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.
I don't kill useful people as a general rule of thumb. Subtext: make yourself useful.
> Anyway... Columbia? Why haven't I been reading about that in the papers?
Because we're not the same Order. It's all changed from the time we decided to take the future into our own hands. Believe me. Nobody's too terribly happy to keep everything under wraps, but I think making our moves covertly has benefit the Mutant community. At least, I'm trying to keep us from openly defaming it. Emphasis on the trying.
Do you miss the old Order?[/color] She leaned her elbows on the desk and watched him. Are you going to be trouble for me?
Lori didn't seem to think his joke about the media was very funny. Dorian thought it would at least be grin-worthy, especially to somebody who plays a big role in the mutant community. You can't make everyone laugh. The mime began to sweat a little, but he stood his ground.
I'd be lying if I told you I didn't miss the old Order. I have a lot of good memories from working with them, even if they are memories of things that will never happen. I did something real with them, something that mattered. But loud and proud isn't the only way to get things done, and it probably makes a lot more enemies that what you're doing. I'm all for a world where the media doesn't ram on the whole of mutantkind like we're some kind of disease. If you can get stuff done without shouting at everyone about it, I won't stop you.
He leaned back. Let's go back to that thing you said about useful people, though. Given the choice, I'd much rather be an Order grunt than a street performer who also writes books that publishers hate. By the way, I killed one of the senators who drafted the Registration Act. That Weinhard guy? Might've heard about that on the news a few years back. I was the guy who did that.
...I mean, yeah, they replaced him with somebody who's probably even worse about mutants, so I guess that was kinda stupid, and in retrospect it didn't help much... but I still killed the son of a bitch, and the FBI never found me. That's gotta mean something. The phrase 'son of a bitch' was punctuated by Dorian knocking on Lori's table with his fist.
Blink. Blinkblinkblink. That was a lot to digest and if Lori could easily disentangle this whole mind to mind thing, she would have just to give herself a moment to think all of this through. Her gut reaction was to put the assassination information aside, but she couldn't. It was all part of this man in front of her and part of what he was offering to her.
Or part of an inadvertent threat...
What exactly do you miss about that Order? We don't have an all-out war with definable accomplishments like taking point A or kicking humans out of Australia. Your accomplishments might not be heralded at all. Like your assassination. She tried very hard not to think through all the people she might have him kill for her. Killing was not always the best solution to a problem. Also, there were simply too many and most of them were more telling about Lori personally.
I wish I'd known... We could have had a better man in place, ready to step in. Do you often go around killing people?[/i]
Dorian couldn't help feeling a little giddy, or being a little too talkative for his own good. He'd just been reunited with the Order, after all. Even if they technically never knew that he was gone, or even who he was, they were together again! Besides, he'd been itching to talk to somebody, actually talk, for years now, and this was probably as close as he would ever get.
He could write a whole book about why he missed the old Order. Oh wait he already was. Like I said, I have a lot of memories. Or... like I thought? Meh. But I have a lot of good memories. I felt like I was doing something great for mutantkind, when I worked with them. We were making a nation by mutants, for mutants. It had a lot of potential... The performer wasn't even looking at Lori anymore; his mind had fled to his past.
It took him a second to come back to reality. Until, I guess, the guys in charge somehow managed to make everyone hate mutants more by screwing up foreign policy. Being a non-state actor like this might actually be better, far as helping our kind goes, now that I think of it. And if you're good enough to go around replacing people with power.
And the last person I killed was a Romanian prison guard. I was up there when they copied our country's bright idea to register everyone. Kind of a stupid thing for me to do, really.
"Whoah, whoah, whoah. You were in Romania? Did you know the Order was there?[/color] Had he been looking for them there too? This guy was seriously into the scene. Lori had already decided he wasn't a threat to them. He seemed to actually want to help. He, like most in the Order, was like an arrow. She need only to point him in a direction and let him loose.
Lori would have to stew on it for a while. She didn't even have any immediate tasks that needed doing to put his resolve to the test. That didn't mean that she didn't want him on board, though. What did you do for the Order before? What was your roll? I already know a little about your mutation, but I've got lots of balls in the air and I need to know how you'll fit in. Or at least how he thought he might fit in.
'Not really, no. But it's not surprising that they were. That you were. There. In Romania, that is. I thought I might've gotten a chance to see you guys there, but that wasn't really why I went.' Dorian sighed. 'I was there because I had this big, bright idea about how I'd help out the resistance there. All I managed to do was lose my passport and get tortured. Good times, right?'
As for his old job, 'I started off as a kind of soldier-y assassin-y type guy. Later, once someone noticed my writing, I mostly wrote articles for the Order's propaganda machine. During World War 3, I did a little of both. Fought on the front lines, then wrote flowery stories about it when I had a moment.' Even in his thoughts, he sounded exceptionally bitter when he started talking about the war.
