the cigrette and took a drag before slowly inhaling in Lori's direction. Abyss mentioned Geo losing his chance at giving her the grand tour by himself but he figured Abyss'd be cool enough to give him a chance later. Geo followed Abyss as he led them to Venus' room. Geo's room was only three doors down so this definatly explains strange noises he heard at night.
Geo looked around the room and was mildly impressed, a bit over the top in his opinion, but impressed. Geo just stuck his head in the room looking around, it was like if Geo had money and taste in classy women. He thought for a second about a possible remodeling of his room but instantly shot it down. "Dude, you got a messed up mind." He said to Abyss, knowing that he would take it for Venus.
"You can see how the sophisticated hobo lives." Lori smiled toward Geo. She was still waiting to be impressed. "Well I like to live dangerous." He'd answered her accusation about the cigarettes. It took every ounce of control she had not to roll her eyes. As it was a mangled smirk set up residence on her lips. What a kitten. A kitten that would taste like a nasty ash tray later. Minus one for that fat chance.
Lori ambled beside Geo through the uninspiring hall ways. Abyss seemed to fall into the role of temporary chaperone and guide. He messed with a janitorial amount of keys and two claps later Abyss opened a door to a room that she was entirely not expecting to see.
"HA!" She slapped her hands over her mouth in attempts to take back her careless lapse in judgement.
"I would recommend looking in the section thats not big and tall."
Lori's mouth twitched as she trod past the silk-covered asian styled bed and to the closet where Abyss had motioned. There was even a privacy screen for changing. What a deal.
Lori dug through the cloest. In the girl's section there was everything from Disco Diva to Audry Hepburn in there! Lori knew what she liked and she knew what she looked good in. She also knew she was a rather unusual size of petite. That meant she had to temper her choice between all of those requirements. She ended up picking out a boring grey and yellow baseball style tee complete with three quarter sleeves and a pair of cut off daisy dukes that went over some black leggings that ended at her calf in lace. She was temped by some big and tall cargo shorts just to see if she could fit all of herself into just one of the legs, but she decided against it. She ended up just changing as fast as she could so they could get on to the tour.
After a short mental debate she picked up her clothes after her and peered around the privacy screen. The corners of her mouth curled at the sight of the 'mood room' again. She would really have to meet this Venus later... if for no other reason besides that she wanted to know if it was a boy or a girl.
"All done and ready to be dazzled, your hobo-ness." She saluted to Abyss in a quirky fashion.
Geo couldn't help but chuckle at the girl coming out and soluting Abyss. "Wow..." was all he could say before ducking back into the hall and taking another drag of his cigrette. Abyss went to make his leave when he got a phone call, Geo simply gave him a wave before turning back to Lori. "Why do you think we're homeless?" He said a smile on his face, it seemed to be something she kept coming back too over the past half hour.
'You act homeless. You have no class. You smell like an ash tray... a delicious, dirty, vagabondy ash tray.' She flipped through excuses in her mind and settled for a rather innocuous shrug and a smile. "I guess I'm just waiting to be proved wrong?"
So much went unsaid in Lori's mind. She was lucky Geo was no mind reader, only a sucker for a pretty girl. Now that Papa Bear was gone there was really no one to stop her from getting the information she sought. It was time to dangle the carrot.
"Maybe if you showed me your room, I'd believe you lived somewhere." She offered helpfully. She ran the spade of her fingers over her eyebrows to smooth her tension. She was physically rather tired. She probably wouldn't be able to get too much our of him. She'd also need to find or make a safe place for herself to sleep in this hobo house, something she wasn't entirely looking forward to... maybe she should find a way to stay awake and sneak out.
Geo shrugged at Lori's statment, they really hadn't given her a reason to think they weren't homeless. "Well first off this place is a home, think of it like a college dorm or something. If a mutant can't find a place to fit in they come here. And in my defence i only live here part of the time, I own a auto shop in town." Geo started to walk downt he hall in the general direction that they had come in.
"Well my room is right here actually," He said pointing to the room a few doors away. When they reached it he opened up the door and flipped on the light. No music came on, there were no silk sheets. The room was dimly lit by a beside lamp on a table with an ashtray and candle, next to a fullsized bed that was pushed to the back right corner of the room. There was a dresser with clothes sticking out of the drawers to the left next to a computer desk that was swamped in papers, clothes and various crap. "It's nothing special but it's my home away from home."
When Geo turned and led her down the hall she arranged her features so that Geo was the most interesting boy in the world and she appeared riveted by not only the words he spoke, but the movement of his lips and the way he moved. Lori appeared as if she was interested in more than just those words.
"Well first off this place is a home, think of it like a college dorm or something. If a mutant can't find a place to fit in they come here." This statement did nothing to allay her suspicions of the Sanctuary being a homeless shelter. In fact, it just made it sound to her as if they accommodated stupidity and slothful indulgence. Any moron could get job enough to support themselves even in this town. "And in my defence i only live here part of the time, I own a auto shop in town." That was actually a plus in her book. It was best not to be fully tied to one place, just in casesies. Geo was leading them back toward the garage and for a hesitant moment, Lori imagined him living there. Lucky for Geo they stopped short and he started to open the space.
"Well my room is right here actually," He opened the door and again Lori was taken aback by the differences between the rooms. There seemed hardly anything that this room had in common with the previous one except that they were roughly the same shape and size. She was going to have to adjust her method of carrot dangling. Neither Lori nor Geo were drunk. It'd take a lot of stiff libations to make this place a turn on. The best she could do was remain carefully blank.
"It's nothing special but it's my home away from home." Lori ran her fingers across her eyebrows again one at a time. She could feel the beginnings of a tired headache forming somewhere on the left side of her grey matter. She probably couldn't have kept the tired from her face if she tried so she decided to run with the expression. Partial truths made for better lies.
Her hand snaked out and Lori stole Geo's cigarette again. She stabilized it deftly against her pink lips and took a long enough pull that the red flared all the way down to the filter. Lori looked Geo over from head to toe, this time taking in every detail carefully. She let him see her tiredness though it was still mingled with a look of slight ardor. Internally she was sizing up him and the situation. If she did this the 'old fashioned' way that could lead to uncomfortableness later. What if she ended up actually liking hoboville? That meant Geo would potentially come to know her. He would eventually know how much of tonight was a charade and how much she was potentially going to use him. She didn't like those kinds of things being found out if she was going to stick around. Right now she was trying to keep her options open.
Lori opened her lips and let the grey tendrils of smoke seep slowly from her mouth. The smoke lingered around her lips, hanging in the balance as she began to formulate a new plan. She exhaled and blew the smoke away from the two of them and leaned back against Geo's door frame. She extinguished the cigarette butt against the cloth of her jeans. "You know it's really hard for me as a recent non-smoker when you insist on smoking around me all the time." Lori flicked the crumpled butt into the room in the direction of the ash tray. It hit the rim and bounced out. Damn. That woulda been a good two points for Lori.
She pushed off of the frame and stood balanced atop shaking legs. She looked at him with vulnerable eyes and it wasn't all lie, just twisted into a different kind of vulnerability. "Is there some place I can crash? I'm not gonna make it much longer." She shook her head, blonde strands swishing. She didn't have to fake the vertigo that her action caused and she stumbled slightly-- he'd have to catch her or else she'd be adding a nice bruise to her collection.
Geo kept watching Lori as he showed her where he stayed part of the time, she seemed inthrawled with what he was telling her, but something seemed odd. Geo quickly shook off the feeling though and moved on. He continued to puff on the cigrette that was in his mouth. Lori's hand snaked up and took it from him again and took a drag. Geo smiled, he always thought smoking women had a special kind of sexy to them. She then put out the cigrette and threw it into his room. "Sorry, all you have to do is ask Gorgeous and I'll never smoke in front of you again."
Geo looked at Lori in the eyes as she leaned against his door, he started leaning towards her, the smooth seal. When suddenly she stood straight and almost feel down. Geo's right hand shot out and caught her back and he put his left hand under her knees and lifted her. "Are you alright Lori?" He asked, suddenly aware of just how tired the blue eyed bombshell was.
"Sorry, all you have to do is ask Gorgeous and I'll never smoke in front of you again." Usually subservience was a major turn off, in this case Lori appreciated the offer. She felt it was more a genuine offer rather than an offer of obedience.
He was leaning in and she was all too grateful for her slip's timing. She had not, however, counted on his hands not only catching her back but also slipping his left hand under her knees and lifting her into his arms for the second time. "Are you alright Lori?"
She swallowed suddenly not liking the situation as much. She liked to be a bit more in control. It was hard to be in control when you weren't even on your own two feet. "Not enough charge." She lied weakly, leaning her face again his shoulder so that she would not have to train her facial expressions so strictly. She needed to know what he would do next before she could figure the next step.
Geo held Lori as she leaned her head against his shoulder, this girls powers must drain directly from her energy. Then again Geo thought about it and so did his...and everyother mutant he knew. Geo blammed it on the impressive display in the alley and shrugged. He walked her over towards the bed and sat her on it back against the wall. "Just rest for a few, your batteries should recharge right."
He walked over to the computer desk and pulled out the chair sitting down and leaning forward against his legs. He looked at the girl who looked very uncomfortable in the situation. "There are a few empty rooms down the hall and on the right, you can stay there for the night or even claim one for yourself if you decide to stay." Geo leaned back and popped open a mini fridge and handed Lori a water. He figured that she could use it to charge up her powers, he had failed many science courses but learned one truth before he got his powers, water plus electricity equals ouch.
Her heart thumped awkwardly for a few moments when Geo helped her onto his bed. She was used to having the security of being able to zap someone who got too fresh, but Geo presented a problem in that aspect. Her heart wasn't thudding from love or like - it was sheer anger at herself for putting herself into a situation like this. Honestly, she was lucky that Geo had been so... chivalrous. It almost made her not want to take advantage of the guy. Almost.
"Just rest for a few, your batteries should recharge right."
Lori slumped against the wall and hugged herself. "Gotta move." She mumbled. "Move or sleep." She'd stopped moving and her bodies fatigue was really settling in. Her charge level was actually fine and she was feeling her was around the metallic objects. Door knobs, ceiling tiles, air ducts, pipes in the walls and floors. If she needed to take Geo out she felt confident that she could. Lori ran her fingers over her forehead again.
He pulled out a chair. He was being good to not crowd her. Geo also offered her a water bottle. "There are a few empty rooms down the hall and on the right, you can stay there for the night or even claim one for yourself if you decide to stay." Actually the offer surprised her.
"You're a good kid." Lori wiped the bottle off on the bed to clean off the condensation before cracking it open. She poured it carefully into her mouth. As long as she was careful she wouldn't zap herself. She threaded the lid back onto the bottle and leaned back against the wall. The cold water helped clear her head. She must really be tired if she was making mistakes like she had earlier. She had no intention of sleeping here if she could avoid it. It was too risky.
"Tell me more about this place?" Lori laid the bottle on the bed next to her and folded her arms across her stomach, slightly cold. Now was the time for information gathering. She could ditch and run later. For now - she wanted to know what Abyss had alluded to earlier.
She briefly considered running back to Venus's room to steal those silk sheets. Lori liked silk because it was such a poor conductor. It was a guarantee again shocking herself.
Geo looked a Lori as she hugged herself on his bed. "So you have to move to recharge? Weird," He pulled a lighter from his pocket and lit a candle, try to kill the ash tray smell from the room. Geo took a blow to the pride when she called him kid, that one always hurt from the ladies. He had always been told he looked older, he passed for 23 once at a liquor store, and what a party there was that day. He then wondered how old Lori must be to call someone like him 'kid', he was sure he wasn't the only teen to go clubbing.
She asked about the sanctuary and Geo wasn't sure how Abyss would feel about him telling her about the Order, but he did what every teen would do. Tell her anyway. "Well this place is really a sanctuary for mutants but it serves another purpose too. It's the base off that group Abyss was asking you too join earlier. Most members live here but some of us have our own places, like me. They'res a training room where we can learn to use our powers in battle, a, we have a Infirmiry in case we get roughed up in battle. You know all the stuff that a group of radical mutants need to supress humans." He laughed, he left out the Cathedral and War Room, just incase she didn't want to join the Order.
"Other then that it's how i said like a dorm, theres a dining hall, Gym, Rec room, librarys and classes." He shrugged, now that he thought about it this was like Xaviers mansion, only with the right view of humans. "It's a pretty good place, there are a few humans around but you rarely see them." He smiled and looked at Lori, "You feeling any better."
"Well this place is really a sanctuary for mutants but it serves another purpose too. It's the base off that group Abyss was asking you too join earlier. Most members live here but some of us have our own places, like me. They'res a training room where we can learn to use our powers in battle, a, we have a Infirmiry in case we get roughed up in battle. You know all the stuff that a group of radical mutants need to supress humans."
She listened carefully, soaking in every detail he offered. Abyss was called Abyss by Geo. So the name Neptune was only his name among his brothers? Abyss's vague speech earlier had apparently been an attempt to lure her into this secret organization. Either they were desperate or... well, maybe they were just desperate. Lori didn't know very many mutants even though New York was supposedly a hot bed of mutant activity. Maybe semi-competent mutants were hard to come by?
Lori had always kept an ear open for ... opportunities, but nothing had presented itself like this. Nothing like a radical group of mutant supremacists had ever, ever come sniffing after the little scraps of hints she'd left. Actually, none of her friends even knew she was a mutant. Impressive displays like this evening were new to even Lori and she'd only supplied the name Charge to Abyss on a whim.
And yet, she still needed more information. Surely she wasn't expected to sign up with only the motto 'suppress the humans.' She was incredibly interested in a training room, though. She knew she had something... powerful. Something that had worked well for her in the past only because of her discretion in it's use. She liked it. It felt natural and it felt right. She wanted to be able to use her power freely, but she knew that to use her power effectively in any way, she would need more control.
Her eyes flicked back and forth as if she were reading an invisible page while she ran through her thoughts. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad... to have mutant friends in the right places. She just wasn't sure these people were in the right place. Not sure if they were smart enough to understand discretion. After all it had been Geo's actions that had quickly escalated the evening's encounter.
"Other then that it's how i said like a dorm, theres a dining hall, Gym, Rec room, librarys and classes. It's a pretty good place, there are a few humans around but you rarely see them."
He smiled and looked at her then, "You feeling any better."
"A little." She admitted. "Though I'm still kind of confused. Why would you guys want me in this group? One second you're chasing me out and the next we're escaping together. And what does this... your secret group even do?" She amended her statement so that Geo sounded as if he were in some position of power. He had said 'we' when speaking of this secret group and boys always liked that kind of thing... the feeling of power.
She licked her lips. She was definitely interested. Her escape plans were fizzling before they'd fully formed. It didn't seem that she'd been kidnapped or even cared if she actually stayed. More like they'd brought her here to show her, ask her join, tell her not to tell and then she'd be let go. Well, she hoped it would be that simple when it was time to go.
Geo simply shrugged at Lori's first question, "Because your a really powerful mutant, you took out most of Big Red, not many people can do that. Plus you don't seem to like humans very much, which is a huge plus." Geo laughed, "My father nearly beat me to death when i got my powers, I've sworn to make humans pay for it. I beat him into a coma last month, he may not come out of it. It's what people get for not bowing down to us in the first place."
Lori asked about what the Order did, the first thing that came to his mind was Knox. "Well we do anything to show humans that they should step down to our kind. Small time things you here on the news is normally one of our members having fun, the big time stuff is organized and has a mass effect on all human kind. We have a big plan in the works now thats gunna be epic" A wicked smile formed on Geo's face, he couldn't wait to see the Haywire take effect.
Geo shrugged off some of her questions and answered others, "Because your a really powerful mutant, you took out most of Big Red, not many people can do that. Plus you don't seem to like humans very much, which is a huge plus."
She didn't exactly enjoy the conclusions he'd drawn. Her a powerful mutant? Lori was just playing around with this stuff. Sure if used with the right leverage anyone could look powerful. She rather liked to play helpless unless forced to reveal her ace - Geo had seen that ace, lived through it without taking a zap-nap, and still thought she was powerful. What did that make Geo? And since when did she hate humans specifically? Her mortal enemies were vapidity and stupidity. So what if the sapiens typically displayed those characteristics? She was superior in every sense of the word and took advantage of other's obtuseness whenever the opportunity presented itself.
The sound of his throaty laughter brought Lori back to attention. It would have been a good laugh if not for the taint of bitterness it carried. "My father nearly beat me to death when i got my powers, I've sworn to make humans pay for it. I beat him into a coma last month, he may not come out of it. It's what people get for not bowing down to us in the first place."
She was really frowning now. Where was Geo's good old fashioned sense of filial piety? Oh right, his pop beat it out of him. "Tried to beat it out of ya, did he? Guess he got what he asked for, but I seriously doubt you're gonna get the ****mongers to bow down. That's ridiculous, kid. You're not the Sultan of Mutant-ville, unless I've been misinformed." Lori slid to the edge of the bed so that her knees nearly met Geo's and her legs dangled off the edge of the bed, feet unable to reach the ground. She narrowed her eyes at him demanding his attention. "...and I like to be in the know about these kinds of things. So your norm-o daddy hit you? **** for him. He's laying like a log in a bed and here we are having a nice civilized conversation about it. Smart sapiens already know who's circling the evolutionary drain. And it ain't us, kitten." She flicked her hair back and put her hand on his knee. It was probably the closest to an attempt at comfort Geo was ever gonna get from Lori.
She didn't like that Geo had taken things out on his pop, but the fact that his father, the one who was supposed to protect and support him, had taken the first swing? Well, it kinda evened things out a bit. Still, no matter the despicable things her dad did or how much trouble he some how landed her in, he was still blood. The only thing she had left.
"Well we do anything to show humans that they should step down to our kind. Small time things you here on the news is normally one of our members having fun, the big time stuff is organized and has a mass effect on all human kind. We have a big plan in the works now thats gunna be epic" A heinous smile took shape on Geo's face. All human kind? A plan already in the works? She didn't know how she felt about that. Stupidity could use a good kick in the teeth, but in Lori's opinion homo sapiens were yesterdays news.
Still ... it was better than finding a third job. She could just hang around for a bit to be in on the ground floor on this super secret world domination crap... wait. World domination? Really? Lori pulled her hand back from Geo's knee and folded her arms around her stomach. More information required.
"So what's the catch? I gotta sign my name in blood or give this Sin chick my tongue or first born or something? And this world domination crap? Somebody's gonna have to spill the beans 'cause I'm not typically into that wacky ****."