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.
“If I get one of those sexy spandex uniforms,” Alec said letting out a small laugh “I swear I’ll never let it down.” His eyes shifted to her as he crossed his heart jokingly. On a not that brighter note, he really thought that if he ever got the X-Man title he would wear it with pride and do his best not to let them down. Too much to pay, even for a lifetime.
“And yeah, I think they are. What they are trying to do, peace and everything, it’s just…” he paused, unable a word good enough to describe it “dunno, noble and admirable.” Alec smiled, as he turned the steering wheel to the left. Pushing the gas pedal, a slight jerk could be felt and the car continued its ride now at almost top speed. “So, tell me more about your time as an X-Man.”
Alec confessed his loyalty to the X-Men in the name of justice. Well, it most certainly was a good start on the man's epic journey on becoming an X-Man. Unable to come up with anything else to tell him about how to become an X-Man, Fade just nodded and said "good." he asked about what she had accomplished as an X-Man and Fade took a moment to refresh her memory. It had been over a full year since she worked with the team so her memory was slightly foggy. No matter, she remebered the basics and the battles, which was a good enough memory for the homeless redhead.
"When I was on the team, I loved working in the Danger Room. To me, all of that practice was necessary and soon enough I had a good enough feel for the Danger Room that I worked with the X-Man trainees to see if they were ready to devote themselves fully to protecting human and mutant beings," Fade's words seemed more understandle while she bragged about herself but then again, who would go through the trouble of telling someone a piece of their life if that person did not even understand what the story-teller was saying? "During battles, I usually left the fighting to the stroonger mutant and I skittered behind eneemy lines collecting indormation. You could say it was like capture the flag except rarely anyone could tell when I got close to their flag." hopefully, the redhead had made sense but she highly doubted it. "I don't know if the Mansion still operates like that but it was an amazing time in my life. It's a good thing to pledge into, trust me."
His thoughts drifted to his own idea of team. He remembered his team, the jokes, the laughs they had when they weren’t on missions. He remembered how good he felt thinking he was doing the right thing and closed his eyes for a brief second. Alec gulped down as Jackson’s words echoed trough his mind. The truth. For a brief moment he wondered if the team mates he cherished now knew something about what they were really doing back then.
Stop.
Alec turned his eyes to Fade and raised an eyebrow. “Danger Room, huh?” he asked with a hint of curiosity in his voice. He had heard most of the residents talking about the Danger Room but in his short time at the Mansion he hadn’t got the chance to visit this famous Danger Room. “I have yet to visit it.” he said with a smirk. “Maybe we can have a training session together now that you want to get back to the institute.”
Alec bit his upper lip and lowered the speed of the car as they entered the familiar road leading to the Mansion. “And your role in fights is really important, especially with your powers.” The opinion of an expert in battles, yes. “The X-Men were lucky to have you. And they still are.”
Alec seemed to trail off on his own thought path while Fade twiddled with her claws, tapping them against each other. When he snapped back into the moment, Fade was ready to stop fiddling with her physical mutuation and listen to what he had to say next. Never trained in the Danger Room? she puzzled. Then again, it took her a while before she even heard about the Danger Room. As a matter-of-fact, Fade had even stood next to the X-Men during the Whitmore Attack before she got to train.
"Oh, sure thing we can train!" Excitement curled through her voice as she reminesced through her old DR memories. Unfortunately, her walk down memory lane quickly, turned depressing as the sight of Raph fighting by her side hit her like the tsunami of water that had been splashed on her earlier. A small frown crept across her face but she quickly shook it off. It was time to move on, she could no longer dwell in the past, it was ruining her future.
"Sorry if I already asked, but what is your mutation? There are a bunch of training exercises that we can do but I need to figure out which one will train the both of us."
Alec turned his head to Fade once again as he clearly recognized the sound of excitement in her voice. He wondered how a room named Danger Room can bring excitement to someone, he had hated his training sessions all of his life, however, he still did them, every morning and evening. The discovery of being a mutant didn’t bring the magical force to put down your opponent only by thinking at it and he was still relying on his physical powers.
But training sessions also meant that sometimes you did it with your teammates to develop team work, and, he guessed that this was what made Fade so happy. Friends and training sessions worked better than plain training sessions. He didn’t miss the small frown she tried to shrug off quickly before snapping back to attention. However, Alec ignored it, bad memories sometimes just needed to be forgotten rather than talked about.
“Well, I’m an emotion manipulator. In some strange twisted way.” he spoke just as Fade had finished her question. “I doubt any of my powers would be useful in a fight as they tend to …” The corner of his lip rose to form an ironic smile. “ … take a while to kick in.”.
"An emotion manipulator?!" She asked in shock. The thought had never crossed her mind. Of course she had heard of telepaths but never of an emotiopath. "So you're like Cupid? Or the mutant Dr. Phil?" she laughed, only joking around.
"Well then, I don't know how you can use the Danger Room. Maybe give your opponent major PMS?" There were mutants that could not use their powers in battle, but Fade had rarely run into them. The idea of an emotion manipulator runnoing around the Mansion gave her a mental image of some kind of MTV show starring the Mansion. "You need to first give your power more credit. Calling it manipulation sounds a little...negative? I don't know what would make a better word but you have an amazing gift. People have enough problems working with their own emotions, you're something else if you can handle your own emotions along with others around you," she complimented. It was true, Fade would not want to deal with other people's emotions, her's were too much to bear herself.