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.
Once she finished up on the phone Mina smirked at Andrew.
"Oh I don't know. You don't look like you could handle my line of work."
She allowed his hand to do as it pleased while she put the car into gear and got out onto the roads.
"By the way, we'll be staying at the Mandarin Oriental. The morning sunrise in one of their rooms overlooking Central Park is quite stunning I'm told."
It wasn't cheap but Mina didn't really believe in living cheap. Until she'd found a new place live and had gotten it fitted out as she saw fit any rendezvous she indulged in would have to be someplace other than her own warehouse. Perhaps she'd see about keeping a room there regularly until all her preparations were completely.
A slight chuckle escaped her lips. Yes he was just like every other man, easily swayed. The personalities changed and the circumstances but they were all like in that. Well, aside from the ones that preferred the company of another man instead but Mina generally didn't have to worry about that.
"I'm sure you'll be more than satisfied with my choice."
His response to her stalker issues elicited a laugh from her.
"Oh yes. Why some people feel the need for such long term attachments I'll never understand."
Mina caught his eye on her car and grinned like the cat that ate the canary. She walked over to the sleek silver jaguar stroked a hand over it's body lovingly.
"You like it? She's my baby. A treat for myself after a particular deal went very very right."
She practically draped herself over the car for a moment before sliding into the driver's seat and busying herself with calling the hotel she'd decided on to see if they had a particular sort of room available.
Mina nodded and headed for the door, expecting him to follow.
"Yes, lets. However I'm afraid my place is out since I'm in the middle of moving and neither place is currently all that habitable. I do hope you don't mind a hotel."
Mina had just the place in mind.
"It's all had to be spur of the moment so I haven't had a chance to book a room yet, though I know just the place. I've had a little stalker trouble lately you see and I'm trying to shake him off." she paused to smirk at Andrew, "Some men just don't know how to take a hint."
And considering that Mina had attempted to strangle Krisz she wasn't sure how much more blunt she could get. However she'd make use of him while she could. And when she could no longer make use of him she might shoot him. But for now she was content with her schemes.
Mina watched Andrew as he laid out a fair amount for his drink and basically challenged her to see if she was just a tease or was willing to go through with what her words had set them up for. Mina made a show of looking him up and down and then smirked.
"Oh Andrew the only people I've ever disappointed are the ones that expected me to quit."
And the many others who'd tried to beg her for their lives or for her not to hurt them. Her mother had probably been disappointed too when she'd seen her daughter coming at her ready to kill her. When she eventually retired from the business maybe she'd make a point of finding and apologizing to all the people she'd killed. That however would be a long time in the future and right now she had an evening to plan.
"So I suppose the question now is can you keep up with your mouth? Or are you all just talk?"
As she said this she reached over to the roll of bills and thumbed through it quickly. He had indeed overpaid and Mina peeled a few bills off so that the drink was still paid for and the bartender tipped but not quite so generously. She tucked the appropriated bills into Andrew's pocket with a smirk and then proceeded to pay for her own drinks.
"Commitment really isn't my style either. The only thing I'm committed to is my job."
Veiled truth was serving well here and Mina suspected that much of what he was saying was the same. It suited their purposes just fine. They really didn't want to get to know each other so lies were expected. After a comment like the one he'd just made she knew that if she was the type to expect a man to call her later she'd be sorely disappointed with him. It was a very good thing then that she didn't expect to talk to or see a man again after she was done with him. She shrugged.
"Even then I don't really care who I work for. I just like to make money."
It was callous and sounded greedy. It was also, for all intents and purposes and without sob story reasons, the truth. That word was getting quite a work out tonight with all the stretching it was doing to fit their needs.
"You're right. I'm not. Why bother if I don't get to eat the whole thing?"
Her eyebrow raised at him quizzically for a moment or two. She was fully aware of the implications of her statement and he would have no reason to believe otherwise. His inquiry as to her living situation made Mina take a drink.
"I call this city home, though I have been known to travel in the past for the job. I'm looking for a new place though. I've got something of a stalker problem that I'm looking to correct."
That was truth, though worded so as to not reveal too much.
"So any reason you came to New York? Aside from the job anyway."
She didn't care but it sounded good and would make for some conversation.
"Too true and if that's your view then I imagine you'll find yourself in a position like mine in no time."
His response to her comment about being not unattractive brought a laugh. That fact that it was entirely true only made it even funnier.
"Well it's their loss since none of them had the courage, alcohol fueled or not, to say word one to me. I don't bite...well not to hard anyway."
She gave a coy wink as a follow up her statement and drained the rest of her glass, motioning for a refill much as her acquaintance had done. Andrew introduced himself so now it was Mina's turn.
"Elizabeth Carnes. It's a pleasure to meet you."
Whether that would turn out true depended highly. So far he had yet to distinguish himself from any other easily controlled man.
So he was one of those huh? An honest man trying to make it in business? He'd better enjoy that drink since Mina doubted he'd go much further if he was bellyaching about it after a week. Of course the possibility that he was lying through his teeth was considered and left sitting in case it held true. Mina held herself a decent judge of character but she'd met many frauds over the years and a number of them would have been able to put one over on her. She just smiled as she relaxed into her role. She was a high level officer in a large business and her name was Elizabeth Carnes.
"Well honey you'll never make it far if you're whinging about it after a week. In the world of business the bottom feeders reside at the top and the honest joes at the bottom. My advice? Find yourself a comfortable middle ground so that you can make a decent wage but not go to jail when your execs get found out."
He inquired after her success and she just grinned at him tiredly. It was a smile that said 'I know what you're going through because I've been there and done that.'
"Oh yes successful enough at any rate. Of course it doesn't hurt that I'm a woman and not unattractive."
She spoke like a woman that had used her looks to get what she wanted before and it wasn't hard since Mina had done so on numerous occasions. That they fell for it every time just merely a testament o the sheer stupidity of men.
Mina rolled her eyes, deciding to play the harried executive of a less than scrupulous company.
"Yes it does. And then there's the pretending that everything is all sunshine and rainbows to the right people."
It did get tiresome to have to wear so many different personas at times. But it was essential for the job. Sometimes the only way to get close to a target was to become someone important in their lives. That meant learning everything you could about them and crafting the perfect personality and life to suit what they were looking for. She smirked at his follow up comment.
"Hardly. Business is full of scum."
It was a simply but effective statement and most importantly it didn't separate her from the scum in question but neither it did say she belonged to the scum in question. It was a nice neutral answer. Mina took a slow sip and savored her drink.
Just as Mina's drink arrived a voice interrupted her before she got it to her mouth. Her brow arched upward at what it had said and she turned to look at the man who owned the voice. She studied him for a moment and decided that he was reasonably attractive but with horrible taste in alcohol. Still she moved her glass from it's less than halfway to her mouth point into a toasting gesture.
"And to easily fooled numbskulls."
She tossed back a reasonably quantity of her drink and then closed the two stool distance between them. Mina assumed that, like most of the men in the bar whose eyes were glued to her curves, he was attracted to the way she looked and was looking for a way to start a conversation. If nothing else he'd be good for stress relief. Perhaps she'd even be able to convince Krisz when she eventually got back that she'd simply been doing a very thorough recon job.
"Hard day?"
It was an innocent enough query in an innocent enough tone. However coming from her, a woman wearing an outfit that was decidedly not innocent, well it probably didn't look like an innocent query to the rest of the bar.
Cosmina had managed to ditch Krisz that evening by convincing him that she was going to do recon and that him tagging along would be too dangerous as she needed to not be distracted. And she had done some recon at first just in case he'd followed her. After about three hours though she'd driven off to the nearest decent bar to have a drink. She wanted a good drink. The kind that cost a lot and got you drunk quick. Dealing with the sound byte was quickly wearing on her nerves and they needed a restorative.
The bar she ended up at was a nice enough place: wood paneling, wood floors, wood bar. In fact it was 99% wood of varying types. Mina couldn't help but think the place would burn easily. Call it a hunch from the days when she was starting out and mostly working the protection racket on tough customers. The clothes she was currently wearing were not remotely suited for such a place but that was something Mina had planned for. She'd packed away the same red leather outfit she'd worn to meet Detective Ryan Doyle in a bag and brought that with her into the bar. She did a quick change in the bathroom and the jeans and t-shirt were no more. Mina walked up to the bar like she belonged there and settled onto a stool after flagging down a drink.
My merc could use a couple of threads. Just to tide her over until certain plots start.
Just to reiterate: She won't attack you unless you start something, get in her way on a job, or she's been hired to. Therefore you are perfectly safe around her when she's not working. Just to dispel any nasty rumors you may have heard
Mina was twenty and the days of her training were long behind her when she first met Derek. Their paths had crossed during different jobs for the same client. Mina's had been an assassination, since she was so good at them. Derek on the other hand tended to lean more toward intimidation. He was good at it and according to him you didn't have to kill anyone if you did it right. It sounded perfectly dull to Mina. Soon there after she and Derek were assigned to the same job. It went smoothly and while Mina respected the man for his abilities over all she found him a bit soft when it came to killing. Derek on the other hand seemed perfectly enchanted by her. This was nothing new to Cosmina. Men had been easily swayed by her looks before she'd even reached eighteen. That they still responded at twenty was no surprise to her.
After that first mission with Derek every mission she got from that employer was with Derek. He seemed utterly thrilled by this and devoted much of his mission time to trying to ensure that Mina was happy. As was her way Mina allowed this to progress to several dalliances with the man. That had the side effect of increase the frequency of those soft eyed stares of his that Mina found rather disgusting. She was merely enjoying herself. He was getting attached.
That attachment proved the undoing of their last assignment together. Mina had gotten into a bit of a jam. She'd been paying a bit too much attention to her sniper scope and her surroundings. As a result three of the target's bodyguards had succeeded in getting the drop on her. Derek had dropped his task of getting the target into position to help her, thereby alerting the target to what was happening. The target got away while Derek was fighting the bodyguards, much to Mina's chagrin.
Her next meeting with their boss after that disastrous mission was quick and to the point. Kill Derek Carnes without delay. It was a task that Mina was all too happy to take.
Mina was beginning to get the hang of this cops character so when Krisz made the crack about choking men in bathrooms she just grinned. Her usual response would have been something more erotic than a grin. Krisz rambled on about her acting skill. While that talent wasn't inconsiderable she hadn't exactly been acting for at least part of the time Krisz had been with her.
"Yes well, you nearly ruined my cover in the restaurant. I was understandably angry."
She arched an eyebrow at him.
"Not one? Oh the poor men. What women in uniform will they dream about without the sexy female cop?"
The was sarcasm dripping all over her statement. She was taking this time to plan out hits, with Krisz taken into consideration, on some of her rivals and enemies. All it would really take was one successful hit and she'd be able to use the 'you were my accomplice' line on him to ensure he didn't rat her out if he discovered the truth. Yes, that nosy writer was going to regret his choice in stalking her. Eventually.
