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.
“So you want to learn how to punch like Rambo?” Hunter said with a smile after she’d done a few side break falls. She was pretty good at them. Considering that he’d do something a little unorth “Alright then. Stand in front of me and give me your best swing.” Time to teach Madlaina a valuable lesson about why break falling is important.
As she swung at him he dodge around the punch and do a simple leg sweep that would cause Madlaina to fall on her side. Neither move should take much in the way of skill or timing and he’d keep the moves at a slow enough speed that Madlaina could see what he did but not react. She’d get a chance to practise a side break fall and he’d then explain how dangerous the simple trip he’d done could be if you didn’t know how to break fall.
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Maddy grinned. “Rambo beat up the bullies and bad guys who picked on him. He’s the best.” With an excited little bounce in her step she moved where he told her to and tried to think of all the stuff she knew about punching, which wasn’t much. So, with more excitement than skill, she launched a punch at him. She remembered that she was supposed to keep her wrist straight and not wobbly, but the rest of it was pure movie style fighting. Big sweep, easy to block, and curved arm with little force behind it.
It wasn’t until his leg hit hers that it flashed through her mind that this might not have been a good idea. At the last second she managed to do the side fall that he had shown her but the sudden impact still made her breath wheeze out before she inhaled. Bruise #3.
“Okay, I get why I need to know how to fall. But I still think I should learn a punch or something I can practice. Right now all I can do is fall at someone.” Madlaina’s tone was half joking and half serious, her face showing some slight annoyance at being caught like that. She felt silly.
Hunter smiled and extended a hand to help Madlaina back to her feet. “I’ve got just one more break fall to show you then we’ll move on to some actual fighting techniques,” he promised, “This is a rear break fall.” With that said he jumped backwards into the air. Before his back hit the mat he slammed both arms into the mat.
“As before we’ll start small,” he assured her, “Just squat down like this and fall backwards, again making sure that your arms hit before your back does. Do a few of these and we’ll move on to something more proactive than just not breaking yourself.” He gave her an encouraging smile. She’d picked up the break fall techniques quickly and he hoped she would do the same with fighting moves.
After being in contact with so many new things today, and being fairly worn out physically, her powers weren’t raring to go. So Maddy only slightly hesitated before letting him give her a hand up. Back on her feet, she let out a soft huff of breath at the new fall he wanted her to do, but non-the-less she watched and was willing to try.
Sure that she looked ridiculous, she squatted like he showed her and did a weird hop up while trying to make her back go down as if she were falling. This time it wasn’t the maneuver that was the hard part, it was getting her body to actually fall without trying to correct itself. It took a few weird looking tries before she managed to get her body to let go of its natural balance and correction. Then she was slapping the mat like before, only each time she hit a little noise came out of her mouth along with her breath.
After doing a handful of the backwards falls, she stood up and dusted herself off, ready for the new stuff. “Okay, great.”
“Very good,” Hunter said as she finished the break falls. Despite a slightly awkward start she’d picked it up fine. “Now I’m going to teach you some actual fighting techniques. First of all I want you to forget everything you have seen in the movies. You won’t fight like Rambo. No real fighters fight like him. Instead I am going to teach you Wing Chun.”
“Now the first technique I’m going to teach you is the vertical punch. It, like every other Wing Chun technique comes from this stance.” Hunter stood with his feet level and shoulder width apart, leaning slightly backwards, his elbows tucked in to his side and his hands in front of his chest. “And this is a vertical punch.” He snapped his right hand forward. Unlike Madlaina’s punch earlier he didn’t wind back his arm or stick his elbow out to the side. His elbow stayed tucked in and his arm just shot straight forward and straight back. The other notable difference was that his balance was unaffected by the punch. He was just as stable throwing the punch as he was simply standing there. Throwing a few more in quick succession he further demonstrated that his attack were not committed. He wasn’t sacrificing balance for power.
“There. Now you try,” he said guiding her into the stance, “Feet shoulder width apart. Lean slightly back. Elbows in at your sides. Hands in front of your chest. Now punch just like I did.” He’d let her throw a few punches without resistance before getting one of the pads and holding it for her to punch into.
Excited to be learning some real fighting, Maddy was brought back down by something called Wing Chun and the fact that Rambo was, apparently, a fake. With a disappointed twist to her face momentarily, she scratched the back of her neck where a bit of sweat had settled, and started trying to follow him. ”All right. Feet, lean, elbows, hands, and punch.”
Mentally reciting the order, she slowly followed with her body. The first run through was shaky and slow. The second slightly more confident but still wavering. On the third she forgot to keep her elbows in but half way through she remembered and tried to correct it, which threw off her balance and she had to correct quickly.
With a wince, she did another one, this time not forgetting anything but still doing it kind of slowly, before looking up at Hunter.
“Not bad,” Hunter praised as Madlaina threw a few punches, “Just remember to keep your elbows in. It might feel a bit weird at first as you’ve seen guys in the movie wind their elbows back for a big swing. While that would hurt if it connected it costs the attacker their balance and if dodged leaves them vulnerable to a counter attack. This straight punch won’t do as much damage, but it much less likely to get you in any real trouble if you miss.”
Going over to one side he picked up a pad for Madlaina to try and throw her punches into something with resistance. Coming back he stood in front of her a few inches inside her maximum reach. “Alright try and throw a few into this,” he suggested with a smile. Even though he was over a hundred pounds heavier he still braced himself. After all a solid hit on someone with poor footing is going to knock them off balance regardless of how big they are.
Remembering what he said, Madlaina regained her balance and tucked her elbow before trying again, this time against the mat he held up. When her fist hit the surface, for a split second she thought that this was easier than she thought it would be. But then the vibrations radiated up her arms followed by the sting of the skin on her knuckles. The ache convinced her that this was not easier than she thought.
After a second punch, she paused. “Is it supposed to sting?” It felt like her hand had been hit hard with a flyswatter. It faded quickly after each time, but Maddy wanted to make sure she wasn’t doing something wrong. Once she thought about it the vibration up her arm seemed normal, but the sting didn’t.
Hunter watched as she threw two good punches into the mat. Not perfect technique but not bad either. “If you’re not used to punching things it will sting a little at first,” he explained reassuringly, “but over time you’ll toughen up your hands and it’ll stop.”
He waited for her to throw a few more solid punches then did something a little devious. One of the things he was trying to get Madlaina to do was throw punches without putting herself off balance. That was easy to do when you weren’t hitting anything but once you started hitting resistance you would begin to use more force. When she went for her next blow he stepped back so she’d miss. If she was doing it right she shouldn’t lose her balance. However if she did Hunter would step back in and steady her if it looked like she was going to fell over.
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Nibbling her lip, Madlaina took a moment than took another swing at the padded thing. Not expecting him to move it, she didn’t correct, instead her momentum took her a bit too far forward. Though she didn’t fall, she did have to move her feet in a bit of a clumsy half-stepping motion in order to keep from falling over. Making a frustrated face, Maddy had a feeling she had done something wrong.
”Did I mess that up or was that supposed to happen?” Maddy was naturally clumsy, and after loosing a lot of her finer motor skills, she was even more so. Something she found embarrassing and thought made her look stupid. She frequently tripped over her own feet, slipped, banged, or bruised herself, so she wasn’t sure if that had been her being clumsy or if it was part of the training.
Hunter offered Madalaina a reassuring smile. “It’s a little test of mine,” he explained, “If you have the technique perfect a miss won’t cost you your balance. You stumbled a little but kept your feet. I’ve known people who’ve fallen over when I do this. You’ve not got the technique perfect yet but you kept your feet.”
“Now remember,” he said as he adopted the stance Madlaina was using, “You need to keep leaning backwards slightly. That is what will keep you balanced when you throw a punch. Try again. I’m going to pull the pad away unexpectedly again and we’ll see if you can keep balance while hitting the pad hard when it’s there.”
Hunter held the bag back up again and planned to let her have four hits before pulling it aside. He hoped that she would get better at keeping her balance now he’d reminded her about the stance she needed to keep.
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Bracing herself again, trying to remember everything at once, she found herself almost leaning back too far. Or at least she felt like she was; it was hard to punch forward and lean back at the same time. She did a few punches that way and then corrected a little bit so she wasn’t leaning back so far but was bracing her leg a bit differently.
With each swing she kept expecting him to pull it away and it was psyching her out a bit.
Madlaina was leaning back a little too far at first but after she threw a few punches she corrected and Hunter gave her a reassuring smile. If she could feel for herself what was wrong rather than be told by him she’d be likely to remember it better.
Two more punches and he stepped back again in time with her next punch and prepared himself to catch her should she stumble. However this time he hoped she’d be able to hold her balance. She’d stayed upright the first time and now had a better stance.
It took a bit of concentration, but she succeeded in not stumbling. It didn’t feel natural to hold her body that way, Maddy would have to practice these things back at the mansion, but she didn’t unbalance. They had a gym there where she could work out, work on her stamina and strength too. After only a few punches she had realized that she didn’t have enough strength to be effective unless she completely surprised them.
So she had a host of English skills to work on, piles of homework to complete in order to catch up to the proper grade, and now a list of things to practice in the gym. Maddy’s days had suddenly gotten much more complicated and busy in a matter of weeks. Distracted by thoughts of all the stuff she had to do and tired from the workout Hunter had been giving her, one of her swings missed and she sighed.
Hunter was glad to see improvement and Madlaina keep her balance. However a few punches later and it was clear that the girl was near her limit. “That’s enough,” he said with a smile as he lowered the pad, “You’ve done very well today. I’m impressed.”
Setting the pad down to one side he picked up two water bottles and held one out for Madlaina. “Here. Now where are you staying if you don’t mind me asking? I don’t want you to practise unless you have a proper facility. Last thing I want to see is you getting yourself hurt. But if you can find good facilities a little practise every day will go a long way. The stance, punches and breakfalls. But good work today. If you talk to Ellie she’ll try and organise a weekly session for you.”