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 Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 19:27:57 GMT -6
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Lee hit Robert. Actually hit him and Tarin could tell that Lee’s punch was much stronger than the one that Robert had leveled at him the previous weekend. It was almost like in a movie when the main character hit someone so hard that they flew off their feet.
Robert didn’t get up, he just groaned on the floor. Tarin almost felt bad for him.
Then Lee asked Tarin if Robert deserved more.
”I think that depends entirely on Robert.” Tarin said, still not moving from where he stood. ”And if he’s dumb enough to put his hands on you again.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 19:38:32 GMT -6
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Robert was on the floor. Robert was groaning in pain. But Robert was not getting up. Maybe Lee hadn’t quite knocked him out, but he definitely did not look fully conscious, either.
And all Lee could think at the moment was that maybe NOW Robert would believe her.
Lee shook her head at Tarin’s answer to her question about whether Robert deserved more than she had already given. ”Since I had thought he would already know that, there’s really no telling whether he’s that dumb or not,” she told him.
”Should I get the frozen corn?”
She just blinked at Tarin for a moment. ”How the hell are you so calm after this? After everything with my brother? Aren’t you angry? Because I’m pissed.
“And hell no, he doesn’t get an ice pack. Let him explain to everyone that his petite little sister did that to him.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 19:49:55 GMT -6
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”How the hellare you so calm after this? After everything with my brother? Aren’t you angry? Because I’m pissed.
Lee seemed to be directing some of that anger in his direction and Tarin looked steadily back at her for a moment before he shrugged, ”I can’t imagine how getting angry in this situation would have made anything better.” he said.
That was totally fair about the ice pack though, and Tarin didn’t really think that Robert deserved one. He could soothe his ego with all of his audacity.
”He wanted to talk. We talked.“
Besides, Robert’s points had been fair. They’d each been a gut punch and Robert had patently refused to acknowledge that his sister was a whole ass human being who could make her own decisions…but he’d had a point.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 20:00:03 GMT -6
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”I can’t imagine how getting angry in this situation would have made anything better.”
Lee stood there and just blinked at Tarin, the confusion steadily growing more pronounced on her face. ”You don’t know how… she started, but the words trailed off.
Her brows drew together as she got even more confused. ”It probably wouldn’t have,” Lee continued slowly. ”But anger isn’t rational. It just…happens.”
He wanted to talk. Robert Smith had wanted to talk with Tarin Brooks, and they had talked. Before Robert had tried to drag Lee from the shop. ”What in the world did he want to talk about with you?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 20:17:20 GMT -6
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”It probably wouldn’t have. But anger isn’t rational. It just…happens.”
Tarin looked at Lee and her obvious confusion and shook his head slowly from side to side "I'm not angry." he said, and it was true. He wasn't angry.
What had Robert wanted to talk to him about? Tarin really didn't want to tell Lee what they'd been talking about because at this point Lee was really angry and he didn't actually want her to do any permanent damage to her brother.
Still. He wasn't going to lie.
"He wanted to reiterate his opinion that I had overstayed my welcome in your apartment and the reasons why." he said.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 20:40:56 GMT -6
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”But…how can you not be angry when he’s like that?” Lee asked, truly wondering how Tarin wasn’t angry, how he hadn’t been angry.
And that confusion only grew more pronounced when Tarin continued speaking. Her head tilted to the side as she looked over at him. ”So he came here, into your shop, to accuse you of things he barely knows anything about, yet refuses to listen to anyone so he could learn more, and it didn’t make you angry?” That was…just how?
”Why does he call you Emily?"
”He what?” Lee asked sharply, turning a glare on the man still laying on the floor. ”I put up with him calling me ‘Em’ because I keep finding myself calling him ‘Bobby’, but he damn well knows not to call me Emily.”
Lee took a deep breath, scrubbing her hands over her face before looking back at Tarin. ”My only guess because for some reason he cannot understand that I’m not a 15-year old anymore.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 20:55:53 GMT -6
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Now Tarin was confused at Lee's confusion. He'd already said that he wasn't angry.
"I'm really not angry Lee." Tarin said, starting to feel a bit self-conscious about the whole thing. "Yes, he came here and said some pretty wild stuff, but none of it was true."
Tarin looked down at Lee's brother on the ground who had either passed out or was trying to gather his wits so he could eventually get off the floor.
As for Robert calling her Emily, it wasn't okay. Tarin had thought so, "I definitely had a problem with that. He said I just didn't know you well enough, but clearly he was wrong."
Robert thinking Lee was still 15 definitely made sense, considering how absolutely helpless he thought she was.
"Well, hopefully he got the message that you're anything but 15." Tarin said. Then frowned thoughtfully for a moment.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 21:13:50 GMT -6
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Apparently, Robert had said some ‘wild’ stuff, but because it wasn't true, Tarin just…wasn’t mad.
”He honestly said that you don’t know me well enough to know not to call me that?” Lee asked incredulously as she shot another glare at her brother. ”Maybe if he had been bothered actually learning who I am instead of who I was over the last 15 years…”
And that was it, Lee realized. She had thought that he had been getting to know her again, that he knew her now, but all they had really done was go see bad sci-fi movies and watch hockey. Sure, they had talked, she’d told him some of the things in her life over the years, the more mundane things. But unless he had been mad and they had been fighting because of Tarin, or something related to that, most of their interactions over the last 15 years had been pretty much the same as when they were teens.
”You're really upset that I'm not angry?"
Lee frowned, the crease fully formed between her brows as she turned back to look at Tarin. ”I’m not upset that you’re not mad. I just…I think I can imagine some of the things that Robert said, and even with them not being true, I just don’t understand how they wouldn’t make you mad.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 21:25:10 GMT -6
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"I told him you hated to be called that and he told me that he certainly knew you better than I do." Tarin clarified.
The more Lee talked though, the more things started to make sense.
"He doesn't know how to connect with you as an adult..." Tarin said thoughtfully.
As for getting angry, and Lee not understanding how he wasn't angry after all the things Robert had said, Tarin looked down at Lee's brother who was now looking up blearily from the floor and shook his head, "We can talk about it later. I'm fine though, I don't care what he thinks about me."
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 21:40:11 GMT -6
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Tarin clarified what her brother had said about knowing her, and Lee couldn’t help the shake of her head or the small smile on her face as she looked at Tarin. ”You learned that within the first week of moving in, didn’t you?” The night that she had burst into his room after leaving her alone to tell Robert that Tarin was living there.
That had been a night of learning a lot of things, though not all of it had been fully realized until a couple nights later.
”Well, he’s had 15 years to figure that out,” Lee said, turning to look at Robert, her voice sharper than it had been a moment ago. ”If he doesn’t know by now, I doubt he’ll be able to figure it out.”
But as she looked at him, saw his bleary eyes as he still laid there on the floor, Lee frowned. ”It’s possible I hit him a little hard considering all of the concussions he’s had from hockey,” she said quietly before looking back at Tarin. ”Maybe I should call Rachel to drag his sorry ass home.”
And yet again, Tarin was telling her that he was ok, that he wasn’t mad. ”Ok, then. Later.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 21:54:32 GMT -6
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"I did." he said with a small smile back, "I didn't want to end up like him."
Lee pointed out that Robert had had previous concussions and Tarin actually took a few moments to look down at Robert. "Help home might be a good thing. I'd assume this is Rachel's fault since I sure as hell didn't say anything to him...so it's the least she can do. Maybe she'll learn an object lesson in discretion too."
Later.
Tarin knew Lee was relentless and they'd absolutely be talking about this later. How was he going to explain?
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 22:08:42 GMT -6
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Tarin had known her for a week, and learned not to call her Emily if he didn’t want to end up like her brother had. Was Tarin that good at reading her, or was Robert just that dumb?
Either way, Tarin agreed that Robert would probably need help getting home, so Lee took a deep breath as she pulled out her phone to call Rachel.
As the phone rang, Lee realized that she was going to have to deal with all of Rachel’s questions once she got there. She frowned. Just what she wanted, more questions. Though, maybe if she kept the phone call short enough, she would be able to limit the questions to only being in person.
”Oh, hey Rach. I, uh, need you to do something. Can you come by Tarin’s shop and take your dumbass brother home?”
”My brother? He’s our brother, Lee. Wait, why does he need me to take him home?”
”Well, hopefully he’ll be able to walk by the time you get here, but at the moment he’s on the floor. Thanks Rach.” Lee didn’t even wait for a response, she just hung up the phone. Rachel would be questioning what she had been told when she got there anyway. No sense wasting time on the phone.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 22:24:41 GMT -6
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Lee called Rachel, and that went predictably. Lee hung up quickly.
Tarin wasn't mad, but he did feel bad for Lee as she stood there after hanging up the phone.
Moving from where he'd been standing, Tarin carefully skirted Robert on the floor and came to stand nearby. Not close enough to touch, but close enough that they weren't talking across the room.
Noticing for the first time what Lee was wearing, Tarin couldn't help but look at Lee with slightly raised eyebrows. They'd ran together that morning.
"Were you running?" he asked, then frowned because she'd come to see him and walked into this, "I'm sorry this keeps happening."
Posted by Lee Smith on May 23, 2024 22:38:02 GMT -6
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Only once she had hung up the phone did Tarin come closer. Though she also hadn’t moved toward him sooner, either. And he still wasn’t close enough to touch.
Were they staying like this, at a distance, because of Robert being there?
Though, Lee realized, even if that wasn’t the case, it was probably a good idea anyway.
”Were you running?"
”I was,” Lee replied, giving Tarin the first real smile since she had stepped into the shop that day. ”I didn’t have anything else to do until it’s time to pick Kevin up, and was still…” Lee bit her lip as she thought how to word this as she was not at all sure how aware Robert was of what they were saying. ”A little more energetic than I wanted to be after yesterday, so thought it couldn’t hurt.” That was simple and vague enough, right?
But then Tarin was apologizing, and Lee shook her head. ”It’s not your fault that acts the way that he does,” she told him. ”I just wish I had realized years ago that he hadn’t changed and was still an ass.” [/font]
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 23, 2024 23:01:08 GMT -6
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She had been running, and when Lee smiled, he couldn't help but smile back especially as she explained that even after their run she'd had too much energy.
Too much energy wasn't a great thing, but she was smiling so he couldn't find too much wrong with the situation.
Then they were back on Robert and that wasn't very smile worthy at all. It was just sad. ”I’m still sorry that it keeps happening this way.”
”I’m still here.” Robert said, at least somewhat coherently from the ground.