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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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.
His power spread out the closer he was to them. Sveta was the first to be felt, then Travis. If it was up to him the man would have been dead before the first snowflake touched the grass. It wasn’t though. There was a chance that that he could reverse whatever he did to Iris. Give her powers back.
The icemancer laughed as the man shouted to him to calm down. That was like one of the worst ways to deescalate a situation. Especially after you forcibly altered a loved ones life. “Calm down!?!” one of the clones asked in Sam’s voice as it landed crouched low behind the man. ”Good, then this should be easy!” Sam said as he landed on Travis’s side in the same pose as the first clone. The second clone landed in front of him between him and Svetlana. “Her name is Iris!” yelled the second clone and pointed an open hand towards him. The icemen all acted in unison all pointing their hands towards the man.
The snow fall was becoming heavier. Frost coated the ground and spread out from each one of the icemen. All of it was within his range now. ”Hand’s behind your head and drop to the ground slowly. IF I SO MUCH AS HEAR OR SEE THE START OF A ****ING SPELL I’M STARTING WITH YOUR HANDS AND TONGUE!” all the ice men took one step towards the man.
Posted by Cold Steel on May 3, 2023 5:12:59 GMT -6
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The icemancer leaned against the wall and let out a sigh of relief when Rex finished off the creature. It was beheaded but it was magic. Something Sam still didn’t understand. It sounded like Rex barely knew more than him. Which was why his spell was the final nail in the coffin for... whatever the **** they just killed. ”I’m pretty good at making people talk.” Sam said his finger raising into the air.
It got colder in the room. They were going after the hostage next and the one who ran out the back door but they might be able to head the pair off. ”You know what happens when people get frost bite? Hands? Fingers? Feet? You don’t know you lost feeling till the burning stops. The nerve endings die off. Skin goes black, brittle. Easy to break, impossible to heal. Probably even with magic.” Sam said as he looked from Rex to the woman.
”Now I only met two people who managed to keep their mouth shut during my interrogation process. Both of them can no longer open their mouths.” the air got colder.
”I got it from here, go see if you can find them. We didn’t see any vehicles nearby meaning they are getting picked up or they are on foot.” Sam looked back to the woman.
”Now tell me what your next plans are? Where are they going?” mist started to pour off his finger looking as if it was steaming from the frigid temperatures.
Posted by Cold Steel on May 2, 2023 15:57:25 GMT -6
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Five minutes.... ”Five ****ing minutes.” he said practically in a growl to himself as he paced back and forth after Sveta left him. His powers were boosted, his rage primed and the ****er he was planning on directing it all at attacked the someone who was defenseless and about as innocent as it got. Iris.
The poor kid didn’t even know what was different just that something was. When she grabbed Sam’s hand for the first time since the stealing of her powers and nothing happened... he had to stop himself from breaking down a few times. Not just in front of the kid but Mirror and Becca. They were some of the most important people in his life.
The former assassin had trusted Sveta. Sam chose not to leave anyone there to protect the kids, both students and Iris. He had trusted her. She was to keep them safe. With Haven’s budget and herself.
It was a mistake. His and hers. He wouldn’t make that one again.
His scruff frosted over first.
Five minutes. He could give her that.
Ice started to form around him. A minute passed since she left.
The temperature dropped as he was losing his patience and focus. He was angry. The mansion was gone. His mistake. The ice that fell was the fall of the mansion.
Sam exhaled, his breath rose up as a plume of smoke. A minute and a half.
It started to snow, the grounds started to gain a hue or red and orange as his thermal sense kicked outwards.
Two minutes had passed.
Sam clenched his jaw. Lowering himself to the ground collecting the frost into full body armor. A hand of ice rose up next to him pulling the rest of the identical ice clone of the icemancer out from the frozen ground.
Two minutes and thirty five seconds.
The man he was after was an MRC agent. Trained, most likely has a fire arm or two. Knows he ****ed up good so is probably prepared. Another clone of Sam rose from the ground and mimicked the other clone and Sam’s posture in a crouch.
How many times did Mirror pull him back from the edge? Stop him from getting himself killed? Making a horrible mistake. In more ways than one? How many times did they save the icemancer? Too many, he lost track. Sam couldn’t even protect their little girl. He failed his best friend.
Three minutes.
His powers started to surge, the ice spreading forward from the influence of Svetlana’s powers. Meaning the grass beyond his normal range was started to frost over. Birds started to fly away from the effected area.
It was his fault. His mistakes that caused this to happen.
Three and a half minutes.
”F**k this. GO!” ice pillars erupted from under Sam and the two clones. Launching them high into the air towards where Svetlana was meeting Sam Travis. The one he was about to bring an ice age down upon.
Posted by Cold Steel on May 1, 2023 14:22:48 GMT -6
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The bottle neck happened too late. If Jorge were front and center with him they’d be able to make short work of it but he’d have to deal with it own his own. With Shin, watching Maya he could focus on the fight ahead. Too many mystics were on his lawn and it cost way too much money to keep it up. A mystic shot overhead with fire and he ignored it. A few flew past him and he ignored them. “Air support, looks like there are a bunch of people flying overhead... Carrick, Zek that means you two!”
The front gate was before him, water from the sprinklers turned solid and bent to his will as a beam of blue hit one side of the gate to the other leaving a small pass. It didn’t matter. They plowed right through it and he was face to face with someone the size of Hercules. He was glowing different but still. Muscle heads.
“A little busy at the moment!” he dodged the charge as the man barreled into the fountain crushing the stone surrounding it leaving more water flooding onto the grounds. Ice solidified at his feet. He was far enough away from everyone who was helping or he cared about where he didn’t have to worry about freezing them. One of the benefits with working better alone.
They needed to regroup. Without him killing everyone who was attacking the mansion (something the rest of the team frowned upon) he’d have a hard time battling these numbers alone. A blast of fire hit the wall of ice he just built. Cursing into the communication device, “On my way back Mirror, Sabine how we looking in the woods? Tell me it’s going better than here!”
Throwing himself upwards he grabbed hold of a mystic that was... of course they were flying on broomsticks. Ice traveled up his arm to the mystic that was flying overhead, both started to fly downwards after the ice finished incasing the flying mystic. Sam let go before they crashed into a few other magic users who weren’t paying attention.
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 25, 2023 9:03:35 GMT -6
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>>>“Help me! He’s going to kill me!”
”Better him than me.” Sam said stepping back and watching his work as the creature was impaled, frozen and bleeding out. It's saliva however was still melting the ice and the creatures fingers still twitched in the dim fire light from the curtain above that he didn’t put out.
The little amount of water that was still at the base of Sam’s feet turned into armor covering his body fully as he circled the frozen creature. Felling the devil’s eyes still on him he formed a katana made of ice and approached to the side. The spikes of ice shifted slightly for the icemancer to walk in closer to take a swing.
>>> “How are you doing, Cold Steel?”
There was a plea for help and Sam ignored it. He walked up the stairs with the creature's head frozen in a block of ice that he carried like a brief case his other hand held the sword over his shoulder. The X-team leader was tired and irritated. The door to the basement opened and Sam walked out dropping the block of ice before Rex and the woman.
”Loaded question. I want a drink and I’m tired. Pretty sure it’s dead.” he said looking over his should ”Still bleeding out down there. But I got the head. That kills it right?” he asked looking to the two mystics. ”You find out where their sacrifice was carried to?” he asked looking to the woman and lowering his sword a smear of black demon blood dripped from the tip.
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 25, 2023 9:02:42 GMT -6
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Team Leader of the X-Men Teacher of Self-Defense
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This wasn’t the typical scenario for a potential trainee, but then again Lenna wasn’t the typical trainee. She had field experience. It was all the more clear to Sam as he watched her study the situation before making a move. Showed she was smart and cautious. Good, they needed more of that.
”Danger, record the session.” he said to the computer as he chuckled when she gave herself up. That he wasn’t expecting. With her power set she could have moved around the room and taken out the main threat. Then figured things out from there. ”Gawain, isn’t going to believe this.”
He didn’t move as requested. The session would have stopped before she was killed, not to mention if it looked like a bad situation he could just pause the session and risk the wrath of the telekinetic. Gun to the back of the head, for any other potential trainee dangerous. Lenna...
Sam watched it play out.
”No $*^t” smiling smugly as she dispatched both Private Dancer and the shooter quickly and efficiently. The team wouldn’t believe it.
A few minutes passed and Lenna made her way back out to him. The screen was gone now, he waved it away after she left the building. ”Yeah, think that will do. Nice work.” he said shaking his head with a chuckle.
”If it was anyone else I would have yelled at them for throwing themselves into the line of fire so quickly but... I think that’s where you like to be.” they had way too much in common from what Sam could gather.
”You’re more experienced than most of the trainees we got now. Spot on the teams is yours if you want it.”
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 18, 2023 9:17:19 GMT -6
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”Think I can.” Sam said shifting to the side and opening two burners as he focused on the other two until the bacon was finished. ”How you holding up? Gemma? Kids?” the icemancer looked to the breakfast ingredients Jorge brought and his mouth started to water more.
”You’re right. Wish we could do this everyday.” Sam smelling the food that people started to bring in. Some already cooked some not. ”With what they went through already they deserve more.” he said waving to Shin as he entered weilding a caravan of cooking supplies.
”The bacon debt continues to grow.” he said laughing. An ice clone formed where Sam was standing a second ago and started to maintain the bacon. So he could help Shin with the set up.
Carrick and Praxi arrived next, followed by Liz. The icemancer was already smirking at the interaction between the trainees, new and former. ”You have to ask?” Sam shouted to Mirror holding up a cup of freshly poured coffee then setting th epot down on one of the tables so everyone could help themselves. ”We’ll just make sure she gets a big plate on your way out.”
The icemancer didn’t comment on how tired his friend looked, just smiled and offered him the mug. They could talk later about everything, right now it was about the newest members of the team ”Hey Luna! Glad you could make it, hope you brought your appitite!”
”Any one need a hand cooking or setting up?” the icemancer asked keeping a mind on the bacon the ice clone was tending to.
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 10, 2023 5:36:06 GMT -6
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The icemancer didn’t know when the water got here or for how long it was here but other than the smell of mold it was a welcome feeling. More material to turn to his favor. Sam exhaled, letting the air escape from his chest, allowing himself to draw in more now that he caught it. There was a faint rumbling and then some splashes of water in one of the corners.
>>>Sam!
Sam turned, bringing the water up as it condensed into ice crystals blocking a plume of acidic spit followed up by maniacal laughter. His thermal sense slowly started to creep back out around him. He could still feel Rex and the others above him, but he didn’t push the thermal readings any further than that. It was the demon he was searching for.
The ice before him started to melt back into the water. The laughter went quiet as he turned his head slightly. His eye adjusted to the light, and he waited for the next attack. There wa a chuckle behind him and Sam turned, bringing the ice up in an arc. The demon hissed out in pain as it was impaled by an ice spike.
”Good... finally caught you.” the demon’s head turned unnaturally towards Sam as it tried to pull itself off of the spike of ice. It spat towards Sam but only met ice as the floor became visible. All the water in the room turned to ice crystals. Spikes erupted upwards on the rest of the creature. It howled.
”Are you breaking?” Sam took a step back as a pile of black blood started leaking out. The creature spat again at some of the ice spikes but more took its place. ”You will.” Sam raised his hand and hit the creature with a beam of blue till the creature started to slow, then stopped moving. ”****ing magic...”
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 5, 2023 9:40:51 GMT -6
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”Don’t care what your job is! I just need someone who can dispel the magic!” he really hated not knowing anything about magic. A blast of ice hit the form of the demon and it slowed as it was being stuck to the wall Sam had kicked it into.
”Smashing it till it breaks.” Sam repeated and rolled his eye as a jet of acidic vomit erupted from the beasts mouth countering his ice beam. The ice melted and turned to water which Sam willed into spikes that show up into the demon’s side.
Hissing out in pain the creature lunged at Sam knocking the wind out of him and slamming him into the ground that was already weakened from his ice.
Both fell through the floor into the darkness of the basement. With a splash and a grunt Sam landed in ankle high water.
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 5, 2023 9:23:27 GMT -6
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It had been a long few months, the event that destroyed the mansion (the mystics not the ice) had long passed and the mansionites were in the process of rebuilding. The sound of construction of the residential wings continued. Different contracting trucks sat parked outside as crews of every trade started going to work.
One room however was blocked off, at the request of Sam and the other X-men. It was long overdue but while the mansion was rebuilding so too should the team. With Becca insisting that she was no longer an X-man the icemancer wasn’t sure if she would attend but he sent the invite out to her anyways.
The text read, “Hey, team breakfast. I want to welcome some new members to the roster and discuss where the team goes from here. Hope everyone will bring some breakfast foods. I already started cooking the bacon. See you soon. -Sam.”
While the trainees and members who were about to achieve ‘active’ status on the roster received, “Hey, mandatory team breakfast bring your favorite breakfast food and enough to share. Already started cooking bacon. See you soon. -Sam”
With the texts sent out Sam went back to cooking the bacon. All of it.
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 1, 2023 9:05:26 GMT -6
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”You’re mad at them not at me!” Sam chirped back wishing the chanting to stop. It didn’t. The chains vanished and he fought the other one holding his hand. Ice formed on the spectral links and he hit it a few times until he was freed.
There was more latin, Sam wished he paid attention more when they tried to drill the language into him when he was a kid. ”What are they saying?” something about a sanctuary? The demon part he got.
One of the mystics fled with a body bag after the light in the room faded. There was blood and another mystic bleeding. Sam looked to Rex hesitant to do anything else. This wasn’t his wheelhouse and he didn’t know how magic worked. He hated it. Simple as that.
The room got hot and bright and he severed his thermal sense bringing more ice to coat his body protecting him further from whatever was happening. A lone eye shut and he called the clone to step in front of him.
His eye opened and he was staring at... ”What the **** is that? it leapt after the order. Sam moved to the side and shoved Rex out of the way. The creature landed on Sam and they both rolled backwards into the wall. Shoving his feet under whatever the heck the frog thing was he pushed slamming it further as he tried to move out of the way.
Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 28, 2023 9:59:09 GMT -6
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“Are pretending we trust each other completely? I can do that if you want.” he said back to Sabine, Sam had reason to mistrust anyone who abducted mutants or started that way. Trust was earned, though this was a good start to building more of it.
“It doesn’t, makes it easier to work our magic. Remember the volcano?” Sam asked ducking a blast of heat that zoomed past him and exploded in green when it hit a frozen mystic. “Sides, gives us the home field advantage.” unless the army of mystics could control water and ice as well.
Shin arrived next and Sam got hit with a touch of nostalgia, these were people who he’d lay his life down for without any questions asked. His family, and this was their home. “Bout time!” he said with a chuckle throwing another mystic into a reflection and holding them there for Maya.
Jorge responded to the call to the rescue after the sprinklers kicked on. With another chuckle he looked to the nearest group of mystics, all of which were wielding some glowing weapons. They were smiling, good. They thought they had an advantage. After Jorge left, however, Sam felt a little more relaxed about using his abilities.
The water droplets on the mystics turned to ice and quickly grew upwards until each of the mystics in the group closest to him froze in place. Their expressions turned sour and Sam kept moving forward to the entrance. He needed to seal it off to give the rest of the defense a chance to regroup.
“I’ll make a bottle neck!” he shouted and started blasting at the front of the mansion walls which quickly erupted in ice. “Cover me!” he shouted to his teammates that were still around.
Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 20, 2023 5:09:02 GMT -6
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“You think I like it?” Sam asked not caring if the channel was open. “I trust her about as much as she trusts me.” Mirror started pulling mystics into the reflections making their abilities useless. “but you want to take over for her and leave me to deal with all of these @#$@’s alone?” Sam asked as he threw another mystic towards an empty reflection.
Something warm whizzed by as Sam ducked. He did not know what they were throwing at him but knew it would have been better if he was not hit. That was his rule about most fights so this wasn’t too out of the ordinary... except the whale. He didn’t know what that was about still but figured Hercules, Rex and the others could handle it before it got to the school.
Sam’s amor split from him forming a clone, another one appeared from one of the mirrors making it a little smaller when the ice material left. “Kill the muties!” a mystic shouted as they ran past a few of the mirrors with their fellow mystics banging on the ice for help. “Kill the-” Sam caught the mystic in the face and broke his nose with a quick jab sending him falling onto the ground. One of the clones jumped him freezing him to the ground. “You’re all trespassing!” the icemancer shouted.
It was too early to tap into his Winter Wonderland ability. The fight just started. “Sabine, turn on the sprinklers. I need a power up. Jorge could use one as well.” he said joking with his teammate. The air got colder the further he moved towards the gates. Mirrors of ice and golems shot out of the snowbanks when he approached grabbing anyone who was close.
Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 14, 2023 10:51:00 GMT -6
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”How?” Sam asked grunting and moving away from Rex at his suggestion. Ice dug into the floor now trying to disrupt the circle. He didn’t understand magic. Nor had a belief in it until recently. It was not in his wheelhouse. Give him a mutation and he could figure out a few ways to defeat it. Magic? Only thing he could think of was kill the caster and it was still frowned upon for X-men to kill.
Someone else entered the room. He heard Latin and suddenly his arms were bound. Sam looked down to see the same chains that held Rex moments before entangling him. He pulled and tried to loosen them failing in freeing himself. ”Come on!” he shouted as from the center of the room where the ice was covering the ritual circle a blade of ice erupted and fell cutting one of the chains it was his foot.
With his foot now free he formed some ice and kicked upwards hitting another chain. It took two more strikes but he freed himself. ”What now?” he asked blasting some fire that caught on a curtain from Rex’s spell.
The ice worked it’s way into the grain of the wood where the ritual was being cast. It warped and spread till the circle broke and caused the flooring to become uneven.
Posted by Cold Steel on Mar 11, 2023 8:02:27 GMT -6
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Team Leader of the X-Men Teacher of Self-Defense
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Mirror made the request, mystics were arriving. Some commotion from the side of the mansion caught his attention first then the whale appeared. “On it! Maya!” The icemancer looked around for Carrick and Zek, one of them could get him there faster than a slide. The idea left him when he Shin and Carrick fly away from him and towards the woods.
“Fine.” he said out loud. “I’ll get there my own way.”
Chiming into the communication device, “Good call Sab. On it!” there was sarcasm in his voice but she was right Sam also jumped from the front of the mansion roof leaving his post and Mai up there. He was more useful with combat than recon anyway. The air rushed past him as he shouted to Hercules who was easy to spot standing next to Rex and... Ami?
“Herc!” he called hoping the giant was good at hearing. “Throw me at the gate!” The giant dropped his club caught the icemancer and whipped him around in a circle, “Hey Ami.” he said before being launched forward towards the front gates far faster than he was intending.
His eye closed for a second and he felt he cleared half of the grounds. As he passed snow banks ice leapt up to his body attaching itself till he was covered in armor. He needed to slow down. He was moving too fast even if he could use ice it would have hurt to catch his fall.
That was when a mystic floated up in front of him by the mansion gates. Past the line of MRC and Super agents, “Thanks!” Sam shouted as he opened his arms extended some ice to one hand and used the floating mystic to stop his trajectory which was heading to the ground. The mystic turned around a few times in midair and was sling shot from the grounds and back past the gates. Before he touched the ground several mirrors appeared on the ground where he was landing. “Mirror! You're up!”
Several mystics rushed towards him when they saw him land in their group ignoring the frozen reflective walls around him.