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 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.
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 2, 2024 10:25:03 GMT -6
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Lee felt her stomach twist, felt like her heart was being squeezed as she watched the various emotions play across Tarin's face. She hadn't liked saying what she had, but she had to do something, right?
When Tarin spoke again, Lee slowly made her way back to the couch, sitting so she was facing Tarin. ”A less dangerous one, anyway,” Lee replied. That had to be better than what Tarin was doing.
”Remember how when I first told you that I had had a breakdown, and after that I actually spoke to someone professionally about the things I’d been through?” Lee asked, pausing long enough to let Tarin respond. ”I was actually able to talk with her, it was safe to. She was working through Slate’s company at the time.
“It took a while to track her down, but it’s still safe to talk to her. People work on phobias with therapists and psychologists all the time, and she already knows about merging, so you wouldn’t have to explain any of that.”
Lee was upset and frustrated as she paced and went on. And by the expression changing on Tarin’s face every time that she looked over at him, he was getting more and more upset as well.
Good, Lee couldn’t help but think. If he was going to so stubbornly do something so reckless, and plan to do so repeatedly, he deserved to be made just as mad as she was about it.
And she kept right on going when he said her name. She wasn’t about to stop speaking just because what she was saying was making him uncomfortable or feel negative feelings.
Lee knew that bringing Kevin into this, and mentioning similar ‘training’ be done with him as had been done to Tarin at a similar age was a low blow. Not that Lee would ever seriously consider something like that. But she needed to get Tarin to realize.
”STOP!”
Lee stopped her pacing and stood staring at Tarin for a moment as he held his head in his hands. ”Do you see how stupid all of these things are now? How reckless your plan is? It's not something you can train away, Tarin.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 1, 2024 23:25:28 GMT -6
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Tarin was still so convinced that what they had done had worked. That that was the only way for him to be able to even manage to go in an elevator without risking a panic attack. That not only did he need to put himself through horrible situations, repeatedly, in the hopes that it would help him get over his phobia, but that he was going to do it without her.
He hadn’t even wanted to talk tonight. It wasn’t even that he wanted to do this on his own, he hadn’t even wanted her to know about it.
”It never got to ‘that point’ today?” Lee asked, starting to really get upset and frustrated by all of this. ”So in your mind, is that a success or a failure?”
Shaking her head, Lee let go of Tarin’s hand as she ran both of hers through her hair with a deep breath. ”And I suppose that getting to ‘that point’ once won’t be enough, will it? Because you’ll try to push yourself further, try to last longer before getting to that point. I’m right, aren’t I, Tarin?”
“Damn it, Tarin! We should be trying to figure out ways to make it easier, to keep you calmer when you need to be because of tight space. Not you going off by yourself, purposely putting yourself in horrible, traumatic situations repeatedly trying to push yourself past your limits.”
Standing up, Lee continued to shake her head as she started to pace. ”Though, as much as I hate the entire thing, I guess it does kind of make sense,” Lee said after a minute, still pacing. ”Knowing your limits can be very helpful. Since I know how hard I am able to punch now, I should probably figure out how hard I can without breaking bones. Same thing with running, because I honestly don’t know how fast I can move. And if I can break bones by punching too hard, I’ll probably hurt myself if I run too fast, so I should figure out what that limit is, too, shouldn’t I?”
As Lee spoke, her voice sounded more frustrated, her words coming out faster as she continued to pace beside the couch.
”Kevin wants to test his powers out, too,” Lee continued, looking over at Tarin as she spoke. ”And he’s just about the age you were, isn’t he? So should probably start testing his limits too, shouldn’t we? See just how much force his shield can withstand. Test him in stressful situations to see if that causes his shield to be able to block more or less force.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 1, 2024 22:08:59 GMT -6
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Lee sat there and started shaking her head slowly as Tarin tried to explain what about that torture had messed him up. Tried to explain to her that it had helped with his claustrophobia. That it had made things better.
She was mad. And horrified. And sad. That any of that had happened to him in the first place. That he thought that any of that torture had done anything even remotely good.
That Tarin was willingly putting himself through this torture again.
”But I don’t think it ever worked, Tarin. Not the way you think it did,” Lee told him, her voice certain but tinged with sadness. ”They told you, and proved with other people, that if you messed up with your powers that one of two things had to happen: either you killed yourself or they would to end the ‘threat’ you posed. Then while reminding you of that threat, to a child, they dumped you into a situation where your instincts would have been to try anything and everything you could to get out. Including using your powers.”
Lee closed her eyes for a moment as she shook her head. ”You thought it worked to deal with the claustrophobia, but they made you more scared of the consequences of using your powers than being in a small space. And you thought it got easier to deal with because you were dissociating and mentally going somewhere safe, but they almost caused so much more damage than they were trying to avoid.”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 1, 2024 21:21:36 GMT -6
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Tarin said that he had only lasted two minutes. That didn’t sound very long in terms of time, but elevator rides generally didn’t last very long. Even at the Empire State Building, Lee didn’t think they had been in the elevator for that long.
So surely two minutes was long enough, right? Since Tarin seemed so determined to do this, Lee supposed it could make sense for him to continue working on this until he could be at least semi-comfortable in the elevator for two minutes.
Or at the very least not fighting off panic.
But then Tarin mentioned Shin, and Lee got confused again. Shin had put Tarin in a box? But there were other scenarios.
Lee’s eyes widened again, this time in shock and horror as she realized that Shin of all people had helped Tarin do the exact thing that the cult group he’d fallen in with when he first came to New York had done to torture ‘train’ Tarin.
”What?” Lee exclaimed before becoming speechless for a moment. ”Why the hell would you do that, Tarin? After how much all that ****** you up when you were a kid?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 1, 2024 20:43:06 GMT -6
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Tarin didn’t look at her when she moved closer. He didn’t look at her when she held her hand out toward him. And it appeared that he wasn’t going to take her hand, either. Lee was just about to pull her hand back toward herself when he finally reached out. Closing her hand around his, Lee rubbed her thumb on the back of his hand as she looked back up at his face.
And Tarin was fine, apparently.
Lee was really starting to hate that word. When Tarin said it, he wasn’t actually fine, he wasn’t ok. When Tarin told her that he was fine he was simply managing to hold himself together, often only just barely, but he didn’t want her to worry.
”Next time?” Lee asked as she straightened up, staring straight at Tarin. ”What do you mean ‘next time’? You can’t possibly be planning to do this to yourself again?!”
As she sat there, all Lee could picture was Tarin riding up and down an elevator that afternoon. She could clearly see the panic building in his eyes as he did it. Like it had when they were at the Empire State Building. Like it had tried to do the night they went to the bar. As it would have if she hadn’t been there to distract him. And doing that repeatedly, think that it would somehow make things better…
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 1, 2024 19:48:18 GMT -6
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Even after he said not to look at him like she was, Lee continued to stare at Tarin for a few moments.Then Lee went to scoot closer to him on the couch, only realizing at the last second that she still had her plate on her lap.
Finally turning away from Tarin, Lee moved the plate onto the table before she shifted a few inches closer to him on the couch. Then she held her hand out toward him, close but not making contact. It was there, she was there, if he wanted.
”Are you alright, Tarin?’ She asked, her face a mix of sadness and concern. ”Why in the world would you do that?”
Posted by Lee Smith on Aug 1, 2024 19:15:31 GMT -6
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Ok, yes, in normal circumstances, being pregnant and stepping into an elevator were two very different things. But no matter how much she just wanted a simple, normal life, Lee knew that there were some things that could never be normal for her. Just as a phobia wasn't just a normal fear.
And Tarin had multiple, very valid reasons for being afraid of enclosed spaces.
Tarin didn't talk to anyone. He'd said that he needed to do some work to deal with his claustrophobia. That it had been harder than he had expected it to be. But he hadn't talked to anyone.
His shirt had also been soaked in sweat at some point before he got home.
”If you didn't…” Lee said slowly as she stared at Tarin.
If he hadn't gone to talk to someone, some kind of therapy to deal with the issues…
Talking hadn't been a part of his life. He'd been taught, scared into believing that if he couldn't control everything then he had to deal with the ‘problem’ by himself.
Lee's eyes widened slightly as those realizations hit. ”What did you do to yourself?” she asked, her voice a whisper.
