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 2, 2024 10:14:21 GMT -6
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Raine
It sure would have taken a lot longer to make it as fast as they had if Lee had had to fight their way through the streets like had been done on the easy to the shop. It would have also been a lot more dangerous, a lot more risky. Because all it would have taken was one mistake, not noticing one thing…
Tarin was also now apologizing for not helping before he had with the spirits. "I know why you didn't," Lee told him softly. And she did know why it had been so hard for him to do, why it had taken so long for him to do it.
"Well I'm proud of you for helping once you did," Lee said.
Then Tarin was asking about how her hand was. Looking down at the hand that was holding Tarin's, Lee thought for a moment. "It feels perfectly fine," Lee told him, actually a little surprised that it did feel alright. She'd even used it more times after that first punch that sent the speed guy through the window.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 2, 2024 0:06:29 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Lee shook her head. "No, not that," Lee told him. "The number of spirits that were not just visible, but were fully solid, and for how long you kept that up with everything that was going on." Lee paused and shook her head with a slight smile. "I didn't know that you could do that much."
"And, just the fact that you did all of that, in public. You were amazing.
Tarin had to one up her though, saying that she had been really amazing. Lee managed not to blush, now that she could think back even she could admit that some of what she'd done was amazing, but she did dip her head down a bit.
"That guy who looked to be made of metal had me very worried," Lee admitted, not looking up. "But with the energy I had, everything else really wasn't that big of a deal."
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 23:18:25 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Her heels off, Lee leaned back just as Tarin sat down beside her. And other than their breathing, the apartment was completely silent for a couple of moments.
When Tarin spoke, Lee just nodded before leaning her head against his shoulder. "I'm going to have to say yeah, it did," Lee confirmed after a moment. "Unless we both just had the same, very bizarre hallucination, which in my experience is also very possible. But yeah, I'm going to go with all of that really did just happen."
And while the day's events were far from the strangest that Lee had ever experienced, Lee was pretty sure it was very high up on Tarin's list of strange.
Lee just sat there for a few more moments, head on Tarin's shoulder before she looked up at him again with a small smile. "You were pretty amazing out there," she said as she reached for his hand.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 22:51:20 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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8
Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin's answer for why the spirits had been protecting her made sense even if she wasn't very happy about the fact that they hadn't done a thing to protect Tarin when that wave had hit them. And Lee was about to point that fact out when Tarin continued speaking.
He had already changed the instructions for the spirits to protect both of them.
"Well. Good," Lee said.
Thankfully, the rest of the way home was pretty much uneventful thanks to the spirits clearing the path for them. About the most that they had to do was run across the street to get onto the block their building was on to try and avoid being seen by a group causing havoc further down the cross street, close but beyond the reach of the spirits.
Lee still didn't relax and turn her siphoning off completely until they were in their apartment and the door was locked behind them.
Heaving a sigh as she sat down on the bench in the entryway, Lee was finally able to remove the shoes she had ended up walking and running in far more than she had ever expected to that day and attempted to let her very energized body relax for a moment.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 22:14:58 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin said that he was fine, and he definitely did look better than he had just a short time before. That was good, as things could have been so much worse.
Tarin asking how she was did not surprise Lee at all. It was somewhat surprising that his main concern at the moment seemed to be that she wasn't going to sleep that night.
Lee just shook her head. "I'll gladly go without for three nights if it means we both get home safely," Lee told Tarin as she started seeing spirits appearing around them again. And she meant it. Especially since she was pretty sure she was going to be going two nights as it was if she didn't find a way to burn off energy.
"Sounds like a plan," Lee replied as she looked around. Then she turned and started walking. "But why the hell did you tell them to protect me and not you?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 21:39:51 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
When Lee punched him, the man doubled over with a groan. Not giving him a chance to recover, Lee moved slightly behind him, wrapping her arm around his neck as she pulled him back up straight. Lee wasn't completely choking the man, but she was definitely using enough force to make it difficult.
As she started siphoning, the man's hands came up to grab at her arm, attempting to pull it away from his neck. But even without the energy she was getting from him, Lee already had enough that someone with ordinary human strength would have no hope of being able to force Lee's muscles to move.
Though, his nails scratching desperately at her arm did hurt. "Ok, enough of that," Lee told him as she released the hold. And in the second where she was not holding the man up, he fell to his knees where he was standing.
A moment later, the man was trying to scramble away, trying to turn to face her. That was interesting. Did his power only work in front of him?
Lee grabbed the man's upper arms, holding them against his body as she continued to siphon and turned so he was facing into the park. If he could only direct his power in front of him, it wasn't going to do a whole lot of good now.
It didn't take much longer at that point before the man had passed out, hanging from the grip that Lee had on his arms. Lee stood there for a moment, looking at the ground in front of her. Then she heaved a sigh and half carried half dragged the man to the side of the roadway and onto the grass before she let him fall to the ground.
Then Lee turned, making her way back to Tarin at a normal pace as she looked at him with a slightly worried expression even though he was now sitting up. "Are you alright?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 20:30:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
When Lee first stopped moving, she focused her eyes on the ground right in front of her, but that didn't help, so she closed her eyes as she felt Tarin moving up from behind her. Lee didn't try nodding her head for fear that would just make the dizziness worse. "I'm fine, just-" Lee started. Then she suddenly felt someone moving into her siphoning range quickly in front of them.
And above.
"Wat-" Lee started, trying to warn Tarin as her eyes moved to where she felt the energy coming from. But Lee was cut off as there were suddenly a bunch of spirits right in front of her.
A moment later, the spirits were being pushed back into her, causing Lee to stagger back a couple steps. Though she managed to keep her footing.
But a moment later, the spirits started disappearing.
Eyes wide, before she even started looking for the mutant who had done this, Lee turned to look for Tarin. Who she saw was laying on the ground gasping for air but otherwise looked ok.
Good.
Lee then turned to where she felt the other mutant. He was on the ground now and grinning, probably aiming that the 'threat' had been taken care of since the spirits had protected her and disappeared when Tarin had the wind knocked out of him.
How wrong he was.
Lee didn't waste anymore time. Who knew how many times he could produce that energy wave in a row?
Lee ran forward, faster than the fastest Olympic sprinter. And as she reached him, Lee punched him in the gut.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 19:01:23 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Apparently things were starting to get worse again nearby. Tarin didn't have to tell Lee twice. She nodded and started heading toward the park.
Lee wasn't particularly familiar with the streets on this side of the park, but it was a rather simple system to understand, and she did know the park.
It was even better as Lee knew that 65th and 66th merged as they traversed the park, so even if one street was too dangerous, they still had the other.
Yet, thanks to the spirits, they really didn't have any issues getting to the edge of the park.
This was where things could end up being much easier, or much worse. It could be easier as in a lot of ways, there were a lot less ways to cause chaos in the park as there would be in the main streets. But at the same time, being in Central Park left you much more exposed and people were able to see you from a much greater distance in all directions.
Lee's head was constantly moving, eyes focusing beyond the range of the spirits watching for danger as she focused on her siphoning closer to her.
Which turned out to be a rather disorienting sensation, and Lee stopped walking for a moment as a wave of dizziness washed over her.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 18:30:38 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
He was in showbusiness. Well, trying to be, and was trying to get the money for a new guitar by making a deal of some sort in Central Park in the middle of the night.
Then, when she asked how many of the guys he could handle, he claimed to be a lover and not a fighter. But being a visibly obvious mutant who was being this cocky in a situation like this, Lee suspected that he had to at least somewhat be able to take care of himself in a fight.
He certainly didn't sound as naive as Slate.
"So one. Got it," Lee replied with a slight nod. "Guess I'll handle the rest of them, then."
And then things started to actually happen. One of the men's hands started to glow just before she kicked the invisible person. The mutant made a comment asking if he had been hiding. "Who said I was able to see you?" Lee asked as she stepped closer to the man again, bending down and reaching out to him as she felt sometimes energy from the main group lift up into the air.
That was a disconcerting feeling here in the park, where there were no elevators. But it made sense with the wings that the younger mutant had.
Her hand coming to grasp the front of the man's…well, whatever it was he was wearing on his torso, Lee lifted him slightly off the ground. She then focused more on her siphoning as her other hand shot out trying to figure out where his head was based on what she was feeling.
And she must have been accurate enough because her hand did connect with something fleshy, something that did feel similar to other faces that she had punched before, and a moment later, the body went limp.
Dropping him back to the ground Lee turned back to the rest of the group. "Who's next?" Lee asked as she eyed them. "Or have we decided to call it a night?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 18:09:36 GMT -6
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As she hung up the phone and tucked it into her pocket again, Lee let out another relieved sigh.a sentiment that Tarin echoed a moment later.
The fact that Kevin was safe meant that they needed to get back to someplace safe as well. Thankfully, it seemed that Tarin had been figuring out where they were in addition to watching for danger.
The shop, with the panic room door and the heavy metal back door could be potentially the safer option. However, considering the fact they had no idea how long this could last or if they would need to leave the shop again in the middle of this, the lack of food and clothing options made it problematic.
Glancing around as she thought, Lee noticed where they were. "Home," Lee decided. "If we can get onto either 65th or 66th, we can follow that straight through the park. And if there are issues, there's lots of paths that branch off."
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 14:55:44 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Raine
As Lee spoke with Kevin, she looked over at Tarin. He seemed to looking around, keeping an eye out in addition to the spirits.
And Kevin had heard, at least some, of what was going on. So Lee focused more on her son than on the street, trusting Tarin to let her know if anything was about to happen.
"I'm good, Kevin. So is Tarin," Lee answered her son. "We were just worried when you didn't answer, because we weren't sure how this was spread across the city. But you don't need to worry about us, we'll be fine. Listen and do what the teachers say, and if you go drain your battery, let me know as soon as you can on another phone, ok Kev?"
Lee took a breath and looked at Tarin again. They'd been lucky so far, with the spirits managing to keep everyone away, but there was no reason to tempt fate more than necessary.
"I've got to go Kevin. But I love you, and I'll call tonight, ok?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 13:35:22 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Lee let out a huge sigh of relief when she heard her son on the other end of the phone. They were just watching a movie because they weren't allowed to go outside. If they weren't allowed outside, that meant it was either just a precaution and things hadn't made it that far north, or the X-Men and teachers were managing to keep the problems away from the mansion.
Either way, the relief was almost overwhelming.
"I'm not mad, Kev," Lee replied, looking over at Tarin in relief. Lee wasn't sure how much of the situation in the city Kevin currently knew about, but between the news and the other students, Lee knew it wouldn't be hard for him to find out.
"There's just a lot going on right now and I was worried when you didn't answer. Everything's ok up there? You remember my phone number, right? In case you drain your battery?"
This was good. This was very good. They didn't need to be crossing New York City on foot because Kevin was safe. They could get off the street again, somewhere safe. But Kevin was safe, that was the most important thing.
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 12:35:55 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin gave her a bit of a smile, and Lee gave him a small one back. It had been a while since he'd done anything like this? With what Lee knew about Tarin and his past, which was a lot more than most people would have known a person after 4 months, the only situation Lee could think of where Tarin would have done anything even remotely similar to this would have been on Hart Island.
When Tarin mentioned his working out to impress her, Lee shot a grin back at him. Lee definitely appreciated Tarin working out, and the results that produced. "And here I thought you did it all for me," Lee teased. She knew that her interest in and appreciation of his physique was only a very happy side effect of his workout routine.
Though it did make sense that Tarin would be worn out by the time they made it to the mansion. It really was a long way. Virtually everyone would be worn out at the end of the trek they were currently making. Lee was the exception in that she could do this for literal days as long as she had sufficient energy. And as long as this chaos was continuing, she would be able to get that energy from people.
"Well, if you need to pull back on how many or need a break, let me know." Would Lee be happy about having to stop and wait? No, she wanted to get to Kevin and make sure that he was alright now. But thanks to the spirits clearing a path, they were making much faster progress than if they had to depend on completely avoiding trouble or Lee clearing a path, which made the idea a little more tolerable. And despite all of her worries, Lee didn't want Tarin to push himself too far.
Slowly, Lee realized that she was hearing a familiar sound through the general din of the streets. When she realized what she was hearing, Lee stopped dead, her hand shooting into her pocket to pull out her phone.
"Oh thank god," Lee breathed as she swiped to accept the call. "Kevin? Are you alright?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Sept 1, 2024 11:07:41 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Nov 18, 2024 22:02:38 GMT -6
Raine
Lee definitely had enough energy that she would be able to handle things with a human, or even multiple humans at once, without a worry. But the sprouts were still doing a damn good job keeping the path clear for her and Tarin.
A few times Tarin told her, seemingly out of the blue, to turn rather continue straight. Lee knew, however, that it would have been information from a spirit. But not one that was corporeal, who came to tell Tarin verbally.
Lee was very glad for these directions especially when she heard what she thought was an explosion in the direction of where they had been. But at the same time, Lee wondered just how many spirits Tarin had linked with. There were already a lot of them that Lee was able to see.
Lee glanced back at Tarin again. It was certainly a little shocking to see him walking down the street with his eyes completely white like they were. He so rarely used his powers in general that Lee wasn't used to seeing Tarin's eyes like this in general, never mind while walking down the street.
"You doing alright still?" Lee asked before she turned back forward. This was a lot more than Lee had ever seen Tarin do with his powers before. And for such a long time.
The part of her mind that wasn't panicking about Kevin was quite impressed.
"I don't know either," Lee admitted. "My guess would be distraction? If the summer proper isn't just chaos and bloodshed."
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 31, 2024 23:38:33 GMT -6
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Tarin
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Raine
Lee mentioned that it would probably be a good idea that she have more energy, and Tarin said no problem. Almost instantly, Lee saw one of the spirits quickly shooting down the street ahead of them, only to return very quickly carrying a man. A man who was struggling against the grip that the spirit had on him, but not very effectively.
A man who looked like he was dressed more for some kind of war or military action than being on the streets of New York.
"Sure sounds like it might," Lee agreed as she stepped closer, reaching her hand out to clasp around the man's wrist and started quickly siphoning.
Even before Lee had touched the man, he was trying to fight her off without success. Lee had said that it would be good if she had more energy, just in case she actually had to do something. But that hadn't meant she didn't have any. Lee had still had more energy than she typically would have on a normal day. It just wasn't nearly enough to feel comfortable going into a fight.
It didn't take long for the man's already rather feeble attempts to get away from Lee and the spirit became less and less, and in just under a minute after Lee had first touched the man's wrist, he went completely limp as he dangled from the spirit's grip on his shirt. Much less time than it had taken when Lee had done this to Tarin in the back of the shop months earlier.
Lee continued siphoning for about another 10 seconds before letting go. "Well, hopefully his dreams over the next 12-15 hours teach him a lesson," Lee said as she stepped around the man and continued down the street.
