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 Jun 2, 2024 19:59:46 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Sept 28, 2024 17:47:46 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded as Tarin told her he should have time later that week that would work to head to the mansion without making him miss any appointments.
”What do you mean you would give us a tour, mum?” Kevin asked.
”Exactly what I said,” Lee told him with a shrug. ”Hopefully Shin will be able to give us a tour, or arrange for someone else to, at a good time, I’ll have to give the tour.”
”But how would you know what’s there?”
Lee turned to look at Tarin as she was shaking her head. ”Haven't’ we had this conversation recently?” she asked. ”That I did things and had a life before Kevin was born? Plus,” Lee continued, turning back to Kevin. ”Have you forgotten, that’s where you were born?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 2, 2024 21:04:12 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Sept 28, 2024 17:46:51 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin supposed it was difficult for a child to change the image they had built up of their Mother their whole life. Kevin was learning a lot about his Mother in a very short time and it obviously still surprised him sometimes when he learned something new.
To be fair, a lot of the things Tarin had learned about Lee had surprised him too.
Wait, was Lee looking at him for backup? Tarin nodded, ”We did…definitely the night after your Mom’s ‘sparring match’ “ he even added the finger quotes.
Had there been any other times? Probably. But this was the one that Tarin remembered.
Now Lee was reminding Kevin that he’d been born at The Mansion. Yep, Kevin was getting an education.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 2, 2024 21:21:27 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,881
5
Sept 28, 2024 17:47:46 GMT -6
Raine
Kevin just looked at Lee with wide eyes for a few moments as he tried to take in everything she was saying. ”I thought you were just talking about one of the hospitals around here because it was so fancy. But why would you have me at a high school, even if the X-Men live there too?”
Lee just looked at Kevin for a moment. Wasn’t it obvious why she would, she wondered. Then Lee realized that without knowing about the medical facility there, without knowing about DocProf, and without knowing really any of the bad parts of her life, it really wouldn’t be obvious.
”Because, Kevin, it isn’t ‘just’ a high school, though that’s a large part of the building and its purpose,” Lee explained to her son. Though a lot of this information would probably be new to Tarin, too. ”They’ve also got an infirmary there with a doctor who is also a mutant healer. He had already known us, and our powers, for a few years before I got pregnant. And with how worried and nervous I was about you, DocProf was the only one I trusted to deliver you, even though I would have much rather have been closer to home.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 2, 2024 21:39:45 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Sept 28, 2024 17:46:51 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin was just watching and listening now as Kevin asked questions and Lee answered them. Kevin had a point, Tarin had to admit, because having a baby at a high school did seem like a kind of wild idea.
As Lee explained, The Mansion wasn’t just a school, they had all sorts of state of the art facilities. They had a mutant doctor and he had been someone Lee had trusted, the only one Lee had trusted to deal with all the things that went along with having a baby.
Tarin couldn’t remember a time in his life that he had been around a pregnant woman more than incidentally and with Lee’s tendency to worry he could imagine that it would have been real stressful.
Of course they’d have a healer there though, if the X-Men lived in-house. Someone had to patch them up after all of their heroics.
It felt awkward to say anything here, because Kevin still had that wide-eyed, slightly gobsmacked look of someone who was having a reevaluation and Lee was taking it all in as though he shouldn’t have been surprised because she had lived a life before he had been born. A life that she’d changed pretty drastically once Kevin had been born.
Luckily the waitress arrived then, with the speed that only a breakfast place can manage. The plates were rather large too and full of excellent looking food.
”Okay Kevin, I’m glad I listened to you…” Tarin said, eying his pancakes and trying to figure out how to begin. ”These looks amazing.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 2, 2024 22:16:04 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,881
5
Sept 28, 2024 17:47:46 GMT -6
Raine
Both Tarin and Kevin were silent as she explained about the infirmary at the mansion and the tip of the iceberg of her pregnancy worries. Kevin didn’t need to know that just a year earlier than she’d gotten pregnant with him, the simple idea of being pregnant could nearly send her into a panic attack.
”Though most of my pregnancy worries were gone after…toward the end,” Lee quickly corrected herself. Kevin did not need to know the events that had led to Lee’s pregnancy worries being proven unfounded. ”Actually having the baby was a different story.”
“Though, your father was a disaster when you decided it was time to be born,” Lee told her son. ”You know those movies where the man is completely panicked when their wife goes into labour?”
Lee couldn’t help a little laugh at the memory as the waitress arrived with their food.
But it seemed that now the food was here, Kevin’s attention was completely off the topic. Or, maybe it was because she had started talking about having babies.
”I told you, Tarin. The food here is so good!”
Lee looked down at her own plate, the crepes wrapped around strawberries in a thick, almost jam-like sauce with dark chocolate. The top of the crepes dusted with powdered sugar and drizzled with chocolate. ”Every time we’re here, I think we really need to come more often,” Lee said as she grabbed her cutlery. ”Yet, we never do…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 3, 2024 11:19:53 GMT -6
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Sept 28, 2024 17:46:51 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin had to smile as Lee reminisced. Sometimes it seemed like she had more bad memories than good and it was nice to hear about something that made her smile. It made sense though, this memory had to do with Kevin and not some wild world-saving excursion.
The food was there now though, and talking about it was not going to get it eaten more quickly.
So he dug in.
Yeah, this place would have been wasted on an omelet. Not that they weren’t good, but at a place like this you just went for it.
Lee pointed out that every time they ate here she thought they should eat there more.
”Maybe we can make it a thing.” Tarin said, taking another bite. More of this in his life could not be a bad thing.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 3, 2024 11:37:22 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,881
5
Sept 28, 2024 17:47:46 GMT -6
Raine
And apparently Lee was the slowest one to start eating as Tarin and Kevin had already dug into their food.
So Lee started eating as well, and the food was even better than she remembered. Strawberries with chocolate was always a good choice, but there was just something that this place did to make it taste even better.
Even if Lee was good at baking and cooking, she didn’t think she’d be able to figure out what it was they did.
”That sounds like a great idea,” Lee replied to Tarin. ”Weekly might be a bit much, but I definitely wouldn’t complain about coming here every few weeks.”
The table was then quiet until Kevin had finished half of his waffle. Only then did he look up at Lee. ”Since I’m not going to be at school, can we go to the gym?”
Lee looked up at her son for a moment before she answered. ”If you get your school work done quickly enough that we have decent time left to go, it’s a possibility,” she said, then immediately held her fork up to stop the protest she was expecting. ”This isn’t a holiday, you still need to do your work. That takes priority. But if we have time, we can definitely go to the gym.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 3, 2024 13:27:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Straight
3,053
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Sept 28, 2024 17:46:51 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin nodded when Lee said weekly would be too much, a place like this would lose its charm if you ate there too often. The food was simply too rich and too good to let it lose that special flair.
There was silence for a bit while everyone ate, and then Kevin asked Lee if they could hit up the gym later since he found himself with some free time.
Lee agreed, with conditions and Tarin found himself mildly chagrined that he had to go to work. He also noted that whatever had happened had not, at least in Lee’s mind, been Kevin’s fault if she was so willing to Let him do the things he wanted to do as opposed to being grounded or whatever.
”You two are making me want to clear my schedule.” he said, taking another bite of the pancakes and knowing that wasn’t a thing he could really do. C’est la vie though.
A bit more time passed. More pancakes and bacon were eaten, and Tarin finally pushed his plate away, ”I think I’m beat.” he said.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 3, 2024 14:53:55 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,881
5
Sept 28, 2024 17:47:46 GMT -6
Raine
Lee couldn't help but laugh at Tarin's comment about clearing his schedule. ” Maybe we need to plan your work schedule a little better,” Lee teased. ”Then you might have time to do this stuff with us.”
It really didn’t take too much longer from that point to finish eating. ”Guess we should probably get home,” Lee commented, then looked over at Tarin. ”Can’t have you be late for work. You’ll never hear the end of it from your boss otherwise.”