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 Sept 5, 2024 22:14:52 GMT -6
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Lee shook her head slightly with a smile as she watched Tarin just staring at the baby. At least he was smiling, though he still looked uncomfortable.
Rationally, Lee knew that Kevin had been this small as a baby. He had been smaller than this. But that was 13 years ago and it was hard to remember her teenager being this size.
"He was chubby," Lee said, glancing up at Tarin before looking back at Michael. "Not quite this chubby except for just before a growth spurt, though."
Lee shook her head again as she turned to look up at Tarin. "You can sit down, you know," she told him. "You don't need to keep me and a piece of furniture between you and the baby."
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 5, 2024 20:07:06 GMT -6
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It seemed like in no time, Lee was hearing the key in the lock and feeling Tarin walking into the apartment. This was pretty good timing for him to get home actually, Lee thought. Michael had calmed down after being upset when his dad left, but hadn't gotten fussy about being hungry or tired yet. A happy baby was always much easier, especially when you were already anxious and unsure like she knew Tarin was.
When Lee felt Tarin come to a stop behind her, Lee leaned her head back on the couch to smile up at him. "Michael's doing pretty good now," Lee told him as she continued to look up. "He was only upset for a few minutes after Shin left."
"Myself…" Lee sighed slightly as she looked back at the baby sitting on her lap. "I'm trying to figure out how Kevin was ever this small…"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 5, 2024 18:07:06 GMT -6
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Shin had finally taken Lee up on her offer to babysit baby Michael. Him and Kealey were going out…somewhere.
With the tangents and stories Shin had told, Lee wasn't entirely sure what their plan for that night was, but that wasn't the important part. Lee didn't need to know where they were going. She just knew that they were and that she was watching the baby.
Something that Tarin had seemed very apprehensive about when Lee had told him about babysitting. Not that it was overly surprising with history.
And Lee herself had been even more apprehensive during more than half of her own pregnancy.
But Shin had already come to drop Michael off and left again before Tarin had made it home from the shop. Which left Lee sitting on the couch with Michael on her lap as she waited for Tarin to get home.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2024 22:07:03 GMT -6
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For the second while Tarin's shirt was being pulled over his head and he dropped it on the floor, Lee let her eyes drop down to look at what she was able to see of his chest. Lee knew that Tarin had only worked out for years to help with control of his powers.
But damn, the results of that was very nice to look at. And Lee did, her lip finding its way between her teeth, until Tarin leaned down again to kiss her.
Lee could also now feel Tarin's hands pulling her shirt up, so she squirmed and shifted to help him move the fabric between her body and the couch under her.
As soon as her head and arms were free, one hand went back into Tarin's hair at the back of his head, pulling him in for another kiss, Lee's other hand moving to his back to pull him closer.
Feeling Tarin's chest pressing against hers as she pulled him close, Lee shuddered, moaning softly into the kiss.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2024 21:01:06 GMT -6
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Lee barely heard what Tarin said in reply. She was already diving in for a deeper kiss as she felt his hand running down her side which caused her to shiver again.
As his hand slipped under the hem of her tank top, Lee gasped slightly.
In a way, it was almost like she felt less when she wasn't siphoning. And when she wasn't expecting it, physical contact when she wasn't siphoning was often shocking.
Then there were times like this. Lee wasn't siphoning, so was missing that sensation from where Tarin was touching her. Yet as his fingers moved up the bare skin of her back, it almost felt like electric tingles were staying across her skin from the contract.
Somehow, it was almost too much, and yet she wanted more.
Lee let go of her group in Tarin's hair and moved her hand down his back, grabbing his shirt with both hands, starting to pull it up.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2024 19:56:23 GMT -6
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Lee smiled when she felt Tarin squirming as her hand moved. If she wanted? Lee most definitely did not want to. She had just been continuing the game that Tarin had started.
But then Tarin started kissing along her jaw, and Lee shivered as her fingers moved up and into his hair.
Cookbooks? Why was he…oh right. But unless he had bought something and hadn't told her, did Tarin actually think that there were any cookbooks in the apartment?
Then Tarin was kissing that spot under her ear and a small noise escaped as goosebumps spread down Lee's neck.
"Here's good," Lee said after a couple of moments. "Very good."
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2024 18:22:23 GMT -6
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Not that Lee was expecting him to fight her on this, but Tarin moved with her easily as she laid back on the couch. And as they shifted around, Lee's hand moved a little higher on Tarin's back, her fingers slipping further up his shirt.
They continued kissing a little before Lee felt Tarin pulling back enough that he was able to speak, though he was still close enough that she could feel his lips moving against her own with each word.
Lee smiled. "We still could," Lee murmured, giving Tarin soft kisses between each word. "We could try a stew…or salmon…or…lasagne…"
Lee really wasn't interested in looking at recipes, and the kisses she was giving Tarin as she spoke as well as the feel of her hand on his back was distracting herself as well.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2024 13:40:29 GMT -6
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This was more like the afternoon Lee had been expecting with Tarin's appointments being cancelled. She had been hoping to just come home after the restaurant and just spend some extra time together. This Lee had figured would happen at some point, but hadn't been a completely necessary thing.
Lee was not going to complain, though.
Lee shuddered slightly as she felt Tarin's one hand moving back into her hair as his other arm wrapped around him and pulled her closer. But with how they were sitting, closer was a difficult thing.
Lee moved her now free hand to wrap around Tarin's back, fingers slipping slightly under the hem of his tshirt.
Then Lee had an idea. Closer was very good, but closer was not happening so well with how they were sitting. So she decided to change that. Turning slightly, Lee leaned back to slowly lay down on the couch, her hands behind Tarin's head and back gently pulling him with her.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 4, 2024 9:21:05 GMT -6
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Lee could tell, even before she had bit her lip, that Tarin liked how she was playing around. Though considering the fact that he had started it with his talk of board games and puzzles, Lee would have been surprised if he hadn't liked it.
But then Tarin was moving closer and lifting his hand to her face. As his fingers touched her cheek, Lee shivered as she looked up into Tarin's face. When had he gotten this close? Lee wondered as she shivered again feeling Tarin's fingers slip into her hair.
Had it been her idea to come home early? Lee didn't think it mattered now. It really only mattered what they were doing right now. And as Lee felt Tarin's hand come back to her cheek, she leaned into his touch as she looked into his eyes.
Then he was leaning even closer. Lee tipped her head up that little bit more to meet Tarin's lips as he kissed her, and her free hand lifted up, her wrist on his shoulder as her hand wrapped around the back of his neck.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 3, 2024 23:07:51 GMT -6
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Tarin sure did seem to be stressing words like 'could do' and 'what if' for these to be things that he actually wanted to do.
But even without that, Lee would have been able to tell by the smile on Tarin's face and the way that he was looking at her that he was actually thinking about doing anything but what he had mentioned.
With the amount of energy that Lee had, combined with the fact that she had her siphoning off so she wasn't going to acquire even more, that 'anything' sounded even better than it normally would have.
"We made plans earlier about coming home early?" Lee asked, her voice sounding innocent while there was a playful look in her eyes. Then she bit her lip as she pretended to think. "I think you might have to remind me what those plans were."
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 3, 2024 22:36:46 GMT -6
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Lee laughed with Tarin when he mentioned his 'lack of creativity' regarding things to do that weren't baseball. That did tend to be what they defaulted to when there was a game on. Though, unlike how she had felt in the spring, it really wasn't all that bad of a thing. It turned out that baseball wasn't so boring that she would end up falling asleep, despite how she joked about that for a couple of months after Tarin had moved in. But at the same time, it was quite easy to jump back into if they got interrupted or distracted.
Oh, and he was suggesting board games or a puzzle now? Lee smiled over at Tarin as she listened to him grasp for other ideas. "You know, I was thinking that we could spend the next couple hours looking for a good, but very easy recipe we could try on the weekend," Lee said with a shrug, the smile still on her face. "But I haven't done a puzzle in years."
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 3, 2024 21:27:01 GMT -6
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Lee thought for a moment. There were definitely a few people that Lee would think of checking on at some point, but she couldn't think of anyone else that it made sense to check on in the middle of something like this. Sam and Shin would almost certainly be out in this, and Lee wasn't even sure if they would have their phones with them. Even if they did, trying to call would only distract them. And with the sheer scale of this whole thing, Lee might call to check on Rupert later. The nice Rupert, as Kevin used to call him. But it had been a few years since Lee had last run into him randomly.
Otherwise, Lee couldn't really think of anyone she felt the need to make sure they were safe.
She really didn't have a large circle of friends, did she?
"No, I think that's everyone," Lee told Tarin with a shake of her head.
Seeing a movement out of the corner of her eye, Lee looked to see Tarin holding his hand out to her. Smiling, Lee took his hand, lacing her fingers with his and smiling even wider as she heard him speaking again.
"After the day we've had, that sounds good," Lee agreed with him. "Did you have any ideas for how to pass the time?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 3, 2024 20:33:59 GMT -6
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With each and every ring, Lee was growing more and more panicked. With everything that had been going on that day, Lee honestly hadn't thought about Rachel until Tarin had mentioned her, themselves and Kevin had taken over priority in her brain. But Rachel was definitely within the area that this chaos was happening in the city. If she wasn't answering, that could only mean that something was wrong. And they had been closer to Rachel's boutique, as well as to hers and Matt's apartment before they had come home themselves. It would have been better, easier, faster to have gone-
"Lee?"
"Oh thank goodness Rachel!" Lee exclaimed when her sister finally answered the phone.
Lee spoke with Rachel for a short time, during which time she learned that Matt and Robert were safe as well. Though most of the time on the phone was spent reassuring Rachel that both the bar and the boutique would be fine. Lee knew what was covered by the insurance policies for both businesses, and ended up having to tell Rachel repeatedly that even if something did happen to either place, everything would be fine.
Finally, Lee seemed to have calmed Rachel's anxiety about damage enough that she was able to hang up and she looked over at Tarin. "They're all fine," she told him in case he hadn't enough of the conversation to have figured that out. "Though they have no clue about how the bar or boutique have fared so far.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 3, 2024 18:41:59 GMT -6
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Quin was worried about the possibility of going to use her powers in a fight when she really needed them and being unable to, either because she was unable to use the power period, such as if there was an adapted around, or if there was just nothing synthetic in the area that she was able to manipulate.
Yeah, Lee could most certainly relate to that worry. That was one of the main reasons that she had continued training the last 6 years.
"There being no plastic around has an easy solution," Lee started. "Attach something to your keys, put an extra layer of plastic on your phone case. Keep a few different types in each of your bags. Depending on how finely you can mould it, put your hair up with some plastic instead of an elastic, use it as jewelry. As long as you're not stripped, you'll always have something to use, at least."
That was the easy part, Lee knew, and she wouldn't be surprised if Quin had already thought of at least some of it.
"But I completely understand where you're coming from," Lee continued much more somberly. "If I could depend on always being able to use my powers and touch my attacker, I wouldn't need to know how to fight even half as good as I do. I would simply worry about learning proper form for punches and kicks and leave it at that. But that hasn't always been the case."
It hadn't been the case when they were dealing with Pulse. And it hadn't been the case with Anton. "I've been very lucky…" Lee finished softly.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 3, 2024 14:27:23 GMT -6
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Lee's grin softened into a happy smile as she looked up at Tarin. "One of many," Lee said softly before leaning up to give him a kiss. Because of everything else that had happened that day, there had definitely not been enough of that.
Turning back to the movie, Lee was only starting to pay attention again when she heard Tarin speak. Asking if she had heard from Rachel or Matt.
Between trying to get back to the shop, and then panicking because Kevin hadn't answered his phone, Lee honestly hadn't thought about anyone else. Her hand releasing Tarin's, Lee reached into her pocket to pull out her phone and check for missed messages or calls.
There were none.
"No, nothing," Lee said as she pulled up Rachel's number to call.
