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 2, 2024 18:45:11 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Secret romance
2,990
5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
Lee let out a sigh of relief when she saw his eyes fluttering then opening. Then he spoke, and Lee couldn’t stop the soft chuckle and smile. It was so…Well, he wasn’t the same Tarin she knew, but it was such a him thing to say.
Then he questioned what she had said before he’d passed out, and the smile faltered. Rather than answer immediately, Lee asked a question of her own. “Think you can sit?”
After getting an indication that he could, Lee helped him up, again keeping a hand behind his shoulder to make sure he didn’t fall again.
“Where do you think all the energy I took from you went?” her eyes darting away from his eyes briefly as she frowned. “I won’t be able to sleep until I’ve burned through all of that, and I don’t have a way to speed that up here…”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:44:48 GMT -6
Mutant God
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heterosexual
Secret romance
2,990
5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
Lee had already turned and was making her way towards the bedrooms when he spoke, so she didn’t hear him saying her name. In fact, she had stopped to grab a set of sheets out of the closet, had already pulled the sheets off her bed and was starting to put the fresh set on when she heard his voice from the door.
“I won’t be sleeping for at least a couple days, so someone may as well use it,” she said as she glanced over while continuing with getting the bed ready.
But as he continued speaking, Lee saw that he really didn’t look good. She straightened up as his voice trailed off. Then she saw his eyes rolling back and he was falling.
Lee’s eyes widened and she rushed forward, very glad that her speed and strength still worked when she shut her siphoning off. She wasn’t able to catch him completely, but she managed to get there and get ahold of him in time to keep his head from hitting the floor again.
Lowering him gently the rest of the way to the floor, Lee checked him over, checked his pulse, looked for any injuries she had missed noticing earlier.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:44:13 GMT -6
Mutant God
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heterosexual
Secret romance
2,990
5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
Lee stayed silent as she let what she had said sink in. It had to be a lot to take in, especially right now for him. When he did finally speak, she couldn’t help but smile. “It really kind of is,” she agreed with a slight nod. ”I’m sure there are. Since, well…I’ve been keeping my head down and just helping Kevin deal with it all, but before that I had been becoming involved with another organization, also here in New York, trying to do similar things.”
Then there was more silence, but this time it didn’t feel as strained, tense, distressed by the events that had brought them together hours before.
“Maybe I should try to get some rest…”
“Of course,” Lee said as she stood up. “I’ll go get a bed ready for you.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:43:00 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Secret romance
2,990
5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
“There were,” Lee admitted sadly. “Unfortunately, there were multiple merges, but Tarin never hurt me. Some of the spirits who merged with him managed to do some real damage, but [/i]Tarin[/i] never hurt me.”[/font]
She was sure that he wouldn’t properly understand it. She wasn’t sure whether her Tarin had actually understood the difference even if he’d stopped arguing with her about it.
But when he spoke again, Lee shook her head, frowning down at her water. “Honestly, at that point I wasn’t overly worried about the merging…” she admitted. “I mean, yes, the worry was always there in the back of my mind, but I honestly wasn’t worried about that with regards to Kevin.” Lee sighed. Maybe something like that had been in the back of his head, but with how much he had fought to get her to come back to the city…
At this point, though, did it really matter why he hadn’t been willing to come with her? That had all happened more than a decade ago, and Tarin had disappeared and she could only hope, was living on the other side of the rift.
“More?” Lee asked, looking over at him again with a brief smile. “Alright. Multiple times, he tried to pass information to the police about murders. Like I said, that didn’t always work out so well. One of those times in Chicago, the police dragged him in as a suspect. But there was one, here in New York just after we had met. The spirit of a little girl at the zoo. He sent an anonymous tip and, it did still take a while, but they did catch the guy who killed her.”
Lee bit her lip as she thought about what else she could actually tell him. Most of the people in their lives didn’t know about half of what had happened to them. Though, she thought. It’s been so long since we did those things, and maybe hearing will actually help him.
“Probably the biggest one, the thing that helped him the most, happened in Columbia. We knew someone who was rebuilding a school down there, humanitarian project. Some of the locals had been killed by the drug cartel there, and their spirits were very angry and causing problems for the villagers. We went down and was actually able to help them cross over or whatever it is.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:41:49 GMT -6
Mutant God
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heterosexual
Secret romance
2,990
5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
He was quiet for a while after she asked her question. Lee just sat leaning back against the couch, glancing at him and then looking away so he wouldn’t feel like she was staring at him.
But when he spoke, Lee spoke before she even thought. “God no! Never!” Taking a breath before she spoke again, she looked over at him, her voice quieter than that exclamation. “No, Tarin never hurt me. Things…I worry. He always said too much. When Kevin was a baby that got really bad. The worry, anxiety. Things, one thing or another, always seemed to be happening and we could protect ourselves, but Kevin was just a baby…”
She took a deep breath as her eyes dropped down to her own water. “Staying in New York, living with a baby then toddler in New York, just became too much for me. I went back to Canada with Kevin, but Tarin refused to leave New York because it was home. The only place that had felt like home for either of us since we were children. We tried, but I couldn’t bring Kevin back here at that age, and he wouldn’t leave…”
Frowning, Lee raised her glass and took a long sip of water as they sat in silence for a minute. It was strange, very strange. Here she was talking about the end of hers and Tarin’s marriage to the Tarin Brooks from the other side of the rift.
Then he spoke again, another question. A huge, important question despite being only six words. Lifting her eyes to look over at him again as she spoke. “He tried to do good with his powers. It didn’t always work out how he wanted, but he tried to use his powers to help people when he could.” She gave a soft smile at this point. “And he did do some real good.
“And,” Lee continued as she smile slid off her face once more. “I was there to help him through the worst of it after the merges.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:41:23 GMT -6
Mutant God
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heterosexual
Secret romance
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
He spoke and for a moment Lee frowned before she let out a short chuckle. “I think the preferred terms over the years have been ‘stubborn’ and ‘determined to get my way’.
The chuckle, and the slight smile that had accompanied it, quickly disappeared as he spoke again. That…yeah, Lee could understand that. But the dreams, sleep…
“If you do dream,” she told him, her voice soft. “I’ll be here to wake you up. But Tarin - the Tarin I knew - always said that the more energy I had drained from him, the less likely he was to dream or have spirits bother him.
“Or,” Lee continued, glancing further into the apartment. “You can go sit on the couch and I’ll grab us some drinks.”
Seeing him slowly making his way toward the livingroom, Lee watched for a moment just to make sure that he looked steady enough to make it before turning toward the kitchen. A minute later, she was returning, two glasses of water in her hands. Handing one of them over, Lee sat on the other side of the couch and took a sip. Then turned her head to look over at him. “I know a lot of what I’ve said didn’t make sense to you,” she said slowly. “What do I need to explain first?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:40:51 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Secret romance
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
He was going to stay where he was on the floor. Lee frowned slightly. He should be sleeping, she thought. The 10 hours that he had been out hadn’t been enough. Lee knew that from experience. And then, even if most the siphoning she had done since he’d woken up had taken energy from the spirit and not him…he had to be exhausted.
But she really didn’t know him well. Or at all. And he was already having trouble understanding why she was helping him, having trouble with the fact that she was helping him. She wasn’t going to push this.
“Alright, it shouldn’t take me long,” she told him, then made her way into the bathroom, pushing the door closed behind her, though it didn’t close quite all the way. Starting the water running, Lee pulled out the first aid supplies. And Advil. Definitely Advil for her head.
The first aid supplies weren’t as well stocked as when she had left them, but were still in the same spot. Turning her attention to the mirror, Lee bit her lip as she started pulling out the wood splinters from her arm and cleaning herself up.
When she finished, Lee stood in the doorway to the bathroom for a moment looking at him for a moment. If he wasn’t going to sleep, Lee knew that he couldn’t stay here in the shop. Not right now.
It didn’t take her long. Grabbing a few changes of clothes for him, a clean pair of shoes, she managed to get him up and out of the shop with minimal fighting. Then it was just a quick cab ride to her apartment. Getting him upstairs was not quite as easy, but at least she had the strength to help him even if her body was hurting.
Finally, they were walking into her empty apartment. Thankfully Rachel had listened and taken Kevin away. After locking the door behind them, Lee turned to look at him again as she set the bags down and took her shoes off. “Food or sleep first?” She asked him again.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:40:25 GMT -6
Mutant God
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Secret romance
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
He looked shocked when she mentioned that she’d been hit with worse than a chair. Though, when she thought about it rationally, and from the perspective of someone who didn’t know what she and Tarin had been doing with Slate…Thought about how Matt would react to that kind of comment… But the last thing she needed to do so he could try and understand how relatively minor her current injuries were was tell him about the worst thing she’d been hit with.
Somehow she didn’t think he’d take the news that she’d actually died before well.
“Not in the immediate future, no I won’t be,” Lee informed him. Then she slowly, carefully got to her feet. “Did you need help up, or are you going to stay there on the floor while I clean myself up?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:40:02 GMT -6
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
Seeing that he’d managed to position himself so it would be at least a lot harder for him to fall back at this point, Lee pulled her hand away from his shoulder as she listened to him speak. Then nodded slightly. Very slightly.
“Run of the mill? No, you’re right, it’s not,” Lee said, her voice quiet but confident. “Would you rather I panic or something? Because that won’t help either of us. But considering I’m surprised that you’re even still awake, yes, I’m expecting you to ‘lay down and take a nap’.”
Then Lee swallowed hard, her eyes dropping before she continued in a whisper. “But you didn’t. Not in the bed.” She kept her eyes lowered and took a few slow, deep breaths until the memories of what it did look like when that happened disappeared.
Lee was just looking up at him again when he mentioned her being hit with the chair, and her head tilted, a crease forming between her brows. “But you didn’t hit me. He, the spirit, hit me with the chair. It wasn’t you. Plus, I’ve been hit by far worse than a chair, and not just during merges.
“Though yes, considering it must be what, 16 hours since you’ve likely had anything to eat and you are still awake, it probably would be good for you to eat something. And drink something.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:39:31 GMT -6
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Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
He said he was fine. Lee knew that was categorically not true, but she didn’t push it. Now was not the time to say otherwise. So she just nodded, but stopped after her head moved up and down a single time because the movement hurt too much.
Then she saw him pushing himself up and Lee’s eyes widened in surprise slightly. She was surprised that he was simply still awake, never mind slowly sitting up.
But she was slow to react, and only leaned forward to help him as he was moving from his elbows to fully sit up.
”Lee. You’re bleeding.”
“Just my arm, or did I miss seeing something else?” She asked, one hand still behind his shoulder to help keep him upright. “I'll get cleaned up once you're settled and can sleep.”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:39:03 GMT -6
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Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
“Not since I was a kid.”
Lee's eyes slipped closed as a slightly pained expression crossed her face. If he hasn't had a merge in that long…the aftermath was going to be even worse than she had thought.
By the time he had started speaking again, Lee had opened her eyes and was looking at him. As he stared up at the ceiling. And explained in very little detail what had led up to this merge, what had happened as part of this merge.
“It wasn't you,” Lee told him with a slight shake of her head. Bad idea, she realized as the room spun slightly. Maybe a doctor wasn't the worst idea. But now wasn't the time. “He did that last time, too…”
Letting her eyes slip closed for a moment, Lee took a deep breath before sitting up straight. “Let's get you into bed so you can sleep. Do you need anything first? Food, water?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:38:32 GMT -6
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heterosexual
Secret romance
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
“You should see a doctor. I’m not going to hurt anyone else.”
“I know you won't,” Lee said softly, bracing her hands on the floor behind her, leaning back slightly. “And I'll be fine.”
As she sat there, Lee didn't even notice that her eyes had slipped closed. Her head was still pounding. Painkillers and an ice pack were certainly in her future. When she was able to stand up.
Then she heard him speaking again. Lee's eyes opened as she looked over at him. He looked horrible as he laid there, physically and emotionally. He wanted her to leave, to leave him like this, after everything that had happened? And to call the police on her way?
Lee didn't bother answering anything he'd just asked. Instead, eyes focused on his face to catch any expressions, any answers he didn't voice, Lee asked a question of her own.
“When was the last time a merge happened?” She asked, her voice quiet, gentle. “I'm guessing none have been even remotely close to this bad?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:37:33 GMT -6
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Secret romance
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Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
Before he nodded, before his eyes had met hers, Lee saw tears in his eyes, running down the side of his face. By the time that he had nodded confirmation that yes, the spirit was gone, she had shut her siphoning off, no longer taking anything from him, and released his wrists, sitting up straight. Then slowly, a little stiffly, she climbed off of him, moving off to the side.
And just sat there on the floor beside him as a wave of dizziness came over her. Not debilitating by any means, but enough that she wasn’t going to rush to her feet without a reason.
“You’re hurt…”
Lee slowly turned her eyes to see that there were some pieces of wood sticking out of her shoulder, trickles of blood running down her arm from where she was cut. As she lifted her hand to where her head had hit the floor, Lee gingerly touched her scalp as she thought about how the rest of her body felt. She was definitely sore, her head hurt and her shoulders weren’t much better. Pulling her hand away from her head, she looked at it. No blood. And she’d been moving her arms, they’d hurt but not that bad, so didn’t think there was anything broken.
“I’ll be fine. It’s not that bad,” she finally said, her voice also quiet now.
Turning her attention back to him, Lee was a little surprised that he was still awake; he looked exhausted. “And you?” Lee asked. She knew he had hit the floor hard, and she could see the red marks on his wrists from where she had been holding him. “From the fall? You can move your wrists?”
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:36:56 GMT -6
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Secret romance
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
As she sat there, sat on him, pinning him to the floor, Lee could see, could practically feel the hate, the anger, the pure malevolence toward her. But as the seconds slowly ticked by, each one feeling like her head was inside a ringing church bell, those emotions looked to be getting replaced by the alarm and dismay that, once again, she was beating him.
Just like she had said she would. Even though neither the man, nor the spirit had thought she’d be able to.
Suddenly, Lee noticed a change. The sense of evil coming from him, the hate in the eyes disappeared. He looked…haunted? Horrified?
His eyes were green, she noticed.
Head tilting slightly as she looked down at him, she did not loosen her grip on him one bit. But she pulled way back on her siphoning, not pulling nearly as much energy from him. She thought the spirit was gone, but at the same time, he wasn’t saying anything, wasn’t telling her that it was over.
And the look in his eyes wasn’t so instantly obvious to her as it had always been in past merges.
A crease forming between her brows, Lee continued to look down at him for another minute, trying to puzzle it out. Waiting for him to say something.
Posted by Lee Smith on May 2, 2024 18:36:09 GMT -6
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heterosexual
Secret romance
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5
Jun 30, 2024 15:34:14 GMT -6
Raine
Lee didn’t even register the wobbliness of the chair. It was one of the same chairs that had been in the shop when she had first met Tarin. And the chairs had looked well used at that point. It was just one of those things that had become so much a part of everyday life for so many years that you just didn’t notice anymore.
So Lee had not been expecting, after the chair wobbled back to its original side closer to her, for the whole thing to go over as it wobbled the other way. And this time she wasn’t able to catch the chair before it hit the floor. “Damn it,” she muttered as she bent over, placing one hand on his arm for contact as her other hand was reaching for the chair to stand it back up.
Not that lifting the chair was difficult at this point, even with the almost dead weight sitting in it. Once she had all four legs of the chair sitting on the floor again, Lee let go, moving her hand back to his neck.
Except that she didn’t feel the flow of energy into her. Instead, she felt something hit her left shoulder and the side of her head. Almost immediately followed by her right side hitting something even harder.
Shaking her head to try to clear the stars from her eyes, Lee realized after a moment that she was laying on the floor. With a groan, she started pushing herself up.
Only to be hit again, the world going completely dark for a split second before she opened her eyes once more to see that she was flat on the floor again. With feet standing directly in front of her.
This was not good, she thought. Very not good. But even her thoughts felt slow as she laid there. Lee didn’t think that she was going to be able to get up with him so close, after those hits. Not without him doing something else before she got to her feet.
But all that she needed was contact with him, and he was standing just in front of her. Within arm range. Closing her eyes with another groan in the hopes of hiding what she was planning, Lee shifted on the floor, the groan getting a little louder. Shaking her head once more, Lee reached out the moment that she opened her eyes, hand grabbing his ankle and yanking it toward her. Hard.
Her head was ringing a bit still from the fall, but with the loud thunk she heard as he hit the floor beside her, Lee thought that his might be as well now. And then she was moving, scrambling across the floor toward him. And while she still had her speed, and her strength, her hand slipped slightly as she grabbed for his wrists the first time. The second time, she got a good tight grip on his wrists as she pinned them to the floor as she continued moving, ending up sitting straddling his torso as she pinned him to the floor. The whole time focusing on siphoning even more from him, siphoning almost more than she ever had. Only in Columbia had she drained energy faster than she was now.
She just hoped that he would be out, and gone, quickly. Very quickly. As her head, which had been ringing, was now starting to pound with pain.