Finn O'Connor :: 40th Ashan, 717

The guard's heavy armor made loud clinking noises as the plate armour turned and shifted. One gloved hand held a boy with short brown hair and eyes of the same color by the nape of his neck while the other clutched a little bag and a crumpled note. The...

And through suffering, we find our solace in the hearts and minds of other great men...
- Some guy, probably.

Ashan 76th

It was dangerous game . Headaches plowed into his mind like needles, and he was feeling crushed performing the task at hand. Mal had Metamorphosed four rats caught from the...

50th Trial, Zi'Da, Arc 711
Speckled Jim's, Outer Perimeter, South Side
Noon

He'd told her a couple of trials, so of course he made her wait five . Because that was part of the test, too.

Patience. Determination. Without these things - and common sense sitting atop the pyramid, of course -...

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Delivery System

60th trial of Vhalar, arc 718

Reporting for work through the side door, only four trials removed from having been attacked by a madly grieving widower, and ex-father, Thessaly was undoubtedly alarmed to find the cranially-disadvantaged body laid...

V H A L A R / 56 / 718
The heart of man is evil; make no mistake.

There was no solace; there was nothing in this life that could comfort him. Yet the man, Freistos, sought that solace in the escape of drunkenness. Thessaly supposed she could not blame him, though the smell nearly put her off....

29th trial, Ymiden, Arc 718
East Commercial Circle
13th bell

The grand old place had been a place to worship gods once, and it would never be used in such a fashion again.

For most of an arc, the new owner of The Tower had overseen crews of sweaty workmen and fussy artisans, going about...

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3rd Trial, Saun, Arc 718
The Commercial Circle
16th bell

Good luck.

All right, now it's starting to sound a little bloody ominous.

Hearing something once or twice, a man dismisses it pretty easily. Coincidences do happen, after all, even...

V H A L A R / 4 / 7 1 8
Fate is fickle, but death is absolute.

T he gravity of the ritual did not pass her by. Though she had only just become Dagon's apprentice, Thessaly understood the significance of the grieving mother in the alcove just beyond her vision. Dagon, whose face usually wore a...

46th Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Outskirts of Etzos, Southwood River
23rd break

Continued from here

The hardest part was yet to come. After the killing and the bloodshed and the intimidation, after all of it, all those facets and aspects were a man might lose his life... that was where Kasoria...

46th Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Outskirts of Etzos, Southwood River
23rd break

Continued from here

He was no poisoner, and this time, he didn't have to be. Just like he didn't have to be an expert with sharpened steel to know that poison or not, Ithecal or not, shoving six inches of the stuff...

46th Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Outskirts of Etzos, Southwood River
23rd break

Continued from here

He was no poisoner, but even he knew that the dosage you got in this city was for, well, people. Human made up the vast majority of the population, so odds were, they were what you'd be killing....

46th Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Outskirts of Etzos, Southwood River
23rd break

Continued from here

He is mine.

There wasn't much of the hiss that Kasoria had been expecting. Something looking like that, all scales and claws and fangs and slit-eyes, you expected a tongue to flicker out as...

1st Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Outer Perimeter, South-East Etzos
23rd break

There was no guarantee the wanker would show, of course. Kasoria knew that the moment he'd said the words to the prick, most of a season before. He may not have even remembered the words, so focused was he on getting down...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=12022 81st Trial, Ashan, Arc 718
South Etzos, Underground
2nd break

Sometimes it really was just a job. No different to many others, in the manner by which it was approached. It was a task to be completed, and while like most men he would have preferred to...

27th Trial, Cylus, 710a
Commercial Circle
Noon

His parents must have really hated him, to have named him Mortimer in a city like Etzos. A city where the Immortals weren't just shunned and dismissed, but outright hated and despised. Generation teaching generation to revile them not as gods or...

46th Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Outskirts of Etzos, Southwood River
23rd break

Continued from here

Quit fuckin' starin' at it.

m'not.

Y'are, an' it's fuckin' annoying.

The softie shuffled and tried to make it look like it was because of the cold. Probably was, at least a little. The...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=11978 85th Trials of Vhalar, Arc 717
Midday, 13th Break…
It had been ten trials since they’d traveled from the stone roads of Etzos onto the dirt pathways leading out into the surrounding villages, towards Ne’haer. Whilst he hadn’t imagined the trip would be...

Zi'da 83rd 717, Early Evening
Location: The Cow and Corset

Etzos had remained a busy place compared to when Pat last remembered, though his visit only remained brief when Zi'da had just started. Now however the season already seemed near a close, and Cylus drew closer and closer with the cold...

The 30th of Saun 718

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Solomon would be content with the outcome, Oberan thought. Maybe he’d get off his case for a while. His attempt at winning a ton of money at the gambling hall –which had turned out to be an establishment owned by Bagun Vorund—had turned out…...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=13356 Ymiden 78th, 718
The only sound that accompanied the early morning was a continuous dull thump. The repetitive sound that was a herald to the routine striking of a hard object. In this case, a tree. Bark met with flesh, the only sign that anything was...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=13356 Ashan 100th, 718
She couldn't help but go back and forth on this little idea in particular. This would be the second arc of breaking an old routine that built up when she was much younger. Even them, she still stayed home and sulked. She didn't feel...

45th Trial, Vhalar, 718a
Commercial Circle
10th break

This is what it was all about, huh? All that trouble... for a fucking book .

Little more'n that, but yeah.

Kasoria wasn't in the mood to deal with Ilos, but that was the cunt sitting behind the desk, so that was how it had to be....

Ymiden 24 708,
MidTrial
Location: The Commercial Circle

The weather had been remarkable granted Ymiden proved to be warmer when it usually first started, the fair generosity of sunshine mixed with only some clouds made it a perfect day. Why would it be so perfect? Because on such occasions with...

/gallery/image/15262/medium Saun 50th, 718 Arc
Underground, Etzos

The woman hesitantly stepped up to the door, raised her hand, and paused. She backed away before knocking and turned to her brother. He stared back at her nervously, his eyes darted back and forth in the Underground passage. The...

The 20th of Saun 718

“Name?”

“Wulford Silva, plus one.”

A slight pause. The sound of pen scratching on paper.

“Enjoy yourselves tonight, Mr. Silva. Madam.”

They nodded in response, and the line moved forward just a little bit.

“Name?”

“Edgar Endeldram”

Another pause, longer than...