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 Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 16:03:17 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Life since the night of the open mic at the bar had been...pretty great. The only downside was that because they were keeping them under wraps for the time being, they couldn't really be together, even just cuddling on the couch, until after Kevin was asleep. And texting was good, they had been talking a lot by text, but it was no real replacement for actually sitting together talking.
Then one morning, Lee got an idea. Kevin was at school, Rachel should be at work, and should have no reason to be anywhere near Tarin's shop.
As Lee walked in the general direction of the shop just after the normal lunch hour, Lee sent Tarin a text asking if he was busy. She'd even done a bit of research that morning and discovered that the Thai restaurant she had mentioned the night her brother had come over for the hockey game was still open. Getting a reply from Tarin, Lee grinned as she turned at the next corner.
Twenty minutes later, Lee pulled the door to the shop open and stepped in, a take out bag held in her hand as she looked around. Hopefully Tarin was still not very busy.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 16:38:16 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Today, Tarin decided, as he ushered his most recent customer out the door of the shop…was decidedly average. His appointments were fine, his mood was fine, the distribution of clients for the rest of the day was…fine.
What wasn’t fine…what was much better than fine was the way things were going with Lee.
Sure they were keeping things under wraps for now, and that had meant some ground rules that had been rigidly established and were rigidly enforced, but they were still….something? Tarin didn’t care what that something was, it was enough.
It was tough sometimes though, tough to not stare at Lee when she had her hair pulled back, though to not sit close enough to touch when they were in the same room if Kevin was around, and tough to not go out and do things together.
They’d been texting though, and that was nice. Thank god for technology. Almost as if it was some kind of providence, a notification lit Tarin’s phone and he checked it quickly as the little bell over the door announced his next customer for the day. It was only a 15 minute appointment, a consultation and then he had a reasonably sized block of time open so when Lee asked if he was around he instantly responded yes.
20 minutes later, the customer had made a second appointment and their way out of the shop and Tarin waited at the table in the back of the shop for Lee to arrive. The bell jingled again, this time signaling something much better than work and Tarin made his way out to meet his….Lee?
”Hey!” he said, slipping quickly past Lee to flip the shop sign to closed and turn the deadlock so no tourists or nosy sisters could make their way inside. ”What’s in the bag?” he said, moving to take it from Lee if she wanted and maybe drop a little kiss of greeting on the top of her head. They were alone after all. As always, she looked amazing and had been true to her word in only wearing t-shirts in tanks. Skirts also really were an every day thing. There was nary a button in sight, Tarin noticed with no small amount of chagrin and a glance at the clock.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 17:21:31 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
A moment or two after she’d entered the shop, the bell above the door signalling her entrance, Tarin made his way out of the back and over to her. There had already been a smile on her face as he approached, but it grew wider as Tarin reached past her to lock the door and flip the sign to closed.
“I thought we could have lunch together,” she said, letting Tarin take the bag out of her hand. “Remember that Thai place I mentioned the other night? Turns out it's still there.”
Lee glanced around the shop, actually looking at it this time. She hadn't paid much attention to details the last couple times she'd been here, having not really expected to spend more time in it. For the most part, it looked the same, though Lee noticed that there were none of the items for sale anymore.
This was a great idea.”
”Of course it was,” Lee said with a playful smirk. ”I thought of it.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 17:40:16 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Thai food, it appeared, was one of the things that was truely universal.
Even back on the other side of the rift, Thai food had been delicious and Tarin had eaten it regularly.
It had been the night that they’d watched hockey, Tarin remembered, that he and Lee had spoken about the food around the shop and she had mentioned a Thai place that he hadn’t be able to find. New York was weird like that, and map apps weren’t always realizable since the population density was so large.
Tarin didn’t miss Lee looking around the shop and couldn’t help but feel a little self-conscious as he took the bag and headed to the table. Was she thinking about the last time they’d been there together? When she’d saved his life and he’d tried to bludgeon her? Was she thinking about times in the past that she’d been there with the other Tarin?
She would share if she wanted and Tarin couldn’t help but smile a little when Lee pointed out that it was a good idea because she had thought of it.
”You do have some really excellent ideas.” he said with a slightly wolffish grin, heading to the kitchenette and grabbing plates and silverware. Keeping stuff here had also been an excellent idea, and it had been all his.
”So, what did you get?” he asked, starting to pull boxes out of the bag,
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 18:08:34 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Lee’s smirk turned into a grin when she saw the smile on Tarin’s face. She knew for a fact that he had liked a number of her ideas.This one was just…more openly presentable than most of the others.
As Tarin went to the kitchenette, Lee took a quick little wander around the shop. Not that it would have taken long anyway. The book case was still there; the replacement since the original had been broken. And some of the shelving she had gotten in when she’d started ordering in retail items to sell were still around, though they were pushed up against the wall now. And were empty.
Lee didn’t even realize that she had a slight nostalgic frown on her face as she turned when she felt Tarin returning. “Pad thai, green curry, and som tam,” Lee answered Tarin’s question as she made her way over to him.
”Sorry, I didn’t really look around here much before,” she said softly as she sat. “I couldn’t help but think how much this place still looks the same as when I first walked in.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 18:35:04 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
When he returned, Tarin noticed that Lee was still looking around the shop. His questions from earlier returned, but so did his resolve to mind his own business unless Lee made it obvious that it was something that she wanted to discuss.
For now, he sat down and started dishing up some of the food that Lee had gotten for them. God, pad Thai was delicious he decided and took some of the other two things as well, the curry and some kind of crunchy looking salad. Hopefully Lee had planned on sharing it all.
She sat, and spoke, and it did actually seem like she wanted to talk about the shop.
And how similar it looked to how the first time she’d been there.
Tarin knew that the Medium Shop had been around in this world longer than in his own, and the soft tone of Lee’s voice along with the contemplative tone of her words made him tilt his head slightly.
”Tell me about it?” he asked simply, ”And redecorating is not one of my talents…everything kind of made since like I was, so I didn’t see the sense in changing.” .
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 19:01:35 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin was already dishing up food onto his plate as Lee sat down, so she waited until he was finished, then dished up some of each food for herself.
And he wanted her to tell him about when she’d first walked into the shop? Taking a bite of food, Lee nodded, chewing as she thought. “That would have been what, 16? 17 years ago?” she said thoughtfully once she swallowed.
”There was a bookcase over there instead,” Lee indicated with her fork where the original bookcase had been. “Those extra shelves were added a couple of years later, and the table was a little more centered in the room, with a crystal ball on it. But yeah, otherwise this is how it looked.”
Lee took another bite as she thought what else she could say. No, not could. She could say a whole lot about the shop, and how it changed over the years. She thought about what else she should say. Because while so much here in the shop was so identical to how it had been years ago, the two men who had run the shop were so very different.
”We ended up moving the sessions into the back,” Lee ended up saying. “That let us turn out here into a kind of a waiting area. Later, I ended up bringing in things to sell. That never did great, but it did add to what the shop brought in without him having to do extra sessions,” she finished with a bit of a shrug.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 19:21:09 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee described how various things had been different, in different places, and how there had been a real-life crystal ball in the shop when she had first visited. Tarin couldn’t help the raised eyebrows look he gave Lee at that tiny detail. The other Tarin, it appeared, had possessed a flair for the dramatic that this Tarin had never developed.
Lee kept talking and it became obvious that there were a lot of memories here. Her story had a lot of ‘we’s’ in it, ”So you guys ran things together?” Tarin asked, curiosity building.
Lee mentioned that at one point the shop layout had been really different and Tarin hmmmm’d thoughtfully at the mental picture.
It honestly wasn’t a bad idea, Tarin thought, especially now that he wasn’t living in the shop anymore.
”So people would hang out or wait up front, then move to a more….formal area in the back?” he asked for clarification, and then, ”How did you guys meet?” .
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 19:51:33 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Lee did not miss the raised eyebrows when she mentioned the crystal ball and she nodded. “It didn’t start out that way,” Lee said. “At the time, I was really only able to get work as a waitress. Illegally in the country and all. But with the Registration Act…The shop was able to support the both of us, so I just kind of hid out here, booking the appointments, taking payments when he had back-to-back sessions.
“And yes, he had a crystal ball,” she went on to explain with a slight smile. “That was a real pain to replace when it broke. But apparently he discovered over the years as he moved around was that the best way to hide what he actually was, what he could do, was to pretend to be a fake.”
As Tarin seemed to think about what she had said, Lee took the opportunity to eat some more. When he asked about the sessions in the back, Lee nodded. “Basically. I mean, there were never really that many people, but it definitely worked better when the next client arrived before the previous session was over.
“We put in separate, dimmer lighting so the mood was more what a lot of the clients were expecting and curtained off the kitchenette.” Lee shrugged again. She didn’t mind talking about this, but it did feel strange to be telling Tarin. Especially while sitting in the shop. Though, the topic likely wouldn’t have come up elsewhere.
”How did you guys meet?”
Lee’s eyes dropped to her food as she picked at it slightly, but she did smile slightly. “I was walking through the park one day, I walked a lot back then, from one crowded place to another especially in the mornings to get energy. As I’m walking, I see a grown man wading in one of the ponds. In autumn. I was bored, a lot of the same thing day in and day out, so I wandered over.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 20:21:33 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee explained and answered questions and Tarin listened and nodded.
He had forgotten about the Mutant Registration Act and felt bad as Lee explained that she’d worked in the shop like she did because there hadn’t been anywhere else to work.
She, and the other Tarin had had to hide what they were and still try to carve out a place for themselves. The ideas were honestly pretty ingenious and Tarin wondered what it would have been like to hide in plain sight like that.
The crystal ball was a lot though.
”Did it get broken a lot?” he couldn’t help himself from asking
As for the shop, Tarin ate a few more bites as he considered what Lee was saying. The people he saw didn’t seem to have many expectations regarding what he could do, but it wouldn’t hurt to make this place a little more…professional didn’t seem like the right word.
The way Lee suddenly became interested in her food when he asked how she had met the other Tarin suggested that maybe this Tarin had misstepped a bit. The story itself made Tarin chuckle a bit and once again muse over the fact that he wouldn’t have ever been caught dead in a lake in Central Park like that.
”So while you wandered over the other Tarin did the same thing and that’s how you met? Watching the crazy man in the water?” he teased, ”Because I’d like to think the Tarin Brooks of all universes would know better than to put their bare feet pretty much anywhere in Central Park.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 20:53:50 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Lee shook her head when Tarin asked if the crystal ball had been broken often. “No, only the once thankfully, she said softly.
After she had given the brief explanation of how she and her ex-husband had met, Lee took another bite. Then laughed slightly when she heard Tarin’s assumption. Swallowing, she looked up at him as she shook her head. “He was the crazy man in the pond,” she replied, the laughter still present in her voice. ”But at least he had come to his senses and gotten out before I reached him. Well,” Lee rolled her eyes as she continued. “He had mostly come to his senses.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 21:12:02 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
So the crystal ball had only been broken once. That was good Tarin supposed, as crystal balls probably weren’t all that easy to come by…even in New York City.
As predicted, the other Tarin was the man in the pond, and this Tarin continued to eat as Lee told the story and rolled her eyes.
”Mostly” He echoed, ”You can’t just leave me hanging…” .
Was it weird that Tarin was so curious about the other him and Lee, but truth be told, he wanted to know more about Lee and the other him was part of Lee for a long time.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 21:54:37 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin wanted to know more, wanted to know exactly what happened that day in Central Park. "He had laid down on the grass before I got over there," Lee explained, still shaking her head. "And...he tried looking up my skirt. Obviously, I was pissed. That, and him not expecting my powers...I guess there were a lot of spirits in the park that day...and I ended up seeing some of them.”
Lee shrugged as she took another bite. “He apologized profusely and gave me his card,” she continued after a few moments. ”Honestly, I had never planned to see him again, but a week or so later, I found myself near the shop. I might have walked past a couple times as I debated whether to go in or not. He’d seen me through the window and came out, and managed to convince me to talk, and to do it in the shop so he wouldn’t ‘freeze’ outside.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 12, 2024 22:07:15 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
”He did not.” Tarin breathed when Lee explained that the other him had apparently been a huge pervert the first time they’d met.
And she’d used her powers on him? Good for her. But he’d scared her with spirits? The more Tarin heard about the other Tarin and his powers, the more it became obvious that they way the two of them had used said powers was really different. Tarin wanted to ask, but figured there was probably a limit to how much Lee wanted to talk about her ex with her current…Tarin.
Lee continued the tale and the story was almost too uncanny to be true. But here they were. Clearly something had gone right for the other him.
”He was worried about freezing? I thought you said it was Autumn…”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 12, 2024 22:52:36 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 3:57:03 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin’s voice was very quiet, barely there, but she still heard him. “Oh, he most certainly did,” she replied with a nod. “And yes, it was still autumn. Not even that cold. But he’d only started to make his way north a few years earlier, and had only been in New York for a year, if that, at the time. Though, he always seemed to be a little dramatic when it came to the weather. Especially the cold.”
Lee went back to eating for a couple moments. While talking about this had been very strange to start with, for some reason, it was getting easier, slightly more comfortable, the longer they spent talking.
”Like I said, we got to talking in here,” she ended up continuing. “We agreed to be friends, neither of us really had any at the time, and then he took me to this little hole in the wall for Chinese.”