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.
Allegra was fascinated to learn about Derek's near death experience but she was frightened too. She had actually killed her friend. That wasn't something she could just let go. She hugged him tightly. "I promise never to do anything like that again," she said. She was more freaked out about her power than ever.
"Just relax and I'll be right back," Allegra told him.
She made sure Derek was okay then ran to the kitchen.
"You really died?" the blue guy asked again. Like most people, he never knew anyone that had died and come back to life before. "Did you feel anything? Was it creepy or peaceful or anything like that." He nervously twisted the piece of paper with Derek's number that he had given him.
"My name's Doug by the way. Hey, can I ask you something personal?"
“Looking sexy!” Allegra complemented Charlie as she snapped a picture and yet another. Allegra was glad to see that Charlie loved getting her picture taken. It was so awesome to find a selfie-BFF and Allegra planned on taking many to send to Kristii. Allegra’s frenemy was going to see how much fun they were having.
“So your grandma traveled the world, huh?” Allegra commented. “You must’ve gotten your adventurous spirit from her. I doubt she hooked up with that old guy back there, though.”
Allegra listened to Charlie’s assessment of the guy. “Wow. ‘Sometimes it’s hard to come to terms with the fact that you didn’t become the person that you wanted to be.’ That’s great. I’m gonna remember that. It’s so deep.” Charlie did seem so much older and wiser than she obviously was. “But he can’t be too upset, right? His daughter’s got lots of talent. I hope he’s proud of her. My dad doesn’t think anything of me so at least that guy back there’s got family.”
“Okay, let’s check it out then,” Allegra said. “I just hope it’s not one of those stupid performance art things. Bunch of pompous people dancing to nothing to make some kind of statement. Bor-ing!”
As they got closer to the stage, there were confronted by an impossibly 9 foot tall orange skinned mountain of a man.
“Stop right dere,” he commanded. “Yous gotta sign this here waiver before ya can go in. And get yer bags searched?”
“A waiver?” Allegra asked. “So we can dance to no music? Um….no.”
“Of course. Yous never heard’a TJ Psilocybin?”
“Can’t say I’ve ever heard of DJ Psycho or whatever,” Allegra said. “No.”
“Not DJ. TJ,” the ogre explained in the frustrated tone of someone speaking to a child. “TJ. Telepathic DJ. ‘Cept he don’t read minds. He give memories. He taps inta yer brain's memory cells so you remember yer favorite songs."
The ogre gestured over to the dancers. "Dey all silently 'hear' a different song in their minds. Their neurons replay all’a da experiences and emotions connected to dat song. He den heighten those feelings and his mental remixes take the brain to the highest level of euphoria."
“Of course, sometimes someone has a bad trip, ya know,” the ogre cautioned. “Memories is tricky things. Sometimes peoples go to dark places. Heck, dere are dose dat believe in reincarnation and dey remember stuff from past lives. Stuff dey wasn’t able to remember before.” He glanced over at Charlie. “If you believe in dat kinda thing.”
He handed clipboards to the two girls. “So ya sign da waiver or ya scram. As for searching yer bags, ya can’t be too careful. Lotsa people don’t like mootants and dey like mootants dat can get inta yer mind even less.”
Allegra looked over to Charlie. She was a little nervous about this, especially the ‘mootant’ part. She really didn’t trust mutants and she really didn’t want to invite one into her brain. But she was supposed to be spontaneous and fearless today so she’d follow Charlie’s lead.
Allegra grinned thinking about checking out the costumes. This would be such an adventure.
"School is still pretty much the same," Allegra said. "I love my art class and a few of the others but I just can't get used to this school. It just seems really strict. I can't walk out of class when I get bored and they give out too much homework. I actually got detention. It's such a waste of time. I already know what I want to do with my life so why should I waste my time in chemistry class. I cannot wait until I graduate. Your life seems so fun and exciting. You can do whatever you want and meet whoever you want. I just feel like I'm under house arrest. It sucks."
Allegra couldn’t believe it when Jack told her that she didn’t care. At all!
Allegra attended the Beau Lake School for Exceptional Students. Detractors called it the 'Snowflake School for Exceptionally Spoiled Brats' and mentioned that the only exceptional thing about the students was that their parents could afford to send them there. At Allegra’s old school, discipline was considered to be an impediment to the student growing to become the special person they were meant to be. The students’ ideas were held in the highest regard and the staff would never say they didn’t care what a student had to say. Allegra always had a great deal to say and all of it was extremely important.
“I can’t believe you just said that to me,” Allegra protested. The prawn then explained about the rules. “That’s the problem with firm, hard rules,” Allegra said knowingly. “There is no way they could ever cover every situation.” She learned this at her old school. “And I’ve never had detention in my life. Detention detains individuality and self-expression. What am I going to learn just sitting in a room? Absolutely nothing. I would be wasting my time and the staff’s time. I can’t believe the teaching methods at this school are so outdated. Wouldn’t it be better for you to listen to why I broke your rules and use that as a growing experience for both of us?”
As they got to the mansion doors, Jack gave Allegra a look that reminded her of Shark Week. Allegra never liked Shark Week because the sharks were scary. Having an aquatic predator smiling at you was even scarier.
“Okay! Okay!” Allegra relented as she walked into the mansion. “But if you expect my mom to donate to your school, you might want to treat me differently.”
Allegra thought about how Lilly had told her that climbing down the ladder would be a guaranteed way to avoid security. “How did you even catch me?” she asked. “I almost killed myself climbing three stories and running through the forest because I was told I wouldn’t be seen. It’s not fair that you found me!”
As expected, Allegra rolled her eyes at the mention of Dungeons and Dragons. “Now that has got to be the stupidest game ever. First, who would want to go into a slimy stinky dungeon. No one that’s who. So why would anyone want to pretend they're going in a dungeon. These nerds should at least pretend they’re at a party. They might have fun and get a chance to practice their social skills. Instead they’re playing a PRG game in their mom’s basement which is basically a dungeon. Why pretend to be someplace you already are.What’s the point? Then the nerds act all surprised when they see a dragon in the dungeon. Like they never saw that coming. That being the name of the game and everything. Oh and they call it D&D like no one’s gonna know what that stands for. It’s a beautiful day at the beach and these pale kids with pimples aren't outside because they're in the dark pretending to look for dragons. The nerds don’t need some secret code words like D&D. We totally know what their doing.”
Allegra laughed. “Sorry, I’m still trying to figure out the appeal of some of this nerd stuff. I hope I didn't offend you. I’m just glad I have someone who’s not totally geeky explaining it to me. I’ll be your secret nerd and I promise to make you an fabulous fashionista. And yes, you’ll be the first person I thank when I write my first video game. Hey, seriously,how do I sell my great idea to video game companies? If they’re so hard up that they have to steal from some Polish book, they could totally use me.”
“Now what’s that game with the prince I get to marry and then become a queen? Now that sounds like a great idea.”Allegra wasn’t so much about games asking serious moral questions. Find a hot guy. Become a princess. That sounded perfect.
“So why did you get stuck with that witch of a grandmother?” Allegra asked. “What was your mom doing? Or did she just leave? My dad just left us. He didn’t even try to fight my mom when they divorced. He just left everything to her but we never saw him again. So, how did you find Serena? Or did she look for you?”
“I dunno if most of the girls here are straight or not,” she said. “I haven’t been getting out and socializing like I used to back home. Starting at a new school is rough. So we’ll both be each other’s wingwomen and help each other find true love. At the very least, I’ve found an awesome new friend.”
“Sparkle’s three and Chocolate is two. I got them at the shelter when they were puppies,” Allegra answered. “Aren’t they the most adorable creatures ever! I love all animals but dogs are the best. Cats just sulk around and act like they own the place, but doggies are always your friends and they always show how much they love you.”
Allegra looked at the drama club boy. He was cute and he did seem interesting to her. But Alice identified as a nerd so Allegra felt she should choose the nerd. She did a lot of things based on what she thought people wanted her to do. A secret to being popular was to do exactly what everyone else around you did no matter what.
“Nah, I’ll go for the nerd,” she said with a little less enthusiasm in her voice. “So what do I do now?”
"Sparkle, hush!" Allegra shouted. She pointed to where Chocolate was sitting. "Go sit down there. Now!"
Sparkle whimpered and went to sit next to her sister.
"Sorry about that,"Allegra laughed. "She's adorable but she can be a bit of a brat every once in a while. So how old were you when you moved to California? I'm making a trip back home the instant it gets below 60 degrees . You should come with me."
Allegra hoped she wasn't being too forward inviting someone she just met on a trip. She felt Iggy was cute but she was that way with everyone.
"Do you miss home? I mean, either out west or back in Colombia? I've been crazy homesick ever since I got here."
Allegra couldn’t believe she had to face the same consequences as everybody else. This place had an annoying way of stressing this. She wasn’t allowed to have a bigger room. She couldn’t choose not to go to the classes she didn’t like. She had to cook and clean for herself. JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. God, that was so annoying.
Jack was certainly cruel and uncaring. Whatever kind of bug or shrimp she was supposed to be, she was obviously cold blooded. The guard didn’t care about how this was possibly the worst night of Allegra’s whole life. Allegra was going to get written up anyway.
But you really couldn’t argue with a heartless giant shrimp. Allegra sighed dramatically and stood up clutching her poor damaged shoes. She followed Jack back to the mansion but that didn’t mean she couldn’t complain while she did it.
“Look Mr. Security,” she said assuming Jack was male. “I had no way of knowing that I was breaking curfew in the maze. This school should have been more clear about it. I know you guys gave us a booklet with the rules and then you sent us an email with the rules and when I signed up to come here they asked if I understood all the rules, but that’s not really fair. Maybe you guys should put on a musical explaining all the rules. I remember stuff way better if I can hum it.”
“And what does being written up mean exactly?” she asked. “Is it like getting a ticket but the first one’s a warning and I can go? It’s not fair that I get in trouble. My mom knows congressmen and actors and all kinds of people and you do not want to get on her bad side.”
Allegra sighed loudly as they approached the mansion. “My other school wasn’t like this at all,” she explained. “I could discuss things with the school administration and they felt harsh punishment would squash my individuality and lower my self esteem. You don’t want to be responsible for any of that, do you?”
I'm gonna have a really crazy week (both good and bad) so I'm probably not going to have a whole lot of time to post the next week/ two weeks. I'll still try to hop on and post as much as possible but it'll be a little slow going.
Anyone involved in a multi-character thread with Allegra (I think it's just 'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Spa Day') feel free to skip my turn and/or NPC Allegra as needed.
Thanks for your patience all. I hope to be back to posting regularly very soon.
"Weird?" Allegra asked. She was interested now. "Did you see a tunnel of light or angels or anything?"
She saw Derek blushing and grinned. She got an idea that Derek was either going to thank her for or kill her. "Hey, I'm gonna get us more smoothies," she said to the blue skinned mutant. "Do you mind watching over Derek until I come back."
She went to make more but took her time. She came back with two pitchers, extra cups and a lot of curiosity as to how the two boys were hitting it off.
"I'm from Beverly Hills," Allegra answered. She thought about just saying she was from L.A. since some people around her thought she was entitled and snooty, but she decided to just go with the truth. "Where in Cali did you live?"
"Colombia, huh? What brought you to the U.S.?"
The two volleyed for a while until Allegra knocked the ball out of bounds. Sparkle scampered over to the ball and put her paws on it. She yipped loudly to announce that it was now hers.
When Jack grabbed her phone, Allegra was afraid the security guard was going to call someone. Maybe some scary buggy friends. But instead it was a way for her to communicate since Allegra didn't really understand prawn-speak. It was easier to understand, but the flat robotic voice just creeped Allegra out even more. Allegra was evidently in some kind of trouble. She had to think fast.
“I wasn’t breaking curfew. I was lost in the maze,” she insisted. Maybe she could say her face got cut and her dress got ruined while in the maze even though it did seem pretty immaculately maintained. There was no way Allegra would have gotten as scratched up as she was just walking through the maze.
“I never left the mansion grounds so I can’t be breaking curfew, can I?” she argued. Allegra never had a curfew in her life and she wasn’t going to put up with one now. And she sure wasn’t going to be lectured by a giant shrimp with a speech impediment. Who did Jack think she was talking to?
“I also had no intention of leaving the mansion grounds so I did nothing wrong,” Allegra insisted.
At that moment, the charger did it’s job and charged the phone. The last voice mail Allegra received played loud and clear. “Hey, A! This is Rayna. We are having so much fun! Have you snuck out of that freaky school yet? Get over here. I am so wasted!” In the background a bunch of other girls were shouting and encouraging Allegra to join them.
“Um……I can explain that,” the underaged girl said as she shut off her phone. She couldn’t think of anything right now. This seemed pretty incriminating. Lies weren't working very well. Time to try a different tack.
“Look, I ruined my favorite dress,” she pleaded. “And these shoes. Look at them. They're Mui Muis and some of the diamonds fell off. They're ruined! And my face and legs got scratched up. I’d say that’s punishment enough, wouldn’t you? Let’s just call it a night, huh?”
She gave Jack her saddest puppy dog eyes. Only a heartless inhuman monster would punish Allegra after the awful experience she had.
“Oooh! I love that hat! “ Allegra exclaimed. She followed her approval by clicking multiple photos of Charlie and her new acquisition. She then rushed next to her new friend to take a couple selfies. “Gotta send these to Kristii to show her how fabulous we look.”
Charlie seemed ready to leave. If Allegra had her credit cards, she’d be tempted to pick up a few more outfits. Maybe Charlie was afraid of being tempted as well. Or maybe it was that strange old guy. He seemed obsessed with Charlie. Yeah, probably a good idea to get out of there. Allegra accepted the shop owner’s business card and the two skipped away.
“Maybe he knew your grandma or something,” Allegra suggested to Charlie as they walked out. “Do you know if she ever visited the U.S. when she was younger? Or, more likely he was just a creep, huh?”
There were a few more clothing booths set up. Most were selling tacky stuff and generic tie dyes, though a few had some cute things. Allegra liked buying unusual accessories to compliment her designer clothing just to give her style its own individual flair. But Allegra refrained from saying anything. Charlie was kind enough to buy her the dress. Allegra didn’t want the poor woman going bankrupt.
“So what next?” Allegra asked. “Food or should we check out one of the acts?”
Allegra looked over at one of the stages. There was a man in his mid-20s just sitting motionless on the stage. Weren't they supposed to have performers and DJs up there? This guy had the most boring stage presence ever. Down below, the crowd was dancing like crazy even though there was no music whatsoever.
“That looks odd,” Allegra said. “Should we check it out?”
"A music video! I would love to go!" Allegra exclaimed. A second ago she had been chilling but now she was in hyper-excited Allegra mode. "You never told me you had such an awesome friend, Derek."
"Yeah, I could eat. A lot," Allegra said. She was pretty much up for anything at this point.
How bout we follow them see what all the fuss is bout?"
“Let’s go,” Allegra said. She wondered what could be causing such a commotion. Was someone else trying to steal the diamond?
Allegra was glad that Kendra ditched the hat. A floating hat was even less inconspicuous than Allegra’s garish Flower-Gram dress. The hat was much more stylish, of course, but floating hats by their very nature raised suspicions. Whistling ‘These Boots Were Made For Walking’ under her breath, Allegra followed Kendra’s footwear.
“I don’t know if I can flirt my way out of anything,” Allegra whispered. “I’m not that pretty….” She stopped there. This was no time for modesty. She had to be fully focused on what was going on around her.
She expected danger but instead it was something straight out of TMZ. Paparazzi were everywhere. “Who’s that guy?” Allegra asked. She didn’t recognize him and he really didn’t have much of a presence. “Is he some tech geek?” she asked. For all she knew, this was the guy who invented Snapchat. She knew all the hot actors and singers but she was far less familiar with the nerd crowd.
Whoever he was, he was causing a lot of attention so Allegra let that be a distraction and followed Kendra upstairs. She hoped they could stumble on the diamond right away. Sure, that wouldn’t be much of a challenge but this simulation was just too real. Allegra felt like she could be arrested any second and this was certainly not the outfit she wanted to be wearing when they took her mug shot.
Then everything went completely dark. Had they been caught or was this another distraction? When the lights came on they were in an empty room. It was kind of like how he Danger Room appeared before the simulation appeared but brighter.
“That wasn’t me,” Allegra answered Kendra when she asked if she used her powers. “Did the program just shut down? There's no more holograms.“
Wait, if this was the Danger Room’s original setting, then they should be able to see the door. There was no door. They were trapped in a giant white room.
Allegra didn’t even consider that their ‘host’ had them trapped. She was still convinced this was a bug in the program. “What do we do when the program shuts down like this? Can we call for help?”
Sparkle ran back and forth following the ball. She was convinced someone would throw it to her. She wasn't about to jump that high to catch it. She yipped a few times to let Allegra and Iggy know they weren't playing the game correctly. Any game that didn't involve her was not a good game.
Allegra lunged for the ball and was able to hit it over the net. "I'm from California," she answered. "I'm at the beach all the time and there's usually a game going on. I'm really dreading the New York winters. How about you? I'm guessing you're not from the U.S."
