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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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.
"Doctor Lily?" The blonde's glasses were gone, but her lab coat was still in place. The doctor all but picked Maya up by the elbow and lead her out into the hall. If she thought it was uncomfortable in her room, it was unbearable out here.
Maya saw the issue at once. A window had melted. The air waved out of the room from whatever was in there generating all this heat. The elemental took a step forward, but the doctor caught her elbow. "Can you do something?" She looked... scared? Maya nodded and held out her wrist to the doctor. She still had the shock bracelet on.
Surprisingly un-ladylike words came out of Dr. Lily's mouth. She didn't have the key. But she did have a trick up her sleeve. She wedged her fingers between the cuff and Maya's skinny wrist. "Do it."
"You sure?"
The blonde nodded.
So Maya raised her non-occupied hand and made the air stir. Slow at first, it gained momentum and swirled around the two women with a steady spiral upward. The hot air decanted toward the ceiling. Maya's shock bracelet didn't seem to be doing much of anything.
"The problem's in there!" Dr. Lily's mouth sparked as she shouted over the roar in their ears. Maybe the bracelet was doing something after all.
Maya changed her focus. The torrent of air which had felt so good rolled around the open areas, in through the only other open space and swirled around and around and around. Out the melted window and up... an elevator shaft? She couldn't find any other way out... were they underground?
She had to dig deep for the power to establish air flow. It was a long way up and they needed to vent the hot air in favor of something cooler.
The air in the hallway cooled. What kind of place was this? Dr. Lily took on more and more of Maya's weight as the effort began to tire her. Eventually, the growing puddle of glass on the floor quit glowing and hardened.
"Aedus?" Dr. Lily looked between the pregnant woman whose free arm was drooping now and the window opening. They couldn't see inside from this angle. Was it safe yet?
Aedus moved his body slowly across the room toward the wall he watched the high resistance glass melt into a puddle of defeat, it couldn’t handle him. He glanced at the data retrieval equipment, unless it had remote recording it was useless, another puddle of technology on the floor, his clothes wouldn’t have stood a chance. He felt the air change though like everything but his sight, he couldn’t help but think his sense of touch was muted, based on the way the liquid window flowed away from the window. His body cooled and began to harden as it did; it closed back in on his likeness. As if someone had changed his make up to cooling magma, he was glowing a deep red unsteady of bright oranges and yellows. He put his hand to the wall and while it still sizzled it didn’t immediately blacken.
He told Ms. Faust he would stay put, But after the cooling system calmed down and quite hitting him with a high pressure wind he heard a faint calling of his name. His body was in a solid state. It was the same as lava after it had erupted and flowed then hardened, he was still probably hot to the touch, but he wasn’t going to set them on fire by mere radius.
Each step echoed off of the floor, he came to the edge of the window, and where it had been. He picked around the corner to find his boss and a white haired woman. His bright molten eyes opened wide in surprise and recognition, she was the spitting image of Jude’s mom, He might not have remembered her but for the white hair and delicate features, and he remembered thinking she looked like a fay creature. Her hair was growing in brown, the shade looked natural it didn't look like it was bottled but then who was he to guess...
And she must have had some sort of age defying mutation because other than the baby bump, she looked the same, and Jude had to have aged at least ten years.
He was absolutely ecstatic at having his powers and coming across Ghost, Alive….but then he thought about the state of her apartment and the odd circumstances around her disappearance. He thought about his family and the danger he could be putting them in… but then they wouldn’t shy away from it. They had raised him to do what was right. Why exactly did he want this power anyhow, to what needed doing.
His eyes looked to Ms. Faust he looked her over once more, what all was she capable of? “I’m fine. The initial eruption has slowed and that wind seems to have taken the edge off the smothering heat.” His voice sounded odd, it bounced around inside of him, and he felt like it wasn’t matching the volume he was speaking with.
The words might get him in trouble but he couldn’t help it. He wanted to ask her by name if she was ok…but he needed to play his hand slow. “Are you ladies ok?” before their eyes the cooling lava was turning to slick looking Obsidian, his eyes remained bright and went sympathetically to the pregnant woman before him.
Ghost and Lori held each other when Aedus stepped out of his ruined cell. It was hot, but the breeze made it more tolerable. They both looked frazzled. Ghost looked exhausted. Lori mostly just looked protective.
"She can't do fire. Stay where you are." Was she really more flammable than a normal person? What if she could go up in flames just from being too hot? What about the babies? Those things were heat sensitive. She'd been reading up on this stuff!
"It's... nice to meet you." Ghost smudged her damp hair back from her forehead and dipped her head toward Aedus. Yeah. Friendliness was not on the agenda for today. Lori bent and scooped the other woman up in her arms in the typical fireman's carry. The wind cut off the moment Lori had to shift her grip to carry the woman. Ghost yelped and buried her face into Lori's hair. The blonde's arms strained and it was funny to see her manage the balance of carrying the larger woman, but she clearly had the strength for it. That or that baby belly was full of hot air.
"If you see my family, tell them I love them!" The door slammed shut behind the two women. Lori slipped her hand between the bracelet and her little baby cooker and the evidence of wind whipped through both women's hair again. From the other side of the glass, it was clear that Lori was giving her a lecture of some kind.
After a time, the blonde came back out. This time, she looked tired. She didn't say anything at first. Just fiddled with the electronic lock until there was a pneumatic hiss.
"He tried to kill her." Lori ran her fingers through her damp hair and sparks crackled from finger to finger. It was so, so very hot without the little windmaker. She had absorbed a lot charge and fizzled the little bracelet out. She would have to get a new one before her babymomma went to sleep. "Her husband flipped his lid when he found out she was... you know." Lori frowned at the window as Ghost cried into her hands.
Then she turned the full force of her blue eyes on Aedus. "I need you to stay as far away as you can. Prolonged heat isn't good for the child." The whole twins thing was on a need to know basis. That would make it more likely for Lori to be able to snag one later. If she wanted to, that is. "I'm going to see if there's anything else we can do to get the air flowing down here." Though, the controls seemed to be in a puddle...
Aedus didn’t listen but not in a bad way, He moved to the far end of the Window to try to relieve as much as he could.
“Its nice to meet you too.” He would save her. He was determined. Though with all this security, was this something he should try to save her from, it was obviously not safe for her on the outside. Someone wanted her dead out there obviously, her husband or not. Though, he still needed to figure out what was going on…Ms. Faust was obviously pro Mutant, was this like a witness protection thing? He watched the progression between the two women. Why wouldn’t she be able to at least contact Jude?
~I will, I’ll tell Jude you’re alive and you love him.~ He wished he could’ve said it out loud…He couldn’t just yet, not until he knew what was going on.
Wow. Just wow. Those Eyes. She looked flustered and vulnerable, and you could tell that wasn’t something she wore often or easily, He felt bad for temporarily mistrusting her.
“That is Horrible. You’re keeping them safe from him then? If there is any way I can help let me know.” He followed her eyes to the floor. "Actually do you have a fire extinguisher? The wind cooled me down quite a bit, maybe a fire extinguisher would do the rest of the trick? I don’t want to subject either of you to more discomfort.”
He wanted to know if he could fire back up whenever he wanted, but he wasn’t going to find out here apparently…he also needed to figure out how to get back to his natural mode. He was glad that he would be under observation for a bit, that would give him a chance to observe Ghosts Predicament.
"As safe as she'll let me. She's in some serious denial. Still thinks her little boy is a kid..." Well maybe that was too much information. But he could look in on Maya's cell and see that it was customized with a water cooler, a comforter and pillows... it hardly looked like prison after she'd charmed comforts out of each and every one of her guards.
Lori plucked at the front of her shirt, blonde brows furrowed. Sparks jumped between the wet material and her skin.
"Fire extinguisher. Right." That was a good idea. She motioned for him to take a few clunking steps backward and Lori went for the access panel in the wall. The metal handle was hothothot. She yanked it into the correct position and then flung her hand back and forth in the air. The extinguisher wasn't much better.
And since she'd never used one before, Lori dropped the thing on the floor in order to read the tag of instructions. Rip out the pin, like a grenade, and then pull the handle until it met the back of the grip, like a gas pump. Point the hose at the fire and powdery stuff would fly out and kill the fire.
She puffed out a breath of air over her red palms before following those instructions and hosing Aedus down. It hurt but she would be damned if she went through all this trouble and then her baby cooker got cooked.
“ Well, I’d think a betrayal like that would make most anyone want to go into denial. I don’t understand though, her little boy isn’t a kid?” He watched the sparks fly with interest. That was interesting and hinted at a dangerous mutation. It struck him odd at the fact that the three of them were elemental.
He would have offered help bur he could hardly go from here to there without making the heat situation that much worse. He rose her arm up to protect his eyes from the foam or whatever the thing contained and the sensation was the weirdest thing he had ever experienced. It was a mix between have a bucket of cold water poured over your head and like the cold made you into metal. As he wiped away the foam-ish, powder-ish junk, he wasn’t sure if the stuff was cold or if he simply felt cold due to the dampening of the furnace like heat he was producing. He sloughed the stuff off to reveal a Hard case of obsidian, shiny and slick with the burnt extinguisher debris.
He wiped away all of the dust and junk to find something very disturbing… he didn’t have to worry about being nude, because well he was about as impressive as a ken doll. The rest of his features down to his belly button were all intact. They were the work of a master sculpture, one that apparently favored the era of modesty over reality. He thought hard but hadn’t noticed in the prophecy how naked he was…He wasn’t a eunuch was he?
Her words echoed threw his mind. “I hope you don’t live to regret it.” His eye snatched away from his…lack. And he tried not to flip the hell out…he would be restored…he would be. His skin came back, his eyes would be normal again. He would be fine. He had to believe that, he had to.
He set down stunned, looking at the charred floor. “Uh, Ms. Faust, as I said let me know if you need any help protecting her.” if he had traded his manhood for being a hero, he was going to make it count for everything he could. His mind strayed to children he might never have…not to mention the fun of making them.
"Protecting her." That was an interesting idea. The little minx was charming her every guard. Getting favors or comforts, which didn't really hurt anything. It probably helped the survival change of the progeny which was why she allowed it. But still. She got the sympathy vote every time. Lori needed to make sure there were people who believed as Lori did that keeping her here was in the best interest of the babies. And in her best interest too.
Lori sank down to the floor and sat next to the spent extinguisher. It was cooler here on the floor. At least, the floor wasn't boiling hot like everything else. Was air kicking back on down in here yet? She needed to check that and get a new shock bracelet for the elemental. Lori peeled her lab coat off with many a stray spark and tried to get her hair to stop sticking to her face and neck.
The Order leader couldn't tell Aedus not to tell anyone what he'd seen without tipping him off to that fact that Maya had gotten there by nefarious means. The best she could do was keep everyone close. Talk them into her line of thinking or at least a line of thinking they agreed with enough to play along.
"I only want what's best for my friend and I don't know who to trust." There. They had become friends since the elemental had gotten here, hadn't they? She'd oiled her way into protecting and caring for the babies. She knew Maya's name and Maya knew her as Dr. Lily and the trust thing, well... really, the only guards who had been here were Order members. If Lori played her cards right and had another angle working then she might just have backup if the wind witch ever did convince one of her own to let her go.
She was so hot and so sticky. She'd absorbed a lot of charge from the now defunct bracelet and she would need to get herself down to safe levels before coming back down here...
"I'm sorry to ask this, but can you take a seat in a different protective cell until we can confirm that you won't do that again? Preferably one far from hers." He would understand, right? Being close would only endanger everyone here in so many ways.
“Well, I for one can appreciate that you are looking out for her until you do. For that matter, you can trust me.”
“That’s no inconvenience at all, Aedus scrapped the remainder of the foamy dust off of his body and proceeded to the hallway.”
Looking down at the woman he looked to her to point the way. His skin was no longer cracked with fissures threatening to overflow but steadily taking on a sheen of opulent obsidian. His eyes however burnt a molten fiery orange. The heat that he was pumping into the building resided and was only what was left over.
“Would you like me to pick one or are you going to lead the way?” It didn’t seem self service down here so he was hesitant. He wanted to comfort his new employer more, the event was truly harrowing for her apparently, she did not take heat well, but then perhaps it had to do with her electrical based powers…
"Just, use your best discretion and try not to melt anything." Lori waved for him to just go. The incredible heat seemed to have ended. Or rather, the horrible heat wasn't getting any horrible-er. She could hear the air conditioning vents chugging away and considered installing a self contained unit down here rather than having the roof units, industrial as they were, do all the work for a subterranean lair. The travel time for the air to come all the way from the roof was, at present, agonizing.
Lori used the fire extinguisher as a crutch to proper herself back up on her feet. She felt disgusting and over-full. She needed a trip to the top, a refresher in her suite. Yeah. Actually that would help this situation a lot.
Aedus' cell door clicked shut and hissed as it sealed. The Order leader tapped gingerly at the keypad next to his temporary new home and the lock was set. She buzzed the intercom so that he could hear her voice inside the cell. "Just sit tight until we can confirm some things. I'm going upstairs to see if we got anything useful. I'll try not to be gone too long. Need anything?" Hopefully not anything urgent because she was gonna be gone for an hour at least.
“Yes Mam.” How much more could the plot thicken? Lets see, both F S and the clinic were brutalized, ghosts place had blood all over, that had to come from somewhere. And the woman that he had suspected the blood would have came out of was just dandy. You know aside from being in a cell at the bottom of a lab…maybe mutant pregnancies offered extra concern. That made sense. Right get back on track. So, Katrina and Jude seemed to be of the thought that mr. unicorn wouldn’t have done it. Katrina side he was a vegetarian…he couldn’t see a vegetarian, pro life and all go after his love for having a baby. So, he was framed? He was killed and she wasn’t? so, she killed him? that didn’t make sense. Besides he was supposed to destroy the world. Hard to do if you are dead.
“Um, no I’ll be able to work out, so I should be good, though if it is going to be days, maybe a book or two. Would be nice.”
Aedus waited a little bit sitting on the lone bench in the room until he realized while he could communicate he would have to initiate it carefully, and it would be awhile before he could actually figure out how to talk to her short of breaking out. Surely she knew what happened that day.
Aedus began to sing the song the woman was singing, he would remember it forever there was something that seemed right about having a calming sweetly sung song while he came into his own as a mutant. Man sometimes he was sappy. He had a good voice though he couldn’t say if it was improved by the acoustics of his steadily more stony body.
“Hush Now, Let's Go Quiet To The Park Where it first started Cold NIght, Us Lying In The Dark I Felt My Heart Was Trying To Find A Place For You To Stay A Place Where I'd Feel Safe
Anything we have known Anything We've Forgotten In The Rain, In The Dark We'll Lay In Your Arms, In Your Arms I'll Stay “
"I'm taking the best care of you that I can. Isn't that enough? Aren't you grateful? Nobody has even asked about you. They've forgotten you. Just be a good girl so I can keep you safe."
She'd seen people, none of which she knew. Dr. Lily was the only constant in a sea of strangers and as kind as she was, Ghost could tell the blonde had a mean streak too.
And yet... here she was. All alone. She didn't expect a rescue and she wasn't about to endanger herself of the babies by getting herself out. This was one of those situations where she just needed to grit her teeth and get through it. It was boring like the American internment camps, but they were taking good care of her. Even more important, they were taking good care of the babies. She got to see them on the ultrasound machine every couple weeks.
The thought of just how many weeks that meant had passed made Ghost cry harder.
Hormones.
She just had to endure this very comfortable living.
And somehow that stupid song was back in her head. It took her a could stanzas to realize that she was actually hearing the melody. Faint. Distant. Ghost ran her fingers under her eyes. Not that he could see her, but it made her feel better to be at least a little composed.
She used her power to carry a little vibration through the entire underground facility. Just a whisper. "Is somebody there?" Normally she wouldn't be able to do this, but whatever Lily had done to the bracelet meant that it wasn't working anymore. Ghost waited with bated breath for a reply that she could carry back to her own cell.
Aedus stopped singing for a moment when the soft words hit his ears. They were in his head...was she a telepath? he recognized the voice...He started singing again to the tune, the words however were a bit different then Kina's.
Tell me your story i'm a friend don't worry we could run away if you don't feel safe
I don't know who is lying or who is denying i just can see you crying and know it shouldn't be that way.
This time while he waited for her telepathy he hummed the tune softly.He was pretty sure Faust would be monitoring them so he was going to keep this musical charade up until he got some answers.and tried to figure out if she needed to be broken out. He leaned up against the wall near the door so his voice might carry down the hall a little bit better.
He was singing? Ghost wiped her eyes, carried the constant vibrations back to her cell, and tried to listen to the words. It was a little hard for her to separate out the strange words from the familiar melody, but she was pretty sure she got the gist.
"They won't let me go." Her tone made her feel like an ungrateful complainer so she justified her complaint. "But they're not doing anything bad. They're probably taking better care of me than I would. I could leave if I wanted to, but I'm afraid of using my power during the pregnancy."
Ghosting was a naturally relaxed state for her and had happened pretty often all on its own before she'd been pregnant. Ever since she'd been banned from the practice, the thought of accidentally slipping into an incorporeal state had kept her up at night. With the shock bracelet, she was ensured not to accidentally ghost in her sleep. Or any other time. They kept her on a balanced diet with plenty of pregnancy books to read and kept her safe, even from herself.
"I don't know why I'm here or why I can't leave. I miss my family. My son is still missing." She felt guilty for not worrying more about Jude, but… what could she do? They didn't allow her newspapers or television and stress was bad for the babies. Sebastian, she knew, could take care of himself. But he probably wasn't. He was probably worried sick over her and the babies. He was probably out there right now running himself ragged looking for them. That wasn't what she wanted from him. She was safe here and as soon as she knew it was safe for the children, she would free herself and them.
"If you meet a unicorn named Sebastian, please, tell him to take care of himself and not to worry about me. He needs to focus on keeping himself safe and healthy. And he needs to find Jude." Ghost sent her short replies over one breeze at a time and waited for something more to carry back. This was a little like talking over tin cans connected by strings, but it was more honest communication than she'd gotten in a long time.
Wow…explanations were supposed to explain things not make them infinitely more complicated. absolutely nothing made sense.
Aedus stood there dumb founded for a moment as he took in everything she had to say. He also realized that she was whispering to him physically not mentally. So if they had the place bugged well enough they would be able to hear her, so there wasn’t much point in singing so loudly. It would give him plausible deniability…but so what. If she wanted out then he would help her…if he could.
“Well, I am glad you are safe, would you leave if you didn’t have to use your abilities? Something bad is going on out there…I saw your apartment and am glad you weren’t in it. I think forcing an exit might be dangerous, if they are keeping you here, but if you want to try, I have people on the outside that would take you in.” there were plenty of Teague women that would be happy to take in a mutant mama.
Aedus listened to the next phrase somewhat confused…this all went with the perception of something he picked up on the first day he met Jude. It seemed Jude could accelerate his aging…he didn’t match his pictures and people seemed to not know who he was the first time around…though it could be that Ghost just didn’t age. Now was a good time to figure that out.
“Jude is ok, he’s a grown man. He is concerned about finding you and making sure you’re safe. He’s got good people around him.” At least he thought so, they would have trouble taking him on since he could see the future. And he was surrounded by able mutants ready to take on the world ender. Speaking of whom… “I’ll let him know you are safe if that’s what you want. I’ve heard some bad things about him…that he tried to hurt you…it’s either that or he has been framed, and convincingly so.”
Aedus listened for ghost’s responses carefully, waiting and looking to see if anyone was coming.
"I would leave if there were no danger." That was a no brainer. The rest? Not so much.
Something bad? Ghost had been in that apartment when it was getting trashed. It was easy to forget that when she'd slept through most of it, but various circumstances had landed her here. Considering the hands that she had passed through, Maya didn't blame her captors with the homewreckers.
"The apartment, that was different. Everyone has their own reasons for doing things. Even bad things." Martin wasn't a bad guy. He was just... mislead. And he hadn't killed her. Neither of them had. So... that was good, right? That was proof that they weren't hardened criminals?
And of course Jude thought he was grown a man. But the fact that this stranger knew that meant only one thing. "You met him. He's safe." The relief was enough that she forgot to keep to keep up the airflow for communication. He had good people around him. The Mansion, maybe?
"I can see how someone might jump to that conclusion given the evidence." She knew the apartment had been trashed, she knew that she hadn't been back. Missing wife, messed up apartment... they had even had a disagreement earlier that day if she remembered right.
"Sebastian has a good heart. He gets hyper focused at times, but he loves me. He loves our family. He would never... not on purpose. Ask him yourself." Surely the unicorn would be more than willing to tell him.