Cylus 22nd Arc 721

He inhaled the scent of fresh-fallen rain, the humid aroma that mixed with that of the forest and strengthened it. Puddles splashed against his boots and mud suckled at his soles as he trudged through the moist underground of the North Woods. The dark of Cylus still lingered,...

Ashan 1st Arc 721

Ashan 30th Arc 721

Previously

Rokas burst from the ground, earth pushing him up at the shoulders so his body swung upright as if mounted on a hinge. He focused on the nearest flabbergasted thug, grabbing him by the shirt and yanking him close. Not a moment later Rokas smashed his skull into...

Ashan 26th Arc 721

Upon returning from a quick check-up of his leg at Doc’s practice, Rokas once more became aware of a figure lurking at the edges of his vision. Trailing his path, keeping a set amount of distance between them to ensure he wouldn’t notice. Earth and air did though, sniffing them...

Cylus 14th Arc 721

Immediate excitement of the kerfuffle with Barry having passed, adrenaline drained away. Its effects waned, pain breaking through the haze. Sharp and hot and worse every time he moved his leg. The fabric of his trouser leg was stained red, soaked and heavy, sticking to the...

Cylus 14th Arc 721

Previous

For several moments there was nothing but deep silence echoing through the loggers' camp. Silence that grew louder with the continued sound of crackling flames and the occasional puff of wind. The bearded man who called himself Barry sat frozen despite the fire, no...

Cylus 14th Arc 721

How much longer do I have to wait?

Rokas sat crosslegged on the forest soil in the center of the loggers’ camp, eyes closed and mind drifting. Fire warmed his front, earth created a soft and comfortable pillow of dirt. Covered with a heavy cloak, Rokas attempted to clear the...

Cylus 9th Arc 721

Despite the season of Cylus being known for darkness and snow and ice and cold, in a small clearing within the North Woods there existed an abundance of heat and light. The area could be found near a loggers’ camp, and used to be fairly unremarkable, safe for its shape. Rather...

Cylus 6th Arc 721

Are those edible, you think? Rokas asked.

The wind, which’d been painting ripples in small puddles dotted around the forest floor, held its breath. Swirling away from the water, it knocked on the glass windows of fire’s chamber. Funneled though the small holes that prevented...

Continued from here...

She woke to the same lack of light from the trial before. Her body stiff, a tightness to her throat and a lightheadedness that made her feel as if she had not slept at all. But Emmy knew she had because as uncomfortable as she felt, it was still nothing like the previous...

Cylus 4th Arc 721

As always, Rokas woke early in the morning, sky still dark and temperatures still cold. During Cyclus, that meant very little, but the birds were yet to start their songs, and if the North Woods had chickens, the roosters’ tone-deaf cry would not ring out for quite some time....

Cylus 6th Arc 721

Drip. Drip. Drip.

Streams of crimson running down like tears, streaming from the wrist across the back, past the knuckles, trailing around the digits. Gathering at the joints below, swelling into fat droplets, growing until they were too heavy to cling to skin. Falling then,...

Cylus 1st Arc 721

Neither the earth nor the wind wanted to help out with the clean-up, and the fire –who’d created this mess in the first place—simply sat on its bed of ashes and twigs amidst a circle of stones, belching burps of smoke. Rokas coughed and pinched his nose with one hand, waving...

6th Break
97 Vhalar, Arc 719
Five trials after Webs Upon Webbs

Where could one start when it came to the odd duo that was the mortalborn from Quacia and Etzos' Raggedy Man?

If history ledgers detail the assassination of one Marshall Drulik Webb, whatever caricatures given, only one thing...

Apprehensions
Zi'da 89, 720

Despite all the colliding perplexities rebounding in his mind, none would guess there was so much as a single question regarding the duty that lay before him. And even if such a revelation as a tower guard hesitating even a trill to embark upon a direct order from...

55th Trial, Zi'Da, Arc 711
Etzos, Outer Perimeter
19th break

Dis is the big time, lads. Fuckin' well jus' watch.

Don't know why you talk like that, Dan.

Like wot?

Like, well... like him .

Dis jus' 'ow I talk when-

Not when you're in school.

You shut up , Gilly!

Gilly did, in...

/gallery/image/17269/medium 30 Cylus 721
Late Evening

The trials had blurred together. Every morning, afternoon, and night was dark, bringing an eternal redundancy to every waking moment of existence. There was virtually no true way for the average person to track the passage of time. It was...

The 23rd of Vhalar 720

Previously

A loud noise made the thief jump. The unexpected sound of breaking glass that echoed through the tunnels unimpeded. It disrupted his concentration, making him look up from the opened barrel. The flow coming from the vial of dubious liquid he held stopped as he...

Vhalar 23rd 720

It was weird to be alive again. Different. Having a body was incomparable with being ethereal. The sheer amount of constant sensations, the continuous barrage of stimuli on the senses was something she had to get used to again. Not sound or vision. Those’d been present still while...

Cylus 1st Arc 721

“Gold or blood, the choice be yours, big man!”

Rokas sighed, glancing up from the flickering oranges of the bonfire, reluctantly pausing his conversation. The flames crackled on for a few more moments, oblivious, until he asked them to excuse him for a few minutes. It flared...

Vhalar 3rd Arc 720

Previous

It had been half an hour already. The night sky overhead was overcast, a front of dreary clouds had rolled in not too long ago, blocking most light of the moons and stars. Wind rushed past from the north periodically, cold with promise of Zi’da’s coming already....

This placeholder was approved after-the-fact as taking place just a few trials before the Rebirth Cycle begins.
My bad. Sorry :oops:
Zi'da 90, 720

So this was it the blackguard could use what authority and privilege she had with the good ole boys, her brothers and sisters in arms. She’d...

Vhalar 3rd Arc 720

Previous

Rokas hit the water hard, a flash of pain surging through his back. A moment later the cold embraced him, the river enveloping his entire body. It silenced his screams, filling his mouth with water. Rokas’s lungs already burned, demanding to be fed air, yet he...

The 20th of Ymiden 720

Continues from here:

While the location itself hadn’t changed much at all, the underground felt different. More oppressive, somehow. More hostile. Less welcoming. A very strange sensation considering the nature of the place. It hadn’t exactly been anything else but a...