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 25, 2024 23:18:56 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded slightly when she heard Tarin’s question. ”There were four of the soldiers literally holding them up, more spread throughout the villagers. I didn’t exactly count, and didn’t ask after, but 10, maybe 12 of them?
“I didn’t even know until then that I was able to move that fast. But I couldn't even attempt to drop them with my siphoning, they all had guns. Some of them I did hit too hard, though…” Lee hadn’t meant to kill anyone, and did not like the fact that she had killed people. But at the same time, given the situation, she was not upset about who she had killed.
And this was the reason she hadn’t told Blaine about any of this.
”Even the four soldiers who were holding them approached, guns drawn.
“And then it was just the leader left on his feet. I don’t even know everything I was feeling at that moment, but fear and anger, rage, were forefront. All of the others, it was easy to push their arm, their gun out of the way if I needed to. I forgot he had the knife still as I reached him and grabbed him by the throat.
“The knife got me here,” Lee said, her hand moving to trace along her left side just below her bottom rib.
”I threw him,” Lee finished in a whisper. ”Into a wall. Broke his neck.”
Having stopped speaking, Lee’s eyes closed and her bottom lip found it’s way between her lips as she took a slow, deep breath.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 25, 2024 23:36:21 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee kept talking.
10 armed men?
12 armed men?
She’d taken them all down. Lee had taken them all down one by one until she’d gotten to the leader who she’d managed to throw into a wall while getting stabbed.
Lee had her eyes shut again and she was biting her lip, but this time it just broke Tarin’s heart a little for her. All he could think of was how utterly and completely terrifying that must have been. Being in a foreign country on a humanitarian trip and then finding oneself in the grips of a cartel was bad enough, but actually having the wherewithal and bravery to do something about it. He knew Lee got uncomfortable when he heaped praise on her, but Tarin could not figure out how did she not see how absolutely incredible she had been.
”Good.” Tarin said simply, turning slightly so he could more fully wrap his arms around her. ”I can’t believe you had to do all of that on your own, or how hard that must have been for you…but good.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 1:02:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee’s eyes opened when she heard Tarin speak. Good? She wasn’t sure exactly what kind of reaction she had been expecting, and she had had some slight worry that the reaction would not be a good one, but what she heard was nothing like she had expected. ”I…Yeah, it was hard,” Lee admitted as she opened her eyes and looked up at Tarin. It had been especially hard as she held him, losing a lot of blood, while Slate had gone to heal the man that had tortured them.
”Though, like I said, I did learn a lot,” she continued softly. ”How fast I can siphon to the point of someone falling unconscious when I’m not worried about taking too much energy. That, depending on how much energy I have, I have to pull my punches. Just, so much more about what I’m capable of than I ever would have learned otherwise…”
Then Lee laid there looking up at Tarin in silence for a few moments. ”It doesn’t bother you?” she ended up asking. ”That I…What I did?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 26, 2024 7:05:09 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin wasn’t sure, but he thought that maybe Lee had been surprised at his reaction. What else had he been supposed to say? If Lee hadn’t done what she’d done, who knew what would have happened. Was he happy she’d had to go through it all? God no. Was he glad it had all ended with her here instead of any of the other alternatives? Yes.
”Though, like I said, I did learn a lot,
When she was done talking, Tarin shook his head a little bit, ”How do you do that? he said, because he was starting to realize that maybe he was going about things all wrong. Lee had been through far more than he had, experienced things that Tarin couldn’t imagine, and she seemed to be handling things far better than he was.
Maybe it was time to try something new.
In the silence that followed, Tarin thought about all of that, but realized that Lee was looking at him again and tried to angle himself so that he could see her better. Lee spoke after a few moments and asked a question that almost echoed his thoughts from earlier.
”It bothers me that you were in a situation where you had to take on tens of men armed with what I assume were automatic weapons when you were supposed to be building a school. That you had to see the things you had to see and that it’s clearly still hard for you to talk about.”
Tarin looked at Lee steadily, ”But no, it does not bother me in the slightest that you did what you did.” it was true, ”How could it?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 8:29:16 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”How do you do that?”
Lee frowned when Tarin asked this. ”Do what?”
What she had had to do, what she had seen, what she had experienced bothered him. But the fact that she had attacked the men, that she had actually killed some of them, didn't.
Saying thank you didn't seem appropriate given the situation, but Lee was certainly relieved. She hadn't thought that it would change how Tarin thought about her, how he looked at her, but apparently the worry had still been there in the back of her mind.
Leaning in, Lee gave him a soft kiss, then shrugged slightly. ” It's not like it's a typical thing, even for mutants who've had things hard in life.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 26, 2024 9:39:00 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
”How you do you look back at something like that and think about all the things you learned.” he asked sincerely.
”I know it’s not a contest, but I haven’t been through half of what you have and, as we’ve established, I’m a mess.” He paused for a moment, ”Even just thinking about it all makes me…uncomfortable.” . That was an understatement, but the best he had.
Lee kissed him, Tarin kissed her back and shrugged, ”You did what you had to do to protect the people you cared about.” It really was that simple, but Lee had seemed apprehensive. ”Did you think I’d have a problem with any of it?” he asked, curious, ”The way you tell it you only had two options; fight, or let someone take everything from you. You fought. “ he paused again, contemplative, ”I hope I’d do the same thing, because I’ve had that choice before and I didn’t.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 10:38:55 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
He didn't know, he wanted to know, how she could look back at things with Columbia and think about what she had learned rather than just thinking about the fear, anger or trauma.
Lee shrugged slightly. ”I mean, even with all the energy I used to do all of that, I was awake for days, lots of time to think. And be amazed by what I had been able to do.”
“Plus,” Lee continued softly. ”You haven’t really seen it much, but I’m a worrier. I planned what I could and should do in different situations if things…went bad. So, I kind of spent a fair bit of time thinking about what had worked and hadn’t already…”
Dark thoughts, yes, but that day in Columbia had been very dark despite the blazing hot sun.
”Did you think I’d have a problem with any of it?”
”Not really?” Lee said after a moment as she shook her head. ”Not with most of it, unless it was to say I had been stupid to try that against so many men with guns. But the fact that some of them died…” Lee’s voice trailed off for a moment as she shrugged again. ”I was a little concerned what you might have thought about that. Not enough to not tell you, but I was…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 26, 2024 11:30:53 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee explained and Tarin couldn’t help but think that what she described sounded almost polar opposite to how Tarin had always handled things.
He could imagine Lee, sitting up alone at night, worrying her way through everything that had happened. Dissecting the situation from every angle and trying to sort out what she could have done differently, what could have gone differently. Doing all of that while everyone else slept.
”I’m sorry you had to do all of that alone…” Tarin said.
At least she was willing to admit that what she had done was amazing.
Lee had been a bit concerned he’d have a problem with the fact that some of the men with guns who had brought those guns to a village of civilians and aide workers, and used those guns intimidate them into watching a show of torture, had died?
”Nope. They got what was coming to them.” he said.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 11:59:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Again, Tarin said he was sorry that she had had to deal with all of that on her own. Lee shrugged again as she laid her head back down on Tarin’s shoulder, snuggling close to him again. ”Seems to be a fundamental part of my life, sitting up at night worrying about things,” she admitted. ”He always thought I worried too much. But with everything we ended up going through, how could I not? Though, thankfully, I’ve had far less to worry about since Kevin was born.”
He thought the soldiers had gotten what was coming to them? Well, that was true, and Lee wasn’t upset about the fact that some of them had died. But she had really been meaning more about the fact that she had been the one to kill them.
Lee wasn’t going to press it, though. If she did, maybe he would realize that it did change something about how he thought about her.
If he was alright with what she had done in Columbia, Lee thought, Lee was sure that any of her other stories would be taken alright. No, Tarin wouldn’t be happy about what happened, there were really no good or happy parts about these kinds of stories, but he would accept what she had done. Accept her.
Well, anything else except for what Slate’s actual plan in Columbia, Slate’s actual plan for the world had been. A plan that she had bought into after Columbia, becoming one of Slate’s ‘advisors’ as the Kabal worked toward making the world a better place.
That, Lee wasn’t sure how anyone would take it. Though the number of people in the world now who even knew the extent of those plans was even smaller than when those plans were being actively worked toward, and the number had been SMALL then.
”Thank you, Tarin,” Lee finally said. ”Virtually no one who wasn’t in the village that day knows what happened. And there isn’t anyone else who knows all the details.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 26, 2024 15:52:01 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
”Why did you do it all?” Tarin asked, frowning just a little bit as Lee explained that she had spent a great deal of time worrying because of all they’d been through. ”Is Kevin why you stopped?” it would make sense. Kids changed things.
Nobody else knew?
”Thank you for telling me.” he said, not really sure what else to say there.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 16:28:48 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Why did she do it? Lee’s immediate answer to that question was ‘because I had to’, but even as she had that thought she realized it wasn’t true. She hadn’t had to do it. Any of it. She could have walked away countless times and not had to deal with any of it because, truth be told nothing even remotely close ever happened to her when she was living elsewhere.
”A lot of it,” Lee started, her voice thoughtful, slow. ”Especially before Columbia, seemed to happen to me, to us. And then it seemed like we could actually make a difference in the world, make things better. Though of course nothing with any of that ended up going to plan.”
Lee took a breath when Tarin asked if Kevin was the reason she’d stopped all of this. ”In a way? After I died in Romania, and after I made him acknowledge the fact that that had even happened, I decided that if I was going to actually consider getting pregnant, we should before something else happened.
“Then Slate’s priorities changed, and we had a newborn. Over the next year or two, I grew so worried being here because we could protect ourselves, but Kevin couldn't…I ended up taking him back to Toronto.
“The Rift was already open when we came back, and I was actually starting to work with another group, similar goals but generally more locally focused. Then it closed…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 26, 2024 18:24:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee’s answer was long, and complicated. Tarin supposed it would have to be. Both her reasons for doing what she’d done…what they had done and why she had stopped.
She mentioned the time she died again, and Tarin realized that he had never really taken any time to break that whole thing down. They’d talked about it before, the day they’d walked to the Empire State Building. So much had happened since then it almost seemed like that conversation had happened between two different people.
Then, hearing Lee say that she had died in Romania of all places had sounded like just another of the absolutely insane and extraordinary things that she had said that day.
Now when she said it, it made something twist up inside Tarin reminiscent of the panic he’d felt that very day in the elevator to the top of the building. Sub-consciously Tarin held her tighter as she talked about it.
Lee spoke about her decision to have Kevin and what had motivated it, she spoke about how hard it had been to have a newborn in the city and constantly worry about keeping him safe.
Lee spoke about how she’d left the city. Tarin couldn’t help but think that doing that had been brave, and wonder why that part of the story was an I and not a we. It wasn’t the sort of thing you asked though.
Lee had stayed away for a long time and things had been calm and safe for her and Kevin. When she had come back to New York the rift had been open…and the rest was kind of history.
It was the kind of life that ended up in movies. It was the kind of story that was hard to believe. Heck it was the kind of story that Tarin had found hard to believe just a few weeks before. Lee really didn’t like it when he waxed poetic about her accomplishments, but it was almost mind blowing how a single person had accomplished so much. It was also mind blowing to think that such an incredible series of events had led them both to that exact moment in the park.
Tarin took a deep breath and let it out on a sigh, ”I don’t know how you did it all.” he said, still trying to take it all in a bit.
”Do you ever miss it?” he asked, ”Not the harrowing, life-threatening stuff…making a difference.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 18:46:45 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
He didn't know how she had done it all. He didn't even know everything that had happened that year, between her wedding in Las Vegas to her dying in Romania 370 days later…
Yeah, Tarin didn’t need to find out about any of that other stuff right now. There had been enough ‘revelations’ today.
”Definitely do not miss that first,” Lee told him with a slight laugh even though she was sure that he already kenw that. ”But being able to help, to make a difference? Yeah, I do sometimes.
“And I know what you’re going to say,” Lee continued, rolling her eyes slightly, even though Tarin wouldn’t be able to see it with how they were laying. ”If I miss it, I should start again. Just…Let me get Kevin set up at the mansion, then I’ll look into it.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 26, 2024 19:49:37 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Based on how Tarin laughed, he had been about to say something along those lines. ”I wouldn’t have let you stay around this long if you were that much of a fool,” Lee teased.
If ‘local’ meant things that were safe. Well, they had been safe…er.
”Ish,” Lee said with a bit of a shrug. ”What I was doing before was also things like helping at a mutant focused shelter, community building things, for the whole community, mutants and humans alike, stuff like that.”