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.
>> "How can you say that about your own brother? He might be an idiot. Get himself into trouble, and try too hard, but... He seemed like a pretty good guy to me. Kind of shocked to hear that apparently, he's like this huge womanizing philanderer or something."
Well well. What do you know. Ami was defending Gawain. Maya stared in a bit of a shock; that was nto something she expected to hear. It felt good. But it also meant trouble.
>>"Who knew womanizers could punch out Cthulhu?"
"Well all right stop that train" she held up a hand "He did not punch out Chtulhu. He merely got near the thing, and still managed to break his ribs."
Because the love of his life plus one landed on him.
"Second, I didna say he was a womanizer. I said chicks like him. He was very faithful when he had a girlfriend. Until she decided to walk out on him that is. But he's still a jerk."
Oh hell. I am defending myself in the third person...
Was she shocked to hear someone talking nice about her brother? Ugh! Amelia hated sisters that didn't have their brothers best interests at heart. And, wait. He HADN'T punched out Cthulhu?
That was a figure of speech, punching out Cthulhu. A trope, really. And wait. Why did she sound like she'd had firsthand experience there?
And, wait. He'd had a girlfriend. But she'd walked out on him. And he wasn't a womanizer? That was harsh.
More frowning.
"What kind of girl would walk out on him?" She asked.
Maya winced. She really, really did not want to talk about that. Not now, not ever. Especially not with Ami. Especially not on a Maya day. Uh.
"The perfect kind?" she frowned and shrugged "What kind of a question is that? Look, if ya're his girl, he's not off cheatin' on you, I can promise you that. But I think you'd be better off just going home and leaving him alone."
The perfect kind? She highly doubted that. But she wasn't going to go talking about Gawain's past relationships with his sister. She realized, all too late... that was kind of weird.
Besides. How could Gawain's ex be perfect? She wasn't her.
... Ha. Even joking in her head, that was a laugh.
"No way," Amelia said, stretching her arms out in front of her. With a yawn and a plop, she sat down against the wall of the hall, by his door. "I think I'll just wait. Earlier, I was mad. But now... I just want to hear him out. You can keep me company, if you want. Could even share stories." A hand slipped into her hoodie pocket and extracted an iPod. She messed with an ear bud, then rolled her thumb on the device's wheel. "You don't seem like much of a bitch to me."
Bitches didn't usually tend to try and protect their brothers. And this one, she had guessed, was probably trying to make sure Gawain avoided heartbreak. Or something stupid like that. It was kind of the reverse of what she would have done, but heck, she got where the girl's heart was. If Aurum had had a messy breakup, she would have probably tried helping him any way she could, too.
It was a good thing she'd already finished her homework. Waiting by his door could take a while. Plus, it was kind of insane.
Unbelievable is what she was. She sat down, right there, to wait. Maya blinked. Unbe-friggin'-lievable.
"Ya maight have to wait for a very long time" she warned her, not exactly sure what she should do "He stays out at night. Don't you have curfew or somethin'?..."
She did. She also had a father. Who had met Gawain. Oh, it was a gloriosu mess. And at the same time, Maya couldn't help but chuckle. Stubborn little Ami. No wonder she got a kiss out of the second date. She had kicked a guy in the balls for her... Things would have been easier if she came on a Gawain day.
>>"Ya maight have to wait for a very long time" Maya said.
>>"He stays out at night. Don't you have curfew or somethin'?..."
"I do." Amelia confirmed. She didn't stop fiddling with her iPod. "I should probably find a phone to call my parents, if it gets too late. Or maybe get my brother to pick me up." Maybe spend the night at his place and talk to Muse. If Gawain never came home, there'd be plenty to talk about. "It would sure help if I had someone to wait with." She commented.
Gawain was a terrible person if he kept people waiting.
"Doesn't Gawain have a cellphone or something?" What kind of people lack cellphones? Her, for one... would be totally fitting if he lacked one, too. Maybe she could hack an X-communicator! ... No. That was silly. Maybe.
"He has one. He left it. Apparently he did not want to be bothered. Sam's gonna kick his ass for that later on."
That was partially true. Gawain's cell was turned off for the day, and so was Maya's. Because she had been sulking. She still was. Sulking.
"Ya might wanna go home for the night" she told her "Not like it's not safe here, but, y'know, it's a school. For mutants, and all that. Your parents might want you home."
Amelia sighed a sigh that said 'You're no fun'. But Gawain's sister was right. This was kind of crazy. And yet again, she wasn't being a bitch. She was actually worried about her safety. Or at least, the state of her social life. Being grounded would kind of ruin it. And it wasn't like she was a member of this school. They'd eventually kick her out. Getting buzzed in had been a feat itself.
"You're probably right." She muttered. She pulled the bud from her ear and wrapped the earphones around the iPod, stashing it away again as she rose. "He's got my number." Amelia said. "You'll get him to call me, right?" She looked Maya straight in the eye. She was serious. "And can I get his number, too?" She COULD have tracked it down fairly easily. But getting it this way was a lot easier.
Damn logic. Waiting for hours could have been 'fun'. Especially going home numb from sitting. Maybe just getting him to call her when he was back was the bright idea.
>>"You're probably right. He's got my number. You'll get him to call me, right?"
She looked her in the eye. Maya looked back. Damn the girl, she was good. Too good.
"Sure. Whatever."
She would get him to call her all right. Eventually. Probably. Maybe.
>>"And can I get his number, too?"
Uhhh.
"Yeah." Maya sighed, and gave Ami the number. Whatever. Gawain couldn't really be in a mess bigger than this anyway. Well, at least Ami was leaving. Maya smirked. "Take care, Ami."
"No. Not that. The other thing. My nickname." Weird. "I never told you my nickname." It was a very unique nickname. Usually, people would call her 'Amy' before they even thought about calling her 'Ami'. Ami sounded different. Closer to Amelia, she thought. Like 'Ah mee'. It had been given to her by Miri, a close family friend.
When had this girl learned the nickname in the few minutes they'd been talking? It was almost as if...
>>"No. Not that. The other thing. My nickname. I never told you my nickname."
Damn. Dammity damn damn.
Maya shrugged. Gracefully. Casually.
"I guess I must have heard Gawain mention you" she suggested. It did not sound entirely convincing, but it had to work. After all, which one would you believe first, some smalltalk or genetical gender shifting?...
"But you asked who I was." Amelia replied. "And you didn't know about me when I told you. Just mentioned cavalcades of girls." Armies of ladies. Flocks of women. Protecting her brother.
It was all coming together. Too many detective stories had been read to her as a child. It had forced her to learn to think outside the box. To recall things.
"Plus." She said, recalling one such thing. "You winced when I mentioned Gawain's ex." She kept a firm look set on her face. This was all too strange to be coincidence.
>>"But you asked who I was. And you didn't know about me when I told you. Just mentioned cavalcades of girls."
Oh dammit. She was good. Sherlock had nothin' on her. Double damn. If she had not been Maya, she would have kissed her. But right now, she just wanted to run away in an orderly fashion.
>>"Plus. You winced when I mentioned Gawain's ex."
She did. Wince.
"Well, I didn't like her either." she frowned, looking at Ami. Waiting for her next move.