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 Oct 27, 2024 9:07:03 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
If she didn't want to do anything else at the bar. That was always an option, but there really wasn't a whole lot else that she could do there during the day. To do more at the bar would, in essence, mean actually spending less time with Tarin and still not really solve her problem of what to do during the day. Unless she ended up spending that time during the day sleeping.
Tarin was right about how she'd kept talking about wanting to volunteer, though. And that might be a good thing for her to do. "I promise, no construction sites," Lee said with a bit of a laugh. "But that would be something worth looking into."
Taking another bite of the cheesecake, Lee then smiled up at Tarin. "This is good. Thank you."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 27, 2024 8:13:51 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
He would remember that strawberry and chocolate cheesecakes were in general better? As she looked up at Tarin, she smiled. Even if they didn't have cheesecake again for a year, Lee thought that yes, he would remember. He'd been extremely good at picking up and remembering small details so far, whether she'd mentioned them or not.
As Tarin answered her question, Lee laughed. That was probably very true, Lee couldn't help but think as she thought back to a couple other times she had stopped by to visit him at the shop.
They had both been quite glad that there was still a bed in the back of the shop on those occasions.
"Very true. So everyday might not be a good plan," Lee decided. "Maybe once a week then. But that still leaves me with four days that I need to try and fill."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 27, 2024 7:30:15 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
Lee had been joking when she'd said that Tarin would get sick of her if she started coming by the shop now regularly in an attempt to keep herself busy, but his voice sounded completely serious.
Lee smiled up at Tarin but didn't get a chance to respond because there was Cheesecake.
It had just been a long, busy day. That was good. Eventful days at the shop tended to not end very well. At least they seemed far fewer and further between than they once were.
Even better because Tarin had managed to avoid the headache that was common after long days.
Lee was just grabbing her plate so they could head out to the table when Tarin took a bite. Announcing that he was going to have to rewrite his favourites if this wasn't even an example of a good cheesecake.
There was only one way to answer that, so Lee took a bite.
"It's definitely not bad," Lee said after slowly tasting and then swallowing. "Strawberry or chocolate are always better, but this is decent for a plain cheesecake."
Lee then took a couple of slow bites before looking up at Tarin again. "You really don't think that you'd get sick of me if I end up at the shop every day?" she asked more seriously this time. "The place is pretty small."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 27, 2024 0:42:31 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
Lee laughed softly when Tarin suggested that she could visit him at the shop. "Be careful what you wish for," she told him jokingly. "If I start doing that, you're libel to get sick of me."
They could talk over cheesecake? Returning Tarin's kiss, she followed him back into the kitchen. "That is probably the best idea I've heard today," Lee said smiling up at Tarin as he set the box on the counter.
When Tarin said that he'd let her cut the cake, Lee turned and reached for a knife. It really didn't take long to cut a couple of slices, and as she moved them onto plates, Lee looked up at Tarin again. "What about your day?" she asked. "Was it just long, or did something happen?"
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 23:49:12 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
As she got closer and Tarin took his backpack off, Lee was able to see what it was he was carrying. The frown slid off of her face, and then Tarin opened the box.
"That looks delicious," Lee said, smiling up at Tarin as she stopped in front of him. It was such a small thing, really, but the fact that Tarin had thought to to get a cheesecake because she'd mentioned liking them a number of times but they had yet to get one, well it made the day so much better instantly.
How was her day? Lee shook her head slightly. "I really need to find something else to do during the day," she told him. "I don't think I've ever spent this much time alone without something I needed to work on."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 23:23:27 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
There really wasn't anything that she had missed in the kitchen. Still, Lee was wiping the counter down when she felt Tarin approaching the door. A moment later, Lee heard the key followed by his voice.
At least she wasn't going to be alone here now.
Tarin didn't finish his sentence, though, trailing off after saying that he'd stopped to grab…something. Frowning as she dried her hands, Lee made her way out of the kitchen to see Tarin just standing there.
"You stopped to grab what, Tarin?" Lee asked as she walked over to him, the frown still on her face. It was only then that Lee saw that he was holding a box in his hand as he stood there.
"What's that?" she asked, head tilted slightly as her eyes moved from the box up to Tarin's face.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 22:50:26 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
They had only moved Kevin to the mansion a couple of days earlier, and Lee was already struggling a bit. She didn't know what to do with herself for the entire day anymore.
No, that wasn't entirely true. She didn't have a job that took up the entire day anymore, and without Kevin around, the days were feeling extremely long between their runs and when Tarin got back from the shop.
It had been years since she had more than a couple hours alone at home with nothing that needed to be done.
No, if you didn't count the hours spent during and after merges when she was stuck inside but having nothing to do, Lee had never really had more than a couple hours like this. Even when Kevin was in school all day, Lee didn't have more than a couple hours after going to the bar and getting the paperwork done before needing to go pick him up from school.
But this situation…this was not going to work. Maybe if she found more to do at the bar and went to the gym every day.
That didn't solve her boredom and restlessness at the moment, though.
Leaving her music playing in the living room, Lee pushed herself up off the couch and made her way to the kitchen. Maybe there was something she had missed cleaning up earlier.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 21:46:39 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
He was thanking her again, saying that he owed her for this, and Lee kind of waved that off as she took a sip of her coffee. That wasn't why she had done this. She didn't need or want him to feel like he owed her.
Though if someone had outright asked her why she was doing this, Lee didn't think she would be able to verbalize a reason beyond she wished she'd had help in the past like this. It had just kind of…ended up happening and in some strange way felt like the right thing to do.
"Give me a few days to start getting all of this sorted out," Lee said after a few moments of walking along in silence. The shop, Lee thought, would be the easiest of everything to get dealt with, so it would make sense to not drag it out.
"Do you have a working phone on this side yet?" Lee then asked, looking over at him again.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 20:22:54 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
As Lee mentioned the collars, she wasn't properly seeing the path and the park as they were now, so she also didn't see Tarin's surprised look at her. But she did hear his sigh of relief a moment later when she confirmed that things were safer here than they had been on his side.
Not good. Lee didn't know a lot of details about how things had been on the other side, but the way her ex-husband had alluded to what he'd learned from spirits, saying things were 'not good' for mutants over there was like saying that the registration camp had been just a bad summer camp.
Then Tarin thanked her. Lee wasn't sure if it was for letting him know it was actually safe here, if it was for what they'd discussed about the shop, or everything.
"I've been where you are," Lee said softly, looking at him briefly before facing forward again. "Not the new world part, but starting over. With no idea where to go or what to do next. More times than I can count. I wish there had been some help, any help…"
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 18:56:15 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
Considering that he had been staying from scratch here, the fact that the shop did still have the living area in the back would make things easier. Lee wished she'd had an opportunity like that one of the times she had had to start over from scratch, trying to find a new job and place to live even once in her life.
Maybe that was why she was doing this.
Was it actually safe here? Lee looked up at this other Tarin for a moment trying to gauge at what depth he was asking the question. Then took a sip of coffee as she thought about how to word it.
"Unfortunately, I think there's always going to be bigots and people who hate and fear us," Lee started as she turned her eyes to look into the park. In the direction the camp had once been located.
"But are we at risk of being taken and collared by the authorities? No. Generally speaking, this is probably about the safest I've seen New York. And from what I've heard, a hell of a lot safer than your world."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 17:55:28 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
It sounded weird that things with Tarin had been more awkward in the last year than now, running into a version of him from another world. But it had been, because while they had been divorced for years at that point, and something had broken between them, Lee still loved the man. She was still able to read his emotions and gestures as easily as when they were together, and he hers.
Awkward, because in a lot of ways, Lee hadn't known how to be around Tarin, but not be with him.
That alone made this here in the park less awkward.
Lee nodded when he spoke again. "Business goes up and down, but there's definitely a market."
And this Tarin was being very practical, too, asking about the living space in the back of the shop. So he'd have somewhere to live at first. Though Lee couldn't help but wonder just how similar the two shops were.
"It does," Lee confirmed with a glance over at him. "We had ended up moving the sessions into the back, apparently Tarin had ended up living in the back again at some point after the divorce, so it should be at least somewhat set up for that still."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 15:46:04 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin, the man that shared a name with her ex-husband who had come from the other side of the rift, followed her when she started walking away from the coffee cart and further into the park. He didn't have to, and there had been no discussion about it, but he was following. Walking with her.
Though it made sense for him to follow her. How else would he manage to actually get the shop that Lee had just offered him?
The two of them walked in silence for a short time, Lee occasionally sipping her coffee. And though they had only met a very short time earlier by chance in front of the shop because she'd confronted him about hanging around while she was knocking and yelling through the shop door, it was not nearly as awkward or uncomfortable a silence as it could have been.
That could have been because Lee was starting to go through in her mind to come up with a list of things she was going to have to start on in the morning.
Until the silence was broken by a question. A question that at one point she would have been the best person to answer.
That time had been over 6 years earlier, though.
"Not so close anymore," Lee admitted as she looked ahead of them on the path. "Unsure how to act around each other and more awkward than this since I came back to the city last year. But there have always been regulars, and at one point the shop alone was able to support the two of us."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 14:32:06 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
Tarin didn't want anything. That was fine. Coffee at this time of night was not normal for most people. For most people, the caffeine would keep them awake. That was not an issue for Lee. Caffeine would not be what kept her awake that night.
It did not take long to make a black coffee, and as Tarin was speaking the took the cup, holding it between both hands as she slowly started walking. Away from the cart and further into the park.
"I can't see any reason that Kevin or I would need the place," she said after a few moments. "Not any time in the foreseeable future, anyway."
No. She had been added to the lease years earlier as a just in case. So she'd still have the shop and could do something herself to make sure she'd still have an income. At the same time she'd convinced Tarin and had negotiated a 30-year lease with the family that owned the shop. But Lee didn't need the shop anymore to make money to survive.
Yet, it almost felt wrong to completely give it up.
"But yeah, I'm sure," Lee continued, glancing over as she walked. "There's obviously stuff I need to look into and take care of, but the shop should stay open."
Lee was sure that the woman from the Empire State Building would want that as well.
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 12:51:32 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
Lee could understand what he meant. This Tarin was starting over completely. Not just a new city but a new world, and he probably had very little with him. As he had said earlier, it wasn't like the rift had closed on a known schedule.
And here Lee had all but offered him the shop. A way to make money, doing something that would be far less difficult than finding random, general jobs, which came with a place he could live until he got himself more settled and could find an apartment.
Before she was able to say anything, Lee reached the front of the line. "Extra large black please," Lee ordered before turning to Tarin. "You getting anything?"
After waiting for his reply, Lee paid then stepped to the side before looking at Tarin again. "But you'd be a fool to not take it," Lee replied. "No, I understand that."
Posted by Lee Smith on Oct 26, 2024 10:42:12 GMT -6
Mutant God
mediumpurple
heterosexual
Tarin
4,162
8
Nov 16, 2024 18:04:36 GMT -6
Raine
He was right, Lee didn't have to think about what she was going to do with the shop now. What she was going to do with Tarin's apartment, his stuff.
She didn't have to think about it now. But time wasn't going to change the fact that she was going to have to think about all of this. The only way that time would change that would be if Tarin came back alive and well.
And with their luck, Lee honestly doubted the chances of that.
Plus, even if she contacted the lawyer the moment the office opened in the morning to get things started, the smallest issues were still going to take days to sort out.
"I don't," Lee agreed as she came to a stop in the short line at the coffee vendor in the park. "But I will have to deal with it, and putting things off isn't going to make any of it easier."