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 9, 2024 17:25:14 GMT -6
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Jules
At least Lee had managed to get herself free of the hold that Tony had had her in, and heard Tarin as she scrambled to her feet.
Another mild wave of dizziness passed over him as Lee spoke and Tarin shook his head slightly. “Yep. Have to call it…” he said, severing the connection between himself and the spirit, causing it to wink out of sight like it had never been there to anyone but Tarin.
Once that was done, Tarin leaned back against the wall again.
Lee had asked him what was up, ”Got a little dizzy a couple of times there.” he said, frowning and shaking his head a bit. ” I may need to practice this specific type of thing a bit…”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 9, 2024 17:43:14 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Another moment, and suddenly Tony wasn’t there any more. Though, Lee knew that he was still there, just that he was not visible to anyone other than Tarin.
But now that the sparring was done, Lee pulled back on her siphoning. She had enough energy to get home, and that second match had taken more out of Tarin than she had expected it to.
”Or we could just stick to one round in the future if we need to,” Lee said as she made her way over to where Tarin was leaning against the wall. ”Are you sure you’re alright?”
Coming up to Tarin, Lee leaned against the wall near him but not touching to be on the safe side; if having Tony solid for that long had took this much out of Tarin, the last thing he needed was her taking more energy because she was touching him.
”It was weird, though,” she said after a few moments, a frown on her face as she thought about what had happened. ”When he was trying to put me in the head lock, my siphoning spiked and suddenly I could feel him. I’ve never felt a spirit’s energy before. Well, unless they were merged…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 9, 2024 20:13:35 GMT -6
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Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee approached and leaned against the wall and Tarin frowned as he looked out at where she’d been sparring with the spirit just a few moments before. He already felt better, but it seemed like the headache was there to stay.
”Yeah, I’m fine. Bit of a headache but that’s nothing outrageous or out of the ordinary.”
He thought for a moment, “That really shouldn’t have been that hard...” he said, still frowning and trying to figure out what was going on.
Lee explained what had happened while she was sparring and how she’d been able to take energy from the spirit when that was something she’d never been able to do before unless there was a merge happening.
”Huh.” Tarin said, ”When I link up with a spirit and make them solid, I do it by pushing energy down the bond…do you think…?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 9, 2024 20:27:40 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
A headache. Not very surprising to Lee with him having used his powers more than normal. At least she assumed it was more than normal because making Tony solid for that long so he could spar with her would be more effort on Tarin’s part than simply talking with spirits.
”It shouldn’t have?” Lee questioned, not because she doubted him, but to try and figure it out. Because if this was going to happen again and this wasn’t just a one time thing with Tony able to spar with her, they would need to figure it out. ”Have you ever made a spirit solid for that long? Is it harder if they’re doing something rather than just standing there talking?”
”When I link up with a spirit and make them solid, I do it by pushing energy down the bond…do you think…?”
Lee just stared at Tarin for a couple of moments. ”Do I think?” Lee said slowly before her eyes widened, understanding what Tarin was referring to. ”You think I siphoned energy from you through the spirit?
“I mean, I’ve never done anything like that before, either,” Lee replied, biting her bottom lip as she thought. ”Do you think it’s possible?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 9, 2024 21:04:27 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
”Nope.” Tarin said, still trying to think through what had happened.
Things had been going well, headache aside until that second bout had really gotten going.
Had he ever made a spirit solid for that long, ”I don’t think that I have, but that’s why the headache made sense. I’ve done way more heavy lifting than this…
Lee pulling energy from the spirit and thereby pulling energy from him made sense and he nodded when Lee said so in so many words. She hadn’t ever done anything like that before…
”I think it might be…” Tarin said, looking down as Lee stood there bottom lip between her teeth like it so often was when she was worried…or other times too…but they were busy and trying to figure out a problem.
”Either way I already feel a lot better.” he said, ”Were you wanting to go some more? Tony didn’t go anywhere.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 9, 2024 21:23:18 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
3,880
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded as Tarin explained that he’d never made a spirit solid for this long before but that he’d done other taxing things with his powers. And Lee wasn’t entirely sure she wanted to know because she figured it had to do with either him being on Hart Island or when he was being ‘trained’. Lee did not need more reasons to hate either of those things.
But Tarin did think that somehow she had been siphoning that energy from him through the spirit.
Lee was about to point out again that in all the years she’d been with Kevin’s father, nothing like this had ever happened when she realized that she had also never been in a situation like this before today. All of the (few) corporeal spirits she had seen had all been in control before, hadn’t they? Both in Columbia and after the fight at King Pharmaceuticals, he had been proud about how much control he’d had. Any spirits that had needed dealt with, either he did that, or she siphoned from him so the spirits couldn’t use the energy.
She’d never tried siphoning directly from a spirit before.
Then Tarin was asking if she wanted to go again as Tony was still around. Lee shook her head. ”I had already figured I’d be done after that second time, so let’s not push it today.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 9, 2024 21:37:32 GMT -6
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Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Lee pointed out that she’d already been planning to be done after this fight, so she didn’t think they should push it.
”Okay…” he said, smiling a bit ”If you say so.”
Things had really gone pretty well except for the little snafu at the end, Tarin thought as he looked Lee over, ”You okay?” he asked, ”You took a couple of good shots. Was that kind of what you were looking for? You made it look kind of easy out there.”.
Was the whole energy from him through spirit thing worth looking into later? Absolutely, did they need to get into it now? No.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 9, 2024 22:02:11 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”Okay… If you say so.”
Lee nodded, giving Tarin a smile in return. Unless she got a fairly substantial influx of energy to make it worth starting again.
Tarin was asking if she was alright because of some of the hits she’d taken, though there had been far, far fewer than when she’d sparred with Michael. ”Yeah, I’m good,” she told him. ”I’ll definitely need an ice pack for my arm because of that kick.”
When Tarin said that she had made it look easy, Lee blushed a bit. ”I did?” she questioned. ”Because Tony made me work for it. I don’t think he held back one bit. It was exactly the kind of challenge I was looking for. Though…”
Lee paused as she glanced back where they’d been sparring. ”I’ll have to keep in mind that Tony doesn’t feel pain, so some things just won’t work properly with him…
“But Blaine was the same,” she continued with a shrug as she turned back to Tarin. ”Anyone who actually feels pain would have tapped out of that leg lock much faster.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 10, 2024 5:29:56 GMT -6
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Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
Yeah…that kick was going to leave a bruise. There were probably a couple of others that would do. That was the problem with fighting. Even when it was practice, it was easy to get hurt.
Lee seemed uncomfortable, as always, when Tarin pointed out how damn capable she’d seemed out there in the ring and he nodded his confirmation. ”You did. I’m no expert though.” he admitted, as for Tony…
”I’m glad he listened well, he seemed like the right kind of personality. Some of the others were not so biddable.”
As for the spirit not feeling pain, Tarin nodded again. Apparently Blaine had been similar. Interesting. ”It looked like it would have hurt like hell. Yet another reason why I’m thrilled that I’ve never learned a thing about fighting..though I did go down a bit of a rabbit hole on the fighting scene in New York over the last couple of decades when I was prepping for all of this.”.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 10, 2024 5:57:45 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”Thanks,” Lee said softly, that slight blush still on her face.
Lee then nodded in agreement about Tony listening. ”Assuming he continues being cooperate, we will be able to use him to show Kevin those moves like you had suggested.” which was good; that had been Tarin's initial reason for attempting this, right?
And another nod when Tarin commented that the leg lock looked like it would hurt. ”Especially with the pressure I was applying, it should have hurt a lot.”
But as Tarin continued, Lee couldn't help but smile. ”Another rabbit hole? Though I guess that explains how you knew MMA was illegal here until so recently.
“But, why did you start researching like that anyway?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 10, 2024 6:43:18 GMT -6
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Sept 28, 2024 6:43:50 GMT -6
Jules
”Well good. We’ll see how things go the next few times we try this. I think as long as the expectations are clear, we should be fine.” In fact, Tony was still hanging around in the ring.
Most spirits didn’t have a very wide range of emotions or motives for doing what they did. Tony, it seemed, was motivated to be able to fight again. That was why he’d been such an excellent candidate. Tony had fought because he loved the sport, not the violence or the lure of the underground scene.
It should have hurt a lot?
Yeah. Definitely not Tarin’s idea of a good time. It didn’t need to be his idea of a good time though, Lee seemed to be enjoying herself and getting the challenge she hadn’t been able to get elsewhere and that was the point of what they were doing.
As for the rabbit hole, Tarin nodded, ”After we talked about doing this and you seemed like you wanted to try, I started trying to find someone to help.” Tarin explained.
”My lack of knowledge on the topic was making things…difficult so I studied up a little. From there, it was just a matter of finding the right spirit and making sure everything was safe.”
He was happy with how it all turned out, and he still needed to go pick up his book.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 10, 2024 8:26:19 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
3,880
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee couldn’t help but laugh slightly when Tarin said he’d ‘studied up a little’. ”So ‘a little bit’ of studying includes finding out when it became legal in this state?” Lee asked with a teasing smile. ”It think you may know more about it than I do now.”
Did it seem like too much research to do something like this? Just a bit. Would Lee have likely done similarly if she was in the same situation. Most probably.
”So I’ll let you do the research, and you can tell me things that are interesting or important. Like maybe rules, or something.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 10, 2024 9:00:38 GMT -6
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Jules
”It was interesting…a former state senator went on a personal crusade to have the sport completely banned.” Tarin said defensively, but smiling all the same.
And he knew more about it than Lee did? ”And trust me, you know way more about the stuff that matters…”
Tarin realized when Lee kept speaking that she actually didn’t know a whole lot about the sport itself, just the fighting part.
”I did put a book on hold at the library…” he said, fully expecting Lee to tease him more about it. ”But it was more about how the underground scene came to be because of a loophole in the law and the three main amateur leagues that got established.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 10, 2024 9:53:19 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Even though she had teased him about all this research that he had done, Lee was interested and paying attention as Tarin explained about what he had learned.
And of course if had been a politician on a crusade that had banned MMA in New York. Not that Lee really liked MMA as a sport, but it had proven good for what she wanted to do at a gym, and would give her sparring partners if she had been able to find people willing to not go easy on her.
Tarin had even put a book on hold at the library? He really had gone deep down the rabbit hole, hadn’t he. But Lee couldn’t help but smile at that. He had really gone to all that trouble for her, to help her with something he didn’t even really like her doing.
Then Lee had a realization and she smile faded slightly. ”Huh…maybe that’s why they got mad when I’d ask if they’d ever been in a real fight…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Jun 10, 2024 10:18:42 GMT -6
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Jules
Lee pointed out that she’d asked some of the people she’d sparred with if they’d ever been in a real fight and Tarin couldn’t help but laugh a little bit and wince.
”I doubt that any of them would have been in the kind of fight you meant, but then again I don’t think most people in general would have been. If the people you’re talking about were from here, they’d probably been in much closer to the real thing than anyone in the professional circuit anywhere else.” he said.
”I’ll be able to tell you more after I read the book.”
Rubbing his eyes for a moment and hoping the headache would go away, Tarin sighed a bit but smiled, ”So, if you’re done fighting for the day, what’s next?”