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.
While waiting waiting for Alice, listening to the music inspiration struck Serena and she slid over to her writing desk, fishing out a note pad and jotting down some ideas. It really had been a little while since she'd felt creative at all and it seemed like being back in New York at all was helping get everything going again. It wasn't much, but she noted down some ideas. Of course she'd kept up with her geeky column, but that was easy. Opinions and critical analysis were no problem compared to coming up with original thought.
She blinked when her phone buzzed on the counter. Was Alice texting bac- her eyes wandered to the clock. Oops. She slid her notepad away in the drawer, grabbed her phone and read the message on the way, hitting mute on the speaker before swinging the door open. "Alice." She leaned forwards and immediately hugged her sister. "Good to see you." She smiled warmly.
Serena felt a playful grin spread across her face. She'd known Mirror and Sam to get into scuffles and solve some of their problems that way, it was of course logical that Mirror might do something like that with the danger room. Even if it was mostly in a playful manor. "Really, I think punching Sam in the face should be a widely used form of therapy." She jested. She did love Sam to absolute pieces, he was a truly good person that had done a lot of good. But he was also a mess, and had a very punch-able face at times.
She nodded, contemplating that for a moment. She supposed the training was tailored for recruits at all kinds of ages. From what she'd heard, Mirror probably got recruited at a young age, teens or as a young adult. She was sure that some of the others on the team must have trained and joined somewhat inexperienced. Serena was by no means a super hero, but she was pretty handy in a fight and had dealt with more than one serious crisis.
She quirked an amused eyebrow "I'd say I feel pretty confident." She mused. "I can keep up with Sam, mostly anyway, hand to hand, and power control wise it's pretty precise at this point. I practice daily." She admitted. "I understand, I'll go through whatever is needed. I've thought about this at length. It's what I want."
Serena had some surprisingly heavy music playing on her speakers while she hummed, going through the cupboards and just double checking she had everything she needed if the two of them decided they wanted to do some baking or cooking. Gaming was easy, she now had snacks in the apartment, even if most of them were on the healthier side of things, she had stuff to drink and she had consoles and whatnot all set up.
Serena wasn't actually sure what Alice played, but she was pretty confident her library had something they'd enjoy if they wanted to play stuff. Her phone pinged and she pulled it out, grinning and humming along with the music as she typed out a reply.
Anything you like, all I require is you and yourself. <3
She set her phone down on the counter and leaned against it, closing her eyes and just enjoying the ambient sound of the music while she waited for her little sister.
Serena would be ready to deal with it at some point, she hoped. Maybe she just needed the right person to talk it through with. It definitely wasn't her sister, and it apparently wasn't Maya. They didn't have that sort of friendship evidently. Or maybe the two of them just hadn't hung out enough yet? They did only meet because Sam took both of them to a gruesome crime scene.
"Thank you for understanding." She replied honestly. She was glad Maya wasn't pushing, she did know of some people that likely would. "Thanks, may plan was honestly just to go and give Sam a good shake so I had something to punch, but I guess I can maim training programs without holding back." She admitted. That was definitely the advantage of the danger room, she couldn't eviscerate something that wasn't real.
She felt a warmth spread through her body once again. "Thank you Maya, it means a lot. I'm happy I'm home too." She chirped.
"So... How does this work? Is it like cheer leading tryouts? Do I come and sign a contract?" She asked before adding with an amused eyebrow quirk. "Do I sign in blood?" Ha.
Serena wondered what considerations the mansion actually had towards potentially dangerous children? Certainly this one seemed fine, and even if she wasn't Serena was pretty confident in her ability to handle those that were particularly dangerous, but she wondered how they approached these other cases. The staff were pretty well trained and confident in dealing with the kids for one thing, and for another they had Gemma around.
A smile flickered on her face. There were plenty of students like that. She'd opted not to have one after Liz totally vanished. "I'm sure if you look hard enough you will find plenty of students that don't spend too much time sleeping. I can't make any promises, but it's likely that you can get your own room." She was not going to be held accountable if she couldn't with a girl this prissy and entitled.
She actually did smile at Evelyn this time. "It's funny I was just thinking about that a minute ago. I came to the conclusion that generally the mansion's response time to any sort of problem or crisis is impressive, there are enough trained staff on hand, X-men and an adapted to deal with most combinations of problem that I can think of." It was afterall, basically a school for troubled mutants.
Serena was now even more excited to see Rebecca after such a long time away from her friends. She really did hope that Becca didn't chew her out too much for vanishing, but she did recall Rebecca taking a long break from the US for a couple of years, so hopefully at the very least she understood why Serena needed to take some time and space. "I'm looking forwards to it~"
She sighed, taking a moment to gather some thoughts. Her hand felt a little strained. Oh. It was balled into a fist. She conciously relaxed her hand and then forced a smile back onto her lips. "It's okay, it's not your fault." And it's not mine either, is it? She thought to herself.
"There is something to talk about, but I'm not ready to discuss it yet." She'd actually thought about calling Ami several times since she got back into the city but always distracted herself with other things like her sister and cleaning, and now her friend and the X-men. Besides, if she didn't pick up before, why would she now?
Serena shook her head with another soft smile across her lips. "Don't worry about it, you didn't even know that I was familiar with them. It's my fault for not being around." If she'd stuck around she'd certainly have known about them. She liked to check in at the mansion fairly regularly. Or rather, she used to do that.
She was glad that Alice was pretty calm and at ease in the situation but she always felt like her witch of a grandmother was up to something. Serena actually kept a pretty close eye on her, as much as one could from another continent. She would literally tear down that mansion for her little sister.
"N'awww. You are super huggable! It totally has nothing to do with the fact that you're my younger sister and my brain puts everything you do through a filter." The filter being adorable little sister. She probably would have found Alice adorable and huggable even if she wasn't her younger sister truth be told.
"Oh! That would be fun. You should totally text that to her Ladyship queen of B*****" Whoa. The old hag really did bring some fire out of Serena. It consistently caught her off guard.
She stepped out of the door. "Don't worry, I'm pretty good at regulating my own diet. It's just mostly been protein and vitamins recently, if I'm donating regularly I need sugar too." She giggled. "Well make sure it's locked, and then you can treat me to your fabulous cooking."
With that, the two of them strolled off and she had way way too much to eat, before making her way back to her dusty apartment, of course after she'd given Alice several assurances she wasn't going anywhere, and subsequently entered a food coma until the next morning.
Serena was super glad that most of her friends had just accepted the fact that they were going to be flying tackle hugged seemingly at random just by virtue of being around her. It probably helped when a bunch of them were X-men and therefore had ninja reflexes to not be bowled over by the hugs like an errant pin on a lane.
"I. Would love to hear it sometime. I definitely owe Becca some teasing once I've apologised for vanishing." She admitted, a giddy grin plastered across her lips. There was something really special and awesome about two of her friends both being together and seemingly really happy. She was more than happy to carry on this train of thought and drag some details out of May-
Serena's smile abruptly shifted. Her face became much straighter, anger threatening to creep in at her mind. "No." She paused and took in a breath. "No, not right now. Not for the foreseeable future."
Serena appreciated that. "Oh. Gawain. Duh." She felt silly for not thinking of that before, it was pretty obvious when she looked at it that way. She did wonder a little where the female name came from though? She'd never come across Maya in folklore. She also knew the other Maya residing at the mansion of course, Ghost was pretty awesome.
"Who is Saphirus, and why is his code name Masochist?" She asked with a quirked eyebrow. Serena thought she knew most of the X-men already, clearly she had been slightly mistaken on that front.
"Yes, I suppose we're going to have to see. Fingers crossed." Her cheeks slowly returned to their normal pale sheen. She was thankful at least that Maya wasn't the teasing kind, Rebecca probably would-
A thought struck her like a slap. "Oh my god!" Her voice rose an octave, or three. "I can't believe I've only just remembered!" She was glad that Maya didn't seem to be holding the teacup in reterospect, because she practically tackled Maya in another excited hug. "I heard about you and Becca yesterday! That's so wonderful, congratulations! She's lovely and you're lovely~" Serena was basically failing in excitement. Friends getting together was cool.
Serena hummed to herself as she'd finally finished sorting out everything in her apartment. She felt like her lungs had been clogged with dust for the first few days, but now everything had aired out a bit, and her fridge actually had food in it. And she had milk, for tea! She had a little wrapped box sitting on her kitchen counter waiting for her sister.
Leaning against the counter with some pretty loud music playing Serena hummed and tapped away at her phone, sending a text.
Hey sweetie, do you want to come over tonight and hang out? I promise the apartment is both clean, and there is food.
She made herself a cup of tea while she waiting for her sister to respond and walked around the apartment, checking that stuff was clean. She did of course, still have a pile of clothes in one corner, and her sofa was a mess but her writing desk and kitchen were once more sparkling, so there was that.
She nodded. She got that. "Well I'm certainly open to suggestions, codenames aren't really my forte. Most everything I write is based on folklore or has a real name." She had a few more thoughts bouncing around her head. Maybe something rooted in folklore? She couldn't think of any pleasant creatures that revolved around blood off the top of her head.
"I'll have to talk to who now?" She chirped with the still raised eyebrow.
She wriggled a little, feeling decidedly more sheepish than she had a few minutes ago when she'd been teasing Maya. "I -uhm. -Well you see." How did one bring up the side effects of her blood form?
"When I shift into my bloodform my whole body becomes liquid, and I subsequently lose all of my clothes. So when I reform, I'm totally nude." She just blurted it out in one rapid fire sentence. And now her face was on fire. Yup.
Serena felt a little odd, she'd thought about this whole situation so many times before, and talked through it with so many people at this point that it had sort of felt like she was never actually going to do it. But she was pretty resolved now, and Mirror was actually talking details. That made this all much more real, and she was this mixture of amused and excited that she had not quite expected when she contemplated it.
New and easy to yell over a comm? She sighed a little. "Well as I stated it's a little macabre but what about haemorrhage?" It was a little dark sounding but hey, it fit and her power WAS super aggressive. She could cause some serious pain if she wanted to, she was especially aware of that since meeting her evil twin.
She snorted. "I wasn't thinking spandex, but now I'm wondering how many comments you've had in the past to bring up that specifically?" She quirked an eyebrow at Maya teasingly.
She contemplated. "I wonder..." Just how well could it be tailored to powers? "Er... How well are they suited to powers? Because I kind of have a problem with mine." She admitted sheepishly.
Serena giggled again. "Can't blame a girl for wanting to have a bit of fun with you guys." She chirped warmly. She really did have a massive amount of respect for them, it was about time that she got around to showing that in a more significant and tangible way, and she was pretty determined to make good on that self resolution.
She leaned into the one armed hug warmly. Hugs were the best. "I'm not sure about that, you're all pretty amazing. But I figure me being around at the very least can't hurt." she admitted.
"Er... I hadn't thought of that. Do they have to be cool? The only thing that comes to mind is a little macabre." She admitted. "Are the uniforms leather? Because from the outside they totally look like leather." She added.
Serena nodded in agreement. She sort of chided herself for not thinking of that before. It was definitely one of that factors that had held her back a little in the past. Admittedly she didn't hate her power anymore, she kind of liked it. And although she didn't think blood itself was pretty she did enjoy the blue glow she radiated, it was nice to find things about yourself you liked. And also the healing thing. That was super awesome.
She bit her lip softly contemplating. "You're probably right, I'm sure a part of me realised that already, but it's just... It's hard. I can't lose her. I just can't." Her voice was sort of pleading, mostly to herself. She would not lose family like that again, not ever.
Serena stretched out a little as they talked. As Maya responded her lips started to widen into a mischievous smirk. "Caught me." She responded with a giggle. "ONE of you is always asking me, so I figured I'd just wait to see who was first." She teased.
Serena nodded in understanding, that made sense. Why would you keep certain powers out of the limelight. "I never thought of it like that. I suppose it's positive PR seeing a power that might be visually unsettling doing good in the world too." It was an interesting perspective, and it made a hell of a lot of sense, she was actually a little annoyed she'd never thought of that before to be honest.
"I think... Well, when I was younger I was so afraid of my power and how people would react, there is still a bit of that buried somewhere." She carried on before she could stop herself. "I've still not told Alice." She admitted. It was hard. She really really wanted her little sister to love her back, and she couldn't help but be terrified of freaking Alice out.
"One of my best friends used to call them awesome too." She smiled to herself. She should really look James up. "I think it helped teach me to appreciate them." She looked up, determination in her face. "I've trained plenty with Sam, and a bit with a few others. I've also been in the danger room a lot." She had admittedly not trained much with Maya, but she'd learned to work with other powers.
"You don't need to talk me into anything Maya, I had made up my mind when I came back to New York. I'll join." there was a sheepish grin on her face.
