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 felt an immediate wave of relief that Spencer didn’t appear mad, or crestfallen at all over her refusal to answer a question about how she manifested. She just… wasn’t ready to discuss that with close friends, and as easy as Spencer was to talk to, They were hardly close, they’d just met.
An eyebrow was raised. Was Serena more forthcoming than most people? She hadn’t really said that much, had she? “Why would people be uncooperative with you? Are they intimidated by you or something?” Serena tilted her head. “I guess I could see someone being jealous, but you’ve been so nice.” she exclaimed, simply confused.
“I would… really like that.” She murmured, gazing longingly into Spencer’s eyes. Gosh, She was just, unfairly attractive. Serena’s eyes did not totally follow the pen, nope not at all. God. Dammit. “I-uh.”
Her gulp was ver y nearly audible. “I-Er-I suppose I’d tell them not to be too afraid of interviews. Your interviewer could turn out to be drop dead gorgeous, and really lovely.” Her mouth moved much faster than her brain, and before she could remotely stop herself. “Try new things?” She added onto the end, Before clearing her throat.
“I-Uhm-You-” Serena was trying to get her words out, and failing pretty badly. “I think my brain has stopped working.” she finished.
Serena nodded firmly. “Good, And I really don’t mind what sort of thing you want to talk to me about.” She really did want them to be able to talk about almost anything, maybe once her relationship drama sorted itself out, or she just got over it, she could discuss Ami with Alice. That’d be a bit though, she needed time. She was also very aware that she’d not shown Alice her power at all.
Alice’s reaction had been pretty much as expected, leading to a short burst of hearty laughter. “Well it’s all well intentioned. If they’re ever being too pushy with it, or you’re uncomfortable confronting them let me know, me and Mirror are on excellent terms.” She admitted. Even better these days, really.
“I’m sure you would, I wouldn’t mind learning a bit more about how it works, but I have no idea when things like that are done with it.” She admitted. The first time Serena had seen the room used, she’d actually thought it was magic. Silly, really.
Ah. This was a good time to bring up Serena’s news, she supposed. “Oh yes. Uhm. About that…” Serena was actually sort of glad Alice was moving out of the mansion come to think of it, she wouldn’t have to pick up on Serena’s train-o-holic behaviours. “I sort of, joined the team when I got back. After I hung out with you, Mirror and me had a talk.” She didn’t really know of a better way to bring this up.
“I’ve been very nervous about bringing this up with you, but as I’ve said, I’d like to be honest and not keep secrets from you.” She wanted this to work, she needed this to work. Serena silently pleaded that Alice be okay with this.
“And yes, the city is always lively, always new experiences and people to experiment with.” She murmured, almost absent mindedly.
Serena wasn’t sure what Juniper was referencing right away until she dimly recalled a very (very) attractive red headed spy from some popular movies that moved around like a ninja. She appreciated it for sure. Serena wasn’t really sure how she compared to other X-men or film characters, but she was definitely more fit than most people one saw exercising.
Serena heard the movement and hazarded a glance back over to the one she’d downed, seeing Juniper seemingly gathering some courage over time, and interacting with one of the robots. Did… Did she just stick it to the floor? That was all kinds of cool! Her power was so interesting and defensive.
Serena gasped as it swung towards Juniper “Look ou-” And immediately felt stupid when she saw the blow not connect with anything.
Taking a moment to right herself, and ducking out of the way of the blows of one of the other ones she split her pool of blood into two, flinging a spike hard through one foot to pin it to the ground for a moment, before forming a hammer with the other and swinging it down onto the toppled robot’s skull, before it could make anymore aggression towards Juniper occur. “I don’t think it’s boring, I think you’re actually rather spectacular.” She chirped excitedly.
“I’m… actually not sure, I found these robots in the settings and just dropped them into this scenario, I pretty much only designed one of my programs from scratch.” She had been amused to see nobody else fought vampires. “Give it a go?” She suggested as she brought her blood back around, pivoting her whole body in one motion and stretching out her hands, both of them flattening mirroring the blood becoming a blade which promptly scythed through both of the legs of an upright robot.
Dear lord, he was liking a walking action figure, complete with cheesy lines. It was adorable and endearing though, Serena was happy to spend more time with the kid if this was the way he leaned. "If it was terrifying and you did it anyway you're definitely brave, it's almost literally the definition of courage." You could trust her, she was a writer. She should get a shirt with that on it or something. 'I'm Serena I can do word good'. It was hard not to giggle outloud at the stray thought.
"I'm sure you will, It'll be working with the English teacher, and running some self defence programs." She smiled. As she was saying it outloud, and discussing it with an inspirational, young aspiring X-man Serena realised she'd decided she was going to accept the offer. She had no issue with giving back to the mansion, even less so now that she was on the team.
Serena blinked, chuckling a little at the reaction. He was such a fan boy. "Around a month? Maybe a little more? I'm not one hundred percent certain, it's been a busy couple of months." It had been, lots of sister stuff going on, some relationship drama and more training than was probably healthy.
Biting her lower lip a little unconsciously Serena stifled an amused chuckle. "As a matter of fact, I was just about to go and do some training in there. I don't mind turning it into a sort of induction though, especially if Shard if vouching for you." She complimented gently.
"Alright, I'm pretty sure you do need to be supervised in the room then, if you're looking to join the team, eventually when you're a bit older I think it'll be no problem for you to use it on your own." Serena certainly wasn't comfortable letting underage kids use it on their own, that was for sure.
Serena giggled at Amelia's reaction to the neck peck. It was adorable and made her heart flutter a little. "You are the cutest police woman on the force. You know that, right?" Her little chirp was followed by some more neck nuzzles, and several more little kisses. There was just something so relaxing and welcoming about hugging and kissing her girlfriend, but also making shivers run up Ami's spine was very satisfying. Her goal here was to take Amelia's mind off of things, and make her think about other stuff. Like cooking. And Serena, and what Serena would be doing after dinner.
"Ooooh, I have not." She lied. "Teach me? I'm sure I can think of some way to reward you." She teased with a smile.
"You're the cook, just tell me what to do, and I'll do it." She whispered into Amelia's ear before releasing her girlfriend and getting out chopping boards and opening her utensils drawer. She seemed to be taking a long time to find things, as if she didn't spend much time cooking? Truth be told most of her time hanging out with Ami involved getting take out, or food being ready before the other got there.
Serena had never actually cooked for Ami, and that gave her an idea. "So what should I do, beautiful?"
Serena nodded her head quickly several times in agreement. She was closer to Cait now, she leaned her head gently on the other woman's shoulder and giggled. "Fun is an understatement. It's been... A while." There was something to be said for cutting loose when you haven't in a long while, in much more sense than one, that was for sure.
Along with another blush she pecked Cait on the cheek softly. "I'm glad I did too. I think I needed that, you certainly seemed to need the... Er. Release." She couldn't think of a way to word that without innuendo, so much for being a word smith.
Serena was very glad to hear that Cait was eager to stick around, she was new to this whole dynamic, but she also wanted to explore it more. It was exciting. It got more exciting with the look Cait gave her. "I think I'd like that." She murmured quietly, cheeks burning.
Wait, floating weapons? That sounded so familiar... Serena couldn't place it. "Hey Cait, I've a slightly peculiar request for you, if that's okay." She paused before asking "Could you show me your mutation?"
Serena definitely had a thing for intense eye contact, there was just something about staring into another person's eyes. Again, it was probably the romantic, poetic side of her personality. Serena nodded gently, not breaking eye contact. "Thank you for understanding." She replied softly, before very quickly adding "Sorry."
Interesting writing quirks? The funny thing is, she was right about one thing, every writer Serena had talked to had some weird thing they did that apparently increased productivity. Serena wrote pretty much every day of the week.
"I think if I was to pin something down, I'd say that my most intense bursts of inspiration and productivity always come between midnight at 6am? Always while I'm asleep, I just wake up and have the urge to start writing. It's weird. I can't settle back down to sleep until I at least have some thoughts down." She admitted.
"I just wanted to say thank you for taking it easy on me, this has actually been really really nice." She exclaimed, smiling timidly at Spencer. Golly, she was pretty.
Serena nodded rapidly, still very red. “I don’t really know what I went out for to be honest with you, my friends just told me I should go out and have some fun… I suppose we accomplished that, didn’t we?” She asked a little more brazenly, a timid smirk slowly sprouting on her lips.
Serena’s smirk became a little more playful. “You should hear it more often. I have no problem reminding my friends that they’re gorgeous, keep hanging out with me and you will develop a fairly large ego.” Sometimes you just had to remind friends of things like that. Giving honest, earnest compliments was good for the soul. Especially if the other party enjoyed it, or particularly needed to hear them.
Last night was kind of a blur. A tornado of pleasure and giggling. Serena shuffled under the covers a little. Still distinctly aware that she was nude under them and Cait was partially dressed. It was awkward. Well, it was awkward for her. She seriously doubted that Cait cared very much one way or another.
Serena nodded. “I get that. It’s mostly trash talk. Some criminals can be so rude.” She distantly recalled several she’d encountered that were very… Mouthy.
Taking another cursory sip of water and setting it down on the nightstand Serena wrapped some of the sheet gently around herself and shifted on the bed so she was a little closer to Cait. She still couldn’t believe she’d just met someone that beautiful and ended up in bed with them not even hours later.
The curse word had been pretty much exactly what Serena had expected after seeing the result. Sam was very very immature in this state. She suspected it came from his shaky background mixed with his ego. All that anger and frustration, no wonder adult Sam had ended up with so many issues. Thinking on it, she was sort of impressed he held together as well as he did, sometimes.
Simply raising an eyebrow, Serena waited for Sam to talk himself out and calm down a little. It took a surprisingly brief period of time. “I’m sure you don’t lose often.” She conceded. Even in his less experienced state, he was still basically a ninja.
“You can do it though.” She noted, she’d seen adult Sam do it, and he was just as capable of self control. “The thing is, and the reason I do this… Anybody can strike with force, almost any mutant can inflict real damage quickly, some can even do it with the precision me and you can. But if some of us didn’t hold back, we’d end up just leaving bodies. And nobody wants that.” Well, some people did but they were generally psychopaths.
“And yes, you did train me to fight. But the self control is all me. Discipline isn’t a skill, it’s not a natural talent, it’s willpower and patience. I’m not trying to lecture you, just explaining why I perform well here.” A little ego bruising was good for him. “That being said, clearly all of your skills weren’t picked up in your 20’s, you still performed better than almost anyone else in the school would have.” She suspected Becca or Mirror would give her a decent run for her money, or just outright win.
A giant moth in central park? That sounded like something straight ouf of a B tier horror movie, one of those old black and white ones. That or the plot of a badly written anime. The hijinks that some people got up to in New York were sort of astonishing. Serena had heard of everything from werewolves to giant fleshy monsters turning up in central park. It seemed to be a favourite spot.
“That’s very brave of you.” She conceded with a smile. He seemed so genuine, so enthusiastic. You just didn’t meet people like this Xavier kid. Serena felt like almost all of her interactions with students recently had been slightly more tenuous. Grumpy teenagers tended to exude that vibe.
Serena shrugged and shook her head mildly. “Not really, I’ve not taken up an official position at the mansion yet. I’ve been offered, and I’m just trying to decide where I can best help.” She’d been thinking about teaching, or tuition perhaps? She’d helped out with Self Defense before, but she was hardly an expert on that topic. Besides, she figured that they could always use more teachers.
English or Biology she could probably manage. Literature was awesome, she was good at the language side of things too.
“I’m on the team, thus why I can supervise.” She revealed non-chalantly. “Speculation aside for a moment, generally the room is a fantastic training tool, both for the team and students who need power training. But it can potentially be dangerous. Therefore the need for supervision.” He did seem young, but she should probably confirm an actual age rather than speculating.
The little salute made Serena giggle, because of course it did. She finished what she was doing and saved, she could pick this up later when Ami was asleep. Or play it with her or something, her goal for the evening was helping her girlfriend relax. Maybe let off some steam, in whatever shape that might be.
As Ami was gathering ingredients Serena turned off the T.V and snuck over to the kitchen, gently lacing her arms around Ami's stomach from behind, hugging her and leaning into her, planting a soft little kiss on her neck. "Hi." She leaned against Ami for a few moments before releasing her.
"So what are you making?" She peered over Amelia's shoulder.
Serena had been having a freaking wonderful day. She got up, managed to get 3 chapters of edits done, went for a nice long run, and then worked on her column and read the comments from last week. People were really this new Fable of Linkle game was being really well received! Even if the weapon degradation drove some people mental, Serena included.
She loved writing about nerdy things, and her opinions were generally pretty well received, she even managed to squeeze a little humour into some of them here and there.
She had lunch with some of her old college friends, had a coffee with her editor and came home, curled up on the sofa and continued playing her action adventure game. Gasp of Nature, was an odd name. But it sort of made sense. The thing was open word. And she loved the feeling of exploring, gliding around on your glider, cooking and finding secrets.
Serena definitely picked up some tension in Amelia's voice. She was more than happy to host, massage, smooch and allow her girlfriend to cook away her frustrations. She'd even eat burnt food too, not that Amelia would burn it. But that's just how much she loved her.
Serena was stretched across the sofa in a long baggy Nickleback shirt she'd picked up somewhere a million years ago. It was definitely a larger male size, but it was perfect for lounging. That and some comfy shorts. She peeked up over the sofa and met Amelia's kiss. "Hi love. Your jokes never get better, but that's okay. As long as you make me food~"
Serena was doing her best to keep up the professional attitude, clearing the lump in her throat. "Right. Well." Okay.
She at least managed to compose herself while she opened her containers (Absolutely unaware of her athletic body being ogled), and prepared to fight robots. They were about 7 feet tall each. And reasonably sturdy. She could definitely knock one over with enough physical effort, but there were 4 of them. This was power training. And cardio, running away from debris and robot limbs was good exercise.
She took a ready stance and activated her power, a slightly eerie glow surrounding her body and drawing about 2 gallons of blood from the containers as a buzzer sounded, indicating the start of the program. She ran towards one of the robots, just barely ducking under a wide swing from one of their arms, and taking a slide between it's legs.
As she moved under the first robot, she drew out the blood into a line like a blade, and used her momentum and her mind to slice clean through the limb.
It fell off balance and she quickly got to her feet, glancing up just in time to see a chunk of simulated... Building? Thrown at her. She dove out of the way with a grunt and scrabbled back to her feet, back into a stance.
Serena just... couldn't stop the blushing. She hadn't really heard much one to one feedback on the name yet, just Rebecca and Mirror's responses. "Thank you. I really do appreciate that." She really had struggled with a name, her power wasn't really the pinnacle of easy PR or naming conventions. And she definitely didn't want something aggressive sounding, that was for sure.
Serena nodded. "I honestly do view it like sexuality in a lot of ways. Compare people's thoughts and feelings, at least the publicly aired ones 50 years ago on gay couples, to now. It's normalised. It's in the media, it's no longer demonised. It's not listed in the DSM as a mental disorder..." Serena clearly had strong feelings and passion on the topic.
"Of course, I do encourage that people try to understand that the X-men are people too. I suppose I'm saying we should do more interviews, especially if they are as lovely as this." she chuckled nervously.
An involuntary shiver ran up Serena's arm when Spencer touched her. There was something reassuring, and exciting about the words followed by actual human contact. She looked up and met Spencer's eyes nervously.
A simple nod was given in response to the question of openness. "Uh-" She paused. She was not discussing that, if that was what Spencer was referring to. "If you're referring to my power, that's not something I'm willing to discuss. But you can ask me anything else."
She waited a beat before adding. "I'd definitely like to continue." God. Spencer's eyes were so pretty.
Shard was Shinbo right? She'd not really spoken to him much, ever really. But she did know him. And she did like him. In fact, if she was remembering correctly he'd been the first person to greet her at the mansion.
She tilted her head in a smile. "Oh, did you now?" She was glad that not all of the X-men were stuck on the deputisation thing. She'd definitely meddled in her fair share of situations before she joined the team formally. Although this guy looked very young.
Ah. Class, he was a student. Okay. She could totally help him out. He seemed nice enough, and he was polite. And if Shard had already told him he could check out the danger room... That made sense. But she was under the impression staff were supposed to supervise, especially if the boy was underage.
He was actually really cute, like a little hero wannabe.
She accepted the hand. "I see, well It's a pleasure to meet you. Xavier, I'm Serena." She waited for the bit and smiled more.
"Ah. I see. In that case I don't see a reason I can't help you." She conceded. "I can show you the room and supervise." He was kind of too sweet to say no to.
