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.
Glitch raised an eyelid and slowly lowered her hand. Kalos thought she was afraid of being hit? She did hit her with the pillow. No, no, maybe she intended to say something else. Did Kalos think that she'd raised her hand to hit her? “I, uh... wouldn't hit you, either.”
What was a mountain? Even if Glitch knew what Kalos' native language was, there was no way she'd be able to translate. Instead, Glitch started drawing a straight line in the air. “They're those big pointy rocks that stick up-” Her finger made a jagged motion up, then back down. “-out of the ground,” she finished, realizing that this had to be one of her dumbest explanations ever. “The game will show them better.”
She pressed some buttons, and a racetrack winding through snowy purple mountain peaks appeared on the T.V.
Seconds after Damsel Pink finished, MiniDino puttered in to sixth place. Kalos had to be the happiest fourth-placer Glitch had ever seen. “Looks like you beat me. Congrats!” she said, offering the girl a high five. No way was she going to tell her how getting first on that track was no problem for an experienced player. Nope, destroying someone's excitement was outright evil.
Of course, Glitch was happy to play again. “Want to try a different track?” she asked. She liked switching things up, as running the same track over and over again got old to her quick. “We've got mountains, a farm, a dungeon, even an underwater Atlantis-type one.” All neat tracks, in her opinion.
“Cool.” Glitch continued chatting away, mostly with idle babble, whatever came to her. Having thoughts in her head other than the mechanical slash surgical tools was comforting. It was also good to know that Richard was around as weirded out as she was.
The vision in the damaged eye cut out suddenly, and with her remaining eye, she could see it being placed on the table. The task was completed surprisingly faster than Glitch had anticipated. She got up, retrieved the metal plate, and held it back in its proper place.
“No, I'm from California. It was pretty nice back there.” She and her parents had been quite the happy family. But what had happened to her mother was awful, worse than death. Glitch tried to hide the tremor in her voice. “Things... changed, and we ended up moving here a few years ago.”
Trying to shake her thoughts, she focused on the disembodied camera eye , trying to make sense of the tiny gizmos it was made of. “So, that's my eye.” She gestured to it with her free hand. “Like, what is all of that stuff?” Since the expert was here, she felt like she should try to learn something from him.
So the first run didn't go smoothly. But no worries, it was only a video game. “Get ready. I'm restarting the level.”
Once again, all carts were at the beginning of the track. When the countdown finished, Glitch held down the A button and moved MiniDino's cart forward. At suboptimal speed.
Glitch didn't normally go easy against her opponents. However, Kalos was both young and a noob to video games, so she was going to make an exception. She kept an eye on the other half of the screen to make sure the coral girl was doing all right.
Posted by Glitch on Sept 21, 2017 21:51:52 GMT -6
Jude likes this
Delta Mutant
Yellow
Straight
Single
102
26
Nov 17, 2018 13:21:04 GMT -6
Miss X
Oh... Kalos wanted something big and strong. And all the characters were cute and cartoon-like. “But Damsel Pink rules with kindness,” she told the girl, hoping to cheer her up.
As soon as the race started, MiniDino's cart zoomed past the start line. But for some strange reason, Damsel Pink's cart only wiggled in place. Aware of Kalos' frustration, Glitch stopped her car. “What the heck?” she wondered, squinting at the screen. Bug? Bad controller? And then it dawned on her. “Oh.” She facepalmed. She'd played games so often she'd forgotten the basic instructions for this one. “My bad. You also need to hold that A button down to start going faster.”
“I see. No worries, this game doesn't have much to read.” And that was Glitch's type of game, anyway. To hell with reading instructions, because that was boring.
She would have smiled at Kalos' enthusiasm, but alas, her face was no good for that. “That's Mush. He's the princess's loyal attendant. He helps rescue her whenever she gets kidnapped. Which is nice, because that happens a loootttt.”
She selected the first track, a simple loop around a lake. “You use this to move and steer,” the robot girl explained, motioning to the stick on Kalos' controller. “The goal's to go around the track as fast as possible. Try not to crash into things. Or fall into the water.”
The start line appeared on the screen, and the announcer's voice could be heard. “Ready. Get set. Go!”
Glitch shrugged. “Not many teens have it, but loads of elders do. Going by Gladys always felt kind of funny. But thanks.”
She let out a small laugh. “Because I call myself Glitch? Nah. At least, nothing much weirder than anyone else.” Presumably. At least nothing like an actual glitch.
The screen had become utter chaos, as Kalos's excited button mashing triggered pop-up menu after pop-up menu, ultimately pulling up the options and changing a lot of them. “Whoa, hold on a moment, haha.” Glitch attempted to set everything back to the way it was before, whatever that was. Geez, she'd never really messed with the settings. “The A's that green button. If it's okay to ask, do you not read English?” If Kalos was a foreigner, that would explain some of the strange things she'd said.
Posted by Glitch on Aug 28, 2017 21:49:09 GMT -6
Sennyo likes this
Delta Mutant
Yellow
Straight
Single
102
26
Nov 17, 2018 13:21:04 GMT -6
Miss X
The girl seemed like a curious one. From the way she was inspecting the controller, Glitch had a good guess that it was her first time holding one.
“Kalos? That's a nice name.” It kind of reminded her of another game, for some reason. “Glitch is short for my real name, Gladys Fitch. Gladys was too much of an old lady name, so I've gone by Glitch since I was like, five. Though, what a glitch really is...” She took a moment to think of how to explain it. “It's when a video game like this does something it isn't supposed to. Weird stuff like the game freezing and characters turning invisible.”
A menu appeared with ChibiPlumber, ChibiBro, Damsel Pink, and more than a dozen other colorful characters. “You can use the arrows to go between characters and the A to pick one,” she said, demonstrating with her own controller. She herself navigated to her personal favorite, MiniDino.
“Yeesh.” Info dump to the head. Glitch could imagine her own brain frying from something like that.
Unfortunately, the X-rays showed that the face plate had to be taken off. She avoided looking at it. Her face was separated from her, sitting on the table like the inanimate metal object that it was. It was freaky, yet another reminder that she wasn't human. Glitch closed the undamaged eye and held still, trying to ignore the sound of Richard tinkering around in there. Freaky indeed.
“Don't worry. I don't feel pain. At least, I haven't since I went all robot. Maybe I can if I wreck something badly. Though, I really don't want to try that for obvious reasons. Should I shut up and let you concentrate? 'Cause the talking kind of helps.” But not if it distracted Richard, of course.
Glitch shrugged. It was hard to think of zombies as anything but mindless. Well, except for Amber. Geez. Leave it to the little kids to make you feel bad about enjoying those games.
She paused, her eyes sporting a perplexed look. Did she say nudes? What type of person watched that stuff with kids around?! Oh well, that one was not her problem. “That's true. A lot isn't real, though. There's stuff like movies and cartoons and reality shows.”
Glitch hadn't been counting on the girl's willingness to watch the game, but she was glad she accepted. “Sure.” She held out a second controller for her to take. “In fact, I can show you how to play if you'd like.” Video games were fun, and she didn't want the first one to ruin it all for her.
"Circles?" It took Glitch a moment to decipher the girl's words. “Oh, you mean the discs. Yeah, you could say that, um... Sorry, what's your name? I'm Glitch, by the way.”
“Umm...” This girl knew what TV and video games were, right? Even for someone her age, she seemed oddly ignorant of those subjects. Well, if someone needed to explain that vital information to her, Glitch was going to make her best attempt.
“Okay, first of all, you wouldn't have much luck making friends with zombies. They're mindless monsters that try to eat people's brains or turn them into one of them.”
“Also, what's on the screen isn't real. See?” She showed her the disc. “Just a game.” She pulled out a different case, which was labeled 'ChibiPlumberKart.' “Let's play this one instead. I promise it's not violent or scary or anything.”
"You can find out how things are built like that? That sounds kinda cool,” Glitch commented. Even awesome. Learning stuff without studying and sitting through classes sounded pretty appealing at times.
Glitch stayed quiet the whole time Richard did his thing. Having someone touching her eye was plain weird. Sure, she didn't feel any of it. Sure, it wasn't going to hurt her. But it was impossible to ignore the fact that humans normally don't let hands in their eyes. There was a crack on the ceiling. Yeah, Glitch was just going to focus on that instead of the HAND THAT WAS TOUCHING HER FREAKIN' EYE.
And, after a little while, Richard was done. Good.
Of course, the eye still needed to be repaired.
Glitch suddenly sat bolt upright. "...Y-you want to... take it out?" she stammered. "I mean, you're the mechanic. I guess you need to do that. It's just... I've never taken it out before and it'll be kind of weird, ya know." She lied back down. “Oh, let's just get this over with.”
Posted by Glitch on Aug 3, 2017 22:11:47 GMT -6
Sennyo likes this
Delta Mutant
Yellow
Straight
Single
102
26
Nov 17, 2018 13:21:04 GMT -6
Miss X
“Oof!” Leaving little time for Glitch to react, the pillow slammed into her face. Amidst the explosion of feathers, Glitch stayed put, surprised but completely unharmed. She should have seen that one coming.
“Zombie what? Murder?” came her confused reply. Medusa wasn't in the game, and zombies weren't usually sympathized with. Of course, children had their own brand of logic.
“No no no, it's all just a game,” Glitch tried to explain. “A game where the guy fights zombies to survive. It's a scary game. I'm sorry you saw it. Here, I'll turn it off.” She reached over, about to press the eject button.
