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.
Woot! Well Sebby shall have his Promise Keeper at his side enforcing the loyalty of the masses. And perhaps stirring a little rebellion in the ranks as well. Maybe.
I don't really care either way about the set up. Just offering an alternative setup for those who are bothered by reusing the wake up. I like it either way.
We could do something that blends both approaches. Say have it be an alternate timeline that a mutant in our normal timeline is viewing. When the time comes for the plot to end that mutant can coordinate with a telepath or other psychic of some sort to send out the experiences of each character out to their counterpart in this timeline. The warning still exists, doesn't interfere with the the normal timeline, and should be just as easy as 'waking up' from a dream sequence.
If Dahlia's eyes could do so they'd be growing comically large at this point. He knew all of these comics? That was amazing! Dahlia could barely remember two pages of a book at a stretch! Akshay was kinda awesome! Dahlia certainly wasn't going to turn any less red while she was in the store with him so...
Well what was there to do in a comic book store when you didn't read comics and the guy that worked there was cute and nice? And he kept complimenting her! Goodness she felt like she might burst into flames!
"Erm...I'm not pretty but thank you so much!" Dahlia's eyes darted around desperately for a subject to talk about other than her.
"Um, which comic do you like best? I, uh, I don't read them but I bet there are some really cool ones!"
Because a cool guy like Akshay wouldn't like them and work in a store that sold them if there weren't some cool comics right?
Dahlia shook her head vigorously. It soooo wasn't the gargoyle's fault! If only because she was a gargoyle and that was so cool!
"Oh no, I should have been watching where I was going. Totally my fault."
Dahlia paused to stare some more. It was hard not to, since the gargoyle girl looked so darn cool! A little more red joined the yellow when the gargoyle girl chuckled and introduced herself. And here Dahlia was staring! So rude! Shaking herself, and making sure that both eyes were on Gina, Dahlia took the outstretched hand. Well, she tried anyway. It was a little awkward since she only had two fingers in essence.
"I'm Dahlia! It's nice to meet you too. I mean, goodness, you're a gargoyle!"
Surely being a cool monster was better than just being a monster? And Gina was a lot less monstery than Dahlia was. Dahlia smiled brightly at Gina. It was probably a lot cooler to be her. She could even wear clothes!
Goodness there was no way she was turning anything but a brighter red anytime soon. He'd only nodded when she'd stammered but it was enough to keep that red going bright and strong. His name was Akshay apparently and he worked here. That made sense. It would have been really extra weird if he'd done that in a store he didn't work at!
"Oh, uh, nice to meet you Akshay. Oh but I said that already!"
If Dahlia didn't know she was a lizard she would have sworn she had wool for how sheepish she felt. Akshay was apologizing an awful lot. None of this was his fault! Gosh but he was nice to keep apologizing like that to a monster. And he had a cute smile too. Yup, still red.
"Skits? Like acting? That's cool!"
His next question made her all sheepish again though.
"Oh gosh! I'm sorry. I, uh, didn't exactly mean to come in here. It's the rain you see. I'm, well, cold-blooded and it was getting a little cold out there with the sun gone in and the rain too. So I sorta decided to duck in here. I'm really hope I'm not in your way! I'll leave if you want me to!"
Dahlia looked around the store as she tried to pretend she didn't exist.
"You know about all these comics? Really?"
There was a hint of awe in her voice. There were an awful lot of comics after all!
Dahlia grinned widely before remembering that that expression tended to freak people out and reverted to as large a smile as she could manage close-lipped. It was a gargoyle! Another mutant like her! First Sky and now the girl? Dahlia wanted to pout a little at the fact that at least this girl still looked...well girly but she was too happy at getting to meet yet another of the freaks. The chameleon didn't need a mirror to know that her scales had changed to a bright yellow at breakneck speed.
"Hi! Nice to meet you! Sorry I knocked you over but I needed to get inside. The sun went in."
The girl nodded slightly to herself as though that explanation made perfection sense and then resumed staring. She tried not to but it was so hard.
"You're a gargoyle!" swiftly realizing what she'd just said a quick flush of bright red joined the yellow on her scales, "Oh gosh I'm sorry! I just...haven't met many other people, yanno, like us before."
The guy put the dangerous weapon away and Dahlia canted her head to one side and smiled a little. She might have gotten away unscathed from the encounter if he had stopped staring and certainly if he hadn't spoken.
"P...pretty?!"
Dahlia's scales shifted to a bright red quicker than they ever had before. No one but her parents, sister, and other family had ever called her pretty! Certainly not after she'd turned into a lizard. Because she wasn't pretty at all. So whoever he was had to be mistaken. Very very mistaken. A few tiny wisps of a deep dark blue joined the brilliant red.
"Uhh...it's nice to meet you. I-I'm Dahlia."
Just ignore it and it would go away. Yup. Totally. Just like the stares and the fact that her parents didn't care anymore. It all went away if she ignored it and smiled. Though now that she thought about it he was kinda cute AND he thought she was pretty! Even as a monster!
"So, um, who are you supposed to be?"
Because that was a very silly outfit and Dahlia could have picked out something much better!
What a strange place. Dahlia looked at the titles on the shelf and wondered how someone had thought of the weird names and costumes she saw on each cover. This was what comics were like? Dahlia thought that maybe she'd stick to movies. Though she did look like she'd fit right in in one of those books.
Dahlia blinked. She'd had one eye on the comics in front of her and another on the rest of the store when she heard the commotion coming out of the back of the store. What was a Professor Squidess? Briefly Dahlia pictured a squid with glasses and a pink bow standing in front of a college class. She giggled a little at the thought. They'd never run out of hands at least! One arm could hold a pointer for the board, another could run the laptop, and the rest could pass out papers! Soon enough the source of the noise came into view in the form of a tall guy in a weird outfit with a...rubber sword? Dahlia blinked both of her eyes and swiveled the one that had been looking at comics so that she was entirely focused on him and the rubber sword that was pointed at her.
He looked just as puzzled by her as she was by him and in a few places streaks of bright red shot through the blue and green. His shy greeting startled Dahlia and a smile sprung up as she waved at the weird dressed guy.
"Hi! Nice, uh, sword!"
Yup, it was a nice rubber sword that went with the odd outfit that was pointed at her. Dahlia couldn't help thinking that that sword might be fun to use in a prank but threw the idea away as quickly as she thought it. Pranks were no fun without other people to play them with!
First the sunny day that turned cloudy and then the normal day that turned rainy! Was it too much to ask for a nice day so that she could not stay in the Sanctuary at all times? That was boring. To Dahlia's mind there was only one good thing to be done inside and that was pranks. When she didn't have anyone to prank with there was no point in staying inside. So Dahlia went out to find something to do. Of course she had to pretend like always that she wasn't ashamed of what she was but by now that almost went without saying.
Mother Nature vetoed with rain. Clouds and rain and Dahlia was almost pouting. It wasn't fair! But rain was rain so Dahlia needed to get inside. She dodged inside the closest store to dry off and wait out the rain. Dahlia hadn't even paid attention to what sort of store it was before running inside. As she dripped dry in the entry way Dahlia looked around her. Shelves and shelves of comics greeted her. Shame it wasn't a shoe store. Dahlia liked shoes! Comics not so much. Still it was someplace dry and warm so it would have to do. Her skin slowly shifted from a dark orange streaked with dark yellow and dark red to a blue and green combination.
The chameleon girl probably stood in the doorway for a good three minutes before starting to wander around the store. Chances were good she'd be here for a while so Dahlia figured she might as well look at the comics.
The sun had been so beautiful when Dahlia had headed out of the Sanctuary. Bright and shiny, it had kept her warm clear up until about eleven o' clock. That was when the clouds had started rolling in. Dahlia had assumed the sun would be back out soon and had climbed a tree for a little nap in someplace safe until it did. Now it was two and the sun still wasn't back. Dahlia was cold and pouting. Why did the weather have to be mean? All Dahlia wanted was to get out in the sunshine where it was warm. Then the clouds had to come and ruin her fun. Now she couldn't stay out here until the sun came back out. It was just too cold.
Glancing around Dahlia spotted a mall. She didn't really want to go into a mall again. The mall cops had been mean last time! But then again it was the closest building and Dahlia needed the warmth. She clambered down out of the tree with an all too brief pout. The pout was quickly replaced with a grin as Dahlia ran as quickly as she could, and the traffic and crosswalks would allow. In fact maybe she ran too quickly and without paying enough attention.
Why?
Simple enough.
Right as she'd gotten inside the mall where it was warm, Dahlia ran into someone. Literally. Someone almost as inhuman looking as herself! Dahlia might have stared. A little.
Dahlia nodded in response to Sky. Anywhere was better than the streets. Then again...
"Sometimes the streets are better than someplace though. It isn't great but it can still be better than some things."
The chameleon girl told herself that regularly after she'd run away. Being on the streets as a monster was better than being stuck in a home that didn't love her anymore. They were right not to obviously but it hurt anyway. And if she'd stayed they'd probably just fight even more about what had happened to her sister. Nope, for her and her parents it was so much better that she'd run away. Nice people like her parents didn't need to be associated with a monster.
Dahlia led the way toward the Sanctuary with her new friend in tow. They were going to find out the truth and if the murders were a lie then she'd take Sky on a tour of the place. If they were true then she'd be packing up her stuff and leaving! After a slightly longer than was wise for a cold blooded creature walk the two ended up at the gates to the Sanctuary. With a cheery smile Dahlia led Sky through them and into the building beyond.
Dahlia shrugged at Sky's question. Maybe there were other mutants like them and maybe there weren't. Dahlia hadn't met any but Sky yet. The complement turned her skin a little red but she tried to answer anyway.
"I don't know. There might be! I haven't met very many people in the Sanctuary yet but maybe they know of some."
Once they met at the bottom of the building Sky asked Dahlia to lead the way to the Sanctuary and Dahlia nodded. Since the Sanctuary was where she was living she'd love to lead her new friend there. Of course if the murder accusations turned out to be true then Dahlia probably wouldn't be staying there long. Murder was just wrong after all!
"Sure. It's not a bad place to live. Better than the streets anyway!"
And Dahlia silently added, I don't have to steal anymore if I live there.
It would be a little sad if the murder thing was true. Then again it would be just like a monster to live with murderers. So maybe if it were true then that was where she deserved to live? It was all very confusing and sad. Dahlia worked a little harder to smile as she thought about where she would go if she left the Sanctuary. After all, she just didn't know. Back to the streets probably.
