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.
There was no way in actual, sane reality that Javier Martín Moreno would fight a tiger, even regular size. He had definitely never imagined himself tackling a giant specimen. His strength tended to cut out the worst possible moments, so it was very, very dangerous to pick a fight he might not be able to finish. And yet, when it came to a bunch of people being in danger and the only other good guy (girl) with powers tacking the evil mutant mastermind, Javier found that he did not have much of a choice but to tackle a tiger.
It hurt. And the tiger was definitely not happy.
Claws scraped at Javier as they both rolled on the ground, and the tiger, being feline, managed to find its footing first. Well then.
>>”Outta the way, Javier!”
Javier could not really duck any lower than he already way, being thrown off by the tiger and lying on the ground. From his low vantage point he watched the Beastmaster soar overhead, collide with the tiger, and then there was some confusion, and a popping sound as mutant powers cut out and the tiger went back to normal size. Javier sighed, aching all over, and closed his eyes, just for a moment, hoping no more surprises would suddenly crop up nearby.
Not having been given any orders, most of the animals stood around, except fort he occasional stretching or scratching. Even when Javier climbed or pounced on them, awkwardly because of his injured arm, most of them did not put up a fight beyond trying to shake the annoying parasite off. But... this one was still a tiger.
Behind him, Roxie was holding her own against her opponent. The Beastmaster was less talkative now, which was good, but also the fight was not ending anytime soon. And all Javi could do was make sure that by the time the Beastmaster thought of calling in the cavalry, the cavalry would be... normal sized.
But. Again. Tiger.
It was sitting down, like a cat, licking a paw. Javier sized up the situation, and could not help but notice fangs, and assume claws were inside the paws as well. Just how tame zoo tigers were, exactly?... Glancing behind his back, he saw the Beastmaster take off, pursued by Roxie.
"Heffp me! STOff HEee! Heffp me!"
Muffled by broken jaw or not, the order seemed to affect the animals that were still large. Including the tiger, that stood, crouching down ready to pounce, following Roxie with its bright green eyes.
"*****"
Javier's uninjured shoulder collided with the tiger's side just as it was about to pounce. The collision carried considerable force and momentum, and managed to throw the feline off course, sending both of them tumbling to the wall of the building.
"STOFF EM BOFF!"
I just tackled a tiger
Now the tiger was both aware, pissed, and had an order to complete. Javier lunged at it before it could lunge at him, grabbing at the collar, forgetting about he shoulder injury in the rush of adrenaline.
Do what again? Break his shoulder? It sure felt like it was broken. Or dislocated, at least. Javier whimpered as he rolled over, trying to get to his feet to show a less pitiful sight once all the attention was turned to him. The fox scampered away. The Beastmaster yelled something, and then a new fight broke out. Roxie was in the middle of it. Javier shook his head, still seeing blotches of stars.
>>”Oh come the **** on! That doesn’t even make sense!!!”
Right. Shapeshifter? Roxie was strong, very strong, but Javier could not be sure she would be okay. Where the hell were the authorities? MRC, the X-men?... The giant animals stood around, shifting uneasily, forming a barrier between the people and the way out. Would they attack if told? There was no way to know. But the fox had gone back to normal after he took the thread off... and that was all Javier had to go on.
"I'm gonna regret this..." he muttered as he turned to the penguin next to him. It was large, and shiny, and upon closer inspection, also had a thin collar. It was a lot harder to get up to it with one arm hurt, but since Javi had done the jump earlier, he was fairly certain he could do it. He had to. He sure as hell was not gonna fight the big bad guy, so might as well do his part as a civilian. Just until the authorities got there...
The penguin went back to normal. So did a lemur. And a pig. And...
The man was clearly insane, but also clearly a powerful mutant. In his darkest nightmares, Javier had occasionally wondered what he would do in a situation like this, even though the logical answer was easy: Hide and hope for the X-men to show up. But not Roxie.
>>”Hey! Cosplay reject! Have you been huffing paint fumes? These are innocent people! Hurt people! And what? You’re going to ransom them? Talk about unoriginal!”
What was she doing? Did she have her powers back, now that they were inside a building? Javier tried to look, but the fox twisted and scratched more furiously, trying to get him with his paw.
>>“Oh if there’s one thing you don’t want to do, it’s piss off the kidnapper. Because there’s no one, not even the ridiculous X-Men who can stop me--EEEEE!!!”
>>”Blow it out your ass,”
Where were the X-men?
The fox twisted, and Javier clung to the fur, trying to inch away with the giant paw. Grabbing for a better hold, his fingers found something, a thread so thin it almost disappeared in the fur completely. A collar? But why would a zoo animal wear a collar, tied with a knot? Unless...
The logic was there, but Javier failed to follow it up before he acted. Just as the fox twisted again, he grabbed hold of the thread and snapped it. It was easy, someone with normal strength could have done it too. And the moment it was done, the fox went back to normal size.
The fall knocked the air out of Javier's lungs. He didn't land on the animal, but hit the floor instead, shoulder first, and stars erupted in his vision.
Animal print was a crime against fashion, at least the way this guy was doing it. Javier's mind was mostly occupied by survival at the moment, but even so, the guy could not be anything else but a supervillain, looking like that. While Roxie had been tossed onto the floor with the rest of the captives, Javier managed to avoid detection so far, clinging to the fox fur like a tick.
>>“Bring them to me! So I can count all my prizes. Heheheh!”
Prizes? What, was he collecting hostages? Javier ducked lower in the fur. Unfortunately, the persistent clinging was starting to garner the fox's attention, who, with his duty done, proceeded to sit down on its hind quarters, and scratch idly at his ear with a back paw. Javier scrambled out of the paw's way, which prompted more furious scratching. Crap.
"Look at all of you, nicely in one place!" boomed the Beastmaster in the meantime "Quite the display, isn't it? Much more interesting that those poor creatures in cages, if you ask me. Yes! I bet people would pay good money to see you all... again..."
>>”Depends. I need to be closer to buildings to be more effective. Right now... barely anything.’
Depends? She was super strong, and equally confident, and then, when asked, she went with depends?! Javier groaned into the fox fur. Leave it to him to meet the only other super strong person whose strength was unreliable.
"Your strength depends on buildings?..."
Well, at least they got some of those, now that they entered the zoo and the giraffe house.
>>”Hey! Can you see anything? Who is that?”
Javier stuck to the back of the fox's neck; for now, he was a voluntary tagalong, not a hostage. He wanted to go unnoticed. And unchallenged. Roxie's strength might have depended on buildings, but hell if he knew what his own depended on. Or when it decided to crap out again.
"Someone with a sh*tty sense of style" he muttered, against his better judgment, and peered over the fur.
Life-threatening surreal superhuman situation or not, Javier was still not doing well on the communication front. It was probably too much to ask to jump over a giant fox at a single leap, and also be able to talk to a woman like a normal human being. Well, at least the jump succeeded.
Roxie was still talking, and not bleeding profusely. Small miracles.
>>”Not really! But at least I’m not dead! I don’t know what’’s going on! It hasn’t tried to eat me!”
"Let's hope that lasts" Javier muttered, taking a firm hold on the fox fur. He was along for the ride now; he did not want to try and see how he'd stick a superhero landing. And he couldn't really leave Roxie alone.
>>”Can you see anything?!”
"No sign of the cavalry yet" Javier noted, looking around from his vantage point "But it looks like... um. I think we're going to the giraffe building?"
The largest building in the zoo, it seemed like the point the giant animals were converging on.
Javier had to admit, he liked the challenge. Maya, Ghost, had different powers that the suit needed to adjust to, so technically, with each new uniform it was back to the drawing board all over again. Well, at least this assignment was never going to get boring. He watched curiously as Sam demonstrated his powers.
>>”Like a second skin almost? Understatement. Last I checked I out colded liquid nitrogen… but it’s been a year or two since I last checked. Normally don’t have a reason to get that cold… however, extreme heat is an issue. My pants burned off one time. Lot of paperwork after that one.”
"You also generate extreme heat?" Javier blinked. He knew about the cold powers, but heat was news to him. He took some notes.
>>”Needs to be flexible more than anything, I need to move a lot. Running jumping, but… figured you already had something in mind for that. Pouches still a thing? I mean I can make most of the tools I’d need in the field but I usually end up dropping or losing my communicator, been yelled at enough times for that.”
More notes followed. Range of movement was a basic requirement for all X-men outfits, but being able to carry tools was an added challenge. Something that fit like a second skin did not give much to work with in terms of storage space. Javier wrinkled his nose.
>>”So what's the process like?"
"Well, uh... at first, I'd need to know specifics on your powers. You said you haven't tested them for a while... would it be possible to run new tests? Especially if heat is involved too. I'd need to know what the material will have to withstand. And I'd need a list of what you'd need storage space for. Other than the communicator..."
Javier had done a great job stating the obvious, and then mentally slapping himself. Mutant, really? What else could it possibly be? Even with a portal to another dimension, magic was still not real. But mutants very much were. Situations like this were definitely for someone else to solve. The X-men, mostly, or maybe the MRC. Definitely not for Javier, or a random woman, super strength or not.
>>”Okay. We...just wait. The X-Men will be here soon. Meanwhile, we’ll just...manage and make sure everyone gets OUUUUUUTTTTTTT!”
And then a fox took her.
For a moment, Javier stared in horror, expecting to see Roxie bitten in half within a moment. The fox turned, and Javier was knocked off his feet by the brush of its tail as it trotted off towards the zoo. The tailor rolled back on his feet and bolted after them. She was still moving, and not bleeding a lot, so she was still alive. He could still help. He had to try. As far as he knew, he might be the only superpowered person within range to help. And he could do it. He had to do it.
Javier caught up to the fox, and took a leap. His strength kicked in stronger than he'd expected, so much so that he almost overshot the beast by a few feet; in the end, he landed very un-gracefully on the fox's back, and grabbed hold of the thick red fur.
"I'm here! Are you okay?" he yelled, trying to catch sight of the woman without falling off his surreal ride.
The lunge was more instinct than anything else. Something large and decidedly not normal was heading their way, so Javier did the only thing that his brain managed to scramble up - he pushed the woman out of harm's way. sadly, the whole move resulted in both of them falling, and him burying his face in her chest. Because of course.
For a moment, Javier was motionless, frantically trying to come up with the best course of action for getting up without putting face, hands, or any other body part to any more embarrassing places that they already were. Meantime, Roxie managed to process the shift in perspective.
>>”What the hell is going on here?”
Javier lifted his head, turned bright red, and managed to roll off her to the side.
"Sorry... Uh... giant animals coming out of the zoo?... I guess it's a mutant" he noted, looking at the penguin that was neither cute nor fluffy when scaled up "I'm sure the X-men will show up soon..."
They shook hands. So far, so good. Initial misunderstanding cleared up, Javier got his awkwardness under control and found himself a seat in the office. Sam Johnson, as he had been told, was a leader of the X-team, and he certainly carried him in a way that suggested he had seen a lot.
>> ”So… have a seat… it’s come to my attention that we are getting rid of the skirts… gonna miss those things... It looked nice and from what she said it was a good fit.”
Javier thought it wise not to comment on the skirt issue. The skirts had been objectively terrible, but of course, a guy would not be aware of that... not usually, anyway.
"I am glad you thought so." he nodded at his compliment of the new uniform.
>>”Personally I got nothing wrong with my suit, in fact I hardly wear it. Usually I don’t get a chance to run back here and grab it when I need it... Little charred still from the volcano but it’s still in one piece. It’s not a leather jacket but the scars on her give some character. So… what are you thinking for me?”
Javier looked over the uniform that was spread out in front of him. Once he was working, his awkwardness ebbed, having something else to focus on, something he knew he could do well.
"Well, that's one of the changes" he noted "Maya's was designed so that she could get in and out of it fast... and possibly have it under clothes, if she wanted. The rest is... well, it has to be able to keep up with abilities. I am told yours would have to handle extreme temperature changes?"
The lemur went down, and the woman landed in a practiced stance. It did not take a superhero expert to know that she bad been doing some athletic stuff for a long time, to stick a landing like that. Especially after laying out a giant lemur in the middle of Central Park.
>>”I did. Seems effective too. Are you alright Mister…?”
"Javier's fine" he waved a hand, the other rubbing his forehead. He was going to get a bump. And then he'd have to explain it to Booker. "Sorry it's just... my hand slipped." Easier to say than explaining how his powers went in and out in crucial moments. At least now they could look around and see where the giant lemur had come fr...
"PENGUIN!" Javier yelled, something he never imagined doing, and moved on instinct to tackle the woman who was right in the path of the giant toddling sea bird.
Could he? Questions like that tended to put Javier on edge. He had held the lemur before she got there, barely, but could he do it again? Could he do it long enough? What if his powers gave away like they usually did? Before if he could put any of his doubts into words, she had already let go. The lemur, startled by someone flying straight at it, jerked back, yanking on the tail, and subsequently Javier, who flew face first into the wall he had been bracing himself against.
"Ow!"
The next thing he knew, she had already made impact, and the lemur was going down hard. Especially hard for a large fluffy thing. Javier, rubbing his forehead, let go of the limp tail as he watched the spectacle unfold.
There were no more obscenities for the time being, so Javier hesitantly collected his stuff, and tried to look like he did not just damage a wall and then move a filing cabinet to mask it. With a last desperate glance at Julia, he took a deep breath, and marched back to the front office, trying to look nonchalant.
"I'll have to go and... get some more stuff so I can do correct measuring... um...for the... type of outfit you wanted. I'll be back soon!... I'm sorry for the inconvenience."
The sooner he was out of the place, the better. And then he had to figure out where to get... whatever one needed to fix a wall.
A woman came out of nowhere, breaking a path through the chaos, an unlike many other people around, she was not running away from the danger. Or... whatever a giant lemur was. Environmental hazard? Semantics aside, she skidded to a halt next to Javier an grabbed a hold of the lemur tail. The pull eased up at the extra set of hands, and Javier noted that she was surprisingly strong for her size.
>> ”You’re a strong one,”
'You are too" he said, quite surprised. His surprise was mirrored in the lemur eyes turned on them, large as truck tires and bright yellow. Now that two of them were tugging on the tail, they definitely had the animal's attention. It folded back over its tail, and muttered something to itself as it reached a large black hand out.
