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.
Serena didn't think she'd ever get used to this whole patrolling thing. She mostly reacted to calls for mutant related crimes and helped subdue people, most of her nights were less eventful than most normal people would assume. It was really the small moments that mattered to her, talking to young mutants, directing them to sanctuary or the mansion depending on the person, getting a smile from someone that saw her. Those were the things that mattered to her, not that the adrenaline rush from thwarting crime didn't feel great or anything.
She was prowling the alleys on a quiet night, just keeping an eye out, debating heading home and going to bed or doing some writing when a crash was audible in a building attached to the alley... A jewellery store? No, it was quite ostentatious. Perhaps an art gallery?
She could only see dim lights in the windows, and it wasn't the sort of place that was likely to be open this late. The crash didn't sound like it had triggered any alarms or anything. She debated what to do, or if she should just call the police for a moment before deciding to investigate first. She mantled ontop of a closed bin and then used it as a board to jump and grab a hold of the edge of a fire escape, doing a little cat like dance to get into view of one of the high windows.
She didn't try to force it open, she peered inside and squinted to see what was going on in the dim light. She was probably an odd scene herself. White and blue costumedblondepink haired hero hanging from the edge of a fire escape, peeking into a building through a small window like a voyeur. Oh well.
Serena really wasn't sure if the regular texts from Amelia since she'd re-aged were to try and keep contact, or out of guilt or what but she always felt a weird pang in her chest when she read one, and feigned some half-hearted reply. It was just so... Messy.
How did you reconnect with someone that you had that much history with, and who had been through so much? How did you reconcile that at a moment of closure some asshole ripped all of it away from you, and then how beyond that did your reconcile with your Ex partner that you were a different person also?
The realisation that she was a different person had not come swiftly or easily, but it had none the less. Serena explored herself a whole lot while Ami was a teenager, and had continued to do so since she became an adult. One of her best friend's had children and got married. Her little sister had an apartment with a friend, she ran around saving lives on a regular basis, ect ect. Life moved on.
Then her phone rang. "I-oh." Her voice caught in her throat, knots were in places that knots should not be. "Yes. Okay. See you soon." She closed her phone and squeezed it. She had gotten one of those ridiculously sturdy phone cases since she started running around doing the hero thing but even so she could swear she heard a strain or a crack. Maybe imagination.
She made her way home from the mansion and got in barely two minutes before Ami knocked. Her coat was off, she was dressed in fairly smart skinny jeans, and a long sleeved dark red top. Her hair tied tightly back from frustration hours ago when she was going over papers. "Hi." She chirped when she opened the door with more energy than she expected to have.
The trouble with things being so bloody freezing outside this time of year was that outside exercise was less fun. Serena still went for regular runs around the mansion grounds even when there was frost around because it was simply good for her, but when she was at the mansion late at night after patrolling, or finishing up after a long day of classes or any other number of things Serena got up to. She liked to exercise. She wouldn't hog the danger room tonight though, she'd just do some exercises in the gym.
It felt like she was spending more and more time at the mansion instead of her apartment, she basically just slept and did edits in there these days. With a sigh she pushed the gym door open, some soft rock music playing in tightly tucked in wireless headphones for working out.
A teenager was also using the space, again. Serena recognised her from late night exercises previous to this one, but also from classes. She was pretty sure the girl was a 'problem' student. Which Serena didn't really like the idea of, it wasn't so much that the mansion labelled or mislabelled people in any certain way. It wasn't an official thing as far as she was aware, and she was sure the girl was probably struggling or just bored.
But there was a certain way that some students, particularly socially awkward or shy ones tended to be perceived when they didn't engage with work, either by peers or teachers. She was familiar. She smiled at the teen and searched for the name in her memory. So many kids...
Serena got out some exercise mats and began going through some basic warm ups, gently pulling out her earphones and waving at the girl. Hiyori? No. that wasn't right, was it Himari? Godess, she hoped so. "Hi there, it's Himari correct? Up late again?"
Serena blinked. She hadn't really expected Liz to keep up with her activities. She had really done a lot of public events and the like, but most of it wasn't hugely publicised. Her charity work didn't really have her name all over it, and she only really promoted that sort of thing on her author social media accounts, not any of her personal ones. She didn't really see the point. Rather signal boost a cause on the platform people might actually take note of. The opinion of a brand, rather than the individual and all that.
She was glad somewhere in the backend of her mind that the topic was moved on and Liz didn't make a big deal of the visible freak out. She let out a nervous chuckle, her heartrate dipping a few beats. "Well I'm not so sure about all that. I find I am generally just busy. Though that's not new to me." Serena had a hard time stepping back and taking a break from things. She'd always argued that if you love what you do, why stop? But perhaps it was a tad unhealthy.
For a long time Serena hadn't been the most observant with other people, sometimes clueless with signals, and that was probably partially the young girl that Liz had known and lived with. But over the last few years she'd definitely gotten better at reading body language, it was rare that she she totally phased on a situation or insinuation, (though it still happened when gorgeous eyes were involved).
The atmosphere was definitely easing into comfortable and at ease. Even if the excitable energy in Liz was not waning whatsoever, it was actually kind of super cute. Serena tilted her head as Liz asked questions and suggested things and felt her lips spread into a wide smile. "I will do whatever you like. I'm up early most days, the ones that I don't have an early start I'm often up late... well, I'll stay up until after it's light working." It seemed much harder these days to squeeze in good time for edits, all nighters happened more than they did before.
"I would love to go out for breakfast with you tomorrow morning." Serena thought everything was cooling down before Liz reacted to the 'no pet' situation and found it extremely hard not to express giggles. She knew of Liz's power, and she knew she'd always owned pets, her adoration of animals was... well, admirable and intriguing. People with passions were just so much more interesting and attractive than others.
It was adorable, at least until Liz mentioned a particular kind of scaly creature. A visible shudder went through Serena and she inhaled through her teeth, trying to quickly supress the mental image that followed the word, she let her focus fall on the dog and leaned down again to pet him. It took her a moment, blocking out what Liz was saying and then piecing together the rest of the sentence retroactively.
Her response came a little later than previous replies when she glanced back up to Liz sitting on the bed with a slightly wearier smile. "I do love animals, I just haven't really had the time to properly care for one in the last few years. All over the US for a few, then between edits, college, then joining the team here and even teaching it's just all been a bit crazy." She intentionally left out the bit about flings she met on nights out.
Serena wasn't going to comment on how intense Liz's physical conditioning was really. She didn't like to assume, although it had been pointed out that her own training was fairly intense. She also completely empathised with wanting to be able to protect yourself, or other people around you. "I'm sure we shall find out soon enough."
Particularly the latter.
Serena frowned. Friends didn't cut into her me time did they? Okay so maybe she didn't exactly take friends bar hopping with her, but she totally took some of them to charity events and the like and it wasn't like she didn't love spending time with them. She definitely wanted Liz to fall into that category again. "I will make time for you if I need to." She affirmed.
"I'd love to go for breakfast with you." She readily chirped before realising the context she usually undertook breakfast with an attractive woman under and hastily supressed such thoughts before it became visibly obvious.
"Come to think of it I don't think I've actually lived with any animals since I roomed with you." She admitted. "Unless you count brief sleepovers with my sister" She added fondly.
"Well it's not quite like I teach big classes or anything, just one on one stuff for people who want to learn." She murmured. It had probably started with Abby wanting to learn, and Serena not wanting to suggest Sam when the obvious comparisons with Cafas could come up. And sort of just spiralled from there. She didn't advertise or anything, and while Sam had been around and functional she definitely hadn't tried to poach his students or anything.
But right now she supposed there were little other options for students wishing to learn the basics. Serena had also momentarily forgotten Liz's power, it came back quickly with Nico and Zorro as cues for the memory. "I know a few students who would call that a blessing, I also suppose that Krav Maga is more effective than plenty of powers." She chirped.
It was sort of true, plenty of people couldn't use powers offensively. Plenty more just didn't want to, or lacked the control to do it properly. "I have slightly more free time with lessons being slowed down or halted right now. Still have some of my personal work to do, and other responsibilities, but I'm sure we can work something out."
"If you need any help with getting to grips with things again, please don't hesitate to bother me for help. I know it took me a little to get used to everything around here again when I'd been away for a spell." Her own hiatus from New York and the mansion had been admitadly much shorter than Liz's own, but still a big deal for her.
Serena giggled briefly again petting the dog. "Glad to see not all of your companion's have Nico's temperament by default."
Serena felt a little prickling in her cheeks as some colour rose to them. "Thank you." The teaching really was no big deal, but that didn't make the compliments and enthusiasm feel any less good.
Something that she particularly enjoyed about being around different friends was the little details and intricacies in how they interacted, speech and body language inflections were so fascinating. She did need to make sure she didn't stare though, she didn't want people to think they were being oogled.
"I'm more than happy to practice with you, I cannot promise you that my training is up to standard." She would have suggested Sam if Liz was into Krav Maga, but as far as she was aware he was an arrogant kid right now. She tried not to smirk or feel bad that thrashing him in a danger room exercise had felt pretty good.
"We can absolutely organise something in the danger room sometime, just let me know when your schedule is sorted out. I'm in there pretty for most of the free timeslots." She pondered for a moment. "Or we could just find a space in the gym, if we're not using powers we probably don't need the danger room." Serena didn't really fancy the idea of using her power around Liz for some reason. Maybe just old habits.
The simple act of a dog trying to nuzzle your hands for attention was a magic in it's own way, Serena melted into giggles and leaned down to gently stroke the hounds head, and scratch his ears. "Hellooo there, you're beautiful, yes you are"
A smile crept up the sides of Serena's lips again. The mess was obviously understandable because of the whole moving in situation, but it still brought back memories. Pleasant ones from a not so fun time in her life, that was probably what she associated being near Liz with. Positive feelings during a difficult time. It was also easy not to judge considering the state of her own apartment.
"Sort of.." She replied sheepishly. "I've covered some basic self defense stuff for a while. Tamer than Sam's classes, particularly for the shyer kids. And during periods of time that Sam is struggling." She didn't elaborate on the struggling component. She didn't actually know how well Liz knew Sam but she wasn't going to cause any problems for him.
"And ironically, English. I'm helping out Becca until she goes on maternity leave, then I'll take over for a while. Sounds like the plan is me taking over some of the creative writing classes when she gets back." The idea of teaching students and leading classes was slowly taking root in Serena's head. It had taken some getting used to, and she had more or less fallen into it after wanting to take on more responsibility around the mansion but she wasn't going to half arse anything.
"I'm glad to see you're still young and spry, Nico." She also turned and grinned at the dog. At some point in time larger dogs had seemed so intimidating, these days they just looked like big teddy bears that wanted attention.
The giddy little switch in Serena's brain flicked when Liz turned around, the one labelled 'Oh yay, hugs!', followed by a warm embrace. "It's good to see you too." She wasn't really sure what else to say, or what they had in common anymore. But it couldn't hurt to get to know Liz again. She certainly seemed to have retained the fondly remembered warmth.
The voice coming from the other side of the door was warm and familiar and sent a warm feeling down Serena's gut. It was always good to reconnect, good for the soul. She hoped it would go well, not least because they would be seeing a lot of each other with the whole working situation.
The suddenness of the door being fully opened and the clear note of surprise and... was that excitement in her voice? Made the grin broaden and become far more genuine on Serena's lips. "Hey yourself, thank you" She stepped into the room and glanced around seeing all of the boxes and trying to supress a grimace. Moving was super painful, all the organising and hassle, and then when you were there you had to actually unpack and organise when you were probably out of energy, sympathy was required.
"I am doing my job here! Well, not right now-er" She tried to focus, thoughts crystalising into words at the pace of water freezing in autumn "I work here, I teach, heard you were coming to take a position and thought I'd greet you." she practically stammered and held out the gift "Plant."
Sometimes Serena wondered if there was a short circuit somewhere in her head... "It's a uhm, peace lily! I thought it might help brighten up the room. I got it before I knew it was you moving in." She admitted, eyes scanning for something new to focus on.
Beautiful looking dog and... a bird. "Is that Nico?" She asked, eyebrow quirked.
July was ever so slightly less hectic so far than it's predecessor, slightly. The combination of edits, teaching and training was the sort of thing that weighed on you pretty much constantly. Not that Serena was a stranger to the work-a-holic thing. It did leave less time to do the recreational activities that she had been enjoying.
Perhaps more importantly she'd not spent much time with friends, unless you counted the X-men, which was more of a work and or training situation than a relaxation one. Sometimes it was hard to not giggle in training with Mirror or Sam, but that was just Serena being herself.
So when Serena heard the pleasant surprise that the new teacher was a familiar face she quickly set aside an hour or two in the mid afternoon to greet an old friend, she didn't really have time to go back to her apartment and change into something actually presentable so workout clothes would have to do. She had remembered to buy a peace lily for a present for the new teacher, but she was now feeling a little more nervous about the whole house-warming thing than if the new comer had been a total stranger.
She rapped her knuckles gently on a slightly ajar door three times when she heard movement and then stepped to one side so she was visible by the door, little peace lily tucked under one arm, nervous if slightly cheeky grin on her face, still wearing a tank top and workout leggings. "Anyone home?~"chirped the slightly anxious Brit.
In most situations, when a gorgeous woman was walking in front of Serena, she would not stare at... Well, she wouldn't stare. Or at least, she'd try not to. She felt much giddier and relaxed than normal, and Melissa was definitely encouraging her, so yes, she looked. The booths had gone relatively unnoticed before. The hot tubs were definitely the star of the show here, obviously.
The benefit to the booths being less noticed by the party goers was that there was plenty of seating over here, and a nice, quiet corner for Serena to make gooey eyes at Melissa in.
She slid into the seat next to Melissa with a smirk. "I must say, you're more forwards than most beautiful woman I've met, it's rather... refreshing." She took a sip of her drink and smiled sweetly.
"I'm not afraid of a little biting." She replied, baring her teeth.
Beyond just the sheer attraction and buzz going on in Serena's brain, the woman in front of her exuded an aura of confidence which was appealing. There was also just a general lack of hesitation in the way that she conversed that was endearing. Serena sometimes fretted over the way she conducted herself in conversations, and wished she'd just taken the leap in some scenarios. Experience had taught her to be more willing.
Plus, Serena had been sort of bored at the party and Melissa was cute. Beyond cute.
It was like the offer was whispered in an ear, a little shiver of electricity ran up Serena's spine and she straightened a little. "See, like I said. Interesting." She took a sip from her drink and failed to hide the grin that just wouldn't leave her lips. Sometimes you just needed to smile.
"I would love to. I might even be persuaded to share more than one with you." Funny how something so nearly disastrous could turn out so pleasant.
Serena might have been pretty terrible at the whole flirting thing, but she was pretty good at picking up on hints. She cleared her throat in an attempt to kill any stammering or awkwardness, however despite her steadier voice her intentions were betrayed by her still hot cheeks. "You may regret that." She fired back as smoothly as possible, unable to not admire the woman standing in front of her.
"Melissa, I'll definitely remember that." She shook Melissa's hand gently. Shaking hands at charity events was something familiar and comfortable. Okay, she was definitely checking Serena out. And her smile was just... So alluring.
Auctions? She'd seen some of the options, and she did find them amusing but she wasn't here to win something, she just dropped a donation and engaged in the event, shaking hands, sending out some chirps. A giggle escaped. "I'm sure they do, I've already donated and done been around, I was just relaxing and wandering when it would be acceptable to move along." She lingered a little on the 'was' part of the explanation.
"Things do seem to be getting interesting though." She chirped, goofy grin returned in full bloom.
Serena had hardly flinched talking to a flirty bartender, and other people that recognised her demonstrating interest, a stunning woman complimenting her though? Especially when she had nearly just done something potentially embarrassing and or painful to the other woman due to her own negligence? Well now, that made her blush.
Serena's eyes did a quick once over of the lovely woman standing in front of her, noting the appealing, suitable Bikini she wore and then freezing when she reached her eyes, taking them in for a moment. "I-Yes, you are." Funny how Serena's brain short circuited around pretty ladies.
Serena had been so composed a few minutes ago, and now everything felt all floaty. She was definitely a little giddy, probably the drinks and the compliments. Deep, beautiful brown eyes.
It was a considerable effort bringing her head out of the clouds. "I-no, I'm typically rather good at keeping my balance." She definitely felt off balance right now. "Very generous of you though." she was barely conscious of the fact she was grinning so widely, showing teeth. "Sorry, where are my manners, I'm Serena. Sorry again for nearly crashing into you."
