8 5 - Z I ' D A - 7 1 9 . . . E T Z O S
Hyde hated this fucking city. For an entirely different reason than how he hated Rhakros. He didn't used to hate Etzos. In fact, he had once... not loved Etzos, that would put it far too strongly. He had tolerated the city of Etzos. Mother Etzos. Etzos...

A Random Impact

Cylus 10, 720

Trankley scowled as the babe cried again, the counterpoint between the noise it was making only adding to the annoyance he was experiencing as a result of the noise his fellow Web Guard partner was making. It seemed that no matter what he said, it only...

Commercial Circle
90 Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Eu sou fraco. Você é forte. Eu tenho sangue em abundância. Meus inimigos estejam nos portões. Mesmo assim, com todas a seu ódio. Não temo minima- minima- mini...

Llyr paused to take a breath. He sucked in the oxygen and then exhaled lowly....

Outer Perimeter
19th of Vhalar, Arc 719
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Don't stop walking, instructed Black Guard Dale Garnet as they reached the building. Abandoned, except for a flicker of light behind broken windows. At the far end of the Southwest Outer Perimeter, the scorched earth of wartorn wilderness...

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

Holding out would prove easier said than done. Jeesa and the assistant helping her get into her armor, making sure all clasps and belts and buckles were on tight, did the best they could to waste no time. However, donning armor...

14th trial, Vhalar, 719
The Underground
19th break

They didn't get visitors at the shrine. Which was not a surprise, given that they were underneath Etzos. Only a handful of people knew they existed at all; fewer still felt anything for their little clutch of cultists beyond cold pragmatism....

The 7th of Cylus 720

As the tenth hour in the evening was nearby, Oberan had already made his way to the Inn for Dinner. To not arouse suspicion, he’d elected to arrive an hour or so earlier, claimed a free table, and started drinking. Slow enough to not get drunk, but at a decent pace...

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

The drillmistress and her assistants headed for the rampaging beast, not checking whether Yana followed. Whether it was a sign of trust or simple apathy, the Yludih didn’t know. She didn’t mind, taking the time to reconfirm her...

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

The beast was huge. Standing on four legs, its shoulders were on the eye level of a tall man. Its body measured around ten feet in length, outclassing that of any normal bear of its species. Indeed, this was no ordinary animal....

37 Ashan 720 | Ulric and Arthur

Syrio was a rather pragmatic blacksmith. At least far more pragmatic than either of the other three that the duo had encountered. They didn't have nels to offer him and so instead he had proposed a trade. Syrio would keep one ingot of the ghost metal and in...

35 Ashan 720 | Ulric and Arthur

All season, Arthur and Ulric had been looking for a craftsman who could work their ghost metal into something more useful than the bricks they stole from the war. Granted they both pursued this goal for different reasons. Ulric, in his everlasting pursuit of power...

2 Ashan Arc 720

Commercial Circle
19th of Vhalar, Arc 719
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A light rain had started and the cobblestones turned slick. Llyr followed Investigator Dale Garnet, away from the Holt estate, and to a side street. He wasn't entirely certain where they were going, but he trusted the man enough. There was...

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

Yana returned to the clearing on her own. She and Nicole had started making their way through the understory together. When they’d almost reached the tree-less open space however, Nicole had thrown her hands up in wide-eyed...

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67 Ashan 720

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

“Are you done yet? I’ve got to go too! Sooner rather than later! I might wet myself!”

Yana sat crouched behind a bush, knees as far apart as anatomically possible with her pants around her ankles, pointedly ignoring the pleas...

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

Many boots drummed on the underground. Bits and bobs jingled and jangled, buckles and clasps bouncing up and down. Conversation was nearly impossible, drowned out by all the noise. It would waste breath too, and most cadets did...

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Dank and despoiled, the Underground was the same hive of danger in Cylus as it was any other trial. The passageways were lit y the same torches and the corners and curves held the same unknown menace. It was familiar, and it was comforting in...

The 7th of Cylus 720

The directions provided by the Employment Office in mind, Oberan traversed the cobbled Etzos streets of the Commercial Circle. He knew the layout of the city well enough to find his way based on the address designation, but that only got him to the general area. Once there,...

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Identity ebbed and flowed in his mind. It was an odd sensation, losing one's grasp on reality. Physically it was all the same, the same cobbled ground, the same wind blowing, the same black Cylus day. But within him, all was at odds. Was he a...

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Ashan 69th of Arc 711

Morning came too soon. Well, technically morning always arrive on time. Punctual. Right on schedule. The suns traveled the sky at a steady pace, rising and setting with regular intervals. It was never late, and neither was it...

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Ashan 35th of Arc 711

“Shields up!” the yelled order came.

Two dozen arms rose in semi-unison, lifting the circles of wood and metal into a protective position. Grunts escaped from the lips of many present in the courtyard, each stifled and...

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19 Vhalar, Arc 719

“Where is it…” muttered Llyr while he searched through his study. He could have sworn he’d left the bound papers right on the third top shelf. Yet the only vellum, that he could find there, was blank. “Oceta?! Oceta, coul-” He called, then remembered the slave...

17 Cylus 720 | Ulric | Commercial Circle: Inn
Arthur and Ulric stood divided by ideology and a table in an Inn that had a lot less business since the war. There were so many dead in the city these trials that no one was surprised by Ulric's appearance. Ulric had begun manifesting himself regularly...

The 6th of Cylus 720

‘Moore’.

The name had been on the forefront of his mind recently. Whenever there was nothing distracting him, if he wasn’t focused on something else, his thoughts returned to the memory gleaned from the Recluse’s mind. A brief flash of an image, lasting only a moment before...