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 Jun 8, 2024 10:19:54 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
When Tarin had told Lee that he could probably find a spirit for her to spar with he had been confident that it wouldn’t be all that hard.
Unfortunately, Tarin had neglected to consider how many different types of sparring there actually were and how type dependent it all actually was.
The first spirit Tarin talked to was an old school boxing trainer who knew everything there was to know about the sport…of boxing. The guy actually laughed at Tarin when he mentioned Lee wanting to work on throws and waved him away dismissively before going on his way.
Tarin decided he needed to do some research.
So he had.
And had found out that MMA in New York was relatively new. A past Senator had found the sport barbaric and had it banned in 1997, leading to a robust underground fighting culture. A loophole in the law had made it illegal to fight professionally, but certain amateur fights were allowed.
They were no-holds bar though and usually took place in old boxing clubs, dojos that had rings, or a place with a concrete floor large enough to throw down a rug. Moves that were banned in modern MMA were allowed, and the fights had usually taken place in the Bronx or Manhattan.
There were a couple of books on the topic and Tarin had put a hold on one of them at the library, even if it wasn’t necessary research for what he was trying to do. The topic was interesting.
Armed with the proper knowledge this time and names and places, Tarin had a bit more luck. The darker side of unsanctioned fighting was that along with people just trying to make a name for themselves in the sport, those kinds of events often drew people with nefarious intent. The lesser known fighters and coaches sometimes got involved with those sorts and sometimes worse came to worse.
That’s where Tarin came in with a careful, “interview” process that he carried out in his free time at work in days following his conversation with Lee about this idea.
Spirits knew spirits and it hadn’t been all that hard to get the word around the community that he was looking for someone with a specific sets of skills.
The first few folks to come in had been a bit too rough around the edges. Lee was absolutely capable of taking care of herself, but there was no reason to choose a spirit that was predisposed to wanton violence.
Tarin found his likely candidate in who had been a 24 year old named Tony. The man, even in spirit form, was clearly an athlete and had absolutely loved the sport. The gory details weren’t necessary, but he’d ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people and was now here.
Tony had loved the fight scene, but seemed like a decent sort. Tarin had also quickly established the ground rules of the interactions they were going to have and that he could easily sever the mental connection between himself and the spirit at will.
Preparations had been made, a location had been chose and now they were as ready as they were going to be. Tarin was an absolute wreck, but Lee was probably the only one who knew that because she had a wildly uncanny ability to sus out what he was feeling even if he didn’t broadcast it to the world.
”You’re sure you’re okay with this? You’re going to get mad when I say this, but this isn’t just some way for you to show me that you trust me, right?” .
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 11:11:24 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
The conversation about the idea Tarin could find a spirit for her to spar with had happened a little while ago, and nothing Else had been said since that night.
While the initial idea of her sparring with a spirit had scared her because of how her interactions with spirits in the past had tended to go, it really was a decent idea she'd realized after Tarin had explained.
And Lee did trust Tarin. If he said this was an idea that would work, that he would have control of the spirit, and that he could cut the connection if needed, she believed him.
But it had been almost two weeks since that conversation had happened with no mention of it since, so Lee was definitely surprised when Tarin had (suddenly, it seemed) told her that he'd found a spirit that could spar with her.
And now, they were ready, or at least as ready as they were going to be to try this. Tarin had somehow found a place to try this that would be less crowded than her normal gym would likely be, and Lee was changed, wearing her typical shorts and tank she wore to the gym with her hair pulled back.
But Tarin was still questioning her, sounding nervous and unsure about this now. ”I'm ok with this because I trust you,” she told him before stretching up to give him a quick kiss. ”And of course this isn't just a way to show that I trust you.”
Lee paused a moment before continuing, her voice far softer. ”I think me falling asleep with you without setting my alarm shows that much more…” And while the alarm was still necessary during the week to make sure she was up when she needed to be, there had been a couple weekend mornings recently that had had no alarms. Though she wasn't sure if Tarin would understand the signing of that for her.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 11:51:08 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Sleeping without an alarm clock showed much more trust than this? Tarin couldn’t help the quizzical look that crossed his features when Lee pointed that out, but with as nervous as she’d been about this idea the first time he brought it up, Tarin was a bit surprised.
But, Lee had also said that she was okay with this and he wasn’t going to push any further. ”Alright then…” he said, with a small smile, then got much more serious as he searched out Tony who, as promised, was nearby.
”Remember the ground rules.” Tarin said before even establishing a connection to the spirit, who was placidly waiting and just nodded. ”She makes the rules. You do exactly what she says…even if you feel like you shouldn’t. The second you step out of line this is done and you’ll spend the rest of eternity knowing that you could have done this on a somewhat regular basis.”
”I hear you man…you’ve said the same thing five or six times.”
Tarin didn’t smile, just nodded, ”Good. Then you know I’m serious.” .
That said, and still mildly apprehensive, Tarin’s eyes clouded over as he reached out with his mind and carefully established the link with the spirit that would allow him to pass energy along. It only took a few moments and a fully corporealized person stood where there had only been air.
”Lee. Meet Tony, Tony, this is Lee.” Tarin said, this time to Lee, ”You tell him what you want to do.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 13:12:09 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin seemed to accept what she said about trusting him, but not that she was simply doing this to show him that trust. Though he did look confused when she mentioned that her sleeping without an alarm clock showed more trust in him than this.
That might be something she needed to come back to later and explain to him. Because while he knew and understood her powers now, Tarin still didn’t really comprehend how they had been different years ago. Or how she had to regulate and calculate things when she didn’t have a readily available source of willing energy.
But now was definitely not the time, as Tarin was already speaking to the spirit. Apparently reiterating what the rules for this whole thing were. Rules that included doing as she said, even if the spirit didn’t think that it should. Which, based on how things tended to go at the gym with living potential sparring partners, was probably a good rule to include. Especially since one of the main reasons for doing this was so that she could be challenged when sparring and not have to hold back so much.
It was only then that Lee saw Tarin’s eyes go white, and very quickly after that there was another man standing there in front of them. And she was being introduced. It was a little strange, being officially introduced to the spirit, to Tony. This was only the second spirit Lee could actually remember being actually introduced to, after all.
And then Tarin was telling her to let Tony know what she wanted. ”First off, if we’re actually sparring, do not pull your punches,” she told Tony, then gave him a hard look as he seemed to be taking in the large size difference between them. And while Tony wouldn’t be the largest person that Lee had ever sparred or fought against, but there was a considerable height and size difference between them.
”IF you’re just going to pull your punches, there’s no need to go through this effort and we don’t need you, because I can get that kind of sparring match from the guys at my gym. And we go until there’s a tap out or a verbal signal to stop. Because if you hit me, I need the lesson. The only time I want you to hold back is if we’re working on a particular move or situation and it’s appropriate for you to or if I outright tell you. Understandable?”
If he had still been alive, Lee thought that this would have been another man who would not be willing to do as she asked and not hold back. His face was definitely looking a little skeptical that she would be able to handle it despite what Tarin had previously told him. But being a spirit now, and this being his one and only chance to be able to do anything like this again, he finally nodded. ”I don’t know how you’ll be able to handle getting hit like that, but if you say so,” he replied.
”You let me worry about that. And I’ll tap out if I need to,” Lee said as she adjusted her gloves, though that last bit was said more for Tarin than for Tony. ”Ready?” She then asked before putting her mouthguard in.
Tony just looked at her for a moment. ”Rules?” He then asked. ”Any moves not allowed?”
”Legitimate fighter?” Lee asked, then looked over at Tarin. ”Or did he not follow the ‘rules’?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 13:58:47 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin listened to Lee and her instructions and he realized something he hadn’t previously thought about. This was going to be a match like the one he’d seen a video of. Lee was telling this amateur, but well trained fighter not to pull punches and to hit her as hard as he’d hit in a real fight.
And Tarin was going to have to watch.
Sure, Tarin had told Lee the night of that fight that she was more than capable of knowing her own limits and that it wasn’t any of his business what she chose to do as long as she was aware and comfortable with what she was doing. Now that he was standing here helping her, it was a much taller order.
Oh well. He’d offered. Tarin was just going to have to deal with it.
Despite everything, Tony was skeptical of Lee’s ability to take a hit, but agreed nonetheless, then asked about rules for the fight.
”MMA was illegal here until 2016. Tony was part of the underground that preceded the lifting of the ban. From what I understand, their fights were pretty no-holds-bar.” Tarin internally winced hoping that Lee was going to have some kind of rules. ”Head butts, groin shots…all fair game. He wants you to set the tone.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 14:25:57 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
MMA had been illegal in New York until only 2016? Huh, you learned something new every day. She’d only met Blaine in 2017, before that he’d been making a name for himself in Las Vegas until he’d been discovered to be a mutant. The thought hadn’t even occurred to Lee that hadn’t been legal here until the year before that.
But this wasn’t something that Lee had really thought about before. Normally the extent of the ‘rules’ or ‘tone’ she needed to try and set before sparring was trying to get her partner to not hold back so much. They were generally the ones with rules that they stuck to far more strictly than Lee did.
And while she had definitely been in more than her fair share of fights that had no rules, life and death situations weren’t generally times when you sat down to discuss things like rules before hand.
”Do you know the rules they use for professional fights, in Vegas for example?”
”More or less,” Tony replied with a shrug. ”They weren’t really used, but I know the basics of them.”
That was good enough, Lee reasoned. It wasn’t like she really knew those rules very well, either. Better than when she had sparred with Blaine, as the trainers at the gym made sure to point out when she was doing something ‘illegal’. But a basic understanding would be good enough for things to not go too far or get out of hand, she decided.
”Don’t disqualify yourself based on those and we’re good.” Lee told Tony.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 15:04:12 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee asked Tony about the rules in Vegas and it seemed like he understood well enough. Tarin didn’t know a thing about the rules in Vegas, or in New York and didn’t care about any of them but was relieved that there were actually going to be rules.
Once that was established there wasn’t really anything else to talk about. Lee had her mouth guard in and Tony…well…he was already dead. It hadn’t really been pretty, based on the flow of info down the bond between them, but whatever his tether to the world was, Tony was happy to fight again.
It was go time now and Lee had told him not to hold back, so as soon as she signaled that she was ready to go, he came at her aggressively to see what kind of fighter she really was.
Tarin, for his part, found a wall to hold up and watched. Lee had been amazing in the other fight he’d seen her take part in…but she’d also been barely able to move for a couple days after. Hopefully this would go better.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 15:25:25 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Now that apparently everything had been sorted out, Tony came at Lee hard and fast. All the better. Unless she had surprise on her side in an actual fight and could start siphoning before the other person had a chance to react, Lee preferred to start on the defensive. She’d found she was less likely to actually get hit that way, and could learn more.
And while Lee didn’t have nearly the same amount of energy as she had the day she had sparred with Michael because there was no way that she was going to take that much energy from Tarin when he was doing this, Lee had made sure she was able to get enough from others earlier in the day that she had more than a ‘normal’ amount of energy.
So when Tony rushed forward, she lifted her arm as though to block the punch. But at the same time, Lee took a quick step toward him as she turned her body slightly, her right leg moving to kick out Tony’s front leg as her raised blocking arm moved up to push his head in the opposite direction. As Michael had done early in their fight. Hopefully it would work better against Tony and Lee’s sweep would knock him off his feet.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 17:51:24 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee was good, but Tony was too.
He’d been ready for her to counter and a leg sweep was one of the most standard counters to a rushed attack.
When Lee moved to knock his front leg out, Tony rolled with the momentum, pivoting his body and bringing his other leg through and around to try and sweep Lee’s legs out from under her, his hands grabbing at the front of her shoulders to try and take her down. Countering sweeps wasn’t common, but was a great way to start a match against a smaller opponent.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 18:27:45 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tony was fast to react to her sweep, and far more agile than she had expected with his opening rush. Though her right hand pushing Tony’s head had at best done nothing, though probably ended up helping as he bent in that direction, it did mean that her arm was still up there when Tony was grabbing at her shoulders.
Using that arm to push Tony’s hand off of her right shoulder, she felt his leg hitting hers. She hadn’t gotten her footing solid on the ground yet after her failed sweep and even with just the one hand left on her shoulder, Lee could feel herself being flipped over his hip. So she pushed off with her left foot as though she were jumping just before Tony pulled her off her feet.
As she hit the floor, Lee used that extra momentum that her little jump gave her, attempting to roll out of his grip and reach before he had a chance for that second hand to find purchase on her again. As soon as she managed to roll away, Lee was then making her way back to her feet.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 18:50:36 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee used her momentum to roll through the leg sweep and as she got to her feet, Tony advanced again, much more confident in his movements as they settled into the rhythm of the fight.
This time when he approached aggressively he feinted a takedown, dropping into a crouch like he was going to go for her body, if she dropped her hands like she was going to counter his plan was to come over the top with a right hook.
If she dodged, he planned to use the same leg sweep she’d used on him to try and get her down to the mat.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 19:10:35 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Tony was good. She had just barely gotten to her feet and Tony was already advancing again.
And dropped to a crouch. With the height difference between them, he would have to drop that low to go for her body. Lee’s arms dropped as well, ready to stop his from being able to wrap completely around her as he tried to take her down.
Except they didn’t. Instead, she saw his right arm moving up and toward her as a punch. Until this point, Lee had been moving at a pretty normal speed, but seeing that fist coming toward her, Lee’s left arm shot up faster than it would be possible for a normal human to block the punch. And a moment later, Lee’s right arm followed, moving up to deliver an undercut.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 20:09:44 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Tony had forgotten what the Medium had told him about Lee’s speed and strength. Despite the fact that he’d been told multiple times, he’d forgotten until she’d blocked his perfectly timed punch and an uppercut was coming up.
Muscle memory saved Tony then and his right elbow knocked the punch away as his left arm shot out in a jab.
If that didn’t connect, the plan was to back away to try and make space to kick.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 8, 2024 20:51:23 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
He blocked her right hook with his elbow. That was different. But Lee couldn’t think about that long as Tony immediately shot his other arm out toward her.
Moving her back leg further back, Lee avoided the punch as her body moved away. Then Lee came back toward Tony, her weight shifting to her front leg as she fired off a quick kick to the outside of Tony’s leg just below the knee.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 8, 2024 21:51:43 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,051
9
Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee slipped the jab and moved back and as Tony perused her, she fired of a quick kick at his leg. It connected, but if you fought you were eventually going to get hit.
The kick also let him know where he was in space and he realized that punching and kicking wasn’t going to work. Lee was too fast. His only chance here was to get her to the mat where his size advantage might be able to help.
So forward he advanced again, dropping under Lee’s guard so he could hopefully get his head into her hip and arms around her legs to set up a double leg takedown.