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.
Well, the giant red man had made a good point, they shared the color red in common. Although it seemed that the Mansion just continued getting redheads, this Venus character actually could claim that his red was very special. Instead of delving into the matter, she just nodded her head. It seemed that Jupiter thought she was funny. Jupiter, Mercury, and Saturn. My Very Earnest Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas, or something like that. Just because she knew about the little memo sentence on all of the planets, it did not mean she knew where they all went. Who knew? "So you got another brother called Earth?" she asked, jumping into a joking mood. While all the other planets sounded very cool, it was weird to have one called Earth, then again, wasn't there that dumb lady on MTV called New York?
Her name sort of lingered on his tongue as he allowed the name to churn through his red brain. Did he have a red brain? Was his heart red too or was that too cliche? "Beer before liquor only works if I shotgun four and then take 7 shots of vodka," she chuckled, remembering that night. Truth be told, it was not a good thing to chuckle about, it was not that great of a memory, but from what she remembered, there were some funny things. His drink choice was much better, especially since beer caused you to go to the bathroom too periodically, which was something she was not in the mood for doing.
"Patron, nice choice," she smiled. While she lived on the streets and had to come by alcohol without money, she would steal an occassional Patron, but she never had enough money to afford it on her own. It was so smooth and not to mention it was tequila, so drinking it would ensure that there would be a party that night. She would have remembered a giant red man, or maybe she did recognize him but it would take a while for it to kick in. "Not in advertising," know anything about X-Men? May know me from there. What about the papers, I was Wanted for a long time for theft a few years back. Ring a bell? she thought, but decided not to say it, it was not exactly that great of a conversation starter. "Guess I just have one of those faces..." she said, leaving the statement open for however the general public took that. Honestly, she had never understood what that statement meant exactly...
List of things that has never occurred before in Fade's life: being offered a drink by a giant red man with plenty of twins...check. Lazily, he head lifted to this red man. Well, it was much better to have her drinks paid for than have to search in her pockets for more money. Sometimes it was like there was a giant blackhole in her pocket and it only ate money, but regurgitated pocket lent and candy wrappers. Feeling a little more up for socializing than she originally had felt. "You know, I was wondering when they would decorate this place with more colors and here you are with..." she looked around and decided against counting "however many others there are of you," she nodded, taking a sip.
A slight joke crossed her mind, but she concluded that it was not the best idea to mention that she shaved her legs with his name... "Venus, so do you prefer being known as the planet or the goddess of fertility?" she asked. Venus was probably the only Roman goddess that she knew about primarily just because that 'I'm your Venus, I'm your fire, your desire' commercial came on all the time. Still, it made her sound pretty smart in her opinion.
"Call me Fade," she nodded, figuring he would get in since she had only just appeared out of no where and ordered a beer. "And yes, I'll have another drink, buyer's choice," she challenged. Most people would get her a martini or a cosmopolitan, but truth was, she really did not even know what those tasted like. If she had anything, it was a hard shot of vodka, maybe with a lemon.
Within the time it took the odd looking boy to walk out of the bathroom, he had...grown? Now suddenly there was an older teenager in front of the man who was supposed to be a woman! What the hell was happening today? First she was a man, then she ran into a girl she recognized or...not, and she caused someone to squeal around on the ground...did I mention she was a man!
"Whoa, hey, uh, did you have a little brother in there?" he asked. She was not used to looking odd to others, well, really it was that she was not used to being stared at like a man. First off, no one was staring at her chest, which was very nice, she enjoyed that, but now all the girls stared at her man teeth. When she was a girl, when other girls looked at her teeth, that meant that she had something gross in them, so it constantly kept her rubbing her man teeth. "Are you, uh, are you OK?" she stumbled over her words, still trying to get used to this thing that bobbed up and down in her throat called an Adams Apple.
Well, at least Fade was not in danger of death today. It really was a matter of whether the police or the hospital would be involved in this fight. For one, Fade did not like police these days any more than she did while she was a pickpocket. Because she was so well known as being the 'one that got away', she was kind of wanted by the police. Of course, they were more familiar with her attempts at 'bettering the world' but she was so on and off over the past couple of years, it was best to just leave the police out of it. Now hospitals on the other hand, they were not as unliked as police, but the Mansion had it's own infirmary, best to not include ambulances either.
Orders? Had she been ordered to kill those humans? Fade honestly doubted that this girl was affiliated with - wait. This was the girl that Morphia had been talking about when she came into the infirmary, the one who had a thing for jewelry. "Come to think of it, didn't you rob a jewelry store?" she asked. Jewels were not exactly Fade's favorite theft of choice, not even when she used to steal. It was really money that she needed because stealing jewels would result in having to sell them and that was all-together too difficult.
The mention of KP sent a shiver down Fade's spine. That murderer of a mutant had nearly took Fade's life that day, but only by a freak accident. It had taken a long time to recover and it was still not fully recovered, her heart rate was irregular. When Aura backed up against the air conditioning, Fade had an idea. Of course, it was only a vent, but if there was a way that she could rip out a few of the wires and send out freezing cold air, maybe she could freeze the aura around this girl. Fade had never been to school, she did not understand these concepts, but it was worth an uneducated try. Leaping upon the vent (it made a small noise when she jumped up), she reached in and began to tear at the wiring. Even if she could not get it to do what she wanted, maybe holding electric wires was...smart?
Oh, damn, it was becoming ridiculous. It was bad enough that she was a he but to put the cherry on top of her 'fantastic' day, now she made a little horned boy cry! What could she do? What kind of man stopped and asked the boy to come out using sweet words and beautiful smiles. Well, maybe he liked man-stuff, like if Fade said she had a bomb and she'd let him blow something up if he could find - oh seriously? Just because she was a man, did not mean she had to be heartless, it just meant SHE GOT TO PEE STANDING UP! Why hadn't she tried that yet?
"Come on out here, it's ok," he cooed, well, in the deepest voice she could muster to not sound too weird. "I'm not gonna hurtcha, just trust me," he said. Well, he could be trusted as a young redhead but now Fade was a shaved-headed man with a deep voice and the power to make anyone have a seizure. Hell, Fade would never want to run into this guy once she was young again.
Misery. Plain misery. It had been a while in the infirmary as Fade recovered from her little episode at KP. It was all a giant mess and look who got the butt of it? The nearly dead girl! It had all happened so fast, but so slow. First, there was that terrible moment when she looked down and found a fist lodged in her chest and then that odd feeling when her blood started to flow a bit weird, slow, but fast. It overwhelmed her and she toppled over. When she awoke, she was in the infirmary and had to stay there for just a little bit. To tell the truth, she was not ready to go out and drink, but she felt like such shit, she gave into her temptation. With ease, she walked through the walls, completely invisible.
Of course, with most mutant bars, there was supposed to be guard that could sense when people snuck in, but with all of the riots going on, who cared? Her heart was still recovering so she tried to move slowly but she still ordered a beer, having no X on her hand, not like this place cared. Of course, it was a corona and lime, her favorite and as she took a sip of it, grinding her teeth in hidden pain, she did not want anyone to realize her heart problem.
It seemed like there were a few red men around, all looked similar but were obviously very different. Since they were so hard to miss, it seemed that Fade had chosen the site right next to the ones at the bar. After another sip, she looked over at the red men and then turned back around, rethinking her approach, she turned back to her beer and just grunted. "Thanks for the heart problems, shadowed bastard" she cheered quietly to the air.
When the hammers formed, she turned to phasing again, ready to phase through the hammer that approached. WHOOSH, one flew through her phased body and she sighed in relief, she needed to get better at phasing, maybe a few more sessions in the Danger Room could-ACK! Without even realizing that there was another hammer flying around, well, not really flying, more like attached to Aura's arm. Oh fantastic, she dislocated her arm or broke her arm or sprained or somethinged her arm from the blow. all because she was too stupid to look out a bit more.
Fade muffled a yelp, hopefully it wasn't broken, but whatever it was: "OUCH!" she said from her invisible position. Thinking better of that statement, she stopped speaking and grabbed her arm, massaging it slightly, which hurt a lot, so she had to stop. "But you can only kill me once," she said, which was kind of a lie. After the last KP Brawl, it seemed like she did die, but she hardly knew much about that other than it was a miracle she was still alive. "I'd fight you every day if it kept you from killing humans," she said, running up to kick Aura's back. If any human broke the law, then they should go to jail.
Fade's curiousity just seemed to grow. This girl seemed to be having as much fun in this fight as Fade had. It was rare that another mutant did not take this personally and try to kill her, but it was much appreciated. One less person to kill her was one less chance to be killed. Still keeping a straight face while the girl was tackled down to the floor, it seemed that this act was nothing less than pleasurable. If only Fade could act lie she enjoyed giving this girl an act of pleasure, it seemed the girl would let her go, if only. But yet, since Fade was hardly able to lie, it seemed impossible, but it was worth a try.....or not.
The dagger seemed to cause a small, minute cut on her back, but nothing more. After such, Fade phased through the dagger, ignoring the cut in her shirt and her back and ripping off the shirt and tossing it to the ground. It would sound inappropriate to anyone who did not have the ability to turn invisible, but Fade was different.Without a shirt, she stood her ground, fully invisible and attempting to throw another blow at this girl.
Well, if there was anything more embarrassing than hitting your face on a pole, please inform Fade of this now, because her face turned about as red as her hair. Oh great, her face was hurting and she looked stupid. As she cursed herself for her stupid mistakes, she noticed that Aura was doing something weird with her aura...ironic... She turned her arm into some kind of cone and thrust it towards Fade, who in turn phased through it, although since it was spinning, it was harder to phase when it was constantly moving. The result was actually a tickle, the cone vibrated through her.
Laughing, Fade turned invisible again to hit her embarrassment from her hit to the face. "Food?!" she asked. Honestly, she had not thought about actually eating, but she had not eaten that much lately, it was a good idea to eat. Her tummy grumbled, but she tried her hardest to keep that hidden, this girl did not need to know that Fade was hungry. This was a fight and it seemed like she was turning it into a date. Swiftly, and invisibly, she ran full force towards Aura, threatening a tackle.
Drats, her position was compromised. "You don't see me using any bullets," Fade remarked, attempting to keep hold of her pole as the girl grabbed it after getting rid of her pink sword. OK, so she could form and disintegrate swords? Weird, but not that she hadn't seen many weird things, living at a mutant mansion, well, weird was hardly the word to describe it. After a moment of pulling, well, technically a split moment, another sword came crashing down on her head. Fade's red head jerked up to see what was occurring and once it registered, she used her phasing powers to allow the sword to fall down through her body. Now, since she has not fully completed her training with her phasing powers, she was unable to make her shoe phase through, so it was sliced in half and it fell to the ground.
Oh damn! Those were her last pair, she had to go shopping again and one thing was for certain, she hated shopping, it was a waste of time. Looking down at her shoes, she cursed under her breath and then leapt off the shed, hoping to grab the top half of her broom stick and yank it away from Aura, but by letting go, she lost a bit of control and ended up hitting the top of the broom stick with her face. Ouch, not smart. Still, she grabbed a hold of it and tried to pull it away from Aura, landing this time on the ground with no shoe and an unhappy face.
No matter whether Fade was good or bad, she was not unfair in her fights. Fighting the whole time invisible was a little bit unfair and she would not have too much more of that. After the blades began swinging in her direction, she lifted up the broom and clanged with her opponents, well, weapon thingy. It was time for a change. With a quick smirk, she turned visible, still holding her position. “Hardly seems fair doesn’t it?” she asked, blocking another swing.
Now what she needed to do was somehow get this out to the police, this woman needed to be arrested. Yet, the police could not just haul her away unless they were a mutant team. Instead, she would have to tire this Aura out enough for the police to take her away, but that would be quite a struggle. Leaping to the side, she attached herself to the shed with her feet and one hand, the other hand swung again at Aura, but of course, the pink one could see all the attacks until Fade decided to change that. She had higher ground, but the way she was standing made it hard for her to deflect much. She needed to change her position, and fast.
((SERIOUSLY!? I wrote a post, even posted it! It's not here anymore! *swats MIA post*))
"Hmm, that species statement kind of reminds me of how Hitler viewed the Jews. So you are sort of a Neo-Mutant-Nazi?" she asked, looking around in the shed. A broom, a few buckets, some cleaning supplics, did not exactly seem like a weaponry, that was true. What kind of battle could be had with janitor stuff? Seemed like they would find out. Deciding on the broom, Fade twisted off the bristles and kept the stick in her hand while she emerged from the shed, still invisible. It was not much of a weapon, but it was better than a bucket, at least.
"I don't enjoy humans killing off mutants anymore than you do, but just because they kill, does not mean that we need to," she said, twirling around the stick. To be completely honest, she was having fun trying to think up of how to utilize this darn stick. The thought of dancing at the moment seemed so far-fetched that it tickled her lips into a smile. Dancing? On this gloomy nights? Only a psycho... "Oh yes, I noticed you are sharp," she called from in front of Aura. It was like fighting a Swiss Army Knife with a stick! Whoohoo!
Preacher ladies were from church, right? No, she wasn't a preacher lady. Or was a preacher lady from the Mansion? Was she talking about Tricity? "Not a preacher lady and I'm not immune, you just have to know my weakness," she said, still in front before she moved around to Aura's back and got ready. "Good luck," she called before bringing the broom down, hoping to 'sweep' her opponent off of her feet. No pun intended.
