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...

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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...

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50th trial, Zi'da, 720
The Underground, Etzos
Hard to Tell What Time

Don't go home the same way twice. Backtrack at least twice. Take streets where you can see if you're being followed. And if you are being followed? If you can't lose them... then don't. Let them...

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31st trial, Zi'da, 720
The North Woods
Just after midnight

Continued from here

As he knew it would, he started to panic. Not because of the Overstepping, or the burning pain in his shoulder, or the sudden shock that he was on the backfoot so quickly. He'd...

31st trial, Zi'da, 720
The North Woods
Just after midnight

Continued from here

The first men were dead almost before they knew it. Well. One of them, anyway.

Trent had the bottle halfway to his chapped lips when the arrow punch into his neck. All he heard was the hint of a whistle, the...

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Tor'ree goes to look for a job

30th trial, Zi'da, 720
The Underground

I can hear yeh out there, ol' man. Dun' fink I can't...

The shuffling was minute. No greater than a rat's. But long arcs in dark places had sharpened the old bat's hearing beyond the norm. He sometimes tested her, and himself, by softening his approach...

Vhalar 3rd of Arc 720

They were five.

Five hunters who stalked through the night, hiding in dark nooks and shallow recesses found in small alleys. Their footsteps were cautious and silent, bodies obscured by shade. As much as possible, they evaded the light of the moons and stars, keeping out of...