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.
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"I mean, yeah, but we usually just have another clone clean it up. She's pretty good about making them stand in a trash can or the shower or something..." Why was he telling her this? It wasn't even close to important, and... well, SHE wasn't important. Not to him.
And here was, asking him about... their? Therapist. "Scared you away? Don't not go on my account. I was there on... Cop business, anyway." He looked down to the ground when he said it. He glanced to the phone in her hand as it buzzed again. He took note. He wasn't sure why. It was the investigator in him, or something. He did that @#$t all of the time, and here he was doing it again.
Nothing the investigate here, just a kid with depression, who couldn't mind her own business. "Yeah, you have fun with that too-" The world suddenly felt... strange. Like... it was all a million miles away for just a flash. There was a sound... like... shattering glass, if it were deeper, and everywhere. The world around them went dark for a flickering moment, before they were there again, standing on the street... well... ten or so feet of it. Past that they were surrounded by dense jungle.
He stared out, looking past the immediate scenery to a large, active volcano in the distance, and then around to the chunk of street that had followed him here.
Or rather... Them. She was here. The girl. They were... somewhere else? "Uh... Stretch, here, but... any idea what is goin on here?"
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He stared at her blankly as she reacted to his sudden appearance. Jumpy. He gave a short nod as she responded. When she spoke to the subject of the clone goo he maintained his deadpan expression. Normally, he would have smiled a bit. He didn't really feel like smiling. He hadn't had his coffee yet.
"I try not to think about it. Gotta clean it up all the time. Damn things only last a day. You try gettin her to stop makin them though." He looked across the street for a moment, always maintaining a certain level of alertness. By the time he looked back, he paused. He knew the look of someone trying to find something to say. She was painted with it. He opened his mouth to tell her not to bother, he was going to be on his way, but she spoke first.
His eyes narrowed. "What."
The Super Hero's jaw set as she stared at her for a second, turned to look at the ground, and then quickly back up. "How, eh... How do you. You saw me walk in." What... the #@$%. What was her deal? Why would she ask about that crap? That was deeply personal. Wait, she'd said...
F#@$. He needed coffee. Why was his heart beating so heavily? It wasn't like he'd yelled at the guy. He'd just needed to get out of there. He'd left early, so... Maybe he could call Colin and let him know he didn't need to watch JR all day after all. He cursed under his breath, rubbing his sleepy eyes as he hobbled down the street.
He wasn't in uniform today; he was still wearing his long coat, and a careful glance would show a crowbar peaking out of its lining. He kept his head down as he trucked down the street, organizing his thoughts for a second before pausing to look up at where he was.
There was a strangely familiar sound nearby... Right, from that show. He looked right to his side and saw a familiar young woman staring down at her phone with a cringe. Slightly bloodshot eyes blinked a few times as he weighed the option of just... breezing on by. Against his better judgment, he found himself speaking before he could stop himself. "Eh... Juniper, right?"
It had been a while since he'd seen her in any capacity past on a security camera or in passing. He knew she was a friend of his daughter's... boyfriend. He clearly remembered breaking her fake ID, getting into a sassing match with her, and having to move a couch back into Sam's secret room. And then there was the search for his daughter, where she'd stormed off after the house collapsed.
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"Well, that's the thing, Doc... We been talkin' the last few weeks, and... Eh... I dunno. I think I get it, I guess. I talk. You sit an listen. Ask questions, try to find silver linings and all that kinda bullshit for me. And... I think I just ain't havin it. It ain't your fault... It's just. Eh." There was a long pause... Doc didn't during the wait. He tended to keep largely quiet in these sessions, letting the experienced X-Man gather his thoughts. "It's just, you know... Guys like me. We can't have it, you know? It's like... When ever... I start to feel... Happy with life. Something terrible happens. I'm like... Eh... I'm like a bucket... You know, you told me, first session, about the buckets and the dippers, right? But you try and put... Joy. Contentment. Good shit. You put that in my bucket, but mine... got a hole right in the bottom. Life just... Drains it all away. And you sit here, tryna tell me, like, eh... Try to make me see it ain't like that, but it is. Guys like me can't be happy. When I am. Something's gonna happen. No, no don't say anything... I gotta get this out." The sound of shifting could be heard, though without eyesight, it would be unclear what exactly was going on.
"So. I'm gonna be prepared, is all. Any time I start to feel content, like things are gonna be okay. That's when I'll know, I gotta be ready for the next blow. So, eh... Thank you, for sittin and listenin, spending your time, but... I ain't got depression. I ain't paranoid, or anxious. I'm in the dumps because bad shit happened to me, and sitting here talkin to you ain't gonna stop more bad shit happening. You gotta spend your time talkin to people who need your help, and me... I gotta spend time gettin prepared to hit the next bad thing right back." The sound of shuffling, the grabbing of a coat. "I'll see myself out."
The door would open, leaving the giant cockroach to sit there for a moment, and then sigh, shuffling papers about. After a couple of beats, the sound of an intercom clicking on was heard. "Angela... If you could please call in my last appointment..."
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Saphirus' teeth chattered with energy as he looked back at Shin as he landed a ways off, chuckling as he struck hero poses, and shaking his head.
Shin and he were polar opposites when it came to approaches to heroism. Shin's style hat a finesse to it, Saphirus liked to get down and dirty. So... When the shard slinger informed him of the charging Rhino, he simply smirked, and cracked his knuckles.
"On it."
He looked back to see Sam appear on a slide of ice. "Good to have you back, chief."
As he looked back, he felt the large horned beast approaching with his sixth sense. In a neat movement, while still looking Sam's way, he spun and stepped to the side, allowing a grazing hit to his right side. Which only served to grow his power.
With the slightest brush of the fingers of his left hand he gave that force back, and then some. He kept walking even as the Rhino took a few more faltering steps and lost form, turning into a gangly teenager who collapsed in a heap, a large bruise developing on his temple.
The experienced member of the X-Men patted his hands, and turned to look back at his handiwork. "Looks like it's gonna be a fight, then." He reached into his pocket, pulling a handful of rubber balls out, and flinging them at a tangle of tentacles lifting up Gawain.
"Yer welcome." He said before turning and jumping into the fray.
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The truth of the matter was this: The Mansion had certainly been better staffed in the past, but right this second, a mentionable number of the people that would normally be greeting people right now were suddenly 12.
So. Saphirus was presently watching a toddler and doing at least two people's jobs. He looked back with tired eyes at the young woman as she spoke to the cat in her native language. He gave a short nod when she introduced herself, pausing to turn and offer a hand. "Himari, great to meet you. Careful, the little one goes for hair." He paused for a second, observing her a little more closely.
She was built. Weight lifting, perhaps? Sports? Something. Even tired, he was always looking for potential team members. He made a mental note to see what she was all about after they were settled in.
He looked to the cat as she spoke up again, nodding as well... With a moment of hesitation, he held up a hand to the cat as well to... shake its paw? "Watch your tails, too." She spoke more... quite fluently, as well.
"Eh, nah, nah, yer good. No times a good time right now, with all the mutants turning into kids and all." He walked, and looked back to make sure they were keeping up, while catching a thrown binky and handing it back without looking.
"Oh, right, you're living off campus, huh? Well, that will speed up the paperwork. Did your parents pre register you for classes?"
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Mostly known as a bit of a tough cookie, the sheepish look on Saphirus' face when the gorgon shushed him was widely evident. He looked away a bit, nodding as she asked about Jr.
"Oh, eh, great, everything's great. Doin just great." She finally removed sloth from him, and he thanked her quietly. His eyes caught the missing snake, and drew a questioned look before he once again recalled the track his mind was one.
The guy. Michael, apparently. Yeah. He needed to be followed, investigated, interrogated even. He had to find a way to extract him from this situ- Andrea asked to borrow him.
#@$%. There was no freaking way he was going to go away with her. Not with this guy in his grasp!
"Uh, yeah, I've got time." !@#hole. He looked over to Becca and the young killer and then back to Andrea, nodding nervously, and following her despite all of his sense of reason telling him he certainly should not be leaving the young man to his own devices.
It was a... Japanese schoolgirl? With a... Cat on her shoulder. She strode on in as Saphirus looked back at his coffee accusingly. Had the food in it been spoiled? Were he and Jr. Tripping?
The girl announced she was here for school... Even in his tired state, he picked up on the inclusion of the word 'we'. He looked behind her to see in anyone else was waiting out there. Nope.
The cat started talking in Japanese. He blinked a few times. The cat was a person, wasn't she? Wow. Wait a second, wasn't there something about a couple of new students... "Wait... you aren't supposed to be here until tomorrow at noon... it's..." He pulled out his communicator and stared at it for a moment. "Huh... It's tomorrow at noon..." Jesus. His life was a mess. He'd just fed Jr. Dinner. Its was noon.
"Well... Damn. Let me- eh, hold on. Follow me to the security office. Just gotta... Get your files..." Jr. reached up and poked at his nose and he gently redirected as he turned and headed toward the office. "Uh, sorry for leavin you waitin; little guy's a hand full, and everyone else is, eh... busy. I'm Saphirus. Most call me Saph. I work security, and, I guess, sometimes greet newcomers."
The pleasant side effect to lunch time was that the little tyke would start to get tired soon. Maybe getting these kids settled would be a little more hastle free if he took a nap. "You guys just land?"
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This was his life now. Specifically, sitting in a security office, seventy five percent awake, feeding a young toddler while sipping coffee and staring at monitors was his life now. Honestly, it wasn't the worst, if you ignored the fact that you accidentally dipped the baby spoon in the coffee instead of the little cup again, so there was probably baby food in the coffee, and coffee in the baby food. Saphirus set the coffee to the side and rubbed his eyes, looking to a monitor once more, and then back at Jr.
Jr was covered in food. Had he been that way a second ago? @#$%. After a long sigh, he got to cleaning up... He got so distracted that he didn't notice that someone had been waiting at the door for... a while now. How long? He'd muted the buzzer notification during nap time, and he hadn't checked the front cameras in a bit.
"Aw Crap." Jr. Repeated him, and he looked up to the lord, lamenting his woes for a moment before quickly gathering up the mostly cleaned up baby and heading toward the door. Most of the usual greeters were busy or 12 or something, so he'd taken that up on top of his normal security detail because once you were under water far enough it didn't matter how much more in over your head you ended up.
After another minute, the mansion's front door would open up, and a nearly 40 year old Masochist would peek out, Jr. attached to his chest via papoose. He was sporting a layer of stubble, and his eyes were slightly bloodshot, but there he was. "Eh... Thanks for waitin... Sorry for... How long you been- Hold on." Jr. had grabbed the door handle and was trying to shove it open. The sound of him gently extracting the tiny hands from the handle could be heard, and the door finally opened again.
"Hurry'n get in before he grabs it again." Wait, who was he letting in, anyway?
The Masochist was in ready position atop the very same building Gawain was waiting in, staring intently at the target location. He couldn't see much from here, but watching kept him thinking too deeply about who they were working with. SUPER. It left a bad taste in his mouth.
A strong tingling sensation all the way up his arm reminded him he was loaded up with tons of kinetic energy, having had plenty of time to prepare for this mission. His teeth chattered lightly as he let the energy jitters take effect, and lowered his binoculars as he heard a call over the radio.
It was go time. Gawain would likely be in first; Mirror travel made that incredibly likely. Saphirus would not be too far behind, however; how, you ask? Simple. He threw himself off of the roof, launching himself up and into the air, and then allowing himself to fall before catching himself with his powers, and gliding to the roof of the mall structure. A quick hobbling jog later the tunnel vision from using his powers had fully worn off, and he was dropping through the skylight into the mall.
This mission was crowd control and subdual, so he wasn't even sporting his crowbar. Instead, in his hand he gripped a hand full of rubber pellets that could be thrown if needed. "Everyone remain calm and lay down on the ground! We are here to help!" Odd, coming from a man who just dropped from the ceiling wearing a super hero costume.
"Any hostiles?" He called over the head set, his guard up and ready. Most of these people just looked confused. It was important to be ready for anything, though.
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So... This was proceeding terribly. He'd really been born with the most terrible luck. Becca was here, and threatening to kick the ass of who ever had punched the person he had just punched. He was attached to his ex-wife via constrictor, and his prey was looking up at him smugly.
His Preggo team mate pleaded with him not to fly off the handle, and he had a sheepish look on his face for a second before he thought about what she was saying... "B-Becca, I-" Wait, hold up. Wait a goddam second. Why did everyone immediately assume he was in the wrong, here?! I mean, he was, but what if this man was, and this was a big what if, someone Saph had personally seen kill a room full of people?!
Oh wait, HE #@$%in WAS. His fists clenched as his mind raced to think of a response that would really give her what's for for not supporting her team mate, when Andrea spoke up, and his mouth immediately went dry.
He looked down to her, his fists relaxing as he kneeled and tried to help extract Sloth... He'd done it a lot in the past, so he was pretty good at gently coaxing the snake off with little nudges and allowing slow progessive removal.
She brow beat him as well and he looked to the young man, and then back to Andrea. "Heh, yeah... sorry. I'll, eh, yeah... be more careful." He looked over to the young man, who was flustered himself. His question settled it. He seemed honestly confused enough to convince him that this was, indeed, a younger iteration of the man he'd fought at the bowling alley.
That complicated things. Andrea responded to his question, and he looked down to her. "Average? I dunno about that. They say you work miracles..." Not that... not that he was closely following rumors about her, or anything.
Anyway.
"Yeah. I'm one of the X-Men. We both are." He nodded toward Becca. "What about you? What's your name?" If he wasn't going to be able to interrogate that man, he was going to get all of the info he could from his younger self.
There... Yeah... Okay... Just don't look at her. You can manage to be perfectly reasonable if you don't look at her. Now, to find a way to loop Becca into something being up, so she can help. He tried to lock eyes with the pregnant scottish swimsuit wearing teacher who was also one of the X-Men, in order to tilt his head toward the young man and widen his eyes a little bit in an indicatorial manner. You know, that motion you made when you were trying to get someone to actively read your mind in relation to someone else.
Still, his eyes ended up wandering down to Andrea. #@$^ She was a blushing a little bit. Damnit. "H- How you holdin up?" @#$^ damnit, really?
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"Eh, I ain't exactly Mozart myself. I see it, I let it hit me, I hit it. It's what you do with what you got and it's not every day you see a badass ride in on a flying motorcycle and beat up a giant moth. Saw that the other, what, month? Not sure about the naked newbie, though."
He seemed to be relaxing into the conversation. It was one of those moments when you realize you've been tense, and get a chance to consciously relax your muscles. He'd had to do that a lot more recently; it was like his mind was a big knot.
"That's good, man. Still don't know mine, and foster parents always seem to... just sorta be watching you, waitin for you to make a mistake so they can throw you back. Couldn't control my powers back then, so I broke a lot of things on accident. Sorta made my upbringing more eclectic than usual. Heh, I had fosters that were doomsday preppers, private investigators, accountants, crazy cat ladies. All sorts of stuff." He nodded, and took another step forward in the line. They weren't too far off, now.
"Seems like you turned out pretty well, though. Took me a while."
Shin sort of shrugged off his statement about details, and Saph nodded. "I'm doin fine."
Saphirus squinted into the crowd when a Masochist cosplayer was spotted. Really? Holy crap, it was him! Wait... He turned a little red at the man's companion. "Great... Got my Ex-Wife in tow, too." Man, coffee really sounded good right about now.
They were almost there.
He looked over to Shin, and went silent for a moment as well. With a sigh, he rubbed his faced once, and nodded a bit, as if he were sorting out his thoughts. He hadn't talked to anyone about all of this. Not once. He'd just sort of... held it in.
"Well... Yeah. I guess I'm having those. My wife is missing. Probably de-aged, like all those other people. There've been sightings, but she's elusive. So... I'm raising our kid alone. And Moose... Eh, my adopted daughter, Elke, was turned into a little kid again. She was a hellraiser back in the day, and she... well... She escaped and started lighting fires down town, assaulting people. Stuff she always used to try to do when I could handle it and focus on her. Trying to find her, too, but I got the baby, so... Well, Granpa can help watch him every once in a while, but I just... I dunno man. It's a lot. I'm just trying to survive, you know?"
He paused, realizing he was looking at the ground, now. "Anyway. Strugglin a bit." He looked over to Shin again, and then to the line in front of them. They were next.
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Apparently, now was the time to get coffee. The line was a little longer by the time they got to it. He leaned to look down the line, over and aside all sorts of strange characters. He looked back to Shin, and shrugged. "Huh, I never knew it was based off anything, I just sorta thought that's was your eh... aesthetic, I guess. Anyway, seems pretty useful. Stuff's as strong as diamond, ain't it?"
He knew a little about Shin's powers as a whole, even if they didn't go on missions much together.
"I never watched a whole lot of shows like that growing up. Kinda got tossed from house to house. Lotta of the homes I ended up at didn't even have a TV." Did Shin even know his background? He... admittedly, didn't know Shin's. What did he know about Shin?
"That's good to hear, man. I don't even know what I would do without my power. I guess I kinda live my life by it. Or... I did. I guess now I would just be a dad, huh?" He imagined trying to raise Elke without his abilities. She would have killed him.
Shin asked how he was. "Uh... Well. I mean, do you want the usual @#$%-all I'm doing fine, or do you really wanna know? I can do either, honestly." The line moved forward a bit, and he looked at the person in front of them as they dragged about two giant foam rings with them. Part of their costume?
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Oh @#$^ he punched him! Why had he done that? He'd actually just cold cocked the commander shepard dancing mass murderer he'd been trying to subtly kidnap.
To be completely honest, the smack of fist against face was a comforting and familiar sensation that had always triggered a sort of dopamine response in his head. He'd caught himself smiling a little in spite of himself as the younger man was sent hiney over teakettle, even as he rebuked himself for doing it.
And then he saw where the man had stumbled to. He stepped on someone's fingers, and Saphirus tried to step forward to secure him, but wasn't fast enough, as he slipped on a towel stack, and half fell into the hot tub where two people were soaking their feet already. One, his co-worker and the other, his ex wife. Causing a scene in a place like this was pretty ba- wait, rewind that, who was sitting there?
Andrea. @#$%^ing. Gordon. He was standing right behind her.
Oh, he wasn't ready for this.
He wasn't ready at all. Her back was still to him. He looked to the man, who was getting native real quick. A clever move completely overshadowed by the existence of the woman he had dated for five years, married, was abandoned by without explanation.
#@$^. He had to leave. He had to get out of here. He could always pursue this man later, and now he had a first name to help track him down. He turned to hurry off, but something stopped him. That something? A giant snake, casually wrapping itself around his foot.
Sloth hadn't seem him in some time. He'd decided to come in for a hug. "Oh @#$%" Yep. He wasn't escaping unnoticed. "Eh... Mikey! We were just playin around, you know, locker room stuff, yeah. Eh... Becca, good to see you here. A- Andrea." @#$%, @#$%, @#$#, God#@$%it, @#$^!
Saphirus felt it coming from a mile away. @#$%. It was another one of those moments in his life where his publicist would freak the @#$% out at him if he'd ever bothered to hire him. She was yelling at him. People were taping. He frowned and stood his ground.
"You can handle yourself. I know maybe three mutants as powerful as you. I didn't know you'd go for the clones. Sorry. They're about to-" Oh, too late. He'd been about to hold back Elke from going ham on the poor confused kid. The new pink muck mess was quickly discarded after his eyes were drawn to the car sinking a bit. He stepped back a bit in response.
Yeah... That was a bit too much for her. Understandable. He couldn't tend to her feelings, though. He had a job to do. "Elke. Stay near me. I know you don't like it but we'll have to take you in to get this all sorted out. Hang out."
He stepped forward, waving away the people who had gathered. "Alright, alright, nothin to see here. Move along." It was time to put on his cop hat. Backup would be here soon, and he would absolutely get an earful for this later. Better get started minimizing the damages while he could.
