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'd like you to answer the rest of the question, if you'd please. Why were you and Maxine in a TV? And what exactly happened that led to wacky TV hijinks in movies and on news shows."
Distraction didn't work. Damn.
"Well, it's a long story" he said, but he was pretty sure Ami wanted to hear all of it at this point "I was mirrorwalking, and I somehow ended up in Maxine's news spot. And ruined it, kinda, just by showing up. So I went to apologize to her because I felt bad about messin' up a live show... but turns out she had no clue what I was talkin' about. It had been just fine. So we started out mirrorwalking to figure out what the heck just happened, and... walked into a Disney movie."
Skipping ahead, over the weird part... all of it.
"It was... um, interesting. Turns out we can actually change the story an' everything. But we couldn't decide whose power was doin' it, or if someone else was messin' with us. So, we decided to test it again, with Maxine there this time, and that's why we went back into the news..."
"Sleeping Beauty. But I checked after, and the movie is not changed. Whatever I do to it, it's temporary... and only visible on one screen. Never changed anywhere else."
That had to be good, right? Not ruining anyone's childhood forever and not scarring kids for life?
What? What just happened? Gawain blinked, cofused. Was this a Disney thing? Or a girl thing? Or an Ami thing? What was wrong with Sleeping Beauty? Apart from, well, being cheesy and girly and Barbie-doll-like and fun to ruin...
"Um... Ami, what's wrong? I told you, we did not change the movie. You can take a look if you want. It's the same as before."
At least, in most people's minds, except for a handful of unfortunates...
"It's not the same. Maxine ruined it. She has dirtied it with her touch. And if I'd have had to pick one movie to go into with you, that would have been it. She stole. She stole my favorite movie. And probably did something totally Maxine-like and played the villain for kicks." That was totally Maxine-like. It suited the kind of woman who would steal an attractive guy away from his friend while he was giving him a tour. It was totally her type of move. Went with her being an evil witch. Who was also a cat.
She was f***ing McGonagall. Only evil. And not awesome and badass and cool. Part of her wanted to hit herself for even making the slightest of comparisons.
"That witch." Amelia wibbled. Tears welled in the corners of her eyes.
>>"No. It's not the same. Maxine ruined it. She has dirtied it with her touch. And if I'd have had to pick one movie to go into with you, that would have been it. She stole. She stole my favorite movie. And probably did something totally Maxine-like and played the villain for kicks."
Uh-oh. This was bad, This was really bad. For one, Ami was right about Maxine, and feminine intuition just generally creeped Gawain out. Second, Gawain kind of enjoyed playing the villain for kicks. But then again, he was a guy, and Disney was... Disney. Fun to watch, much more fun to ruin forever... Again. Uh-oh.
>>"That witch."
Gawain gulped. Uh. Ami was tearing up, and a teary-eyed girlfriend is everyone's worst nightmare. Ever.
"Ami, it's just..." it's just a movie. Oh no, buddy, don't go there. Just. Don't. "... I'm sorry. I really don't know what to say. I'm sorry."
She didn't need to know what they did. It was bad. She knew it. To hear about it would just be sick.
"It's funny," Amelia choked on a sob. "I'm more upset about this than Maxine being Maxine. Because she probably..." Oh god. She hoped not. She really hoped. Amelia looked at at Gawain pleadingly. "She's a bad influence. You didn't... when you were in that movie... do anything bad, did you?"
Apparently, she was a masochist. But she needed to know. If Gawain needed rehabilitation, she wanted to know. She wanted to help. And if he lied and said 'No', she'd know. Because honestly, he was bad at lying. And Ami tears were like an acid that burned through all the stonewalling someone could possibly give.
>>"It's funny. I'm more upset about this than Maxine being Maxine. Because she probably... She's a bad influence. You didn't... when you were in that movie... do anything bad, did you?"
Oh, this was getting exponentially bad. Really, really, really, Mythbusters-experiment-level crap hits the fan kinda bad. Gawain bit his lips, trying to find a nonexistent right answer.
"Um... it kinda... got out of hand. Just by being there, the story changed around is, and the bad witch... well she was really not fond of us. No one was, really. It was... kind of a mess."
She could picture it in her head. And the It in question was far worse than anything Gawain could have possibly said. Blood and carnage and yellow journalism. That poor princess. Those poor fairies.
Gawain knew he was in trouble. He knew how much this meant to her. The fact that Maxine had done something this bad was terrible for her. Infuriating. How could she? What had given her the right to kiss her boyfriend and rub her taint all over her favorite movie?
Amelia wiped away the tears, a look of hot fury replacing the look she'd had before. "I think," she said. "I'm revising my original standpoint that revenge on this woman is not worth my time."
>>"I think I'm revising my original standpoint that revenge on this woman is not worth my time."
... crap.
"Look, Ami." he tried to reason with her "That... the kiss, that was not Maxine. That was the TV version of her. And the movie... it's not like she did anything there to hurt you. It was... weird. But she knows you are my girlfriend, and she's not going to come between us. Going out on revenge against her wouldn't solve anything..."
"Believe me, it wouldn't. That's the thing about revenge." he sighed, touching her chin to make her look up "Ami, I'm sorry. I really am. Can I do anything to mae you feel better?"
Apart from taking revenge on Maxine. That was not going to happen. But there had to be another way to make Ami... less deadly? Right?
Her chin was touched. Oh, damn. Her boyfriend was fighting dirty. She couldn't do anything but look up.
She adamantly disagreed with him about revenge. There was a time when one turned the other cheek, and there was a time for action. She didn't want to turn her back on Maxine, so turning the other cheek seemed out of the question. Still. On any other person, he was probably right.
Whether he was right or wrong had no bearing on the fact that she still wanted to slug the lady, she would never forgive Maxine, and... she didn't like the fact he was defending the floozy. He did want to make her feel better, though... and... she did want to make things right between them. So she could partially drop all this revenge talk.
What would make her feel better? "Hm. Let me think." Think think, she thought. "Train me." The answer came immediately. "You X-men know how to fight, right? Maybe sparring will help me blow off some steam." And also, while she wanted to forgive him and make things right between them, working off some of that anger by swatting at his face certainly couldn't hurt. Her.
There had to be a way to make herself more deadly, right? To her, this all made sense.
>> "Hm. Let me think. Train me. You X-men know how to fight, right? Maybe sparring will help me blow off some steam."
She did not think a lot about that at all. Gawain had the feeling there was a reason she wanted to learn how to fight, and that it would result in something potentially painful either to Maxine or to him... but if sucking a few punches from Ami was going to make her feel better, who was he to argue. He had seen a lot worse when training with Sam.