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 Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
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 May 7, 2024 16:35:50 GMT -6
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Raine
Of course it was difficult, Lee thought. It had been difficult when she and Kevin were in Toronto. It was difficult when they came back to New York. It was awkward when she had been with Blaine. It had been hard when Tarin disappeared. And even harder when she realized that Rupert had disappeared as well.
“Yeah…There’s many, I guess you could call them interesting, stories about that man,” she said with a shake of her head. But then he was asking if she wanted him to ‘ask around’. Did she want that, Lee wondered for a moment. It didn’t take her long to realize that no, she did not really want him to ask around, but that it would be better to know a bit more certainly than to wonder for the rest of her life. “If you could. There’s no rush, though. Whenever you’re ready.”
Then Tarin continued speaking, and all Lee could do for a moment was shake her head. “I think you’re seriously overestimating me, what I’ve done,” she said. Yes, her speed and strength were extraordinary, when she had energy, but all mutants were extraordinary in one way or another. But heroics? Hardly.
It was finally their turn, and Lee walked forward and into the elevator. At least once they got to the top, they’d have a bit more privacy to talk.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:35:07 GMT -6
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Raine
When she mentioned about cutting her hours back, Lee could see the slight wince, the ‘oh crap I shouldn’t have said that’ look. It was so minute that Lee wasn’t sure anyone else would have even noticed, but for her, it was so familiar; she’d seen that exact look so many times over the years.
“Well, I mean I’ve told Kevin that his father got stuck on the other side when the rift closed,” she explained, her voice just loud enough that Tarin would be able to hear her. “And I hope that’s what happened to him. But since Rupert disappeared then too…Well, I’ve worried over the years that maybe the damn hypocrite finally pulled the trigger.”
When Tarin continued, Lee actually laughed. “Really? Because I couldn’t imagine myself doing either of those things until after I had started doing them,” Lee explained. “Plus, bars are an easily accessible source of energy.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:34:26 GMT -6
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Lee was a little surprised at just how busy it was when they'd walked into the Empire State Building, but then she remembered that it was the weekend. Right…
His ‘friends’ had helped him to get in touch with the right people, the people who had helped him survive in New York City as a teenage mutant. And, in his mind, that made what she'd done that much more impressive.
Lee just nodded in acknowledgement that she'd heard what he said. She had simply been trying to survive, and a lot of the time in those early years, she had only barely managed that much. It wasn't impressive, just simply survival. But the middle of the line in the Empire State Building to get to the elevator was not the place to argue that.
Even though she wanted to.
Thankfully for the location, Tarin changed subjects, asking what it was she did, asking about her working at the bar. “Not any more. I cut my hours back to help Kevin through everything after…” her voice trailed off, but she assumed that Tarin would know she meant when the rift closed, when his father had disappeared.
‘Now, I pretty much just handle the paperwork, orders, scheduling, payroll, stuff like that,”[/fon]t she continued with a shrug, glancing over at Tarin as she spoke. “But I had been full-time managing the bar before that. Still would be if Matt had his way.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:33:46 GMT -6
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A single agent. A single inexperienced agent was sent to ‘recruit’ Tarin. If SUPER was as bad as Tarin was saying, and Lee had no reason to not believe him, they must not have known what it was that he could do. Either that, or they had thought he would readily agree.
Either way, it now made perfect sense why he had come through the rift; it seemed that another encounter with SUPER would not have ended so successfully for Tarin.
“Well, yeah, of course it was hard,” Lee said, giving a slight shrug as she looked over at Tarin. “And even on the streets, people didn’t want me around once they found out what I did to them. But at least I was able to get energy, and I started to learn what I was capable of. I mean, it took years for me to really figure that all out, how much more I’d have even imagined being capable of, but I started to learn.
“And weren’t you even younger when you left? I have no idea how I would have managed being on my own like that at 14.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:32:43 GMT -6
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Raine
Ahh…That made more sense that he’d only just started having issues with them recently when the rift opened. “They normally didn’t take no for an answer, yet they did with you?” Lee asked as she looked over at Tarin. “And they actually came out to that island to find you? How did they even know you were there?” That part was hard for Lee to figure out. It wasn’t like he would have been getting mail delivered out there, after all.
But he’d said something about them using psychics, right? Maybe that was how they knew where he was? Possible, but also a terrifying thought.
“Wait, how did you send him packing? What did you do?” She knew now that he’d done everything he could, basically his entire life, to hide his powers and the fact that he was a mutant, and while she knew he was much stronger than the Tarin she knew, physically assaulting an agent, even one in a secretive group like SUPER seemed to have been, couldn’t have been a good idea.
“And that’s still a lot more than I had. I didn’t even have $100 when I left my parents’. But at least it got me to Toronto and kept me fed for a little while.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:32:12 GMT -6
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Raine
Tarin started walking, and so Lee followed, easily catching up to walk beside him as he said he was curious about the spirit at the top of the Empire State Building.
Then he was telling her how he had left home, how he’s stolen all the money in the house and hitchhiked to New York City. At age 14, if Lee was remembering correctly. “That would have been hard,” Lee said, her voice quiet as she thought back to how things had been for her when she’d left home. And she’d been two years older at the time, and hadn’t traveled nearly as far. “I’m glad you were able to find people who were able to help you. Though I’m suspicious of groups that have such strict rules. I guess it does make sense, considering…”
But he went on to say that SUPER had just started to become a problem, and Lee frowned in confusion. “They were that new of an organization? How were they such a large, wide scale problem if they were that new?” it didn’t really make sense to Lee. Though, the camps had become a large, wide scale problem rather quickly, too.
Tarin had shared so much of his past, how he’d come to New York just now, and Lee couldn’t help but marvel at how different it had been than on this side of the rift.
“My parents thought it was a medical condition at first,” Lee said after a few moments. “Everyone in the family was so tired, so much of the time. It took a year of doctors visits before we realized that it wasn’t a medical condition, it was me. My brother and I used to go see horrible sci-fi movies all the time. It got to the point where even though we went to matinees, he needed to take a nap afterwards because he was so tired.
“It didn’t take too much longer for my parents to pull me out of school, ‘home schooling because of my medical condition’ so no one would find out I was a mutant. They avoided being around me at home as much as they could, and when my younger siblings wanted to be around me, my parents found ‘reasons’ for them to not be. I ended up basically stuck in my room all the time, the worst possible thing they could have done to me in terms of my powers.."
She frowned at the thought that Kevin was in that house right now. Despite her lingering feelings about how she had been treated, they had been trying over the last decade, and Kevin did love them.
“That only lasted a couple months. Just before I turned 16, I packed a bag and left. I should have done what you did, though, and taken more money with me.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:31:08 GMT -6
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He hadn’t figured it out on his own. Lee nodded. That made sense, then as to why the Tarin she’d known hadn’t done the same thing. “Ah, I guess that makes sense,” she ended up replying. “He was pretty much on his own the whole time between leaving Texas and meeting me. Neither of us had really met many mutants until then, actually, and he certainly hadn’t had any relationships, of any kind.” Yeah…this was starting to get into awkward territory.
A change of scenery in the park might be nice? “Well, depending on how far you normally run for, there are a lot of options in the park. Though the paths on the far side of the park…I know some people consider a distance shorter than just [/i]getting[/i] to the far side of the park to be more than enough for a run…
“Yeah…I’m not a huge fan of standing around outside,”[/font] Lee told him. “But I’ll leave it up to you if you still want to go to the Empire State Building, if you want to meet the woman up there. Like I said, she’s normally the only one up there, and she was the only one I’ve ever been ‘introduced’ to, so she must be pretty…easy to deal with.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:30:37 GMT -6
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As she listened, Lee realized that everything he was saying really did make sense. Obviously not the kind of immediate, he’s having trouble with this kind of power so work out kind of sense, but it did when looking at the whole picture.
“No, he didn’t,” Lee said quietly, almost a little sadly. “If either of us had thought about doing that, maybe it would have kept us from having so many problems. The only thing that either of us did, well, other than my running, was to take some self-defense/fighting lessons after we got back from Columbia…”
He went running in the park too. Of course he did. With the shop so close to Central Park, why would he go anywhere else to take a run? “If you wanted to, I could show you some different paths some time. There’s some between The Lake and the reservoir that are nice.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:30:10 GMT -6
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Raine
When she properly introduced herself, Tarin smiled, and for the first time it looked to be a real, genuine smile. The fact that he could do that so soon after a merge was both surprising and very good to see, and she returned the smile in kind. “It’s good to meet you properly, Tarin Brooks.”
Then she listened to what he was saying about his workout regime and she just nodded as he explained. Other than the running, it was so much different than anything she had ever done to ‘properly’ work out.
But then he mentioned why he did all that, what the reason was, and she turned a confused look toward him. “That kind of thing, working out, actually helped with your powers?”
She supposed that the meditation and breathwork made sense, but she had never even thought about the possibility that physical working out could help with a power as…mentally based as Tarin’s.
“Where do you run?”
Lee casually took a deep breath. This was not a question that she wanted to go into, not so soon. Why couldn’t he have asked her about what she did to work out other than run? Explaining why she did what she did in the gym would be so much safer to talk about right now. “Mostly the park,” she finally replied. “It’s really the only place large enough when I need to run that doesn’t make me feel like I’m going in circles.” That was a good enough answer. He didn’t need to know about when she needed to run like that normally.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:28:11 GMT -6
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Raine
He seemed to take everything she was saying about her powers in stride. Well, this aspect of her powers was easier to accept, and he had already seen evidence of her strength.
But this left them standing in silence now. Though, it did seem to be a far more comfortable silence than they had been having previously.
“Hey, what’s your last name?”
Lee’s eyes widened as she looked over at him with a slightly guilty look on her face. “I’m sorry! I didn’t even think…I thought…”
Lee took a deep breath then looked over at him again. “Smith. My name is Lee Smith,” she properly introduced herself. Then her mind started trying to figure out what to say now. Since they had just been talking about her energy, she thought she’d ask about something he’d said earlier.
“You like to work out? What do you do for your workouts?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:27:39 GMT -6
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Lee simply nodded when he first questioned how long she had been awake before. But then he continued. “I have. A couple times,” she replied. “The time I’m awake isn’t really bad, just boring. I don’t feel sleepy and my brain doesn’t get foggy or anything until just before I crash, so it’s not like I’m walking around in a tired stupor for five days.
“But no, I’m not going to crash this time,” she reassured Tarin. “I stopped siphoning as soon as he was gone. I couldn’t do that before. With how I feel right now, I might be able to nap around dawn. If not, I’ll have to start siphoning tomorrow and will sleep tomorrow night.”
Did anything help, when she had energy levels like this? There certainly were, but most weren’t weren’t feasible for her to do most of the time. “Well, being able to stop siphoning definitely helps. And when I’ve got energy like this, my speed and strength are quite a bit more than normal. If I can use those, it helps burn through it faster, but most times I don't really have a way to. The best I can normally do is go for a long run.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:27:14 GMT -6
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Raine
“Tired?” Lee asked, more to herself than anything as she thought, really thought about what it felt like when she crashed. “No…it's more like falling asleep despite the energy I have. And it happens quickly enough that I don't get an alarm set to make sure I can wake up.”
Her head had tilted to the side in thought as she spoke and her teeth started worrying at her bottom lip. “I don't know, it's like my body or brain just kind of…shuts down at about the six day mark…”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:07:15 GMT -6
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Raine
He was alluding to the fact that he thought he was too dangerous to not be lonely. She just shook her head slightly, sadly. “Everything, everyone I’ve seen, and in my own experience, that is very very rarely the case,” she said gently. “Even when it feels like it would not only be dangerous, but impossible, it is rarely the case that someone is meant to ‘watch from the sidelines’.”
He needed to get some things before staying in the shop again. Lee nodded. That made sense. Even though he hadn’t actually done it there, the way that he had reacted to the idea of sleeping in the bed there…Lee was sure that was one of the things he needed to buy.
Though that could wait, as far as Lee was concerned. It’d still only been one night since the merge ended, and (she assumed) he’d had a dreamless sleep because of the energy she had siphoned. She wasn’t about to let him deal with the first of those kinds of nightmares on his own. If after that, he still insisted on dealing with the aftermath on his own…Well, at least at that point he would have a reasonable idea what it was he was actually going to have to deal with.
“But at least I can turn my siphoning off now, so I won’t end up crashing,” she said. “It always scares me when I end up falling asleep despite having enough energy that I feel like I’m going to bounce off the walls.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:06:02 GMT -6
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Raine
“Next you’ll tell me you saved the world.”
“Well, not the whole world,” Lee said with a simple shrug. Then she laughed despite the fact that she was almost serious about it. They had never gotten that far with Slate, and she hadn’t really done much of anything with Haven, for saving the whole world. Just parts of it.
As he continued speaking, the smile that had accompanied her laugh disappeared. He really wouldn’t have anyone to say goodbye to, would he? He’d left home at 14, he hadn’t had some other side of the rift her to make the first call to reconnect with his family. It didn’t sound like he had really anyone that he had connected with in any meaningful way over there.
“It sure is lonely, though, isn’t it?” she asked with a slightly bitter smile. “All that thinking you can’t.”
And the Empire State Building. With everything they had been discussing, Lee had actually forgotten that that had been their destination. “Honestly, that was an excuse to get you away from the shop,” she admitted with another shrug. A shrug that caused her hand to move slightly on his arm. Her eyes dropped to see that her hand was still there. She quickly pulled her hand away. “Sorry, contact is…weird when I’m not siphoning,” she said, not realizing that a slight blush had started crossing her cheeks.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 7, 2024 16:05:34 GMT -6
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“True,” she said, not fully aware that her hand was still on his arm because she didn’t feel any energy flowing into her. “But maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world that someone who wasn’t there knows. Though…I did sorta tell Kevin and Blaine, but I don’t think even Kevin believed that mummy died and a unicorn brought her back to life.” Lee couldn’t help but laugh slightly at that. It said something when the true events of your life were so fantastical that even a child didn’t believe it was possible.
“No, but we could change subjects. Would you believe that nothing even close ever happened to me when I’ve lived elsewhere?” She asked, then laughed again. “And yet, I keep coming back here.”