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.
Thinking was always such a problematic status; at least it was for a certain giant cockroach. You see, he had been sitting on his couch, pondering what it would be like if you combined the good taste of a well made sandwich with the length of a submarine when he realized, to his horror, that such a thing had already been done.
This got him craving subway, or at least a subway employee, depending on how he felt when he'd arrived. Unfortunately, thinking about subway made him think of the actual subway, and before he knew what was what, he was standing in a subway car full of people with his stomach growling fiercely... He looked about the car slowly at all of the other commuters... none of them looked particularly tasty, and he knew that if he ate one of them, the others would get all touchy about it.
He sighed deeply, and looked over to the pole he grasped in his hand... it was shiny... He leaned over and nibbled on it a little... It was then that he caught sight of something across the subway car... underneath a seat that had an occupant in it... could it be? yes! Someone had left out some perfectly good chewed bubble gum! What a waste! Clearly it belonged in a mouth rather than stuck to the bottom of a seat...
An idea came to him; what if it could be in his mouth? Brilliant! He clacked his mandibles a few times in excitement and then started across the car just as the doors opened to accept more commuters... The plan was to get in front of the seat with the gum on it, say something to distract whoever was sitting on the seat, and then dive down head first into some chewie goodness!
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Sveta liked the autumn weather. It meant people dressed up more, and she coul wear gloves and a scarf without being stared at. Wrapped up in her fall outfit she felt safer now, especially in places like the subway, where there were so many people accidentally rubbing against you. In many cases, that was just annoying; in her case, it could have been lethal. She was on her way from the clinic to the Mansion; she was deep in thought, barely paying any atention to her surrioundings... until she looked up and saw a, um, guy looking down at her with a curious expression.
Yup, definitely mutant.
Sveta was a bit surprised people were not making a fuss about this... person being on the subway. Most of them just quietly inched away. She looked up at him curiously. He was quite a sight. Visible mutations have their downsides.
"Hello" she said politely, looking up "Are you going to the Mansion?"
Because, really, how do you start a conversation with a giant cocroach?
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As our good friend Gregory traveled from point A to point B, he felt something welling up inside of him... It was a strange sensation... had he happened to drink some coffee on the way to the subway, and forgotten about it? Nonsense! He never forgot a good cup of joe, and he never drank the bad stuff. That meant this was something different... It made him feel... good... it made him feel... hatty.
He needed a hat.
He paused in mid stride, looked about urgently, snatched a newspaper from a sleeping hobo, folded it with two sets of hands at an alarming rate, and then popped a paper hat onto his head... whew... that felt better. He then continued of his path until he had reached his destination. Cheerios. Huh? no! Person. It was a person... a person with yummy ABC gum underneath her seat. He eyed her for a moment, preparing what he was going to say to distract her in his brain box. He had it! It was perfect! The roach opened his maw to speak his gem of distraction but the girl beat him to it.
"Hello, are you going to the mansion?" His mouth hung open for a moment... Mansion? Huh? What mansion? He clacked his clackers a few times slowly, getting lost in thought for a second... It dawned on him... my god! She had distracted him!
"Oh... Uhm..." Curses! He had forgotten what he had planned to say to distract her! He no longer had the element of surprise, either... double curses! He would have to try something else. The seat next to the woman opened.
"Why yes... Yes I am." He spoke in a new-york dialect, all the while taking the empty seat and acting as natural as possible. "How'd ya guess it?" He had a feeling he knew what she was talking about... it was some kinda school, right? He crossed his bottom legs and propped his second set on them. "You goin there too?" He acted as interested as possible as he schemed in the back of his head about how he would get the gum just below her legs... Argh! Why couldn't things be easy?
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He looked a bit confused. Also, he look a bit of lot of things, including a newspaper hat. Somewhere in the back of her mind Sveta wondered when exactly she stopped being surprised by meeting Gregor Samsa on the subway. She smiled at him encouragingly and scoted over to let him sit down.
>>"How'd ya guess it? You goin there too?"
"Yes" she nodded with a smile "I lived there for some time, and den I moved out. Are you a new student there?" she smiled at him "My name is Sveta."
Always be polite, she heard the Matchmaker's voice in her head, being polite never hurt anyone.
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His antennae twitched in frustration as she scooted over, a show of emotion that no human would ever be able to decipher. She was talkative... dang... That wasn't good. How could he distract someone who actually wanted to have a conversation?!
He had to think of something... He wanted that gum... The thought of it was setting his mind on fire! At least he was pretty sure it was the gum that had his heart racing like that... blinked a few times, as he listened to her speak... She was talking about that school... what should he say? "Er... no... I... um... I'm a little old to be a student, see? s'more like I gotta... drop something off there, is all. My name is Gregory, it's nice to meet you Sveta." Crap... instead of distracting her, he found himself saying something that only got him more involved in the conversation. Damn she was good! He wondered if he could just reach in between her legs and pry the gum from the seat without her noticing; she'd shifted in the seat a little when he sat, and he could see the gum clearly now... She would certainly notice, though...
Maybe a subject change would get her mind off the present... something radical, something interesting. "Tell me, do you believe in love at first sight?" That would get her thinking. Women like this always had some sort of love drama going on! Of course, he was totally oblivious to the fact that it just might seem like he was hitting on her.
>>"Er... no... I... um... I'm a little old to be a student, see? s'more like I gotta... drop something off there, is all. My name is Gregory, it's nice to meet you Sveta."
"Nice to meet you, Gregory." she said, biting her lips to keep herself from giggling. His name was actually Gregor. She wondered if he changed it, or if the name brought the mutation... nah, that would just be silly. Still, what a coincidence.
>> "Tell me, do you believe in love at first sight?"
"Huh?!" she blinked, forgetting about the laugh. Did he really just ask her what she thought he did? Staring at him, she slowly shook her head. "No, I do not. I do not think I believe in love at all."
Oh, the confessions of a mail order bride.
"...why?"
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He tilted his head a bit as she bit her lip, and it dawned on him that she might understand the absolute irony his name entailed. It was lucky for both of them that he hadn't said his last name as well... mainly because she might actually have laughed, and people that laughed at him tended to get eaten; not because he was a bitter person, mind you... It was more like one of his odd reflexes; like if he saw someone with a hat he wanted, he tended to take it and smack them until they left. Thought of eating people aside, he was somewhat impressed by her knowledge, though he supposed it was only natural that she would know of Kafka, he pinned her dialect from around the same area.
His hat was bothering him, he used his antennae to maneuver it onto a dosing person next to him, who subsequently woke up, pulled the hat off of his head, shrugged, put it back on, and went to sleep. Gregory was satisfied at that.
She replied to his comment with an equally interesting response. "You don't believe in love at all?" He blinked three times in rapid succession. "How so? Much of the time we see people engorged in the concept..." He wasn't so cynical as her apparently. Sure, he didn't see himself falling for anyone any time soon, but that didn't mean love didn't exist; or at least something that fit in the box that society defined as 'love'.
Tacos...
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>>"You don't believe in love at all? How so? Much of the time we see people engorged in the concept..."
"I don't know..." she blinked again. Talking about love with a giant roach you've only known for what, thirty seconds, was getting seriously surreal. Grotesque. Watever. Maybe it came with the name.
"... I mean, I know people believe in it, and I think if you believe in it, it exist."
Where the hell did that come from?
"I just... don't." she shrugged "I don't think the 'first sight' part is what matters."
Because how can you trust someone you've just met?...
"Sorry, I don't mean to be rude." she said with an apologetic smile.
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"Suffice to say, then, that you do not doubt in the existence of love, but rather in your capacity for it? Fair enough. Surely sharing ones answer to a question cannot be considered rude." He nodded slowly, and then froze... Aww crap! He had gotten so entrenched in the conversation that he'd totally forgotten to distract her! She really was good! Curses, curses! Damn damn damn!
Wait... He still had a chance... She was good, yes, too good, but even she wouldn't be able pay attention if he could distract her in a way that she would never expect! And while he did it he could grab the gum, and be off!
He knew just what he needed to do, too. He looked to her for a second, not saying a single word... He would have to time this perfectly... He pointed to the other side of her. "What's that?" He figured she would look, see nothing, and turn back to ask what he was talking about. She wouldn't get a chance if he had his way, because he would already have his maw pressed against her mouth by then, if all went right. A kiss from a being as sexy as him would be spell binding for sure! She would be so wooed that he could do anything he wanted!
Now, while that happened, he would also reach down between her legs to get the gum, his real objective. If it all went right, the person across from them would think something really inappropriate was going on. He didn't care, though... He wanted that freaking gum! Alright... It was go time!
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>>"Suffice to say, then, that you do not doubt in the existence of love, but rather in your capacity for it? Fair enough. Surely sharing ones answer to a question cannot be considered rude."
"Umm... yeah?" she guessed, not really following what he was saying. He sounded very educated for a roach. Was that racism to think that?... He apparently believed in love. Good for him. Gien her track record with guys, Sveta was not sure what she believed anymore.
>>"What's that?"
"What?" Sveta turned to look; there was nothing to see there. "I don't know what you m...." Eyes went wide in shock. Time froze. Color drained from cheeks. Sveta was being kissed by a roach.
A mutant roach. And they were not even properly introduced. Not to mention... pincers. And other creepy crawly things moving around on their own. Tolerance can only get you so far.
Mutant being the key word in the situation. Kissing. Touching. Powers. SH*T.
And then she felt the hand between her legs. And from that point on, he was just a guy feeling her up.
"F*** you!" she yelled, pushing the roach off herself as she stood up, throwing a punch for good measure. It hurt her more than it hurt him, and she kept swearing in elaborate Russian. What a jerk.
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My oh me, this was certainly an interesting sensation, wasn't it?
As he pressed his mouth against hers, his finger's found purchase on the gum on the seat. Within the same exact moment, his mind and body felt a shock unlike anything the curious cockroach of a man had ever experienced. This must have been some gum! Even touching it was driving him crazy~
The woman, a mere afterthought after his success, pushed him off, and he smacked the gum into his maw. Glorious! He felt a tingling sensation, like all of the nerves in his body were firing at once, off and on like the best of Christmas light displays. He chewed voraciously on the now-flavorless tack, only letting the most tucked away bit of reason in his head wonder silently why a piece of chewing gum was so gratifying.
That thought took center stage, however, as he started to feel... funny... His eyes wandered to the woman. She looked angry.. She had that look like she was about to punch hi- Wham!
... pop!
The world was suddenly spinning, and Mr.Samson suddenly felt a little detached with himself. This was mainly because his head had popped off... Odd, that had never happened before. He landed on the top of his noggin and glanced about for a moment, unable to speak... He'd heard that a head stayed alive for some time after being severed, but you never really understood what that meant until it happened to you.
He looked about at the feet of the people around him as they scurried away from their seats. The foggy sounds of freaked out people trying to get away from the bug, which was falling apart at the joints, were all he heard for a moment, before another sound chimed in... Skittering.
He liked skittering, it was a pleasant sound; it meant something was getting done, it meant there were friends near... that was good... he could really use a friend.
Things were getting dark and far off for the giant bug as the cockroaches began climbing from the grated floor of the subway car... funny things, his insectoid friends; they were always around. Without even thinking, he opened his mouth, watching with nearly lifeless eyes as one of his little buddies crawled into his mouth.
And then Gregory Samson died.
Dear reader, I am sure you must be confused, but there is certainly a clear explanation for this seemingly random event; bug's heads didn't just pop off with the mere provocation of a tiny love tap did they? Of course not! But when a certain mutant's body worked moved mainly on a hydraulic system, and that system was suddenly augmented by a certain mutant's powers, well, sometimes making something stronger wasn't a good idea. His hydraulic pumps got so strong they popped his head right off, and then his arms, and then all of his other joints.
But as his body fell apart, it became so that other mutations of his were augmented as well. The tiny roach crawled from his mouth, its wings fluttering weakly. It too, was dieing, but in death it was moving on to bigger and better things... Mainly, bigger.
It was growing... Fast. Within seconds it was a foot long, and within more it was beginning to stand upright and look about curiously. In a grand total of a minute and a half it stood at 6 feet, staring down at the lifeless husk that was once him.
He then looked to the woman who had punched his head off, and blinked. "That was some gum, huh?"
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And that, kids, is why you don't kiss strangers on the subway.
Still shocked from the feeling on being smooched by a giant roach, Svta watched with eyes wide in horror as the head fell off, and rolled on the ground. That seemed to be too much even for the tolerant New York people, and they started screaming and running in all directions; when the doors opened again, everyone left, except for Sveta, and the roach mutant, now in several pieces on the ground.
Holy sh*t. I killed him.
Once again, her powers showed their dangerous side, and it resulted in the death of another person. Sveta stared, not really sure if she should run, or wait for the police, or... what was with all the bugs, all of a sudden?...
And then things got even more weird. Before her eyes, a cocroach started to grow, and change, and... look like the person who just died?...
>>"That was some gum, huh?"
"What the..." Sveta blinked several times, then backed away, alarmed and confused "Do not touch me! You die again."
Thank God the next stop is mine.
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Dieing was... disorienting. He had, indeed, passed on, had he not? Mr. Samson supposed he should be at odds with himself, having perished, but he was strangely comfortable with it... He reached down toward his old head, hoisting it up, and eying it for a moment. A thought popped into his head; he couldn't resist. "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well."
The cockroach cackled to himself for a moment, placed the old head atop his new head like a hat, looked about the now devoid of human life subway car, opened up his wings a little bit for his cockroach friends to crawl on in, and then skittered on up to the woman, eying her carefully. "I feel I must explain myself." He reached up into the mouth of the head on his head, and pulled out the gum that had once graced the surface of her seat. "It was roguish and deceitful of me to kiss you, and perhaps melt your heart in such a way, when after all, my one objective was the gum on your seat. I apologize whole heartedly for any heartbreak you may be feeling at this announcement; I feel uncharacteristically guilty about it. Because of this, I feel I must make it up to you." The giant cockroach paused at the end of the thought, looked down at the gum in his hand, and popped it into his mouth... strangely enough, it wasn't as satisfying the second time around. How upsetting.
Mr. Samson chewed on anyways... was that a hint of shoe sole he tasted? Delightful.
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>>"I feel I must explain myself. It was roguish and deceitful of me to kiss you, and perhaps melt your heart in such a way, when after all, my one objective was the gum on your seat. I apologize whole heartedly for any heartbreak you may be feeling at this announcement; I feel uncharacteristically guilty about it. Because of this, I feel I must make it up to you."
Sveta blinked rapidly, and shook her head. That was just... whoa. What was the word again? Disgusting.
"I am not... I did not..." she shook her head again "I am not in love with you!" she declared finally "You kissed me and you died. Idiot." she said with more than a hint of irritation in her voice "Dat is what I do to mutants. Because I make their powers stronger. So, because of that." she took a deep breath "Do NOT touch me again."
Because of that, and a million other reasons.
The subway car came to a halt; the doors opened. Sveta walked out onto the platform. She glanced back to see what the roach was up to.
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She was bashful; he didn't blame her. He was simply magnificent. What? He was! Something else caught his attention, though... She said something about her powers? So... it wasn't the gum that had that effect on him after all? Of course she would be a mutant! Why else would she be headed towards the school?
The train stopped, she turned to exit. When she turned back she wouldn't see him there. Had he disappeared? No, he had simply been right behind her when she walked out, and had shifted to her side on the opposite side of her glance back. He chimed in innocently. "So, we're headed toward the mansion, yes? Forgive me if I cannot remember the exact location." He waited for her to move, speaking in a matter of fact tone. "It's no surprise that you would deny your affection for myself; I am a bit daunting, I know. I forgive you, and will respect your unwillingness to confess. I am, after all, a gentleman. That, and I have no interest in you; you humans all look the same, and are not nearly fertile enough for my liking... One child at a time? Pshaw!" He tossed his hat to a lucky passerby, who freaked out, because his hat was a giant bug head. He would set out finding a new hat while they were in transit to the mansion.
Sure, he didn't care to go to the mansion at all, but at the same time he had come to the realization that if the gum really was just plain, albeit tasty, ABC gum, then it truly was this woman who was making him feel a sort of energy filled euphoria. He liked it, and thus, he would stay near her for the time being... Hmm... He was hungry still, though... "We must get food on the way."
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