The Mystery Jungle

 

(The Mystery Jungle is the setting of Fantomah Rising by Lee Lines. Check it out by clicking here!)

 

Other Appellations:

 

Fantomah’s Jungle (Alpha), Universe 61416 (Universe 161)

 

Fox Harmonic:

 

Phi-Mu

 

Astral Connection:

 

L5 D8

 

As it’s connection numbers would suggest, this universe is one where gods rule over the ghost of the dead and pass down upon them judgement–or redemption.

 

Threat Rating:

 

1

 

The powers that rule this universe are clear in their expectations, and we have no reason to go against those expectations. Though fearsome and powerful, they are not unreasonable. Do not commit acts of great evil. It really is that simple.

 

Multiverse Activity:

 

Seldom

 

The gods of this universe have their duties, functions, and worshippers, and while they don’t mind interacting with beings from other universes, they don’t have much business concerning other universes, and so tend to keep to their own world. If summoned, they expect the summoner to have a good explanation for doing so.

 

Keywords:

 

Analog, Quantum

 

Description:

 

This Earth is a modern Earth. It is an Earth of rationality and science, of reason and technology.

 

For the most part.

 

But there are places, old places, where the old gods and old ways hold sway.

 

One such place is the Mystery Jungle.

 

The Mystery Jungle is her jungle. It is a sacred land without border or boundary. Sometimes it is South America. Sometimes it is in Africa. Sometimes its on top of a mountain in Asia. Sometimes its on an island in the middle of the Atlantic ocean

 

For those with goodness in their hearts, the Mystery Jungle is a sanctuary, and their safety is guaranteed by its all-mighty goddess. But for those with evil in their hearts, the Mystery Jungle is a place of punishment, the last place they will ever see before their final judgement.

 

For Fantomah is a goddess or wrath as well as mercy, of death as well as life.

 

 

Individuals of Note

 

 

Fantomah

 

 

 

The name Fantomah echoes throughout the multiverse.

 

In our world, Fantomah is a goddess, syncretic sister to the Morrigan, the Fates, and the Tridevi, but unbalanced compared to them because she only has two forms, not three. She had a form of absolute gentleness and understanding, a quite blonde woman, and a form of absolute retribution and vengeance, a blue skinned monster with a skull for a face. Long has she struggled to quell the hatred she feels for herself, for the other side of herself. She struggles to this day.

 

In another world, Fantomah is the ruthless protector of an uncharted African jungle dispensing weird punishments to those that violate her jungle code. She has always been, and will always be, the spirit of weird justice.

 

In yet another world, Fantomah is the daughter of an ancient sect of Egyptian sorcerers and keeper of the tablets of Thoth. She protects them in a lost jungle, a loyal panther her only friend.

 

But in this world, Fantomah is a penitent woman raised into divinity by the goddess Isis. She is as much a servant to divine powers as she herself is a divine power.

 

Fantomah was once princess Fantomah of Egypt, leader of a great caravan to the heart of Africa on the search for an artifact of fabled power and sacred significance–a jewel formed from the tears of the goddess Isis.

 

When a search party fails to return from a paradisiacal valley called the valley of Ba’l Zebub, Fantomah’s aid Houran advises caution, but Fantomah forces the caravan into the valley believing it to be the home of the Tears of Isis. The caravan is greeted by Dano and Lotai, worshippers of the alien deity Ba’l Zebub and rulers of the great city of Tantalus, a city built inside a volcano. But their hospitality is a front. In the middle of the night, they sacrificed Fantomah and her caravan to Ba’l Zebub.

 

Fantomah opened her eyes on the barge of Anubis. Realizing that her arrogance and rashness had cost her people their lives, she repented her sins before the goddess Isis and humbly accepted whatever judgement awaited her. But Isis is a goddess of forgiveness as well as wrath, and live as well as death, and tasked Fantomah to be her agent on Earth, to be an incarnate goddess for a wilderness without one, a source of justice, grim and uncompromising, for a place without justice.

 

Wiping out Tantalus by detonating the volcano in which they built their civilization, Fantomah claimed the valley jungle as her own. No longer the valley of Ba’l Zebub, it is now the Mystery Jungle, a jungle that appears throughout the world, a mist-shrouded land.

 

Though servant of the goddess Isis, Fantomah’s power makes her a goddess in her own right. Isis placed all of nature at her command. The elements, weather, wildlife, all obey her command. Her form is what she wills it to be. She can either be a captivatingly beautiful woman or a nightmarish giant with a skull for a face. Reality is her clay.

 

 

Raw Power X

Durability X

Speed X

Sanity 5

Intelligence 5

Skill 5

 

Madame Curare

 

 

A vain, wealthy woman who bankrolled the evil activities of a mad scientist named Henri Skelton. Henri believed that a certain radioactive rock, a byproduct of Fantomah’s presence, could be used to create a superweapon the likes of which the world had never seen and to that end enslave local natives to mine the material at the cost of their own lives.

 

Fantomah, of course, discovered Henri and Curare’s activities and administered swift and terrible justice. Curare, confident that she could somehow cut a deal with the ageless goddess, tried to negotiate with Fantomah only to be aged into oblivion and forced to watch her prized beauty fade before her eyes.

 

Raw Power 0

Durability 0

Speed 0

Sanity 1

Intelligence 1

Skill 1