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.
“Four centuries on and nothing changes,” Hunter said with a sad smile, “I had a similar experience when my powers emerged. Except instead of running away I killed my parents.” Now that his hatred had died down he was still pained by the memory.
“You are no longer in the employee of anyone save yourself,” he reminded her, “Which means that your melds can be what you want them to be, not what will be useful to others. So how long ago did you discover that your sister was alive?” She’d not said as much but he could work it out. Her sister’s fate was obviously something that bothered Meld.
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Hunter's words about killing his parents struck a chord disturbingly close to home for Meld. "When I fled I was in no state to be killing anyone, let alone my parents. I went back, months later, and told them off. I told them exactly what I felt and that I was leaving on my own terms so they couldn't be all self righteous about it. But the choice not to kill them was a close thing. I've contemplated...I almost went back to kill them. People like that don't deserve to live." What she didn't say was that she was still contemplating it. They didn't deserve to live and yet such an act of actually killing one's parents was the one act that she felt her soul would never be able to recover from. Killing family was the ultimate act of evil.
"I discovered my sister was alive a few months ago. She's in an insane asylum. I think my parents probably put her there after she almost died. Its my greatest fear that she was shipped away because they discovered that she was also a mutant." And if she ever confirmed that suspicion, morals be damned her parents would die by her hands.
“Trust me when I say that you don’t want to kill your parents. No matter what they’ve done you don’t want to kill your parents. It’s something that you can never take back and given time you’ll wish you could.” Hunter had very personal experience in this area. He had killed his parents in a blind rage when they thought he was a daemon. Afterwards he wished he could take it back. He cried out to have them back with them, to say he was sorry. But they didn’t come back. They would never come back.
“Have you had a chance to visit your sister?” he asked. If she hadn’t a trip to see her might do her good. Or it might be enough to push her over the edge. It all depended on the state of her sister and why she was in a mental institution.
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"I left my parents alive for a reason," Meld answered. Hunter clearly knew all about that reason except that he had chosen to end their lives and she hadn't. Of course, there was still no guarantee that fact would remain true it all depended on her sister and how they had treated her. If she was actually ill and well cared for then she could forgive that enough so that things wouldn't change. She would never again view herself as their daughter, but that didn't mean she had to kill them. And if the reason arose that she felt she had to, wouldn't' that fact that such a death be premeditated be worse than the deaths Hunter had admitted to causing of his parents?
"I haven't seen my sister yet, not since I heard she was alive. I'm afraid of what I might find." Painful admittance, that. "I want to go soon though. Aura has business in Canada as well. We're planning on when to go." Would her recent arrangement of non-violence prevent her from helping her friend with her own unfinished business? Then again, if what she feared to find was actually found, it would no longer matter anyway.
A lot hanged on how Meld’s sister had been treated and why she was in the mental institution. Somehow Hunter had a feeling that no matter what he did in their session that would be the deciding factor.
“If you want I can come with you to see your sister,” he offered. He hope that if he was there when they met and it turned out to be what Meld feared it was he could at least get her to stop and think about what she was doing.
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"I'm not certain you would want to come with me to see my sister," Meld answered hesitantly. I can't...I can't really promise how I'll react." She was normally very calm and collected, reacting with her mind rather than her emotions, even when anger overtook her. But she knew when the urge to violence overtook her it had an almost irresistible allure and while she had, up until this point, been able to control its expression and, to a limited extent, when it came out, she wasn't able to control its need to be expressed. If her fears were true she had a feeling just such an urge would come upon her and that might be bad, very bad.
"Plus, I'm not going just for my sister. I'm not sure if you know Aura but she's probably not someone you would approve of. She makes me look like a pacifist." It was said with fondness. Aura was an interesting character but not someone that most could understand.
As Meld explained why Hunter might not want to come he gave a knowing smile and replied, “That’s exactly why would want to come. If it is as you fear I’d hope I could at least get you to stop and think. If after that you are still determined to go through with this then I won’t try and stop you.” There was little to be gained trying to fight her if she was determined to do this. However that would be the end of their friendship. He left that unsaid.
“I’m certain that I’ve done things that would make even Aura blanch,” he said coldly. You can perfect cruelty with time. “I’ll be fine with spending a few days with her. Who knows, maybe I’ll be a positive influence on her.”
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"And if it comes to a point where someone dies and you're confronted with rivers of blood?" Meld had to be sure that Hunter was serious before she considered agreeing to anything. She knew he was a vampire, he had admitted himself his attraction and addiction to blood, if in not quite so many words. Surely all of his careful training could only go so far when confronting an issue such as that.
The idea that someone could be a good influence on Aura, pushing her gently away from a life of violence, was vaguely amusing but perhaps the humour wouldn't translate to someone who didn't know the girl. "Aura defends mutant rights with every breath in her being, I think. I trust her to fight at my back like I trust no one else. She was the one that welcomed me to the city when I first arrived."
“I would hope I have the strength to walk away,” he replied. Despite only being back for a shot time Hunter had already had a close call with Ghost. But the blood had been unexpected and unique. Where he expecting blood he felt that he would be able to steel himself enough to resist. “However if the person is already dead then I can do them no more harm.”
“I have no problem with her defending mutant rights. I am concerned when things go too far.” He knew that when fighting for a cause it was easy to use it as an excuse to do unspeakable things. For a moment he wondered if he could really help Meld or if her friends would just pull her back to her old ways.
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Meld didn't mention the fact that Aura killed even outside of the cause they both fought for. Meld had always been careful regarding who she killed and why. If someone said something negative about mutants, especially if they were in a position of power and influence and even more so if they actually made an offensive gesture towards a mutant, they were fair game. Aura had no such limitations; merely being human was reason enough that their life was not worth preserving. She viewed them as deer or sheep and had said so before.
"Are you willing to take that risk?" Meld asked. For some undeniable reason, she wanted to see a weakness in Hunter. She herself was so very flawed in so many ways and Hunter was so calm and collected. She wanted, just once, to see a crack in his facade.
“It’s is something I’d like to avoid,” he told her truthfully, “But it is also something I am willing to risk. One of the true tests of whether you have overcome your addiction is having the ability to say no to it when offered. While I don’t relish being faced with blood, it is something that I need to be able to do.”
Hunter knew well enough that despite the fact that he’d not tasted blood in over a year and a half he still desperately wanted it. He’d resisted both times he’d been faced with it in New York. Admittedly they were in small amounts and with Ghost he’d only barely resisted but he had resisted. If he couldn’t eventually get himself to a point where he could decline readily available blood then what was the point?
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Meld nodded in understanding. It was something she might have to face as well, in the future. Maybe she would never be able to get over her addiction to the suffering of others completely, but was it possible for her to get to a point where, even if the allure was there, she would be able to resist it? Maybe that was all that she could realistically hope for.
"Why did you decide to give it up anyway? From everything you've said, you traveled a lot farther down the path of becoming something utterly inhuman than I have but still, something must have triggered your choice to give up the blood and all the power that came with it. What could have possibly changed after all this time?" That was something that she wasn't sure she would ever be able to wrap her head around.
Why indeed. Why give up all the power and have to deal with this horrible addiction? “Because someone proved me wrong,” he said after a long pause, “There were many other factors, my daughter being an important one, but ultimately it was because someone proved me wrong.”
“I used to believe that might made right and because no one could stop me I could do as I pleased. With that mentality firmly in mind I ploughed on and didn’t stop to look back at what I had done. Then someone finally managed to stop me. Unable to move forward I momentarily look back. Seeing the path of destruction was too much. At first I ran. I ran to the other side of the world to escape what I’d done. But running didn’t help. Eventually I found people who helped me deal with my past. I now hope to do the same for others.”
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"You have a daughter?" Somehow that one statement stuck out in Meld's mind. She didn't expect that of someone like Hunter. For that matter she hadn't even known that vampires could have children. Wasn't there some myth about them being impotent or something like that? Then again, he was a mutant vampire so perhaps the myths and legends were wrong on that count. She had never heard of mutants that couldn't' have children before so it kind of made sense. "Where is she now?"
"There's always someone out there bigger and stronger. No matter how dangerous you think you are, there is always someone who's strengths correspond to your weaknesses." Meld had trained for years to try and offset any weaknesses she might have but she knew well the truth of that. Range was her greatest weakness but, of course, being who and what she was that may eventually change. Then again, if she continued down this path maybe it wouldn't' be in her interest to go through with her ranged blades after all. What would she be without her lethal weapons? What could she possibly replace them with? Certainly she wasn't willing to go back to being merely human. Meld frowned in thought.
“It’s a long story,” Hunter explained. Paragon had started as a simple experiment. Then he got emotionally attached. He had ordered the project aborted, the gems to be removed and Paragon to be put into an orphanage. Instead she was dumped on a mountainside and left to die. Years later Hunter found she was alive and still had her gems. After tracking down and punishing those who had failed to do as instructed Hunter attempted to reinitiate the project and rebuild the bond between him and Paragon. That had not gone so well. “I have no idea where she is and I doubt she’d want to see me,” he said simply.
“You start to forget that when you’ve beaten everyone you face in the last couple of centuries. I got overconfident and sloppy. But that’s not the point. He helped me open my eyes and for that I will be forever grateful.” Hunter owed Calley a thank you and an apology. However he wouldn’t track the boy down. If he wanted to Calley could find him easily enough.