Magical Realm Cyoa/Megalodonia
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(150)Complication:Cosmic Horror!,(139)Area Increase 6,(138)Insertion,(135)Portals,(129)Protection 2,(115)Population Increase 7,(114)Attitude Adjustment,(112)Culture&Customs,(110)Pretty Population,(107)Population Demographics,(104)Population Longevity,(099)Metahuman Population,(094)Technology Upgrade 5,(084)Magical Upgrade 5,(082)Aesthetics,(081)Public Education,(079)Diplomatic,(077)Wealthy,(074)Industrial,(070)Mystical(Muscle Wizardry),(065)Technomagic,(063)Infrastructure,(062)Sanitation,(061)Secure,(060)Healthy,(059)Sports Affinity,(058)Warfare Affinity,(057)Alcohol Affinity,(056)Food Affinity,(055)Gaming Affinity,(054)Intellectual Affinity,(051)Landscape Adjustment,(046)Fauna&Flora 3,(043)Exceptional Materials(From Fauna and Flora),(042)Fertile(Nature grows and reproduces Rapidly),(040)Rich,(039)Dungeons 1,(038)Malice,(034)Theme,(033)Lifestyle Upgrade 1,(032)Influence 1.(030)Immortality,(028)Shape Shift 1,(027)Tongues,(025)Memory,(023)Awareness,(021)Inspiration,(019)Peak Condition(Muscle Wizard training),(016)Superhuman Body,(012)The Journey,(010)Alchemy,(008)Healing,(006)Enchanting,(003)Nullification,(000)Familiar
Brief History and General Overview
Futuristic Modern era civilization filled with magic and magitech. The people live in scattered city states on a great Pangaea. Early in this land's civilization about 2500 years ago, its people were brought to the brink of extinction and collapse, a cosmic horror from beyond space and time descended upon the world and corrupted the land and nature itself. The magical flora and fauna mutated and evolved rapidly, diseases and infertility plagues culled and sterilized two thirds of the population. But the people persevered, survivors and mountain hermits developed a way of life that incorporated fitness, health, mental discipline and fortitude as well as magic into a martial life philosophy known as The Path of the Enduring Mountain and were able to cure terrible diseases, fight off the monsters, cancerous vegetation and horrible aberrations at their doorsteps, purify the water, flora and fauna lightly corrupted by the cosmic horror's taint, quarantine regions that were beyond saving and they even found a way to partially remedy infertility. The first muscle wizard masters after centuries of struggle and fighting eventually subdued the cosmic horror and imprisoned it underneath a enormous enchanted mountain; Mount Megalodon. Yet its madness continues to seeps into the land and its wild and savage malice still threatens civilization.
Megalodonia's distant past is mired in myth and fables, most modern Megalodonians understand their past through allegories of muscle magic philosophy, parables and epics that have been passed down in oral tradition, with each retelling adding on more and more cryptic layers of fiction and half-truths. Actual historical records that stretch to the days of the cosmic horror are fragmented and undecipherable, and most exist in barely recognizable ruins littered around Mount Megalodon. Many whisper more complete records and secrets of Megalodonia's past reside in labyrinths and catacombs that are dotted around the dark shadowy quarantined zones contaminated heavily with the cosmic horror's lingering malice, where living tendrils of pitch blackness and nightmares roam in their confines. Few dare to venture into those dark depths and even fewer return alive or with their sanity unscathed.
Fast forward to the present day, over two millenia of forced natural selection, adaptation and immunization to the horrors of this deadly land, as well as staunch adherence to the ways of muscle magic wizardry, has made the people super-humanly strong and large of stature. The average female stands 7-9 feet tall, whilst the average males stand head and shoulders above them at around 9-12 feet tall. Unfortunately, the lingering effects of male infertility persists to this day and modern Megalodonia societies are cursed with highly skewed 90% female demographics. All the adult males are accomplished muscle wizards that guide, teach and govern the people living city states separated by vast death jungles and civilization devouring wilderness. Each city state has its own flare of customs and traditions, but overall universally themed around a meritocratic warrior-scholar culture and system of governance, adhering to the principles of muscle magic and the Path of the Enduring Mountain, where strength, skill and courage is acknowledged beyond all else, and chivalry and honor is upheld by every citizen, lest society breaks down and the ravenous and malicious nature reclaims back the land.
Daily life in Megalodonia is thrilling and work is abundant, there is much to do, from fighting back the violent nature that encroaches upon the cities, to ferrying and transporting enormous armored cargo and trade caravans through the horrendously dangerous wilderness, to setting out on great expeditions to uncover the secrets and treasures in the forbidden badlands or to establish new city states, and finally to hone the ancient practice of muscle wizardry to the level of a grand master and beyond or become mountain guardians ensuring the cosmic horror never escapes its prison. Regardless of profession, social status or wealth, pulp fiction adventures and jolly corporation awaits for each Megalodonian.