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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

24th Trial, Ymiden, Arc 718
South-East Outer Perimeter
21st break

Continued from here

From the Dust Quarter to the Fool's Run, from the Barracks of the City Guard of Rharne to the Four Gates of Yaralon, men remembered him. They spoke of his skill, and those that had tried to kill him and...

Date: 718th Ashan, 70th trial

After getting some well deserved rest Lowell and Valecia checked out of the inn, as Lowell was stretching his sore leg from yesterday's incident Valecia tapped him on the shoulder we need to restock on our supplies, especially since those gorbs won't move without...

The 10th of Saun 718

“Where were you?!” the scowling man yelled, head not unlike a bright tomato, albeit a rather angry one. He was a pudgy man with at least three chins, wearing fine and expensive robes. A merchant of sorts, if the Mortalborn had to guess. The man was stamping his foot and...

21st Trial, Ymiden, Arc 718
The Citadel
14th break

Continued from here

He wasn't willing to let this go. Not until the old man had heard him out.

For seasons now - hells, for longer than that , if he was being honest - he'd watched a man he'd grown up idolizing make stupider and stupider...

1st of Saun, 718

That's the one Ryder muttered to the three bandits beside him, all of which close to the roadside. They were hidden, to some degree, though the cloak of night was enough to cover them as much as it could. His scouts had picked up on the armored caravan a trial or two ago,...

21st Trial, Ymiden, Arc 718
South Etzos
9th break

Continued from here

He kept them in small groups, for he didn't want to burn his muscles out too fast. He knew that he could push himself and manage groups of a dozen or more, for most of a break, with pauses for breath and water in between....

21st Trial, Ymiden, Arc 718
South Etzos
8th break

He didn't get many days when he could pretend he was someone else. He wasn't one to entertain such a notion, anyway. He'd long since come to terms with what he did, what he was, the damage he'd wrought and the lives he'd changed and ruined and,...

Ashan 4, 718

To say that business was booming would simultaneously be both an overstatement and an understatement. It was true that Diamond in the Rough had proven to be a particularly worthwhile investment, and the hybrid had appreciated the substantial surplus of income that had suddenly found...

11 Ashan 718
The dark haired woman that traversed the town was inexplicably bored. There was apparently much to see, but nothing that she quite liked. Fine clothing and objects, stalls of food and vendors of trinkets; nothing seemed to appease her. Not with the soft rumble of her stomach and the...

49th Ymiden, 718 With a small sigh in to the evening air, Ryder glanced aside at the men and women lined up. It wasn't often he resorted to a brothel, but the last few nights had been fairly dull and the man had nothing to do with his time. Training was done in the day, leaving near to nothing for...