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 fell back with a panting relief as the pain stopped throbbing through his gigantic stone hand. He didn't bother watching the ice dweeb who was screaming in pain from his broken arm. Geo watched as the rocks in his arm rearranged themselves back to normal, crushing the ice so that the expansion wouldn't continue. But Geo realized he should have been paying attention when he stood up.
He was surrounded by six large Ice Golems not including the X'ey. The odds were hopelessly stacked against Geo, this ele was using his elements to his full advantage when Geo was barely working at half capacity. It was time to level the playing field. Geo's large feet were on a thin layer of ice, underneath that was salvation. Geo needed maximum skin contact for his idea to work so he took his massive arm and in one fist full of clothes ripped off his shirt and vest with one swift motion. He shivered as his bare chest was hit by the frozen air.
A mischievous grin on his face he grinned at the X dweeb. "Game on Popsicle." Geo said before launching himself straight into the air with one kick of his strong legs. Geo was only in the air for a moment before smashing down through the ice and into the ground. No that he was deep under the ground, completely surrounded by dirt Geo could feel the conscious of the dirt fighting against his own, trying to take control of Geo's powers. Geo closed his eyes and concentrated, keeping dominance of his own mind. He reached out with his mind becoming on with the ground. He could feel the ripples from where the minions stood, muffled by the thin layer of ice above but still noticeable.
Focusing on his powers he formed a fist of rock under the ground, all together larger then his own body, and sent it to the surface like a missile aimed at the first minion.
Posted by Cold Steel on Feb 28, 2009 12:13:49 GMT -6
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The mist and the golems had seemed not to do much to sway his opponent but instead Sam watched as the giant rock dude shot into the air then into the ground. Disappearing from view was a problem for Sam a big one. It was bad enough that hi arm was broken but he watched as a giant fist of earth shot through the thin layer of his ice and mist and crushed one of his minions. ‘Shit’ thought Sam as another Ice golem formed up to replaced the fallen one.
Looking over to the ice pillar Sam called the small one that was trying to break into the pillar to get to Kat to come and help him. Focusing his power Sam made the ice on the ground thicker by a foot, he knew that wouldn’t stop the rock guy from throwing his punches out but it would help and give Sam a warning so if one was coming his way he would be able to dodge.
Looking back to the ice pillar Sam had an idea, the small one at the pillar got bigger but Sam didn’t pull it off it’s job yet, instead Sam and all the other golems ran over to the pillar and instead of having them all work on getting Kat out the seven golems fled from the pillar and ran around trying to distract the rock head from the pillar.
Sam lowered the fog as he was now on the side of the ice pillar. Using his powers he quickly extracted a hole in the pillar. The hole was about six feet higher than the base of the pillar and it was big enough for a person to climb through. The way an ant or a spider crawls though a hole so did Sam. Using his ice powers to keep himself attached to the rock pillar. One arm was blooded through the ice and the bone was somewhat visible, he had one hand planted on the pillar with both feet.
Looking down at Katrina, Sam still focused pulled back the ice covering his face to reveal tired eyes, “Hey Kat, let’s get you out of here…” Sam jumped down to the ground next to Kat and put his hand on where his ice golem had begun the ice wedging process. In seconds the rock crumbled and Sam stepped through the hole and looked back to Kat, “Stay close.”
As Kat watched the ice spread over the rock, a voice came from up above her. It was an ice armored Sam, come to her rescue! He jumped down from up above and shattered what was left of the pillar wall. In the close quarters, it was plainly obvious that the ice elemental was in serious need of a healer. The inside of his ice armor was bloody and in one place Katrina could even see part of his bone.
“Wait,” Katrina pleaded before Sam got to far ahead. “Please, listen. That earth elemental, he's my friend from the resistance. I... I think he was trying to protect me. Please don't hurt him.”
Katrina put a hand on his arm. It was ice cold and made her fingers tingle. “Please, you have to end this. You are injured and I don't want anyone to get hurt any more.” Katrina looked at him with sad eyes. She had to make him understand that fighting was not the solution to this problem. It was all a big misunderstanding.
Geo's face snarled in anger, one minion down. He had to get rid of the rest but he was afraid to use his powers because now he could feel Kat's feet walking across the ice. She had been taken out of the cage. The spires that once held Katrina sunk back into the ground shooting up under three of the other golems aimed so that the shrapnel couldn't hit Kat. Geo turned in the earth, aiming himself at the remaining too. Now that Kat was out he had to go back to face to face fighting.
Geo pushed the earth against his feet, sticking out both arms so that he was like a missile flying to the surface to smash the two remaining Golems. He broke through the ice with ease, the rock solid arms doing most of the work. As he came through the ground he lashed out with both of his arms at the two ice beings, hoping to smash them to bits. He hit the ground hard and slid a bit on the thick ice. Stumbling to his feet Geo saw the X'ey with Kat and was consumed by fury. "Leave her alone!" He yelled, the earth shivered slightly in response to his anger.
Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 3, 2009 0:12:57 GMT -6
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Hearing the plea to wait Sam turned his head and listened to Katrina with her sad eyes trying to give her a reassuring smile back to her he said, “Look I don’t want to fight him, but I am going to protect this house and everyone who calls this place home.” He frowned biting his lip slightly as he struggled to lift his broken arm, “Only a flesh wound, Doc will fix me up as soon as this is over and I promise I won’t kill your friend…”
Turning his head and covering his face again Sam stepped directly in front of Katrina as the last two of his golems shattered into shards of ice that quickly fell into nothing but shards of lifeless ice. Looking to the rock giant Sam shouted, “Rock Head!” Sam waited a second until he got his attention then continued, “it seems Katrina is under the impression that you're a friend of hers and is trying to protect her, if that is the case let me take her back to the mansion and then you can leave and I can forget this ever happened.”
Letting out a large sigh Sam wasn’t quite sure how clear he was sounding, not only has he lost a large amount of blood but also one hand is completely useless, nothing but a dead weight and an easy target. Something that only prevented him from unleashing the ass whoopin of a lifetime, the holes in his back didn’t help either.
Sam took a deep breath and continued, “Our if you would rather,” turning to Kat he said loud enough so the earth manipulator could hear, “Kat go back to the mansion, stay close to the wall till you get away from all the fighting…” he knew that he would be met with protest, “Please Kat…I promise I won’t hurt your friend anymore then I have to…” Hoping that if the rock head was truly a friend of Kat’s he figured that he would soon hear a similar request by him for Kat to listen to Sams idea. Worst-case scenario he would just have to pick her up and run for it.
Once again the battle surrounded her. Explosions and shouts echoed across the grounds. The pillar that had been her haven and her cage for a short time retracted into the ground. Talon like pillars snapped upwards, spearing several of the ice golems. Katrina hoped that Sam didn't suffer when his ice statues were hurt. She wasn't a doctor, but she was fairly certain he couldn't take much more.
>>>“Look I don’t want to fight him...”
Where had Geo disappeared to, though? Sam was at least listening now, if she could figure out where Geo had gone maybe she could stalk some sense into him, too.
>>>”but I am going to protect this house and everyone who calls this place home.”
Boys. They could get so noble. Didn't they realize that nobility and bravery meant nothing if you didn't live through it? He sounded like another boy she knew, who had been so gung ho about fighting in the front lines for the resistance. Where was he anyway? Katrina craned her neck and looked around everywhere, but didn't see him.
>>>“Only a flesh wound, Doc will fix me up as soon as this is over and I promise I won’t kill your friend…”
Katrina stared at him, all visual scanning for the earth elemental ceased for the sake of giving Sam an incredulous stare. That was so not reassuring.
Of course, as soon as she stopped looking for him Geo reappeared, smashing through the last two ice sculptures like a drill that would pierce the heavens. He slid a bit and stumbled on the ice, but his furiousness was not at all diminished with his dignity.
>>>"Leave her alone!"
See? He was just trying to protect her. That proved her right, so now Sam could make the peace between them.
>>>“Rock Head!”
Or he could shout insults. That was a great way to make enemies like you.
>>>“it seems Katrina is under the impression that you're a friend of hers and is trying to protect her, if that is the case let me take her back to the mansion and then you can leave and I can forget this ever happened.”
Insults and threats. This just got better and better. As if he thought he actually could continue fighting Geo, if the earth elemental didn't cooperate. Clearly, he was injured, beyond injured. There was no way Sam should even be standing, with blood oozing inside his armor and bones sticking out, splinted only with icicles.
“Oh. Like that will help,” Katrina shot back at him and tried to get in front of the iced over boy. Clearly he needed her protection, he was just asking for another attack. Even if they hadn't already been fighting, she wouldn't have been surprised if Geo would have swung a punch towards his face.
>>>“Our if you would rather,” ... “Kat go back to the mansion, stay close to the wall till you get away from all the fighting…”
That was about the point when he completely stopped making sense. Go back inside, and let these two hard headed idiots duke it out until one or both of them passed out or died? There was a snowball's chance of survival in the core of the sun that she was listening to that suggestion.
“Fat chance! You go inside! You're the one that needs the doctor, Sam.”
>>>“Please Kat…I promise I won’t hurt your friend anymore then I have to…”
And that was the last straw.
“Any more than you have to?! You don't have to hurt him at all! I'll just ask him, look,” Katrina would have raised her voice to address Geo too, but since she was already yelling it wasn't really necessary. “Geo, Sam is a friend too. Everyone who lives here are my friends. We didn't do anything to you, so just go home. Come back and visit sometime when you don't feel like you have to smash everything in sight, okay? We'll go to the movies or something, okay?” There were tears in her eyes and her voice carried the slightly higher pitch that signaled the tears were close to spilling out. She was getting desperate, and hysteria was close around the corner. If only she could turn this around from a fight to the death into a normal conversation. If she could get Geo to listen, maybe he could get all the other attackers to leave, too.
“I just don't want any of my friends to get hurt. Just go home. Sam can't take one more hit. You'll kill him if you keep this up. Do you really want that? Is that really your goal? Because that's what's going to happen. You'll just fight and fight and fight- you all will- until people start to die. Just take everyone and go home. End this.”
Katrina just stood there, tears now streaming down her cheeks. What ever was going to happen next depended on two hard headed individuals. Could they thaw out their hearts long enough to listen to her plea?
The snarl stayed on Geo's face as the Ice mutant spoke. He verbally growled when the X-dweeb called him 'Rock Head' now that set him off, Geo took a step forward and was ready to charge when Kat started to talk. The scowl on Geo's face vanished and was replaced by a soft expression. His arms and legs disintegrated, the stones tumbled to the ground beneath his feet leaving his normal fleshy limbs and his height returned back to normal. Geo walked forward when Kat stood in front of the Human Icey, confident that he could defend himself if he decided to continue his assault but Kat going back to the mansion was out of the question.
"No, she's not going back to the mansion, it's not safe there. You don't know what these people can do." Geo slid slightly on the ice, now standing five feet from Kat, his eyes remained narrowed on his enemy mutant. "Kat I can't stop what I'm ordered to do. Granted I will leave here right now but I can't make them leave. You can stay at the garage until this blows over because nowhere near here is safe." Geo's lip curled in a snarl for a second before addressing the X-dweeb. "But you won't let me take her away from here will you?"
Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 3, 2009 23:40:01 GMT -6
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Not really surprised that Kat stepped in front of him Sam didn’t really move. He couldn’t his adrenaline was dying down. He figured that was the only thing that was keeping him going, other than the ice, which he was now moving around like a puppet. Kat was spunky and he knew that if she had to she would use her abilities what ever they may be to protect him, even though he would never admit he would need it.
He looked over to the one called Geo, “Geo is it?” he paused, “I don’t want to be rude but no way in hell, we are going anywhere but back to the mansion, the Danger Room is a giant safe house, she will be safe with the other students.” He paused then added, “Sorry Geo, but she isn’t leaving the grounds while I am still standing!”
Sam grabbed Katrina and pushed his shoulder into her side forcing her to be lifted over his shoulder into a fireman carry. Things were getting blurry and Sam could feel his body getting slow, he wasn’t moving as fast as would be needed. ‘Come one, you going to talk a big game but go down when it matters?’ he asked himself as he got about ten feet from his original starting spot and fell over on his right side with his bad arm.
The ice around his body shattered causing the blood to leak about he couldn’t move and a sharp numbing pain was in his right arm again, he tried to lift his body off of the arm but it was no use, he didn’t even know where Katrina was. He wanted to get up but couldn’t he wanted to scream but couldn’t he wanted to stop the pain and dizziness but couldn’t. He felt like an infant worse than an infant, they could at least scream when they were in pain. His head was getting heavy now, and dark…”Sorry” was the last words he mumbled before his head dropped to the ground and passed out from the pain and the large amounts of blood loss.
Stupid, it was all so stupid. Even when they stopped swinging fists, they couldn't keep from arguing. The mansion is safe. No it isn't. Yes it is. Nuh-uh. Uh-huh. Stupid. Katrina glared at them both through teary eyes. Why were they both so stubborn?
She was so busy glaring that she didn't anticipate Sam half ramming into her and scooping her up and carrying her off toward the mansion in a fireman's carry. It surprised her more than it hurt and before she knew it, her body was stretched out across his shoulders with an arm and a leg dangling, one each, to the front and back as if she was a cat wrapped around his shoulders. What was he thinking of? How did he not realize what a bad idea that was? He could hardly even walk.
“What are you doing? You...”
That was as far as she got before they both tumbled to the hard icy ground in a pile of twisted limbs and shards of ice armor. He went down with his injured side first, also, consequently, the side where Katrina's head was cradled, albeit protestingly, against his shoulder. She closed her eyes when the ground came rushing up toward her. The world spun around her, gravity all confused as to who should be on the top and who should be on the bottom. Then, everything was still again.
Katrina lay sprawled on the ground next to Sam, her whole body aching with bruises from the hard ground, and stinging with cuts from shards of ice armor. She tried to sit up, but only ended up wrenching her arm that was pinned under Sam. White hot pain shot up her entire arm that made the cuts and bruises feel like mere scratches and bumps. Apparently moving that arm was a bad idea.
“Sam? Get off okay,” the thirteen year old plaintively asked through clenched teeth. The ice elemental didn't respond. “Sam?” Katrina rolled toward him, shaking his shoulder with her free arm. Her hand came away bloody. She wasn't sure whose blood it was. “Sam!” Her voice was shaky. Why didn't he wake up?
“G-Geo!” Her desperate cry for help was halfway between a yell and a sob. She was panicked. Injured, trapped, helpless, and worried beyond all rational thought. She couldn't tell what was wrong with him. Someone had to help them both. They just had to.
"Tempting offer..." Geo said, glaring at CS as he stated that Kat wasn't leaving while he was still standing. What an idiot! The safest place for her right now was anywhere but the mansion and he was to stupid to realize that. Then he did something that angered him further. The ice mutant lifted up Katrina in a way that could easily hurt her and took off running away from him. Geo roared out in rage and his skin instantly transmuted into their giant, rock state as he ran off after the one called 'Sam'. He didn't make it far. The foolish mutant underestimated his injuries and attempted to escape, collapsing not far from where they stood a moment ago, and ontop of Kat no less.
Geo ran up as Kat screamed for his help, with one giant hand he violently pushed the mutant off of Katrina and scooped her up in his arm with the other, his large arm working like a sling for Katrina. "Are you ok?" Geo asked, concerned as of the welfare of his small friend. He glared violently at the unconcious body of the ice mutant that made rescuing Kat from this mess so much more difficult then it should have been.
He saw the blood oozing from his back and the shattered Ice shell on the ground around him, he was growing weaker and weaker, his powers didn't even respond now! Geo could take him out so easily, just one step of his stone foot could crush in his skull and he would gain praise from the leaders of the order, but he was a friend to Katrina. If he had met him under other circumstances Geo would have taken the opprotunity but not today. Geo walked over to the mutant and turned him onto his back. With one finger, roughly the size of a small human hand, he smacked the mutant across the face. "Get up! Get UP! Your so determined to get her to safety but you fall asleep?! Come on wake up!" Geo yelled attempting to help the mutant regain conciousness.
The rock handed Geo roughly pushed the unmoving ice manipulator off of her tangled up limbs and lifted her up. Katrina stared down at the crumpled form of her fellow mansion resident in horror. What little color she naturally had in her cheeks had completely drained from her face, leaving the young illusionist a very unhealthy looking shade. The expression on her face was twisted with pain and shock. Her breaths came in gasps as she tried to speak, pointing desperately at the prone cold elemental. Panic was beginning to set in once again.
“He... he... Geo...,” she gulped for air, “you... you have to save him. He... he's going to die.”
There was so much blood. She had to stop looking at the blood. It was too red against the snow, too red against the ice that was cracking off his body. She couldn't stop staring. The red kept pulling her eyes downward.
Geo didn't seem to know what to do either. Yelling at an unconscious person wasn't going to help, for was flicking him in the face with all the power of a rocky slap.
>>>“Get up! Get UP,” he was yelling. It wasn't working. It wouldn't work that way.
“Shut up!” Katrina yelled at the rock shifter, her voice ringing with confidence and authority it never would have been able to use just moments ago. “Take him inside. Now.” Again she pointed with her good arm. “Take him inside to the infirmary. If he doesn't get to DocProf as soon as possible...” the temporary boost in her confidence was wearing down. Who was she to be ordering anyone around at a time like this? No. Don't think that. “Just do it Geo. It's the only way. I'll do whatever you say so long as you get him to the mansion healer now.”