https://nightshade.thorngale.net/ 2026-04-20T01:06:08+00:00 https://nightshade.thorngale.net/ https://nightshade.thorngale.net/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/atmosphere?rev=1511019287&do=diff General Game Atmosphere Every roleplaying game thrives on its very own expectations of atmosphere. Each setting usually dictates much of the atmosphere to be expected within it, but natural correspondences are especially blurry within grim realms, ranging from a desire to be satirical to playing it completely straight. text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/characters?rev=1511019287&do=diff Cheshires * Delta (Morgrim) * Epsilon (pinkgothic) * Theta (pinkgothic) * Lambda (Rehchoortahn) Thorns * Adrian Roche (Rehchoortahn) * Margreet Wauters (pinkgothic) Humans * Astrid Murielle Deniau (pinkgothic) * Laure Joubert (Morgrim) * Pascal Baudin (Rehchoortahn) * Sébastien Lavigne (pinkgothic) Other * Chimera (public) text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/cheshires?rev=1511019287&do=diff Cheshires have earned their moniker from the semblance their phantom forms frequently remind of the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland. They are an extra-terrestrial, acorporeal species that have spent many aeons travelling through the universe and having it for lunch. Cheshires exist on Earth, Mars, Venus and the asteroid belt, though most of them are currently on Earth. It's conceivable there are some independent clusters of them elsewhere, but if so, it's not relevant to the story in any … text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/humans?rev=1511019287&do=diff Laure One of the first things the Cheshires did when they came to Earth was to poison humanity. They could have destroyed mankind by infecting them with a slow-working virus. Instead, they opted for something subtler: The removal of human curiosity. Distributing a substance in the water supply text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/overview?rev=1511019287&do=diff Setting The world of Nightshade is a modern day Earth that's on the cusp of a quiet apocalypse. Extra-terrestrial invaders that lucid humans call Cheshires have come to Earth. Unlike regular invaders, they're not interested in controlling the planet. Very simply, it's made of atoms that they can use for something else, and they will happily consume all of Earth at a leisurely pace text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/players?rev=1511019287&do=diff The following players have joined Nightshade: name timezone typical availability Morgrim Australia All day Mon-Sun pinkgothic ★ Central European Evening Mon-Fri All day Sat-Sun Rehchoortahn ☆ US Evening Mon-Fri All day Sat-Sun Legend ★ primary gamemaster ☆ text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/sessions?rev=1511019287&do=diff Main These are regular sessions set into the present timeframe of the Nightshade universe. * 2016-06-11 * Laure * Theta * Margreet Wauters * 2016-05-30 ✘ in progress * Sébastien Lavigne * Lambda * 2016-12-18 ✘ in progress * Pascal Baudin * Epsilon Prelude These sessions are set in the past of the setting. They've been played to explore the backstory of the status quo in the Nightshade universe. text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/sidebar?rev=1511019287&do=diff World * teaser * overview * cheshires * humans * thorns Game * atmosphere * players * characters * session archive Meta * darkmyst.org * Channels * #dataclaw (OOC) * #nightshade (IC) * #freeform To get access to this wiki, contact pinkgothic through IRC. text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/start?rev=1511019287&do=diff Earth is decaying. Slowly, the planet is consumed, and every day its orbit deteriorates a little more, nudging it further away from the sun. Meanwhile, the subjugated human population is fully unaware of their own subjugation. Stripped of their curiosity, most humans don't parse the changes around them. In some places, whole mountains can disappear without that anyone's attention is roused. Routine keeps most of the human population alive, functioning by their own measure. text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/thorns?rev=1511019287&do=diff selfself For Cheshires, water is a problem. One Cheshire's experiments (Theta) with water, searching for some way to reliably endure the substance, some way to survive the weakness or sickness it brings, occasionally take on a literal life of their own. Thorns