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.
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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.
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Alexandra had barely stepped inside her room when she slightly slapped her forehead. How exactly could one be so stupid in the early morning? After sneaking out of Sam’s room and reaching the safety of her room, she realized that her clothes from the previous night were still laying somewhere in his room.
With a sigh, the molecule manipulator turned around and glanced at the hallway. Clear. Sure, she could have retrieved the uniform later, but why not to do it now when most of students were either sleeping or in class? Perhaps she was exaggerating with the sneaking around but she wasn’t ready yet to face those kind of rumors. Not when there wasn’t anything like that between them.
Alexandra paced as quietly as possible, her movements resembling that of a feline monitoring its pray, or perhaps a thief sneaking out with the capture. She breathed relieved once her hand was on the door knob. Rotating it, she opened the door and slipped in quietly, while blue eyes were scanning the room to find the whereabouts of her clothes.
The door closed with a click behind her, making Bruno and Cammie raising their heads with interest to see the visitor. Recognizing Alex, Bruno yawned lazily while Cammie let out a small meow before placing their heads back to their original position. “You don’t happen to know where my clothes are, no?” she asked the two pets. Since there wasn't gonna be an answer, she moved away from the door and started searching.
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We didn't start the fiiiiire~ It was always burning since the world's been tuuuuurning~~~~~~~ Oh~
"We didn't start the fire~!"
Toe-bopping was the word of the day. Shin tapped his foot as he walked the upper floors of the mansion, Walkman in hand. Headphones dangled haphazardly from each ear. Fingers snapped, his body swayed. He sang along, loudly. Ever since he'd dug the old handheld casette-player/radio from his trunks, he couldn't get enough of it.
He'd already walked Thor that morning. They'd bounced along the front lawn of the mansion, and he'd brought the dog back to his room. Now, Shin was getting down with his bad self on the way to breakfast downstairs. He brushed his hand along the wall of the hallway of the Boy's Dormitories. The track he was listening to changed.
Just a small town girl living in a lonely world, she took the midnight train...
Going anywhere~!
A doorknob turned up ahead with a click. Alexandra silently slipped in through the doorway. Shin swayed and snapped, oblivious. "Dooooon't stop belieeeeevin'~!!" He sang loudly. Oh! And there was the epic guitar solo! He stopped outside Sam's door to jam to it, fingers wiggling in the air in front of him. Oh yes. It was true! Shin played the air guitar!!
As the final drumbeat of the song cut, Shin paused and glanced around. "Huh?"
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As every morning he had risen early, and had finished a quick breakfast in the quiet kitchen , it was always empty at that hour of the morning and as usual after a meal he went to the Danger Room to train. Whenever it was empty he used it, usually his luck to find it so was better in the morning, but not today. So he decided to go to visit his master perhaps he could find him at his room and he could teach him some new movement. The little Singer had always suspected that Sam was much more than what he claimed to be or at least he had been more ... how could someone be so good at self defense without belonging to some sort of special force? Perhaps he had been a member of SWAT. If he was on of theme he would have much more to teach him ... but if Fausto could not find him there he would have a change to discover some hint of his past. It was not very legal, but was easier to ask him about it .
Using all the experience he had earned during his training with Luke ,he moved through the deserted halls like a snake among sand dunes, he was not invisible but Luke had taught him well and even if it seemed contradictory it was much more difficult to hide from Luke despite its blindness than from any other person. His body zigzagged between the corners hiding him from any possible enemy, if he was lucky to not find Sam nobody had to know he had entered in Sam's room . Hopefully his pets would treat him well, It would not be very difficult if they were all as lovely and manageable as Kenzie. Someone like him would not have wild beasts in his room as guards. Fausto relied to much on luck , it was all about luck for him . If the dog showed his teeth he would show his own. Someone was already outside his door, Could it be a spy? Could him be another Sam's student trying to decipher his secrets? No , he was ...
¨ Hey Sheen! What are you doing? ¨
Fausto recognized him almost instantly and yelled to him without paying attention to the headphones blocking his ears , he was the guy that had shared a pool game with him , he had also played in the snow with Kasumi the day of her arrival ... ¨ Was it his name? Yes, it sounded exactly like that ... anyway ... if he was not called so , I will oblige him to be called Sheen, I always have to be right and all the reality should bend to show what I say. ¨
Blue eyes glanced at the room, while her face switched to a frown. Where could the damn uniform be? Last time she’d seen it, it was on the bed, just where she had placed before walking in the bathroom. Alexandra looked at the bed. The uniform clearly wasn’t there. Her lips moved to form a pout as she made another step. Back of the chair? No. On the floor? No. At least not the side of the floor she could see.
She moved again, to check the hidden part of the floor. It wasn’t there either. Alexandra sighed as her eyes fell to the lower side of the bed, now hidden from her view because of a sheet. Perhaps- No, it couldn’t. But she could look there too. She kneeled next to the bed, while a hand removed the sheet that was blocking her view and stuck her head under the bed. No, it wasn’t there either.
"Dooooon't stop belieeeeevin'~!!"
- bang -
Her head hit the wooden surface of the bed with a loud noise, making Alexandra swear under her breath as she retrieved her head from under the bed. Was someone serenading Sam? She placed her elbow on the edge of the bed staring dumbly at the door.
¨ Hey Sheen! What are you doing? ¨
Shin? Well, a mispronounced one but still, a Shin. A desperate look appeared on the face of the molecule manipulator. She wasn’t sure she wanted to see Shin right now. Not after the tattoo day. Alexandra sighed again. Why Shin and whoever was with him decided to have a small talk right next to Sam’s room? Why when she was trying to sneak around?
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>>"Hey Sheen! What are you doing?"
"Hold on to the feelin'~! Streetlight people!!" Shin spun around, hand windmilling through the air to stop, pointing straight at Fausto's chest. He opened his eyes and saw him. "Huh? What're you doin' here, Fausto? Wait..." Shin glanced over his shoulder at where he'd ended up during his self-inflicted chorus. Sam's room? His eyes hopped back to Fausto. "Paying Sam an early-morning training visit, are we? Well, okay. Hey Sam!!" Shin beat on the door.
"Hey Sam! It's me, Shin." Hard accent on the 'in'. Not quite an 'een'. "Me and Fausto are out here. Come out."
'And though the movie never ends, it goes on and on and on and ooooon.'~ Music continued streaming from his headphones as Shin pounded noisily on the door.
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The young singer nodded vigorously in response to Sh-IN's question while trying to listen the song between the sound of their voices . The music that came out of his headphones was not clear enough to be identified by Iron Mouth's lazy ears . The young Japanese guessed exactly which was his intention although it was not very difficult to guess knowing, Sam is the self defense teacher , many children would seek him all the time. Shin was a very good observer if he wanted he could be a detective ... He would have to investigate Shin too. If Sam could be a CIA agent or SWAT, Shin could be a renowned detective in his country. Unfortunately if the room was locked, the only way to open the lock was eating it but all would suspect him.
¨ Is he busy with some girl? Isn't too early for that ?...¨ The boy said without much enthusiasm while knocked at the door together with him but in a much more sluggishly way , it was too early to hit it with all his might. When no one replied he softly growled , Shin had ruined the sneak-in Sam's room so there was nothing else than wait for him to start a good training session . ¨ Ya' know sometimes he left me planted in the Danger Room just to go into a date . It would not surprise me if is the same this time. .. ¨ He left the sentence hanging in the air while humming the song that Shin had been singing, he could not recall the lyric but it had a good rhythm. Obviously not as good a the rhythm on his songs but it still maintained an acceptable armony.
The singing continued for a few seconds more, probably until Shin actually realized that there was someone calling for him. With blue eyes on the door, Alexandra found out that the other person name was Fausto. Not anyone she knew, it seemed. And then, the knock on the door and the lovely comment of Sam being with a girl. Definitely she would stay silent until both the Sheen/Shin and Fausto would be gone.
The body of the molecule manipulator moved, mind now focused on keeping the silence in the room and temporary forgetting about the uniform. She was already half-way up when her hand described an arc just a bit more wider than necessary. Her hand connected with something, just as she managed to stand up. Then it came the sound, first a small thud then the shattering glass. A more desperate look appeared on Alexandra's head turned to the side slowly. Blue eyes first fell on the surface of the nightstand, then moved to the deranged alarm clock, the undamaged picture frame of little Sam, Dom and their parents only to follow the black power cord stretched over the nightstand. Eyes moved to the floor where the cord connected with the metal support of what once was a nice night lamp. Now, only pieces of blackish blue glass were the only reminder of it.
Alexandra let out a groan. This definitely wasn't the luckiest day of her life.
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>>"Is he busy with some girl? Isn't too early for that ?..."
"I should hope not. He's a teacher... he needs to set good examples for the mansion kiddos... Can't have them sneaking off to other students' rooms in the middle of the night..."
>>"Ya' know sometimes he left me planted in the Danger Room just to go into a date . It would not surprise me if is the same this time."
"... Or breaking away from obligations to fool around... SAM!!" Another urgent knock. This was serious. He'd have to talk to Sam about setting a good example.
Then, a crash. A sound of shattering glass came from the room. "... Sam?" Had he fallen and broken something. Was he hurt? This was no time for dawdling in the halls and postulating hypotheses. Shin's hand was already gripping the door knob, wrenching the door open. As he rushed into the room, he tripped over something.
A foot? His foot? The carpet, a cord? He had no clue. All he knew was that he was falling.
Right towards Alex. Arms windmilled in the air, but could not stop the inevitable descent.
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"... Sam? "
¨ No, is not Sam! is a thief! ¨ A thief that wanted to steal the secret scrolls of Sam with all his techniques. How dare he try to steal them before Iron did! He almost expected to hear a howling alarm, announcing that something important had been taken from his glass box surrounded by lasers. But there was no alarm, Sam may not have such things in his room, perhaps the pets were playing with each other? or a drunk Sam tried to get up to meet its obligations as Shin had said.
Fausto was prepared for a fight, he quickly verify his teeth and lips to be wet with his deadly watery fluid , touched both with the tongue at a speed and with a confidence he had gained with time and errors, many errors. He did it always at the imminent danger . so he was ready for whatever came. If something bite him he would bite back .Sighing, he saw how Shin also stole his chance to be the hero 'cause he was closer to the door then he jumped into it with all his strength to force it to open but the door was not locked.
To some extent, the fact that Shin had burst into the room at full speed did not surprise her. The sound of something breaking inside his friend's room probably made him think that Sam might have hurt himself or that someone was sneaking inside her room. Half of the truth. That gave him the right to invade private territory. Yes, she would have probably done the same.
However, the fact that the entrance was completed with a spectacular fall did surprise her. Blue eyes watched Shin's figure as it fell, and, right before it hit the ground she closed her eyes. An eye opened slowly. Then the other. She smiled nervously as a hand moved up to wave. "Hi Shin." Her head turned to where the boy Shin was talking to was standing. "And Fausto."
Alexandra turned back to Shin, smiling sympathetically. And then, she remembered. She was still wearing Sam's shirt. Only Sam's shirt. A leg moved to take a cautious step back. The other followed. Yeah, flashing Shin's her panties wasn't the best idea. Especially not after the tattoo day. Her head moved again to Fausto then back to Shin. "Uhmmmm, Sam's not here."
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Floor.
Then leg. Then other leg. Then...
Shin rolled over onto his back and stared at the ceiling. Yeah... it certainly was a nice ceiling~ No embarrassing details there~
"Hi, Alex~" He blushed at the ceiling fan. Around and around and around. Shin sat up and rested his arms on his knees. His eyes fell on Fausto in the doorway, and stayed there. "Just... what exactly are you doing here...dressed… like that?"
Er… he’d ask the important, yet obvious questions first, right? Yeah. Because Sam’s girlfriend in Sam’s room was totally an unexplained mystery of the world, likened to the statues on Easter Island. For a moment, Shin imagined Sam’s face as a moai. Big broad eyebrows, upward-jutting lip. Stern, forehead tacitity.
Yup. Sam’d stomp on him like a statue later on. And Shin would allow it. Sam deserved his revenge.
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What was him supposed to do? He could do what anyone would and let his sight lose in the feminine and sexy figure of that woman without pants that greeted them waving her hand, but that was what was predetermined for such situation... it was so obvious to expect that from a 16 year old boy , to expect him to look dazed at a woman's body... But where was the freedom? Weren't us free to choose another path? Unpredictability was the solution.
If she did it, why not? First the button then the zipper noise that seemed to fill all the hall that was so quiet. A few seconds later he had his pants in hand, Fausto was wearing a baggy boxers of his favorite color. Blue . Even when he was a little embarrassed, just a bit, the rest of him was pure pride, freedom is something that must be protected at all costs, there is a greater freedom when you do not wear pants. Even with his face blushed he spoke to the girl as he threw his pants toward her . ¨ Put some pants on , if you don't want us to stare at you. ' It was a matter of principle, it was not indecent. Freedom itself at its greatest expression. Iron Mouth was a man of principle, his father always said ¨ The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself ¨. He never would be untrue to its principles and one of its great principles defended the freedom over all. And in his freedom he chose the unpredictable.
What was she doing in Sam's room, dressed in his shirt? One simple question with a simple answer. Looking for her clothes. Then why did Shin's eyes looked like he was accusing her of something else? "We didn't do anything!" she replied as her hands rose slightly in the air as if she was defending herself. Blue eyes turned away from Shin. She wasn't supposed to say that. A reddish color adorned her cheeks in the following moments, as her eyes traveled from the wall to Fausto.
Blank stare.
What was he doing? Alexandra stared in pure disbelief as the boy... took off his pants? First the button, then the zipper and in the next moment he was holding the pants in his hand, blue baggy boxers out for the world to see. The molecule manipulator was frozen in place, eyes on the kid, hands raised slightly in the air.
¨ Put some pants on , if you don't want us to stare at you. '
The piece of clothing was thrown into the air for her to catch. Blue eyes watched it how it traveled trough the air.
And the molecule manipulator was still frozen in place.
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Today, Shin had stared at a lot of things. He had stared at the digital clock on his bedroom table when the alarm woke him up early. He'd stared at the grass of the mansion's front lawn as he walked his dog. He'd stared at a closed door, then a shocked face, then panties, then ceiling.
Now he was staring at a sea of blue. Underpants. And they were not his own.
That's about when Shin's brain shut down and he went to his happy place. Blue jays fluttered, bright bellies outlined against the blush of the sky. And there were violet flowers growing in the garden! Blueberries budding up on the bush like blips on the RADAR of some deep space explorer.
What was Fausto doing? Why was he pantsless? And why did he do it right when Shin happened to sit up, facing him? Was Fausto being some evil mastermind? Shin had read about people like this. They snuck into homes, dressed like pizza delivery guys, and asked to be paid in...
>>"Put some pants on , if you don't want us to stare at you."
Oh. Oh oh oh! So Fausto wasn't some pervert. He was just trying to make Alexandra feel a little bit more comfortable.
...By taking off his pants...
Yeah, Shin found the logic of this decision highly difficult to follow. Still! Pants were fluttering in the air in front of him. Shin snagged them before they hit the ground, and put them on his head!
"Pants. On head." He noted, glaring at Iron Mouth. This would make them all feel a little more uncomfortable. Shin shook his head and laughed it off. He got to his feet, and patted Fausto on the shoulder as he walked past him. "Introduce yourself, man. I'm too embarrassed to ask her questions now..."
He slumped against the wall, and let the pants slip down over his face.
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His aim was not good enough or it was good but hit the wrong target , the situation had become so much funny . He was pantsless, and his pants were on the Shin's head that despite the glaring eyes seemed happy to have made such a joke, when he passed beside him , he had the horrible feeling that he would leave , Fausto was afraid to be alone in that circumstance with that girl. Something about her ¨I dont need pants ¨ actitude was not very comfortable. Although he was without pants too, but it was not the same. ¨ Yo, nice to meet you miss. ¨ Nice to meet you was not a phrase that fits well with the situation that was happening, the situation did not was nice, because in reality she was alone in his teacher's room doing who knows what . And with very less clothes ...
¨ My name is Fausto but someones call me Iron Mouth, You may have heard of me, since I am a great singer and also am the best student of Sam. ¨ All said with a smile until he remembered that she was in the apartment of Sam looking at his secrets as he had planned to do . He got jealous and cause he was not ashamed of anything he asked what Shin probably wanted to know . ¨ What are you doing in Sam's room? And above all why are you dressed like that , or undressed should i say ... ¨ The answer was quite obvious even when she said they did not do anything .