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29th of Vhalar 719

He woke up many hours after sharing the night with Emmy, and then having overslept. He reached out to find her, but felt nothing but cold, linen sheets over a straw pallet. Woe sighed, hemming in the...

16th of Vhalar
Arc 719

“You’re overreacting, Nora.”

Aiden shook his head.

“ Nora !” The actor pitched forward, yelling into the empty air. “Will you calm down? You’re overreacting!”

No. That was too much.

Aiden cradled his jaw thoughtfully in one hand, flipping through the script laid in...

17 Vhalar 719 | Ulric and Arthur | The Valkyrie's Roost
The sound of sticks whacking against each other would be difficult to shake from Ulric's memory. It had been maybe four or five breaks since Ulric and Arthur came into the Valkyrie's Roost and they'd made good use of the time there. Ulric had...

40th of Vhalar 719

The webspinner had packed his luggage, which consisted of mostly what he could carry on his back. The rest he'd either liquidated and sold in order to pay for the coming journey.

All the arrangements had been made. There were far too many bad memories tied to Etzos now and his...

10 Vhalar, Arc 719

Continued from Here.

“Pardon me,” said Llyr as he set a hand on a newcomer who’d been about to step past the door marked Guidance . The unknown girl stammered, unable to form much more than a slight indignation when the tall blond cut past her. Before he shut the door in...

So again, what was that about me being slow? - The Dragon Rises Part 2

26 Cylus 706 | Ulric | Gulltown in the Etzos area
After the duel had ended, Arthur and Ulric went back into the Gulltown Inn where Marian and Alexios had just finished negotiating some rooms for them. Corvus rejoined the...

- The Dragon of Elyria Part 1

27 Cylus 706 | Ulric | Gulltown in the Etzos area
Things were moving too quickly now for Ulric to stop them but he raged against the tide the whole way. It had taken little more than the fear mongering words of the village leader, Hackham Grey, to mobilize...

21st trial, Vhalar, 719
The Underground, Eastern Commercial Circle
19th break

Continued from here

It would have been easier if the poison had sent him to sleep. Made him numb and dumb to what the little man was doing to him. Though it was no real choice at all, he'd have preferred waking up...

20th trial, Vhalar, 719
Commercial Circle, Etzos
16th break

Continued from here .

Kasoria needed to speak with him, about something, private, like . Never mind that Llyr had been the one to find the man at the blacksmith, rather than the old assassin seeking him out. He took the Etzori at his...

28th of Vhalar 719 14th break

Relaxation wasn't a sensation that came to the torturer naturally. A life spent tormenting people wasn't conducive to a laid-back personality. The things he'd seen while putting folks to implements of his trade were enough to turn even the happiest tunawa into a...

Commercial Circle
06 Vhalar, 719
Previous

“Fates, what happened to yer face? Who did this?” asked Lochlann. “I knew I shouldn’t have left!”

Llyr shrugged. He pulled away from the older man’s grip on his jaw. His cheek felt tender from all the swelling, and he had more than a few cuts and...

21st trial, Vhalar, 719
The Underground, Eastern Commercial Circle
17th break

Continued from here

It was she that spoke the words. She that he loved and feared in equal measure. Hated, too, in his own, tremulous way. The sort of hatred that was more qrapped up in envy that true, honest...

35th of Vhalar 719

Woe's office smelled of the dusty fumes of dried parchment, and coppery inks. His stationery supplies sat on his desk top, as he worked on his penmanship, trying to sort out his thoughts through the use of freewriting. Against the front of his desk, the Rapier he'd bought...

Continued from here

21st trial, Vhalar, 719
The Underground, Eastern Commercial Circle
17th break

Gorst, Krell... they're dead.

All activity around the chamber ceased. Shuffling papers, dripping liquids, stones across blades and a dozen other busy little noises that they'd come to...

21st trial, Vhalar, 719
The Underground, Eastern Commercial Circle
17th break

Come-come, now... psh-psh... coooooome on...

The cat was not quick to trust. Unsurprising, considering where it lived, and what it had survived. It was not even a full arc old (though such a passing of time would...

13th of Vhalar
Arc 719

And… there it was.

The black, nondescript shape shifted in short, quick movements between the stacked lumber and the wall. In the shadows, Aiden could see its eyes glowing. They peered out at him with a predatory glint.

Aiden rocked backward, shifting from his knees into...

20th trial, Vhalar, 719
Commercial Circle, Etzos
13th break

He didn't need Vorund's list for everything. The information within was targeted, narrow, specific. Within the borders of underworld influence and political chicanery, yes, it was deep and useful. Many a name was new to the reader, and...

LITANY AGAINST FEAR
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be...

The Lonely Mark
Northwest Outer Perimeter
Late Morning, 06 Vhalar, 719
Previous

A scream woke him. Llyr shot up in the bed, unaware that he’d actually slept for some time. He’d been lost in a most unusual discussion with an ithecal in his dreams. Like most Emean conversations, he shook it...

North Outer Perimeter
Last Break of
5th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

The Lonely Mark was a soldier-only establishment, meant specifically for those in the Etzori army looking for a night of discreet company. With Lisirra’s siege, and the sack on Rhakros, a fair number of the populace now...

North Outer Perimeter
5th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

“Danny Ray, you stop this right now,” begged the young woman, who'd placed herself between the two brawling young men. She pulled the filthy Etzori away.

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Llyr sat up, freed from the assault, and he rubbed...

North Outer Perimeter
5th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

After Llyr accounted for Snorri’s position in the start of the new venture - that he’d decided would be called Constellation … Consultants? Clients? Consultation? He’d have to come back to that - He wrote down Madam Miller’s specific...

North Outer Perimeter
5th of Vhalar, Arc 719
Previous

Emeline Holt didn’t have any excessive finery on, like she had worn that morning at the Citadel. She had no gems embedded to her outfit. A thin silver chain hung over her forehead, shadowed by the hood of a pale green cloak lined with...

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37th of Vhalar 719

Just like his carapace arms were just there whenever Woe wished to call upon them, the Webspinner had discovered other abilities in his time. Among these, one that he’d come to prize in his work as a torturer. While some perverse individuals...

Previous

North Outer Perimeter
5th of Vhalar, Arc 719

On the northside outer perimeter of Etzos, the meeting took place in a wide common room of a tavern known simply as Melinda’s . Though large enough to house several tables of varied shape, and large staircases that led to a couple...