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 Oct 15, 2024 23:18:24 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Apparently her comment about 'when the season was over' could jinx the team. Who, remarkably, did seem to be playing better now that she was wearing Tarin's hat to watch a lot of the games. Which had to just be a coincidence. Interdimensional hat magic couldn't actually be real.
"What are you talking about?" Lee asked teasingly regarding the jinx. "They play baseball for most of the year, right? So the season must go at least into November, right?"
"I never really paid attention, but that would explain why they put a roof on the Blue Jays' dome."
When Tarin told her a kind of song that he really liked, Lee nodded. She already had a couple ideas for what to put on that playlist. "I'll add that to the playlists I'm working on," Lee told Tarin with a smile. "Though, slower songs and ballads might not work as well for running, so depending on what I find,I may make that one longer."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 15, 2024 20:29:03 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Lee smiled when Tarin said that he did enjoy listening to the playlists she had been making for him. And while she was happy to just share something she loved with Tarin, the fact that he liked it as well made Lee even happier.
"Well, once baseball is over, we will have more time in the evenings," Lee pointed out. Time that they could use for other things such as listening to music or working on puzzles, if that was a thing they actually started doing. At least more often than when they were simply trying to be responsible adults and keep their hands off each other simply because they were in the same room.
"If you can, that'd be good," Lee replied with a shrug. "But you're listening to them while we run, which is why I've been making them. And why I've been making the playlists all around that length. But if you do want longer ones, I can do that too."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 15, 2024 12:19:35 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin understood what she meant by 'before' and 'childhood' being simple and happy. Honestly, Lee would have been more surprised if he hadn't understood it.
Lee smiled and shrugged slightly when Tarin said that he was glad she had that memory, at least. "Yeah…It's not like I really think about it all that much. But it's good to be able to remember that everything wasn't always horrible then."
Then Tarin made the comment that he didn't think he could create a soundtrack for his life. "If you were able to do that, I would think you'd have been able to tell me what kind of music you liked," Lee pointed out. "And honestly, it's been interesting spending all that time making the playlists for you."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 15, 2024 9:42:51 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
While she was playing, a little smile appeared on her face. With all of the looking back into her past that had been done recently, this was the feeling that had been missing when thinking of her childhood. The happiness and innocence of the time.
A smile that was still present on Lee's face when the song ended. Looking over at Tarin when she heard him ask what it reminded her of. "This was the last album I got and really listened to before all of the doctors visits and everything started."
Explaining it that way, it didn't really sound like a happy memory. But for Lee, it really was. If one that she didn't really think about all that often. "That last bit of childhood. When everything was simple and made sense. And was happy…"
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 23:39:26 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
That song was sad, especially knowing Lee's past. But that was exactly the reason that the song had stuck out to her, that the lyrics had meant something to her when she was first hearing it. Because while she hadn't been living at her parents' anymore, and things were getting better for her, things still weren't good.
Tarin was now requesting a song that she associated with something. Something other than the song itself.
Preferably something happier than the last one.
"Ok, I think I have something," Lee said after a few moments. "I haven't played this one in quite a while, though."
Looking down at the strings, Lee only faltered for a moment before getting the right sound.
"I had no choice but to hear you You stated your case time and again I thought about it You treat me like I'm a princess I'm not used to liking that You ask how my day was "
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 21:53:12 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin seemed to be thinking about what she said a bit before he said that he understood. Lee nodded and her fingers started moving lightly on the guitar strings again.
Until Tarin spoke again that is. When he asked his question, Lee stopped to think again. Did she even remember the reason for learning each song? But as Lee thought about the actual song, not her acoustic playing of it, she thought she had at least a reasonable explanation for this particular song.
"I'm pretty sure I started picking out chords," Lee told Tarin. "Plus, I've always liked singing along to it."
That said, Lee started strumming again, quickly deciding on another song. "This one was definitely the lyrics," Lee said softly, a small, sad smile on her face as she started playing.
"Do you ever feel like breakin' down? Do you ever feel out of place? Like somehow you just don't belong And no one understands you Do you ever wanna run away? Do you lock yourself in your room With the radio on turned up so loud That no one hears you screaming?
No, you don't know what it's like When nothin' feels alright You don't know what it's like to be like me"
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 20:31:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
When the song ended and Tarin spoke, Lee looked over at him with a thoughtful expression on her face. "Honestly, I'm not sure whether I've actually thought about that before," Lee admitted, her hands just resting on the guitar.
Lee sat there thinking for a moment. "At first, obviously easier songs, and a few I already knew how to play on piano. Sometimes, my brain just starts picking out notes when I'm listening to a song, so I'll work on learning it to see if I was right. Or I'll just randomly fixate on a song."
Lee paused as she glanced down at her guitar again. "But a lot of them have meaning to me. Either the actual lyrics, or I associate the song with something."
"Does that make sense?" Lee asked, glancing up at Tarin again.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 19:19:51 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Did she want to listen to the recording? Part of Lee desperately wanted to, wanted to make sure that it was as close to perfect as she could get it because it was going to be saved like that.
But Lee also thought about the other time she had recorded her music. How long that had taken her. And she hadn't exactly been happy with it when she'd finally sent it in for the contest. Just less unhappy with the final recording she had chosen.
"Well, that depends on how long you want to sit here this morning watching me redo it over and over," Lee told him as she turned back to her guitar.
By the time that Tarin had asked what was next, the chords that Lee had strummed reminded herself of a song and she started the song from the start.
And shortly started singing.
"Last time I talked to you You were lonely and out of place You were looking down on me Lost out in space
We laid underneath the stars Strung out and feeling brave I watched the red orange glow I watched you float away "
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 17:29:35 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Lee watched as Tarin turned the recording off and looked up at her. With a smile. Though Lee blushed again when she heard his words.
She really didn't know how Tarin could think that the song was that good. Yes, Lee had always thought she was pretty good at composing, but she was far from a professional. And surly no one would ever pay her for one of her compositions.
She might be a good amateur, but that was it.
"It'd never be able to be on the radio," Lee said, her voice quiet, as she looked back down at the guitar on her lap. The blush still present on her face. "It doesn't even have words…"
That said, Lee started strumming almost absently before speaking again. "I am glad you like it, though."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 16:26:32 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Out of the corner of her eye as she sat there idly picking out notes, Lee could see Tarin swiping through his phone in silence before he set the phone on the couch between the two of them. At least Tarin had been quiet until that point. When he asked about video.
"God no," Lee said, still staring at the guitar in her hands as a blush started to cover her cheeks. "I think there's already been more than enough videos of me for at least a year."
Closing her eyes and taking another breath, Lee tried to shove down the nerves that had suddenly sprung up. This was something she had only done once before in her life: recording her music. Well, if you counted recording and rerecording the same thing probably about 50 times over the course of a week until she had a submission she didn't completely hate to send in for a contest when she was in her early teens.
Finally, Lee nodded and glanced over at Tarin. Once she saw that he had hit record, Lee waited just a moment before she started playing. This time, however, Lee did not close her eyes as she played, but kept them on the guitar, and by halfway through the song she was biting her lower lip slightly in concentration. Trying to make sure that every note came out perfectly for Tarin's recording.
When she finished, Lee waited for the last notes to drift off before looking up at Tarin with a still nervous, questioning look.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 13:14:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
As Lee was sitting back down on the couch and settling her guitar on her lap, Tarin was starting the song on his phone.
And while the song was familiar, it was not familiar enough that Lee could even attempt to muddle her way through playing it herself.
"No, it should work on a guitar alright," Lee said partway through the song as she frowned down at her strings. "I just don't know this song very well."
As the song ended and Tarin spoke, Lee smiled, though she didn't look up. He really did like to just sit there and watch her, didn't he? Though that did bring something else to mind as Lee sat there trying to figure out what to play.
Taking a breath as she let her fingers start softly plucking strings, Lee glanced up at Tarin for a second. "Since you have your phone out," she said slowly, her voice as soft as the guitar currently was. "Why don't you pull up your recorder on your phone?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 14, 2024 11:49:07 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Lee smiled when Tarin said that lots of songs had caught his interest. That was good. And definitely a start with knowing some that he liked now. Though the fact that he still normally only listened while running did pose a bit of an issue with telling her what he liked.
Tarin solved that issue by pulling his phone out and started scrolling through the playlists for a song. After a little bit, Tarin turned his phone toward her.
Lee looked at the phone for few moments, frowning in thought. "Can you play it?" Lee asked as she leaned forward to set her own mug on the table. Then Lee stood and walked over to the corner to grab her guitar.
While Lee had listened to each and every song that she had put on his playlists, that didn't mean that they were all songs she regularly listened to; they were trying to figure out what Tarin's taste in music was, not just pushing her taste onto him.
Lee knew that she had put a number of songs by that artist on a number of the playlists she had made for Tarin, but she wasn't sure she remembered which particular song this was.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 13, 2024 21:50:34 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Lee shook her head when Tarin mentioned the fridge. "It is far too early to do that," Lee commented as she also stood up and grabbed her coffee cup.
Except that Lee made her way to the kitchen rather than the living room so she could refill her coffee cup.
It really didn't take long to pour some more coffee and make her way back out to Tarin. Sitting down, Lee took a couple sips of coffee as she sat there quietly.
"Hey, have any of the songs I gave you recently caught your interest?" Lee asked, referring to the playlists she had periodically been sending to Tarin. "Or is there anything you'd like me to play?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 13, 2024 21:10:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded when Tarin said he didn't think that he would ever be ready to talk to Dr Rossi about this. That made sense. How many things had Tarin actually been ready to talk to her about compared to how many had just kind of…come out randomly?
When Tarin mentioned it, Lee realized that he was right about the questions Dr Rossi asked. When the woman actually asked Lee questions in the sessions, they were direct with almost pin point accuracy to get at what she was driving at. The questions that the doctor asked Tarin were far more vague, allowing Tarin to give a simple or vague answer in return. If that's what she did when Lee was out of the room as well, it was no wonder the time she was in the room ended up being more productive.
He was open for suggestions for what to do with the morning before they had to work. And there was a game that night. "Well, I was thinking of getting another cup of coffee," Lee said after a couple moments of thought as she looked across the table. "Then maybe some guitar? It's been a while again."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 13, 2024 18:55:15 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,170
8
Nov 17, 2024 1:48:12 GMT -6
Raine
Dr Rossi really hadn't been liking Lee in the sessions with Tarin recently. And had been sending Lee out of the room more often than she had been before. When Tarin said he'd be ok with her waiting outside, Lee had gone out to wait without comment or complaint. But from what Lee had gathered from Tarin after those sessions, not nearly as much ended up getting done.
"When you're ready to," Lee told Tarin. "Especially since you weren't exactly ready to tell me. And I'm sure the doctor still has stuff to talk with you about when I'm not in the room."
When Tarin continued speaking, Lee couldn't help but laugh. "That would be just our luck, wouldn't it?" Lee said referring to Kevin waking up early. Leaning in, Lee gave Tarin one more kiss before reluctantly standing up. Despite how that morning had gone so far, and her reason for moving to sit on his lap in the first place, Lee was liking her current seating arrangement.
Making her way back around the table, Lee sat down and took another sip of her cooling coffee. "What should we do with our morning, then?"
