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.
Koga was set on helping Nate patch things up with Quin, which was noble and considerate of him, but sadly pointless. It would have been great if Nate could just give Quin a gift or a painting and have that be the end of their struggle, but the problems in their relationship shook them to their core.
Still, Nate did not want to just dismiss Koga; in a normal situation his ideas would have been helpful, and he was being so sincere. There was no harm in playing along a bit more to make the origin of his relationship woes less questionable. "Yeah, maybe I should take some of my own advice and bust out a masterpiece," he joked. If he made a masterpiece, Quin might end up suspicious he was going to try to use it for evil.
Nate opened the door to his car, thinking about changing the subject. "Do you need a ride? Maybe to go pick out something cute and fluffy for your sweetheart?" Nate was not in a rush, so it did not hurt to offer.
Koga nodded encouragingly and left the subject at that for now. If Nate wouldn't give him more to work with than he wouldn't press the matter, even if the man did make him explain his intentions in detail.
"Beatss buss hopping around town." there were probably few people that meant that the way he did. He often played frogger from the tops of vehicles in new york traffic, he tried to stick to trucks and buses but every so often he would end up on the top of a cab and wonder if he would survive to see another day.
"Sso?" Koga asked testing the water for topics of conversation, letting the man have his choice of what to discuss. he considered bringing up the Xmen, but reminded himself he was going to let Nate take the lead.
Nate allowed Koga to enter his car by the passenger side, quietly hoping that the kind reptilian youth would not leave scales that he would need to clean off. Nate put the car in drive and the two men were on their way out of the Mansion grounds and into the city, where Nate had an little toy shop in mind as their destination.
Koga was fishing around for a new topic of conversation, and Nate had one in mind. "So besides classes and such, what do you like to involve yourself with at the mansion? Any... extracurriculars?" Nate asked the question, wondering about one side-activity in particular. At the mansion, you never knew who walked around marked with an X, whether staff or student.
He wasn’t shedding skin right now, he didn’t go through that too often, when he did, he typically got it out of the way with a loofa and a hot shower.
“There issn’t a lot I don’t do.”
“I run a ssmall yard work bussinesss, with sseveral of the other manssion kidss, we do oddss and endss for a lot of the neighborss. I realized a long time ago that I could clean gutters and windows in a fraction of the time a crew with ladders could, ssome of the other kidss do mow, rake chop wood, and decorate.” He paused to grin. “or the equivalent of, we never do thingss the old fasshioned way really. Initially it wass my way of making ssome extra cassh, while making ssure the neighborss knew we were sstill just a bunch of kidss. But itss turned into a pretty ssuccesssful businesss, and diplomacy tool, the houssess around uss pay really wel,l ass they have more fundss then they know what to do with. And we work more efficiently than any normal labor might.”
He looked to the man driving. “Other than that, I train, I hone any and every sskill I can think of, or get ssomeone to teach me ssomething that might come in handy. I assspire to become one of the X’ss. I’m on pretty good termss with Ssam and Sshinbo, I jusst need to get in a bit more field work and I think I will probably sstart with the next batch of x-men.” The grin on his face showed with pride. The countless hours he had spent reading manuals, running danger room simulations and hitting the streets, he had stopped countless muggings, rapes and attacks in general. Watch an area that had a crime rate and attack criminals with an unforgiving ferocity and persistence and the crime would shift to another place. It never went away, merely shifted.
Koga got to where Nate was hoping the conversation would go, and he got there much quicker than the teacher could have hoped. The X-Men were known to operate out of the Mansion, but beyond that, it was not quite as simple to find out the group's details, such as team leaders and how to join. With Koga openly pursuing the X-Man career path, this could be a good opportunity.
"It's nice to see the Mansion students give back to the community, in small ways and big ones." The crime-fighting and field work were impressive, but it was not fair to discount the odd jobs that helped students utilize their talents productively.
Koga gave Nate the impression that Sam and Shin were at least two of the Mansion employees worth getting in contact with should... he decide to peruse his options. "If you're on your way to the big X, mind if I ask how you become part of the team? And are there levels?"
Nate could feel Quin's glare settling on him from miles away. He must have been pretty well trained to immediately associate vigilantism with guilt. "Man, my girlfriend would be so pissed if she heard me asking these things," he commented with a chuckle. "She's a cop and she ain't exactly the biggest fan of superheroes." The phrasing could politely be called an understatement.
Well, the jobss aren’t quite giving back asss we are making money. But the x-teen group doess park clean up and what not. Kind of good will ambassador type stuff. hey look at those mutant kids behaving better than ours sort of stuff, though I suspect sometimes they think we are doing it because we are working off community service.” He shrugged and grinned. Koga eased his grip on the door of the car as he realized Nate did not drive like a crazy person. So many mutants that he knew drove like the car was on fire and they need it to stop, drop and roll.
“Well, you start off as a trainee, work with some of the established members on missions and they see how you do, go over some training in the danger room, learn the ropes so to speak. And from there it is really a matter of sticking around and joining up. You’d want to talk to Sshin, Ssam, Kealey or Mirror to get you started on training, they might fast track you if you have pretty good control of your abilities. Maya would be one to talk to as well, but I haven’t seen her around in awhile.”
Well his opinion of the girl just dropped quite a bit, maybe he should have been advising Nate to move on. “hmmmm, well that doessn’t quite align with the being on thin ice, but I gotta assk. How does a police officier not love superheros? That’s like not liking good Samaritans. I mean I get being against the guys out there like the Judge, but if they are truly a hero, they aren’t going to be doing more damage than they are stopping, you know what I mean? What does she say about the police super hero team? ” He opened his mouth to continue. “ Ssorry, I just, that’s what I have spent the last six years aspiring to become, sso I might be a bit touchy.” He ran his fingers through his hai, expertly avoiding the spall spikes hidden with in.
The way Koga described the X-Men ladder system, it sounded like becoming a trainee was already entering into the "team" as the public would see it, since trainees took part in field training and even missions. Nate even knew most of the apparent team leaders: Sam, Kealey, Kealey's boyfriend, and Mirror. (Apparently, Koga differentiated Gawain and Maya as different people, so Nate kept quiet about it, in case Mirror was selective about who (s)he shared his/her secret with.)
It was a system that made sense and kept the more untrained, unprepared members in check, but there was something about the "trainee" title that made him laugh. "Is it weird for older guys to be walking around as trainees?" Nate was not old per se, but he was definitely older than students like Koga.
Koga quickly questioned Quin's displeasure with the costume crowd with points that were very logical and backed with the passion of someone who believes his cause to be just. "I think after going through years of thorough, official training, the idea of metahumans who could step in, possibly without preparation or training, jumping in well-natured but causing more trouble bothers her."
Hoping not to offend the reptilian kid, Nate added, "I think her passion for her work causes her to lump vigilantes together. It seems like the X-Men work hard to prepare y'all for the big show."
The car pulled into the parking lot of a small toy shop. It was nothing like a Toy's R U, or K.D. Toys. Nate believed that, for a gift like the one Koga was looking for, old fashioned was the way to go.
“Not at all, Asss far as I can tell, In the field it isss much more about getting whatever needss to be done, done. Opposed to hazing like hijinx or the like. I guesss it could be asss weird asss you want to make it though.” Koga grinned over at the man.
Koga tilted his head while listening to nate’s defense of the reasoning behind her displeasure with heros. “that actually sounds reasonable, the part about not knowing what or who you are going to get could easily make the situation go from in control to out of control in a heart beat. Though it makess me wonder if ssomeone responssible would get the ssame treatment asss a well meaning trouble maker.’ He looked to nate, he was both at times. He had certainly made a mountain out of a molehill before.
“I could agree to dissagree with ssomeone who thought like that, in the end of the though, I couldn’t ssit on my handss and wait for the law to arrive, if I knew I could sstop a potentially dangerouss ssituation right then.”
Koga glanced up and looked at the toy store, it looked like a good shop, like a place that he could find something one of a kind. “Thankss for driving me out here Nate, I appreciate the help.”
Koga thanked Nate for the ride to the shop, continuing to be impeccably polite. If anything, it was a shame that all the students he came across were not as easy to deal with as the reptilian lad.
"No problem. And thanks for filling me in a bit more on the whole X-Men thing." Koga had proven to be the most useful well of information Nate had so far. There was no definite decision made in Nate's mind, since he knew his relationship might not survive an X-Influence, but it never hurt to be educated and armed with options. "You're a good argument in favor of the X-Men, I can confidently say." Well, for Nate at least. To Quin, someone who was still of school age probably had no business on the front lines, preparation and training or not.
Nate did consider entering the shop with Koga to help pick a gift out, but the young man was more than capable of making a choice on his own, and it would mean more that way. Looking at the car's clock, Nate was still running just on time to get home and prepare dinner for himself and Quin, so he was best off not spending too much more time dallying. "It's not too far a walk back, and I kinda have things to get done, so I hope you don't mind if I take off."
Nate offered Koga a firm handshake. "Good luck, Koga." With a grin, he drove off, honestly pulling for the young gentleman in his quest of love.
“Of coursse, hopefully I ssee you in the field.” A broad smile lit his face, that was a high bit of praise in his book. He would wear that as a badge of honor the rest of the day. He made the Xmen look good.
He grinned. “like I said I appreciate the ride, I’ll manage the rest on my own, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.” Koga shook the man’s hand with the same amount of grip, take care!” He watched the care drive away for a moment and turned to the store. He hoped Mr. Graves had a good time of patching things up with the mystery police woman. disliking superheroes…Honestly!
The thought was quickly torn away from his mind as he went in search of the perfect stuffed animal.he scoured the store for the better part of a hour. He finally settled on a multicolored dragon, it had some of his features, some of hers, its horns and wings reminded him of hers, it had black eyes and colorful scales. He didn’t think it would be the result if they had a child. Had a child! What was he thinking… one date at a time man, get a grip!