Magical Realm Cyoa/The Fortress

The Fortress is a war-focused Realm created for the Magical Realm CYOA roleplay game.

Build

[125] Trapped! [150] Sadism! [175] Bound! [200] Exile!

[185] Area Increase 8

[184] Insertion [179] Gateways 3 [175] Portals [173] Division [170] Transient [164] Protection 2 [161] Assimilation

[141] Population Increase 10

[140] Attitude Adjustment [138] Culture & Customs [136] Population Demographics [133] Population Longevity [129] Extrahuman Population [125] Metahuman Population

[119] Technology Upgrade 6

[109] Magical Upgrade 5

[108] Public Education [106] University [104] Diplomatic [101] Industrial [97] Mystical [92] Technomagic [90] Infrastructure

[89] Occult Affinity [88] Intellectual Affinity [87] Religious Affinity [86] Warfare Affinity

[83] Landscape Adjustment [81] Rich [78] Exceptional Materials [73] Fauna & Flora 3

[70] Fate

[65] Automatons 2 [59] Influence 3 [56] Equipment

[54] Immortality [51] Spirit Walk [49] Shape Shift 1 [48] Tongues [46] Memory [44] Awareness [42] Peak Condition [39] Superhuman Body

[37] Machina Mind [34] Time Manipulation [31] Scrying [28] Nullification [23] Dominion

[20] Familiar

[10] Divine Spark [0] Guidance 2

Realm Wizard

The Legion

Going under a large variety of names, like Overmind, the Star-Eater, the Never-Ending Nightmare, although it usually refers itself as the materialization of the collective Legion Members thoughts, and simply calls itself "Legion". This entity acts as a Hive Queen, having absolute control over the collective Legion and their absorbed races. It physical appearance it's similar to a giant eye ball, that is suspended in the Air and connected to its surroundings by a large amount of iron wires and links. A further scanning will reveal that this being has almost no senses that connect it to the outside world, being totally unaware of its surroundings. Incapable of direct verbal communication or using any medium to get information . It's unknown if the wires that link it with the room are actually part of the Legion or are part of the artifact too.

Being the Hive Queen, means that it's connected to all the Legion members, structures and resources, including husk soldiers and even the AIs. Although by itself it can barely move, its strength it's not in its physical body that it's a mere shell adapted to a better control of its minions, but in its own minions.

Although it has been shown to be able to understand and exploit animal-like emotions, it's usual personality reveals a cold and calculating being. For some reason, it also has stated that it's incapable of lying, though this has never been proved, since the Legion tends to speak in a vague language, when it rarely does.

The Familiar

It's currently unknown if the Legion has a familiar or not, although its always growing magic knowledge could lead to the conclusion that it, indeed posses one. It appearance or characteristics are unknown.

History

The Fortress was the culmination of the evolution of an Multi-Species civilization. This old civilization was born as a result of multiple Type I civilization meeting across the Galaxy and forging trading relationships at first, and then political ones. After many centuries of progress, this civilization reached it's zenith: Intergalactic travel. United by the same flag, the new Intergalactic Empire started to look upon the stars for new intelligent forms of life, and for a creator they couldn't find in their own stars. Millennium passed. Nothing was found. The now virtual immortal population of this all-mighty empire who grow until their cities and worlds reached the infinity.

They decided that no creator could be found in the infinity, and so the golden age of the empire ended. And again, millennium passed, and their union begun to crumble. Without a common goal, they started to separate in smaller factions and kingdoms. And the war started. This was no common war. They had the power to travel across the stars and to make them bend to their will. The Universe itself was in danger. The old leaders of the empire needed for a definitive solution... But it won't come without a high cost. The sacrifice of every individual liberty. The remaining loyalist of the now ripped empire, united themselves into one single will and course: the will of the Legion, who was created to stop the destruction of the universe and preserve itself as specie.

They were few in numbers, but that didn't stop them. The Legion fought without fear and without resentment. They absorbed everything the found. Until there was nothing to oppose them. And so, the universe was united once more time. But even with that power, they weren't able to repair the damage done by the constant wars that desolated the cosmos during centuries. Now, the Legion's Hivemind changed its goals. It has to preserve itself. But how? The whole reality was about to tear apart. The infinite people that composed the Legion reunited themselves in one point. A portal could be opened, by sacrificing the vast majority of the Legion, a small group may made it. They members destined to escape, were divided into groups formed by one trillion Legion members. And they were send to the infinite quantum space, hoping to land in one stable universe. The chances were that even with their almost infinite number, none of the groups will survive. But one group did it. They made it. Only a small fragment of the former great empire's knowledge and technology was able to be saved. But that was more than enough.

This new universe was young and its population primitive, but its magic energies were strong. So they waited. And they devolved again in the cold darkness of the space, waiting to the new primitive to evolve, so they could warn them about the dangers of their technological process, and the destruction that the quest of searching the limits of the infinity. But then something went wrong. A small idea. The smallest of all fragments, took over the Hivemind. The primordial idea of assimilation, the initial purpose of the Legion. And so, a new Hive Queen was born. Claiming to be the Legion itself, it named itself Legion, as it was the only will that the Hivemind will follow. A new quest and route was settle: To assimilate everything, so the universe could be reborn, and the calamity that took its ancestors don't have to take place. So it doesn't have to experience the pain of losing itself a billion of times.

Society

The Fortress society is almost non-existent. Although the Legion members are still independent beings, their will it's the will of the Hivemind. They act and developed as the Hivemind dictates. They think accordingly to the Hivemind's criteria and they do whatever the Hivemind thinks that it's the best action course to preserve the Legion and carry out their mission.

Reprodution

Assimilation

The assimilation Process that any living or dead body that enter in the Fortress is a short process that usually don't take more than a few minutes to the weaker souls, but could take a few days to the stronger magical souls. The process it's automated and the new Legion soldier will undergo a process where most of his body will be mutated by both enchantment magic and the addition of new limbs and organs to replace the old ones. According to the Fortress needs, the new member will be assigned to either the Fortress crew (construction, maintenance or helping around to fire cannons) or to the shock troops.

If the being it's specially large or has a powerful magical soul, it can be either used as a living weapon or even a Legion member. This process is slower, and it's supervised by Legion Elders, who are in charge of the brainwashing but without losing the own ideas and consciousness of the subject (in the first process you simply become a mindless machine that follows simple orders, like shoot, repair, attack, walk...).

Then, if the Elder thinks that it can be suited as a Legion Member, it will go under a long process of transformation, to create the monstrous beings that are in charge of the Fortresses. Many special reinforced steel layers are added, and only a few original organs remains. The brain and other minor functions are inserted in a special new container that will server as a shell to the new Legion member.

During this process, the new Legion member is put in a coma state, and a nullification spell is cast in the rooms where the transformation is being done. Only after the brainwashing is finished and the poor soul is installed into his new body, mind and soul will be linked to the Elder in charge of his transformation, and later linked to the Legion Hivemind, where it will dissolute in a sea of thoughts and consciousness.

For the great beings that are not suited for being Legion Members, either because they're not strong enough to endure the process or because their strong attributes proprieties would do better as living weapon in the battlefield. For these beings, they go a similar brainwashing similar to the Legion soldiers, but instead of being mindless, a new and clean ideas are put in place of the old ones, to do better at the task that they are assigned.

Again, similar to the transformation process of the Soldiers, the new living weapons will undergo an automatic process of transformation, adding and removing limbs and organs to suit better as the Fortress' interests.

If the being it's specially large or has a powerful magical soul, it can be either used as a living weapon or even a Legion member. This process is slower, and it's supervised by Legion Elders, who are in charge of the brainwashing but without losing the own ideas and consciousness of the subject (in the first process you simply become a mindless machine that follows simple orders, like shoot, repair, attack, walk...).

Then, if the Elder thinks that it can be suited as a Legion Member, it will go under a long process of transformation, to create the monstrous beings that are in charge of the Fortresses. Many special reinforced steel layers are added, and only a few original organs remains. The brain and other minor functions are inserted in a special new container that will server as a shell to the new Legion member.

During this process, the new Legion member is put in a coma state, and a nullification spell is cast in the rooms where the transformation is being done. Only after the brainwashing is finished and the poor soul is installed into his new body, mind and soul will be linked to the Elder in charge of his transformation, and later linked to the Legion Hivemind, where it will dissolute in a sea of thoughts and consciousness.

For the great beings that are not suited for being Legion Members, either because they're not strong enough to endure the process or because their strong attributes proprieties would do better as living weapon in the battlefield. For these beings, they go a similar brainwashing similar to the Legion soldiers, but instead of being mindless, a new and clean ideas are put in place of the old ones, to do better at the task that they are assigned.

Again, similar to the transformation process of the Soldiers, the new living weapons will undergo an automatic process of transformation, adding and removing limbs and organs to suit better as the Fortress' interests.

Duplication

The most common way for a new Legion member is to be born is to be created as a duplicated of an existing Legion member during the process of duplication of a Fortress carried by a Finger. This method consists in a Fortress using the energy of a star to rip the reality and open a shortcut to the magical substrate. As long as the star energies are drained, the Fortress can keep the fissure opened. Once the star is complete drained up and it disappears from the existence, the fissure does so.

With this energy, the Fortress can both store it to use it later offensively, or duplicate itself. The duplication process can be carried out while the Fortress is extracting energy without slowing the process. This process is slow and takes over a month. Shall it be interrupted, and the new Fortress and all its inhabitants will become raw magic energy again, leading to a great explosion equal to the energy extracted.

The new duplicate members will be added to the Hivemind, and will have the same exact qualities and attributes that its original, but it can develop entirely different, since they're both separate beings. Also, the Hivemind can store an old memory from a lost Legion Member into a duplicate body, instead of duplicating its consciousness.

Technology

The Fortress Technology it's mostly based on spiritual and magic energies. There's a strong machinery industry, but it is usually subjugated to the magical forces of the Realm. The Fortress is a world of steel and flesh, where mixtures of both reign and populate the silent space stations. Every being its, including the Fortress, is in perpetual process of self-revision and self-improvement. The whole Fortress upgrades itself constantly as new threats appears, new foes are discovered and new upgrades are developed by the Hivemind. Because of this, the Fortress is in usually in a "sleep" mode, where only a little fraction of its war power is active, while the minds of the Legion still working on new and constant improvements , the automaton's mists are in charge of applying the new upgrades.

In the Fortress, There is no AIs, as the Legion's minds are capable of surpass common AIs by themselves alone, and with their Hivemind, they are capable of drive crazy any AI on their range of action. Every movement in Fortress is calculated by the Hivemind alone, that acts as a global coordinator. Orders are delivered through it and all the information that the Fortress as its whole is capable to capture is streamed through the whole Hivemind. The coordination tasks are usually delivered through the most resistant and capable spirits, the Elders, since their minds are greater that any other Legion Member.

Although the Fortress is usually capable of self-

Automatons

The automatons of the Fortress are a mist of nanobots that populates the realms. They self-replicate using magic energy that they drain from the Fingers, so every corner of the Fortress is infested with them. They have little autonomy, and usually spend days patrolling the Fortress looking for anomalies or breaks in the Fortress' Hulk. They're very versatile, capable of turning into every material and repair every kind damage that the Legion's members or the Fortress itself can suffer. They also are very resistant to EMP attacks and low magic forces.

They are under the direct control of the Fortress itself, but they also can be inserted into the Legion's Hulks, aiding in battle with quick self-repair, and reinforcing the Hulks.