Atop a stony plateau overlooking the lands of central Idalos, and growing wealthy from the gem stones pulled from the rocky soil, Etzos is a bastion of independence; firm in its belief that man should rule Idalos, not be servants of the vain Immortals who nearly destroyed it. But can the many factions set aside their conflicting agendas and see this through?
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News & New Features!
This thread will keep you updated on news and new features!
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So, one of the things that has changed in the new site is that the new PSF is visible to everyone. This provides us an opportunity and so, this morning I've created some subforums in there - for completed / approved threads. You'll note that there are now separate...
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New Player Guide!
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New Player Starting Guide Hi there and welcome to the site! We're glad that you've taken an interest in our story and hope, with the help of this guide, that you'll stick around and enjoy all the chaos-packed adventures we have planned. But first, you're probably wondering what Standing Trials is...
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Standing Trials Terms of Use
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Standing Trials: Rules and Expectations
The Website: Standing Trials ( ), referred to through the rest of this thread as the website , our website , the site , our site , Standing Trials , and Trials .
You: The person reading these words right now.
The Staff: All users who are identified as...
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Last post by Munchkin
Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:52 pm
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Jewelers, and What do you Have? (Graded)
Note: This thread has been edited to alter the ending, as I decided to make Quio getting the object from the men a little more difficult. It was altered before it was reviewed, and the review request updated.
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Quio » Mon Sep 03, 2018 8:36 pm
Speaking in Rakahi
Speaking in Common
Speaking in Ulehi
Speaking in Ith'ession 25th of Saun, 718
noon
Do you do custom work? Quio asked at the second jewelers he had been to that day.
The first jewelers, a shop in the Commercial Circle, had decided not to deal with a bad-tempered...
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Last post by Oberan
Tue Sep 11, 2018 10:34 am
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V. Where We Stand (Graded)
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Kasoria » Thu Aug 30, 2018 9:51 pm
25th Trial, Saun, Arc 718
The Commercial Circle
Office of Thumberland Shipping and Importations
16th Bell
Continued from here
I hope... I will not have to visit your home again, sir.
There it was. The killing blow. After the watching and the sneaking and the planning and the stress...
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Last post by Oberan
Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:41 pm
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IV. Reality Check (Graded)
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Kasoria » Thu Aug 30, 2018 6:02 am
25th Trial, Saun, Arc 718
The Commercial Circle
Office of Thumberland Shipping and Importations
16th Bell
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Boring little bastard, I'd wager.
That was Roger Thumberland's first opinion of the little man that walked into his office, led and followed by Clyde and...
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Last post by Oberan
Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:41 pm
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III. The Shadow Man (Graded)
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Kasoria » Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:43 pm
21st Trial, Saun, Arc 718
The Commercial Circle
2nd Bell
Continued from here
He shouldn't have been abroad that night. Discovery would mean a fate most dire. If one of Thumberlands human guard dogs were prowling around and found him skulking, they would... well, he preferred not to think...
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Last post by Oberan
Sat Sep 08, 2018 8:40 pm
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Oh, Crystal Ball (Part 2) (Graded)
hear my song, I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong
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Oberan » Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:19 pm
The 83rd of Ymiden 718
Continued from here
Puzzle or not, Oberan was quite determined to figure the object out. He’d told Tio and Toan that he’d get this thing to work, and so he damn well would. If their first mission rolled around and he had to admit that he hadn’t managed to make any...
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Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:38 am
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Oh, Crystal Ball (Graded)
Crystal ball, save us all, tell me life is beautiful
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Oberan » Wed Aug 29, 2018 7:14 pm
The 83rd of Ymiden 718
Oberan stared at the object in his palm, frown still prominent on his face. He wasn’t sure how long he’d been trying to try and get it to work, but it had been a while now. Not that he knew what it should do though. At least, he knew what it could do, more or less, but he...
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Last post by Rynata
Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:27 am
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II. Soft and Swift as Shadows (Graded)
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Kasoria » Fri Aug 17, 2018 4:06 pm
21st Trial, Saun, Arc 718
The Commercial Circle
2nd Bell
Continued from here
When he was a boy, his mother told him about the shadow men.
Not the Naerikk, those very real monsters from the far southern landmass, over oceans and distances so far they may as well have been creatures of...
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Last post by Oberan
Tue Sep 04, 2018 9:25 am
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Renegotiation (Alistair)
A Collision of Magical Warheads
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Maltruism » Sun Jun 03, 2018 12:45 am
Renegotiation
Ashan 20, arc 718
The mage did not need any sort of attunement tracker to arrive at his conclusion. He could have probably had one made in the two trials since he'd heard that the Venoran noble had returned. But in all honesty, he worried that his target had already reclaimed such...
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Sun Sep 02, 2018 1:24 am
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Thick As Thieves (Graded)
The beginning of Kleptes
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Tio Silver » Sat Jun 30, 2018 4:52 pm
Foster's Landing, Etzos
41st Zi'da, 717
It was amazing how slowly half a trial could pass when there was something to look forward to in the next one. The sun had risen as usual and made a lazy arc over Etzos, yawning rays of light onto the little people below, at the same pace it had always...
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Last post by Tristan Venora
Fri Aug 31, 2018 5:55 am
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Just a LITTLE Trouble
Ryker Please!
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Juniper » Sat Jun 02, 2018 8:50 pm
1st of Ymiden 718
Even knowing that the world was a cruel place, nothing could have prepared her for what was to come as she finally managed to find the place the humans called Etzos. It was a sprawling city in the Tunawa's eyes, though it almost seemed like it was endless slums. Not that she...
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Last post by Juniper
Tue Aug 28, 2018 4:22 am
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On the road again
The life I love is fighting with my friends.
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Gangui » Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:59 am
Mid-Ymiden
Gangui finished off his watered down wine and discarded the empty glass bottle on the side of the road. Moseke could go gammok herself for all Gangui cared. Old timers would shift through the castaway material and make profits on his garbage in turn buying more goods off the free...
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Last post by Gangui
Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:56 am
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I. To Teach Terror (Graded)
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Kasoria » Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:41 am
25th Trial, Saun, Arc 718
The Commercial Circle
Office of Thumberland Shipping and Importations
16th Bell
Things don't need to get any worse. It's important you understand that, sir.
It was the sir that struck Thumberland most of all. Not... everything else. Because he heard it so...
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Last post by Oberan
Fri Aug 24, 2018 11:46 am
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Strays and Orphans (Max) (Graded)
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Kasoria » Wed Aug 08, 2018 8:08 pm
40th Trial, Zi'Da, Arc 711
Outer Perimeter, South Side
14th bell
Need some help wiv' that, sir?
That I should live long enough to be so damn shamed.
I've got it, thank you.
The boy who'd been sweeping was apparently not convinced. He gave the little man a once over and decided again...
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Last post by Rynata
Thu Aug 23, 2018 4:53 pm
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Bright Feather, Black Feather (Graded)
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Noth » Tue Jan 30, 2018 1:26 pm
Zi’da XX 717
Noth often made visits to the Underground territory that many of Al’Angyryls’ soldiers frequented. The reasons for this were typically far different then the reasons that his multitude of scum happened upon the rugged and run-down tunnels, however, because he typically made the trips...
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Last post by Rynata
Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:35 am
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End Of Land (Graded)
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Kasoria » Sat Aug 04, 2018 1:39 am
15th Trial, Saun, Arc 718
Outer Perimeter
10th bell
Everyone wanted to live. At least at first. They fought, or they pleaded, or they bargained, and if none of those worked, they ran. Until their veins pumped acid and every breath tore fresh strips of flesh from their lungs. Until they'd...
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Last post by Oberan
Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:00 am
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A Change of Perspective (Ryder and Oberan)
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Adruria » Sun Jul 29, 2018 8:30 pm
81st of Ymiden, Arc 718
The day had started off simple enough, Adruria was going to meet Ryder at a tavern for a drink. Simple and easy, right? Wrong. It turned out in the time it had taken for the Naer to make her way to the tavern Ryder had made some 'friends'. By the time Adruria had arrived a...
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Last post by Oberan
Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:50 pm
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The Worst Henchmen (Graded)
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Oberan » Wed Aug 01, 2018 8:00 pm
The 10th of Saun 718
Oberan thought of doing many things, but didn’t act on any idea that popped into his mind. Sure, he could resist and make a scene, he could even escape, but the result would be the same. The merchant was going to frame him for a crime he didn’t commit –though he very well...
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Last post by Tristan Venora
Fri Aug 10, 2018 5:38 am
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Hate It Til You Love It (Graded)
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Kasoria » Wed Aug 01, 2018 1:50 am
Vhalar, Arc 690
Up, you bastards! Time to greet the fuckin' morning!
His mind didn't so much as hear the words as his ears sensed them. It was during the relaying of that noise to his brain that the punctuation to the profanity was given-
-in the form of a door being picked open and the...
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Last post by Oberan
Thu Aug 09, 2018 1:07 pm
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To Think, To Dream
For Nightshade
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Noth » Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:58 pm
Ymiden 78, 718
He could still see them.
Of course, he had always been able to see them. Ever since he had taken his first life, he had had dreams and visions of those faces at night whenever he lay down to sleep. He had been wracked with guilt and revulsion at first, because the very first life...
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Last post by Nightshade Eld
Thu Aug 09, 2018 2:29 am
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Learning Curve (Graded)
Job Thread
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Nightshade Eld » Wed Aug 01, 2018 3:41 am
Saun 2nd, 718
Teaching was a prospect the half-breed was rather unfamiliar with. She'd never actually taught anyone else before. So it was a fair bit uncomfortable when she realized that being back in The Roost meant that she was going to have to start teaching classes. During Ymiden the classes...
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Last post by Oberan
Tue Aug 07, 2018 11:38 am
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Practice Makes Perfection (Graded)
Job Thread
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Nightshade Eld » Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:45 pm
Saun 1st, 718
The half-breed could feel the winds messing with her hair as she looked towards the sky, her expression vexed. With a heavy sigh, she shook her head. Saun was never one of her favorite seasons. In fact, she very well despised the way the sun constantly bore down on her and the way...
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Last post by Oberan
Mon Aug 06, 2018 1:19 pm
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The New Order(s) (Graded)
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Kasoria » Sun Jul 29, 2018 12:33 am
24th Trial, Ymiden, Arc 718
South-East Outer Perimeter
21st break
Continued from here
There was nothing fair or chivalrous about it, and that was sort of the point, really. It was just a matter of perspective. To a noble warrior from Rharne or the Eternal Empire, where even those...
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Last post by Lavana Tharn
Sun Aug 05, 2018 7:15 pm
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Terror and Twig
Juniper and Noth
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Noth » Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:17 pm
Believe In Dark Wings
Ymiden 2, 718
The arrow whistled through the air, its shriek not altogether indifferent from the howl of a predator before it pounces upon an unsuspecting prey, a primitive warning indicative of a bloody and violent affair. After merely half of a trill, the haunting...
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Last post by Noth
Fri Aug 03, 2018 4:29 pm
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The Worst Deity
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Oberan » Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:58 pm
The 11th of Saun 718
Just past midnight
The Mortalborn was at a loss. He’d overheard a conversation that seemed to suggest he might not be needing to actually pay off his supposed debt. Really, that Solomon fellow had a lot of guts to come up with something this ridiculous. Oberan was certain...
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Last post by Oberan
Fri Aug 03, 2018 1:58 pm
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Building Muscle
Nothie
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Nightshade Eld » Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:55 pm
Ymiden 79th, 718
When the half-breed had offered the other trial to help Noth build up someone more strength, since she needed to build up more anyways, she was glad that she'd decided to tell him late afternoon instead of early morning. The half-breed had not realized when she made that deal...
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Thu Aug 02, 2018 6:55 pm
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