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.
Posted by Cold Steel on Dec 17, 2018 20:57:31 GMT -6
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Sam was asleep at the bar again, his bar. However he was asleep because he was tired, not because he passed out from the night before. Sam had been alcohol free for a few weeks now, or was it months? His dreams of his experiances with his not-real family had become more vivid as of late which was why any chance he got the ice-mancer welcomed a shut-eye. The call ruined that.
Grabbing an energy drink from one of the fridges he looked to the day shift and raised it, ”Mark it down I’ll pay for it later.” before he could hear his manager argue he exited the door and hopped up willing ice to form under his feet.
Lucky for Sam the incident was only a few blocks away and what’s more lucky when he got to the entrance of the building he spotted a familiar face, one he hadn’t seen in his opinion way too long. It seemed not everyone was happy to see his shard forming buddy. ”What, the guy got a thing against Asians?” Sam asked as he dropped down next to Shin, then looked to the doorman. ”You know we were sent by the police right?” Sam asked as he patted his pockets with his free hand wishing he had his badge.
With a sigh and a sip of his energy drink Sam looked to Shin and shrugged, ”Wish I could say I had my badge but…” Sam shrugged and then looked up, ”I only came down because I saw you, been good?” Sam then raised his drink in the direction of the fog surrounding the upper half of the building. ”Welp, want a lift up?” he asked ice already forming around his feet.
Posted by Cold Steel on Dec 15, 2018 15:45:31 GMT -6
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Sam nodded his head and didn’t pull his hand away when Lee tried to comfort him. His nostrils flared then his gaze made back to his water. He felt warm, uncomfortable. Wishing his water was a beer he took a sip slowing as he remembered it was water. ”Not much I can do. Drinking helped for a while but.” Sam shrugged and set his water down.
”She seemed happy, confused but happy. I wanted talk to her more but I scared her… and Juli.” Sam shook his head, ”But I’m rambling.” Sam raised his glass again. Trying to change the subject, ”So, Tarin… still seeing dead people?” Sam asked knowing the answer already but any subject change would have been better. He was doing well not drinking.
Posted by Cold Steel on Dec 15, 2018 13:12:48 GMT -6
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Sam shook his head, ”No, I just get into fights with people who can. Or burning buildings, been a lot of those lately. Ice melt pants catch on fire.” Sam said giving it a ‘you know’ hand gesture occupied by a decent should shrug. Sam knew it wasn’t normal but most of his life was anything but normal. In fact the most normal things he had in his life was his cat and his dog. Both of which were things Sam never thought he’d be able to have in life.
”Tests?” Sam pushed his chair back as he stood up quickly, ”Tests we can run right now. Ever been to the Danger Room?” Sam asked, hoping he said ‘no’. Normally Sam didn’t bring random people to the danger room for obvious reasons but Javier already did some work on other uniforms for his teammates so more than likely the guy was going to see it sooner or later.
”We can run any kind of test there. Now that I think about it, electricity is another issue. It hurts.” Sam said walking to his door. Not the secret one, the normal one. He was going to keep that ‘secret’ to himself and the rest of the alcohol thieves for a little while longer.
Sam opened the door then waved for Javier to follow to the danger room as he rambled off a list of things. ”Obviously my powers are pretty versatile but I have been in situations where I can’t use them. Some things I need to survive or escape…” Sam said as he left that pretty vague. ”You can be the ‘Q’ to my Bond, only with clothes… unless you can make some cool gadgets…”
A stairway led to the metallic hallway that lead to the danger room, ”Any who, set of files, lock pick set, water purification tablets and a small knife?” he thought about it, ”Yeah a knife, not a big one something small that could fit somewhere someone might not find it.”
Sam shrugged as the doors ‘whooshed’ and the lights in the large dome lit up. ”Fires are easy enough to make with a knife, but if you got some room for some flint I’m cool with. I don’t really get cold but if I’m in a situation where I need to make a fire for someone if I have everything literally on me I won’t complain.” Sam smirked, ”Now what Tests you want to start with?”
Posted by Cold Steel on Dec 15, 2018 12:40:43 GMT -6
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Sam lifted his water in a mock toast then took a drink, ”Here’s to tomorrow then, hoping that you get more sleep then you need. I know your powers give you energy but even a little shut eye is good to get your head clear.” he set the drink down then avoided the next question for a second before finally making eye contact again.
”I saw her again.” Sam said talking about his ex-girlfriend who he was once in love with. Now he was in love with the shadow of her, the one he was married, was married to when he was under the mind control effects of another ex-girlfriend. ”I mean, I always see her in my sleep but… I saw her in person again… first time since Romania when we split.” Sam looked to his water then had a clear frustrated look on his face as if he could turn water into whiskey he would have gone for the highest proof possible.
Talking about anything like this had never been easy for Sam. Friends he had but more often than not they had there own issues to deal with. In Lee’s case, kids a bar and her staff. Sam never felt right piling on his issues to anyone else’s. However, he was told by Gemma talking things out made it easier to deal with even if no one was listening. Bottles didn’t count but people do.
”She didn’t seem to recognize me at all. At first I thought I was seeing things again and I probably didn’t react the best way. I thought my mind was being messed with again. Ended up trying to ‘wake up’.” the way he said it meant something other than splashing water on his face.
”Just the same though I got to much going on right now, best for everyone that she doesn’t remember. I don’t know what Alex I would be talking to anyways. The one I was married to or the one that left me in Romania.” Sam’s hands started to fidget and he did everything he could not to make eye contact with Lee, his eye found it’s way to the bottles behind the bar. Both of his bartenders seemed to find their way in front of the bottles.
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 13, 2018 19:48:57 GMT -6
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Sam smirked, ”Like a second skin almost?” he raised his hand and iced it over covering all the skin. ”Understatement.” Sam smirked and shook the ice off his hand sending bits of frozen water to drop on his desk and the floor. He wasn’t too worried about watermarks on his desk. Defiantly an easier liquid to clean than whiskey… or beer.
”Last I checked I out colded liquid nitrogen… but it’s been a year or two since I last checked. Normally don’t have a reason to get that cold… however, extreme heat is an issue. My pants burned off one time. Lot of paperwork after that one.” Sam sighed a little glad he hadn’t had a run in with ‘Hot hands’ recently, Sam was really tired of having to replace his clothes.
”Needs to be flexible more than anything, I need to move a lot. Running jumping, but… figured you already had something in mind for that. Pouches still a thing? I mean I can make most of the tools I’d need in the field but I usually end up dropping or losing my communicator, been yelled at enough times for that.” Sam said scratching the back of his head.
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 11, 2018 20:39:59 GMT -6
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It was nice to hear he was needed. Other than the bar and the his two fuzz balls back at the mansion he had been feeling ‘unneeded’ something he had been struggling with since he found out that his own children weren’t real a few years ago.
”How smart?” Sam asked as he took a step away from the bottle. He didn’t say it but he appreciated the slide of the bottle in the other direction, out of reach out of mind or at least until he moved closer which was what he was struggling to do. His eye shifted from the bottle to the mirror walker again.
”Even if it was our government. Looks like we’ll need a frost of some kind. No matter how deep roots go, you get a big enough frost weeds will die eventually, right? Think it’s supposed to get pretty cold.” a chill left his body and swept over the bar and frosted the bottle closest to him, the one Gawain slid.
Sam reached for the hand and shook it. Nope, he wasn’t a resident. He was the new tailor, already removed the ‘old’ design. Frankly Sam didn’t understand what was wrong with the old suits but Sam was also not running around in heels and a skirt (Sam still didn’t understand how most of the X-women and Gawain did that.)
Normally Sam would offer a drink but he was trying not to drink. Like a good X-man. He hated being good, most of the time. ”So… have a seat… it’s come to my attention that we are getting rid of the skirts… gonna miss those things.” Sam smirked, ”It looked nice and from what she said it was a good fit.”
”Personally I got nothing wrong with my suit, in fact I hardly wear it. Usually I don’t get a chance to run back here and grab it when I need it.” Sam walked over to a wardrobe in the corner of the room where his alcohol was sometimes stashed however he pulled his X-suit out instead of the one thing he wished jumped into his hand.
”Little charred still from the volcano but it’s still in one piece.” Sam walked over and set it on his desk for Javier to look at. ”It’s not a leather jacket but the scars on her give some character.” Sam said strolling down memory lane. ”So… what are you thinking for me?”
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 10, 2018 19:17:39 GMT -6
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Sam’s nostrils flared in irritation when Gawain filled him in about SUPER. He didn’t know what they did exactly but he was getting a strong T.A.T. vibe. Both used kids. Sam’s hand started to shake as he reached up towards the bottle and he instinctively slammed his hand on the bar top. One of his ‘don’t do’s’ is ‘use’ kids. He was one of those kids.
”So we stop them.” Sam said bluntly his irritation now apparent on his face. ”You know my feelings about people using kids.” Sam took a breath then felt the old man at the end of the bar look back down after his little outburst.
Another breath, ”Tell me we are doing something… and yes, I’m involving myself now.”
Posted by Cold Steel on Sept 10, 2018 19:09:11 GMT -6
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Sam smirked, ”Awwww, a girl? Come on the ladies love me. I’ll make sure all the boys will be afraid of her.” Sam looked over to behind the bar and pointed to himself then lifted up the number two. It had been an ongoing thing with him and his crew but whenever he pointed to himself when he was ‘on’ the clock it had meant water. Even if that wasn’t what he wanted they knew that’s what he meant.
Erin walked over gave him the waters then ported back behind the safety of the bar where she went back to familiarizing herself with the layout. Sam offered an water to Lee, the glass frosting over with his touch. ”We’ll be designated drinking buddies till I can convince you to go home.”
”How’s the pregnancy?” Sam asked raising an eyebrow in a thinking gesture. ”Am I allowed to ask it? Alex always got ma-“ Sam set his water down after a sip whishing it was suddenly whiskey. ”Seems lack of sleep is going around”
Posted by Cold Steel on Jun 14, 2018 15:38:26 GMT -6
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Sam smirked at the idea of him as a monk as he sipped his water. ”Scary thought isn’t it? Someone like me a monk. I have worn a robe before though. Bathrobe but still counts.” Sam said reaching for a comparison. Monks could drink. Sam at the moment was fighting not to.
”Whatever caused could also undo it. Don’t tell me you haven’t looked into it yet?” Sam raised an eyebrow then added, ”Or is this more of one of those…no point changing it?” Sam then added, ”Well if there isn’t an harm from it… maybe I’m married over there. To think a world of women who I haven’t dated. What’s the real estate value over there?” Sam joked as his ears perked to the door.
Sam walked over to the rack of mugs and pulled a tall glass and filled it with a beer and set it down at the end of the bar. The old man walked in as usual and grabbed the stool and the beer. Walking back over to Gawain, ”Don’t joke about that. I know I don’t have any kids, other than the adopted ones.” Sam knocked loudly on the bar and leaned back in towards Gawain.
In a hushed tone, ”Other Chase?” the basement was reserved as a few holding cells. Sam helped upgrade the security with the help of his fellow X-Men (shout out to Streak). The last person that he knew of to occupy the basement was Shade. Sam of course used Drew’s promise keeping abilities to enlist Shade into helping him. Sam still had his own tattoos as well most of which were hidden.
”Take he needed to be put down there? Who else knows?” Sam asked the basement wasn’t typically supposed to be used unless it was signed off but… Sam might have broken the rules with Shade.
Posted by Cold Steel on May 28, 2018 20:52:17 GMT -6
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It was always odd to Sam when people knocked on his door, they seemed to walk in anyways. So what was the point? He wasn’t mad someone was knocking, he was mad at the paperwork that seemed to stack up over his time abroad. Honestly if he wasn’t the only one that used the office he would have been sure this is where paperwork went to die. Pushing himself up from his chair Sam started to walk towards the door.
”It’s always open.” Sam said waving his hand and then grabbing the handle and pulling the door open. ”Unless it’s locked, then it isn’t.” Sam looked at the guy and raised an eyebrow. ”New resident?”
Posted by Cold Steel on May 28, 2018 20:41:18 GMT -6
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Sam raised an eyebrow, ”Was it the food?” he smirked and eyed his crew. Jack made his way back to the bar and Erin was already mixing some drinks while porting back to the spot. Sam was tempted to remind her it’s not the best to do while working with a group of strangers. She almost ported into Lee, would have made for a bad introduction.
”and where are you supposed to be tonight? Enjoying a drink and relaxing at your favorite place of work?” Sam then stopped and took a step back. His eye looked to Lee’s stomach, he didn’t know much about pregnancy other than the fake memories he had of Alexandra but Lee. ”Maybe just a water?” he asked instinct taking a step back incase Lee tried to swing on him after his comment.
Posted by Cold Steel on May 28, 2018 19:51:43 GMT -6
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”Heard about it, haven’t seen it? Did you run into me yet? More handsome?” he asked with his usual charm then looked away in an afterthought, ”No, he’d need two eye patches.” looking back to Gawain with a shoulder shrug he added, ”That wasn’t here when I was though, any idea what caused it?”
”I walked to Isengard. Sam said as matter of factly as he stood up and walked around to the other side of the bar. He was starting to get thirsty as well and as owner of the fine establishment Sam was more than happy to help himself to anything behind the bar. This only manifested however as a glass of watter which he chilled using his mutation. The glass frosted over as he grabbed it and he started to lean on the bar.
”Anymore kids?” Sam added to his list of questions.
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 21, 2018 7:58:04 GMT -6
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Lee called, asked for some help. Sam came running with two of his own employees. His own bar was covered, his manager could handle the crowd with ease and her dad was there to step in if needed, if he didn’t get too drunk first.
Sam walked into Lee’s establishment with a push of the door and a little wave. There were already a few people crowding the bar and Sam gave a slight nod to Lee as he and his crew of two made there way behind the bar. ”Jack, better not break anything. We’re guests here and Erin, keep it civil not everyone likes you cursing like a sailor.” Erin a short redhead gave Sam a smirk then teleported behind the bar next to Lee.
”Lee, these are two of my tenders, told them you’ll pay the big bucks.” the icemancer said with a smirk as he gave the woman a one armed hug. ”we got it from here. You look like you can use a seat.”
Posted by Cold Steel on Apr 21, 2018 7:47:19 GMT -6
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The mirror walker’s comment was expected; Gawain always did have a response for everything. ”Maybe, I’m pretty good at the sulking. Found people liked it better than me being drunk.” Sam said with a shrug of his shoulders. Sam watched the glass be set back down empty. A little weight was lifted off his shoulders when it was gone.
Reaching over the bar and grabbing the first bottle of whiskey he could find he placed the bottle in front of Gawain and then added, ”What I miss?” Sam asked curiously. He had some stories from other members of the faculty about everything that had been going on in the mansion and the city. The rift was interesting, but as always he liked hearing things from Ghost or Gawain, both of which told the story better. They usually just gave him the important bullet points.
