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.
Normally Allegra would have gritted when Chief tussled her hair like that, but Allegra understood that it was just a friendly gesture. Allegra may have done and said some really stupid things, but the security officer didn't seem to hold it against her.
"Well, goodnight," Allegra said. "Sorry if I was kind of a pain. See you in detention, I guess."
She waved good-bye to Jack then trudged back to her room. She looked in the mirror and saw how awful she looked. Even worse, her dress and shoes were trashed. Not only that, but she missed a night out with her friends and lost a friend in Lilly. Well, actually Lilly was never a friend to begin with. Her other friends at the club probably weren't either.
She took a last look at the selfie she took with Jack. Maybe it was possible to be friends with someone like that. She had recently made friends with nerds, mutants and freaks. And those folks were actually pretty cool.
The night may have been a total waste, but Jack had given Allegra some useful advice about fitting in at this new school and at life in general.
Allegra crashed on her bed and fell fast asleep. It was the best night's sleep she had gotten since she arrived here.
What a fun character. It's realistic that she'd be considered odd for talking to animals while she sees it perfectly natural. Wish I could hear the news from the birds and squirrels too. (-:
Deep breaths. Deep breaths. Everything's going to be just fine. Don't scream again. Deep breaths. Pretend that's not blood trickling down your chest.
Come to think of it, screaming seemed like a perfect appropriate response.
Instead of drawing attention to herself, Allegra just focused on Charlie's voice. Allegra was lucky she was with her. Charlie seemed like the most caring, sympathetic person ever.
"Okay," Allegra sighed. "But we can't just leave without my phone. They'll be able to connect it to me and then they'll be able to figure out that I'm a mutant and they'll blame me for maiming and almost killing that ogre guy which, by the way, is my fault."
Allegra watched as security was called to the site. An ambulance had already arrived which was a good sign. It meant the guy probably wasn't dead.
"How am I going to get my phone back?" Allegra asked. "I am so screwed."
So sorry I didn't announce my absence. I didn't really plan to be gone, but one thing after another happened. My apologies to anyone I left hanging.
I see there's lots of awesome new characters and some strange new AV-verse looking new C-box. So I'm slowly starting to get back in the swing of things posting and checking out all the new developments.
"You're always scared?" Allegra asked. "If I looked like you, I wouldn't be scared of anything." Then she thought about it. It was obvious that Jack was a mutant and would always be a target. Even though Allegra was a mutant, she could easily blend in and had just taken that for granted. Jack didn't have that luxury.
Allegra yawned. Her adrenaline rush was wearing off and sleep was calling to her.
"I'm really sorry for everything," she said. She wanted to prove to Jack that she was trying to be accepting of mutants. Spur of the moment, she ran over to Jack and took a selfie of the both of them.
"I'm sending this picture of us together to my friends at the club to show I'm all mutant rights," Allegra said. After she hit send, it hit her how wrong this actually was. She hadn't asked Jack's permission and she really should not have used Jack as a knee jerk statement like that. Jack was a person with feelings, not a mutant accessory that Allegra could use to make a point.
Allegra just stared down at the floor in shame. She really had no clue how to interact with mutants and it seemed that everything she did just made things worse.
Poor Andy. How could she let this happen to him? Allegra wanted to give him her full attention but first she had to catch the dog. Allegra had already broke the rules by not letting the staff know she was bringing the chihuahua into the mansion. What if he bit someone else. Oh my god! What if the dog had rabies or something and Andy was infected? Allegra wanted to do the right thing but she really screwed up.
She raced down the hall then turned right where she saw the dog run. She didn't see the dog down that hallway but her eyes spotted a half opened door with no one in the room. She figured the dog had pushed it open and ran in.
"Jay, it's okay," she said calmly. She didn't know if the dog was really named Jay but she had to call him something. "Sweetie, no one is going to hurt you."
Allegra knelt down and saw the chihuahua hiding under the bed. She wished she had brought some beef jerky or something to coax him out from hiding.
"Hey, it's gonna be okay. It's just me," she said softly. "Why don't you come out from under there and I'll get you a yummy treat. How's that sound?"
"Homework?" Allegra asked. That sucked but it was better than the alternative. They could just have easily made the people in detention do other work in addition to homework. She'd have to do homework anyway so she may as well do it in detention so she'd have more free time some other time. It was really all a wash.
"Dey don't sound like great s'riends,"
"Hey, you don't even know my friends!" Allegra shot back. "Where do you get off being all judgy like that." She sighed. "Well, maybe some of them aren't that great. I don't really like most of the girls I was sneaking out tonight to see."
The prawn was motioning for her to leave and it was pretty obvious Jack wanted Allegra to go to bed. But Jack said something that pretty much blew Allegra's mind.
"Got it all wrong, kid. I's got a good network uzz s'riends. Nost solks who don't gizz nee duh tine uzz day, dey aren't worse ny tine."
"Wait, youhave friends?" Allegra asked. Well, that didn't come out so well, did it.
"I'm sorry. That sounded kind of bad," she said. "But honestly, how does someone like you have friends?"
Open mouth, insert foot. That sounded even worse.
"I mean, how do you do it?" Allegra asked. "You have to admit that you don't look like everyone else right?" she asked. "So how do you go about making friends that actually care about you? And how do you not care what other people think? I gained a couple pounds and I was afraid to walk out of my room afraid what people were going to say. Sometimes I'm afraid to speak up because I'm worried people would think what I've said was stupid. I've always been like that. I guess because my mom always put me down and told me I wasn't good enough. My entire life that's all I heard so I started to believe it."
Allegra looked up at what passed for Jack's eyes. "How do you do it?" she asked sincerely. "How can you be so confident that you can be comfortable in your own skin even when people are talking about you or, in your case, even afraid of you? I've never been able to do that."
The problem with taking risks and just going for it was that you might just fail miserably. The idea of seizing the day was terribly romantic but acting all sexy and flirty while the guy just laughs at you isn't.
Allegra had so many body image issues that she immediately regretted her soft strip tease. Thankfully he seemed to be truly turned on. At least that's what Allegra thought.
“You’re the prettiest girl here,”
"Really?" Allegra blushed. "Thank you." God, he was really into her! Allegra was near breathless. She had worried so long about being rejected and here was this truly nice (not to mention incredibly sexy hot) guy that liked her.
She wondered why he was glancing over at the lifeguard. Then she got what she thought was the answer. Without warning, he turned and ran for the ocean.
What was up with that? Maybe she turned him on so much that he just couldn't control it. Yes, that had to be it. Allegra thought it was actually kind of cute.
She ran after him but he was lost in the sea. She was a good swimmer but she certainly couldn't keep up with him.
She stood there and soon he returned. "Hey show off!" she said.
"The water's great!"
Allegra dipped her toe in the water. It was a little cold but she didn't want him to think she was a wimp or anything so she walked right in.
"You know that was really impressive," she said. She walked over to him and put her arms around his back. "You think you could take me out there too?" she asked.
'Jay' was such a cute little puppy. Allegra was halfway hoping they wouldn't be able to locate the owners so she could keep him. He was a little scared (which was understandable) then CHOMP!
"Oh my god. Andy, are you okay?" Allegra said. Great. She couldn't believe she actually had a totally smoking hot guy on her bed. And how do you impress him? Let him get bitten by a dog that, for all you know, has rabies.
Allegra grabbed one of her shirts and wrapped it around Andy's hand. "Here, keep your hand elevated," she said. "I'm gonna get you some Neosporin so it doesn't get infected. Just keep your hand elevated. I am so sorry."
She looked into his beautiful brown eyes and hoped he would forgive him. But first, she had to catch the dog. If it did have rabies they would need to know. Plus, Allegra would get into some major trouble for bringing him into the mansion without letting one of the staff know.
"I've gotta catch him but I'll be back and I'll make everything alright." Spontaneously she kissed his hand. "I'll make it all better. I promise."
She ran out into the hall not knowing whether Andy would follow her or not. "Bad dog! Come back here right now!"
Allegra grabbed a water as well and dug into the bag of tiny carrot. "Oh, I think I've been vegan for about three or four years," she said. "I started on it to lose weight but I can't see any reason to make animals suffer if there's plenty of other stuff to eat that's yummy." She was relieved that Andy didn't have a problem with her veganism or her not drinking.
She turned towards Andy so she could ask him a question to learn more about him but he had other ideas.
“Yeah, who wouldn’t? Ready to go in the water now?”
"Sure, why not?" Allegra said. Oh god! Had she said something wrong? She was hoping for more of a chance to just talk but he seemed eager to jump in the water. Or maybe he just wanted to get away from her. This was her first real date and she felt like she was blowing it.
Her best friend, Emma, would tell her to act confident even if you didn't feel it. That was the best way to get rid of self defeating thoughts that might not even be true. So Allegra stood up and slowly pulled her shirt over her head hoping to tease Andy. She then slowly slid her shorts off then slid her shorts off revealing her skimp turquoise bikini underneath. It was an exact copy of one she had seen Kendall Jenner wear and Allegra hoped it looked halfway as good on her as it did on the model.
"So what do you think?" she asked while flashing a smile and a flirting wink.
Jack didn't say much but that was probably for the best. 'He' was all business but Allegra got the feeling that 'he' might actually have a heart under that carapace. Or maybe she was just hoping for a friend right now.
The guy behind the desk passed her the detention slip. "So if I don't sign this, I don't have to do detention?" she asked after she signed it. She really wasn't looking for an answer to that question. She was just curious why she was signing it to begin with. Honestly she was ready for whatever punishment they felt like giving her. She was too tired to fight it.
"I've never had detention in my entire life," Allegra said. "Am I supposed to bring anything or do anything? Is there like a dress code?"
She was sure that it would be awful whatever it was. She sighed and turned to Jack.
"I'm not a bad person," she repeated for the umpteenth time. "And I don't hate mutants or anything like that. In fact, I tried standing up for a mutant at the beach. My friends were making fun of her so I defended her. But then they made fun of me too. And the mutant girl and I really didn't have anything in common so I just left a couple minutes later. I don't think I really fit in with mutants, you know?"
Allegra looked at Jack. "I'm sure you're a nice guy but it would just be weird if someone like you went to the beach or went shopping with my crew back home. And if I tried to be friends with someone like you, they would just make fun of me and cut me out. Then I'd be more lonely than I feel right now."
She yawned obviously exhausted. "I hope you don't think I'm being mean or anything," she said. "I'm not a bad person and I don't hate mutants. I said that before, didn't I? But it's true. It's just that my whole life went to hell since I came here. I don't fit in and I think everyone knows it and they hate me."
Allegra looked ready to cry. This whole night had been emotionally exhausting bringing out the teenage drama queen in her. She tried to calm herself.
"I bet it's hard for you too, huh?" she asked Jack sincerely. "No one else looks like you. And I bet people are afraid of you when they first see you. Isn't that really lonely?"
Allegra slumped down on the table. Exhausted and scared didn’t even begin to cover it. And did she hear a man scream? She hadn’t looked behind her to see what was going on. She just kept running and running and running.
“Are you…...alright?” she finally managed the strength to ask. “My god, was that even real? That was the worst experience of my life.”
“Oh my god!” she cried. “What if they saw that I did that with my powers? Do you think they got it on camera? And even if they didn’t, our things are still there. We have to get my phone and our things back. They can track us down and arrest us. Or maybe they will kill us. I don’t want them to kill us.”
After a few deep breaths Allegra tried to calm herself. “Okay, I do this exercise in yoga all the time. It’ll help me calm down. Think clearly. Think rationally. Plan this out.”
Just then Allegra felt a sickening wet feeling on her arm and shoulder. The red confetti in her hair and on her dress had turned back to blood. It had taken a little longer than normal since she was away from the man that shed the blood but when Allegra stopped paying attention, her power wore off. That meant the ogre was flesh and blood and, well, so was the blood. The red goo was dripping down through Allegra’s blonde hair and soaking her dress.
Allegra completely gave up on being calm. She screamed. Very loudly.
"Oh my....." Allegra gasped. She hadn't expected the boy she had been crushing on to just walk into her room. What was he doing in the girls' wing anyway. 'He obviously wanted to see you, dummy!' Allegra told herself, but that just made her more nervous. Now she had to be worth seeing which was hard when she was a nervous wreck.
"Oh my god! I'm sorry. My room is a disaster area," Allegra said. It was somewhat true. Her dorm room at Xavier's was about the size of her shoe closet back home so she had all her many belongings piled up haphazardly. She had just started to organize everything. For instance, she had strands of diamond necklaces lying on her dresser; Allegra's latest project. She noticed the Chihuahua noticing them just laying there when she first brought him in. Obviously he couldn't know they were diamonds, so the dog probably just liked sparkly things.
Allegra on the other hand, couldn't help but notice Andy all sweaty and hot in his workout uniform. She averted her eyes so it didn't look like she was staring too much. She wondered if he was checking her out. Thank god she always did her makeup and hair before she went out so she looked somewhat presentable.
"Oh yes. You can pet him," Allegra offered. "He's a little skittish but he doesn't bite."
Allegra didn't know how long she was curled up on the ground reliving awful memories magnified to the point of being traumatic. It seemed endless, but it had probably just been a few seconds. She would have spent an even longer seeming eternity if Charlie hadn't screamed shaking the teen from her daytime nightmares.
Allegra looked up and saw a paper arm floating over her head waving at her. A small flurry of confetti blood sprinkled over her head catching in her hair and sticking to her new dress. Allegra noticed that at the end of the arm there appeared to be a cartoon bone sticking out like the ones she used to draw for the dogs in her pictures when she was a kid. Then the arm just flew away into the sky.
The next thing Allegra knew, Charlie was pulling her up off the ground. Still in shock, Allegra let Charlie pull her away from the nightmare scene.
"Where are we going?" she gasped. It didn't much matter. Allegra wasn't putting up any resistance. She was just letting Charlie pull her to wherever. Allegra's mind was furiously trying to figure out what was real and what wasn't. She tried to remember her last solid memory and it was that awful paper man flittering around in the sky.
"No! No! No! No!" Allegra screamed over and over. She wasn't positive but she was pretty sure that she might have just killed someone with her powers.
