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 25, 2024 16:40:34 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee mentioned that most of her early tenacity in their acquaintance had been simply to get him through all of that and Tarin had to sigh a little bit.
”I know…” he said quietly, hand stopping the slow circles it had been making, ”And I don’t think there’s a word for how lucky I am that you were.” The alternative was grim and he refused to think about it, not when they were like this, it seemed wrong on too many levels.
Lee’s reaction to what Robert had said was…big, and as she looked up at him, Tarin looked away a little. Maybe he shouldn’t have said anything, not to spare Robert, but to keep Lee from being so upset about it. ”It’s not like it was true, I just don’t get why he can’t fundamentally understand that I’m not the same person…” It was the entire crux of the issue.
As for being angry…Lee reacted pretty much exactly how Tarin had expected her to act considering her confusion earlier in the shop. The way she looked down at him and told him that anger was necessary was just confusing though. Of all of the lessons he’d learned over all those years, this was the only one that had actually made sense.
The way Lee was propped up and the way she was looking at Tarin made him squirm a bit mentally, it was like she could see right through him. She spoke about bottling up emotions, and Tarin didn’t notice that she wasn’t looking at him because he was looking somewhere else too as he tried to figure out how to explain.
”It’s not like that…It’s not that I’m angry and not showing it. I don’t get mad.” It was so hard to put it into words without talking about things he’d never talked about before. Lee would understand, he knew, but she got so upset whenever he spoke about it that he just…couldn’t.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 16:58:09 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”I just don’t get why he can’t fundamentally understand that I’m not the same person…”
”Maybe because he’s a self-centered man who can’t see past his own self-importance?” Lee suggested, then took a deep breath and let it out slowly before continuing in a much quieter voice. ”Or, because Robert never got to know him, so he has nothing to base off of for how different the two of you are…” Though, Lee thought, both were probably equally true.
But then Tarin was claiming that he didn’t bury or bottle up his anger. He said that he just didn’t get angry. Lee frowned as she shifted slightly, laying her head down on Tarin’s chest as her face looked up towards his, though the angle didn’t make it easy to see.
”But, how is that possible?” Lee asked, her voice soft, though curious and not comprehending Tarin’s explanation. ”There’s many times I end up feeling angry before I’m even able to think about the fact that I should be angry. So how does that just…not happen for you?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 17:25:24 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
How was it possible?
Tarin could tell that Lee was looking at him as they laid there in the dim light of the shop and he had to think that it was wild that this was where the conversation had ended up.
How could he not answer though? How, when Lee had shared so much about herself and had punched her own brother in the face that afternoon because he’d shown up here.
Tarin didn’t actually know why he never seemed to get angry, but he had an idea.
”I’m not totally sure…but remember how I told you that where I grew up in New York there were a lot of rules?” he said softly, looking across the room at nothing in particular, ”The number one way that people lost a handle on their powers was getting angry, so we weren’t allowed to get angry.”
”We’d practice, a lot, and if we got angry we were…emphatically reminded that it was not an appropriate reaction.”
He shrugged, shaking off the memories, ”After a while, you just don’t get angry anymore. It’s not worth it.” he said, taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly. ”Old habits die hard.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 17:43:48 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Though the angle that she was at with her head on Tarin’s chest meant she didn’t have a very good view of his face or his expression, she was able to see him turn his head away and look across the room as he started to speak.
And he actually explained this time. Not with any details, but Lee didn’t need those details after other things he had shared with her, after hearing about some of the ‘tests’ that he had been put through.
”My god…” Lee whispered. ”That…” Though Lee wasn’t exactly sure what ‘that’ was. Horrible, cruel, evil, disgusting. Dangerous in the opposite way they were trying to prevent.
Instead of voicing the rest of her thought, Lee hugged Tarin close to her. ”I’m sorry,” she said softly before just holding him in silence for a minute.
”That, all of that, can’t be good for you mentally, even now…” she ended up saying, her voice still soft. ”Maybe we should try creating some new habits. Because, Tarin, simply having emotions is not a bad thing.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 17:59:42 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
”It was a long time ago.” Tarin said, immensely relieved that Lee hadn’t asked him for more. Sharing that much had been…a lot and he wasn’t sure what he would have done.
Lee hugged him close and Tarin held her close as she did.
Then Lee spoke and Tarin frowned a bit at the ceiling, ”I don’t think it would be a good thing…” he said thinking back over the last few weeks and all the times that he’d been a complete emotional mess.
”I don’t know how to handle all of that. You saw what a mess I was after….all of that.”
He paused and thought for a minute, ”It’s the only thing I ever kind of understood. Angry people lash out, they hurt each other. The biggest mistakes I’ve ever seen people make were made in anger.”
He was rambling and it didn’t make any sense, but it was like all the self-awareness was making it hard to stop.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 18:24:48 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded in understanding when Tarin said that he didn’t know how to handle emotions such as anger. But he was also wrong about some of the things he said.
”You don’t know how, because you haven't done it,” Lee pointed out gently. ”Just like when you said you don’t know how regarding what we’re doing. But it’s something that can be learned.
“And Tarin, I’ve been a much worse mess after a merge than you were,” she confessed.
But that wasn’t the end of it, he wasn’t finished telling her why it was such a bad idea. And how the biggest mistakes people made were because of anger. That…Lee couldn’t argue with that as she remembered throwing a ring across the shop before storming out onto a stalker patrolled street.
Her eyes were closed at this point as Lee took a slow breath. ”Yes, all those things can and do happen,” she agreed before continuing, her voice at this point barely a whisper. ”But anger, as well as fear, can also be harnessed, used to push yourself to save those you care about.”
”And I feel lots of things…”
Lee was about to point out that physical sensations did not count with what they were talking about, but she managed to hold her tongue. ”Like what?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 18:49:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Something that could be learned?
Tarin didn’t say anything. This was a lot to take in. It all seemed to simple to Lee, but it kind of felt like they were working to change something fundamental about him. He was listening though.
Lee talked again, and Tarin knew from how quiet she got and how her eyes closed that she was talking from experience and he instinctually pulled her closer again, his hand moving slowly up and down her back.
Lee asked what sorts of things he felt and Tarin looked down at her for a moment.
”It makes me sad that you have so many memories that make you frown and close your eyes.” he said, heat flooding his face as he tried to put things into words that he really just never talked about.
”It made me happy when we were walking down the street the other night holding hands.”
He thought for a moment, ”I was…impressed when you got up on that stage in the bar and sang in front of that crowd.” and it had been the best kind of gut punch that she was walking back to him after she was done.
”I’m…grateful that you’re who you are and you saved me that night.”
”I feel irritated pretty much every time Rachel opens her mouth concerning the two of us…”
There was one more thing, but he didn’t know how to quantify it, ”When Robert put his hand on you today I sure felt something…but I knew you’d handle it.” .
That was a pretty exhaustive list.
”I’m pretty sure you’ve noticed, but I’m not a robot.” he finished.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 19:45:21 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
When Tarin pulled her closer, Lee snuggled into him again. He didn’t say anything about learning how to deal with his emotions that he had never allowed himself to feel. He didn’t even say anything about her comment about being a mess after merges.
But Tarin did answer her question about what he felt, and it was more than just one or two things.
Actually, it was quite a bit more than Lee would have expected because she hadn’t been able to see even a hint of half of these. But some of what he did say made her blush a bit as they lay there.
”I know you’re not a robot, Tarin,” Lee said softly. ”I really liked being able to hold your hand, too. But you were impressed when I went on stage? And what you felt earlier could have been anger.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 20:07:20 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Had he been impressed? Tarin couldn’t help but chuckle, ”Yes, I was impressed.” he said, ”You looked gorgeous under the stage lights and you were fearless.” Tarin couldn’t imagine having all those eyes on him and performing like that.
As for what he’d felt with Robert earlier, Tarin grinned a little and rolled his eyes slightly, ”I grew up feral in Texas with brothers. I know what angry is. This…was different. Not one time in all the time I’ve known him did I want to physically harm your brother. Not even after he punched me in the face.”
Tarin took a deep breath, ”When he grabbed you like that…I’m glad you hit him first.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 20:29:58 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee’s blush darkened as Tarin expanded on how he had been impressed when she had gotten up to sing. ”There’s not much to be scared of singing in a room full of drunks when you can count on one hand the people whose opinion matters at all to you and still have fingers left over.” Lee explained with a shrug. ”And in terms of fear, even a barroom brawl is nothing compared to…” Lee actually bit her tongue she stopped speaking so quickly.
”But yeah, I guess I really have gotten over my stage fright from when I was a kid” she finished, trying to redirect what she had just about said. Not that she wouldn’t tell Tarin, at some point, but this just did not seem to be the time.
Lee was surprised to hear that Tarin hadn’t even wanted to hit or harm Robert on Saturday morning when he’d been punched in the face. But seeing Robert simply grabbing her arm…Speaking of things not comparable to bar brawls…
”Rage?” Lee asked, her voice barely a breath as her arm tightened unconsciously around Tarin. ”Fury? The feeling that no matter what happens, you’re going to make them pay for what they did?”
So much for not bringing up Columbia to darken the afternoon.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 21:00:18 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee explained how she was able to get up in a bar and sing and she seemed like she was on the cusp of saying something else when she quickly changed subjects. Tarin knew a thing or two about that deflection technique and it wasn’t lost on him that there was something she was holding back.
Tarin wanted to ask about it, knew that Lee would explain if he did because she wasn’t like him and would happily share pretty much anything he wanted to know.
She wasn’t freaked out by what he had said about Robert. In fact, she seemed to empathize with what he said on a level that was a little intense.
Tarin nodded, then realized there was no way Lee could have heard, ”Something like that…only for a moment, but yeah.”
He hesitated, Lee’s voice was so quiet and it only ever got like that when she was thinking about something bad that had happened.
”I hate that you know what I’m talking about.” he said, dropping a kiss on the top of her head.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 21:25:30 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded when Tarin agreed that what he had felt when Robert had grabbed her earlier was something like what she had said. That was definitely intense for what the offence was, but Lee could still understand it. Especially after everything that Tarin had seen and heard about and from Robert.
But when Lee felt Tarin softly kissing the top of her head, she smiled slightly despite what he had said. ”I know,” Lee replied. ”I hate it too, sometimes. But knowing things like that, all those things…They turned me into the person able to save you…”
Lee took a deep breath, letting it out slowly. ”So much happened at that time,” Lee whispered. ”But I did learn I was capable of more than I thought…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 21:59:21 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Well that was a mixed bag. Obviously Tarin was happy that Lee had been there to help him, but she had been through so much. Tarin didn’t know what to say, but he held Lee close as she spoke.
”You don’t have to tell me…” Tarin said, ”But I’ll listen if you want to.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 25, 2024 22:33:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin wasn’t going to press her for information about what she had just mentioned. He wasn’t going to press, but he would listen if she wanted to tell him. She nodded as she lay there with him.
Lee hadn’t explicitly decided that she would tell Tarin about this, but unlike with Blaine, she hadn’t decided that she couldn’t tell him, either. And Tarin already knew bits and pieces of so much of what she had done. Just not details. And that day in Columbia was a very big detail.
After taking a breath, Lee nodded again. Then she started speaking. ”Remember when I told you about what he did in Columbia, and you thought it was amazing that I just went down there and that the villagers must have thought I was a superhero or something?
“I didn’t do anything that day, but the villagers definitely ended up thinking that I was something.”
Lee paused as she again pondered just how much she should tell Tarin about Slate’s actual plan down there. Telling him nothing might make it difficult to understand why what happened happened. But again, now was probably not the time for all of the details.
”A few days after we had dealt with the spirits, a number of trucks come rolling in, and not the trucks with the lumber we were waiting on for the building. We didn’t know it at the time, but Slate was doing a whole lot more in Columbia than just building a school and medical center, and he had apparently pissed off the wrong person in one of the cartels.”
Lee swallowed as in her mind she saw everything happening again. ”They grabbed Slate and Tarin, dragged them to the center square, the other soldiers pulling people outside to ‘watch’. I’m still not entirely sure how many men with guns there were.
“The leader was torturing them, in front of everyone,” Lee’s voice cracked slightly there, and she paused and took a deep breath before continuing. ”The soldiers hadn’t found me, but one passed where I was, alone. So I siphoned from him. Hand over his mouth so he couldn’t call for help. By the time I was able to start pulling him back, and dragged him into the building, he was unconscious.
“I ran into another soldier on my way to the square. It wasn’t hard to drop him, either, even though he was facing me. Then I got to the edge of the square. I was able to see the blood on both of them even at that distance. And then the leader stabbed a knife into his shoulder…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 22:57:18 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee decided to tell him the story.
He could remember the short bits and pieces that Lee had shared previously. They’d gone to Columbia so that the other Tarin could try and find something good to do with his powers. At the time, Tarin had thought the whole humanitarian aspect of the trip had been incredible. The story that Lee told was on an entirely different level.
Lee explained that things hadn’t been exactly what they seemed and one day while they were waiting for lumber to repair the school, a bunch of cartel thugs had arrived instead.
From there, Lee had watched as their patron and the other Tarin had been tortured in the city square as an example for the people there.
Lee had sprung into action…because of course she had, using her power to subdue armed men one after another. The thought of her doing what she was describing caused a lot of mixed feelings. Once again, he was damn impressed that she’d been brave enough to do that, but God that had been a lot.
And then she’d gotten there just in time to see the other Tarin get stabbed in the shoulder.
”You saved them, didn’t you?” Tarin breathed, pulling back slightly and looking down. They’d definitely made it back and Lee had mentioned that right before the stabbing she’d made it to the edge of the square.