Roleplay / Isola Radiale

The city of Spirale welcomes you.

"Isola Radiale… It sounded pretty, soft. It sounded safe… At least until you realize you’re laying at the edge of what looks like a giant, seemingly bottomless hole."

Isola Radiale is a panfandom roleplaying experience set in Spirale, a mysterious city nestled upon the island of Radiale, where people have been ripped from their worlds by several masked figures.

The group was created after the disbanding of Citta Alveare and it is currently the largest active panfandom group roleplay on Tumblr, averaging at over 400+ active members from over 200+ different series, ranging from live-action TV shows and anime to video games and webcomics. It also allows for the inclusion of original characters. At its launch, they were hit with over 400 applications and reserves within two days.

Isola is still very new, information about the setting is scarce and it’s still in its beginning stages.

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This Roleplay provides examples of:

• After the End: Yesteryear is all but outright stated to be (though pretty clearly) the ruins of Hive City.
• A Homeowner Is You: The Mysterious Keys which can be purchased from the Marketplace allow for personalised homes to be constructed.
• All Myths Are True: Due to the nature of the setting and roleplay in general, there's a large group of mythos collected together that often overlap. It's not uncommon to have more than one interpretation of Thor or Frankenstein walking around.
• Anachronism Stew: The different Wards within Spirale seem to deviate from one another in terms of time period. Golden leans more futuristic, while Fibonacci has steampunk-era styling.
• Anyone Can Die: It doesn't matter if you were immortal in your original canon: you can possibly die on the island.
• Ascended Extra: Some muses can be relatively minor in their original source, yet flourish into so much more during their time in the group.
• Ascended Meme: It's commonplace for people wanting to throw down to often challenge someone to fight them in a Denny's parking lot. This became so common that one of the moderators specifically noted the exact location of the Denny's in Spirale for that express purpose.
  • The eclipses take on the form of memes sometimes to the bewilderment of the characters looking on. One of the longer-running jokes is the Shrimp That Fries Rice which then made its appearance.
• Back from the Dead: It's possible for characters to be apped in after their canonical deaths.
• Badass Normal: Characters brought down from their usual state, or who had nothing to begin with, can prove themselves far more capable than expected.
• Bazaar of the Bizarre: The Marketplace offers an array of purchases, ranging from various fragments vehicles, such as starcars, starcycles and starboards, to even a once-per-character unlock of an ability or weapon return.
• Beautiful Void: The Abyss, introduced through Mistified, is a perfect match of Spirale in size, however being the island's purgatory, there is a distinct lack of activity and a plentiful heaping of Alien Geometries.
• Big Fancy Castle: The Fairy Queen's Castle, the venue of the Masquerade Ball has become a permanent fixture deep within the Forest of Airaisal.
• Big Fancy House: Some of the starter housing is very nice.
• Bland-Name Product: There are many Spirale equivalents to items and services found in the real world, including Twinkle (Twitter), StarTube (YouTube), and many others.
  • Averted with a few choice locations, e.g. Denny's.
• Bottomless Pits: The hole in the centre of the city is billed as this, in part due to having the same amnesiac effects as the fog, therefore eliminating any understanding of what lies within.
• Brought Down to Normal: Characters with abilities are typically granted a limited use of one, and those who have weapons are given a wooden replacement, all to be earned by climbing the group's ranks.
• The Casino: The Golden Dawn Resort & Casino in Golden Ward is probably one of the ritziest places in the entire city.
• Circle of Standing Stones: The Broken Circles in Mistwood, made of stone structures which have been abandoned. There remains much mystery about these areas due to the presence of Denizens.
• The City Narrows: Crimson Lane hosts a number of less savoury businesses and the authorities are rarely seen there, which has led to the belief there is a Secret Police upholding the loosest form of order.
• Crossover Cosmology
• Culture Clash
• Death Is Cheap: Upon dying, characters would initially respawn back in their room a day after the event. Since the introduction of the Abyss, they will find themselves taken there and can leave once they locate the way out.
• Don't Go Into the Woods: The Mistwood is apparently shrouded in a mysterious fog and full of mystic-looking ruins. Along with an Eldritch Abomination or several dozen.
• Death Amnesia: Occurs when someone dies by venturing out into the mists or falling into the great pit.
• Eldritch Location: The Abyss at first glance is incredibly unsettling, much less the effects of a prolonged stay, not limited to sounds and sights that cannot be verified, feeling you're being watched and seeing shadows following behind in the reflection of the area's various mirrors.
• Expansion Pack World: Initially, the four main wards were the extent of the known setting, but over time, the fog has pulled back to make the branches accessible.
• The Fair Folk: The pixies and fantastical residents of Cotes-Fantasci have shades of mischief, they're known to have inauthentic goods mixed in among their wares for sale and purposefully sabotaged some of the Masquerade Ball guests' masks during A Midsummer Night's Soiree.
• Fanservice: Stripping dash trends. They’ll probably happen.
• Fantasy Counterpart Religion: Seen with the Church of Onoma, effectively not relating to any real life religion and is entirely native to Isola Radiale itself.
• Fantasy Pantheon: Radiale Island seems to have a full pantheon of gods and goddesses that each possess their own portfolio and unique personality.
  • The Nameless One: A (literally) two-faced deity that seems to act as a goddess of life and reason. The Celebration of Life is held in her honor once a year.
  • Athemia: A goddess with a young appearance who seems to be easily impressionable. Unfortunately, she also seems to be a goddess of death.
  • K'horii: A god who appears to take the form of a small white cat with five tails and mismatched eyes. All three of them. Who can also incinerate people he's mad at. And seems to be kind of a huge dick.
  • Jesenia & Noel: A pair of twin deities who appear to function in the same manner as Santa Claus. They appear during Snowtide, the island's collective holiday festival, every year.
• Fog of Doom: A blanket of fog envelops the area about a mile outside the city in all directions, including Spirale Bay. Word of God says walking into it effectively kills your character and they have no recollection of how it happened. Fortunately, it doesn't seem to possess any inherent intelligence.
• Fish out of Water: Most new arrivals have this feeling in some form at first, especially those from less (or even more) technologically advanced settings.
• Floating Continent: The Sky-Strewn Isles, one of the branches introduced in late-2021 where characters can experience having their powers fully unlocked regardless of rank while there.
• Forbidden Zone: The area outside the city has been billed as this.
• Free-Range Children: Without their parents or guardians, the younger characters brought into the city wander around of their own accord without supervision. Along the same lines, while there is a school district and a university present, they have no obligation to attend, and thus, most simply don't.
• Ghost City: Yesteryear seems to have heavy shades of this, though there are weird android-type creatures roaming around it now.
• Good-Guy Bar: Dionysus’ Chalice in Archimedes has this reputation.
• Great Big Library of Everything: The Great Library of Xalphina, with a million texts, streams leading to a fountain at the very centre and a Draken librarian capable of ejecting any troublemakers to boot.
• History Repeats: For the characters who remain among those carried over from Citta, the fued between the Stars and NULL is reminiscent of the Scientists and their enemies.
• Humans Through Alien Eyes: Many non-human characters often find themselves confronted with strange and alien practices, like raves.
• Island of Misfit Everything: Radiale essentially serves this for the cast.
• Inside a Computer System: The Intraspace is basically a huge digital playground where people can go crazy... for a price.
• Layered Metropolis: The canyon in Fibbonaci is divided into layers where the wealthy and elites populate the upper levels and descending leads to progressing levels of impoverishment.
• Lighter and Softer: Compared to Citta, the population is on the whole much calmer and orderly, the majority of their troubles are limited to events instigated by the Stars rather than internal discourse.
• The Mall: Mermaid Cove in Golden Ward is the single largest venue for all your retail therapy, complete with an indoor skate arena and trampoline park.
• Minor Living Alone: Perfectly feasible with the everchanging housing arrangements or if a minor purchases a Mysterious Key to earn a house of their own.
• Mood Whiplash: A character could have multiple threads running. It's not impossible to have one light-hearted thread and another leaning heavily on the depressing side of things.
• Narnia Time: Their stay in Spirale doesn't remove the characters from any point of time in their home worlds, but canon point changes can see their time accelerate by any amount within a single night on Spirale's time.
• No Body Left Behind: As someone travels into the mist surrounding the city, their body gradually disappears until they vanish entirely, and wake up in their bed the next day with a hazy memory. The hole in the centre of the city has a similar effect.
• Non-Player Character: Strange residents live within the city and fill the roles player characters don't take. It's assumed they do most of the public works.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted given the breadth of media which the players app in from, such as both Albedo from Genshin Impact and Overlord present. Fate's own universe allows for its roster to frequently see more than one iteration of Servants like Jeanne d'Arc and Arturia Pendragon around simultaneously. And it only gets more complicated from there with the Subversion and Subsistence events.
• Port Town: Spirale is located on the coast of Radiale Island. Though it doesn't seem to have the climate of a typical seaside town, for some reason.
• Put on a Bus: When someone is unable to write their muse anymore or opts for a break, the process of dropping them is handled in-universe by their removal from the city under the same eclipses which see characters brought in.
• Quirky Household: Accommodation assignments can lead to this. Imagine living with another world's god!
• Rank Up: Since everyone that arrives on the island is Brought Down to Normal, powers, abilities, magic, and weapons are limited through ranking. Ranks and abilities are achieved over time, through completing tasks, and participating in events.
• Red Light District: Present in Cotes prior to its revamp, but Crimson Lane is host to brothels and serves to cover for the loss of the former.
• Regional Redecoration: Cotes was originally a Japanese-themed ward, completely renovated into a region of high fantasy after The Fantasia War.
• Robot Dog: The Netpups seen in the Netwalk. They've become Golden Ward's unofficial mascot.
• Second Love: There are more than a few characters that may have gotten a second chance at being in love where they may not have before.
• Secret Societies: Nuee Ardente Society, a group shrouded in mystery beyond allegedly seeking to reawakeni the volcano in the City of Glass.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Day-to-day dashboard conversations run the topical gamut from the latest absurd action of any particular character, to internet memes and love/sex lives. Especially the latter.
• Skyscraper City: Fibonacci Ward is literally nothing but skyscrapers.
• Starting a New Life: Like their love lives, there are no clear objectives for the characters outside of earning back what the Stars have taken, leaving them free to lead whatever lives they please, detached from any obligation or destiny they might have had before.
• Stellar Name: Many of the native products and businesses have names incorporating space elements.
  • This also seems to extend to the group that seems to be pulling the strings in the city, The Galaxy.
  • The ranks each take the form of a star classification, including the now-defunct Supergiant.
• Translator Microbes: The city's systems handle translating the various languages of characters in order to make communicating possible. If you're interested in what your pet or Pokémon says, there are companion translators for sale in The Galaxy Marketplace.
• Trapped in Another World: The basic premise of the group is dragging someone away from their source material and dropping them off on Radiale Island. From that point on, it's all up to them what happens.
• Underwater City: The Swirling Gulf is essentially billed as this, though it mainly seems to serve as a tourist attraction.
• Urban Segregation: The canyon in Fibbonaci takes this structure. At the top, known as High Roller, are the rich and elites, who would look down on even a character not native to Spirale if they're deemed beneath a certain social or monetary standing. Working down from there, the level of polish and resources diminishes until the very bottom is populated by the poorest civilians, vulnerable to the elements and those who have never left think the sun is a myth.
• World Tree: Sprouted from the hole in the middle of the city during The Fantasia War, The Eternal Tree, Ophiuchus has been relocated to Cotes-Fantasci, where its shadow is cast upon a quarter of the ward. And that's when scaled down from its original size during the event.
• Wretched Hive: The Underside is a haven for all manner of bad guys, frequented by monsters, criminals and assassins.
• You Can't Go Home Again: No-one has any power to leave the island unless the Stars release them, even if they have the power to jump between worlds or dimensions. In the cases of some muses, they come from homes that no longer exist or they themselves are dead.
• You Wake Up in a Room: Characters arrive via a taxi which delivers them near the hole in the centre of the city, often they'll wake up inside the vehicle or as they've arrived.

Events provide examples of:

• 20 Minutes into the Future: The AU Spirale where Subversion copies were sent was set ten years in the future, although the city was essentially the same.
• Alternate Reality Episode: The events of Subversion had the player characters initially living an AU-style life where, thanks to a Galaxy-concocted program, they believed they had been in Spirale all their lives and lived accordingly. That is, until the program made the AU version split from the original form.
  • Enemy Without: In the ensuing chaos, the originals had to seal their clones away in an alternate universe, but some did not go quietly.
• Attack of the Town Festival: What began as a festival of remembrance in Depths became an attack of ghouls and spectres for its second half.
• Beach Episode: By and large, S.H.O.R.E was this, with varying degrees of danger depending on which Deserted Island the characters found themselves on.
• Becoming the Mask: A Midsummer Night's Soiree saw everyone attend a Masquerade Ball where their masks would transform them into their ideal selves in most cases. As for those unlucky enough to receive one the pixies purposefully tampered with, well...
• Body Horror: CPNs were NPCs whose data has been corrupted, but there was no guarantee they even remotely resembled what they were once and entire portions of their bodies were consumed by glitches.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: The Renewal events can be opted into. That said, some characters will be forcibly dragged in without consenting.
• The Cavalry: Subsistence Part 2.5 saw the Subversion counterparts of everyone return to the original city to help fight back against NULL and their virus.
• Colony Drop: A blackened star was set on a crash course with the city at the beginning of Subsistence.
• Darkest Hour: The beginning of Subsistence brought the recent anomalies to a head when the sky turned permanently red, the sun went dark and fell on the city. There was absolutely nothing that can be done, Ofiuco could only hold it off for a minute and the characters could only brace themselves for the end of the world.
• Deal with the Devil: NULL offered the characters their power back and release in exchange for their allegiance in Security Breach. The majority declined, although not everyone.
• Domed Hometown: The alternative Spirale existed within a firewall that protected the four wards from CPNs. The branches weren't inaccessible, but attempting was incredibly dangerous.
• Fantastic Racism: Regular humans during Subversion discriminated against anyone regarded as non-human.
• Festival Episode: The Sunset Festa mini-event largely amounted to this.
  • The Depths event had traces of this in the first part.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: The bodyswap event, Empatheorem. While in one another's bodies, participants could be subject to their host's memories and even their personality mingling in with their own.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Invoked with the Renewal events; someone who participated in the original run will have their memories of it erased for the duration of the event to test if they might do things differently.
  • The Proxy event returned characters back to an earlier point in time, suppressing any memory since then and essentially setting them back to square one.
• Make a Wish: Essentially the premise of the Covet mini-event where those on the island would receive a present that, upon opening, would grant them a wish they desired for a temporary time. Though whether the wish turned out good or bad was another story entirely...
• Red Sky, Take Warning: In the lead up to Subsistence, the sky had flickered red among other disturbing anomality, all of which became permanent with the beginning of the event's run.
• Regional Redecoration: Played with. Overlay consisted of basically terraforming the entire city from a mess of ruins into a perfectly-functioning metropolis.
• Stay on the Path: When the mists blanketed the entire island during Mistified, the only specified safe places were the paths running throughout. Leaving them to enter the mist could return your power, but it would also put you at risk of coming under attack.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Depths, by and large. A lot of Shamblers and Spectres invaded the island thanks to a young girl who apparently wanted to make people happy.