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.
His eyes opened wide as Aura pulled out a belt covered in pipe bombs and a gun, and he sighed in relief when she dropped them on the injured man. Judging by how fast she'd reacted to stop her Kyle induced flight he was sure she'd had experience fighting mutants before. His own experience extended little farther than school yard fights and the practice he'd had with his ability.
>>"To stop me, my freind, you will have to kill me, even if you call the police, how long do you think it will be before that prison is leveled?
Kyle frowned. She was probably right, the cops would take far too long to get here, and even when they did she'd be able to escape easily. This would end only when one of them went down or one of them had to flee. He could only hope that he'd be the one left standing, or worst case that he was only unconscious.
Once she was ready the teen focused her aura into a drill and charged at him again. Unwilling to risk being hit Kyle sent a blast through his feet and leapt back and bit to his left almost three meters. Then he pulled one of the crates towards him. Due to his new position the crate ought to hit Aura on the way, but he wasn't sure she couldn't dodge given how quickly she'd caught herself before, or that she couldn't simply break the crate like she did the first one.
"What you're doing only endagers more mutants!" He yelled. "We need to show humans we can help them, not give them reason to kill us!"
Aura watched as Kyle jumped and never saw the box he brought to him, it hit Aura square in the back knocking her off her feet but sprung to her feet quickly, the crate had diminished her Aura slightly, with the sharp angled form of her Aura having broken the box before the impact was as serious as it could have been. Picking up a peice of the broken box, Aura decided to try a new tactic on this one, after all it seemed her current tactic would not break threw.
"Doing nothing endangers us, fighting for our people will save us, we can show humans we can help and then that they will grow jelous of our gifts and betray us, if not now, then when they realize they will not hold the majority forever" she said simply as she watched him intently. "In a school that has a running team, a mutant with enhanced speed wnats to join, if he uses his gift he can win, if he doe snot and still win's people still acuse him of useing that very gift and he takes on hatred simply for being himself" she said a clear example she had told people many times.
Still even with the bantor they were ina dance and Aura once again made a charge on Kyle's new position, this time however she flung the wooden board at him as she did Aura formed an Axe with her Aura and this time went for her partner's flank. Her plan relied on him blocking the wood and not being able to block again quickly, even Aura knew her plan was rather transparent. Still one learned what a mutant could do by testing hima dn Aura already learned the man could push and pull and make himself leap into the air. it seemed he could target anything, so she would just have to test his defences untill she got through.
Kyle grinned as the crate hit Aura, but his smile was wiped off his face when she simply rolled to her feet, aparently unhurt. The teen continued her anti-human rant, this time giving an example that was both unfair and entirely plausable. Any mutant entering a competition would have suspicion cast on them immediately, regardless of what their ability did or how useful it could be in that contest.
As Kyle responded his voice was slightly less confident, as if conceeding that Aura did have a point. "Humans betray each other all the time, and mutants betray mutants just the same. It's an unfortunate part of society, but it's bound to happen with everyone working for their own agendas." Kyle thought a moment about what would happen to mutants with useful abilities. "Anyone with a skill or ability gets used by society, that's true, but by utilising their gifts they can make the world a better place. Not just for their own kind, but for both humans and mutants. They-" Kyle was cut off as Aura quickly grabbed a piece of the shattered box and hurled it at him, following behind it with a powerful axe swing.
Kyle reacted almost instinctively, pushing the sharp wood away with a wave of his hand. Unfortunately this left him wide open to the axe moving towards his side. Thinking quickly Kyle tried to dodge by moving back and ducking but Aura had gotten too close too fast. He felt the axe dig into his left shoulder and screamed as pain raged through his body like whit hot fire. In his desperation he managed to launch another blast at the teens chest. It wasn't as powerful as before but it would hopefully get him some breathing room.
Aura was blasted onto her back, her plan had worked but he has still reacted well enough to counte rher, It was impressive, though it left her certain of the outcome of the fight. Getting to her feet she refrained from attacking instead positioning herself, so she could see the wound she had caused, once she was sure it was not life threatening she continued. This time the Axe melted back into her Aura and a sword appeared again at her wrist.
"yes people will betray each other, it is certainly a sad part of life, one i have never understood. And people do get used for their abilities, heck as im fighting you im analyzing your powers and responses in combat to see what use you yourself would be in combat. Still as i said, no matter what, you will live through this day, weather you remain a fool or help your race is entirely up to you" she went on looking for an attack route even as she spoke.
"Still i have been trained to fight since my powers emerged, each mistake you make will cost you more then mine will, each hit i take drains my aura a small bit while each hit you take, well..." she said tilting her head to the man's wound. Aura figured he would fall for the same tactic again however and this fight would be her wearing him out. Aura suddenly charges again this, time she made her way up several box's and leapt at Kyle, bringing her blade down from abaove, aimed at his other shoulder.
The wound on his shoulder was deep and painful, he was almost sure she had cut to the bone. His shirt and jacket soaked with blood already. As Aura spoke Kyle used his right arm to move his left hand to cover the wound. He could move his left arm, but not the shoulder. His left hand clutching the gash, attempting to stop the blood flow Kyle began processing what Aura had said. She was going to let him live, but the condition he was in, and what he did afterwords was up to him. Even as she fought she was analyzing his capabilities, trying to figure out his limits.
'So,' He thought 'I haven't even hurt her yet. To even touch her I'd need to wear her aura down, and the only way to do that is through damage.' Thinking quickly he assessed his surrounding in an attempt to develop a plan. "Each hit I take makes me more determined to stop you from committing more atrocities, more monstrosities. Each hit you take makes me more sure that I can stop you. Each hit you take proves to me that-" Kyle cut himself of as Aura's axe shifted form into that of a blade.
Suddenly running towards him again Aura leaped up on the nearby crates, coming down at him from up high with her blade aimed to strike. This time Kyle was prepared. He slid to the side quickly and unleashed a huge blast at her just before she reached the ground. Without waiting to see if he hit her Kyle spun around, pulling a crate towards himself and high speeds. As he ducked out of the way the crate was sent flying behind him in Aura's direction. He then pulled another crate towards himself, this one much slower. He deftly leaped over it and prepared to use it as either an attack or defense, beginning to pant as he turned to face Aura once more.
Aura knew her mistake as soon as she was flung back through the air, though she landed on her feet, the guy was getting serious in the fight and Aura rather appreciated it. Landing on another crate she looked back up in tiem to see the first crate comming at her. Aura Had littile time toi really raise a defence, slashing down with her Blade she cut through the crate easily enough but it was not enough to deflect the box and she was knocked to the ground behind the crate she landed on, showers with splinters, as the box had litterly exploded upon impact with her. Aura Knew he would not run out of boxes anytime soon, the place was full of them, mostly empty.
Aura did not however get right back up, instead she kept her head below box level, she knew the warehouse well and began to make her way quietly away from the area she had landed on, though she cracked a peice of wood in half by stepping on it as she did. Stealth was not her best skill at all. Not for the first time she wished she had a more ranged option, but it seemed like her best way of dealing with this, was to tire him out. .
Stepping out from between the crates openly about thirty feet from where she had been before. This time she took a slow methodicle aproach to her partner. Picking up a small ball as she went, the object was no bigger then a tennis ball but had a pin near the top, a grenade. Pulling the pin she lobbed the object high into the air at the man, though it was fake, Aura hoped to use it as a distraction. As Soon as she had thrown Aura began to move rapidly in a zig zag pattern closer to Kyle, hoping to throw off him, Aim, reforming her Hammer she struck at his leg with it just a few moments after the Grenade would have landed before him.
Kyle turned just in time to see Aura slash the crate in half. Despite this she was still knocked back by the moving wood and dissapeared from his line of sight. Kyle tightened his grip on the wound on his shoulder, shifting his hand so he could better stem the blood flow.
Although he'd been paying careful attention to the boxes Aura's return still surprised him for the simple reason that she'd thrown a grenade at him first. Kyle cursed as his panicked mind caused his body to react instictively to the first sign of movement, firing the crate he'd prepared at the grenade and launching it away. Then he had to deal with Aura herself, who swung a glowing hammer at his legs. Once again Kyle leaped backwards, but he hadn't looked behind him and slammed into a huge stack of crates. As the pile wobbled and started to collapse Kyle cursed again.
Boxes rained down towards him and he raised his right hand rapidly, slamming his ability against the falling containers and sending them spilling in all directions. Still dealing with the boxes raining upon him Kyle hoped desperately that one of the crates he'd thrown away from himself would hit Aura. Maybe if he was lucky she'd be crushed under the wave of wood. Kyle himself was beginning to think he would need to run away as he was starting to feel woozy, wether through blood loss, over use of his power saving himself from the crate-landslide or both he didn't know. Considering how much his shoulder hurt, getting medical help seemed like a very wise thing to do.
Aura's hammer missed, shattering a wooden box and sending splinters every ware. The resulting rain of boxes was not the response she had hoped for when she began this attack and though she took a few steps back several large boxe's still fell upon her, giving her no chance to block them. Had she been human, the wooden rain would have likely hospitalized her. As it was she found herself pinned under a number of large wooden crates, trying to move, Aura realized the crates were likely filled with somthing and this heavier then many of the others.
Face down, on the ground, Aura grunted as she tried to move or wiggle out of the trap she was in. QUickly figuring this would not work, Aura began to form a new plan, she knew her Aura would not hold the weight forever. However Aura began to form a drill from the side of her closed fist and began to cut into the crate to her left as close to the ground as she could. The sound of cracking wood echoed from the pile of crates.
She head the boxes shift above her as the box she had been working on lost a courner and the third of one side. The shift did not free her but provided her with a better route of escape. Forming a spike on her foot, she then began to pound the box behind her with short kicks, each one tearing loudly a hole in the box. In took another ten minutes of working the box'es before Aura was able to push free, of the last box on top of her, the others having msotly fell of, or had been to damaged to offer any resistence. She looked around breathing a bit hard and leaning on a box, wondering if her playmate was still here. "Good move" she said before she was able to confirm if he wa sstill in the room, though her sight was still limited by the boxes around her.
Kyle grunted as the box avalanche finally ended. It seemed Aura had been burried under the crates and for a moment Kyle thought that she had been defeated. This hope was quickly dashed however, as he heard Aura begin to break through the boxes. With little time until she would break free Kyle looked around desprately, hoping to find something he could use to finally stop the evil teen.
Unfortunately he was unable to locate an immediate solution, although the metal parts that had spilled from one of the crates looked promising. Kyle saw the top layer of the box pile begining to shift as Aura dug her way out and past that, the door. Moving quickly Kyle hovered around the edge of the pile, keeping his eyes on the shifting surface at all times. Just before he reached the door one of the crates shattered and Aura began to climb out. Thinking quickly Kyle held out his hand, calling some of the metal parts scattered around towards him. Before they reached him Kyle started repelling them. They flew away just as Aura complemented his actions in the fight. She was crazy if she was complementing him for dropping a crate mountain on her, even if he didn't mean to.
Unluckely for Kyle the pieces scattered as they flew, only a few heading for Aura herself as most of them flew around her. Given she was looking for him there was no doubt she'd see the pieces, the question was would she see them in time to stop them, or would they be enough of a distraction for Kyle to make his escape before blood-loss claimed him and he became part of Aura's macaber decor?
The scatter shot struck her in the back of the head, though Her Aura took the blow the lack of her normal angled Aura meant the blow struck dead on. Aura was surprised the man could still fight so well. Slamming a box out of the way with her Aura hammer she turned around able to spot Kyle. She however made no move against him considering her options weighing if she landed another attack if it might kill him.
Aura shrugged and turned from him her weapons dissolving back into her aura swiftly moving over her like pink water. She had enjoyed the fight and did wish to continue, but she also knew he was hurt and needed medical attention of some kind, which she knew littile about, she was also reluctent to call paramedics and police to a warehouse she had been storing trophies in, she still had not moved them all to sanctuary.
"Fighting is like breathing to me, a simple function of life, as a weapon i seek to sharpen my edge and so i fight other mutants to better hone my skills, so that one day our people will no longer live in fear" she said simply as if they ahd not been fighting just moments before.
Kyle breathed a sigh of relief as Aura turned away. His shirt was stained with blood and his jacket appeared to be just as bad. He was feeling dizzy and could swear he just dipped a centimeter closer to the floor.
Had he been in his right mind he would have felt bad about Aura's belief that she was just a weapon that needed to test itself and keep itself sharp by fighting other mutants. As he was feeling the effects of being cut and bleeding heavily he couldn't muster up much emotion though.
"You're a person, not a weapon. Everyone has a choice. We always have a choice." Kyle decided not to push his luck and took advantage of Aura facing away. Hovering unsteadily he shot towards the doors and out of the warehouse. He made it several blocks away before his power gave out and he was reduced to stumbling. Fortunately he had reached a more populated area and called for help. As he lay in an ambulance being rushed to hospital he tried to give directions to Aura's warehouse but seeing how he'd bene wandering aimlessly when he found it, and fleeing for his life when he left he wasn't able to give very accurate directions. At least he'd make sure Aura would have to abandon the area as the police investigated.
As he faded into unconciousness he thought to himself that he'd probably meet Aura again someday. Hopefully by then he'd be able to stop her sick games and put an end to her twisted furniture once and for all. After all, his pride was hurt after being beaten by a teenage girl. Final score? Aura: A bump on the head. Kyle: A large gash on his left shoulder.
[ooc= Thanks for this! It was a great fight and I hope to RP with you again someday!]