As mortals they were told to stay in line and do what they’re told, in exchange they’d be given safety and enough to provide.

It was a lie.

As supers they were told to lay down their lives and in exchange they’d be loved and respected.

They were passed over.

The world left them no choice but to either quietly continue licking the scraps off of society’s floor, or take the lives they wanted by force.
Alone they were nothing.
Together they will be feared.

Theme: Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson

The Pariahs is a dark and gritty antithesis to superhero pop-culture about a group of supervillains attempting a rise to power, think Joker (2019) meets Justice League. Viewer discretion is advised.
The story will begin amidst their first bank robbery.
Please see game info for details.

strangers awaken on the sand, soaked and disoriented. but none of them remembers how they got here—or even where they came from

The island is lush yet unsettling: strange carvings in the trees, abandoned shelters, and the constant feeling of being watched. Each survivor carries fragments of memory, but the pieces don’t fit together. Were they passengers? Were they chosen? Or is something else at play?

Together, they must uncover the truth of their arrival while struggling to survive the island’s dangers. But trust is fragile—when you don’t know who you are, how can you know who to believe?

In the Year 2350 A.D the debate of about the necessity of faith and belief was put on the center stage of the Scientific Community. Scientists argued for it, others against that the very belief in the unseen is illogical and unnecessary for modern expansion.

In an experiment to end the debate, Scientists tore the veil of reality to seek out Heaven. But they got it wrong. Heaven wasn’t where they calculated it to be, they found emptiness.

From that moment on, childlike wonder, and belief in the unseen became obscure and obsolete. A world of hedonistic materialism bloomed from the ashes of dreams.

However, there was something pulling the strings behind the scenes. The Gloom. An anomalous extraterrestrial threat that slipped through the breach of reality. A predator that physiologically harms its prey before devouring them. It feeds on emotions, ambitions, and dreams leaving all mortals it touches empty apathetic husks. Having been drawn to the emotional and mental anguish created by the Scientific Faith debate.

Not much is known about the Gloom even by the Phantoms: The folk legends, myths, and urban legends forgotten by the social mind. They never died, but instead they have been repurposed. They are now the unseen protectors and warriors that combat the Gloom. The unseen sentinels of an unbelieving world.

Can they force The Gloom to retreat back through the tear of reality or will all of humanity become apathetical husks in its wake?

This is a fantasy story/game with a new host, so don’t expect anything too great. I just want to make some scenarios, improve my writing and play a fun game whilst I do! This is pretty casual, so we can go pretty slow, depending on what you guys want, and I’ll try to keep it a good blend of unserious and serious. Come and join if you want to! Fair warning though, I did choose the cards to be… well.. gritty. I won’t personally invite anyone (I have no friends), but do feel free to join, even if you’re new or experienced, good or bad at writing, or even planning to joke around or be dead serious. I accept anybody!

You are Luce, beings of light, living in palaces of crystal deep within Scuta, or as the humans call it, Earth. Your kind are benevolant by nature, always wanting to share your utopic realm and way of living, but unable to do so without risking harm on the fragile peoples that live scattered around the globe, whose eyes can’t withstand your radiance, and whose flesh blisters and burns from the heat of your hearts.

Life on Scuta’s core has always been serendipitous, but something new appears that for the first time, might not be so. A child, retrieved from a metal canister that appeared at the door of the Regent’s palace one day. Not any child, no, a little girl made of darkness. Something never seen before. She feeds off light, her mere presence sapping the glow from the skin of any Luce that happen be near.

The Lady Regent has put together a team of volunteers to care for the child. You are one of them, and just a couple weeks in you begin to notice how being around the child not only depletes your essence, but also corrupts your nature, making you feel things you’d never felt before. Frustration, jealousy, fear.

On top of that, the Lady Regent recently informed you and your peers that she received a concerning message from the surface: The child belongs to the humans, and they want their weapon back.

A vessel named the Odyssey was a deep-space research vessel, these vessels were standard procedure to send out. The explorers on these vessels take samples of other planets,observe how the planet thrives, and even get to discover new planets. These have been sent out for many years, but this vessel was special.

The Odyssey was the first vessel to have the new built in AI, Quest. Quest was supposed to help the explorers manage the supplies they had, help them discover and explore new planets, and help them keep samples just in the right conditions for them to stay alive. Everyone thought that this new AI was going to help everyone, but little did they know that Quest had a different idea.

The Odyssey’s first journey was not far, they just went to the other side of the galaxy. Halfway though the journey they lost connection to the vessel, but suspected nothing about it. A week after they lost connection with the vessel they got a transmission from it, all it said was “Silence”. Nothing more than one word was said.

Two weeks later, the vessel came back, the only problem is that it was unresponsive and powered down and without the crew. No one could explain what had happened and no one questioned it father when NASA said the crew did it to its own vessel.

The NASA engineers got the vessel to working order, Odyssey now operational, was waiting for its next crew.

2 decades after civilization collapsed, the Zaibatsu built everything up from the ground, and established new rules built on equality. However that was 100 years ago. Now the Zaibatsu officers are seen as signs of terror, and the Zaibatsu family rules with iron fist. The world has been split into proveniences. Our story takes place in a lower provenience, where everyone is teetering on poverty, as a reporter gets tangled into a web of stories.

Crashed on a mysterious island beneath a sky of unfamiliar stars, a group of survivors explore to survive. Stranded and alone, they must triumph against threats both natural and mysterious in pursuit of escape… if escape is even possible. This world describes the mysterious island through intriguing characters and settings, but the truth behind it all is yours to write!

Art curated by @sparkletwist

A Star Wars based adventure.

Canon-lite. This means you probably need to have seen the films, but you don’t need in-depth knowledge….

This game “tracks” The Return of the Jedi - we will be aware of and indirectly (and sometimes directly!) interact with the events.

New players welcome.

Player characters should not be resolutely evil - they need to have enough good in them to be allied to the essentially good party.

All characters should fit in to the universe of the first 3 Star Wars movies (IV, V and VI). The story starts at the time we Rebels are in Jabba’s palace, awaiting the arrival of Leia, Luke etc to rescue Han… You can not be a major character from Empire as the story will run alongside those events. So they need to be an original character based on a Star Wars race, or a minor character who could feasibly get more involved… The idea is that we are out of camera shot the whole movie (unless a minor character who appears!) but we are helping to make some of the things that happen, happen.

Feel free to ask with any questions. Note that 2nd and 3rd week in October I will have limited availability due to vacation.

This is a fast paced game, with most players contributing weekly. But we are welcoming, and we will make it work if you can’t post that often.

If you think you might like to play, better to try out than miss out…

I would want any player to tell me if I need to adjust to increase their access or welcome.

Please contact me as to how best to join the game if you need inspiration!

Starting location:

Jabba’s Palace.

You do not need to be an expert in Star Wars canon.

Welcome to “The Deck”, an underworld group led by the head of the Hart family, Amarilla Hart (AKA Spades Ace). Join the ranks as one of her family members, or perhaps another affiliate. Whether it be a nobody trying to fight their way to a fortune, an unwilling messenger chained by a debt, or a hopeless lover resorting to any means necessary to be with their soulmate, The Deck loves the desperate.

The Hart Family has built their fortune over decades from smuggling and later controlling the industry of ‘Youth’, a substance that pauses your aging for a short period of time—quickly outlawed due to how addictive it was, and how, after the first three doses, it negatively impacted your health when not taken regularly—an ironically deadly form of immortality.

There have been rumours that a cure to the illness caused by Youth has been found. It is unknown whether it simply frees those addicted, enabling them to live out the rest of their lives normally, or if it turns Youth into a permanent three-dose solution to death. Regardless, it spells the end of The Deck’s reign and fortune. Amarilla Hart has ordered that if this cure exists, it be found, destroyed before her eyes, and that its creator be terminated. She’s decreed that whoever does this will succeed her as leader of The Deck, whether they are of her blood or not.