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.
Ah, good old floor. Bristly carpet reminiscent of feet, dirt, and a residual cleaning odor. The scenery was just as pleasant, the smooth, featureless eggshell of the wall paint meeting the equally riveting brown, mottled indoor/outdoor carpet. Okay, maybe it wasn't indoor/outdoor, but it was pretty ratty for such a big bank. More clanging and other violent sounds paraded in from the lobby. These guys seemed pretty capable, all in all. He was happy to go on with them for a bit, telling jokes and whatnot, but the sooner he could leave with his gold, the better.
He could tell from looking beneath and through the undercarriage of the bus that one of the two mutants was dispatching the man on that side. It didn't leave Garrett much time, so he began to get up. From his right, he saw the former paralysis patient approaching, who definitely seemed to recgonzie him."Eh... G... uh... Hey you! Jesus are you okay? You're from the mansion, right? It's all right, you're safe now." Garrett could feel the warmth of the guy's hand through his jacket. So close. He kept his head down and then stood slowly, nodding and coughing.
Once they were on their feet, he looked into the self deemed savior's eyes, his face warming into a smile as he could see the brief embers of memory fuel the flames of recognition."Wait a second..." Yes, his friendly smile of warmth quickly grew into an inferno of gleaming white choppers. " Second's up." Garrett's hand quickly made its way to the base of the man's skull, a firm jolt of neuron confusion dropping him like a sack of potatoes on the...well from this angle it did seem like plush, carpet. Looking down at his stuttering mind and body, he shook his head in a motion of disapproval." Really, you are going to have to work on this paralysis problem." The manipulator turned and made his way toward the lobby entrance, his hands raised as police began to trickle in and care for the wounded. He put on his best fake look of shock and outrage, bowing his head as a blanket was put over his shoulders. Time to go join the other victims.
Saphirus almost managed a 'NO!' before Garret's hand pressed onto the skin covering his spine... He word instead came out. "N-AARRRM(heh,Shin)" before his mind went black and starry and he was on the ground convulsing and twitching. His body racked about violently; he would smack his right arm around and then crush what ever got near his left.
After a while he lay splayed out, his mouth half open and his eyes wide. He awoke with a gasp of air, which was good because he had started to go blue. He clenched his eyes shut for a moment, as they had dried out, and then looked about with a slow-witted confusion at the people moving around him... What... was going on? Where was he? It looked like a bank... oh yeah... he had gone to a bank, hadn't he? The police were here... Yeah, it had been a robbery... He was fighting people... and then... A smile... A terrible smile... And now, here he was. His mind was still moving too slowly as he looked about with a vacant expression played across his face... Everything seemed strange... What was going on? Did he catch the bad guy? Did the bad guy knock him out? He looked over to a body with a name tag on it... Wilma... He had gotten the bastard... He smiled with relief, and laid back, ignoring the cops around him... They had all seen him try to help out; at best they would give him a lecture about how he had put all of these people in danger. His eyes widened. Lizard boy had his coat... Was he okay? What had he missed? What the hell had happened to him?!
Koga rose to his feet, he needed to develop some sort of range attack, something to stun enemies. something, maybe like a basilisk, that'd be cool, but he didn't think that was how mutations worked...by request.that's be nice. maybe he'd go all Godzilla...he laughed internally, maybe that was why his father feared him.
He turned a corner and rushed to Saph, the man was freaking out, He quickly ran around the room for something suitable as Saph had a seizure. He finally came across a pen. there was devastation toward his comrade's left side and not much toward his right Koga came in from the top of his head and popped the expensive pen in his mouth, He was keeping a wary on on the mans left arm, but he managed to help ensure that he didn't swallow his tongue, through the worst of it, and then he finally took a breath, He, thankfully was calming down and looked stable and with that he rushed to go get his frickin clothes and point out where he had left the automatic weapon. by the time Saph was actually coming to, he was waiting patiently on a nearby counter. He gave a few statements already and as usual made sure they new where to find him, if the death of the man he landed on went badly for him and they needed to arrest him.
"You ok?" Koga asked quietly as he sat on the counter.
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Saphirus had slowly climbed to his feet, stumbling a little, but bracing himself on a wall. He spotted Koga, and wanders toward him. Things seemed a little surreal... Like the world was foggy... Maybe he was actually sleeping, and this was a dream. It would account for the wiggling of the wall behind the lizard boy... He stopped in his tracks, and shook his head, blinking a few times until the wall went still. Weird... He continued, coming to a stop at the counter next to Koga.
He opened his mouth, and asked "You okay?" at the same time the you X-er did, and paused for a moment. He decided to answer first. "I think I'm fine... Things are a little bit hazy... What happened to m... Woah" He grabbed the counter and clung tightly as Koga's form started to wriggle madly, and then the world started spinning. Without warning, the older mutant turned quickly, and vomited. He leaned down and clutched the counter with all of his might to keep his unstable legs from giving. Between heaves he let out little jewels ranging from. "Holy Christ." to "F**# me, there goes breakfast." He looked up momentarily as he finished raising a hand to wave off the EMT's that were approaching. He used the same hand to wipe off the spit trail that very ungracefully led to his pile of vomit.
He then looked up slowly, breathing deeply and clutching his stomach. "I... Whew... I think... I think I'm better n-" And then he was speaking while falling, watching Koga all the way down.
He wasn't trying to fall... He was trying to stand. Normally his body did it for him; he didn't even have to think about standing. It would balance on its own, doing the minute measurements of weight vs. reaction that were, by now, routine. Obviously the routine wasn't working as he crashed to the ground, mercifully not into his own vomit. "... Crap."
~~“I think I'm fine... Things are a little bit hazy... What happened to m... Woah"
“I think you had a fit….a ssseizure.”
~~"Holy Christ."
Koga set wide eyed as he learned new ways to be crude it was somehow made pardonably and more foul due to the vomiting, I mean no one liked to vomit but Geez.
~~"F**# me, there goes breakfast."
“Yeah, Maybe you ssshouldn’t wave off the medic.”
~~"I... Whew... I think... I think I'm better n-"
Koga swung at Saph an open palm and missed, he just wasn’t in a position to support the man. He was however ready to dive and push him out of the way, but luckily he was falling away from the pool of vomit.He wondered for a moment if he was going to learn any other new words.
~~"... Crap."
“Ssstay there a minute, like I was trying to tell you, I am pretty sssure you had a ssseizure or sssomething, let your body chill for a few, and let one of thessse guysss take your vitals atleassst, we ssshould probably leave anyhow, but we will know if we need to get you ssstrait to the doc..”
Koga slid from the counter and hoped over to the wall his feet flat against it and a hand holding on above him, like a gargoyle. He didn’t care to touch the floor.
“Oh yeah while you were out the bank manager had upper upper management on the phone and he was sssaying sssomething about them helping out those who stood up for his bank. I told him to remember me when it was time to go to college and he sssaid they’d ssset up a ssscholarship or sssomething. If you need anything it might be a good chance to get it.”
"A seizure? No way... I ain't ever had a seizure in my life..." He climbed up quickly to his feet, and then paused in deep thought. "I don't really remember anything, though... I mean... I went into the room, and... I... dunno... A smile... That's all I got... An evil lookin smile..."
Saph gave in as Koga lent pressure to the subject, and he stopped waving off the medical experts; An EMT came and checked his pulse, shined a light in his eyes, and gave him the thumbs up. He followed Koga as he jumped, but found that he had to look away, as the movement was somehow overwhelming to his eyes. He perked up a bit, and forgot about the whole incident with the puking and falling over when the kid mentioned the bank's willingness to show their gratitude.
"Heh heh... Well I'll be... This whole hero bit does have it's payoffs, don't it?" He already knew what he was going to ask for... Straight cash, as much as they were willing to fork out... What? It wasn't like that money would go to waste or anything. He planned to live off of it for some time.
"Hey, kid.... You ever done anything like this before? What's you name, by the way? I never quite caught it."
~~"A seizure? No way... I ain't ever had a seizure in my life..."
Koga shrugged a little. " I'm not a doctor, I'm jussst sssaying what I sssaw."
~~"I don't really remember anything, though... I mean... I went into the room, and... I... dunno... A smile... That's all I got... An evil lookin smile..."
"creepy, well you ssseem ok now and." he waited to see what the EMT had to say about. "if he sssaysss you are good, then I'm not going to argue."
Koga smiled when the mention of reward lit the man's eyes up. it seemed to shake a bit of the cobwebs out of his head too.
~~"Heh heh... Well I'll be... This whole hero bit does have it's payoffs, don't it?"
"Sssometimesss people have the presssence of mind to sssay thanksss. Take em where you can get em cuassse they are far and few between."
"Hey, kid.... You ever done anything like this before? What's you name, by the way? I never quite caught it."
"Um, I typically ssstick to the ssstreet if I am looking to ssstop sssome trouble, The Cthuluhu attack was the biggessst thing I have gotten into. But yeah I have a habit of sssticking my nose into trouble when I sssee it happening. I acctually tagged along on the roof of the car, you looked like you were looking for trouble and I didn't sssee anyone at your back." He shrugged again.He waited to hear the mans reply.
Koga reached over offering to shake hands. "I've heard your name around the school but I always prefered proper introductionsss, I am Ryuichi Koga, you can call me Koga."
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"Hah! Really? Well if you want you can ride in the passenger seat on the way back, eh? Unless you like the roof more." He ignored the fact that Koga's hand was looking five times as big as it should, and shook the boy's hand gladly, watching as it shrunk to the proper size when he started moving his hand to meet it. Saph was never the type to seek help for a problem that he figured he could just ignore; this kinda stuff fixed itself right?
He gave a friendly smile to the lizard boy. To tell the truth, he figured he would be in a body bag right now if it weren't for the kid's willingness to jump into the fray no questions asked, just to help out a fellow mansion goer. "Well, lets get goin... Lemme talk to the bank people real quick." He moved to pat Koga on the shoulder before turning to talk to a bank official. They disappeared into a back room, and he came out with a big smile and full pockets.
"Alrighty! Eh... I hate to ask this of you, but... Do you know how to drive? And if so, can you... I still feel a little... eh... off, I guess." Saph figured he would be fine if the boy didn't know how to drive... The mansion wasn't too far off.
~~Hah! Really? Well if you want you can ride in the passenger seat on the way back, eh? Unless you like the roof more."
“Yeah that’d be good, I’ve travelled on the top of bussssesss and delivery trucksss that way, but the top of a car isss a lot lower to the ground, and lessss ssstable the experience is a lot lessss fun.”
~~"Well, lets get goin... Lemme talk to the bank people real quick."
“Sssure thing, Sssaphirusss.” Koga waiuted leaning on the wall, he smiled and waved at a young woman that was talking to a police officer but staring at him, it wasn’t until her cheeks started blushing and she looked away that he realized what he was wearing the last time she must have seen him.
His cheeks lit up a rosy pink as well, Koga smiled at the smile on Saph’s face. “ I’m guessssing that your college fund isss in your wallet?”
~~"Alrighty! Eh... I hate to ask this of you, but... Do you know how to drive? And if so, can you... I still feel a little... eh... off, I guess."
“Yeah, I’ve driven plenty of timessss.” In the danger room. But vitural driving counted right? I mean they used their experience in life or death situations, that counted for the road to right? “ You might have to give me directionsss, but other than that we ssshould be good. ”
As they reached the car Koga waited patiently for the Keys and once they were in and buckled up, they would began their second haphazard adventure of the day.
"Something like that. Lets blow this popsicle stand." Saph stepped forward, rocked a little as he felt a wave of wooziness, and then forged onward, all the way out of the bank, and to the car, all the while trying to ignore the fact that everything was twisting and warping around him. The sight of the sidewalk ahead of him spiraling out of control made his stomach to the same. He blinked it off and kept moving; thinking making he could walk this off like any old pain.
Saph didn't think twice about handing the keys over to Koga. He said he'd driven before, right? He felt too funny to really think about it too much. As he buckled himself in, and let close his eyes to make it so the strange visions and spinning world would right themselves, he spoke for the sake of keeping his sanity. "You could really pick up some chicks with this job, eh? I'm a little old, but there's older broads out there that need saving too, yeah?"
~~"Something like that. Lets blow this popsicle stand."
“Fair enough.” He glanced at Saph and saw that he had closed his eyes that might be for the best. And Hey actually he didn’t really count it as it was a bus and he had wrecked it, but he had driven before… just very poorly.
~~"You could really pick up some chicks with this job, eh? I'm a little old, but there's older broads out there that need saving too, yeah?"
“Definitely. Though if you were ssshooting for younger Women, I don’t think that sssaving their livesss could hurt, But yeah everyone needsss sssaving sssometime.” Koga adjusted his mirrors and then the seat. He started the car and put his foot on the break, checked his rearview and then crawled into the empty road…luckily for him it had been blocked off somewhere further down due to the robbery.
The car puttered down the road and he found his footing with the gas pedal. They came to a jerky stop at a light and Koga rose his eye brows glancing to his right to take stock of whether Saph was on to his inexperience. As the light turned Green they took off again and were heading down the road at a comfortable speed. He was going to make as few turns or lane changes as possible but, thus far it wasn’t so bad.
Saph's eyes jerked open as the car jerked to a stop, and he looked up slowly. His eyes slowly moved to Koga, giving him a strange look... He then shrugged, and closed his eyes again. Maybe the kid was just used to a car with more mild brakes?
He spoke up again to keep his mind off of things. "Wachu think of that girl at the bank? The one we saved? You coulda got her number, If you wanted. I'm sure a chick like that would be jumpin at the gun to score a date with a super hero..." He paused as his balance went all wiggly again, and he opened his eyes to make sure that the kid hadn't flipped the car or something. "eh... Kid, why are you going so slow? I know we don't exactly gotta be anywhere, fast, but c'mon! Oh, and just ignore the speed limits; they're more like... eh.. a suggestion, than a law." No that wasn't good advice, no the city was not the best place for an inexperienced driver, and yes, there were many people in the city who lived by Saph's philosophy on speed limits.
~~"Wachu think of that girl at the bank? The one we saved? You coulda got her number, If you wanted. I'm sure a chick like that would be jumpin at the gun to score a date with a super hero..."
“Um ssshe wasss alright, I think ssshe wasss locking at me like that because what I wasn’t wearing…and the wasssn’t really my bessst work. I’m pretty sssure that guy isss dead now. And then you knocked me out with that tap of yoursss.” Koga then thought about a bit longer. “ you really think ssso?’
~~"eh... Kid, why are you going so slow? I know we don't exactly gotta be anywhere, fast, but c'mon! Oh, and just ignore the speed limits; they're more like... eh.. a suggestion, than a law."
“Oh, I wasn’t sure if you were a Sunday driver.” Koga took a deep breath and started going the speed limit and letting the car drive. They flew through a gren light and got into normal traffic. So far so good. The danger room really was the best place to learn anything!
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"You kiddin, kid? I bet you ten bucks that if you woulda walked up to that girl and asked her her number, she wouldn'ta thought twice. Trust me, next time you save a chick, get her number."
Saph propped his elbow against corner of the window, leaning his head into his hand. "As for the guy... Well, he just got what was coming to him, kid. Think about it; he would kill you if he got the chance. You just got to him first. Thank god, too, because if you hadn't have killed him, I'd be dead and so wouldn't everyone else there."
Saph nodded sagely, looking out to the road... The traffic was getting heavier, and though they were going faster, there was still a hummer riding them like brokeback. He looked back at the large vehicle, and grumbled. "Hey kid, switch lanes, this jacka** seems to be in a hurry." He looked back at the people speeding past on either side. It was dangerous, but the kid seemed like he knew what he was doing, right?
"I could give it a try,though There isss a girl I really like back at the mansssion, ssshe isssn't sssure if ssshe wantsss anything more than friendsss though, and normally i'd write that off asss I got bessst friended but ssshe hasss been having a rough time of it, lately and my room mate likessss, liked her, I dunno he liked her enough to make it awkward for me. maybe I ssshould give a random irl a call." Koga wasn't sure through and through he had been stressing about this...luckily for his GPA , when he was stressed he studied more not less, he was one of those rare few that used hard work as escapism.
"Alright." Koga turned on his blinker and immediately of course the hummer behind him closed in closer and the cars to his right sped up so they wouldn't loose their precious spot. So Koga pressed down on the gas a bit harder matching the speed of the hummer and even pulling away from it. they barreled through a yellow light and that opened a spot for him to change lanes. so He changed lanes and went flying down the road. If Saph was worried about going slow, well he could stop worrying. about that atleast. the hummer got stuck back a light or two.
Somewhere along the way Koga seemed to have been possed by the spirits of cabbies past.