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.
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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...?
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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?
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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.
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Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 13:25:37 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded as Tarin commented about the restaurant they were in. And she was glad he liked it. Even if ‘not campy’ and ‘not overly sterile’ were not on her list of things to watch for as she picked. ”From what I was told, I thought it would be a good choice. For a first actual date,” Lee replied with a smile.
Then rolled her eyes at Tarin’s next comment. ”What kind of person do you think I am? You cannot go to the movies and not get popcorn. I thought that was a given.”
As she was looking at the menu, Tarin started speaking again. No, just just speaking, Lee realized as her eyes moved up to look at him over the menus, her head tilted slightly to the side with a small smile curling her lips. He was actually sharing details about his past without her having even asked a question, never mind her trying to get the information from him.
”I never ended up getting a job somewhere this nice when I waitressed,” Lee told him when he had finished speaking. ”I mostly just worked at diners, and let me tell you, there are far more here than in Toronto, with the occasional casual dining chain restaurant thrown in.”
Another glance down at her menu, and Lee thought she had made her choice so she closed and set her menu down. ”Did you want to have a beer with our food, or should we get something a little fancier since tonight is kind of special?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 15:51:26 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
First actual date. Because there had already been a couple of not actual dates involving take out and runs and baseball games. That had been different though, good, but different.
Well, at least they were agreed on the popcorn, Tarin didn’t know what he would have done if Lee had declared a deep hatred for the stuff, ”Lots of butter? Little chocolate candies to dump inside?” Was that a thing people did on this side? He’d always done it when he’d gone on his own to a show, but hadn’t paid enough attention to see if anyone else had.
”Oh god, they never let me anywhere near the front of the house.” Tarin said when Lee mentioned waitressing.
”Dishroom for me and nothing else. It was just one of those places that was loud and hectic and everyone was constantly getting after each other. They were kind of like a family though.” he said ”They’d let me take home food too. It was right after I ended up on my own and every little bit helped. The owner’s Mom thought I was too skinny.”
He’d never told anyone that story, there hadn’t really been any reason to and he’d never really thought that anyone else would appreciate it.
As for a drink, Tarin winched and chuckled a little self-consciously, ”I’ll try anything once, but I know less about wine than I do teenagers.” . So less than nothing.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 16:32:26 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
Lee started to nod as Tarin was asking about the popcorn they would get at the movies, but stopped when he mentioned dumping chocolate candies in the popcorn. ”You do that?” Lee asked, her head tilting slightly. ”I’ve never even heard of someone doing that. Is it good?”
She laughed slightly when Tarin explained his experience working in a restaurant, shaking her head. ”I think you just described half of all restaurants. The other half are loud and hectic and everyone hates each other. But if they let you take food home, that does sound like a good place.
“Though,” Lee continued, her voice becoming thoughtful as she looked across the table at Tarin. ”I can’t imagine you being too skinny.”
And he claimed to know even less about wine than he did about teenagers. Yet, despite what he said about that, after the awkwardness of the first few days, Tarin had done quite well interacting with Kevin. ”We can stick with beer,” Lee told him as she saw a waitress walking toward them. ”Save experimenting with different wines when it doesn’t cost as much?”
A couple of moments later, the waitress stopped at their table. After introducing herself as Katie and telling them the specials, she asked if they were ready to order. Lee was, and after a quick glance across the table to see if Tarin was, Lee looked back at Katie. ”I’ll have the eggplant parmesan with a beer,” she ordered.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 17:13:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
”It’s one of those salty and sweet things.” Tarin said, when Lee asked about his popcorn, ”And if the popcorn is hot, it melts the chocolate candy in its shells just a little bit…”.
He loved it.
Lee pointed out that what he was describing from his experience in the restaurant sounded like half of all restaurants and Tarin nodded. ”I worked in some of those too.” .
As for Lee’s other comment, Tarin had to laugh, flushing a bit again, ”I was though. All scrawny and moody. But to be fair, she thought everyone was too skinny. It’s a miracle they made a penny with all the food she gave away.” They’d been good people. Too good. He’d only stayed for about six months, then moved on to something else.
Lee let him off the hook with the wine and Tarin nodded, ”Sounds like a plan.”
The waitress stopped by then and Lee ordered her meal. Eggplant parm had never really been his thing, but it was a valid choice at any Italian place worth its salt. ”Spaghetti bolognese for me.” he said. You could tell a lot about an Italian place based on their bolognese.
They ordered their drinks and the waitress was off agian.
”So.” Tarin said, casting around for more easy topics and not wanting the easy conversation to lapse, or stay focused on him for too long, ”What’s your favorite color?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 17:57:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
Lee sat and looked at Tarin across the table as he described what the popcorn was like when he dumped chocolate candies in with it. Her eyes narrowed just the slightest bit. After a longer than normal pause between them, Lee finally replied. ”I’ll try it,” she said, one side of her mouth curling into a smile. ”But if I don’t like it, you’ll have to go get me my own popcorn. Or otherwise find a way to make it up to me.”
He laughed at her comment and Lee smiled. He was not just too skinny for an Italian mother, he was scrawny and moody. The moodiness she could imagine, that was most teenagers wasn’t it? Though, Lee realized, she really didn’t know when he had worked at that restaurant. It could have just as easily been in his 20s. Which made it even harder for her to imagine him as being scrawny with the workout routine he had.
But the waitress took their orders and left with the menus, leaving them alone at the table. In silence.
At least the silence hadn’t lasted long, because Tarin had asked her ”My favourite colour?” she repeated, then sat and thought for a moment. ”Well, if you’re asking about my favourite colour for clothing, I’d be surprised if you haven’t noticed by now that it’s black. Though, a good, deep red has a fairly large place in my wardrobe. But if you’re talking more in general…”
Lee trailed off in thought for a moment. If she was being honest with herself, Lee hadn’t actually thought about this in years. But as she looked across the table at Tarin, Lee realized what her current answer would be, even if it hadn’t always been her favourite. ”You know the really dark green leaves on the trees in the park?” Lee asked, a small smile on her face as she looked at Tarin. Then she nodded. ”I think it would have to be that.”
Was it a weirdly specific answer? Maybe. Was it also the colour the dark green flecks in Tarin’s eyes? Maybe, but that was pure coincidence, of course.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 18:45:34 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
”You’re on.” Tarin said, confident that Lee would like the popcorn and chocolate combination and even more confident he’d be able to make it up to her if she didn’t…new popcorn or not.
Tarin had thought he’d asked a simple question, but Lee really thought about it. Had he noticed she wore a lot of black? Sure, but as a favorite color it left a little bit to be desired. Red was nice though and Tarin tried to remember whether or not he’d seen Lee in much red. She looked s o damn good in everything that it all kind of blended together.
Apparently clothes favorite colors were different than actual favorite colors though and as Lee explained about the green of trees in the park, Tarin nodded and smiled. There really was something about leaves with the sun peeking through that was really pretty.
”Good one.” he said, then thought for a moment himself. Now he understood why it had taken Lee a moment. This was one of those questions that was easy to answer when you were a kid, but got much harder as you got older.
”I think maybe blue…but not like royal blue.” he said, ”Like, dark blue that’s almost black. Kind of like the sky at night when you can see it.” .
Pleased with his description, Tarin thought for a moment, ”Your turn.” .
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 19:02:11 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
Dark blue, almost black. Lee nodded thoughtfully. That was also a very specific colour. One that was very difficult to actually see in the city with all the lights. ”Like once it's night, but not quite fully dark and the stars are just starting to come out?” Lee asked.
Yeah, very specific.
Then Tarin said that it was her turn and Lee just looked at him for a moment. It wasn’t so bad with Tarin, but if this was a first date was normally like, Lee was very glad that she had turned down all the dates Rachel had tried to set her up on. Yeah, Lee would not be comfortable doing this with a stranger.
”Hmm,” Lee said. ”What’s your favourite place in the city? And, is that different from what it had been on the other side?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 19:59:27 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin nodded when Lee asked clarifying questions about the color he was trying to describe, ”Yeah, that color right before the sunlight is completely gone…it’s got that almost greenish tint…” It was weirdly specific, but Tarin had always thought it was such a cool thing.
Lee asked her question and Tarin thought about his answer for a minute before he answered, ”On the other side…Have you heard of the Met Cloisters? On the other side they were brought over by some super wealthy business man in the 1920’s. The stock market crashed similar to what it did over here and he lost everything and it feel into complete ruin. The Met never bought it over there or turned it into a museum, so it was just these ruins that looked like they came straight out of a movie and a public botanical garden.”
”On this side though, the answer is way easier…” he said, looking Lee right in the eyes as a slow, knowing smile spread across his face. ”And it’s definitely not the Met Cloisters.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 20:27:00 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
Such a specific colour that happened at a very specific time of day. And something that was so difficult to actually see in the city. Maybe they could remedy that at some point.
But after she had asked her question, Tarin was silent as he thought. Then as he was starting to speak, the waitress came over with their drinks. That did sound like a very interesting place, and quite different from what was on this side. Both the Cloisters and his favourite place on this side.
For a moment, Lee was waiting for Tarin to continue, to tell her what his favourite place was her. But as he just sat there looking at her, a smile on his face, a blush started to cover her cheeks as her eyes dropped for a moment before she looked up into his eyes again. ”Really?” she whispered, a small, happy yet slightly embarrassed smile on her face now.
When Tarin turned the question around on her, Lee took a sip of her beer, the blush not yet leaving her face. ”There’s this one place in the park, just north of Bow Bridge on the lake. If you continue straight when the path turns and walk through the trees, there’s this tiny little clearing right on the shore. It feels so isolated and peaceful even though it’s in the middle of such a large city…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 20:43:21 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
”Really.” Tarin said, ”Without any shadow of a doubt.” .
Lee had an answer much more readily on hand and as she explained, he tried to picture where she described. He knew where the bridge was, he knew where the lake was.
”You’ll have to show me.” he said, ”I love places in the city where it’s just quiet.” he said.
Sometimes it got to be a lot, all the people, all the spirits, all the commotion. Tarin wasn’t widely traveled like Lee was, but he’d spent a lot of time outside when he’d been a child and sometimes he missed the quiet that only existed when there weren’t any people around for miles. It had been a long time since he’d let himself think about it that he sighed, just a bit wistfully.
Their drinks had come by now, and Tarin picked his up and took a drink while he cast around in his head for another question to ask. This was kind of exhilarating, he decided.
”If you could do absolutely anything for a day, what would it be?” it was one of those wild, outlandish questions that people tended to ask when they didn’t know what else to say. Tarin wanted to know, ”I mean it. The sky is the limit.” he said.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 21:28:59 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
”Really. Without any shadow of a doubt.”
Lee’s cheeks grew a darker shade of red as she took another sip of her beer. That was definitely not the answer that Lee had expected. Not from Tarin.
”I would love to show you,” Lee told Tarin with a happy smile, the previous blush still slowly from her face. ”There are so few places around that you can actually feel alone.”
Tarin’s next question was…Lee took a deep breath as she started thinking, her eyes dropping down to look at her hand holding her beer. And she just sat there thinking, her lip slowly finding its way between her teeth. What would she want to do if she could do absolutely anything for a day?
”You know, 15 years ago this would have been probably the simplest question for me to answer,” Lee finally said, her voice soft, as she looked back up at Tarin. ”It would have been, without a doubt, to spend the day not siphoning.” But after what had happened when she was pregnant, Lee knew how horribly wrong that wish could go.
But really, what else would she want to do that badly that she couldn’t just go and do. Because, if she ever really wanted to just travel, Lee realized as her lip found its way between her teeth again, she could just go travel already. And she didn’t really have any ‘bucket list’ items because everything that she had thought would be impossible, the things that she had tried not to hope for, had already happened.
”I know you didn’t mean this to be this difficult. I guess if it could really be anything...To be able to wake up alone and actually feel RESTED.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 21:48:47 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
That blush had been worth the admission, Tarin decided as he watched Lee react from across the table.
It was honestly a little surprising to him that he’d said it, just thrown it out there in the middle of a restaurant, but things like that kept happening around Lee. A lot of the time she made him want to say things, want to do things.
How many times was he going to think it? Tarin Brooks was in trouble.
Lee didn’t immediately respond to Tarin’s question, instead she sat there thinking and worrying her bottom lip in a way that, for once, didn’t make him want to scoop her up and run off somewhere secluded. The question had been intended to be a bit silly, but Lee was taking it very seriously.
Fifteen years ago she’d have liked to spend a day without her power. Tarin could empathize and thought that probably everybody with an X-gene could as well. Life was hard for people like them.
Then Lee spoke again and Tarin frowned, he’d seen multiple times how hard it was for Lee to get up in the morning. He’d been helping her, but he’d never thought about what it must be like to need other people around simply to function.
The realization was kind of a big one and he just nodded, ”I can understand that.” he said, ”I’m sorry…I didn’t mean that to get so serious…” he added.
”Why don’t you go…” he added, realizing he hadn’t really thought the quid-pro-quo nature of the game they were playing through when he’d asked.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 21:59:50 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
Lee shook her head when Tarin said that he hadn’t meant for things, for the question, to get so serious. ”It’s not that it was such a serious question,” Lee told him. Her voice was still soft, but was more confident once again. ”But it turns out not siphoning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. And those impossible dreams that people have that they think there’s no possible way they will come true? Mine have.” Lee reached her hand across the table to lightly grasp Tarin’s, giving him a smile. ”Some of them a few times over. So it’s a little hard for me to come up with an answer for that question.”
But her turn to ask a question. Because of how hard it had been for her to come up with an answer for the previous one, Lee didn’t even realize that Tarin hadn’t answered it.
”Hmmm…” Lee said, the her face lit up as she got an idea. ”If you could go on a trip anywhere, where would you go?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 19, 2024 22:14:31 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
2,996
9
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:27 GMT -6
Jules
As Lee reached across the table and squeezed his hand, Tarin couldn’t help but smile back. Smile back and think that there was still so much he didn’t know about her. So much that she could say that there was really nothing else she could possibly want besides a day to wake up rested.
”I’m glad.” he said squeezing her hand back as she asked her question.
”This one is easy…Europe.” Tarin said, ”The really old places. It’s the only time I’ve ever thought that what I can do is cool…what if there are old Kings And Queens still there? What if they’d talk to me?”
He was definitely turning this one around, ”You?” he said, right as the food was delivered. He offhandedly thanked the waitress but his attention was focused on Lee.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 19, 2024 23:03:32 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,823
5
Sept 18, 2024 18:54:17 GMT -6
Raine
An easy answer? Well, Europe was a pretty common answer for a lot of people. Though, as Tarin explained his reason for wanting to go there, Lee smiled. ”That would honestly be very neat,” Lee replied with a smile. ”At least as long as you don’t come across Vlad the Impaler or someone like that. But I have never even thought about something like that being possible.”
Not that there had been time to explore that question in Romania even if they had thought about it. There had been a lot of other, more important things to worry about. They had been lucky to be able to fit in an anniversary dinner.
”But Europe is kind of a vague answer, you know,” Lee told him, her voice curious but playful. ”Eastern or Western Europe? More the northern countries, or down around the Mediterranean?”
Lee’s questioning was interrupted when their food was set down. Her eggplant parmesan looked good, but would it taste good? It had been 13 years since the last time she’d had this dish; would this surpass or fall short of her memory?
And then Tarin was turning the question around on her. Anywhere in the world, where would she want to go? ”It would depend,” Lee said, also vaguely, as she cut a piece of her eggplant parm. ”My answer changes whether this is a solo trip of if someone is coming with me.”
Getting some noodles and eggplant on her fork, Lee took a bite, waiting until she had swallowed before finishing her answer. ”Historic Europe does sound very interesting, but I think I’d like to visit Australia. But if I’m not on my own, and someone is coming with me, I think I’d like to go to a little cabin in the countryside, either in northern England or in Scotland.”