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 Aug 15, 2024 11:05:37 GMT -6
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Lee said that she was going to be fine and Tarin nodded, still glancing around to try and narrow down who could have possibly been causing the issue. It had to be a staff member. There were a few close by…a couple of servers and a different waiter.
If Lee wanted to stay though, and didn’t want this whole thing to ruin the night, Tarin realized he needed to let it go. Something Lee said stuck in Tarin’s head a bit though and he looked at her for a second before he carefully spoke.
”If it’s the suddenness maybe you could turn it off? I know it’s uncomfortable, but if it’s going to keep happening, at least then you know why.”
That was the last Tarin was going to say on the matter though. Lee was more than capable of deciding and handling things however she wanted. She would let him know what she needed or wanted help with and how he could help.
That settled, Tarin looked around the rooftop and out at the city. From where they were, the street sounds were muted and while the music and the chatter from the restaurant was still there, everything just seemed quieter.
”It’s easy to forget how loud everything is sometimes.” he said idly, casting around a bit for a topic of conversation. ”I was just thinking that it’s funny that it seems almost quiet up here even with a band playing.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 11:27:15 GMT -6
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She could just turn her siphoning off herself? That was not a very enticing idea knowing that there was a person in the area who would make her powers completely not function, and with having her siphoning turned off, she would have no idea.
But, she had also told herself not even a minute earlier that she didn’t have anything to worry about from that person. Not with Tarin there. Not with all of the cameras that had to be in the building. Surely it was safe for her to turn off her siphoning. Uncomfortable having people around but being unable to sense them, but not as bad here compared to the bar. And not as bad as being continually startled, slightly scared, by the suddenness of her siphoning shutting off.
Lee nodded. ”That’s probably a good idea,” she told him, then squeezed his hand. ”Thanks.”
Her siphoning had come back while Tarin was speaking so, as much as she disliked having her siphoning not work in public, Lee focused for a moment and shut it back off. Then squeezed Tarin’s hand slightly again. That was it, she wasn’t going to worry about it anymore. They were out for a date, what was so far a wonderful date that Tarin had planned, and she was going to enjoy it.
Lee smiled when she heard Tarin start speaking again. ”It really does, doesn’t it?” Lee responded as her smile turned more playful. ”I thought I was just distracted by this really sexy guy who seems to be out for dinner, and everything else was just faded away to focus on him…”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 11:52:21 GMT -6
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Lee agreed that it might be a good idea for her to choose to turn off her siphoning and Tarin couldn’t tell if she had a or not, but it seemed like they had both decided to move on.
Tarin knew he’d been goading Lee a bit earlier to try and keep her blushing, it was still highly amusing to him that someone as seemingly confident and self-aware as Lee blushed so easily at the barest hint of praise or admiration. Maybe she’d eventually get used to it. Maybe.
Now it was apparently her turn though and when Lee spoke Tarin grinned and shook his head, then looked around. ”That guy again?” he said with a slightly exaggerated eye roll, referencing the way they’d joked after their last attempt at a date. ”It’s starting to feel like I can’t go anywhere…”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 13:39:02 GMT -6
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Lee nodded and shrugged when she heard Tarin, but the playful smile turned into a full grin. ”He does seem to get around quite a bit, doesn’t he?” Lee asked as she looked across the table at Tarin.
”But you’re right, it does feel a lot quieter up here,” Lee continued. ”It really is nice. I wish there were more places around that were actually quiet.”
Lee picked up her beer with her free hand, not wanting to release Tarin’s yet, and took a sip.
”You know, Kevin’s been bugging me the last couple days about letting him watch me spar,” Lee said after a few moments of silence between them. ’Has he mentioned anything to you about something happening in Texas to suddenly make him so interested in that?”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 14:23:55 GMT -6
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This was much better, Tarin decided as he and Lee quipped back and forth. She also agreed about the quiet and wished that there were other places that were quiet as well. Lee had said that before, along with asking to be able to see the stars for her birthday. It was months away still, but Tarin had tucked the information away in the back of his mind and was trying to puzzle out exactly how he was going to accomplish that specific request.
”Maybe we need to start looking for places like that.” he said, ”Make it a thing every once and a while.” If that’s what they liked, then that’s what they should do.
Lee took a drink of her beer and Tarin was reminded that he had one too. Reaching out, he picked it up and took a sip. Yep, it was good. Lee had been right again.
There was a few moments of comfortable silence, and then Lee spoke again and Tarin winced just a little bit.
Kevin had been asking to watch her spar. Did he know anything about why that would be?
”That…doesn’t have anything to do with Texas.” he said, ”When we were talking the other night when you took your run, it kind of came up. Kevin was talking about his powers again and asking some questions, and somehow we got to talking about you and then sparring came up.”
Tarin paused for a moment, ”I might have told him you’d been sparring some more since he’d been gone and he had a million other questions that I mostly told him to ask you.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 15:09:50 GMT -6
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Make it a ‘thing’ every now and then to go somewhere that was actually quiet? Yes, their apartment was generally on the quiet side, it just felt different when it was somewhere other than at home. ”I think that is a great plan,” Lee said. ”Movies, restaurants, jogging… They’re all great, but not really quiet.”
Did Tarin wince when she asked about the sparring?
Once Tarin started speaking, Lee realized why. Apparently they had talked quite a bit more than Lee had expected after she had left for her run, and somehow the topic had become about her powers.
”Well, so far he’s only asked about watching me spar,” Lee informed Tarin. ”What kind of questions was he asking? Anything I’ll need to brace myself for or figure out a child-friendly answer for ahead of time?”
Kevin had always been extremely curious about mutant powers, though Lee realized he’d never asked all that much about her own powers. Though he had been the one to remind Rachel fairly often in the first year or so they were back in New York about things like her ‘zombie’ state as he called it in the mornings.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 16:29:26 GMT -6
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Tarin seemed to be batting a thousand on ideas tonight but he had to laugh a little as Lee listed off all the things they already did together.
Maybe they didn’t need another thing, but Lee had seemed to like the idea.
”I don’t think so.” Tarin said, ”I was careful with what I said.” Tarin paused for a moment and thought back to the conversation. Had they talked about any topics that would lead to questions that needed to be censored?
”He was saying that having powers was harder than he thought it was and I think he realized that it’s more complicated for everyone than he may have originally thought.”
Tarin shrugged a little, ”He hadn’t really thought about how much you have to think about your powers and plan around them or that when you spar you have to be careful.”
”Any times he got into why’s or what’s or anything like that I told him he needed to ask you, which he didn’t love…but yeah.”
Tarin gave Lee’s hand a little squeeze, ”I probably should have told you, I hope I didn’t overstep.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 16:59:45 GMT -6
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Lee listened carefully as Tarin explained what had been discussed the night Kevin had come home from Texas after she had gone out for her run. The questions that Kevin had asked about her powers. After realizing that it was all a lot harder than he expected it to be.
Had she made things appear too simple all these years? Hiding all of the effort it took to manage her energy. Though, Lee had always hidden that as best she could, even when she had been struggling to figure out how to manage it. Tarin was one of the few people, over the course of her entire life, who she’d shared how difficult it could be for her.
No, Lee decided, it hadn’t been a mistake to hide it from Kevin like she did from everyone. Yes, Lee still had to worry about all the same things in terms of her energy now as she had when she first realized she had to, but it was practically second nature for her now. Powers got easier to deal with as you learned about them, as you got older. And hers were despite the fact that she still had to do all the same things.
”No, you didn’t overstep,” Lee told Tarin, returning the hand squeeze. ”I’ll see if he wants help with his powers in the next day or so. Maybe that’ll help, and maybe he’ll start asking me some of those questions then.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 17:30:34 GMT -6
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Lee said he hadn’t overstepped and Tarin let out a little sigh of relief,
”Good, I didn’t want to blow off what he was saying because I think that was the most he’s ever said, but it was tricky to know what to say.”
Lee also said that she would talk to Kevin in the next day or so, see if he wanted any help with his powers so that maybe he would talk to her and Tarin nodded…then hesitated before he spoke again. This he really should have brought up sooner.
”He did say he’d tried really hard to not let his shield up on the plane trip because he’d been worried that it might hurt the plane…”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 18:17:36 GMT -6
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Lee smiled when Tarin said he thought that the night Kevin had come home from Texas had been the most he had spoken. ”You two really talked that much?” Lee asked. This proved even more than she had already thought that there were going to be things that Kevin would prefer to speak about with someone other than his mum. And while Kevin did talk with Rachel, Robert, Josh, and Adele about various things, especially now there were going to be things that they would have no clue about. Or worse, and Lee particularly worried about this from her brother, would give him bad advice because none of them had a clue about being a mutant.
So Lee was happy that Kevin felt comfortable enough to talk with Tarin, even if Tarin felt wholly unqualified.
That still wasn’t all that the two of them had talked about that night. Kevin had been concerned about using his powers on the plane. Lee nodded. ”All I seem to be thinking these days is when did he grow up so much?” Lee asked. ”I doubt anything would have happened to the plane, but I’ll talk to him about that more, too. Thanks Tarin.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 19:17:59 GMT -6
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Tarin nodded, ”He’s really intuitive, Lee.” he said, ”He knows he struggles when he’s frustrated or angry and God knows I didn’t know how to tell him to deal with that, but I tried and I think it kind of made sense. He said thanks before he went to bed anyway…”
Tarin trailed off, suddenly a little embarrassed.
”But yeah, he’s a great kid…” he said.
Tarin had to shake his head a bit though, ”I don’t know what I would have done if it hadn’t worked out with that girl.” Luckily that hadn’t been an issue though, ”Did his Uncle or Grandma say anything about it? Robert?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 20:03:37 GMT -6
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”He’s really intuitive, Lee.”
Apparently so, Lee thought as she listened to Tarin. Kevin had had his powers for just a matter of weeks, and he’d already figured out that he struggled more with them when he’s upset?
”Again, when did he grow up so much?” Lee asked with a smile and shake of her head. ”I was an adult before I figured that out about mine. But if he said thanks, I’d guess that it made sense or helped him at least a bit.”
Tarin went on to ask if anyone else had mentioned anything about the girl Kevin liked and had called Tarin for advice about. Lee shook her head. ”My guess with asking you was Kevin was trying to avoid any kind of big deal being made, so he didn’t talk to them about it. But if it’s the girl I think it is, they’ve been friends for a few years now, so them hanging out more, especially if his younger cousins were bugging him, wouldn’t be that surprising.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 20:21:35 GMT -6
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Tarin didn’t have a frame of reference for Kevin since he’d only know the boy for a few months, but he did seem incredible self-aware for a kid, and even if he did have the classic teenage moodiness Kevin was genuinely good natured as well and had a good sense of right and wrong. Lee really had done an excellent job.
Lee was probably right about the girl though, ”Well, I know he asked Robert first, but said whatever he said didn’t make any sense.”
The rest made sense too though, but Tarin still wondered if Kevin’s uncle hadn’t figured things out and if that had something to do with why Levin had suddenly been able to ride on his own.
There wasn’t a whole lot more to say on the matter though and they lapsed into silence again for a few moments before the food arrived. Reclaiming his hand and sitting back, Tarin couldn’t help but be impressed.
The food looked good and Tarin couldn’t help but think that he had made the right choice as the plate was sat on the table in front of him. Lee’s looked good too and Tarin had to admit that this place was getting better and better by the moment.
Thanking the server, Tarin looked down at his food then over at Lee, ”Hopefully it tastes as good as it looks.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 15, 2024 20:52:14 GMT -6
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Lee rolled her eyes slightly. ”I don’t remember much about any of Robert’s dates between being tired and stuck in my room, but it would not surprise me at all if the ‘advice’ he gave Kevin was something stupid,” Lee said with a shake of her head. He’d probably said something ridiculous like ‘play hard to get’ or something that was already bad advice, but even worse when you’re already hanging out regularly as friends.
Their food came out, and both plates looked absolutely delicious. ”Only one way to find out,” Lee replied with a smile as she went to cut a piece of the roast. And the meat practically cut like butter under her knife.
That was definitely promising, Lee thought. She then brought the food to her mouth. And nodded as she chewed. She had definitely made the right choice, Lee thought. They hadn’t frequented many restaurants in New York that even offered pot roast, so not only had it been a long time since she’d had it, but this was extremely good.
”Yeah, we definitely need to come back here,” Lee declared once she had swallowed.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 15, 2024 21:12:59 GMT -6
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It was incredibly petty, but hearing Lee talk about Robert being awful with dates made Tarin smile. As did Lee’s confidence that whatever he had told Kevin had been dumb. Lee hadn’t thought what he had told Kevin was dumb, Tarin thought with no small amount of satisfaction.
He didn’t say any of that out loud though, because then someone else would have now how petty he was being and Tarin couldn’t have that.
The food was here now too and Tarin took another drink of his beer before he picked up his fork and cut off a small piece of the salmon. It looked like it was the really good kind where the edges were going to be the slightest bit crunchy because the fish had been seared really well.
Taking a bite, he chewed for a minute and just nodded as Lee spoke. ”They’re going to get sick of seeing us.” he said, going back for another bite.