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Koga didn’t even have a chance to watch Shin’s slow descent to a new shard board, He would have been in trouble if he had, once he truly started laughing about something it was hard to reel back in , though he would have been impressed as well it still would have tickled him just so he couldn’t stop. He let gravity move him making another Lego head fly by with a near miss his feet were now above him, but they wouldn’t be for long.
He always liked legos and hoped that this didn’t traumatize him. He had a couple nightmares due to the danger room and its ability to bring anything into semi reality. He then became fiercely determined…if he fought them he would know there was nothing to fear. It seemed like Shin had read his mind, as he agreed and was soon declaring war on the ugos him self.
~~ “Looks like the ball went down on your side of the court, Koga.” “I get the point… and these Lego men want to spear you with theirs… I say… FIGHT!!!”
“Yeah, yeah. Love, one.”
Koga made a wall crawling dash for the line of Lego men waiting to have their heads batted at him. When he neared them he leapt off the wall and his left arm caught an archway that was parallel to the floor, it worked just like a set of uneven bars, he kept the forward motion and planted his feet on the first Lego body that was now headless. The Lego men went down like a row of dominos, on the back ward swing he whipped his free arm around knocking the batter’s head off and against a wall.
Still optimizing the momentum he twisted back around to be facing the general area shin was in. “ ball” he whispered. And a ping pong ball dropped form no where. “ Love ssserving one.” He called as he shot the ball toward Tetsuya’s head.
His body slowly turned back as his wrist righted its self and what he saw made him think this was going to be a long fight. While the lego men were having a bit of trouble getting back up, the headless ones were doing so just as quickly as the ones with big yellow globes still attached. He pulled him self up into the arch barely dodging a grey spear that thought he was missing a puncture wound.
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In matters concerning Lego men and Pong, it is always important to keep one's head. Tetsuya Shinbo found his! Somewhere between falling backwards in slow motion and whipping his two shard cubes up from the fray for balance. Shin's arms pinwheeled round and round overhead as lawless Lego louts listed, languishing the joys of a cool head. Their arms groped. A man in a blue and white striped shirt found the unkempt jawline of a pirate's skull, and clamped it between his hands. Fingers tightened as the Lego man slammed the eyepatched noggin down on his neck like a sigil. With a quick series of turns, the scruffy head ratcheted on. Around him, others grasped victory. A ponytailed primadonna slipped her head onto the male body of a racecar driver with a pirouette, an angry jedi spun on his mullet, and a daring dark knight drew both cape and cowl close to his chin. Altogether, it was a head-turning occasion.
As Shin righted himself on his rectangle, Koga's ball bounced off the serving paddle to bore upwards like a drilling rocket-- straight into his head.
"Meep!" Shin squeaked! It was times like these when mental sound effects popped up to fill in the blanks. Ball bounced off skull like 'kasproinga', Asian headbutt met sphere like 'DOS'! 'Dokkun dokkun' went the heartbeat, and 'weeble wibble' went jelly legs!
Shin fell. And through no fault of his own, the ball soared back over to Koga's side of the court.
Koga grinned as the ball rocket towards its mark and grimaces as the plastic spear jabbed at him a second time. He crawled up the arch and then sprang into action even as Shin was tipping over more. He sprinted across a ceiling that was more of a wall, that some might think of as a floor, ah the world of Escher. He Leapt into the air and across to a wall near shin and sprinted again this time with gravity helping his descent. It could be dangerous to take every limb off of a wall even when making a leap, typically he could care less about gravity, but when he let go of a surface the rules were the same. Like Newton's apple he plummeted toward the floor , un like the apple, he was running down the well to help him go faster.
His hands whipped out and latched onto one of Shin's flailing legs and for a moment, it looked like he was doing great. Shins body would be heading toward the wall as he fought with gravity over possession of Shin. It turned out that he one the first round and would draw Shin toward the wall, but gravity would win the second as he still didn't have the strength at least not at the moment to hold shin up. His feet felt the strain of carrying a second and then made a wonderful litl. 'palop!' sound as his feet lost there suction out to the weight he was supporting. and so they both fell the last five feet to the floor.
Somewhere in the back ground a ping pong ball bounced on the floor on Koga's side. Koga groaned as the steady sound of Lego steps was closing on them.
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It all happened so fast. One minute, Shin was conscious and he was thinkin', then he was sinkin. Drip dropping down to the floor. He rubbed his head as he sat up on his sore backside. A groan welled in his gut.
"Ugh. I just had the strangest dream, Koga... and you were there... and there were Lego men... and a big turning twister that grabbed me by the leg, and swung... I think I hit my head against something hard, though. And the next thing I knew, I was... wait. Why are we on the floor. And... what's with those Lego men from my dream... no. Don't tell me...?" Shin stared at Koga for a second, completely wordless. Then he filled in his own blanks, slapping his head. "M.C. Escher!? What was I thinking!? Okay... so..."
A pirate in a bandanna jabbed a spear at Shin's back. The Asian boy spun to catch the heft of spear just after blade between his hands and shoved it away, getting to his feet. A trio of red shards flew at the pirate's neck. A slash of red.
Shin turned towards Koga, whipping the shards up and around to form the top of a pyramid. The shape hovered between them like a carousel's roof. Shin nodded, and jerked his attention back to the five other Lego men rushing past the headless pirate as he groped for skull and bandanna. Shin's lips moved. Mouthed the words 'We fight'. Then he lost himself in punching Lego men and the kicking out of legs.
A set of pants flew towards a downward-sloping staircase. The pyramid ground into a blue and white striped chest. A Lego man in a heavy suit of armor clanked towards a panel on the wall of an upper level. You could almost sense the malicious glow behind his helmet as he tore down a handle.
The entire Escher world began to spin like a wiener on a stick.
A Lego man flew backwards into a swiftly-tilting staircase. Shin's eyes snapped to the rising walls. He gulped. "Uh oh."
~~"Ugh. I just had the strangest dream, Koga... and you were there... and there were Lego men... and a big turning twister that grabbed me by the leg, and swung... I think I hit my head against something hard, though. And the next thing I knew, I was... wait. Why are we on the floor. And... what's with those Lego men from my dream... no. Don't tell me...?" "M.C. Escher!? What was I thinking!? Okay... so..."
“Yeah, about that.” Koga intended on making a comment about not wanting to be Toto, to Shin’s Dorothy, but Lego people weren’t giving him enough time to be a smart alec.
“Ahh!” He shouted as he watched shin masterfully handle a Lego Pirate, but realized that a Pit crew chief with a ridiculously over sized wrench was coming for him.He dodged just fast enough to roll toward Shin and see the wrench hit the ground where his head was, it looked like it would have hurt pretty bad.
Koga struck his foot out at the wrench and made contact, his foot suctioned to the wrench and when the Lego man reared back to swing again, Koga was helped to his other foot. Koga Snapped of a round house kick and sent the Lego mans head around the wrong way. The result was hilarious. The lego mechanic couldn’t bend his arms to fix his head but was trying any ways, mean while he dropped his wrench and was waddling back and forth. Koga grabbed up the wrench and Nodded toward shin. He tossed the paddle to the ground. Game on pause. There was no freaking way, that he was going to let the mansion see the danger room tape where the Asian invasion got owned by a bunch of freaking Lego people.
~~"Uh oh."
And the world started to rotate… Esher’s stairs… rotating…Lego people every where, and Koga couldn’t be more at home…what did that say about you as a person. He didn’t have time to wonder. A couple of swings of the wrench and a witch and an astronaut went down hard. As they struggled to get up, their little feet weren’t connected to the pegs on the ground and so they started to slide away from him. This could work.
“Ssshin! No time like the presssent to learn how to fly! I sssuggest keeping two sssmall ssshardsss in your handsss for balance. Use them to sssstabalize you.” And that was all he had time to say more lego people had to die. He’d check on shin before the world was worse off then sideways for him.
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Shin blinked. He looked at his palms. He liked his hands. "Um. No." The idea was dismissed, simple as that. Shin ran to a wall that was rotating upwards, and grabbed hold of a peg. He let the handholds carry him up and away.
Down below, Lego pit crews were popping heads back onto their comrades. The worker Koga had spin-kicked couldn't well turn his own head, but 'thank you, other people', he could get help from his friends. It was... bad news. Very bad news. Because now, he'd returned with backup, and an orange chainsaw in his hand. And he wanted revenge.
The chainsaw sword roared as it swept diagonally at Koga. The Lego man slammed his feet firmly into place on pegs as the world turned vertical.
Shin's hand clamped down on the edge of the wall... clamped down onto the edge of roof. Correction.
He scurried up onto swiftly-shifting solid ground... and came face to face with the Village People.
A cop slapped a walkie talkie against his palm. A native American held a 'war' pipe. That jackhammer in the construction worker's hand, Shin thought to himself briefly. Could be a problem. They turned towards him. An evil aura loomed.
Shin bolted off the edge of the rooftop, towards the staircase across the way!! For a moment, he hung, arms outstretched, in the air above the Lego ceiling below. Then, he caught the edge of a stair, and slammed a shard foothold into a wall. A few more footholds shot into the wall above him. Shin swung himself towards peg handholds, and ascended.
As his back flopped onto solid ground with a painful slap, Shin let out a heavy breath. "This is crazy... how can I practice shard flight in this...?"
Ah well. At least he could catch his breath...
That was about the time a pirate rolled a cannon out from a hallway behind him, malicious grin on his face. Shin pulled the back of his hand up off his face, and glanced Swabby's way. "Yeah, yeah..." Shin sighed. "Spoke too soon."
A cannonball exploded over the upper levels of M.C. Escher's Relativity. The smoke cloud it left behind was relatively thick... in the dust and fog of decimated Lego wall and staircase, an Asian triangle-mancer coughed into a fist.
Shin hovered in the middle of the room above it all, on a blood red shard sofa.
The cannon rolled forward over the balcony's edge. The pirate's eyes widened as below him on a lower level, another pirate with an oppositely-colored bandanna widened his.
Koga let out a laugh as Shin disagreed and left it at that. He proceeded to punch a white and black striped burglar, the burglar swung a bag at him with a money symbol on it and he couldn’t help but want to crack up, crack up and get beaten to death by humorous holograms. He leapt to the Lego mans chest taking a hit to his chest and placing a hand on either side of the yellow head. He popped off the head and pushed the body away. He dropped the head and secured it to a peg. He was going to build himself a totem pole. He glanced up to see shin working against gravity and the village people? This wasn’t funny anymore.
The crew worker came at him with a chainsaw and he back pedaled with the quickness. There were just too many of them, and with the fact that they were putting themselves together he was starting to wonder when it was ok to run from Legos.
Never. That’s when. He dodged left and then right and then right some more. And finally the clunky little man over extended and sent his chainsaw into some lego stairs.. and to Koga’s disturbed pleasure he watched as the chainsaw ate the staircase. Sending little confetti curls of plastic up into the center of the room. He dove on top of the lego man and pushed at his wrists causing the little yellow claw hands to come free from his arms. And now they would die. Koga grabbed the chainsaw away from one of the hands and simply grabbed the peg behind the other as it would not let it go free. A couple steps forwards ans he he plunged the equipment into the lego mans head and then threw his lego torso and legs….it would have been terrible gruesome if it hadn’t been a toy. The pieces of the body fell to the ground and stopped moving. There was no putting that back together. He dipped the tip of the chainsaw into the top of the burglars head and the plastic features on its face died dramatically. The tides just turned…and he was an action hero in a lego zombie movie. He dashed forward into a group of Indiana jones natives and tore through them with a vengeance.
Shin should impale them…impale them all.
With a flick of his tongue and a snake like his, his lizard black eyes glared. The carnage continued.
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"Urgh..."
My, what an epic first word out of his mouth. A random voice of thought strayed.
Shin blinked for a second, then smacked the side of his head. The concussion sent fourth wall-breaking reeling to the rotating floor below. Shin looked around, dazed. "Urgh, yet again..." He looked up towards the ceiling. No voices? Okay, good. He tightened his grip on the couch-ish shard construct he was sitting on. That had been a clever idea... if he didn't need to balance, he wouldn't wobble... though this certainly wasn't the same epic flight he'd been planning.
He stared eye level at a pair of knights hanging out from the side of the moving wall, bodies horizontal. Another blink. Yeah, definitely better than wobbling. And there they were, shaking their swords again. What a distraction...
Shin focused on pulling all the shards left floating in the room together... he stood on the couch, wobbled, sat again. Yay for sitting.
What was Koga up to while he was sitting, Shin wondered. He peered over the right arm of the couch, and immediately looked away. "Urgh... Lego carnage... well, then." If Koga was dismantling Lego men with a chainsaw, he could keep that going. Shin was going to find some other way to help... but what?
The blood-red couch levitated, and rose towards the "ceiling". Shin's eyes locked on a switch.
"A switch?" What was a switch doing here? Well, if Pokemon had taught him anything, it was this: if you find a switch in a conveniently unhidden location, push it! To hell with the consequences. Pushing buttons and throwing switches was fun! Shin leaped from his couch to the platform, and jerked the switch to the 'off' position!
The whole room's rotation slowed to a crawl... then, it stopped.
"Phew," Shin wiped a hand across his brow.
"RAWR!!" Shin tilted his eyes upwards. Five Lego men wriggled against the ceiling, legs stuck fast. Shin shook his head. It was their fault. Peg legs on pegged floor, rotations? Well, what could ya do?
He'd help them. "Scatter, blood-red couch-ula." Shin held up his right hand. The shards composing the couch blew apart, like a wind of cherry blossoms. Shin looked to the sky, and pointed. A crashing gust of razor-sharp death tore across Lego men.
Shin turned his back.
Just as five Lego men fell from the ceiling, to shatter against the ground below. "AHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Shin's eyes tilted upwards again, to see five distinct lower halves, still fastened to pegs. The torsos... well... he looked down to the floor, where Koga was tearing through foes.
"Looks like he's having a ball." A white ping pong ball clattered against the top of Shin's head, and bounced to the floor so far below. Shin paused to glare scathingly at the ceiling. "Not that kind of ball!"
Koga rocked forward as his funhouse world came to a halt. He liked it spinning around. He wasn’t sure which way up was, but the world was always his floor, so he hadn’t minded the disorienting rotation. When it had stopped, it stopped conveniently in its normal position, which was still odd from any angle in this Escher Lego land. He grinned at a pair of pirates and set his chainsaw to puree. He moved to a cowboy and cut him to pieces. The native near by never stood a chance. The maiden met a messy mortality. Koga killed kog-ish kooks.
Suffice to say, this was a therapeutic morning, any and all stress was let out threw the wielded chainsaw, He was thoroughly enjoying the Lego genocide, up until the point he thought of his sworn foe, the devil with the green eyes. The man was a destructive force and would have loved this scene whether it was kittens or convicts. Koga looked up and revved the chainsaw at a group of Lego monsters and they turned tail and ran. The monsters were the first to have the sense to not enter the fray. He looked up to find shin just as several torsos landed around him in chunks.
“You win Ssshinbo, Two to zero I think.”
He stared up ward and looked at the aftermath of their ping pong match. And chills went down his spine as he realized who he was really up against.
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>>“You win Ssshinbo, Two to zero I think.”
Shin drifted down to land at Koga's side on a red shard platform. He turned, held out his hand. "Ball." A ping pong ball fell into his hand. Shin swatted it over to Koga's side of the court with a smirk. "We were playing to three. And was there ever any doubt? Danger Room, Simulation End!"
The walls of the Escher world snapped away, drifting towards the ceiling as Lego men scurried for cover. The danger room set Koga and Shin down gently on the floor. Shin took one last look at the scenery, then shook his head, dismissing his shards.
"So... some simulation, huh?" He scratched the back of his neck with a laugh. "I didn't even program in the Lego men....... the danger room has it out for me. Ah well, at least I got to practice that levitation some. How'd I do?"
Koga watched the ball fly past him, he considered attempting to chainsaw it to death but no, it was fine. This was the craziest game of anything he had ever played.
~~"We were playing to three. And was there ever any doubt? Danger Room, Simulation End!"
“Up until the rulesss became ssstay alive and play, I had doubtsssss” he grinned at his mentor. “I’ll take a rematch in the rec room any old time.
~~"So... some simulation, huh?" "I didn't even program in the Lego men....... the danger room has it out for me. Ah well, at least I got to practice that levitation some. How'd I do?"
“Homicidal Lego men in a every which way world. Classssic. I think Sam has too much time at the controls, someone might need to reel him in.”
“You ssseem the natural. The way you jussst floated down here wasss ssspectacular.”
Koga looked around a bit as if wait for another lego man to hope out and need to be dealt with.
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>>“Up until the rulesss became ssstay alive and play, I had doubtsssss”
"Yeah... well, we're Still Alive, at least." Shin replied. Look at them, doing science... or lack thereof. Still alive. "And any time. I love a good game of ping pong. So long as it doesn't involve filling the danger room with balls..." Shin blinked, remembering back to his simulation with Sara. That had been one hell of a simulation. Yes, the danger room was no place for basic ping pong. The rec room... was far better. It didn't do things other than what it had been made to do.
Shin scratched the back of his head at the compliment. "Yeah. I still need a bit more practice, but... I think levitation will have its uses. Maybe if I master it enough, my lifting strength might increase, and then I could pick up cars?" Shin looked upwards, imagining that idea. A red sports car crashed through the wall of the danger room in his mind. Oh yeah... Because that'd be safe.
~~"Yeah... well, we're Still Alive, at least." “alwaysss a plusss I think.”
~~"And any time. I love a good game of ping pong. So long as it doesn't involve filling the danger room with balls..." “cool, after classss today I’m not up to anything in particular. I can make you feel my ping pong wraith then. You know, that isss if you don’t find an excussse by then to get out of it.”
~~"Yeah. I still need a bit more practice, but... I think levitation will have its uses. Maybe if I master it enough, my lifting strength might increase, and then I could pick up cars?" “Um, heck yeah levitation! Flying, I think ssso.” He took a breath and calmed himself before he started jumping up in down and shouting Ideas. You could sssave a lot on gas that way too and man traffic would be non exissstent. “Ssspeaking of classss...” he looked to his watch and frowned. “I have to get to the ssshowersss if I am going to have really really hot water.” it was winter and he had to have his daily fix of way too hot.
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"Flying, and levitation, and sawblades, and horizontal walls... and you know those things that crush trash into tiny cubes? I tried one of those on one of Shawn's laser deathbots, once. Gosh, so many ideas..." Shin trailed, eyes a-sparkle. The possibilities were endless. If he could combine this skill with his many other ones... maybe even the tiny shards? Shin tried picturing an application for the teensy weensys. Maybe some form of glove... if only he could work that to be safer, close on his skin...
>>“Ssspeaking of classss...” Koga interrupted Shin's thoughts. Shin looked over to the lizard boy in understanding.
"Yeah, you head off. Don't want you to be late. We can talk later."
"I am hoping that sssomewhere along the way I develope sssomething a bit more flexible than suffocating foes. but hey it is a start." He laughed again. "Thanksss for the wake up call though, any time you are going into a danger room recreational deathtrap let me know. I can't be late, they were threatening to make me cut down on my training time." Koga walked backwards slowly and then turned and started sprinting he went out the hall and up the wall and ran all the way to his room, he grabbed the stack of clothe he had set out and started to head to the showers. the sun wasn't even up yet.