https://ashfall.thorngale.net/ 2026-04-27T14:51:48+00:00 https://ashfall.thorngale.net/ https://ashfall.thorngale.net/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2020-03-07T18:23:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/001?rev=1583605385&do=diff The parking lot no longer bore much resemblance to its original purpose. The tarmac radiated an unreal heat even from this distance, the late evening breeze transformed into a languid desert wind. Instinct demanded a blast site, but there was none immediately apparent. The handful of cars clustered near the store were mostly untouched. A sweltering crescent had been drawn across the ground, its final point blistered and deformed, the whole line haphazard in shape as if a bored deity had tried to… text/html 2017-11-18T15:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/002?rev=1511018557&do=diff Or the bridge could be out. In this case, 'out' meant that its frame had been distorted by an impossible heat, pinching together unnaturally in the middle, ends twisted in opposite directions in a loose helix, like something out of an impossible video game fantasy. text/html 2020-03-07T18:34:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/003?rev=1583606053&do=diff There were many ways in which his current actions checked off boxes for stupidity, albeit mildly cushioned by the timeframe in which he was executing them. It had been precisely fourteen minutes and seventeen seconds since he'd witnessed the end of the unusual assault on the video cameras of the mall according to his digital wrist-watch, which gave the two involved parties plenty of time to disappear. text/html 2017-11-18T15:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/004?rev=1511018557&do=diff After some soda, the other two videos were unspectacular when it came to granting new information. They'd pinned two new markers onto the map and shared it publicly - and Robert had found a way to add commentary to the markers, in which he pasted the associated youtube links (though he accidentally switched up two for the whole five seconds it took to realise it). text/html 2017-11-18T15:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/005?rev=1511018557&do=diff Ve identified the emotions ve was currently feeling - the vestiges of an uncomfortable sense of responsibility, a mildly irritated flavour of concern. Ve was dithering whether to let it dictate ver actions - ve had already quelled the urge in the convert to shout. The dog's whimpering was unnecessary noise, but as long as it was whining in a ditch somewhere, what did it matter? Whatever madness befell it might prove a threat to ver at some point, should it bite if approached. This was a problem … text/html 2020-03-08T00:45:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/006?rev=1583628305&do=diff Charters Towers was more than an hours drive away, but that was about as close as Robert was willing to stay. There were two contenders for the worst part of the trip: Leaving the mall and stepping into the open, or navigating the streets of Townsville at full risk of being discovered by creatures with telekinesis. The mental images latter invoked ranged from death swiftly delivered to plain terrifying. text/html 2017-11-18T15:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/007?rev=1511018557&do=diff The first minutes in Charters Towers were the tensest of their journey. Objectively speaking, if the town was similarly infected already, they were doomed - the chances that they could continue running away from this was reduced to insignificance - but the adrenalin didn't care that it was probably superfluous. text/html 2017-11-18T15:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/008?rev=1511018557&do=diff Parked beside a crossing near BP, with Woolworths a mere block away, Keneh, Robert and Delaney felt out of place. Despite being a textbook example of a town with an 'abandoned' feel, having had Qantas milestones going for it, some military value and very little else - giving it fantastic infrastructure and not that many people to use it - not even Cloncurry was signalling an oncoming apocalypse. It just seemed like a quiet, laid back town that didn't have that many worries. text/html 2017-11-18T15:22:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://ashfall.thorngale.net/sessions/009?rev=1511018557&do=diff Cora Rayne had only been here for just over a month and was already building a reputation for notorious overtime. There was no reason to be this diligent about her work, really - it wasn't running away, certainly, and it mostly involved taking notes at regular intervals and marking her findings off on a chart - but somehow, she just didn't want to go home. The first theories about it, that she might be caught in an unhappy relationship, had long since disappeared - she wasn't married and while s…