Shores of Night

 Welcome back to the blog, or welcome if you're new. It's lovely to have you here.  Sundays here are all about Werewolf: the Apocalypse , the eco-horror roleplaying game created by White Wolf Game Studio, and now published both by them and by Onyx Path Publishing. I focus on the latter's game, 20th Anniversary Edition, which consolidates so much of the original run into a number of excellent books as well as developing it in interesting directions. These blog pieces are partly analysis and commentary, but I'm also trying to make new opponents for the game, particularly where there are gaps that don't seem to make any sense. These may lead to me trying to publish a couple of small supplements on Storyteller's Vault , if enough people are interested (please let me know if you are).   As I've discussed elsewhere, Werewolf is a game that feels like it's only become more relevant as time's gone on. With Climate Change, materialism, and the growth of somet...

 Welcome back to the blog and to the regular discussion of Werewolf: The Apocalypse.  This week, I'll be diving into three more Pentex subsidiaries focused on health and wellness. I explained why I wanted to do this in the last blog, but it more or less boils down to being struck how odd it was to me that there was nothing connecting Pentex to this area. This is an attempt to change that.  The first blog post detailed a health food chain, a luxury mineral salts company, and a New Age and Witchcraft book publisher and how they serve the Wyrm. Today we'll learn about an essential oils 'direct marketing' company, an online yoga business, and a men's health company.  Buckle up, this is a long one.  Eden's Blessing Essential Oils A 'Direct Marketing' Company based out of Cedar City, Utah, Eden's Blessing was founded in the late 19th Century. Initially created by two Mormon families, the Blacklocks and the Ellis', the company began as a producer of ano...

 Hello!  Welcome back to the Shores of Night, or if you're new here welcome for the first time. It's lovely to have you here. As usual, Sundays are dedicated to Werewolf: the Apocalypse , a roleplaying game by White Wolf Publishing , though the version I'll be referencing is the 20th Anniversary Edition published by Onyx Path Publishing . Last Sunday we talked about Pentex, and how the corporation operates slightly differently to some of the threats in the game, and discussed a couple of ideas about how the corporations might be incorporated into a Chronicle. Today, I want to think about how the company subverts anything it touches and how within the World of Darkness at least, Pentex operates to corrupt everything, turning even the most benign things into weapons for the Wyrm.  Partly, I want to focus on the Wellness industry because there are instances where it already seems a bit... weird, but also because health is one of humanity's underlying interests and it would...