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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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.
Cafas looked up to the kitchen person who he still did not know the role of and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine thanks." He looked down to his steak. He very nearly picked it up and ate it with his hands. The urge was resisted for the sake of the nearby female. He cut a piece out of the edge, observed the brilliantly cooked meat before putting in his mouth and chewing. He seriously had to wonder if the kitchen staff had mutations that let them make perfect meals every time. Alchemist swallowed and sighed contentedly. The kitchen guy was long gone by this stage. "This is without exception, the best steak I have ever tasted." In true Cafas fashion of being loud and direct he turned towards the door after a few more delicious bites and yelled, probably unnecessarily. "Compliments to the chef!"
'Gentlemanly for sure.'
Cafas continued to eat at a socially acceptable pace, although the fastest socially acceptable pace hu could muster. He liked food, but he liked to have a full stomach just that little bit more. His steak was finished in under ten minutes, which his mother had always told him was a decent time to eat your food in, if not more. She was mutant hating scum though. A pity to be sure. Cafas looked up to Elli. "Dinner here always makes me want to go a round in the danger room. You think they put something in the food?" His last statement was clearly a joke, it could not have been said more jokingly. He tried to keep a straight face however.
"This is without exception, the best steak I have ever tasted. Compliments to the chef!" Well, that was loud and unnecessarily enthusiastic, and it made Elli chuckle a little. Cafas seemed to have really dug into his steak, and was done in what Elli was sure was some sort of record. She had always been a slow eater, and so it was several more minutes of silence, at least ten or fifteen quiet moments devoted to the serious business of devouring her food.
"Well that was absolutely marvelous. What do we do with the dirty dishes?" Elli had grown up in a household where everyone pulled their own weight, from mowing the tiny lawn to doing the dishes, and it was against her grain to just expect someone else would take care of it for her.
"Dinner here always makes me want to go a round in the danger room. You think they put something in the food?"
Elli failed to appreciate the joke, for she was wondering what the danger room exactly was. Danger room... Certainly sounds dangerous, but they wouldn't really have anything too bad in a school, especially one filled with youngsters? Would they? Elli really didn't know, and so she asked Cafas "What exactly is this... Danger room?"
Cafas laughed out loud. What did they do with the dirty dishes?. Well actually it wasn't that funny, the answer was take them to the kitchen. Well, he took the plates anyway. The knife and for in his hands tuned to liquid puddles in his palms which he combined and solidified, but for the very thinnest outside layer. Popping the steel ball in his pocket he picked up Elli's plate and took them both to the tray on wheels marked "Dishes" Then turned to answer her next question. It puzzled him slightly. He would have thought of the danger room as common knowledge, especially after Ghost's wedding. His puzzlement was quite obvious on his face. "Training centre, although it has been used for other things... Essentially a giant virtual reality chamber. You need one of the older residents to get in though, and as you can likely tell, they aren't here." , Cafas shrugged and let the confusion drop off his face to be replaced by his previous happy grin. Maybe it wasn't so weird that people didn't know the danger room by name, after all, he had been living at the mansion for several months so he had an unfair advantage.
'On with the show...'
Cafas indicated with a casual point to the door closest to the living room. "Through there and to the right is the living room, the walk in closet at the back is the video library. Well, mostly DVDs and blu-rays now. Use the ladder to get the top ones." Cafas began to walk toward the door happily humming 'St. Jimmy'. He would let Elli choose, there were far too many movies for him to make up his own mind. He found women to be far superior at that. Instead he opened the door and jumped onto the comfy couch, spread out as far as he could on the amazingly long re-arrange-able 10 man unit, currently with 5 seats in a straight line and 2 on either side and a third added onto the far side. The television flicked to life as he pushed the power button on the remote and C.J. waited for the girl.
'Please not a romance, please not a romance, I just ate.'
Elli started a bit at the use of Cafas' power, until that point she hadn't, despite the strange eye color changing thing, really had any visual explanation of his powers. Now that she had, though, she wondered how much control he had. It seemed like it could get irritating to have things constantly melting out of your hands. "Training centre, although it has been used for other things... Essentially a giant virtual reality chamber. You need one of the older residents to get in though, and as you can likely tell, they aren't here."
"Oh, is that where the wedding was held? Beautiful." The older residents weren't present. Yes, Elli had wondered at the lack of older people about, but didn't think much of it. "Where are they, then?" Elli asked. "Through there and to the right is the living room, the walk in closet at the back is the video library. Well, mostly DVDs and blu-rays now. Use the ladder to get the top ones."
Elli smiled, and semi-jokingly said "You want me to choose? Aww, how sweet." Laughing, she made her way to view the enormous selection. She spent about a minute and a half in there, trying to decide between The Lake House and Van Helsing. Hmmmm... she thought, decisions decisions... She finally settled on Van Helsing, figuring that Cafas would prefer it over a romance movie. She came in, saw that Cafas was already settled with the TV on, and popped in the disk, then hit play.
Elli then sat down on the last one and a half man area not taken up by Cafas' sprawling relaxation, and said "This one's said to be good, never actually seen it myself."
Cafas looked to Elli's direction as she picked out a movie. He had to think about that one. as one of the elder remaining mansion residents he figured they should have told him, but they had not. Perhaps it was a surprise trip? People did that occasionally. "I can't really say, likely some place fun. I've proclaimed myself king of the mansion, not that I've run into anyone lately." He tried to spy the cover of her selection but it wasn't familiar to him. Her comments on the word of mouth gave him faith though, as he could have sworn he saw a cool hat, and only cool movies had cool hats. He decided to sit up to give Elli more room if she wanted it. His legs were pulled up and he started only using two people's space, resting against the back of the corner piece.
'Van Helsing huh. Wasn't that some monster hunter?'
The title screen faded as Alchemist hit play and took the steel ball from his pocket. He liked to have something to do with his hands, it helped him focus on the task. Even if that task was to watch a movie. He began strategically melting parts, smoothing them out with his fingers while he watched the screen, solidifying the metal as its own inter atomic forces caused it to stick to itself rather than him. The bal was pretty much spherical by the time the movie's title once again graced the screen to end the opening credits. He liked to talk during movies. He tried not to, but occasionally failed. He found it annoyed people in most cases. It appeared the lights decided they were no longer needed. As the living room curtains were permanently closed that made it rather dark indeed.
'I wonder if I can carve things from solid metal?'
There was now a human looking monster on screen. Cafas stared intently at the glowing rectangle of LCD light and put a finger to the ball. He went simple, all curves but still a challenge. First he melted a thin layer on the inside, then a crack, down either side of the remaining ball of steel not being used. He tugged outwards and looked down for a small moment. His attempt at a figure eight had failed just a little, the surface was completely irregular. He melted the metal back into a single ball, smoothed it and began again. Watching Cafas considered the irony, that the man on screen was the hero, but would have hunted down and killed mutants.
'What a terrible profession to get into.'
C.J. had a momentary error in his shut up loop. "What irony that this guy would have killed mutants, but is the hero." Cafas chuckled and had another go at a figured. This time he would try something different. When he broke the ball apart, like an egg, to get to the model in the middle, like a kinder surprise, he found a well formed and almost perfectly straight edged coin. It was completely featureless but it served to show him that it was his curves that needed work, not his straights. Once more he melted it together and considered behaving a bit more friendly toward Elli, moving closer or something. He wasn't ignoring her, he did look away to smile at her when there were jokes and such, he was just rather a large distance away. Again he decided to leave it up to her.
"What irony that this guy would have killed mutants, but is the hero."
Elli paused in her watching of the movie for a few moments to consider that comment. She had been surprised that Cafas had been able to not talk up to that point; he seemed like it went against his normal grain. "I suppose it might depend, really. It's hard to apply something like that, but he would definitely go after the dangerous ones. Or, at least, ones he classifies as dangerous."
Elli looked over, and saw that Cafas had changed from his sprawling position to one that was more upright, and one that offered more space for Elli to take. She gratefully moved a seat or two closer to Cafas, so they were about a foot away, and so she would be more situated in the middle of the screen. "I like this movie so far." She commented.
Cafas considered that maybe half the population of mutants he had so far met could be considered dangerous. Certainly Meld was. He likely was too. He knew that in life it was kill or be killed at points. That made him dangerous. Would his distaste at killing take away that classification? He doubted it. He was an idealist. Equality was what he worked for. Equality he knew he would have to lose some of his morals to achieve. Life could suck like that some times. Oh well. Elli voiced an opinion, must be his turn. "Violence and hot chicks are always cool with me. The violence only in movies though." Cafas laughed some more. He really was good at making male jokes. Unfortunately sometimes the opposite gender didn't get them.
'Time to check this figure.'
Cafas looked down to see a more smooth rounded shape in his hands. He saw now that it was all in the mental image. Curves were harder to imagine than planes, but if he imagined whole figures at once it worked better. Cafas remelted the ball and started again, this time working on something he was more than familiar with, meerkat. He had always been fascinated by them as a child, so cute they were. He closed his eyes for this one and when he opened them there appeared to be a rather busty woman on the screen. Elli had moved closer, which he appreciated, as much for the trust as for the smell she brought with her. Indescribably good as far as C.J was concerned. He opened his kinder surprise sphere and found a brilliantly formed meerkat. Some of the finer details were a bit off but all in all it was rather well made.
"Violence and hot chicks are always cool with me. The violence only in movies though." Cafas said, and then laughed.
He is most definitely a guy, Elli thought. Might be he's younger than me, seems like. Hmmm... With that in her mind, it was a delay before Elli responded. "Hot chicks, huh? So you go for brunettes?" Elli laughed, gesturing towards the rather... well endowed woman on the screen. The question was partly in jest, partly with honest curiosity. Elli realized how little she actually knew about Cafas. His age, for example. Speaking of... "So Cafas, just how old are you exactly?" Elli hoped that the way she asked wasn't too nosy, or obnoxious.
Having not seen the movie before, Elli was not at all prepared when the werewolf leapt out of the bushes, and, as she was really paying attention to the movie, it scared her out of her skin. She jumped what felt like a foot in the air, a small, surprised little "Eeep!" escaping her pretty lips, as she instinctively grabbed the closest person to her. In this case, the person was Cafas. Elli wasn't really scared, just surprised. Oops... she thought. Stupid human herd instincts.
Cafas looked at Elli and wondered why his preferred hair colour in women was important. Oh well, he'd assume it was a joke and respond honestly. It struck him they knew almost nothing of each other. "Blondes and brunettes are the highest ranking hair colours in my opinion yes. Although any woman comfortable with her body is attractive." He smiled and winked when he said blondes in a very jestful manner. He then proceeded with making more things with his little ball of steel. He knew working on a larger scale would be much easier on him but he didn't have that much cutlery melted away, only a few pieces here and there.
'You sir, are a flirt.'
The next question she asked was far more logical and less in the domain of "Do you find me hot?" His age he could answer. "Nineteen, born thirteenth of July nineteen ninety. Yourself?" Cafas smiled. he had an inkling that she was a couple of years older than him, something about being a trained police officer and having a valid ID gave that away. Then there was a squeak of surprise and he was tackled. Elli had dived past his legs and latched onto his torso. All cos a werewolf jumped out of bushes. He acted like her tackle hadn't stopped him jumping into the air himself. He was a brave bloke, not at all scared of the dark and spiders and stuff.
'Good timing for that jump though.'
Then Alchemist realised he had dropped his ball of steel with a resounding thunk and that he was now the object of a hug from a girl that he had a feeling he may like a bit more than friends. He was vaguely aware of a giant grin spreading across his face and the feeling that everything in the world was going to be okay. It was his first hug in months that he hadn't expected, if not years. He decided a joke would break the tension he was fairly sure it would cause the girl who had not so long ago been crying about a past relationship. "Well well aren't we forward." He chuckled a little and continued to watch the movie, content to leave the girl there.
"Blondes and brunettes are the highest ranking hair colours in my opinion yes. Although any woman comfortable with her body is attractive."
Blondes, eh? So I'm not completely out of the running... Wait, what did I just think? Elli sighed. "Nineteen, born thirteenth of July nineteen ninety. Yourself?"
Elli winced inwardly. Whoo, a bit more than two years. "Me? November, 1987. The big double-two." Elli almost commented on the whole 'underage drinking' thing, but decided that it would probably be best not to bring the incident up.
"Well well aren't we forward." Cafas seemed to be able to joke it off, and Elli was grateful for that.
Laughing slightly, Elli extricated herself from Cafas, though she didn't move so far away that their legs weren't almost touching, that little fraction of an inch apart that was small enough that they could feel the body heat of each other. "Sorry about that, just got me a bit surprised there, is all." Elli looked behind her, wondering at the aroma of popcorn, and noticed a bowl of the heavenly stuff resting on the small table behind the couch. One of the staff must have placed it there while they weren't paying attention. Elli grabbed the bowl, and set it down so that it rested half in Cafas' lap and half in hers. "Care to share this with me?"
Some time later, the movie was about two thirds done and the popcorn was down to the last bit. Due to the size of the bowl, there had been much hand-bumping and accidental grabbings during the course of eating the popcorn, and there was but one piece left of the most amazing popcorn Elli had ever consumed. She eyed the piece, then watched Cafas' hand, daring it with her eyes to just try and get that popcorn before she did. Her hand darted in, and closed on the popcorn. It was undoubtable that, should Cafas be reaching for the same popcorn, their hands would hopelessly entangle.
Cafas spied popcorn. One solitary piece. He lunged for it but Elli got there first. Damn, he should have pre-empted the move. Silly muscles getting in the way of his speed. Instead he grabbed her hand. She couldn't put it in her mouth if he had her hand. He growled challenging her to see what would happen if she ate his popcorn. Not on his watch. He held firmly, but not so tight as to hurt, after all, it was only a joke. His steel ball sat and fell apart, he had just finished focusing on Elli's face. He was beginning to lose energy drastically from all the fiddly little bits, but the model left was a perfect depiction . It ought to have been, he had spent over ten minutes focusing the energy over every little contour of her face head and, for stability purposes only of course, bust. It gave it a flatter base he reasoned. More surface area. Something.
'Holding hand getting to awkward length of time soon...'
Well that wasn't his issue, it was his popcorn, not hers. He wanted it. He was fully willing to wrestle her for it. In a friendly way. There really wasn't a way to wrestle a girl without it being awkward he could think of though after all, pinning someone on the ground for three seconds either resulted in having to apply painful amounts of pressure to key points or just dropping your body weight onto them in a more dispersed way. Either hurting or awkward. What a dumb sport.
Elli was totally not staring Cafas down for a bit of popcorn. No, she was staring Cafas down for a bit of the best popcorn ever made, it would be hers. Or not, it wasn't super crucial or anything. Maybe Elli could just let him have it. "Here, you can have it." She said, and popped it into Cafas' mouth, withdrawing her hand quickly and laughing. "That was some good stuff."
Then Elli noticed the sculpture-thingy of her that was sitting next to Cafas on the sofa. She grabbed it, and looked at it very closely. "Wow Cafas, this is really good! Where'd you learn how to do this?" It was very good, and Elli realized that Cafas probably had to have been concentrating on her for a long amount of time to shape the thing with his powers.
Cafas did not expect the popcorn to enter his mouth that way. In fact he expected the opposite, for her to put it in her mouth. Well... how strange. He crunched it triumphantly and smiled. He had won against a girl a struggle for food. Needless to say that did not happen often. then she picked up his little sculpture and he went red of cheek and embarrassed of eye. The complement was nice. Where he had learned to do it though... that was a strange one. Where had he learned to use his own power. Well really just then was the first time he had tried with any level of success. It had been one of those 'I wonder if I can' moments. "Uh... I taught myself I guess. It's something I do on occasion, mess around with my powers. Really all I do is melt the metal strategically. Like a crop tool I guess."
'No comment on the fact it is her? What a relief.'
Alchemist noted that for almost the entire movie thus far they had been less than an inch from each other. He guessed Elli would have to have noticed, it was pretty obvious. He melted what remained the metal into a ball again and dropped it into his pocket. Hopefully he would get the miniature bust back. That way he would be able to either keep it or melt it into the collection. He sat up properly, one eye on the vampire slaying on screen and put one hand in a very inconspicuous manner in a ready to receive pose. He really didn't want her to have that quite yet, not while he was still working the kinks out of it. "I mean, it's not that great I guess, only skill in the making." He tried to be modest.
"Uh... I taught myself I guess. It's something I do on occasion, mess around with my powers. Really all I do is melt the metal strategically. Like a crop tool I guess." Awww, wittle Cafas was embarrassed.
Elli smiled and said "That's cool!" Her smile faded slightly, and she said "I don't really have any sort of skill that can rival that." One thing Elli didn't like about herself was her lack of ability when it came to the arts. She couldn't paint, she couldn't draw, she couldn't dance, she couldn't sing or play instruments, she really was lacking in that department.
She studied the miniature sculpture for a few moments more, then dropped it into Cafas' waiting palm. "Interesting subject matter." She said, smiling a little jokingly, a little slyly, though with her face towards the TV it was possible that Cafas couldn't tell. "Might I ask why you chose me as a model?"
Cafas chose to laugh at Elli saying she had no skills. He had money saying she did have skills somewhere. "You just haven't found your strength yet. I mean really, my skills are all with my powers, and musically from years of practice." And he was mediocre at best there, or had been, months ago. Either way, he gave Elli a friendly encouraging and most importantly soft punch to the shoulder in traditional style as assumed from movies. Such pessimism would get her nowhere. He felt like giving her a hug for that extra level of encouragement but voted against the idea. The Hero of the movie had turned into a werewolf in an unexpected twist of fate and was now fighting trhe vampire. He watched for a moment.
'Poor vampire, he's the bad guy, he stands no chance.'
A weight dropped into C.J.'s hand. He dropped the statue fully formed into his pocket. He considered telling her both reasons he had used her for a model, but decided it best to only tell her one. "I need a good image of the subject matter, you were the only thing sitting still enough that was attractive enough to stare at for several minutes." And hormones had said both. Typical. He could strangle his body some days. Oh well, he acted like he intended to say every word of it. He also acted like he had said it purely in a matter of fact way.
'Why must I be stuck in such an idiot cage?'
In the movie somebody died, the hero saved the maiden and the maiden saved the Hero, the credits started to roll. Alchemist had missed most of the lead up to the final battle, which he had luckily seen most of, it still made sense, action movies were good like that.