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.
Kate smiled and nodded in understanding. She of all people understood having a power that ruled you. A power that was involved in every moment of every day of your life. Though she imagined voices in your head were far less deadly then uncontrollable fire, but that was beside the point.
“Well that is quite interesting and I think I understand more then you know. My powers have a bit of that too. I just never tell anyone because I would sound off my rocker talking about some of my crazy dreams.” Kate had to stop herself she wasn’t trying to make Evelyn uncomfortable. Quite the opposite she was trying to make her comfortable. They were just in an uncomfortable situation and were going to have to fight their way out of it.
“Though, none of that is quite like you. I did always love a good Sherlock Holmes novel. Trust me he was a little bit crazy in a brilliant sort of way.”
Kate pulled off her jacket with more force then was even remotely necessary and shoved it into the closet slamming the door behind it. She looked at him in her fridge and rolled her eyes. What did he think he was looking for? If it was more beer he would be very disappointed. Kate didn’t keep things like that in her apartment. Sure Hanna would occasionally have something in a bottle but that was cider Kate had thought. She wasn’t’ exactly sure she didn’t’ partake in the stuff after all.
She moved across the room and up the stairs into her bedroom leaving Sam to do as he pleased. She pulled off each piece of jewelry and took off her shoes to exchange them for a warm pair of slippers. The house was set at a nice 100 and she hoped that Sam wasn’t too hot. She may have been mad at him but she still cared a great deal for the idiot. She knew he didn’t like the hot just as much as she didn’t like the cold.
She was only gone for a few minuets before she emerged still wearing her quarter sleeved navy blue sweater and a cute little mustard yellow dress with matching blue stockings. Sitting on the couch she crossed her legs and waited for Sam to say something, anything to defend himself. He really wasn’t a bad teacher when he was around to teach her. She however was mad. She was angry with him for leaving her alone to figure this stupid change in her powers all by herself. He had always been there for her expect for this time when she actually needed him. Her life was never perfect but he had made it a little better then left her alone to let it fall right back down again.
Though, as he spoke and she learned the truth her expression changed from one of anger to one of confusion. She hadn’t know any of that. She hadn’t known he did any of that. Why had no one told her any of this was going on? She had been at the mansion a number of times over the past year that Sam seemed to not be around. Maybe it was less then that but it seemed like a year. She jumped out of her seat as he made his way to the door. “SAM WAIT.” She practically ran across the room in an attempt to grab his arm and stop him. She probably shouldn’t considering her lack of control over her own body temperature though she wasn’t thinking about that right now.
“I didn’t… I didn’t know any of that. Are you okay? Did they do anything to you? I mean other then the mind control. Is there something I can do?” It was funny how she had gone to thinking about herself and her mutation to putting all her focus on him. She should have been concerned about the students he had taken and the X’s he had hurt, but they weren’t in front of her right now. He was and she cared far more for him then she did about any nameless persons he may have hurt.
Kate rolled her eyes. For someone who said that he knew of her mutation he sure didn’t act like he did. She was very much not in the mood for any of this right now. School was getting ever more stressful as they got further into the semester. She didn’t really have the time to babysit her adult teacher and mentor. You would think a man that called himself an educator would have better sense. Apparently not.
She shivered as the room lowered slightly thanks to Sam using his mutation, something she chose to ignore as she watched the numbers rise on the digital screen before her. She was rather pissed right now and it was taking all she had to keep from lighting something on fire. Something like Sam. However, that meant that she wasn’t concentrating on the temperature of her own skin anymore to keep it low and she wasn’t stopping herself from raising the temperature of the small elevator.
“Honestly, Mr. Johnson I don’t give a shit.” One of the interesting things about Kate since she had opened herself up to her mutation more, her anger had gotten worse. It wasn’t like she had a short Fuse. She could take a lot. It was more that when she got mad she got really mad really fast. Which was surly not helping with her ability to control her powers. And the less control she had the more frustrated and annoyed she got. It was really a vicious cycle.
Once they had gotten to the Penthouse, Kate marched across the small hall to the door jamming her key in the lock and forcing it open letting Sam follow her. She got all the way to the middle of the living room before she turned with fire in her eyes. “Sam I’m sorry but I don’t want to hear it. I don’t want to hear about how I should breath right now and calm down and relax. That isn’t me. I don’t’ relax. I am tense and stressed all the time. Yes I know it’s not healthy but that makes very little difference.” She took a deep breath counting to 10 in her head and calming herself slightly before she continued.
“You haven’t helped me with training in over a year. Yes in part that is my fault but it is still true. You can’t come in on some random day when I am waking you up and you are still drunk and try to be my teacher again. Life doesn’t work that way. Either help me learn or don’t. My mutation is not waiting for a time that it is convenient for you.”
She hadn’t known she was upset with him about this until this moment. It had been months and months and months since she had seen him and she hated it. She let out an exasperated yell and aimed a fireball at the actual fire place before she lost control. In a second the thing lit up in white flame before calming to a nice warm orange.
Kate smiled at Evelyn thankful she had accepted Kate’s offer to join her. She kind of enjoyed getting to know Gawain’s girlfriends. She was stuck with them and it was nice to know that they were nice you know. She enjoyed being able to make sure he was well taken care of too. There was no way in hell she was going to let him be treated badly by his choice of girl.
“Echos?” Kate really didn’t know much about Evelyn. She kind assumed she had seen the echos a bit the last time they met but wasn’t positive. It probably had to do with the girls mutation. Like Kate she may not have been fully able to control what it did for her and to her.
Looking at Ami she was no better off then Kate was. Yes she didn’t look as tired and run down but she did look sad. It was to be expected. Sam had been important to Kate, but he had been that way for a lot of people. Kate was not really special in that regard. Or at least she didn’t think so. He was a teacher and a mentor and touched the lives of many kids over the years.
Though as Ami brought him up something that hadn’t healed yet broke again and Kate had to fight the urge to start crying again. She didn’t seem to be able to stop anymore. Something would make her think of him and it would be all over. Tears everywhere. “Yes. Not really taking it as well as I would hope I could.” Kate let out a small sigh, “How are you holding up yourself?”
She wasn’t’ really looking at Ami though she was looking in her direction. She was instead looking past her at a happy little family laughing and smiling behind her. Her mind seemed to drift as she stood wondering what that was like. What was it like to have a happy little family that you could go to the park with and enjoy the day? For Kate it had only been one sadness after another. Though, no matter what she had lived through it never got easier.
Sometimes it was like there was a switch in Kate’s brain. She could be the most calm and well collected person on the planet one second, then the most pissed off and annoyed the next. As Sam spoke that switch flipped and she went from being mildly annoyed but okay to being pissed, which for her was a bad thing.
She pushed open the door as the car halted and started marching into her building. Stopping only for a second to smile at the doorman as he opened the door. “Why would I want to set anything on fire on purpose?! The point is to stop setting things on fire. If I could I would never set anything on fire ever again. But I can’t do that now can I?” She pressed the button on the elevator over and over in rapid succession as if it would make the thing come faster. She didn’t really want to talk about this in the lobby of her 5th avenue high rise.
Once they were in the elevator and the door was closed she turned to Sam with determination all over her face. “Do you just not remember how my mutation works? I try to come to that school every day to let go of a little fire. And if I can’t get there I simply find another way to let out some power.” Her face softened as she thought of things she hated to think about. The real terror of her powers. “If I don’t I run the risk of history repeating itself.” Her words seemed to trail off at the end as she turned forward and looked up at the numbers changing on the LED screen. There was one thing that Kate was more afraid of then anything in this world and it was losing control of her mutation.
Kate’s shoulders rose very aware of the subtle temperature drop in the car Sam’s ice was causing. It was small but she noticed these things. It was funny how much the pair opposed each other when it came to mutations. To Kate he was family and yet if he wanted he could kill her in seconds. It wouldn’t take very much. All he had to do was create some ice around her and her natural weaknesses would do the rest. It would literally take him seconds to reduce her to nothingness. However she knew he wouldn’t no matter how much she annoyed or upset him. She couldn’t say the same about herself and setting him on fire, but that would have been an accident.
As if he knew what she was thinking, “I am okay with them. I was okay with them before. I just have to make sure to keep my emotions in check. Keep control.” She doesn’t look over to him as she speaks. She simply watches the crowed outside of the window. She knows exactly what he is talking about and it isn’t’ her favorite subject. “I try to, however sometimes even breathing doesn’t help. Though I am getting better at putting out the fires once I start them. So that is an up side to everything.” That statement had far more sarcasm in it that she had intended. Though, having no control over her powers was kind of driving her slowly mad. She wanted nothing more then to be able to walk down the street without the fear of lighting something on fire. She had tried a year ago to lock herself up in the danger room but Sam hadn’t let her and now over a year later she still hadn’t gotten a handle on her new ability to spontaneously light things on fire at random when she was upset.
Kate bit her lip thinking of the right way to phrase this without upsetting Gawain. He didn’t really understand this world in the way she did. There were things that Albert had to do that she understood and Gawain may not. Albert had responsibilities and obligations. “They could be better but they aren’t bad. We don’t get to spend much time together as of late and I miss him is all. I can get lonely with everyone off doing their own things.”
Kate took a deep breath as she stepped out into the brisk fall air. Her eyes were bloodshot and there were dark circles marring her usually perfect complexion. She had yet to sleep a full night since she heard about Sam’s death. It was hard to say if this was because of the news or because she was sleeping in a hotel. No mater what the reason it Kate was a bit of a mess. She had been walking around the city like a zombie not really sure what to do with herself. She had thought that nothing could hurt as much as her mother’s death, but she was wrong. Sam had been just as much a part of her family as her mom was and therefore finding out he was dead hurt just as much. She had tried so hard over the past few months to keep him alive and make sure he was okay with the drinking and the personal stuff. She had never ever thought that he wouldn’t be strong enough to fight something off. Though that was the way things worked with these Zodiacs. They had been plaguing mutants for a while and it was only a matter of time before they killed one of the really powerful ones in the city.
Kate turned a corner and headed in the direction of her favorite coffee shop to get a little bit of a pick me up before she headed to school to once again bury herself in sheet music. It had really turned into her only comfort lately even before Sam’s death. She could get so lost in it that hours would pass and she wouldn’t even notice. It wasn’t exactly healthy but it was her way of coping. Besides it was way better then going out into the rain in December.
She heard her name called and turned around to see a familiar face. She tried to smile politely but it wouldn’t form. All she could manage was a sad lift of the corners of her mouth. It was interesting how a little grief could make things that were so simple so much harder. “Hello Ami. It is very nice to see you. How have you been?” It was probably the most generic thing she could have said but it was better then nothing.
Kate chuckled finding the other girls passion for art refreshing. It was so odd to find someone their age that had such a refined interest. Though, by what she could tell Evelyn didn’t qualify as a normal girl their age. She gave off an air similar to Kate’s just much more American. It was refined and graceful but much more relaxed in comparison. Or at least that was Kate’s impression. She could have been completely wrong for all she knew but it was irrelevant.
She looked over at the girl and scooted over slighting to give Evelyn space to join her if she wanted. “It really is no bother. I am simply transcribing. I can talk as I do it. I feel we should get to know each other at least a little bit.” She inclined to the spot in on the bench next to her as if to tell Evelyn to join her. She honestly did want to get to know her. Just like she had with Twyla and Ami before her. Mirror was a very large part of Kate’s life no matter how much they talked. They were very important to the blonde and therefore she wanted to make an effort to know the people that were important to them. And at the moment that was Evelyn.
As soon as they entered the room Kate got to work. She filled the kettle with water and placed in onto the stove turning it up as high as the burner would go watching the blue flame as it ignited with interest. She may have hated her powers at times but thye were still her powers. She was still part fire and therefore seeing it always seemed ot warm her insides a bit. It was as if any flame around her spoke to her own internal flame and brought joy to the angry beast. She focused for a second and the flame grew causing her to smile.
Kate turned to the other girl glancing at the cabinet for a moment before choose to instead go to the cupboard. She opened the double doors and bent over to glance at a shelf about half way down. In the back of this shelf there was a large wooden box about 10 inches by 15 inches. It was funny how it was exactly where she left it as if no one had pulled it out to look at it at all. She reached in her hands and carefully pulled it out not wanting to tip it over. Moving over to the counter she placed it down and pulled it open revealing a number of bags full of loose leaf tea. “It isn’t really meant for tea but I find it works rather well. In all honesty I am not sure what it was originally used for.” She had found it at a thrift store years ago and never really asked it’s intended purpose.
She thought for a moment running her hand over the bags before changing her mind and moving over to the cabinet right next to the cupboard. She pulled up a step stool that was intended for the shorter students and reached up to the top shelf pulling out a teapot and 2 teacups with saucers. She placed them down on the counter and moved back to the box pulling out a tea infuser and a bag of Indian Black Tea. She pulled some out and put it into the infuser and as if on cue the kettle began to whistle. She let it go for a few more seconds wanting it extra hot before he pulled it off and poured the water into the pot with the infuser.
“I hope you don’t mind I wanted to use my own. I ran out of this tea at home and have been craving it.” She first moved the two cups to the table and then the pot which still needed a few moments to steep. She placed her hands on either side of the hot ceramic and focused trying to keep the temperature from cooling even slightly as they waited.
Kate was smiling but it wasn’t a real smile. It was the fake one she put on at parties to try and keep everyone from knowing the little bit of pain she felt. Her life was happy and perfect because it wasn’t allowed to be anything else.
>>>>>What do you mean? Is everything okay between you two?
She looked Gawain in the eyes wondering exactly how to explain. “Things are…Okay.” It was as much a lie as it was the truth. It wasn’t that things were bad. They were quite the opposite when they were together. When they were together she was first in his life. He would dedicate every moment they had together to her. However, they were so rarely together.
Kate barely heard the stranger as she moved trying to make it through this man’s stupid idea of a good time without getting beaned in the face. “I’m not venting anything thank you. What I was doing is a requirement of my mutation.” Needless to say she was rather annoyed at this point and her tone did nothing to hide it. How dare this child of a man come in here and think it was a good idea for a surprise training session. Who did he think he was? Sam?
Kate moved with as much grace as she could muster only daring to let out a fire ball once the man had moved away from her enough that she didn’t think he was at risk of melting. The metal ball it came into contact with was flung back and left half melted attached to the wall. “I’m sorry but my fire has been clocked at upwards of 1500 degrees Celsius. Not sure exactly what you are made out of but I am most certainly not willing to risk your life so you can have a little fun messing with me.” She never ever liked to use her powers in this way. There were reasons her lessons with Sam had always been more about control and expansion of her power and less about combat skills. Kate was terrified of hurting someone every second of every day. There was no way in hell she was going to indulge this idiot.
She continued to bob and weave the best she could only letting out the smallest fire balls she could muster when the strange metal man was far enough away to be at no risk from the heat. Hey for all she knew he was made out of tin and would melt if she even tried to touch him.
Kate chuckled back at the girl. She had only known this girl for a few moments and she could already tell she liked her. She was sweet and funny and British. Kate kept finding herself smiling and it was nice.
It was as if the girl had read her mind about warming up with some tea. A smile grew on Kate’s face as she thought about getting to use her china tea set with someone that might actually appreciate drinking from it. Someone who actually may understand the difference of drinking from something like it in comparison to plain old ceramic mugs. “I would love to join you. I could use some warming up honestly and the company seems nice enough.” Kate gestured for the girl to lead the way as she followed her to the kitchen.
“If you wouldn't mind terribly I would like to make the tea myself. I am a bit particular about it being just so.” Kate had almost wanted to say nothing about it but she knew that if the tea wasn’t hot enough it would seem cold to her and she would not enjoy it. She had gotten used to a lot more things at cooler temperatures over the years but the one thing that she could never seem to shake was the need for things that went into her body to be at boiling temperatures.
