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.
"How'd it go? Sounded like yall were having fun?" "It was awesome!" the teenager chimed in, tail swishing back and forth in excitement "I got to be the monster in the woods and she was all 'please help' me, and..." the sentence was cut off by a glare from the mother, and the boy snapped his mouth shut, embarrassed. Lily chuckled and flexed her fingers as she retracted the silver from her hand. "They are patrolling in pairs" she said "We got four of them, I doubt there would be more nearby. I think they are low on manpower." The teenager looked like he badly wanted to say something, and Lily grinned at him before turning back to Shawn. "He was great help. And very menacing. They never expected the damsel in distress to be dangerous until they were out." She handed the coat back to its owner, and put on her sweater. "So, what do we do about the tower?..."
Lily shook her head as she picked up another knife - they barely had any edge and if they'd happened to stab someone with a kinfe like that, it would have curled up, totally harmless. Still, the guards were staring at them all the same. "I'm fine, they didn't hurt me." Much. Besides the pushing-around and a couple of slaps to show who's boss when she was captured. Nothing to leave a permanent mark. "So, what's it with the bracelet and the special treatment?" she asked, gancing at Alex as they worked "Are you in trouble?..." Yeah. All of us are. "... And what's the plan? We wait and try to survive?..." That sounded like a very reasonable plan. Survive, wait, and hope the other were out there trying to find a way in. They had more chance than the ladies with the shock collars/bracelet trying to find their way out...
"Alright fine. You take the kid and I'll take the group... What's your idea?" Jewel almost flashed a triumphant smile... the only problem was she was too occupied with her new plan to feel any triumph at all. She decided to wait and see how they survive the night, and celebrate later. The fact that Streak accepted her decision and respected her opinion gave her more confidence. "Trust me. You are better off not knowing." she sighed "I'll meet you before the tower. Don't go in until we arrive." she thought for a moment, then "And whatever you hear, don't come for us. We might need to put on a little show." I'll be fine. Turning away from him, Lily motioned to the teenager to follow her, and together they walked away from the group, crossing the ditch at a place where the bushes created some kind of a cover. A few moments later they both disappeared among the shadows of the forest.
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'Bless dentists for amalgam fillings.' 'What?' 'Never mind.' 'You've got them?' 'Yes. Now, listen to me. I'll go ahead. You stay back, and do not show yourself, understand?' 'What do do then?' 'Make noise. Let them know you are dangerous. Howl, or whatever. Just make sure they can't see you. And keep moving. All the time. Can you do that?' 'Yes ma'am.' 'Good. Be careful. You mom's gonna kill me is you get hurt... oh, don't grin at me like that. Let's go.' ... "HELP!!!"
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Fifteen minutes later Jewel and the teenager arrived to the watchtower, unhurt and looking for the rest of the group. Her arms were still covered in silver, and he was pacing back and forth with a newfound energy. His eyes glowed in the dark, silently repeating 'Did you see that? Did you see that?' over and over again.
"I don't think you should go." Lily sighed. "I know you don't. I'm still doing it." she looked up at him, hands on her hips "Listen, Streak, if it was just us, I would let you handle it. But on this mission our priority is to keep them" she nodded towards the group "safe. You know I am not strong enough to protect them. Heck I can hardly protect myself. It's the bigger responsibility. They need you." Glancing back at the teenager again, she considered their options for a moment. She was not happy about the fighting, or the idea of being the distraction, but she'd always followed logic, and this was the only logical solution. It didn't matter if the distraction failed as long as she managed to buy some time. "On the other hand, if I do the distraction, I might not even have to fight at all" she said as she turned back to him "I think I've got an idea." Her jacket was already off; the glowing baby was wrapped safely in it. Now she proceeded to take off her sweater too, which left her in a tank top and the silver she pulled from Streak earlier and now wore as a fourth layer of clothing over her chest and shoulders. She still shivered in the cold. Walking over to the group in no time she traded the sweater for a coat, a much more ragged one than her own, and returned to Streak, adjusting her outfit and retracting the silver under it. "Besides, you can bust me out of anywhere. If it's up to me to save you, that's when we're in trouble." she added with a smirk. She was only half joking. Or half serious.
“I think I’m rubbing off on you." Lily returned his half smile with her own. "You wish, cowboy. This is all me." What he said made sense though. She listened to his plans, glancing back and forth between the forest, the group and the tower, measuring the distance as well as she could in the moonlight. “I don’t think we can get a distraction off…unless...” He was right, Lily did not think it was a good idea. Then again, it was not bad either. She was silent for a few moments before she shook her head. "No. That won't do. I can't protect all of them alone." she pointed out, without looking up at him "But you can." she looked around to see the teenager's glowing eyes glancing their was from the group "So I'll take him, you take them, and we meet before the tower." she finally turned back to him "I'm a better distraction than you are anyway. And I can take care of one teenager." she added with a smirk.
Lily frowned, glancing back at the group of people, then forward into the forest and the tower on top of the hill. It was partly covered by trees. "Once we are in the forest, we cross or we give up. I doubt we could make it back this way. Not with them anyway" she murmured, nodding towards the group "You are right, they probably have people patrolling along the border. And let's hope they didn't put landmines down yet." This whole situation did not look as good as it did on the maps. Romania was serious about the mutant issue. It won't be easy to sneak out. Or sneak back in. "Do you think we could create some kind of distraction?" she looked at him "If they have towers like this all along the border, I doubt many people can be in them at once. It's not that big either. And if some of them are out on patrol..." She trailed off, looking at the shadows among the trees again, and a glint of an idea crossed her mind. She frowned at herself. She never expected her own mind would come up with something like that. She hated fighting. But she was in it now, ready or not. She turned back to Shawn. "You know what I mean?"
The search for stairs leading down and/or trap doors did not bring any results, and after walking all over the place, Lily let out a frustrated sigh and leaned against the pool table. "I wish we could just knock." she frowned "But I don't think they'd come out that easy... as far as I can tell, they are all huddled up, and farther away from us than before. We walked all over this place, and still no way down. How on earth... Hey." She looked at Streak. She looked at Kasumi. No way. Why hasn't she thought about that sooner? She started pacing again, staring at the floor; she did not expect to find anything now, she just needed to make sure she didn't miss something more... obvious. Finally she stopped, looking at the others. "I think we forgot to add to the equation the fact that we are dealing with mutants." she said, almost amused "What if there is no way down?..." Then, of course, someone in that group downstairs would have an ability to make the impossible possible. At least for a couple of people.
Walking in the cornfield felt safer than out in the open, but it was much harder too, and Lily found herself making extra effort to keep everyone within sight. Finally she gave up and let her sixth sense work instead, walking at the end of the row and monitoring everyone by their bracelets. Streak, of course, was a shining beacon at the front. She didn't worry about the noise as much as she worried about the other signals she got from ahead. She kept her thoughts and what she gathered to herself till they reached the other end of the field. No sign of a farmer, no house, no lights, not even as much as a dog barking. Whoever the cornfield belonged to did not live nearby. The field met a row of bushes and a ditch, and on the other side there were trees again, and a hill that stood out against the night sky. As soon as she saw the view opening up she darted forward, weaving her way between people to get to Shawn. "It's a tower." she whispered to him "Ahead of us, that way. If I have to guess I'd say it's on top of that hill. We are close." she added "They need to be in... shooting range from the border."
"Man I'm glad I brought you along." Jewel sighed "Don't be glad yet, I don't sense much unless we get lucky." She was glad she could help, but every time she thought about it she was well aware of the limits of her powers. Precious metals and gemstones were not that common. Shawn took a minute to talk to the teenager. He took the same approach she did earlier; the kid seemed like he understood he was important, and nodded in agreement to everything Streak said, but Jewel suspected feeling important wouldn't exactly make him pace less. Even she knew teenagers were like that. "If we get closer to whatever it is, or it gets closer to us, will you be able to tell if its a watchtower or a patrol or not." "If it moves in a small range it's someone in a watchtower. If it moves in a line, it's a patrol. If we get closer I'll be able to tell. But I can only sense people who have something on them I can work with." she reminded him. "We need to move as fast as we can right now becuase we're going to be going into an open area. There's a full moon out, which means that we'll be showing shadows and it migt attract attention. Get ready." Lily looked at the group of people. They all seemed ready. Taking off her jacket, she handed it to the mother who was carrying the glowing toddler. "Wrap her up. The less light the better." "On the count of three we're going. One... Two... Three." They moved as one. The instincts to survive were working in everyone in the group; they stayed together, moved as fast as they could, and made almost no sound. The teenager stayed close to Shawn, taking the lead, glancing back from time to time to make sure everyone was following. Jewel's heart was beating crazy fast, but she still didn't sense anything coming closer, and that gave her a feeling of safety. Probably false. The reached the cornfield without trouble, which counted as a minor miracle. They stopped for a moment, people catching their breath. Jewel sighed and touched Shawn's shoulder. "It's still ahead of us. It's going to be a watchtower or something of the sort."
”That’s fine Shin, I’ll stay where I am. Just don’t open your eyes.” So Shin could still see, the collar just didn't want him to. That was... well, not a relief, but the lesser kind of bad. Jewel turned her attention back to the guards, who were busy exchanging meaningful glances, considering her request. "Let's go miss." one of them nodded to her with a grin. She suspected not many female prisoners asked for an escort in the camps. At least none in their right mind. ”Be careful.” She nodded to Tarin as she walked out the door. "I will. You make sure he stays put." Of course she would be careful. As careful as she could be after asking two camp guards to follow her around. Are you out of your mind, Lily dear?! It was not like she didn't know what she'd done. She was well aware of it. She was also scared, really scared. The guards walked on each side of her, exchanging glances as they went. One had his hand on her shoulder, that was staring to creep lower on her back. Jewel shuddered and hung her head to avoid his gaze. Once they were out in the open, there was less to be afraid of. A little bit. She'd never wanted to get back to kitchen duty as bad as she wanted now.
“Let’s do something before we attract the guard’s attention.” Lily nodded, and picked up another plate, handing it to Alex before she took one for herself, and started walking over to the bowl, fast enough to look natural, but slow enough to give them some time to speak. “I got captured when the Resistance bombed the Senate. I don’t know who got captured… I was knocked unconscious. I … just hope that it was only me.” Lily hoped so too. Because if someone as strong as Alex got captured, and the others didn't make it either... well, frankly, they didn't have much chance getting out of the camp anytime soon. “How the hell did you and Kaz get captured?” Lily frowned, putting the plate down onto a nearby table and proceeding to go and stir the 'food' in the bowl. "He turned himself in." she murmured "Just kinda forgot to warn us. So I tired to help him when they came for him... and got caught in the crossfire. Pretty dumb, huh."
”Try to keep a serious face, you are the muscle after all.” Lily's lips twitched, and almost ruined the whole 'straight face' thing. Muscle? Really? Boy was Sam good at bluffing. If he can make a bunch of head hunters believe that the fragile girl beside him is someone to be scared of... She did her best to look menacing. It turned out more like 'I'm such a bitch I could kill you if I wanted to, and I wouldn't think twice', but as far as the overall effect went, it worked just as well. Together with the gold in her hands, Sam managed to have their full attention now. "Unlike the law as you had so bluntly put it has limits to pay, we do not, the very earth provides our wealth as you can see” None of them called the bluff yet. Good. Very good. Jewel was glad they happened to find the hunters on a spot where she could reach gold in the ground and work it to the surface - at most places she couldn't have pulled it off. Of course, they had other sources, if needed. Even though Shawn would probably not be happy about being the team's mobile silver supply. The hunters hesitated for a moment; they were not thrilled about working for mutants, but the display of powers together with the offered payment seemed to tip the scale towards the X-men cause. The leader slowly nodded to Sam, finding it hard to take his eyes off the gold. "Tell me more." Lily bit back a smile. Even though her role in this operation was a bluff, she suddenly felt very powerful. It was a good feeling.
Shin stirred, and for a moment Lily hoped he was feeling better. He clearly wasn't. The collar was activated once again by whatever was happening to him, and Tarin was by his side in a split second. Lily followed him. ”You can’t see, or you can’t open your eyes without getting shocked? Which is it Shin?” "Take it easy" she said, kneeling down next to the bed, placing a light hand over his eyes "Don't open your eyes, Shin. It's all right, we're here. We're going to take care of you." Two guards stopped in the doorway, blocking the light; Lily turned to see. Clearly, seeing three mutants in here during daytime, two men and one girl none the less, peaked their interest. Or they heard about Shin already. "Problem here?" Placing a hand on Tarin's shoulder, Lily stood and walked over to the guards. "No sir. The kid can't turn his powers off, so his collar is acting up. That's all." There was no need to ask, or beg, or accuse. She didn't want to make a scene - that was all the guards were waiting for, all the time. Besides, their English was bad, to say the least.They grinned as she spoke; one of them glanced over her shoulder at Shin, and muttered 'looser', or something like that. Lily stepped back, out of arm's reach, just in case. "Maybe we can take care of him." the guard grinned, and Lily suddenly felt sick. There was no way she was going to let them get to Shin. Just not happening. "No need, sir. He's out. He can't make any trouble. Don't waste your time." She bit her lip. If they decided to move - either to Shin, or to her - there was really nothing she could do to stop them. They glanced at each other, then at Tarin and Shin again, and took a half step forward. Dammit. "I have to go back to work" Lily said, taking a step forward too "They are expecting me in the kitchen. Would you escort me there, please?"
Lily winced as Zephyr used her powers to shoot coins at her... erm, his boss. That just didn't seem right, on so many levels. "So, you figured out my abilities" she observed. Or someone else enlightened him. Either way, he was not half bad using them. Lily never thought about shooting stuff at people before. "What, precisely, have you been doing with my body?" Jewel raised an eyebrow. What does he think she's been doing?... "Well, let's see. I escorted your boss to an auction to purchase some weapon of mass destruction, got attacked by the good guys, got hit on by some women who scared the heck out of me, and probably killed someone as well." Or Slate killed her. The details were a little bit foggy on that. "I do hope this is a normal day in your life, because it sure is not in mine." she sighed "So. What have you been doing with my body?" Do I even want to know?...
