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.
He'd been there? Wow, another lizard that knew what surviving alone was like! What were the odds?! Regardless of that though Koga was going to lead the way to the rock! Dahlia was thrilled at the prospect of a good sun bath. She always felt best when she had plenty of sunlight. It didn't take them long to reach the sunlit boulder. Koga had been right. It was the perfect place to sun. The rock would be nice and warm and it looked like the sun would shine on that particular rock for most of the day. She grinned happily before remembering the dislike of that facial expression and proceeded to scramble up the rock right beside Koga. Once she reached the top she found a good place to sprawl and started soaking up rays.
"Oh this is nice! Thank you for showing it to me Koga!"
Now Dahlia knew just the place to go in this part of town for some good sun. That was priceless to her. The sun and her happiness made it difficult to censor her speech for things she normally wouldn't tell people. So her next words were maybe not what she would have normally said.
"It's hard to find any place this nice to sun near the Sanctuary. Then again maybe I just haven't found the right spots yet."
Dahlia stretched and yawned, thinking nothing of the fact that she'd just told her fellow lizard freak where she was living. Her colors brightened considerably into swirls of bright yellow, green, and blue as the sun just made her feel good.
Thankfully he was willing to switch topics pretty easily. There was no way she could be pretty! Monsters weren't pretty at all and she was a monster. Even though there were a lot of titles on the shelves Akshay seemed to know exactly where the ones he was thinking of showing her was. That was pretty impressive! It made sense though because how could you work in a place that you didn't know well? Dahlia looked at the comics he showed her. Both ladies were so obviously heroic in ways that Dahlia would never be. She couldn't help but admire them, though she liked the red headed woman better. She looked strong and human and Dahlia envied that.
Akshay told her about them both and Dahlia smiled a little. He really seemed to like these things. Maybe they'd be fun? Dahlia looked a little closer as he talked but stopped when he admitted to writing and drawing the Slaggathor comic.
"What?! You wrote and drew that?! That's awesome! She's so pretty! You must be really good at these comics!"
To be so talented at something...Dahlia was shocked. It was amazing! Now she wanted to read the comic and see the rest of it. But she didn't have any money and hadn't been stealing since she'd moved into the Sanctuary.
Gina seemed to take the smoothie suggestion well. That was good. Very very good. Dahlia didn't want to scare off such a fun looking mutant! Gina was, after all the best of both sorts of mutant. She looked mostly human but she had some cool monster traits too. Gargoyles were pretty fun after all and Gina seemed really nice. Gina had to be nice if she was going to talk to a freak! And talk she did by asking Dahlia where she was from. Dahlia panicked for a moment, trying not to show it though her colors shone through anyway turning her orange and yellow for several minutes. She'd run away after all. Gina seemed nice but Dahlia didn't know if she'd keep quiet if she found out about that. Lying wasn't nice though.
"Um, yeah I'm from around here."
Dahlia paused for a beat as she mentally scrambled for a topic.
"So, uh, what's California like? I bet it's amazing!"
Maybe that would keep her new friend from prying? Besides, she really did want to know about California. Dahlia had never been there and didn't think she ever would be.
"And school? Why would you come here for school?"
That puzzled Dahlia. Then again she hadn't gone to school since she ran away. They'd try to return her to her parents and her parents didn't want a monster around, Dahlia was certain of that!
Heh, something else for Drew to feel guilty about! He won't have been there to help defend the Mansion and finding his home in that state and the dead would have been fairly troubling to him. Anyone that died in that attack can consider themselves buried by Drew A.K.A Styx, Horseman of Death.
Another day in the bone fortress with her Big Sisters. Dahlia was grateful these days just for waking up to see another day. It wasn't easy surviving after the world went mad and she'd had to grow up quick after the blast. It hadn't stopped her from getting neck deep into the trouble that brought her to the bone fortress. That was okay. Of course she was still more lenient than almost everyone in the place other than maybe Big Sister Allison. She always seemed more mellow than the others. Dahlia didn't really like the raiding and theft they did to survive but she'd reconciled herself to the idea that it was necessary.
Though whoever they'd stolen the stuff for today's breakfast from ought to be shot.
Even in her own room Dahlia smelled the substance and based on that could guess what today was going to be. Still, she put on a smile and wandered into the kitchen. Noting Queen Maxine's boots Dahlia smirked a little on the inside. Sometimes being too awkward for clothes and shoes paid off. Dahlia grabbed a seat, ignoring the stuff called food. Big Sister Sveta had tried but Dahlia wasn't going to eat that. Not when she, unlike her Big Sisters, could get sustenance from any bugs they ran across. On that note the bone fortress had zero roach problems. So they were going to go raiding. Well at least she might get to ride the war dogs and come up with a new set of War Colors. That was a plus.
It took another calm reply from Gina for Dahlia to realize she was rambling. It was a bad habit she picked up when she was nervous or excited. She'd just talk and talk and talk. Whatever crossed her mind would get said. It was embarrassing and a flush of red arose on Dahlia's scales. It only got brighter when Gina insisted that she would pay for her! She stood there for a minute thinking about it before nodding.
"O-ok!"
Goodness but Gina was nice! First she offered to pay for what Dahlia got to eat and then she asked what she wanted! Of course now she had to figure out what she wanted. Food that didn't take much chewing was best for her so she thought about it as she and the gargoyle walked toward the food court.
"Um...smoothies?"
Dahlia liked fruit and she could drink a smoothie. It seemed like the perfect compromise to her! Unless maybe Gina didn't like smoothies? Goodness she hadn't even thought about that!
"Unless you don't like smoothies. Then we can get something else. What do you like?"
Dahlia smiled as best she could without seeming creepy, yet again. Koga was a good name. It was short and easy to say, even for her.
"Koga it is then!"
It was really nice of him to try and make sure she had a place to stay. Maybe he liked helping out his fellow freaks? Some of her scales took on a rosy hue for a moment or two no matter what his reason. It was just plain nice of him after all.
"Thanks. It is nice being off the street!"
However the most exciting thing he'd said in that whole last sentence had her perking up visibly and turning bright orange. A good place to lounge in the sun was a great find and he was sharing that with her?! That was awesome.
"Yay! You wanna go?!"
The chance to spend more time with a fellow lizard freak and get in some quality sun time? Yes please!
She grinned and giggled at Gina. The other girl seemed amused by her amazement. But being a gargoyle was way cooler than being a lizard and Dahlia just knew that she was mostly orange and purple now. It was hard not to be with such a cool mutant around. Gina was a freak like her after all but unlike Dahlia she still looked mostly human.
"Sorry but it's just so cool meeting another...well someone sorta like me."
Somehow she didn't think the other girl would react too well to the word that Dahlia usually used to describe mutants like themselves. The mention of possibly getting food though did make Dahlia hungry. She didn't really have any money on her though. Where would she put it?
"Um, I'm kinda broke." her scales went red for a moment, "But I'd love to hang out!"
Dahlia cast a brief, one eyed, longing glance at the clothes. Oh how she wanted to wear pretty clothes again. And shoes! Oh shoes. But freaks didn't get nice things so Dahlia contented herself with giving her new maybe friend the least creepy smile she could manage!
Dahlia smiled. She could do both of them being to blame for it. It was hard to be angry when she was meeting such an cool mutant anyway! He had a funny name, Ryuichi Koga. It sounded Asian but Dahlia wasn't going to saying anything.
"So which do you prefer? Ryuichi or Koga?"
She blinked as one eye swiveled to check out the area around her. With her difficult hearing it was easier to keep one eye on things around her than it was to rely on her ears. The eye quickly snapped back to her new reptilian buddy as he copied her colors and she grinned widely. Of course he followed it up with a comment about that Xavier's place and wondering if she was ok. Her colors dulled and shifted more toward blue for a few moments before returning to the bright combination that he'd copied.
"I'm ok. I have a place to stay now."
Of course the Sanctuary wasn't quite what she'd pictured when Kaitlyn had brought her there but it was a safe place to sleep and eat at least.
But it didn't have another color shifting lizard person either. Or a really nice gargoyle girl.
It was a very pretty butterfly and Ouch! Dahlia's hands and feet swiftly found purchase on her tree branch to stop herself from tumbling off of it. Someone had run into her tail! Then again that was sorta her fault for not minding the tricky thing. Curling the appendage in question in front of her Dahlia poked at it to make sure nothing was out of place before dropping off her tree branch to look at the guy that had bumped into her tail.
And boy was he something!
Meeting another lizard type was amazing! Dahlia couldn't help it, she gaped a little. Some violet crept into her patterns as she did so.
"Oh no, it was my fault. I should have been minding my tail."
It was still an odd thing to have to say, even after more than a month as a chameleon.
"So, um, it's nice to meet you! I'm Dahlia!"
There was no way she'd let an opportunity to talk to another lizard person jog by! It was just too cool meeting another freak of her particular variety.
Dahlia always went outside on the sunny days. There was just no way to avoid it. Being out in the sun just felt too good. So if she was all orange, yellow, and green it was totally understandable because the sun just made her happy! Parks were the best of course. Parks had trees and trees were great for climbing. Sure if there were enough holds Dahlia could scale a building easily but trees were more fun and felt much more natural. So if a few of the joggers were startled by a large lizard tail dangling from a branch or by catching a glimpse of her multifocal eyes then it was a small price to pay. Dahlia just thought of it as a wonderful prank and moved on.
As time slipped onward Dahlia's focus went here and there. So when a certain jogger came within sight of her tree she wasn't paying attention to the path below. In fact, she was lounging on a low hanging branch in the sunlight and staring at a butterfly that seemed as intrigued by her as she was it. Far too intrigued to pay attention to where any pesky extra appendages such as tails might be. So Dahlia really wasn't aware that said tail was once again hanging right in the middle of the path, curled in a loose spiral at the end.
