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.
The kid gorgon was acting strange. Why did he have trouble with glowing? As far as gorgon gifts went, it was not the ugliest Amethyst had seen, and it did not seem to impede him in anything, except for sneaking around unnoticed.
>>"I...I uhm...I kinda...just got in. That's why I don't want you to tell on me,"
Oh. So it was about sneaking around unnoticed. Amethyst smirked. She suddenly had power over this glowing kid. It had been weeks since she'd had power over anyone.
"Well, I'll consider it." she cooed as she looked down at him "But you are going to tell me how you did it."
If this guy was also going to try and pull some elaborate prank on her about being faculty or something, Amethyst was seriously going to get pissed off. People seemed to get ideas about how smart she was, completely unfairly. And Sam had good reason to try and mess with her, because she'd 'ruined' his precious 'training.'
>>”Apparently I was deaged. All the cool kids are doing it now. Where somehow you loose a chunk of your life... That doesn’t make sense either. I was thirty-one a few days ago and a teacher here. I woke up, and I’m eighteen… nineteen?”
Amethyst blinked. Really? This guy, with the shirtless thing and the cockiness, this guy had already been an adult once?... And if something like that was going around, why did no one tell her? The last thing she needed was to wake up seven years old...
"Well, that's just peaches."
>>”Anyway, I don’t know what happened in the last decade. So this is all new to me. Lady, I have a lot of gifts being able to get younger isn’t one of them.”
"Well, charm isn't one either" Amethyst noted, rolling her eyes "Why did no one tell us there is something like that happening? What if it's contagious?"
All Amethyst wanted was to get out of the office and not have to deal with Mr. Cervantes ever again. If she had to smile and curtsy to do that, she would. She did.
>>”Okay. I think we’re done here. I understand your powers are involuntary. But I would suggest some better management control. Try not to leave those gemstones lying around. That could lead to unwanted attention. Is there anything else about your abilities that we need to know?”
"Nope!" she said cheerfully, already on her way to the door "I'll make sure they are swept up, Mr. Cervantes."
Hopefully, no one was going to look too closely at how they got there in the first place.
Xavier's made kind of a big deal out of Atlantis. First, they sent the X-men to topple the king, and then started taking the gorgons with all kinds of promises for a better life, and now they were somehow playing diplomacy with touting Princess Amethyst around. With all of that, it was shocking that this guy noticed none of it.
>>”I used to live here, I was a teacher but I lost about ten years. If it happened in the last ten years then that was the rock I was hiding under..”
She blinked, then wrinkled her nose.
"Nice try. There is no way you were a teacher ten years ago. You were a child ten years ago. Unless you are a lot older than you look. Is that a part of your gift?"
>>”Not a student, not faculty. Not sure what I am yet, but I know that dresses that nice burn quickly, princess.”
Not student and not faculty? What the hell was he doing at the school then? Was he another one of those people that snuck in just for fun, like the self-replicating girl? How many people could just walk in and out of this building? "Apparently I should be more concerned about random non-student-non-faculty people walking around here than my dress catching fire." she shot back. "We had different standards in Atlantis."
>>”Atlantis… is that an actual thing?”
"Wha..." that honestly surprised Amethyst "What, you live down here or under a rock or something? How did you miss a whole mutant kingdom rising up from the ocean?"
>>”King of the north. Artic actually but everything is south when you live there.”
Amethyst was not going to fall for the same thing twice. A child had already made her believe for a moment that she was also a princess, and this Sam guy, whoever he was, was definitely not royalty. And even Amethyst knew there was no such country as 'the north.'
>>”Sorry. Mansion has a lot of rooms with weird **** in it. You might need to be more cautious walking into rooms. I mean kids shoot lasers here or burst into flames. And if you weren’t wearing such a bulky dress in the first place the door would have held us both.”
He just had to ruin the apology. Amethyst folded her arms, her now-dry dress sleeves fanning out around her.
"So what, running around bare chested is better against combustion?" she challenged him, bracelets clinking "You are a student here too, aren't you? Please tell me you are not faculty."
Amethyst was not going to apologize for looking out for herself. She was kind of proud of it, actually. Ever since she stopped having Atlantean bodyguards follow her everywhere she felt dangerously exposed, even within the school's walls. And anyone who walked into a shark attack and did not save themselves first was an idiot.
>>”What do you mean? You or me? That door was more than big enough, Danger room sessions are usually focused on teamwork and yeah, it was fun. A blast even. So sue me.”
"That door was not big enough, not with you jumping around and icing it up. And I don't do teams." Amethyst clarified. She did not give an onyx about why these people had a Danger Room at all. She did not sign up for any of that.
>>”I enjoy working out and pushing myself, part of the appeal of the danger room you can make anything happen. You never wondered what you could do if you have complete control over your environment… lady? And they were merfolk.”
"Princess, actually. I'm the Atlantean ambassador." Amethyst clarified again. She was not going to go into the gorgon-merfolk debate; she already knew that people at the Mansion were weird about the whole gorgon issue, even if it technically fit.
Complete control over her environment. Yeah. She used to have that. It used to be nice.
"I did not sign up to train at all. I just walked in by accident."
Amethyst finally got a better look at this Sam person. He was taller than her, and covered in all kinds of scars. Some of them newer than others.
>>”Hard light constructs, can create whatever you want. Volcano’s, murder bots, aliens a kraken apparently. Try not to think about it too hard. Pain and danger was real, the danger room just can’t kill. It’s meant to hone and train powers and the X-Men.”
Danger Room. All of it was fake. It created things out of thin air. Some scientist back home in Atlantis would have been thoroughly impressed. Amethyst already knew about the X-men, but this explained how they trained. And why they were all so weird.
>>”Telling me you never be- You were willing to kill me?... I thought I was messed up. You were willing to kill a stranger.”
"Well, a bunch of gorgons and sharks were trying to kill me." Amethyst folded her arms. She was not going to apologize for putting her own survival before some half-naked guy's she'd just met. "It was you or me, and you were having way too much fun. For the record, that is messed up."
That floating door was clearly too small for the two of them. And Amethyst was not a team player. She was royalty.
>>”****ing kidding me!”
A tentacle wound itself around Sam, and pulled him under. Amethyst sat on the floating door, hugging her knees. Was this going to end anytime soon, or did she just feed the man to the tentacle shark for nothing?... Because that would have been annoying.
Suddenly, everything in the room shifted. Shapes and water disappeared, even her dress was dry once again. In a few moments she found herself in a room with metallic walls, and a very pissy-looking half-naked demigod.
>>”You broke my streak! That was uncalled for.”
Amethyst was still staring around, smoothing her hands down her dress as she stood up. Sam seemed unhurt, and suspiciously un-chewed.
>>”Was this another student you called a ‘Gorgon’?”
"Yes, why?"
Of course it had been a gorgon. A disgusting one, too. She'd spat on her, for the gods' sake.
>>”And, for the record, in instances like that, you need to tell the staff so we can investigate the matter, not keep it to yourself. You may not believe it, but we are here to help. A lot of students have suffered here and they all have the right to be treated fairly. Same goes for you.”
He was saying all the fancy words about fair treatment and equality and things, but Amethyst was getting the distinct impression that the man did not like her very much. The feeling was mutual. These people were clearly biased against demingods. She doubted that if she complained about the goop girl throwing slime around there would be any real consequences. Like prison, or exile.
>>”All I’m suggesting...is that you try. Try to talk to your fellow students, try to engage, and try to lower your nose because let me express a harsh truth to you...here, in this place, you are not better than anyone. All of you are on equal ground. And that’s something you need to learn very quickly. Do we understand one another?”
Some people just lived in some kind of alternate reality with a whole bunch of false beliefs. Amethyst sighed and said what she hoped would get her out of the office as soon as possible. "Crystal clear, Mr. Cervantes."
Leave it to the gorgon students to be out and about at all times of the night. Amethyst huffed, milk still dripping down her fingers. The boy scrambled, falling and getting up again, looking like he was scared of her. Honestly, this was the king of reaction from gorgons Amethyst was actually used to.
>>"N-Nothing's w-wrong. S-sometimes I g-glow in the d-d-dark...my mu-mutation does weird things sometimes and I c-c-can't c-c-control it... I-I...p-p-please don't tell on m-m-me...."
Amethyst quirked an eyebrow.
"Tell on you? For what? This is the one place in this city where people don't give a damn if you glow..."
As much as gorgons were promised a better life at the X-Mansion, even Amethyst knew that America was not the land of promise for mutants. Quite the opposite, from what she could gather, otherwise they would not have had their own separate special school, with security and everything. But of course the naive little gorgon did not see that from all the cuddles she got. Ew.
>>”Like you’d do much better. They’d ignore you til they realize you’re a mutant. Some humans don’t care if you’re pretty-- they’ll call you disgusting anyway. But you don’t get we’re supposed to be on the same team.”
Amethyst snorted. Team, indeed. She was not going to be on any team with the likes of this annoying puddle of goop. She'd rather take her chances back in Atlantis.
>>”And a handful of dough can’t annoy you like I can.”
The slime person... spat at her. Amethyst gasped, completely disgusted, trying to pull her slipper out of the sticky substance. She even gagged a little. "Ugh... How dare you?!"
>>”Tell ya what. I’ll leave the Mansion when you do, because I’d love to see you knocked down a peg or two.”
Amethyst glared at the green glob of a girl with burning fury. Now she had done it.
"Deal." she hissed "You and me, we are going outside. We'll see how long you last before someone mops you up."
Amethyst's eyes widened. The man was clearly insane. Who would enjoy battling sea monsters and sharks in a place like this? Was he just doing it for fun?!
>>”Why would you come to the danger room with a dress on!”
Danger Room. Well, that was fitting. Amethyst tried to both curl up and keep her balance as things kept popping up around them. Why would a school have a room like this? Was it a punishment? Sam did not seem like he took it as a punishment. And what was she supposed to do now that she was in it?
>>”Anything to help us end the simulation! If you can’t fight you can think right?”
Now there were tentacles.
As a daughter of Atlantis, Amethyst was no stranger to sea creatures and aquatic gorgons. But this... this was just too much. She was not going to think her way out of this. A... simulation? It could be ended? Why did he not just freeze it like he had before?... Maybe it was his fight. He seemed to be good at it. Maybe it would end if he just stopped having so much damn fun.
>>”What can you do?”
Amethyst looked up the half-naked, annoying demigod.
"This." she noted, pushing at his knees as hard as she could. Maybe if the sharks ate him, the simulation would be over.
Amethyst used her palms to comb wet hair out of her face. Her dress was clinging to her, and the sudden drop of temperature made her shiver. Her bracelets and anklets clinked as she pulled her knees up.
>>”White whale? Nope. Shark?”
"Shark?" she stared at the shirtless guy balancing on the door. His legs were covered in sudden ice. "There are sharks in here?!"
Amethyst did not want to be in this room anymore. Whatever kind of perverted things these people at Xavier's were up to, with captive mermen and shark tanks, she wanted no part of it. Did the Queen even know about this?
The guy - everyone calls me Sam - shot a bolt of ice at the water, then made some kind of a weapon out of ice to hit a merman. He was clearly a demigod.
>>”You gonna sit there or help?”
Despite her less than stable position, Amethyst folded her arms.
"And what do you suggest I should do?" it wasn't like she had useful powers. She was not about to start tossing gemstones at the sharks. The guy looked like he was not about to stop with the madness. "Are you... enjoying this?"
The whole scene was insane, and all kinds of threatening when viewed from the water. Amethyst pedaled towards the floating platform, but it was not easy with mercreatures jumping around her brandishing weapons. What kind of a place was this? Did the school just have some kind of an ocean tank in the basement, filled with murderous gorgons? Why?!
The platform floated closer, and the man - boy, reall, he could not have been much older than her - offered a hand.
>>”Everyone else just calls me Sam.”
"I don't care." Amethyst spat, but took the hand anyway - damn, he was cold - and struggled in a very ungraceful manner out of the water.
>>”Hurry up! Double time!”
The platform - was it a door?! - wobbled under their combined weight as Amethyst pulled her legs out of the water. Something under them made contact, and made the whole thing even more unstable. There was a large shadow under the surface.
