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.
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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...?
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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.
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Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 12:48:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
Lee smiled and leaned her head against Tarin's shoulder again. "Like I said, depending on how far you want to walk," Lee replied as she just stood there, comfortable and content with Tarin's arm around her. "But even if you don't want to walk all that far, there are still a few things that I can show you."
There were quite a few other places that Lee could take him, Lee thought. Even in the immediate area there were a couple of things that Lee thought Tarin would appreciate.
Though as Lee glanced off to the side, in the direction that they would be going next, she wondered how her heels would do in the grass.
And she was going to find out, Lee thought, because Tarin was wanting to see more. "Alright," she said, looking up at him with a smile before reluctantly stepping slightly away and taking Tarin's hand again. "It's this way." Lee started walking once more, off to the side of Bethesda Terrace toward the grass.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 19, 2024 13:22:51 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
”You’re the one in heels…” Tarin said when Lee spoke, a bit reluctant to move from where they were even though he’d been the one to suggest seeing other places.
For his part, Tarin wasn’t the least bit tired. No, he was wildly curious what other places Lee had to show him that she thought were more special at night than during the day.
Eventually, Lee stepped away from him and Tarin found himself wondering again if maybe he should have just agreed to stay where they were for the time being. It was undeniably peaceful and it had felt so good to just be there together.
But Lee had his hand and now they were striking out towards the grass. Apparently they were going off-road now.
”Do you usually go off into the grass?” Tarin asked, clearly amused as he followed along.
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 13:46:28 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin was very right, she was the one in heels. Though, Lee thought he was thinking that was a problem for a very different reason than she did.
He also seemed to be just as reluctant to move from where they were standing as she was. And yet, they had both decided to move on and were slowly walking, hand in hand again, toward the grass to the side of the path between the terrace and Bow Bridge.
Lee rolled her eyes at Tarin when he asked if she normally went off the paths. "Not normally, no," she pointed out. "Especially not at night. But when there's no leaves, you can see things from the paths that right now we have to get closer and go on the grass to see."
That said, Lee led them out onto the grass, having to walk a little slower now because of her heels. But before long, Lee brought them to a stop again, turned to look across the water at Bow Bridge.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 19, 2024 14:43:09 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin had been teasing when he’d asked Lee if she often left the paths and couldn’t help but chuckle when she rolled her eyes at him. If anyone could go wandering the off grid parts of Central Park in the middle of the night, it was Lee. Deep down though, Tarin was glad to hear that despite the fact that she probably could, Lee didn’t do that.
Still, she was leading him into the grass, moving more slowly because of the heels he had mentioned earlier and a few moments later they came into view of the bow bridge. It was another kind of iconic Central Park landmark that tended to show up in movies and on TV a lot. Standing here though, at night, and looking at it across the water was something entirely new.
”You really do know all the best spots.” Tarin said, smiling over at Lee in the dim light.
The comment jogged something in Tarin’s memory and he thought back to the night they’d had their official date.
”Wasn’t there somewhere else you’d mentioned liking to be? I feel like maybe you said it was close by here because you mentioned the bridge” he said ”Was it here?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 15:48:29 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
Lee smiled as she leaned against Tarin's side again. At least that was one good consequence of the time she had spent in the park over the years. "Only because of all the time I've spent here over the years," Lee told Tarin softly. Her voice wasn't exactly sad, and she had chosen to spend that time in the park, but the vast majority of the time had been because of her powers in one way or another.
"I've probably spent as much time running here as you have," Lee continued, her voice still soft as she looked across at the bridge, the cityscape reflecting in the water. "And have spent even more time than that walking through the park. Gives you a lot of time to look around when you're not trying to pretend the world around you doesn't exist."
Tarin spoke again, asking about somewhere else she'd said she liked to be that was near the bridge. Lee's smile returned in full force as she looked up at Tarin. "No, it's on the other side of the bridge," she told him. "Though, probably best saved for daytime, or at least running shoes. It's a little further off the path, and I really don't feel like tripping over a tree root in heels in the dark."
Lee sighed as she looked out over the water again. "It probably would be amazing, though."
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 19, 2024 17:52:03 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
Well, this was much better, Tarin decided as Lee leaned back into his side. She spoke, and while she didn’t particularly sound sad, her voice had taken on that soft quality that tended to come out when she was speaking about something in her past, or something that was difficult.
Then Lee said that she’d probably spent as much time running in the park as he had and Tarin nodded his head, ”I’ll bet you’ve ran quite a bit more considering you run almost as much in a night as I do some weeks.” It really depended, though Tarin had run more in the past…when he hadn’t had anything better to do.
And when she hadn’t run, Lee had walked the park? Tarin frowned a little at that, remembering that Lee had said that in the past she hadn’t been as good at managing her energy levels and went without sleep far more often. Almost subconsciously Tarin tightened his arm around her a bit, glad that now things were a bit better. ”You know if you ever want company, I’m here, right?” he said. It was just sleep in the grand scheme of things, and it wasn’t much, but it was something he could offer.
This wasn’t the spot that Lee had mentioned that night at the restaurant, but she seemed happy that he had remembered. The spot was also close, but Lee was worried about tripping on trees in the dark.
She sighed though and Tarin looked down at her thoughtfully for a moment, ”How far is it through the trees?” he asked, ”And just how dark?” he’d carried Lee a few times before, she wasn’t heavy at all and while he wasn’t wearing running shoes, Tarin definitely wasn’t in heels. If Lee wanted to see her spot in the park, maybe she could.
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 18:52:54 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
Lee couldn't help but smile when Tarin said he was pretty sure that she had run more than he had. "Remember, I didn't really run at all for 6 years there," Lee reminded Tarin. That really was very dependent on, well, in so many ways her relationship status. Unless she went out to the bar or something like that, Lee didn't really have the need to run. She could manage her energy from just day to day activities by just adjusting when she would go home.
But then she felt Tarin's arm tightening around her, and him reminding her that he could keep her company if she wanted. At night. When he would otherwise be sleeping. Did he think that on nights when she couldn't sleep, but didn't have so much energy as to need to run 3 laps around Central Park that she still came out and walked around for hours?
"Oh hon, I know," Lee said, looking up at Tarin with a grateful smile. "And I really appreciate that. But I haven't needed to just walk around here for hours at a time in ages.
"No, years ago, I ended up here most days." Lee explained. She had told Tarin vaguely that she hadn't been good at managing or judging her energy levels when she was younger, but she had never really explained what that really meant for her.
"Maybe I hadn't learned to manage my energy as well yet. Or maybe I just simply burned through the energy I siphoned faster then. Plus it was so hard to get up in the mornings. Worse than you've seen. Neighbours weren't often as close during the night as yours and Kevin's rooms. But I had trouble falling asleep with even as much energy as I could when we started dating.
"Whether I was working or not, I spent most of my day out somewhere. Once I felt human and functional again in the morning, Central Park was great; there were enough people around to keep my energy pretty steady without it being crowded like the streets often are. And a hell of a lot cheaper than coffee shops, restaurants, or other attractions.
"But in addition to not knowing how to manage well, I also didn't dare risk cutting it too close with how much energy I went to sleep with. So I knew around the level I could fall asleep with and would go home at night with slightly more than that. Spend about an hour at home, including showering because that was not a possibility in the morning, and then go to bed with my alarm set for at most 8 hours later."
Lee took a breath then looked up at Tarin with a small smile. "Literally countless hours spent wandering the paths or sitting near but not too close to crowds."
Looking back now, it was a little sad and very lonely. But at the time, it was the only way that Lee had figured out how to survive. And so she had done it. For years. In multiple cities.
"How far is it through the trees? And just how dark?”
Lee looked back up at Tarin, a frown and confused look on her face. "I mean it's not that far," she said after a few moments. "But I'm not sure how dark it would be. There's quite a few trees."
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 19, 2024 19:43:58 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
Lee hadn’t ran at all for six years. Oh, right. Tarin had to take at least a bit of credit for Lee’s current running habits. ”Ah…right.” he said a bit sheepishly.
Tarin knew that Lee wouldn’t agree to him staying up with her. She’d offered before and Lee had always said no. She also said that she didn’t need to walk like she used to anymore. But years ago…that had been a completely different story.
Lee told that story, in all of its details and Tarin listened, holding her close as she explained how things had been for a lot of her life. The walking, the sticking to the periphery of the crowds, the minimal time at home, the trouble she’d had waking, and how careful she’d had to be to sleep.
No wonder trying to learn to cook had been so stressful.
Tarin had known that things had been hard for Lee, but he hadn’t known. Somehow it made everything she had managed to accomplish even more incredible.
What did you even say to a story like that? Tarin didn’t know for a moment. Lee didn’t really like it when he pushed her to try and see how amazing it all seemed from the outside.
”I’m glad it doesn’t have to be that way anymore…” he said, ”and I know you don’t like to hear it…but I really hope you know how impressive it is that you managed all of that Lee.” it wasn’t the right thing to say, but it was the best he had.
Lee seemed confused by his question about the path to her favorite spot and Tarin smiled a little bit and shrugged ”If you want to go to that spot and see if it’s as good as you think, I could always carry you.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 20:31:34 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin held her close as she spoke about her past. About how she had figured out how to survive when she needed to be around people but had no one. And as she spoke, Lee leaned into him as she looked across the dark water.
As she finished speaking and looked up at Tarin, Lee could see him looking back at her. Silent to start with. No one ever really knew what to say when she explained her reality to them. It was so far from what anyone else had to deal with that no one knew how to properly understand it.
When Tarin finally spoke, Lee smiled slightly. But then a crease formed between her brows as he continued. "But," she eventually said, slowly, as she tried to turn her feelings into words. "Simply managing to survive shouldn't be impressive. And that's all it was. Just managing, sometimes barely, to continue to exist from one day to the next."
Tarin had been asking about the path to what she'd said was her favourite place because he thought they could still go that night after she said it probably wasn't a great idea because of her shoes.
"You could…" Lee said slowly as she looked up at Tarin. Lee had always hated being carried. She was already physically small. Being carried made her feel as helpless as most people thought she was.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 19, 2024 21:07:45 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
Tarin shook his head slightly when Lee spoke. ”But that’s just it Lee, sometimes just surviving is amazing.” he paused for a moment there, trying to sort out the jumble of feelings and words in his head and articulate them in a way that could possibly make sense.
”I can’t possibly understand what it was like for you, but I do know how hard it can be to just make it day to day, and I know plenty of people who couldn’t.” Tarin paused there again for just a moment.
”You didn’t just do it, but you got better at it every day. And then you started making other peoples’ lives better.” Tarin was gushing again and he knew it made Lee uncomfortable. ”Every time things got hard, you pushed back harder. You didn’t give up or do things the easy way ever. And you don’t have to agree, but I think it’s impressive.” Far more impressive than what he’d done, what he’d almost done if she hadn’t gone out of her way that chilly night in the spring. Surviving was impressive, and Tarin was reminded of that fact every day.
It was easy to say and think such things in the dark, with the water reflecting the city back like it was. Lee had also agreed to his idea and smiled up at him when she said it.
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 22:12:40 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
As Tarin spoke, all Lee could do was look up at him, the crease between her brows deepening. The problem was, Lee couldn't really argue about any of the things that Tarin said she did. It certainly hadn't seemed like it, but each day had given her more experience and more practice that had eventually allowed her to better manage her siphoning and energy. And practically as soon as she was no longer simply surviving anymore, hiring people for the shop, directing them to the mansion when they're evicted so they don't end up being homeless.
Going to Columbia.
Nothin Tarin had said about her was untrue. And he thought that every bit of it was impressive. Lee could tell by the look on Tarin's face as she was looking at him. It was a similar expression he had had when Lee had told him stories of other things she had done, stories of the things that had ended up in that file.
Lee really didn't know what to say as Tarin finished speaking, she just turned in his arms and wrapped her own around him. She had just been trying to tell him about why she had spent so much time walking around Central Park when she was younger, and somehow it had ended up as him deciding that what she had done to simply survive for a decade of her life was incredible.
And Lee really wasn't sure what to think about all of that, so she just stood there and hugged Tarin for a long minute.
After what felt like forever, but was probably only a minute or so, Lee pulled back and gave Tarin a small smile as he said for her to lead the way to her favourite place.
Taking Tarin's hand again, Lee started walking back toward the bridge, speeding up slightly once they had made it onto the path again. To the bridge, over the bridge. In silence as Lee tried to figure out how almost falling down the stairs because she barely had the energy to move her feet the weeks that her neighbour in Hell's Kitchen had worked nights was impressive.
After crossing the bridge and coming to the point where the path curved to the right, Lee stopped them and looked up at Tarin again finally. "I just keep walking straight here, heading off the path," she told him. "So if you think we won't both fall, I guess we can go see what it looks like at night."
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 19, 2024 22:48:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
Well. Things had gotten a bit more serious there than they’d been intended to be. Lee wasn’t arguing with him though and Tarin took that to mean that progress was being made.
Lee turned and wrapped her arms around him and Tarin reciprocated, holding her there in the dark and not saying anything. He had probably already said more than enough.
The hug went on for a while and Tarin was content to stand there as long as Lee needed. Eventually Lee pulled away though and took Tarin’s hand and led him back to the path, over the bridge, and right up to where the path curved.
The walk had been beautiful, the bridge was beautiful, Lee was still beautiful in that dress, and she was saying that if he thought he could get them both through the trees without falling…this was the spot.
Moving forward on his own a bit, Tarin peered through the trees. It wasn’t particularly dense, but there was stuff on the ground and Tarin could see why Lee didn’t want to navigate it in those heels.
”As much fun as it was the last time we fell down, I’d be a monster if I did anything to trash that dress.” he said, then bent and scooped Lee up in his arms and started to make his way through the trees.
The ground really wasn’t all that treacherous and there weren’t too terribly many branches to dodge as they made their way through. Tarin somehow managed not to stumble a single time and soon enough he and Lee emerged from the trees.
As soon as they were on more stable terrain, Tarin lowered Lee to the ground and took a second to straighten his jacket. ”See. Easy.” he said, with no small amount of self-satisfaction.
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 19, 2024 23:22:21 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
When Lee told Tarin that this was where she would venture off the path to head to that spot, he moved forward to take a look at the ground in the darkness. And came back bringing up the last time they had fallen. Through her door. Because they couldn't stop kissing long enough to open the door properly.
Lee couldn't help a slight laugh at that memory. Though a moment later, Tarin was scooping her up in his arms, causing Lee to gasp and tense slightly. She had told him that he could carry her, but that didn't stop her instant discomfort with it.
Wrapping her arm around Tarin's neck as he started walking, Lee took a breath to relax herself.
And as they came out of the trees by the edge of the lake, Lee looked at Tarin with a smile. "That actually wasn't too bad," she said, only unwrapping her arm from around Tarin's neck once she was sure of her balance after he set her down.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on Aug 20, 2024 5:45:43 GMT -6
Mutant God
DodgerBlue
Straight
3,011
9
Sept 21, 2024 0:02:31 GMT -6
Jules
They’d made it. As Tarin set Lee back on the ground and straightened his Jacket she commented that the trip through the trees really hadn’t been that bad. In hindsight it might have been illegal, but it hadn’t been that bad of a walk.
Tarin looked at Lee a bit quizzically as she spoke, ”I wouldn’t have done it if I wasn’t sure we’d make it just fine.” he said with a little smile. He was careful like that.
Tarin was still facing the trees, not completely sure where exactly they were going now that they’d made it here and wanting Lee to be able to show him what she wanted him to see.
Tarin could already tell that somehow it was even quieter here than it had been out by the terrace or in the grass where they could see the bridge. The trees were insulating and they were about as deep into the cpark as it was possible to get and there were actually some night sounds here.
”I think you were probably right about it being incredible here at night.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 20, 2024 8:44:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,841
5
Sept 21, 2024 1:47:41 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin seemed confused by her comment, and Lee looked back at him in confusion when he told her that he wouldn't have carried her if he hadn't think he could.
"No," Lee said slowly, looking up at him with her head tilted slightly. "I meant that it actually wasn't too bad having you carry me like that."
But, they weren't quite in the right place yet. Even if where Tarin had set her down was incredibly peaceful. Taking hold of his hand again, just as much for balance this time as for any other reason, Lee led him a little further around another couple of trees.
Until they came to the edge of The Lake. Where they saw the night, the water, and the city lights spread out in front of them in surprising silence.