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.
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Well. He’d gotten his way. It definitely didn’t feel like he’d won though. In fact, with Lee standing standing there like she was, clearly trying to figure out how to fix things, Tarin just felt like a huge jerk.
So when Lee asked if he wanted to sit down and talk some more, he nodded eagerly and forced his arms to drop to his sides. He didn’t move to sit though. ”I’m sorry.. he said, completely at a loss for what to say, how to say what he should.
And then Lee was talking about Blaine, the guy that Rachel had mentioned when she’d been working so hard to convince Tarin to go to the open mic night with Lee.
It nothing else, it was better than the previous conversation, so Tarin looked down at Lee, head tilted slightly, ”Just never came up?” he asked, frowning slightly.
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She just wasn’t going to give up. Lee approached and Tarin tensed even more, counting his breaths as he attempted to batter down the frustration that was starting to bubble up.
What Lee didn’t realize was that by making the choices she had made, she had changed things. She chose to leave the safety of her home to stop what she had known was a merge. She had chosen to go to Columbia. She had chosen to do all of those things.
”I survived, but so many others…so many kids didn’t.”
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Tarin had to smile as Lee relinquished the point. Good. She was also blushing the most incredible shade of red.
”I can’t imagine anyone who thinks they’re being extraordinary actually is extraordinary.” it was one of those things. To be truly extraordinary, you just did things because they were the right thing to do.
That’s why when Lee tried to point out what Tarin had done, the smile disappeared and his posture stiffened just slightly where he was leaning against the wall.
”Oh Lee…I know what you’re trying to do, but don’t.” he said crossing his arms again as he looked down at the floor for a minute before looking back up. ”The difference between me and you is that you saw something wrong with the world and you did everything you could to fix it. I just watched it get worse.”
He couldn’t, and wouldn’t, let her make it out like he had done anything special.
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All things considered it sounded like they’d had a pretty good set up. Not just one, but two healers and people with powers set to the task.
Still.
Lee insisted once again that there was nothing extraordinary about her and Tarin actually did roll his eyes.
”Oh come on now.” he said uncrossing his arms to count, ”You stop murdering psychopath mutants, in multiple ways. Shrug off hits that would take out men twice your size. You survived an actual internment camp and breakout. You went to Columbia to rebuild a school and risked bodily injury to do so. You’ve also managed to raise a child, to their teens, without them being a total jerk. ”
He let the words hang. ”How is any of those individual things not extraordinary, let alone all of them together?”
Another pause, he was going to run out of fingers.
”And I’ll bet there’s more. To date, my list of great achievements includes moving myself into a fifth floor walk up and…well…that’s about it.”
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 14:30:31 GMT -6
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Drug cartels. Angry spirits. Walls coming down.
Lee pointed out that after everything the other Tarin had needed to prove that his powers were good for something. And Lee had gone with him.
Of course she had. What else would Lee do? Nothing halfway, that was for sure.
But according to Lee she hadn’t actually done anything. She’d just stood in a collapsing building and took an old nail to the shoulder. ”I guess it was a good thing you had a healer with you.”
Tarin shook his head, smiling slightly, ”Why are you so bound and determined to convince me you’re anything less than extraordinary?”
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Oh thank god it had worked.
Tarin didn’t know how he would have explained to Lee that the solution was to simply just not get overwhelmed.
It was hard for Lee to understand, he realized, because of everything that had happened since she’d known him. The way she’d found him in the park. The nightmares. The way that things had happened between them…
He’d been an absolute mess the last few weeks, and Tarin thought about that while Lee thought about what to say regarding her travels. Now that he was sorting things out again…
Lee spoke and Tarin’s attention snapped to her from his own thoughts and as he listened his brows climbed higher on his forehead.
Lee had mentioned, at some point, another power that her Tarin had that allowed him to somehow have an out of body experience. Lee hadn’t gone into details, but Tarin thought he remembered her saying that things had been rough.
She hadn’t been joking.
Apparently during that whole thing she had met a healer who had grand ideas about the world, and mutants, and Columbia.
”And you went?” he asked. Tarin supposed he didn’t know much about what Columbia was like on this side of the rift, but things on his side had been less than settled as long as he could remember.
”You have got to stop trying to convince me that you aren’t some kind of super hero.”
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Lee spoke and Tarin looked back at her levelly from across the table, ”I don’t even know if it was necessary.” he said. Later, he had met plenty of mutants who hadn’t been a part of what he’d been a part of who had managed just fine on their own. ”But it was effective.” he added.
Then Lee spoke again and he realized his attempt at redirecting the conversation had backfired a bit.
He didn’t know what to say, so he just looked back at Lee for a moment before getting up and grabbing his plate, too restless to sit anymore. Into the kitchenette he went, quickly scraping and cleaning the plate before making his way back out where they’d been eating. He didn’t sit down though, instead he leaned against an empty stretch of wall, and crossed his arms, ”Being overwhelmed never helped anyone accomplish anything.” he said. Tarin wasn’t angry or upset with the turn the conversation had taken, he just…was.
”How did you end up world hopping?” he asked in another, potentially more transparent, attempt to redirect the conversation.
Posted by Tarin Brooks on May 13, 2024 11:12:15 GMT -6
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Lee knew something about people getting too close and Tarin just nodded his head when she echoed his sentiments.
She wanted to know more about the island though, and Tarin couldn’t blame her after what she’d said about the way simple graveyards had affected the other Tarin.
This was somehow easier to talk about, Tarin decided and he took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Talking about his powers was tangible and clinical because it was something he’d had to do over and over for a long time.
”From what I can tell…I do things a bit differently than your Tarin did…” he started. ”I’ve practiced, a lot, for situations where I might get…overwhelmed.” It hadn’t been optional. ”And it wasn’t my first time out there.” That had been the final test, and while there had been no mausoleum or tight space, it had been overwhelming.
”I’ve got very firm…boundaries.” he said, ”So it was really just a matter of establishing those boundaries when I got out there and keeping them in place as long as I wanted to stay.”
It hadn’t been a good time, even once everything had gotten established. He’d been alone out there for way longer than he should have been and it had gotten almost too easy to talk to the spirits and their facsimile of life.
”Sleeping was really hard at first, I’ll admit, but I figured it out.” he shrugged, ”I guess I got a little lucky too.” he said in hindsight, knowing what he knew now.
He smiled a little now, hoping to sway the conversation away from its current topic a bit, ”Believe it or not, I’m pretty hard to overwhelm.” or underwhelm…or whelm in general.
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Tarin realized that he should have seen this coming about the time that Lee asked the question. He also knew that, “Nope” was probably not going to be a sufficient answer and he pushed the food around his plate for a few moments while he tried to gather his thoughts.
Finally he shrugged, ”There isn’t a whole lot to tell.” he said, leaning back in his chair and pushing his plate away a little.
”I ran around with those folks until I was in my 20’s,” he said, ”Then everything blew up,” both figuratively and literally ”And then I was kind of on my own.”
It had felt dangerous to seek out any of the others at the time, and while he’d run into people from time to time after, so few of them had managed to get away it hadn’t been hard to just avoid everyone. He didn’t share that though, didn’t know how to and didn’t think it was anything that anyone would want to hear. Least of all Lee.
”I was young and in New York City in the early 2000’s though, and the city was having a bit of a renaissance…as it does. So I had my share of good times, a couple of short term things.” he shrugged with a small sad smile, ”Nothing to write home about though. I worked odd jobs here and there to pay the bills, but staying in one spot for too long meant that people wanted to know things about you and old habits die hard.”
It was really kind of pathetic. It was also more complex than that, but again, Lee had asked if there was anything she should know.
”I stumbled into the shop and was kind of doing my thing there, but it inevitably started drawing the kind of attention I didn’t want, so I headed out to the island.”
Tarin sighed here, ”SUPER even found me out there. They sent this…kid to try and recruit me the nice way. It’s probably very lucky that he was so green and weirdly idealistic because I…did not react well. He left in one piece and I came here.”
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It was the same restaurant. Tarin couldn’t help the very slight tingle of discomfort that had started to work its way through him at all of the parallels that were starting to become evident.
This whole story was just so wild though and a testament to how people change over time. For Tarin to picture the Lee that he knew putting up with the sort of behavior she was describing just seemed…silly.
But then Lee told the story about the bar and that same feeling worked its way through Tarin as he listened to her describe something so similar to what had happened when they’d gone to the bar that the phrase “Someone walking over your grave” came to mind. Tarin had hated that phrase for as long as he could remember.
Tarin had asked though, and it wasn’t Lee’s fault that she was telling him what he had wanted to hear. It suddenly made sense though why things had felt so strange for her, and the self-consciousness it brought on in Tarin was not something he appreciated. Still, he gave Lee a small smile, ”Now see, that’s a distinct fork in the road…because I almost panicked and ran.” he said, ”Figuratively, at least.” he added.
”And you clearly didn’t manage.” It would have been weird for both of them if he suddenly shut down the conversation, so Tarin simply decided he wasn’t going to let it upset him. The two situations had similarities, of course they did, but it didn’t mean anything.
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Tarin shook his head when Lee confirmed the worst. Could you have secondhand embarrassment for your alter ego from another universe? Tarin was pretty sure you could.
”I honestly cannot believe he lived to tell the tale.”
The other Tarin had apparently only made it north when he was an adult. He’d spent enough time down south that when he had come to New York the weather had been hard.
”I won’t ever forget that first winter either.” he commented when Lee stopped to eat for a moment. It had been late autumn, actually, when he had made it to New York. It had gotten cold fast and he’d been completely out of money. The memory wasn’t a good one.
Lee continued the story then, only to point out that he had taken her to a little hole in the wall Chinese shop. ”Close by here?” he asked wondering if it was the same one they’d had takeout from together the night they’d watched the movie. The night that Robert had ended up coming over. The night Lee had burst into his room and Tarin had realized what was happening.
Lee was in the flow of the story now, though and Tarin gestured with his fork to continue…if one could do that with a fork. ”And the rest is history?”
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”He did not.” Tarin breathed when Lee explained that the other him had apparently been a huge pervert the first time they’d met.
And she’d used her powers on him? Good for her. But he’d scared her with spirits? The more Tarin heard about the other Tarin and his powers, the more it became obvious that they way the two of them had used said powers was really different. Tarin wanted to ask, but figured there was probably a limit to how much Lee wanted to talk about her ex with her current…Tarin.
Lee continued the tale and the story was almost too uncanny to be true. But here they were. Clearly something had gone right for the other him.
”He was worried about freezing? I thought you said it was Autumn…”
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So the crystal ball had only been broken once. That was good Tarin supposed, as crystal balls probably weren’t all that easy to come by…even in New York City.
As predicted, the other Tarin was the man in the pond, and this Tarin continued to eat as Lee told the story and rolled her eyes.
”Mostly” He echoed, ”You can’t just leave me hanging…” .
Was it weird that Tarin was so curious about the other him and Lee, but truth be told, he wanted to know more about Lee and the other him was part of Lee for a long time.
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Lee explained and answered questions and Tarin listened and nodded.
He had forgotten about the Mutant Registration Act and felt bad as Lee explained that she’d worked in the shop like she did because there hadn’t been anywhere else to work.
She, and the other Tarin had had to hide what they were and still try to carve out a place for themselves. The ideas were honestly pretty ingenious and Tarin wondered what it would have been like to hide in plain sight like that.
The crystal ball was a lot though.
”Did it get broken a lot?” he couldn’t help himself from asking
As for the shop, Tarin ate a few more bites as he considered what Lee was saying. The people he saw didn’t seem to have many expectations regarding what he could do, but it wouldn’t hurt to make this place a little more…professional didn’t seem like the right word.
The way Lee suddenly became interested in her food when he asked how she had met the other Tarin suggested that maybe this Tarin had misstepped a bit. The story itself made Tarin chuckle a bit and once again muse over the fact that he wouldn’t have ever been caught dead in a lake in Central Park like that.
”So while you wandered over the other Tarin did the same thing and that’s how you met? Watching the crazy man in the water?” he teased, ”Because I’d like to think the Tarin Brooks of all universes would know better than to put their bare feet pretty much anywhere in Central Park.”
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Lee described how various things had been different, in different places, and how there had been a real-life crystal ball in the shop when she had first visited. Tarin couldn’t help the raised eyebrows look he gave Lee at that tiny detail. The other Tarin, it appeared, had possessed a flair for the dramatic that this Tarin had never developed.
Lee kept talking and it became obvious that there were a lot of memories here. Her story had a lot of ‘we’s’ in it, ”So you guys ran things together?” Tarin asked, curiosity building.
Lee mentioned that at one point the shop layout had been really different and Tarin hmmmm’d thoughtfully at the mental picture.
It honestly wasn’t a bad idea, Tarin thought, especially now that he wasn’t living in the shop anymore.
”So people would hang out or wait up front, then move to a more….formal area in the back?” he asked for clarification, and then, ”How did you guys meet?” .