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.
This was ridiculous. Maya stared at herself in the mirror; or, rather, stared at the shiner that took up most of her self (or at least half of her face, if she stopped being a drama queen). It was the morning after she X-trained the bug girl, and now she had a black eye the size of a frying pan. And damn did it hurt.
She couldn't just walk around with that on ehr face. If she got a scar in batle, fine; if shegot slugged during training with Sam, oh well. But this one, this was a shame. Total embarrassment. Getting hit by a girl who had been in the Danger Room for the first time in her life... People would notice. And ask. Sam would notice, and ask, and then he would smirk. Twyla would notice... Oh hell.
Walking through the bathroom mirror, Maya walked over to Kate's room.
Kate had all of her music laid out on her bed as she went over them one by one. She moved her fingers around on the surface of the bed and notated where problems were for her to look over on the piano later.
>>Princess?... I need some help.
Kate looked around the room in surprise, knowing exactly who it was, and then looked down at the music. She had to hide it before Maya saw it. She quickly scooped them up and hid them under her bed, making sure to grab her book and open it to the mark page she had left off on. She sat back down on the bed as if she had been there the entire time.
There was some rummaging from Kate's direction, and Maya waited patiently; she learned not to barge in on people's private life through mirrors. When she got permission, she walked in with a shy smile.
"Hey Princess" she said, looking down at Kate "I kinda... need some help with this." she said, pointing at the black eye. It was kinda obvious though.
Glancing around the room, she also tried to guess what the rummaging was all about. There were some papers on the floor under the bed. Diary?...
>>“Oh my goodness! What happened to your face?! Who did this to you?”
Maya winced as Kate touched her face, and took half a step back to be out of reach.
"Danger Room accident" she muttered "I just... don't want people thinkin' I got into a fight again. It's kinda becoming old, me walkin' around with one eye or the other black. So..." she looked at Kate "Ummm... kinda... I was thinking maybe... y'know... maybeyacouldhelpmeputsomemakeuponit."
There, she said it. God, it sounded silly. Good thing it was at least a Maya day...
Kate pulled her hand back as Mirror pulled away from her, "Sorry I didn’t mean to hurt you.”
>>Danger Room accident. I just... don't want people thinkin' I got into a fight again. It's kinda becoming old, me walkin' around with one eye or the other black. So... Ummm... kinda... I was thinking maybe... y'know... maybeyacouldhelpmeputsomemakeuponit.
Kate looked at her confused, “What do you want me to do? You spoke so fast I couldn’t understand you,” She couldn’t help but stare at the bruised eye concerned. She still wanted to know what had happened. May be she would ask one more time and if she didn’t get a response she would drop it.
"S'okay" Maya muttered, glancing at herself in the mirror. Boy did that black eye look awful...
>>"What do you want me to do? You spoke so fast I couldn’t understand you,”
Great. Maya took a deep breath, and sat down on the bed next to Kate. She silently counted to ten.
"I... umm, I asked you if you could help... me... cover it up. Y'know, with make-up." she muttered, looking positively embarrassed. "I, umm, don' really have much experience with that. So."
There was not a chance this conversation could get any more awkward. Maya knew most people looked at her as a guy, even on her girl days; that was probably because she'd lost her mother before she was old enough to deal with stuff like make-up. Or, other, umm, girl things. Gosh, even thinking about all this was weird in front of Kate...
>>I... umm, I asked you if you could help... me... cover it up. Y'know, with make-up. I, umm, don' really have much experience with that. So.
Kate smiled kindly, she could tell that Maya was nervous about the question, “I can help you cover it up, but you can’t shy away from me it if hurts.”
Kate stood and walked over to her vanity, “I don’t wear much makeup myself, only the very basics, but I think I have enough to help,” she took out a case of brushes and then looked back at Maya. She was going to have to play with colors and blending in order to hide that thing. Kate may not have worn that much makeup but she still knew how to use it.
>>“I can help you cover it up, but you can’t shy away from me it if hurts. I don’t wear much makeup myself, only the very basics, but I think I have enough to help,”
"That's good enough for me" Maya agreed, scooting up on the bed "No one's ever taught me how to do makeup, so." she chuckled "Probably would be useful to learn, for cases like this."
She wouldn't really care for using makeup for its original purpose; it was too much work, got smeared easily, and was a b*tch to remove it after shifting into Gawain.
"Or, y'know, I could just wear shades, like a Hollywood star." she grinned
>>That's good enough for me. No one's ever taught me how to do makeup, so. Probably would be useful to learn, for cases like this. Or, y'know, I could just wear shades, like a Hollywood star.
“And while indoors you will look like a complete idiot. I should be able to make it look a little less noticeable.” Kate took a brush and swirled it in her compact as she walked over to Maya’s sitting form on the bed. She stood above her friend and brushed on the light colored powder with as much care as she could as to not hurt Maya.
>>“And while indoors you will look like a complete idiot. I should be able to make it look a little less noticeable.”
"Ya're my hero, princess" Maya smirked, trying her best not to wince as Kate started working on her face. It was not easy; she would have winced even if there was no black eye. The brush felt strange.
"I jus' don' want Sam to see it" she admitted, trying not to move her face as she talked "If I get a black eye from anyone else but him he always has that smirk on his face that makes me wanna punch him..."
>>I jus' don' want Sam to see it. If I get a black eye from anyone else but him he always has that smirk on his face that makes me wanna punch him...
“He has a way of irritating even the calmest of people sometimes.” Kate switched colors and brushes every so often trying her best to make the black eye look like normal skin, “Can ask what really happen to you?”
>>“He has a way of irritating even the calmest of people sometimes. Can ask what really happen to you?”
"Took some new kid into the DR yesterday for training" Maya shrugged, holding her face still "Got the basic zombie scenario, and she flipped out. Ended up having to save her ass from virtual zombies." she smirked "It was kinda fun. For me, at least."
And the rest was history.
"So, how are your sessions going with Sam? Blacked out your eye yet?"
>>Took some new kid into the DR yesterday for training. Got the basic zombie scenario, and she flipped out. Ended up having to save her ass from virtual zombies. It was kinda fun. For me, at least.
It was obvious that he was probably hurt in some way in this session and didn’t really want to tell her the exact nature of his attack. So she continued to cover up her horrible bruise and go on with the conversation.
>>So, how are your sessions going with Sam? Blacked out your eye yet?
“We haven’t worked much on fighting. I think the fact that I don’t own a pair of pants may have thrown him off slightly. We more work on the limits and control of my mutation. He has even worked with the elemental a few times.”
Kate yawned as she grabbed some bronzer to darken the area and a clean brush to blend it all together once she was done. With all the worry of her audition slowly approaching she hadn’t been able to sleep much over the past few days and could feel her body having to fight to keep itself under control.
>>“We haven’t worked much on fighting. I think the fact that I don’t own a pair of pants may have thrown him off slightly. We more work on the limits and control of my mutation. He has even worked with the elemental a few times.”
"I can imagine that" Maya chuckled, picturing Sam's face when seeing a student in skirt show up for DR session. He would have kittens.
"Now I feel like a movie star" she muttered more cheerfully as Kate worked on the make-up. Looking at her face this closely, she could tell the princess was tired.
"Haven't been sleeping well lately?" she asked curiously.