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.
A single metric ton. A tonne. 1000 kilograms. Ion’s eyes widened. That sounded like a lot to Ion, he had a rough understanding of metric and could make a guess at how much that was. It wasn’t his preferred unit for weight but he could envision it.
”Oh. That’s a pretty sizable amount of dirt.” Ion said as he watched Tori lift the top layer off and move it. He was excited to see what she did once she had a clean working surface.
Tori did not disappoint. She had jumped onto the grassless plot of dirt and lifted it with her on it. She used it as her own personal flying platform.
”That has to be the coolest thing I’ve seen all month!” Ion called up to Tori as she flew up above the school. Ion was genuinely impressed by the control Tori had. Ion had nowhere near that level of control. He could only direct his power over an incredibly short distance.
When Tori landed Ion asked the only logical question, ”Can you fly other people?”
Tori led them outside. Ionw was excited by the prospect of seeing an earth bender at work. It was a power that was new to him. Another way that mutants were superior. Tori found a spot she was happy with and went to work. She raised her hands and focused. Ion waited silently, watching. It took a few minutes, but in the end Tori had a sculpture of Lara Croft. It took Ion a moment to realize who it was. He was used to the older design. More triangular in the chest region.
”That’s super cool though. I can’t wait to see what you can do when you work on larger things.” Reshaping the Earth just had a primalness to it. Literally reshaping nature and moving mountains. ”I wish I had that level of control. My power is big and flashy. When I do small things it is glassing or burning.”
Ion thought for a moment then said, ”I have an idea. Can you move… Like, a square of ground, maybe six inches deep and set it on the concrete? That would give you a chunk of ground to work over and do whatever with. Then when your done just stick it all back. No harm done to the ground. Not like it’s a golf course where the grass has to be perfect.”
Two decades of his life? Ion made a so-so gesture with his hand. While he had lost close to two decades, from his perspective its like he didn’t have them in the first place. All he had to show for them was a law degree that he lacked the knowledge to make use of and a lawyers bank account… And a car payment on a luxury electric car.
”More like… I got another shot at youth. I don’t have memories of the time when I was older. From my perspective I just got pushed into the future.”
Tori said they’d have to go outside to see her power. Ion gestured toward the outside and said, ”I got nothing better to be doing. If you’re fine letting someone else take the Xbox for a spin.” Ion said knowing that there would always be someone ready to jump in and keep the system from getting lonely. ”And I can show you what I can really do out there too. The professors frown on me burning though the walls.”
”Oh… Well, I’m only 18, but I was born in the 80s. From my perspective it was the mid 2000s then suddenly it was the 2020s. Somehow I got turned back to my youth, as I was. No memories of my twenties or thirties.” It was still weird for Ion to think about. There being a paper trail for his life leading up to when he was 33 but he didn’t experience it. Had no knowledge of it.
As for Tori she was an earth bender. At first Ion didn’t get the reference, but then it clicked. Avatar, Ion had heard of the show and sequel show. A movie that was in a superposition of existing but not. Ion had not watched it, it came out after his time in the 2000s. ”Oh, so you move around ground?” Ion had never met someone who could move around earth, but he had seen people control water and air so it only made sense. ”I’d actually like to see that.” There were so many fantastic powers that people had at the mansion. Ion loved seeing what people could do. How powerful mutants were compared to regular humans.
The TV going off broke up the watch party. The girl who had been playing on the Xbox sulked and her onlookers wandered off. Maybe to go watch someone play games on the internet. Having found himself over a decade into the future after his old self had been de-aged, Ion didn’t understand the whole ‘watching people play’ thing that had become popular. Hell, to him the Xbox 360 was still the peak of gaming technology.
After getting the TV back on, the girl sulked a little before turning her attention to Ion. She told him not to worry about it.
”In my day, autosaving happened at the worst possible time. Always right before an unskippable cutscene.” Ion said, sounding to himself like some middle aged person.
The girl got up and held her hand out as she introduced herself. Ion looked at the hand for a moment before he shook it. A moment before he’d had a corona and now she wanted to make contact. Points to Tori.
”I’m Will.” Ion said, taking Tori’s hand and shaking it. ”Yeah. Something like that.” Ion took the hand he’d used to shake Tori’s hand and as his power sprung to life a corona formed around him, but electrical breakdown arced across the fingers on the hand. ”I generate it and can direct it from myself. Guess I’m not insulated though so I leak.” Ion waved at the corona around himself. ”If you're new here you must have something fun you can do. What is it?”
Spring meant one thing. Allergies. Trees were ready to get it on and everyone else was punished for it. Normally this meant you sneezed a lot or had to blow your nose and you were done with it for five minutes. For mutants, sometimes you inadvertently used your power. Not always the worst.
Unless you generated electricity and were watching a new resident of the mansion play video games. Especially bad if you were standing by the TV because you had been wandering the halls while reading as Ion had.
”ACHOO!” Ion sneezed into his shoulder as a sudden burst of purplish pink corona formed around him. A small jolt of electricity popped off and caught a ride on a PCB inside the TV shorting the circuit to turn the tv off. Blessedly it was low enough current that it didn’t burn it out, just enough to trick it into activating.
”Oh… Uh. Yeah, sorry about that.” Ion said looking at the TV that had just clicked off. His corona slowly dimming as his body leaked away the rest of the power he had built up in the instant of his sneeze.
Character Name: William Maxwell "Ion" Faraday Play-by: Logan Shroyer Type of Graphic: Sig, Cover, whatever. You da best. Desired Text: Nothing in particular comes to mind Additional Details: He's a zappy boy! His power has the aesthetic of st. Elmo's fire and electrical discharge depending on where he's powered up to.
The brunette gave the go-ahead and William nodded. Immediately there was a small jump in brightness as he began to push out electricity at his current maximum. William moved to the hedge and arced the electricity through a branch. There was not much of an effect. He assumed it would take more power wattage than he was putting out to do what he wanted.
As time passed, and William ran current from one hand to the other, the visible plasma channel of the electricity arcing grew ever wider. While the electricity maintained its color and brightness, the ever growing width of the arc made more and more light. After two minutes from when he started discharging, William arced the current through the hedge. Where it passed through the plant it flashed and burned. William moved the current around in a constant, unhurried speed. The current was sufficient to cut through thin sheets of steel and he was using it to burn through glorified bushes.
”Here we are. One new doorway.” William said as he pushed the person sized section of hedge out of the way. ”Hurry behind me. I doubt the manip will be pleased by my cheating.” And with that he walked through the hole in the hedge to the next section over.
William didn’t jump back or cry out or anything like that when the brunette produced a knife. He simply raised his eyebrows. Where he was from people having knives was more common than it seemed to be in New York City, but it still wasn’t an everyday sight to see someone produce a blade. ”Better than not having a knife at all.” William shrugged. ”Cheat away.”
The cutting. Did not go so well. Sure the knife made progress but it was so slow that it might actually be easier to navigate it as the manip behind the maze intended. The brunette realized that and reached the same conclusion William had. She did, however, mention him maybe having a destructive mutation before… Her mutation made things orange? That… Was an incredibly unfortunate power to have.
”I have one that might work. I have never tried to use it on plants in this manner though.” William said as the light of Saint Elmo’s fire sprouted from William like a corona around himself. ”It will take a couple minutes before I can do anything productive, but stay back in case.” The corona faded and was replaced by electricity arcing from him to everything around him. The ground and the hedges alike. William held up both hands and an arc of electricity flashed between them like a tiny lightning bolt.
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William opened his arms in a gesture that conveyed the idea, ’by all means.’ ”Not exactly my normal course of action, but they do tend to have quite the effect. Let us try it that way.” William said with a nod.
As for William’s offered hand… It was left hanging. Once that was clear, William brought his hand back. It was a decent enough reason to not shake hands. Some other mutant had abused the custom it seemed. William also noted that the brunette did not offer her name either.
That was the thing that irked William. Though she was right, They needed to keep their minds on getting out of the maze. William did not plan on being stuck in the maze because some boy out there could not handle rejection. ”Consider me focused.”
The brunette asked about cheating. William cocked his head and narrowed his eyes, ”Yes, let us cheat… But how?” The smile on her face worried William some.
The brunette did not seem to understand why someone would be obsessed with her. The obvious answer obviously eluding her as a wall of hedge moved to separate the pair of them. The brunette quickly moved to slip through the gap as it closed, leaving her on the same side as William. William stepped a few steps away from the hedge as it moved.
”If this keeps up, me and whomever is behind this will be having words.” William said with an irritated look on his face. He understood the hedge shifting from time to time to keep it fresh, but it should not be done while someone is inside. It especially should not be done to divide two people who were engaged in a conversation.
William looked at the hedges around them. For the moment no others seemed to be moving. A look back to the brunette and William looped back around to the conversation that had been rudely interrupted, ”You are a cute girl. We men often do… Odd and inexplicable things around, to, and for cute girls.” William stated it matter-of-factly. There was no question she was and it best explained the behavior of the hedge mover. ”I am William by the way.” William said holding out his hand.
The brunette confirmed William’s suspicion. Dead end. What surprised William was that the maze was supposed to change. ”Okay. So I am not going crazy. The maze does actually change.”
William had heard talk of the Danger Room, but only insofar that it existed. Reality manips was something William had no clue as to what the girl was on about. William shrugged and responded, ”I have no idea what a ‘manip’ is and… A young mutant boy obsessed with what? Changing the maze?” William looked around. It made sense that a school for mutants might have a mutant that changed the maze from time to time. Keep it fresh.
A look back to the girl and William amended his previous inquiry, ”Obsessed with… You maybe?” Schoolyard boys show they like girls by doing dumb things like throwing sand and putting bugs on them. Maybe young mutants use their power to toy with girls they like? That sounded like behavior of a much younger kid than the girl appeared to be. She appeared to be around William's age. Old enough to be beyond the schoolyard silliness but not yet a legal adult.
William tended toward staying inside. Reading and studying were strong reasons not to go outside. Getting into a great school was not going to just happen. William had to earn it. Eventually the mansion staff decided that all work and no play made William an unsocialized teenager. They kicked him out of the mansion for the day. It was for his own good anyway, some sun and fresh air on a day of downtime would help him in the long run.
Except, the staff would not even let William take a book. They wanted him to explore the grounds or at least run the hedge maze. William could have his book when he had completed the maze. So, that was what William would do.
Dressed for the briskness of New York Springs, William set out for the hedges in jeans, a tan long sleeve, and a plaid overcoat. He sighed as he entered the maze. It was not his idea of fun but it was what he had to do to get back to what he wanted to do.
After a half hour William was beginning to think he had made a mistake. At first William thought it was simple enough. As he progressed things proved more difficult. Eventually he was convinced the maze was changing on him. The maze was cheating. That changed it from a test of memory and direction to a test of patience and luck. William was not amused.
His face reading as thoroughly displeased, William rounded a corner and caught sight of a brunette. ”Dead end?” William asked as a way of announcing himself and seeing no path past her.
Emily led William through the mansion pointing out places as she went. Common rooms, the grounds, things like that… And a pool. William perked up at the mention of a pool. He enjoyed swimming. It was a relaxing way to unwind and get some sunshine at the same time. Good way to get, what his mother referred to as, photosynthesis. With the temperature outside being so cold, William found it a little odd to mention the pool. ”Is there much of a polar bear club here?” William asked with a look on his face indicating he found the idea of an ice cold dunk in a pool to be an absurd event.
Finally in the kitchen Emily made her way to the fridge. William found himself a place to sit at one of the counters. She asked him what he would like. ”Pastrami with mustard on rye, please.” William said, remembering his manners. He wasn’t the biggest ‘please and thank you’ kid, but it was useful to observe pleasantries.
As William waited he asked, ”When would I start classes? And training?” The training being the most interesting part to him.
