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.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 13:54:12 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
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1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
And so they faded to that little spot on the wall. And blurred. And shifted. And...
Eventually, the elevator decided to move again. It interrupted nothing. It had certainly taken its time deciding what to do.
Aurum pulled his red sweater back on over his white shirt. He straightened his collar as the elevator rose. He couldn't quite contain the pleased look on his face. He looked like a guy who'd gotten exactly what he had wanted.
"That was..." Words failed him to describe exactly what that was. So, he gave up. He turned back to Riley. "So, what movie did you want to cuddle to?" He grinned.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 13:26:43 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
His hands. They caught her hands. And pressed them back against the wall as he pressed her into a kiss. "Until the moment was right, I said." Heck. He couldn't actually remember what he'd said. But now was kind of a moment.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 13:01:03 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
Inwardly, Aurum swore. Outwardly, he swore too.
"&^$*!"
Dammit. It had to have planned this. After all the jokes they'd made at its expense every time since the last time it had caught them there. Like the Kite-Eating tree, it had watched their progress. Lurking. Waiting. And now, it had them like Devil's Snare. And it didn't appear like it wanted to let go.
"*&%^." He repeated his off-color remark.
Oh well. At least they were alone. With a shrug, he just kept on keeping on. In the stopped elevator. It could lurk if it really felt the need.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 12:38:21 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
Hugging and kissing all the way.
Well, maybe not all the way. Maybe he had to have his eyes on the road at some point. And it was rude to show off in front of people. And he had a feeling that despite their best efforts, many men of the couples grouped all over the ice had reason to stare. They couldn't control it. He knew he was lucky. He had a smoking hot model with an awesome personality, after all.
The motorcycle, it got parked. And the kissing, it intensified as they worked their way up the steps. And into the building. And into the elevator. Someone, somehow, managed to push a button. It was time to go up for them.
Doors slid shut, ding.
Upward Movement. Movement down her back. Hands held.
The elevator jerked to a stop.
Silence.
Maybe they'd accidentally hit more buttons than just the one...?
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 12:22:46 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
"I said if we argued about it, we'd be here all day. And." Again with the devious smile. "I was just thinking there were better uses of our time."
It would probably be a good idea to get up off the ice soon. And luckily, it wasn't too far a walk back to the benches to get their shoes, and his motorcycle wasn't far off from there. And then, it was only a short drive back to her place. There were movies there, after all. ... also, beds.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 11:55:18 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
Perfect balance is a fickle mistress. You rely on it for so long, and then... 'ooh, hey, shiny!' You fall on your ass. Riley went with him. She helped. She was good at that. And then, she was on top of him, and his whole backside hurt and he was in pain. But that was unimportant. She was hugging him, yes, but... She'd missed the most important part. The hinted 'and.'
He smiled at her deviously. "You didn't ask about the 'and'..."
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 11:35:43 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
All this? All this?!
>>”I don’t know how to do this.”
She was just keeping up.
"You try," Aurum said. And because he had good balance, he managed to pull her closer to him, taking her hands in his. "You don't have to rush it if you don't feel like it, but try." Try. It was a good word. Yoda might have said there was no 'try', only 'do', but Yoda was a muppet. Riley needed to take her words of wisdom from better role models than animatronic puppets. Like the little engine that could.
"Riley. I like you." Aurum reiterated. "And I don't think I have to tell you why. And you can argue. But we'd be here all day. And."
And... He trailed for her benefit. He'd let her pursue the 'and' to its end.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 11:09:07 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
"Why not?" Aurum asked.
She couldn't skate. She wasn't perfect. She was grumpy, and snappy, and bitter, and didn't bat an eyelash when it came to giving him a hard time. But all the same, she was Riley. And a lot of those things, he didn't mind one bit. A lot of them, he even liked.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 18, 2011 10:30:52 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
"I won't," He replied. And for a moment, his heart went out to her. He didn't want her ass getting cold.
When she was on her feet, he took her other hand. Skating backwards, he led her across the ice. He started slowly. Baby steps. To let her catch on and get into her stride.
Posted by Aurum Mellitus on Dec 17, 2011 22:25:14 GMT -6
Alpha Mutant
925
1
Sept 5, 2024 16:30:22 GMT -6
Aurum let that smirk tilt upwards as he finished doing her skates. The smirk was both at the comment about hockey uniforms and at the escape attempt.
"We can do that afterwards. I just really want to glide across the ice with you." Skates done, his hand had found its way back up to her calf as he said it. He smiled at her intently, sure he'd get his way.
