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.
Once Ranger had created distance by shoving Lee back, she spread her legs and rolled to the side. From there she pinwheeled her legs and shoved herself off the ground, the rotational force bringing her back to her feet with a starfish kip-up.
Not wanting to waste the momentum, Ranger rotated her foot and carried the energy forward as her power snapped to the use, granting an inhuman level of speed.. A roundhouse kick with her leg up high, a full rotation, a jump toward Lee, and her foot came around again as she had a moment where her body was above her head wind whistling from the air violently split by her leg. A corkscrew kick.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 16:03:13 GMT -6
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By the time that Lee had gotten to her feet, she could see Michael moving her legs, using the momentum to get herself back up to her feet. And then Keep. Moving. Forward.
Into the air Michael went, the momentum she had gained allowing her to flip. The woman was definitely much more technically skilled than Lee was.
And that leg was moving much faster than it should have been, whistling through the air, Lee realized as her eyes widened. So that is what was going on? Well, in this case, two could definitely play at that game.
Allowing herself to tap into her own speed ability, Lee ducked the kick, stepping in the opposite direction that the kick had been travelling, watching, calculating, to land a right hook as Michael turned back to face her after landing her kick. Not with any extra strength, though Lee's arm may have been moving a bit faster than it should have been.
Ranger’s leg sailed through where Lee had been. There was a small hitch in his Ranger landed and shifted her weight to stop the spin. She wasn't used to landing from a spin with that particular set of hips
Spinning around to face Lee, Ranger’s arm shot up. Ranger stopped moving and looked at her own arm that had placed itself perfectly in place to stop Lee’s right hook. The arm had moved into the perfect spot in space with an absurd speed.
That had been happening a lot lately.
Immediately after, Ranger backpedaled a couple steps. She looked at her arm and flexed her hand. She had control, even if it has seemed to move on it's own.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 18:14:58 GMT -6
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Lee had managed to time her punch well. Michael was coming around as Lee’s arm swung quickly toward her face.
And even faster, Michael’s arm was in the way, blocking.
Well damn, Lee thought as Michael backed up. Apparently slightly faster wasn’t going to cut it today. Lee couldn’t help but smile. Not only was she getting a sparring match where her opponent wasn’t holding back on her, but she’d somehow managed to get a sparring match where she could actually use her powers.
Yes, Lee had spent the last six years doing her best to avoid mutant problems, drama, issues. Many of which often seemed to include fighting. And she’d done a damn good job of that until one very recent Friday night. But this was training, practice. Not a real fight.
And it was far too rare an occurrence in Lee’s life to pass up.
Advancing quickly even before Michael had finished backing up, Lee led with a left hook while Michael was looking at her arm. Then, moving even faster, Lee followed that with a right jab and a left low kick.
Ranger was still looking confused at her hand when she saw Lee closing in from the corner of her eye. With very little time to react, Ranger dodged the jab. The move was fast, faster than she had moved before. Lee had begun to move faster so Ranger’s power pushed even greater speed. Lee must be a mutant, but Ranger was too busy to contemplate the issue.
The low kick came before Ranger had fully recovered from the dodge. Leaning into the momentum of the dodge to the side, Ranger performed a one hand cartwheel. Well, two hands, but only one at a time. They switched to avoid the kick.
Coming out of the cartwheel, Ranger carried the momentum forward and threw an elbow at Lee on the way back up to her feet.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 13, 2024 21:10:10 GMT -6
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Even with the extra speed that Lee had used, combined with the fact that Michael had been distracted as she started throwing the punch, she somehow managed to dodge it. And then cartwheeled to avoid her kick.
This woman was just getting faster and faster.
Lee had been planning on another kick as Michael returned to her feet, but as her weight was shifting to lift her leg, Lee saw an arm coming toward her.
And lifted her arm too late to manage to block it as she felt the elbow connect with her jaw. Hard.
The impact completely unbalanced Lee since she had been in the middle of shifting her weight. She was going down anyway; Lee decided she may as well make the best of it. Letting herself fall back, Lee grabbed the arm the had just elbowed her and pulled to bring Michael with her, lifting the foot she had been planning to use for the kick to plant against Michael’s chest so that Lee could launch her over her head once she landed to flip Michael onto her back on the mat.
The elbow connected. Ranger shifted her focus to maintaining her footing as she stopped her movement. That was a mistake. Lee grabbed Ranger’s arm and as she went back, planted her foot on Ranger’s chest.
With an ”Oof.” Ranger slammed into the mat on the other side of Lee. It was a good thing it was a mat and not concrete as Ranger’s head slammed into the ground after her back.
Her vision swimming a little, Ranger rolled over and launched herself back to her feet before stumbling back a step. From there she anchored herself. Her breath grew heavier as her power enhanced her ability to pull in oxygen.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 14, 2024 11:29:12 GMT -6
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Lee was already rolling to her feet when she heard Michael hit the mat. Though the other woman didn’t stay down for long either.
Lee was moving forward quickly, moving straight in to strike, noticing that Michael was breathing heavier. A right to the face still moving faster than she should be able to, immediately following that up with a left-right to the body. Then Lee shifted back a half step as her right leg shot out to kick the outside of Michael’s left leg.
Lee was moving. Fast. Giving Ranger a less than adequate amount of time to recover, she was pressing the offensive. If Ranger wasn’t on the receiving end, she would be impressed.
A right to the face. Ranger twisted her body and watched the arm sail by.
A left right to her body, Ranger bounced from foot to foot. She had the footing to move but was not in a good position to counter or stop the blows.
With each attack Lee sent, Ranger moved faster. Her power dumping energy into her ability to move faster. The physical structure of her muscles changed as seen from the outside. Almost as if they were streamlining. Reshaping to be as efficient as possible for quick movement.
When the final kick came. Ranger planted one foot and kicked with the other to block with her shin before, snapping from her hip to bring her elbow on the same side in for a strike the rotating all the way around to strike with the other elbow.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 14, 2024 13:45:45 GMT -6
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Lee was moving fast. Michael was moving faster. And it didn't seem to matter whether Lee increased her speed, those two facts seemed to remain the same.
Michael dodged her punches and then blocked the kick. So offensive wasn't going to work well, not if Michael kept moving faster than her.
Speaking of moving fast, more elbows. Not just one, but both, each after the other. Lee got an idea, though if it didn’t work this was going to hurt.
Lee dodged the first elbow by leaning down and back so the arm flew past and over her head. Then Lee pivoted quickly as she straightened up, standing right in front of Michael with her back facing the other woman. Intently watching the second elbow.
Which she grabbed, moving with the strike as she bent forward to pull Michael with her to flip the woman again.
The first elbow missed, that was fine. The second elbow spun around with much greater speed and force. Only for it to be grabbed and the momentum to be redirected over Lee as the woman bent.
For the second time in not even so many minutes, Ranger was flipped over and dropped onto the mat. This second time, Ranger wasn’t as prepared and the hit with the ground knocked the wind out of her. Her eyes bugged out for a moment as she tried and momentarily failed to pull in a breath.
At the same time, Ranger forced herself to sit up and pushed herself back with her feet while leaning forward to help catch a breath. She could move fast, but speed didn't help you catch a breath.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 14, 2024 17:09:18 GMT -6
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It had worked. It had actually worked. The elbow had been moving a little faster and harder than she had expected, so it had hurt a bit as she had grabbed the elbow and started to move with it. But she did move with it quickly enough to keep the momentum going as she bent over and pulled on the elbow.
And Michael flipped over her back landing on the mat in front of her.
It did not take long at all for Michael to be moving again and Lee got ready for whatever it was the other woman was planning.
Which turned out to be just sitting there. Sitting and trying to catch her breath. Lee’s head tilted slightly and she raised an eyebrow as she moved more in front of Michael. “You done?”
Finally getting some air in her lungs, Ranger looked up to see Lee standing there, head tilted asking if Ranger was done.
Ranger held up a finger, the universal symbol to wait one as she took a few more breaths. ”No… No. I, uh—I.” Ranger scratched the back of her head. She was about to say she’s not used to her body and got herself in a bad situation where she had lost her wind. ”Y’ probably noticed I have a power, as I noticed y’ had… One too.” Ranger was still steadying her breathing, but stood up while calming it. ”I don’t have control of it. It does what it wants, I’m jus’ along f’r the ride. Often my body idn’t what I’m used t’.”
The muscles that had warped their shape and structure had worked their way back to their normal configuration as the intensity of the fight had ended. ”Okay. Y’ won that round. Again?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 14, 2024 18:20:19 GMT -6
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Michael wasn’t done. But Michael also wasn’t getting up quite yet. And then was mentioning her powers. “Oh, I definitely noticed,” Lee said with a slight laugh. “And honestly, it made my day. I haven’t had a match that good in years.”
And it was true, the last time she’d sparred and had that much of a challenge or gotten to really use her powers had been when she faced off against Blaine.
”I don’t normally use my powers too much in here, not that I really can with them,” Lee said, talking about the few guys that would actually spar with her. “Though my main reason for coming here is to learn and refine, a good sparring match every so often is definitely good.”
But did she have another match in her? Lee checked her energy levels; while she had been hoping to spar today, her energy was a lot lower than it normally would be after such a short time in the gym. “I think I have one more in me,” Lee replied. But just in case, she increased her siphoning slightly to try and ensure she wouldn’t have to tap out because she was out of steam.