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.
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Pippa let out a sigh. Those were the questions. Sabine was right in asking them.
"I... am not even sure." Might as well be honest, since she was not going to be very eloquent. "Maybe because... it feels like it was going in the right direction? You're not a bad person either, Sabine. You deserve some actual support." And that was her job. The actual work part of the equation. And she needed to be doing something she believed in.
The irony of her believing in SUPER was not lost on Pippa.
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This was... off. Something was off. Pippa was not sure how to even begin sorting through the mess that was this whole situation. SUPER, and the two of them, and her past life, and Sabine's past life. But walking out... did not feel like the solution.
"If I wanted out I could have left." she pointed out, feeling a bit stubborn. "And you didn't hurt me."
>>"Keeping you around would be selfish of me. I am just trying to give you an out to be safe and happy, and you're making it difficult."
Well.
Safe... yeah. Pippa had been attacked and kidnapped several times since she started working with Sabine. Happy... that was another thing. Sabine saying any of this so openly... that was an entirely new thing.
"You..." she cleared her throat. "You know you don't have to send me away to make me happy. And I do feel safe with you."
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Pippa didn't really feel like a good person right about now. If she had to do it all over again... she probably would have done the exact same thing, but that didn't mean she had to feel good about it. She watched the proof of her previous life being shredded, and twisted her gloved fingers together in her lap.
>>"It might be best if we give each other some space. I can... I'm sure I could talk to Svetlana about ending your service with SUPER. I'm sorry if your time here was harder for keeping your secret."
Pippa looked up, surprised. She had... not expected that. She didn't want that. She was not even sure why she was so sure about it, but that was definitely not what she wanted.
"That's not... Is that what you want?" she asked more quietly.
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Ooh boy. This was going to be a longer conversation. Pippa sat down at the kitchen table, motioning to Carrick to sit too, since he was already eating anyway.
"So... you... fought a killer clown." New York City never ceased to surprise people. Damn. She saw the scars on Carrick's hands... seemed like he did catch the blades, although not in the most convenient way. "We're gonna need a report about that, by the way." Inters gotta intern, after all. "But let's leave that aside for a moment. So, you got injured, and you noticed that you... had a healing factor?"
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Pippa was not sure if she had expected better or worse, finding out that Sabine knew her secret. On the one had, she had expected an explosion of (partially warranted) fury, and there was none. On the other hand, Sabine's disappointment somehow stung worse.
>>"I can't pretend I wasn't part of the problem with the old SUPER. I understand why, even after everything, you'd be cautious. I guess I want you to know, if you had come to me about this, I would have supported you. I'm still going to support you."
Pippa let out the breath she had been holding. Her brain was slowly catching up to what was happening, and with it the realization that this might irrevocably change her life at SUPER. Or her... friendship with Sabine.
>>"You did what you had to do so you could survive. I... wish I had heard it from you first. But I know now."
"Yeah." Pippa muttered. She wished she could have told Sabine, but she doubted she would have any time in the near future. That didn't make her feel any less crappy about it.
>>"I'll double-check active records to make sure there are no red flags I missed. So I guess... I don't know, is there anything else you need to tell me? Or want to tell me."
"I..." Pippa was at a loss, so she was quiet for a long time, looking at Sabine. What else was there to say? ".. thank you. I guess I... I don't know. I just want to tell you, that the other Pippa... Peggy... she's not me. She was not a good person. I am... who I am. I didn't make up that part. Does that... make sense?" It probably didn't.
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Pippa felt her cheeks burning. The secret was out now. She wasn't sure what Sabine would say; she had every right to be angry at her. Or disappointed. Which was worse. She spoke in a tense tone, but somehow, to Pippa her disappointment felt worse than anger.
>>"You're lucky I found out, Pippa. I lucked into these files. What if anyone else made this connection first? What if one of the homeworld holdouts pieced this together? Do you know how easily they'd pin something on you? False imprisonment. Fraud. They'd find a way to deal with you and I would have been able to do nothing about it because you left me in the dark."
"You mean, like lock me in a sinking ship?" Pippa was not sure if the attacks they had gone through together were aimed at her or at Sabine. Or both. She had felt guilt for a long time for that. She did not like the idea of putting anyone in danger... but also, the more she got to know Sabine, the more she felt like she did not deserve the lies.
>>"I... I couldn't imagine what it was like in your position, Pippa. I won't pretend to. And I get you needing to be cautious, but... I guess I hoped I was someone you could trust by now. I'm sorry I wasn't."
Pippa sighed, biting her lips. This was not at all how she'd imagined the secret coming out, and the leader of SUPER reacting to it. It was actually pretty far from what she'd imagined.
"SUPER... on the other side, SUPER hunted me for years. The rift was a chance to disappear." she explained, trying to put words together. "And then I somehow ended up... right here. And I told myself I could gather information, and make sure the whole 'new SUPER' was not just for show. I really thought it was. But then... by the time I started to believe you meant it, it was... kinda too late to come clean."
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The sinking feeling got worse as Sabine laid out the evidence. Apparently, reports still made their way across the rift before it closed. Peggy's among them. Pippa had hoped it would get buried, and she did what she could to make information disappear before she joined Haven. But in the end, it was back to bite her in the ass. Big time.
Sabine was not looking at her. Pippa fidgeted with her gloves, looking down at her knees. This was going to hurt.
>>"So we have Pippa Swan, captured, calling herself Peggy, and then there's my Pippa, going by Peggy before she upended her life and showed up to be my conscience. Make this make sense, Pip."
Pippa looked up, and their eyes met, and she realized she was not going to be able to lie in Sabine's face. There used to be a time when she would have told a lie, made something up to get out of this, explain the whole thing away, and never blinked twice, because it was SUPER, and SUPER was evil. But now... it was different. It was Sabine. And Pippa was caught too deep in the lie to get away with it.
Then there's my Pippa
She sighed, defeated.
"I guess it was stupid to hope you'd never find out..."
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Pippa had a sudden sinking feeling in her stomach. She watched Sabine fiddle with the cigarette and the lighter as she spoke. She didn't ask a question directly, but talking about her past... about mutant activism, and another woman like her... Pippa silently prayed this would not go the way she thought it was going. Because if it did... she couldn't take it back. She had been keeping this secret for a long time to keep herself safe. But now it felt like a betrayal.
"Sure" she swallowed, eyeing the files Sabine showed her. "What do you need?"
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Sabine had to be stressed if she was smoking; Pippa had not really seen her smoke before. The pile of files on her desk was an easy explanation. Paperwork sucked on many levels, when one was in a leading position. Especially when there was a lot of it. It was more boring than fieldwork, and yet usually a lot more pressing. Pippa nodded, willing to help if she could. She was surprised, however, at the question aimed at her.
"Yes... around that time. A bit after the rift opened, actually" she nodded cautiously.
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Pippa could smell the smoke before she walked into the office. At first she thought Sabine had someone in there, some important visitor she needed to talk to who could not be reprimanded for smoking indoors. Pippa squared her shoulders as she walked in, elegantly dressed in her powder blue work attire and high heels - but there was no one else in there except Sabine, and the faint traces of cigarette smoke. Pippa blinked in surprise, and closed the door. Sabine looked swamped in work as usual - but also more stressed out than usual.
Pippa walked over to sit in the chair she usually did when they had work meetings, and looked at Sabine curiously.
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>>”Ya sure? Been getting better at it! Only would break a table this time. Promise!”
"Don't make me spray you with a bottle of water."
>>”Define injured?”
"No."
>>”I mean, Doc patched me up, might have left some already existing holes to heal on their own. I might come into a bump or a scrape now and then. Concerts, magic tricks, clowns, the danger room... I mean nothing that would warrant ya to worry about me.”
"Oh, I'm not worried about you." She was, but that was beside the point. "I'm worried about SUPER's work, since you insist on being our intern." An intern who was a loose cannon to say the least. "You know it would be easier if you told me what the hell happened. And then we can talk about your healing factor."
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Having an intern... eventually a possible agent (not that she would tell him that) with a healing factor, that was a catch for any agency. But Pippa was not sure even Carrick himself knew what he was dealing with at this point.
>>”Well, it doesn’t not- not mean that. On or off the record? My answer might change slightly.”
"Carrick."
>>”Does it count when I shift? Tear me skin off don’t I? Before and after the turn. I can give ya a demonstration if ya want.”
"No, do not. Not in the kitchen" Pippa hurried to clarify. She did not need skin and fur flying everywhere in a space where people ate. "I mean, that has been part of your shifting... but other than that? Did you... get injured recently?"
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>>”No. I don’t think. I know... Well not all of them. Was probably gonna test it at the pinky and see how things went from there... when ya put it like that it does sound bad doesn’t it?”
"You think?!" Pippa's voice went up to a higher register as the truth of the situation settled in. The dumb kid really was going to cut his fingers off. For gossakes. And not only that, but he also seemed sure they would grow back.
>>”Works better when I turn. New skin heals the old ones but... Immortal now. Pretty sure we shouldn’t be telling the world though.”
Pippa ignored the food theft, for the time being.
"First off" she noted, pinching the bridge of her nose. "Healing factor does not equal immortal. Second, you don't test a healing factor without an actual healer present! What was the worst thing you have healed from, so far?"
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>>”Kinda caught me with my hand in the cookie jar.”
Pippa quirked an eyebrow. Sure. A really horrific, bloody, painful cookie jar. That made sense. Carrick leaned closer to share a secret...
>>”Listen... I ummmm... I’m pretty sure I’m immortal now.”
... maybe he really was on something.
"Elaborate."
>>”Might have walked in on me testing me theory. The healer back at the mansion said me powers stich meself up after all the scrapes I--- stumble across. Testing limits and all that.”
Okay, finally something made sense.
"You... think you developed a healing factor?" Pippa knew enough to have met mutants who could heal, in various ways to various degrees. "... and you wanted to test it with cutting your fingers off?!"
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If someone had told her that she would spend this day off having a dirt fight with her boss, Pippa would have called them an idiot with no hesitation. And yet, here she was. By the time they ran out of breath, they were both sitting on the ground, covered in gardening soil, and laughing.
>>"You know, I didn't expect things to get dirty when I knocked on your door tonight, Pippa."
Pippa looked up from picking dirt out of her cleavage. For a moment, she wasn't sure if that was... an innuendo. Maybe Sabine just didn't realize she was... um.
Pippa got off the ground, trying in vain to dust herself off. At least the larger chunks fell from her clothes to the floor.
"Yeah, let's sweep this up." she looked around at all the dirt on the floor. "After that, you can use my shower if you want to."
