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“So this is a city where you can live inside your favourite book, movie, tv show, or videogame, where you can be anyone you could possibly ever want to be, and you’re seriously telling me there’s no-one here who’s trying to be me, except for me? That’s ridiculous.”– Rowdy Roddy Randy
Season One of the Rowdy Roddy Randy Show looks at the prequel years of Municipal City, when a handsome young man is thrust into the scene to irreparably shake things up forever. Watch with awe as an impressionable boy is forged into the smelted steel of manhood to become the unparalleled warrior-wizard-celebrity-genius that we already know him to be.
Season Two reboots the double-life Randy was living while Lockhart stumbled about, obsessing about her cyborg boyfriend. Torn between his love for Anna, his indifference to Lockhart, and his testicle-shrinking detestation of Sam, Randy must decide whether he wants to be the best by playing by the rules, or be the best because he’s awesome.
And finally Season Three continues on as sequel to where Cult Fiction left off, in a city scourged with the dangerous E-Virus, ready to explode, just waiting on the right spark to set it off. Will Randy be the jerk to set it off? Or will he rise to the challenge and claim that number one spot he so rightly deserves, in CULT FICTION: PLAYER TWO!
Moi’dan the Masked once ruled half the world, in a time when the gods had been slain and all magic banished with them. When the heavens were breached to create a new age of gods, Moi’dan was betrayed and destroyed, but did not die. His life was fractured into nine lesser lives, and his masks of power lost. Amadis has always been more than a Powerborn and less than a god. He is the fractured memory of Moi’dan, and he will do anything to return to that power. But whenever a tyrant seeks to build his empire on the deaths of innocents, there will be those that rise to stop a man who has survived things that no fleshborn should, overcomes the weakness of flesh through the strength of his will. He uses that will to keep from slaying every man, woman, and child that he meets, but he will gladly unleash all darkness that dwells within him to kill Amadis.Thisian, who wants nothing to bloody do with Amadis, or Kris, or any other lunatic that might want to kill him, but he will fight when he must. He is Powerborn, a Fureath’i Flameborn with the blood of gods running through his veins, and he uses this might to travel with thieves, to hunt for gold, and to bed as many women as he possibly can.And Phira, the first female blaze commander of thousands, the slayer of gods, the wielder of the Jaguar blade, the woman who killed the Iceborn Aerath and who has now set her sights firmly on ridding the world of Amadis. If any think to get in her way… may they all die screaming.
Dovid lives in a perfect world, free of crime, war, or poverty, and everyone is given everything they could possibly need. The only thing that could be considered wrong with this world (and there is no-one really that engages in such consideration) is that before you reach the age of sixteen you will lose one of your senses. Your eyes will fall out, or your nose will slide off, your tongue will decompose, your ears will rip free, or your skin will rot and harden into scar tissue. And nobody thinks this is strange.
People are given technological upgrades instead, that simulate the old sense-perception, and many even say improves upon it. In fact Dovid is distraught that he is the oldest person in the world at sixteen to have not received a single inability; he is abnormally normal. He lives a standard life in his self-sustaining island, which he never needs to leave, and has companionship in the form of his walls and their various smiley face facades. Dovid’s social interactions are limited to communications with his eyeless brother Mart, until his sixteenth birthday, when Dovid is convinced to leave his island and venture to a Physical Leisure a place where people are made to actually interact with other people in the flesh. The four options for this physical interaction are sexual, narcotic, violent or gluttonous; things that every normal person apparently does.
But what if Dovid is not normal? What if he has already received his inability and it is not the ability of sight or sound or touch or taste or smell. What if it is a sense of perception beyond those standard five, and worse, what if there are others like him?
The world of power is turning to ice... and when its keeper, the great Amadis Yeda disappears, armies of magic begin to war, creatures of darkness come into the light, gods walk among men, nations plunge into chaos, and the lives of four friends are changed Kris, a warrior who struggles not to kill every man, woman and child he meets, is sent to stop the new tyrant, Aerath, from turning the world to ice. Thisian, a man who loves only gold, women and himself, takes advantage of the new found freedom a world without order has created. Phira, the youngest and only female general her nation has ever known, is on a mission to uncover the secret behind Aerath’s new power and how to stop his oncoming armies. And Dallid, a man who has spent his life among those far greater than him, is given all the power of the gods. He must struggle with the responsibility cast on him, he must show the world what strength of flesh and heart can be when a mortal man is given limitless power. He must show the world what it is to be Fireborn.
Municipal the only place on earth where you can be anyone. Anyone from your favourite movies, books, tv shows, comics, video games or any cult media you can imagine. This is not virtual reality. This is real. Tina Lockhart arrives at the City to do exactly that, and is willing to pay any price to get in, willing to take the Elixir drug she needs just to breathe the air, and willing to kill, and risk being killed, just to survive.
Municipal the only place on earth where you can do anything. Anything can be replicated, given the right technology, and anything can be done as long as you follow the rules of the game. But someone isn’t playing by the rules. Someone is murdering players in the safe zones, something that should be impossible. As dangerous as this is for Tina Lockhart, things get worse as she becomes the one accused of these killings, and Tina desperately needs to find the truth in her world of cult fiction.