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.
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Jude decided to follow her lead, much to Rebecca's delight. The idea of gelato was appealing, and Jude was entertaining enough to keep along as company. He was silly, and she was curious about what his mutation might actually be. If he did something sketchy or creepy, she was also confident that, barring a dangerous offensive mutation, Rebecca could probably kick the man's butt.
The door closed behind them and Rebecca was relieved to finally speak in a voice louder than a whisper. "Well, either inner peace or jist more harmless flirting." It was weird to hear a sentence like that escape her lips.
"You dornt have a jealous girlfriend Ah shoulds be worried about, right?" she asked jokingly, leading them in the direction of the gelato shop she had passed on her way to the yoga class, which was most likely what influenced her dessert desires.
"When posed withs ze choice of inner peace or flirting, I would normally pick flirting. Especially if it iz harmless as you say." He was pretty good at flirting if he thought so himself. And he greatly appreciated the beauty of the human form.
"Zat inner peace stuff, I 'ave to 'ave an instructor guide me srough or else I get bored and 1) fall asleep or 2) start daydreaming." He ticked the options off on his fingers. Yes. He was quite serious. "I should pick inner peace." Buuuuut a sidelong glance put Rebecca squarely in the appreciate-able human form category.
As for his girlfriend, "If zis is harmless flirting, zan no. She knows my heart." He hoped she did anyway. "If it's just normal flirting zan yes. Especially dangerous to mutants." Well, there was no point in hiding it.
The gelato shop was as air conditioned as he had hoped. Jude perused the flavors and asked for a sample of butter cream before finding them a table that was out of the way.
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Rebecca was slightly surprised to discover that a man who had been so open to flirting with her also had his own girlfriend waiting for him at home. She would have been more apt to judge him for his behavior, but she was being at the very least just as flirty, so she could not call the kettle black, and it was harmless and fun, so who could get upset?
Rebecca had to match Jude's flirtiness so things felt balanced, prompting her to reply with, "Ah, sae if you asked me to bring mine, Ah'm assuming you'd share yours?" There' the ball was in his court now!
Rebecca was curious about why his girlfriend was a danger to mutants, since she was part of that collective. She was also still curious about the reason for Jude's glasses. "Sae is she dangerous tae you? An' what dae those eyes of yours really dae?"
After ordering herself a peach gelato, Rebecca noticed Jude had only asked for a sample. Assuming the man left his wallet at home, she added a butter cream gelato to her order and brought it to the table. Handing it to him, she mused, "Here, now Ah guess Ah'm the 'boy' for this date," making jest of typical gender roles.
Would Jude share Svetty? "I don't sink she would be shared." Had he dodged the question? Yes. Yes, he had. But Jude had never seen Svetty go around macking on girls. "I could ask her if you like..." And he might just have to ask. For posterity's sake and all.
"Dangerous to me just like everybody else. She can't help it. It's in her nature." He grinned. "Besides. In zis case, I like ze danger."
As for the glasses, "Right now, I see ze future. It's my job. I work at an oracle's shop."
> "Here, now Ah guess Ah'm the 'boy' for this date"
She joked, but now wasn't he obligated to her? "You buy me dinner, don't I owe you a kiss?" Even without direct eye contact, the slight lilt to his eyebrows made it clear he might be up for a trade.
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It was obvious that the Frenchman was joking about bringing the two couples together, so it did not feel too dangerous to play along for humor's sake. "You are more than welcome to ask." She plunged her spoon into the gelato, scooping up the peach treat into her mouth, her tongue cleaning away the sweet, tangy gelato until an empty spoon left her lips. "All depends on how much you like the idea," she taunted.
The mention of Jude working as an Oracle triggered a sparkly-eyed admiration from Rebecca. The idea of being able to peer into the future was tantalizing... her life had changed so much in half a year, who knew what her future might look like? "That's amazing! Maybe you could read my palm, or whatever it is you fortune tellers dae." She made the comment jokingly, but Rebecca was just hiding her interest in calling on his services.
>> "You buy me dinner, don't I owe you a kiss?"
Rebecca choked on a second spoonful of peach. Talk about calling a bluff-- Rebecca was fine with aimless flirting, but tossing out the word kiss triggered her "shy and embarrassed" mechanism. Her cheeks illuminated, she did her best to stammer out a reply. "Um, l-like on th' lips? That's p-p-probably nae g-gorna please that lassie of yours, r-right?" What if he was one of those-- what where they called? Slingers? Stingers? Swingers! Right, what if he was a swinger? Rebecca ate another spoonful of her treat, her lips clamped around the spoon as an anti-kiss obstacle.
Rebecca sure knew how to use a spoon. To keep himself from going completely slack-jawed, Jude dove into his own treat.
Her stutter was absolutely divine.
"On ze lips?" Jude moved his hand out to cover Rebecca's. His mutation strained at its reigns since he was touching another mutant. It was eager, even for such an unknown gift.
"My darling Svetty would not allow such a trespass. But, perhaps..." He drew Rebecca forward in her seat by her hand and leaned forward himself until their faces were less than a foot apart, spoon defense or no. Rather than close that final distance, Jude brought the red-head's hand between their faces and to his lips.
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Jude's sentence trailed off and in no time at all, he was bridging the gap between them. Did he not see her spoon defense?! Rebecca could feel her face heating up; if she wore glasses, they would be fogging up.
Rebecca could feel herself flat-lining, with her heart only resuming regular activity when her hand was pulled up and met his lips in place of hers.
Rebecca took a deep breath, her spoon finally permitted to leave her lips. That was totally fine, right? It was a harmless kiss on the hand. It was honorable and knight-like, and no one could be upset by that if they saw it happen, (at the correct angle at least.) "Oh," she managed to say, smiling and doing her best not to swoon at the chivalrous gesture.
She might have come up with an explanation to save him. (From herself). It could have been a business meeting, or a burnt finger, mutation exchange maybe, or something equally harmless and explainable, but it clearly wasn't, judging from her reaction, which Sveta could see just fine from outside, through the window. Gelato shop indeed.
High heels clicking on tiles, the blonde marched into the shop like a queen, grocery bags deposited at the nearby empty table before she stood, right behind the red-haired little b..., her gloved arms folded over her chest.
Waiting for Jude to notice her. She sure as hell was not going to ruin the moment.
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"Now we're even." He grinned, quite pleased with himself for finding a compromise that still managed to make the girl blush.
Click, click, click.
A shadow loomed over their table and Jude let go of Rebecca's hand. It may not have been a real shadow, but the oppressive black feeling was the same. He turned in slow motion to see Muse looming over him; arms crossed, mouth tight, and the stink eye. She was maaaaaad.
"Oh darling, we were just talking about you." He tried to be nonchalant, cavalier and cool as cucumber gelato while he shifted in his seat to make room for the blonde. Inside, his guts were tying up in knots and he was mere moments away from begging her forgiveness. That look in her eyes put the fear in him.
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Rebecca thought nothing of blonde woman walking toward the table until she stopped dead behind Jude. When her hand was quickly released and Jude turned to face her, it became very clear who the woman was. It would be Rebecca's luck that Jude's girlfriend would happen across them in the biggest city on Earth.
Jude seemed to handle himself well, which was good, and Rebecca would have loved to be the type of person who could rise to that challenge with grace and dignity as well. "Um, oh! You must be Svety?" That was what Jude called her, right? "It's um, nice tae meet you!"
Rebecca stood from her seat, pushing the chair back with a grinding sound as the feet of the chair ground against the pavement. She offered a hand to the woman to shake, which was ironically the same hand now carrying traces of Jude's lips. "You're very pretty, and Ah totally would have shared you." WHY WOULD YOU SAY THAT? "Ah mean Ah can see why Jude offered!" Rebecca froze up, clearly a victim of terminal word-vomit.
Of course they were. At least he was gentleman enough to tell the redhead he was taken, before he started kissing her hand. Which meant she went along with it. What a...
>>"Um, oh! You must be Svety? It's um, nice tae meet you!"
She offered a hand. Sveta looked at the hand. There were so many reasons why she was not going to touch it.
>>"You're very pretty, and Ah totally would have shared you. Ah mean Ah can see why Jude offered!"
Sveta's jaw dropped in disbelief quickly escalating into rage.
"Excuse me?..." she looked between the two of them. Did she just walk in on her boyfriend negotiating a threesome with a strange woman?... And she thought mutations were unexpected.
She glared at the both of them.
"No one. Is sharing me. With anyone."
With that, she turned on one heel, and marched towards the door, grocery bags be damned.
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And it just. Kept. Happening. The hole opening up under Jude's feet was getting deeper and deeper by the minute.
Once it was over and Sveltana had stomped away, somehow an 'I told you so' about Svetty not wanting to be shared seemed... inappropriate.
"So much for harmless." He smiled to Rebecca, but his heart just wasn't in it. His first and only love had just stomped out in heels. Jude put his face in his hands and pushed up and back while he thought.
No. No time for thinking. Chasing. Girls wanted to be chased.
He scampered out of his seat and out the door like something bit him.
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Apparently, she made things very worse. Svety seemed very displeased, as she probably had a right to be; to her, it seemed like her boyfriend was either cheating on her or trying to arrange something more elicit behind her back.
Jude got up to go after her, but Jude was not as quick and nimble as the soccer-playing X-Man. Rebecca jumped out of her seat and chased after Svety, wanting to fix her own faux pas.
Rebecca was walking quickly behind the girlfriend scorned, trying to piece together an explanation. Rebecca was filled with new energy, assuming it was just an adrenaline boost, making no connection between the energy and Svety's presence. "Ah'm sorry, this is misunderstanding! --Jist a joke! He was teasing me coz--
"Ah hae a GIRLFRIEND!" Rebecca tried to place a hand on Svety's shoulder to slow her down. The moment she came into contact with Svety's shirt, a shiver ran down Rebecca's spine, and all the silverware, chairs and tables in the room shuddered along with her. Rebecca pulled her hand back, eyes widened; what was Svety's power?
She was aware of running feet behind her as she stormed towards the door, and ignored the looks their little drama scene got from the other patrons of the gelato shop. Like hell she was going to stop and talk. Jude could run till he choked, and of the girl even dared to chase her...
>>"Ah'm sorry, this is misunderstanding! --Jist a joke! He was teasing me coz-- Ah hae a GIRLFRIEND!"
There was a hand on her shoulder, and then things started to rattle. Sveta swung around, knocking the hand off her shoulder with his arm.
"Do NOT touch me, idiot!" she snapped at the girl who seemed confused at the effect the touch had on her. So on top of everything else, she was also a mutant. She glared at Jude over her shoulder. "Moron. You didn't tell her did you."
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Two steps behind Rebecca, Jude saw it happen in slow motion. If this were a Jackie Chan flick, powder would have risen from Sevtty's shoulder where Rebecca touched it. And then, of course Svetty would have turned around with a HIYA and a chop and toe kick and then boards would start breaking and the dishes would... rattle.
> "Moron. You didn't tell her did you."
"I told her you were dangerous for mutants especially." Mistress. Madam. My Queen. All of those seemed a bit too grovel-ly so he discarded them before they came out of his mouth and instead put his hand on Rebecca's shoulder and guided her back.
Yes. Because exactly what they needed right now was Jude touching the other woman some more.
He let Rebecca go. Hot potato. "I didn't sink you wanted me to advertise exactly... everysing." You know... in case of kidnappers within earshot?