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 Jun 28, 2024 15:43:20 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee shook her head slightly as she walked over to Tarin. ”Well, twenty minutes is much better than I was fearing,” Lee teased. ”I was worried you might not come home tonight because you wouldn't have gotten the all clear.”
Stopping right in front of Tarin, Lee grinned as she held his phone up between them. ”So,” she continued, her eyes and voice becoming much more mischievous. ”What’s my reward for returning your phone?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 15:14:35 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee glanced at her phone. Five minutes had passed since she had sent Tarin the all clear message and still nothing. Not that he had to answer her text.
But he always did. And generally a lot faster than this, unless he was in the middle of a session.
Lee had expected to get some kind of a response, such as ‘on my way’, or to say that he was going to watch the end of the game before heading home. Even just a ‘k’ to acknowledge that he’d seen her text.
Frowning, Lee looked at her phone again. Six minutes.
Maybe he just didn’t hear or see the notification, Lee thought. So she quickly tapped out another message, asking if he was on his way or watching the end of the game first.
And a couple of moments later she heard another unexpected sound. But this time Lee knew that it hadn’t come from the TV. No, it had come from…beside her?
Lee’s eyes drifted to where she thought the sound had come from. And then she sighed. He couldn’t have, could he?
To check if she was right or not, Lee actually dialled Tarin’s number this time. Sure enough, she heard his ring tone.
Coming from inside the couch. Great.
---
It had taken a good five minutes of digging for Lee to find Tarin’s phone in the couch, but finally she had it and had walked she short distance between the apartment and the shop. Pulling her keys out, she unlocked the door and stepped inside.
”You know, you should really keep better track of your phone,” she called toward the back of the shop as she closed and locked the door behind her, her tone slightly teasing.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 14:25:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
When her powers decided to switch she…
That was a little more than just powers switching.
And Lee was very glad now that Michael’s powers hadn’t shifted when they had been sparring. There had been enough mutant abilities on display, and being recorded, as it was.
Tarin suddenly seemed very interested in Michael’s powers. Asking questions and suggesting that maybe eventually Michael might be able to control it.
To control a power that literally turned Michael into another person. Lee looked over at Tarin. Despite her assurances that she didn’t think a full merge would ever happen because he’d never even felt the sensation of it trying to happen, apparently it was still present in Tarin’s mind.
Maybe they should talk about that again at some point, Lee thought. But it was definitely not the time for any of that to be brought up. Not with Michael in the shop.
So Lee let Tarin ask his questions and hoped that whatever Michael said in answer wouldn’t make things worse in Tarin’s mind regarding merging.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 13:57:26 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee smiled and waved as Kevin and Josh made their way out of the apartment, wishing them a safe trip and reminding Kevin to let her know when they had landed and once he had gotten settled in.
Then Lee closed the door and stood there until she felt their energy fade away to nothing as they moved too far away before turning to put the leftovers in the fridge.
That done, Lee pulled her phone out to send Tarin a text to let him know that Kevin, and as such also Josh, was gone and it was clear for him to come home.
Lee hit send as she walked back into the living room, and a couple moments later she thought she heard a sound that didn’t seem like it should have come from the baseball game on TV. But it was quiet, muffled.
Shrugging it off, figuring that it had to be the TV, Lee sat on the couch.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 11:32:09 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
It had been a couple years since she had seen it, but the last time that she’d been in Texas with Kevin, he had acted like that. It had taken longer than just stepping off the plane, but it had happened.
For how sweet she was, Adele could definitely be strict.
As Josh got up and took the plates to the kitchen, Lee turned on the couch and gave Kevin a hug.
”Really mum?” he complained as he half hartedly fought off the hug.
”What, Kev?” she asked before planting a quick kiss on her son’s cheek before releasing him.
He very quickly got up and made his way toward the door where he grabbed his backpack.
”Of course Josh. Any time,” Lee said as she stood much more slowly and followed her son. ”You know that.”
Then Lee turned to look at Kevin, and she couldn’t help but think that he was growing up too fast because once he came home they were going to move him to the mansion. ”I’ll miss you,” she said as Kevin shrugged on his backpack. ”And remember what I said about behaving. I’d be scared of your grandmother if I didn’t do as I was told.”
”I know, I know,” Kevin said, trying to brush it all off. But then he quickly closed the space between them and gave Lee a tight hug. ”I love you, mum,” he whispered.
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 10:33:12 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”Thanks,” Lee said again as Kevin made his way out of his room. Especially after she’d recently gone over so many of the things that had happened in her life with Tarin, it really did feel like she deserved it at this point.
Then Kevin flipped down onto the couch as though he had just had the most exhausting day. And then Josh was saying that they should probably be going soon. ”Makes sense. Travelling is normally tiring, too,” she said, then turned to look at Kevin. ”Listen and behave while you’re down there,” she told her son. ”And remember to actually call me once in a while.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 8:50:45 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
The way that Josh ‘huh’ was weird. Like he hadn’t realized that that wasn’t the reason her marriage had ended. Which was strange because not once over the years had she mentioned that as being the reason. Actually, Lee didn’t think she’d even mentioned merging to Josh since she’d moved to Canada.
”Thanks Josh,” Lee replied. Even though some people thought she frequently took too many risks, it felt good that Josh knew she’d always been careful.
Lee then nodded when Josh pointed out that he didn’t want Kevin to be the one to break the Tarin news to Adele. That was a very good idea; Kevin was rather blunt when he spoke a lot of times, and especially with Adele, Lee thought it should be far more gentle.
When Josh told her that Kevin said she was happy, Lee smiled. ”Yes, I am happy, Josh,” Lee told him. ”He’s a good man. And I’m pretty sure Rachel saw there was something there between us well before we did. But yes, I’m happy.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 28, 2024 5:31:41 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Josh didn't want her or Kevin to get hurt because of a merge. And was trying to remind her about why things hadn't worked out with his brother.
Except that Josh was wrong about why things had fallen apart.
Lee glanced toward the bedrooms again even though the energy she was feeling hadn't moved. ”That had nothing to do with why it ended,” Lee told him quietly. While the idea of a merge happening had, and all did, scare Lee, it wasn't anything inside the apartment that had made her feel like she'd needed to get Kevin out of the city.
”But of course I'm being careful, and will be.”
Josh went on to tell her that he'd figure out a way to tell Adele about Tarin. That wasn't really the reason she'd already been planning to tell Josh tonight but hadn't told Adele. ”Thank you, Josh,” Lee said with a smile. ”I can call and help, it's just…this feels like something that's better to say in person, which is hard being so far away.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 23:09:17 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”Even the scary parts?”
Lee didn’t say anything right away. Instead, she both focused on her siphoning and looked toward the bedrooms. She couldn’t see her son, so the energy she was feeling coming from the direction of the bedrooms had to be his.
Lee nodded before she even turned her eyes back to Josh. ”With spirits, yes,” she replied quietly. ”He’s never merged with another person, though. When I tried to explain, as best I could, what it would feel like before that happens, he didn’t even know what I was explaining. So I think that’s the big difference between their powers. Because if Tarin’s never even felt that, I don’t think it’ll ever happen to him.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 22:36:00 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
It was quiet for a minute, the only noise coming from the TV which was still on.
Until Josh asked if Tarin had the same powers that his brother did. ”Basically, yes,” Lee said with a nod as she pulled her feet up and curled them beside her on the couch as she turned to face Josh a little more directly.
”There do seem to be a few differences, but as far as I’ve been able to tell, everything about their powers and how they work with spirits is the same.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 21:34:13 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee sighed. It sucked, but Josh was probably right. ”Maybe,” conceded. ”But they’d have to actually land hits for my size to mean anything in terms of whether I can take one.”
But then Josh was wanting to know if what she’d been referring to was just going to make him more angry about what had happened to Kevin. ”Oh, it’s nothing specific,” she told him. ”Just life in general. It doesn’t seem to matter how much progress is made, there’s always bigots.”
Lee frowned. Even all these years later, she still couldn’t imagine how horrible that night would have been for Kevin’s father. When he was younger than Kevin was now. ”It does help that his powers aren’t as inherently traumatic,” Lee replied softly. ”And that he’s been wanting to find out what his powers were going to be for most of his life.”
Noticing that Josh was looking toward the bedrooms, Lee glanced over half expecting to see Kevin. ”He does like to sneak up on me now, though,”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 20:52:29 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
Lee nodded when Josh said that he’d warn the boys. That was good. At least she couldn’t be blamed for one of them getting hurt now that Josh had heard about both the incident at school and been separately warned.
”There is,” Lee replied, rolling her eyes slightly when she heard Josh chuckling. ”After years of no one being willing to give me a challenge in that gym because I’m a woman, suddenly my sparring is viral video level stuff.”
As Josh went on to talk about what the school hadn’t been doing, Lee nodded as she set her plate down on the table in front of them. ”I wish I could say I’m surprised,” Lee said softly. ”But honestly, the only part of the whole thing that actually surprised me is just how horrible what the kid Kevin punched said was.
“I had already been planning on sending him to the mansion in the fall anyway. But it does seem like we were lucky that his powers didn’t emerge earlier.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 20:05:00 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
So that was where it came from, that Kevin had done a ‘good’ thing by starting and ending the fight with a single punch. The way that both Tarin and Josh had been almost proud of Kevin for doing that, only reminding the boy that it was better to not fight after seeing Lee’s face.
It was their fathers.
They were obviously different men, but Lee would have bet that Tarin had heard a similar thing from his father at one point as what Josh was referring to.
But at least Josh was trying to get Kevin to hear and understand that part.
And then Kevin was asking if he could say goodbye to his friends as though he wasn’t going to be chatting to them tomorrow anyway. ”Go on. And make sure you don’t leave anything else on your desk that you’re going to want while you’re gone.”
That was it, Kevin was up and heading to his room. Lee took another bite of food while she waited until Kevin had made it to his room. Then she looked over at Josh. ”He’s learned a lot in the last year, so you might want to discourage any roughhousing, especially with his younger cousins,” Lee said.
”Also, he’s finally seen me sparring,” Lee continued. ”You might want to have him show you the video before you get to the house and give him ground rules for who he is and isn’t allowed to show. Because otherwise, I can guarantee he’ll be showing all of the kids the first chance he has.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 19:21:42 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
”The Mansion looks much more fun,” Kevin said, having finally cleaned his plate.
”I can’t wait to hear how you feel about that once you’ve been in Shin’s math class,” Lee said with a slight laugh. She’d heard Shin start down a math tangent a few times, and it left her more confused than his stories often did.
”Only took one punch though?”
Kevin grinned. ”He even cried. And still had a black eye when I came back from my suspension,” Kevin replied a little proudly, but the grin disappeared very quickly when he saw the look on Lee’s face. ”I think that’s why mum’s told me since I started going to the gym that I’m not allowed to get into any fights.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Jun 27, 2024 18:44:10 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
3,880
5
Sept 28, 2024 9:57:22 GMT -6
Raine
That was a good question, actually. The day of, Lee had been too mad at the school once she found out what happened that she hadn't thought about asking. Then with the mansion tour, end of school and everything else, Lee hadn't gotten back in contact to ask.
”Honestly, between the suspension, end of school, getting a tour of the mansion arranged for Kevin, and him getting his powers, I’m not sure,” Lee admitted to Josh. ”But I can guarantee that it wasn’t close to enough.”
Definitely not enough, because ‘enough’ would be showing them what camps like that were like, but even with what they’d been saying, that was not appropriate for a child.
Yet, apparently telling Kevin that she was proud of him made things ‘weird’. Lee shook her head as she went back to eating for a few minutes. Until Josh asked in that tone what the principal’s name was.
”Mrs Vargas,” Lee answered.
”That’s the vice principal, mum,” Kevin corrected her. ’The principal is Mr Burgess.”