https://nightshade.thorngale.net/ 2026-04-20T07:17:26+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/old/cheshires?rev=1511019287&do=diff Cheshires (or, if one were to romanise their name for themselves, Taakivara) are an extra-terrestrial, acorporeal species that have spent many aeons travelling through the universe and having it for lunch. They've come to Earth precisely for this purpose. There's nothing special about why Earth was chosen - it just happened to be their next destination (which is to say some are probably infesting neighbouring planets in the solar system). They're not eating because they need it so much as that … text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/old/chimera?rev=1511019287&do=diff Chimera is an AI that was initially created by the Cheshires. They would no longer cite it as a friend, though, and have tried to shut it off; (un)fortunately to no avail. It escaped and is currently being protected by Nightshade, who have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it and are trying to ensure it can function again and make more text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/old/humans?rev=1511019287&do=diff Most humans in Nightshade have had their curiosity disabled. The Cheshires have contaminated water supply with what would best be described as 'nanobots' - but is usually called “curiosity toxin” by survivors that don't exactly have the means to verify how the substance functions, assuming for a moment that they have a theory about the absent emotion at all (and have text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/old/nightshade?rev=1511019287&do=diff Nightshade is the name of the Thorn (semi-)organised resistance against the Cheshires. While they're rarely able to make perfect use for them, Nightshade Thorns (or Thorns in general if they end up having the thought) are very fond of submarines for the obvious reason that being in a submerged submarine is great at giving them the power of not-dying. text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/old/sessions?rev=1511019287&do=diff Prelude * 2016-05-22 * Adrian * unnamed Cheshire * Chimera text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/old/skath?rev=1511019287&do=diff Skath is a disease that befalls Cheshires. Skath locks Cheshires into the state of having a physical avatar, though they can still morph it at will -- excepting the gradual crusting with exo-skeleton-like protrusions, which they cannot shirk. Once fully encrusted with it, they die. (Theoretically, they can always avoid getting fully encrusted by expanding around it, but it just becomes more and more unwieldy as time goes on.) text/html 2017-11-18T15:34:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://nightshade.thorngale.net/old/thorns?rev=1511019287&do=diff Thorns (or Chesters) are human-Cheshire hybrids. That's not to say they are somehow the unholy offspring of a human and a Cheshire getting intimate - that wouldn't work, they're not even remotely biologically compatible. No, instead, they're hybrids in a sense that someone has taken pieces from a human and pieces from a Cheshire and grafted them together artificially.