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.
"At l-least you knew your p-parents," Amber stated sadly. Or at least she assumed from the statement that he knew his parents. She had always been sad about the fact that her own had abandoned her as an infant for unknown reasons, maybe because of her ailment, she couldn't be sure. She did, however, understand what it was like to feel like you had just suddenly gained siblings. "I-in the orphanage I n-never f-felt like the other ch-children w-were my s-siblings b-buts its d-different n-now. M-maybe because they're all a l-little strange t-too?"
Amber lifted her own black eyes off of staring at the ground just as Koga did, meeting him gaze for gaze and trying not to blush even more, now that her face had finally returned to its usual pale white. She thought she was at least mostly successful. It was fascinating staring into his eyes, so very similar to her own. Although others said her eyes were creepy, she didn't think Koga's were creepy, not at all. She liked his eyes. When she realized she was staring again, she dropped her gaze to the ground once more. "I'm s-sorry." Why was she always having to apologize?
Amber was relieved when she returned outside to find Koga still there waiting for him. After all the stupid things she'd said, she wouldn't' have been surprised if he had just up and left but then she would have been sad. So much better that he had stuck around, that must actually mean that he liked her, right? Strictly as a friend, of course.
"D-do buses normally n-not stop?" Amber asked, curious. She hadn't had to catch one since her eyes had changed and even looking as strange as she did with the veil and robes she didn't have a problem catching buses before then. Then again, there was a big difference between being a perfectly natural albino and being a mutant.
"Its f-for p-protection," Amber answered, nervously playing with the fabric of the veil. "M-my skin is s-sensitive to the s-sun. If I d-don't cover up I b-burn really easily."
"At l-least you knew your p-parents," "I-in the orphanage I n-never f-felt like the other ch-children w-were my s-siblings b-buts its d-different n-now. M-maybe because they're all a l-little strange t-too?"
”I don’t know, sssometimesss I wisssh I didn’t, I worked hard in ssschool and anything they asssked of me. and I was changing colors in my sleep and my father callsss the police to handle it? I wasssn’t even putting them in danger or anything. What really drivesss me crazy, isss that thessse are their genesss, I didn’t do anything wrong. I changed, I can do neat stuff, useful stuff. but no, I get to wake up to my father yelling, my mother ssstanding back in sssilence and a police officer ssstanding over me with a look of disgussst.” he shrugged at leassst you have the hope that there wasss a reassson that wasssn’t you. That they couldn’t keep you, that they wanted a better life for you. I know for a fact my parentsss, didn’t want me becaussse I am me. he shook his head sullenly. Sssorry, I’m not at all ssstill sssore over it, and yeah both cases are parentsss are pretty lame.
” no need.” he rplied to her apology.
cabsss won’t ssstop at leassst half the time, Busses stop, unless you are doing something crazy, probably not the best time to try to turn into a dinosaur or for me to pretend I am a mood ring. But the schedules slow down at night, so depending on the ssstop it can take a while to catch one going the right way.
"Its f-for p-protection," "M-my skin is s-sensitive to the s-sun. If I d-don't cover up I b-burn really easily."
Oh, well in that cassse it makesss sssenssse, it looks nice, I have a ninja mask that I use sometimes if I know I am going into something dangerous and I don’t want them to remember what I look like. He put his hands in his pockets and continued on down to the corner.
Amber felt suddenly guilty for bringing up such a painful subject for Koga. She honestly hadn't realized that it would be so touchy or so bad and combined with the story Aura had told her about her parents she was beginning to believe that all parents of mutants must be mean like that. "I w-wish you h-hadn't h-had to go through th-that," Amber stated. She wanted to put a comforting hand on his shoulder but she couldn't possibly do such a thing, could she? Wasn't that considered rude? "I d-don't th-think many m-mutants have happy family l-lives," she said sadly. How unfortunate that a trick of genetics should make so many people suffer so very much.
Amber giggled at the mood ring comment. She was still nervous but Koga was just so sweet that he was starting to put her nerves at ease. "Is the M-Mansion far from here?" Maybe they could just walk and wouldn't have to worry about mean taxi drivers. Or the embarrassment of admitting that she had no money to pay taxi drivers, mean or otherwise. Maybe she would have to ask Abyss or Aura for some.
"W-why would you b-be doing something d-dangerous?" Because if he had a ninja mask in preparation for dangerous events, didn't that mean that he actually thought that dangerous events would occur? "I-is it b-because humans s-sometimes attack y-you?" Like with Aura. Like humans might attack her because of her eyes.
“I dunno, Sssometimes it makesss me mad or sssad or whatever, but then I think about the life I get to live now, there isss no way my parents would let me do half the ssstuff I get away at the ssschool. Ssso in that way it isss pretty mint. And yeah, at least not biologically, once we get with our new familysss it worksss out pretty well.”
“ummm, well its about the sssame distance from here to central park asss it is from central park to there. If we hope on at 27 we can hit 287 most of the way there and only have to walk a couple of blocks. One sec.” Koga unties hisshoes that are over his shoulder and slips them on.”
He walked along more at ease.
Koga shakes his head and turns a little red. “Well, I. fight crime. I know that sssoundsss crazy or sssilly, but that isss what I wasss out doing tonight, except that things are ssslow tonight ssso I just ended up wandering. But yeah, I typically will take on muggers, or hoodlums or shut down a drugdealer or two.” He shrugs again. “ but if I am assssiting with sssomething big that the police are doing then I masssk up. I don’t have much trouble with humansss really. If you ssshow them that you are friendly most of the time they are willing to leave you alone. If they aren’t well a good butt kicking usually sssettlesss them down.”
It seemed like Koga understood the whole family thing better than anyone else Amber had talked to, except for possibly Aura. "I'm s-still t-trying to get used t-to it all. The f-family and the f-fact that I'm a m-mutant. Its a l-little overwhelming s-sometimes."
Amber nodded as Koga described where they were and the distances between places. Although she had lived in the city her whole life, it had been in a different area so she wasn't too familiar with the area she was currently in. That and she hadn't gotten out much anyway, both because of her guardians at the orphanage and because it was difficult for her to go outside due to her sensative skin.
"F-fighting c-crime doesn't s-sound stupid to m-me," Amber answered truthfully. In her opinion it actually sounded kind of brave. "I w-was told that s-sometimes j-just looking l-like a mutant c-can make p-people afraid of y-you." Sage advice from her adopted father Abyss and advice that seemed pretty true. Of course, probably so much the better if you actually could beat them up.
“definitely. The crazy part for me wasss, jussst how much it wasss one day this the next day that, I’d alwaysss wanted to mutate. I dunno ssseeemed like fun to me. but when it happened it happened and that was that. Just like I woke up in a different life.”
a silly grin came to his face. He appreciated a little bit of approval, docprof had recently gotten on his case to be more careful and not so quick to save the day, just because he had been in there the third time that week for a scratch here or a sprain there. He had agreed to go in and see him when he got busted up, wasn’t that enough for the old man. Yeah, sssome people get nervousss, but if you sssmile at em or wave, they tend to not mind you asss much. you’ll know if they are going to ssstart trouble, the onesss that do tend to be loud mouthed bigotsss, probably be a good time to turn into sssomething then, they are the ones that need a good ssscare.
They got to a bus stop and luck was with them, the first one said central park/ 287. it was heading their way. Koga pulled out a bus pass as it pulled up. You ride the buss much? he was really asking if she had a pass, but without having to say it.[/b]
"I n-never wanted to b-be a m-mutant," Amber spoke thoughtfully. "B-but I think I'm g-glad I turned out this way. I n-never w-would have gotten a family if I d-didn't. Besides d-dinosaurs are p-pretty awesome right?" She grinned shyly at Koga. Life was sometimes funny in the way it turned out. She never in a million years would have thought she'd be happy being a mutant or that it was even possible, but here she was mutant and everything, getting on a bus with a cute lizard boy and coudln't have been more content.
Amber vowed to remember the whole smiling trick. Maybe she would try it on someone in the future to see if it was all Koga promised it to be. "E-Even with m-my creepy eyes?" There was just something about pitch black eyes that people weren't comfortable around. It was almost as bad as having glowing red eyes or something, black eyes just meant evil even though she was pretty sure that she wasn't evil nor, as far as she had ever been told, were dinosaurs evil. She was just Amber, nothing more or less.
"I s-sometimes ride the b-bus," Amber answered. "B-but not r-recently." She did, however, happen to have brought some change with her for the bus ride and put the change into the appropriate slot when the bus pulled up. She even tried the whole smiling thing and, if the bus driver wasn't exactly friendly, then at least he didn't cringe in fear either and nodded her onto the bus.
“Yeah, definitely, you certainly won’t have to worry about anyone messing with you once you get that under control, heck maybe you could even make a dvd or something answering some of the questions, archeologists have.” [/b]
He swiped his pace and waited for Amber to take a seat. yeah, even with our creepy eyesss. Really I think the average perssson doesssn’t want to messs with usss, itsss kind of new york that way, you mind your businessss I’ll mind mine, even though we are ssstuck on a sssubway and crammed into each other’sss ssspace. Its rare that sssomeone wantsss to start trouble with you, and if they do , the jerks were probably going to ssstart trouble with whoever walked up next anyway. I think a lot of it isss how you take on the world, if you want to do it with an open sssoul or if you want to do it with a closssed fissst.
Koga raised his eyebrows at the buss driver, and the bus driver nodded to them both with an almost friendly nod. If amber knew the local transit system the fact that he wasn’t yelling at them to hurry up and find a seat was a step In the right direction.
The bus made the go stop, go stop motions of a bus picking up some and dropping off others.
Amber hadn't considered the prospect of her power being invaluable to science as a research tool. After all, there must be scientists all around the world who would literally kill for the chance to study a real live dinosaur. Images of becoming a human test subject suddenly started interjecting themselves into her mind and she wasn't nearly so certain that was a good thing any longer. "I d-don't want t-to become a l-living g-guinea pig," she said with a visible shudder.
"S-some p-people are just n-not very n-nice," Amber agreed sadly. "M-most m-mutants I've m-met seem nice. N-no one w-wants to hurt anyone." Of course that was her naive talking. She didn't know about any of the things Aura had done nor anything Abyss had done either, except for a half-remembered news story that she had intentionally erased from her conscious mind. Even the mutants she had met that did do damage, like the little girl Kaitlyn, didn't actually mean to do anything wrong. It wasn't her fault that she had explosive powers that she couldn't' quite control yet. Maybe if Amber could explode things with her mind she might have the same sort of problem too.
Amber looked outside to the dark peaceful night time city. "N-night is my f-favourite time," she spoke thoughtfully to Koga. Something about him was just trustworthy, he was someone she felt comfortable opening up to, at least a little. "P-people d-don't look at me as s-strangely and I c-can go outside and n-not have to worry about b-burning."
“ I doubt many would have the gall to kidnap a sssanctuary girl. Besssidesss I wasss sssuggesssting making dvd, becaussse you could do that on your own time and in the private, I don’t sssuggessst you let yourssself be ssstudied at leassst not without a few friendsss along for the ride. I was thinking more along the linesss of filming when you had already turned, people would probably think it wasss cgi or ssspecial effectsss.
Koga listened as the bus moved along I agree, but I’m jussst sssaying a lot of mutantsss want to take it persssonally, and if you take a clossse look people are kinda mean to other people too, whether we do or don’t have an xgene.
Night isss my favorite time too, I get to sssneak out and run around , ssstrech my musssclesss and actually do sssome good in the world. Doesss sssunssscreen or anything like that help?
The buss was making good time as they’re weren’t a lot of people at the bus stops, so they got to move steadily forward.
So Koga didn't mean that she should become a science experiment. That was a relief at least. The idea of being prodded with needles and made to run around like a rat in a maze just wasn't appealing at all. She was still a little confused about the whole Sanctuary comment, however. No one in Sanctuary seemed that scary, at least not to her, so why should that stop evil scientists from trying to kidnap someone? "W-what if I f-found a mutant s-scientist? Then I c-could h-help science on m-my own terms." Now that sounded like a much better idea. Like volunteer work or something.
"E-even before m-my eyes ch-changed, people were m-mean to m-me," Amber agreed with Koga's observation. "Although I s-still looked a little s-strange with m-my c-cloak and veil." Most of the smaller kids got picked on, however, so maybe it was just a human trait to be mean to each other. "N-not everyone is s-so mean though. Th-there w-were nice p-people too."
"S-sunscreen doesn't h-help much," Amber clarified, with a hint of sadness. It would be so much easier if it did. "J-just c-covering my skin. If its c-clowdy though, that's usually g-good enough. W-why do you h-have to sneak out?" Abyss didn't seem to mind if Amber left or not although she knew that wasn't how most parents were when it came to their children.
"Now that, isss a sssmart idea! It would take quiet a bit of worry off your mind and propel whoever was worthy forward and get them definite funding.
yeah, sssome people sssuck,sssome don't, I got picked on before I mutated for being the sssmart kid, I worked hard in a ssschool full of ssslackersss, ssso there isn't really a sssurprissse there.
hmmmm, well, I'm glad you've found what works for you. I sssneak out ssso my well meaning mentorssss don't try to get me to do sssome other project or busssy work to keep me off the NYC ssstreetsss. they don't tell me I can't and I think sssome of them are even proud of me, but othersss are more concerned with what isss sssafesst for me.
Apparently Koga agreed with her reasoning and Amber beamed at him in return. Now all she had to do was find some sort of worthy mutant scientist to give her prehistoric gift to and she'd be set. Well, that and actually figure out how to transform at will. That might help too.
"That's p-part of the r-reason I got p-picked on too," Amber explained. "B-because I actually l-like b-books and s-studying." Maybe if her only unusual trait had been her sensitive skin she might have been ok but that combined with the fact that she was one of those unusual oh so good kids meant death for her socially.
"D-do you r-really d-do many d-dangerous things? Y-you don't seem l-like to t-type to get into t-trouble." He seemed like a very similar type to her actually, minus the whole fact that she didn't fight crime of course nor could she ever even consider such a thing unless she got a hold of her powers. Even then she wasn't really sure that was something she'd ever consider. But it was rather charming and brave.
Amber looked out of the bus window, wondering anxiously when they were going to get to the Mansion. What was it like? Were there other mutants there too? Well, of course there must be since Koga went there and he said it was a school for mutants, but that still left quite a few questions unanswered. She coudln't wait to see what it might be like.
“ssseriousssly? Thank you! There are ssso few of my friends that take ssstudying ssseriously much lessss like it! I haven’t gotten to sit down and read any fiction in a while because I keep pretty busssy, but I stick to my curriculum and that ssseemsss to keep me bussy.”
Koga smiled shyly as the bus made its way past central park, with out any stops. Well, I do ssstuff that could get me killed sssometimesss. But it isss alwayssss for a cuasssse. Any chance you sssaw that Maxine rallssss lady’sss newsss cassst on chrisstmasss?” he nodded to central park and could envision the giant clay beast all to easily. I wasss the one in the ninja sssuit. Its not the traditional kind of trouble, sssneaking out to do bad, but sssneaking out to do good. They have trouble punishing me for it once I tell them what I accomplissshed.
I guessss sssomewhere along the way though it isss getting me rebeliousss points.
"W-we can be study p-partners," Amber burst out in a sudden moment of enthusiasm. Immediately afterward her cheeks went red, not that they could be seen to go red underneath of her veil, and she looked at the floor of the bus in embarrassment. She hadn't meant to say it that loud and she hadn't meant to impose, but it was so rare to meet others who also seemed to enjoy school and learning.
Amber remembered seeing a news story by Maxine Ralls about a giant clay monster that attacked Central Park around Christmas and the mutants that destroyed it, without any casualties to by-standards even and she remembered how scary it had looked at the time. "Y-you m-must be very b-brave to f-fight something l-like that." Awe could be heard in her voice. She wasn't certain she could ever do something so dangerous or so heroic herself. Well, maybe with her newfound powers if they ever actually decided to work on command, but even then she knew she'd be terrified.
"I d-don't think m-my f-father cares if I'm r-rebellious. H-He pretty m-much said I could d-do whatever I w-wanted to. I j-just hope he l-lets me g-go to school." As she said it, Amber was aware at how unusual her situation was.