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Poisonous Mist      World Ember 2025
Welcome to the world of Poisonous Mist! One day, Earth is suddenly covered in a mysterious Mist. As a result, billions of people die and the handful of survivors awakens with strange powers. As monsters start killing them, Anne-Line, a scientist, tries to make sense of what's happening and to prevent what's left of France from becoming a dystopian society. Come read about her struggle!
Introduction to the story | Anne-Line Decroix | Mist | Novel upcoming

Table of Contents

List of World Ember 2025 articles

 
List of articles by plotlines
Basis of the world and main characters Anne-Line Decroix ❤️, Heather Latham, Colonel Pierre de Surmont, Mist ❤️, Mist abilities, Mist contamination, Consuls of the Triumvirate
Conflict with the Parisians New Government of Lille, Lille's military forces
The dangers of the mist creatures Mist monsters, Treatment for Mist contamination, Weapons against the Mist, Shields and wards against the Mist, Mist contamination detector ❤️, Medicine in a time of Mist
Preparation for the move xxx
The extended world and characters Decroix-Vasseur-Gaultier family
 
Full details of the articles
Basis of the world and main characters

Basis of the world and main characters


 
  Conflict with the Parisians

Conflict with the Parisians

 
 

 
  The dangers of the mist creatures

The dangers of the mist creatures


 
  Preparation for the move

Preparation for the move

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  The extended world and characters

The extended world and characters

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Initial preparation for the event

Pledge

Goal: 10-20k words.   Worlds: Poisonous Mist (new-ish world).   Back-up world: Alien Monsters (Spooktober world).   Special goal: Continue to draw and make doodles for all my articles. It's fun, help me relax in between writing articles, and it help me feel satisfied about the quality of my articles.
 

Main world

This story is set directly after an apocalyptical event that killed most of the world population. It follows a French scientist and it will focus on:
  • The MC investigating what's happening and studying the mist and people's new powers.
  • The survivors in Lille organising themselves and trying to get any technology to work.
  • The political conflict between survivors in Lille and Paris to determine who's in charge.
  • The battle against the mist monsters.
    •     To-do list for Magical Maths

    To-do list for Poisonous Mist

    Buildings
  • World hole: a hole in reality leading who knows where
    • Characters
  • MC, a French chemist
  • MC's first ally, a British PR lady
  • MC's second ally, an older French military guy
  • The general who's taken control of Paris and who's attempting to take control over Lille
  • MC's parents
  • The Lillois who's leader supply recovery
  • The Lillois who's leading the medical team
  • MC's bodyguard
  • MC's engineer assistant
  • MC's cousins
    • Conditions
  • Contaminated by mist
    • Conflict
  • The conflict between Lille and Paris
    • Documents
  • Survivor data: list of survivor and statistics about their characteristics (where [region, building], what [activity they were doing when the mist arrived, eg, sleeping, night worker], job, nationality, age, genetic link to other survivors)
    • Ethnicities
  • Lillois: Types of people who survived (jobs, politics, % and nationalities of foreigners), their culture/how they've adapted to mist / monster attacks / new leaders
  • Parisians: Types of people who survived (jobs, politics, % and nationalities of foreigners), their culture/how they've adapted to mist / monster attacks / new leaders
    • Geography
  • The North of France and the Parisian Bassin: Where ressources (natural, industries, databanks etc) are located + distances & dangers
    • Items
  • Contamination detectors: How they work, their weaknesses
    • Language
  • "Universal language", aka translation "magic": using mist power to push meaning in the world as you speak them, so that your interlocutor get those images in their head as they hear them.
    • Materials ???   Military formations
  • Armed patrols in Lille
    • Myths ???   Natural law
  • The Mist: Affects gravity (and electrostatics?) and so all electrical & combustion system
    • Organizations
  • French government in Lille and Paris: How decisions are made, how order is maintained, food distribution/ration, shelter, healthcare
  • How to recreate all industries from scratch: agriculture, clothes/shoes, weapons, entertainment, communication
    • Profession
  • Supply runners: People braving the Mist to gather supplies in abandoned shops
    • Settlement
  • Lille's survivor camp
  • Paris' survivor camp: a previous military area
    • Species
  • Mist creatures
  • Dragon people (for book 3)
    • Technologies
  • New tech: wards & shields
  • New tech: weapons
  • Mental "radio" network in dreams
  • New tech: folded space
  • Faevarian sciences (for book 2)
    • Titles
  • Triumvirate: MC and her 2 allies. It's their unofficial title. Respect people have for them, and explain their alliances and the vows they have made with each other
    • Tradition
  • How to treat people contaminated by Mist
  • Mariage alliances and the differences between how humans and Faeverians see them (for book 2 and 3)
    • Vehicles
  • Traveling caravans: How people are going to manage to transport everyone and everything to move the survivor camp long distance

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    Back-up world

     
    Humans have captured Aliens and used them to create babies with a mix of humans and aliens genes, forcing those Babies into experiments for 30 years. When Alien troops invade the research space station to free the Alien prisoners, they also find the Babies...  

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    Councilor of the Inner Sanctum Mochimanoban
    Nov 29, 2025 14:03 by Mochi

    I'm so excited to see what you write! I always enjoy your work during WorldEmber <3

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