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.
It had been a long day triapsing through the city and Victoria couldn't wait to do something more relaxing. Having been apartment shopping all day, it was now time for her to do shopping of another kind. Swinging her handbag at her side as she strode through the front doors of the mall in a good mood, it didn't take long for her to catch the stares from the people around her. Victoria had purple hair and piercings that would usually be considered "normal" in New York City, but still warranted a few unwelcome stares. Ignoring their glances as she went along, she suddenly had an uneasy feeling in her stomach. Touching her belly lightly with her fingertips, she looked around to see how crowded it was. Usually when she began to feel like this, bad things were about to happen to her. Ever since she was a young teenager she had this uneasy feeling followed by the next events. "No, not now." She sighed to herself, trying to find a place where she could get away. Before she was able to duck around the corner, though, Victoria stepped her foot in front of her, and right into the floor. Her blue eyes widened in panic, trying not to look around her, fearful of being caught as a mutant in an unfriendly city. Squeezing her eyes shut, she concentrated on pulling her foot back to the surface. As soon as she was successful, she let out a sigh, suddenly noting that her body was beginning to shift into being invisible. She sighed. This was not turning out to be a good day.
Fade was poking around the mall, looking for something, better yet, somewhere. Her hands glided against the wall and she continued to walk as theraptor-like claws sunk into the solid without damaging it. Suddenly, her paced slowed and eventually, she stopped in a dead halt. There was a woman, with purple hair and piercing, she was turning invisible.
*Awesome!* Fade thought *another like me, this is really cool!* She quickened her pace, trying to reach this nearly-invisible woman. Should she be out of the mansion? Heck, she doesn't know, she just wanted to take a breather, pick up a few things and take them back to the mansion.
As she began to change, Victoria began to panic. She didn't mind the attention that her looks gave her, she just didn't like the looks her powers gave her. Darting her head about suddenly seeing a girl racing towards her, Victoria hunched over. Squeezing her eyes shut she worked on concentrating hard. Then, just as if it was sucked out of her, Victoria became completely visible and solid again. She stood with a gasp, looking at the girl who seemed all too thrilled to see her. "Um..." the awkward words slid out of her mouth looking the girl in the eyes. "I'm sorry" she made up for by speaking quickly.
Clutching her purse close to her, Victoria almost shurt her eyes again, trying to keep her concentration up so that she didn't end up hurting herself. I have to get out of here, I never should have come. She shook her head, suddenly upset and wanting to run away...again.
"Why're you sorry? You don't like having the power to turn invisible?" She asked, confused. Fade thought it was an amazing power and she absolutely loved having it. She never thought she would meet someone with the same power as her, so of course, she was much more thrilled than she should be. She looked at a girl standing nearby. She was staring at the two of them oddly.
Fade's tone quickly changed as she glared at the girl. "Hey, get lost. Did anyone ask you to look like a dumb bitch? No, so get lost before I make sure you can't glare through those hideous eyes again!" She snapped, making sure that her raptor-like claws were in plain sight. The girl's eyes widened in fear and she lowered her eyes before acting as if she needed to go to the bathroom. She quickly darted for the restrooms, the most noticable escape Fade had ever seen. *Boy, people these days* she thought.
Victoria watched the passerby get reamed out by this girl that decided to follow her. "And who are you exactly?" She raised a brow with a confused expression on her face, her distinct British accent evident in the formation of her words. "If you're here to scream at me because I'm a mutant, well then your buggered." She spread her arms open signaling defeat. "I'm sorry if I can't appreciate nearly killing myself every time it's at me." She sighed and turned away, trying to appear unphased by the encounter.
As she walked away, however, her mind lingered on why she was asking her about being invisible. Maybe she wasn't going to be mean to her afterall. Turning around to see if she was still there, Victoria stopped in her step, running a hand back through her purple tresses. "What is it you want?" She said in a defensive tone. Victoria still wasn't comfortable with being a mutant yet, but something told her that some good might come out of this chance meeting.
"Aw, no, don't get me wrong, I don't yell at mutants unless they deserve it." She said through a half smile now that she realized that she had probably come off as a really rude girl as she yelled at that other girl. She popped her knuckled with one hand and then the other before she spoke again.
"Well, I'm not here for any particular reason, it's just that I've never met anyone else that could turn invisible, you see, I'm a mutant as well, I can turn invisible too...and climb walls. I'm at that mansion place, Xaviers place, and I came out here to get some old belongings of mine, I'm not quite sure if I'm allowed to be out right now, but I guess we'll find out soon, huh?" As Fade heard her own words flow out of her mouth, she was a little angry, she probably sounded so stupid, like a cheerleader or someone preppy.
Victoria stood in a sort of stunned silence listening to the words flow out of her mouth in a constant chain of sentances. Her mouth gaped open slightly, motioning as if she wanted to get a word in edge-wise, but she conceded that she would remain patient until she would be able to speak in her turn. Raising her hands in an understanding way, Victoria also raised her brow, momentarily blowing a strand of hair out of her face before she spoke. "Alright, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to...well, nevermind. Bugger." She turned her head away, dropping her hands to her sides with a deep breath and a sigh.
After letting the words sink in a moment, she turned back to the girl with curiousity in her eyes. "What is this Xavier place? I mean, what are you doing at a school, being a mutant and all and then coming out here all alone? Don't people hunt people like us?" Her brows knitted up in worry. It wasn't that Victoria didn't like being a mutant, it was just thst she found herself such a danger to her own well-being that at that moment in time she would have preferred not to be one. "How do you survive?"
"I've survived out in this world longer than I should have. Didn't have a home, so I've lived on the streets for a while, I know this city, I can take care of myself." She shrugged. *Nice one, Jenny, just go ahead and spill your guts, hey, while you're at it, tell her about mom and dad and foster mom and dad, hey, why not spill about Amanda. Don't worry, she's just a complete stranger, she won't tell.* Fade thought, she was refering to herself as Jenny again, she only did that when she was mad at herself, Jenny, her human name, was who Fade blamed, as if Jenny was another person, the dumb one.
"Yea, there's this school that takes in people like us." She shrugged, deciding now to make her sentences short and to the point instead of dragging them out like she had been doing for a while there.
Tilting her head slightly, Victoria found herself smirking at the girl. She was endearing, and she knew that she meant well and Victoria appreciated that. "I'm sorry, I came off a little harsh there, didn't I?" She reached out her hand to shake the girl's. "My name is Victoria. I'm a bit new here, I don't know much about the city, really." It was her turn to talk in gushes now. "I haven't been here all that long, I was just apartment shopping, actually. Maybe now I won't have to bother." She paused and regarded the girl for a moment, instinctually brushing her hair back over her shoulder. "A school for mutants..." Her eyes wandered to the side, thinking about the prospect of placing herself in a school like this. Maybe now she could actually find more mutants, people like her, who needed the same help she did in controlling her powers. Victoria hated having to constantly be on guard to make sure that her powers didn't get the better of her...but they usually did. "Will you take me there?"
"The name's Fade. You can call me Jenny when you're mad or annoyed." She chuckled. Although, no one ever did call her Jenny, not yet, at least. "Well, I can, I guess, I don't know if I'll get in trouble for leaving without telling, so let me grab some things." She said, motioning to the ceiling. Fade had left a few things in the ceiling. Yes, may sound odd, but she one day turned invisible and climbed the walls of the mall to find a little square cut into the ceiling. She opened it and crawled inside, there were loads of bugs and nasty things, but it was just fine. So, Fade moved all of her stuff there and lived there, now she needed to get them back.
"In the ceiling?" Victoria watched her hand gesture upwards. She was confused, but amused at the same time. With Fade's abilities to climb and become invisible it seemed to make perfect sense. "Alright, I'll stand by." She nodded her head lightly with an amused smirk on her face. Maybe the rest of the mutants like her would be like her; and that wasn't a bad thing at all.
Standing in the crowded mall, Victoria stuffed her hands in her jean pockets, keeping her handbag handle hooked ofer her wrist. She looked both ways; up and down the corridor, and then nodded to Fade for the go-ahead. She was interested to see, or not see, how Fade handled her powers. All Victoria ever knew was how to surpress them. "How on earth did you ever discover you could get up inside the ceiling?" Victoria called out to fade, suddenly not caring as much for the passersby around them. She wasn't alone anymore, and she counted that to herself to be a small victory.
"Quicknote version: Looking for a new place, friday night, too crowded, climbed on ceiling, found the sucker." she said, putting her discovery in as little words as possible. "Check this out." She walked over to the wall and put her hand on the solid, immediately, her raptor-like claws sank into the wall and grabbed on. Then, her next hand moved up and did the same, followed by her foot. As soon as the last foot left the ground, she turned invisible. It looked as if someone spraypainted her invisible in two seconds. Quickly, going unnoticed, she scurried up the wall and onto the ceiling as she grabbed onto the random square. She pulled it out of it's slot and it hung from on of its sides. Smoothly, she climbed inside and, with the light from below showing her what was in there, she looked around. There was a torn and tattered blanket on the floor, next to it was a pile of maybe 6 clothes and behind this pile was a box of food. She sighed, trying to decide what all she was going to taek down and how she was going to do it.
Suddenly, the square in the ceiling closed and maybe 30 seconds later, Fade became visible next to Victoria. Only, Fade was wearing her shirts around her neck and her pants leggings were tied around her legs in various places. Her blanket was tucked into her pants so it hung around the pants tied to her like a skirt. This look was absolutely horrid, it looked as though she was a 2-year-old that tried to get changed herself, without her parents help.
Watching Fade grab onto the walls and then dissapear intrigued Victoria emmensely. Not being able to hear or see her, the only way that Victoria knew where Fade was in the building was by the movement of the ceiling tile. She smirked to herself and then looked down at some people who had caught sight of what had been going on. "What?" She shrugged her shoulders as if nothing had happened and then gave them a look that they should believe the same.
After a few minutes, Victoria jumped suddenly seeing Fade standing beside her. When she turned to look at the other girl, however, she tried all that she could not to laugh. She brought her hand up over her mouth to cover the grin that had spread across her lips and stifle the giggle that was rising up out of her belly. Getting herself under control when the stifled laughter began to make Victoria's hand began to turn invisible, she reached out to Fade. "Here now, let me help you with some of that." She grabbed onto some of the t-shirts that hung around her neck and pulled them away into her arms. "You had quite the hide-out up there." She casually motioned a hand towards the tile in the ceiling, but she was starting to get anxious to leave. "So, where to now, Fade?"
A smile creapt across Fade's face as she looked down at what she was wearing. She did look very ridiculous. "Thanks." She said as Victoria offered to help. She untucked the blanket and slung it over her arm before she began her epic struggle to untie all of her pants from her legs. Once they had all been untied and she was free to look like herself again, she smiled and wrapped her pants in her blanket, it was easier like that.
"Now then, let's get out of here, people are looking at me weird, it's kinda funny and kinda weird." She began walking towards the mall door. "Now to the mansion. I think you need to talk to Tricity first, which definately means that I get to tell her that I was outside of the mansion, this should be interesting." She chuckled before she left the mall, her new friend by her side.
"Tricity?" Victoria repeated the name, liking the sound of it more than questioning who it was. "Well hopefully you won't be in too much trouble." Her image of the school formed into something like a prep school. You don't leave unless you are chaperoned and you live only in and around the grounds of the school. While Victoria hated the idea of attending another prep school, she just convinced herself that she was there to learn control; not get an education.
Gathering up the bundle of clothing in her arms, Victoria headed out of the mall with Fade. She didn't much like the stares of rude people as well. Once outside, she scanned the area for a taxi cab and began to flag one down. "A cab fine with you?" she looked over her shoulder at Fade, her arm still in the air.