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 Aug 3, 2024 21:52:17 GMT -6
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The last couple years, it had grown harder to tell when Kevin actually enjoyed something that his friends didn’t think was ‘cool’. Such as doing anything other than going to the gym with his mum.
But Lee also knew that he had inherited his determination (some would call it stubbornness) from both of his parents, and like her, if it wasn’t something that he wanted to do or something that he had to do like homework, Kevin just wasn’t going to do it.
So the fact that he actually came out and watched baseball with her and Tarin, and a few times she’d seen it with just the two guys watching the game, meant that he actually enjoyed doing that.
But Tarin didn’t think that therapy was for him. ”Can you try it, at least?” Lee asked. ”I know it won’t be easy, but I think it could be good.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 3, 2024 21:14:27 GMT -6
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Had Kevin told Lee what the question was? Lee shook her head. ”Unless they like watching sports that they don’t understand, there’s almost guaranteed to be someone in the house with him who could answer the question. I think he might just miss watching baseball with you. Josh tends to talk a lot more during games.”
Lee nodded when Tarin said it wouldn’t be for a while. That was probably for the best. With what Lee had seen the previous weekend when they were in the elevators, it unfortunately didn’t look like Tarin was going to feel even remotely close to comfortable in an elevator anytime soon.
”It might not end up helping,” Lee had to agree, her voice quiet. ”But then again, it might help. Or if it doesn’t help with the claustrophobia, it might help with something else. It did actually help me when I saw her before.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 3, 2024 19:19:42 GMT -6
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Lee shook her head, her smile widening slightly when Tarin said he’d like to go so he could see Kevin too. ”Oh, he won’t show it at all if there’s any other kids around,” Lee said. ”But I honestly think he would like you to come. He’s asked if you were home a couple times when he’s called. Said he had a question about baseball.”
At least now Tarin was willing for her to come along, to be there. Not that Lee wanted to be there to see it, but she would be able to be there for Tarin. And she'd be there if, god forbid, it actually happened.
”Of course I can help you with that,” Lee said gently. ”Just let me know when you're ready to do that.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 3, 2024 17:35:11 GMT -6
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Lee nodded. ”It does quite a bit,” Lee confirmed. ”At least it has every time that I have done it. Which is one of the reasons I’ve never really done anything with it. Travel to…wherever for a whole ten seconds of training. But if I’m already at the mansion for something else, it makes more sense then.”
Tarin asked also if she wanted him to go with her because of the fact that it did use up most of her energy. Lee smiled up at Tarin. ”That would be nice,” she told him. ”You don’t need to every time I go, though. Not if you don’t want to.”
Then Lee sat looking up at Tarin for a moment, thinking. Even though he said that he wouldn’t do it anymore if she didn’t want him to, Lee knew that Tarin wanted to get the claustrophobia dealt with. He wouldn’t have done what he had today if he didn’t.
”If, once you’re more comfortable with elevators I can go with you,” she said softly.
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 3, 2024 16:35:46 GMT -6
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Lee wouldn't call the danger room isolated, there was a whole school of young mutants sitting above it. But it was built to withstand mutant powers.
But if things had gone wrong, if someone had touched him and a merge had happened, who knew what powers it would have? If it had wanted to get out of the danger room, and didn't bother with the door, who's to say what would happen? Maybe the danger room wouldn't have been able to contain the powers.
There was no way to tell what was going to happen until it was too late.
Lee didn't say any of this out loud, though. Tarin was now well aware of her thoughts on what he had done.
Instead, Lee simply nodded when Tarin said he had thought things through and ate in silence for a minute.
But then she got a thought. They had talked about her powers recently, with Tarin questioning if she had ever tried pushing the energy away from her.
”The danger room is probably one of the few places in the city it would be safe to practice my energy blast though,” she said. ”It dosn't make sense to go there just for that, but if I'm already there to visit Kevin or what not, maybe that's something I can do while I'm there.’”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 3, 2024 16:00:15 GMT -6
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Lee started eating as she waited for Tarin to answer. It took a little longer than she would have expected, but she simply nodded at first.
Going all the way to the mansion to do what he did, it made sense that Tarin would have done it more than just once. That amount of stress and adrenaline…it made sense that he needed to relax before eating.
Lee had to laugh when Tarin commented about Kevin finding out about the danger room. ”He most likely will,” Lee agreed. ”Why do you think that wasn't part of the tour? He's going to want to be there all the time once he finds out.
“I really haven't spent a whole lot of time there myself, but it was really cool what is able to do”
Tarin agreed that the elevator was a better place to start dealing with his phobia than what he had done that day. Because really, if he couldn’t handle the elevator up to their apartment, even when she was there, how in the world had he thought that he could manage being in an even smaller box?
Dinner? Lee looked at the table and saw her plate sitting there, still almost completely full of food. Tarin pointed out that she should eat, and he was right; she had been pretty hungry before all of this had happened.
Reluctantly letting go of Tarin’s hand, Lee grabbed her plate so she could start eating again, then looked over at Tarin. ”You’re not hungry?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 22:51:54 GMT -6
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Lee didn’t say anything as she listened to Tarin, but it had already been getting worse. Once Lee had realized how much the elevator had been hard for Tarin to manage, they had tended to take the stairs. But Tarin had been able to, occasionally, still take the elevator with her before they had made their attempt at volunteering.
Since the building collapse, Lee had seen Tarin in an elevator only twice, both out of necessity only. And he had been almost as bad as in the elevator at the Empire State Building both times.
Lee nodded when Tarin said it was just what he knew to do; taking care of things himself. ”Maybe start with something less drastic?” Lee suggested after a few moments. ”Like the elevator occasionally or something.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 22:09:59 GMT -6
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Lee smiled slightly, her eyes slipping closed when she heard Tarin sigh and felt his body beside her relax slightly. This was more like them, this was more like what the entire night should have been like.
It wasn’t good, that was pretty obvious Lee thought, the smile having disappeared from her face. Her only thought about why Tarin had thought it would be easier than it had been was because he told himself it would be. Probably in a way to convince himself to go through with it.
Tarin continued, though, and said that if she really didn’t want him to do it again, he wouldn’t, and that small smile came back to her face briefly as she felt him leaning his head against hers.
”I hate the idea of you being stuck in there, panicking…” she said softly. ”The fact that you’ve been there so many times already is bad enough. I don’t want you to have to go through anything even close to that ever again if possible.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 20:36:51 GMT -6
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Lee could see Tarin thinking when she told him that there was only the one merge in the time she was asked about. It had come up quite a few times, especially very recently, but now that they were sitting there, Lee wasn’t sure she had told Tarin that that had been the last one.
It didn’t take him long, and when he asked if it was Romania, Lee nodded. And she felt Tarin tugging on her hand slightly. Glancing down at their hands, Lee noticed the space that was still between them on the couch. A lot more space than there normally was when they sat there.
Scooting closer, Lee leaned her head against Tarin’s shoulder as he spoke again. ”Well, neither of us were in a great mood,” Lee pointed out. ”And while I hate what you did today, I can understand how you were feeling and acting the way you were.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 19:11:48 GMT -6
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Did she want to talk about the appointment that she’d had with Dr Rossi that day? What the woman had been asking about? Not really, not at all. But after how things had already been going that evening, Lee figured that not keeping things to herself would be best. In some ways, that’s what had caused all the issues.
Plus, she had already talked about all of this with Tarin in the past.
”One of the things she asked about was if there had been any more merges since the last time I had seen her,” Lee said, not realizing that her eyes were slowly dropping down to look at their hands as she spoke.
”From then, when I was seeing her because I had the breakdown,” Lee continued, looking back up at Tarin. ”There was only the one, last one.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 16:22:22 GMT -6
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This time when she held her hand out to him, it was almost instant. Tarin reached his own out and took hers. And as they sat there in silence just holding hands on the couch for a little bit, Lee slowly started to uncurl.
”Are you okay?”
Lee looked at Tarin in surprise. After what he’d done, what he’d been through that day, and then this altercation they had just had, Tarin was asking if she was alright? Her day paled in comparison to Tarin’s. If anyone should be getting asked whether they were alright, it should be Tarin, and Lee was pretty sure what his answer would be.
”Yeah, I am,” Lee said, recovering from the surprise. ”I mean, this afternoon was more difficult than I had expected. I was only planning on using the appointment today to check out whether it would still be ok to go see Dr Rossi, but she must have gone through her notes from years ago with some of the questions she started asking me…”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 15:47:55 GMT -6
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Tarin was trying to not trigger a merge by intentionally putting himself into situations that, as far as they knew, had triggered multiple merges in his past. Just they hadn’t actually happened because he had been stuck in small spaces and there was no one even around to have touched him.
Lee frowned as Tarin went on, explaining that he could learn what to look out for, what situations were not good which…it made sense. Since Tarin had never actually had a merge before, they were just guessing that what he had felt in the building collapse, what he said he’d felt every time he’d been locked in something small.
When Tarin thanked her, and then apologized himself, Lee gave him a small smile and reached her hand out to him again. ”I don’t know what I would have done or how I would have reacted, but thanks.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 14:48:27 GMT -6
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Lee closed her eyes as she let her chin come to rest on her knees. ”It’s not that,” Lee said softly as she tried to figure out how to word her thoughts. ”I don’t know why, or how you could willingly put yourself through all that, especially with trying to actually get a merge starting like that.”
Lee pressed her lips together as she shook her head, then turned to look at Tarin. ”I am sorry about what I said, with how far I took it.” For a couple moments, Lee just sat there and looked at Tarin. ”I hope you know I would never allow that to be done to Kevin, nevermind do it myself. And I’m not intending to go do those things either.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 13:43:25 GMT -6
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Tarin was even more quiet now after Lee had sat down on the couch again. And other than just upset in general, Lee couldn’t figure out what Tarin was thinking or feeling.
Hell, Lee wasn’t sure if she knew exactly what she was feeling anymore.
Even after Lee had finished speaking, Tarin was silent for what felt like a long time. It probably wasn’t, but because everything was feeling so tense, and stressed, and wrong between them.
Finally, Tarin said something and she looked at him for a moment. Did he really just basically say ‘yes dear’ to her?
Lee took a deep breath as she leaned back on the couch again, pulling her legs up in front of her to wrap her arms around. ”I definitely think it’s a much better place to start,” she replied.
