16 Ashan 718

It was simple enough. With the Black Guard crackdown, the goods had to me moved and fast. Not that there would have been any problems if the guard actually found the stock in the hidden Underground room, it could not be traced to anyone in the Fence, but the loss of the items would...

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Lucretia Meadows found herself adrift in the forest not to far outside Etzori walls. It was filled with the sounds of life, and the necromancer enjoyed her time in solitude with her familiar.

Her Harvester Voila seemed to take fascination with the living creatures that frolicked in the...

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1st Ashan

Horse tied up, Ryder let out a small and quiet sigh. After one of the toughest missions he'd ever been on, the man was simply travelling down the road to Southguard, riding through a lightly forested rode. As if none of it had ever...

73rd Vhalar 717

It was the perfect opportunity for him and one not to be missed especially when the Underground despite its reputation has proven time and time again of its usefulness to the deserter; that was even when it was mostly blocked off as a result of the attacks, contained many hazards...

Ashan 92nd, 718
Pain wreathed its way up and down the body of the half-breed. It was mild at best, nothing even close to deadly, but it was still a good start. She suppressed the urge to throw up she clutched one of the Poinsettia flowers scattered around her. After scrounging up a book on...

37th Trial, Ymiden, Arc 709
Outer Perimeter
22nd break
Continued from here

Blackjack.

The word flashed through Marcus' mind as soon as the skinny little fucker showed them who he really was, and the greenie was the first to suffer for their mistake. Marcus knew that's what it was, too....

33rd Trial, Ymiden, Arc 709
Outer Perimeter
1st break

Silk curtains in the doorway. Art, actual paintings on the walls. A couple of chairs and and loungers just built for elegant women to luxuriate in. The scent of jasmine and lavender, covering the sharper, bitter flavors of expensive drugs....

(to be dated)

Crack sang out the hammer.
“From Wood to ash”
Bang sang the Anvil.
“From iron to Rust”
Clack went the Ingot.
“we forge from the bones of the land’s crust.”

Carrying his tune as he worked the young smith Wrought another work of Iron from lifeless ingots, his current project was...

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26th of Cylus 718

Ivanthe wasn’t even sure he was breathing, he was running so fast. The cylus wind cut daggers into his skin, slipping right through his clothes as if they were nothing. His cloak streamed behind him,...

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The problem with legs, he'd found, was that you couldn't make them blur. As in, you couldn't unleash storms of blows like you could with your fists, arms moving so quickly that left and right sometimes seemed to be landing at...

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There was a rhythm to be found, in this as well as all things. A balance. A beat. Once it was captured, once you could match the frantic energies of your body with that sustainable, repetitive staccato, it was just a matter of...

A lot went into making what he did look simple, and seamless.

He'd never thought about it as a kid, but then again, couldn't everyone say that? The end result, the final flourish of movements, the victory and the glory, all these were obvious, but not the trials and seasons and arcs of training...

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An Etzos EVENT
Saun 25, arc 717

The rumors were true!

Guidance Coordinator Marlin Tagley's face could be improved with a smile.

It was entirely possible the young Qi'ora sitting across from him was wishing he'd have taken that...

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Her focus was devoted entirely to the task at hand as she tried to keep a steady hold on her focus. It wasn’t helpful how her mind seemed intent to jump and wander, never wishing to stay in one place for more than a couple moments. It...

20th Trial, Ashan, Arc 718
South-East Outer Perimeter
15th break

Continued from here

There were the sounds you grew used to, living in a city. Raised voices. Terse, sharp commands or long, rolling advertisements. Animals of all kinds, wailing and braying and neighing. Wagon wheels crunching...

Ashan 16 718, Late Morning
Location: The Cow and Corset

Patrick stirred in his bed half forgotten of what transpired the night prior to this Trial, the better half remembered treated as some kind of wet dream he enjoyed. Sure enough when he nuzzled his face into the backside of his partner, his...

A Song Of Finns And Dorans

The Temple, Etzos Underground, Ashan 16th, arc 718

Nothing good ever came out of the underground and nothing good entered it either. It was said that all who crossed the threshold from the world above into the underbelly of the city were given an invisible mask to...

THE PLAN TO ERADICATE ALL XIURS

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13th Ashan, 718

Finn awoke one of Zipper’s bedrooms while the roosters still slept and dew still clung to the grass. A few shy rays of sunlight crawled over the horizon and tickled his skin through the worn-out curtains, blowing in a...

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She watched the smith quietly as he hurried about, barking orders at those around him. She needed a new sword anyways. So, she’d come up with a small order. Of course, even if she said small, she meant absolutely massive. She wanted one...

28th Cylus, 718

Even the mortal born had fallen victim to Cylus’ darkness. Animals and mortals alike grew disoriented, their sleeping schedules being so afflicted even tracking the passing trials became impossible. Many bordered insanity in this season, for they wrapped themselves in blankets in...

The title wasn't my idea

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12th Ashan, 718

For someone with mysophobia, his sister had elected a peculiar place to live, but what the alleyway lacked in orderliness it more than made up for with bargain rent prices. Sometimes principles fell victim to vices.

The door...

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The Citizen's Market, Outer Perimeter
23rd break

There came a point when he stopped remembering them as he imagined other men would. And because memory and past experiences informed how a man lived in the present,...

20th Trial, Ashan, Arc 718
South-East Outer Perimeter
18th break

Continued from here

There were things he didn't think about when he did them. Because he didn't need to. The way he moved, the position of his body, the means to get to the end result... it was known by his own muscles so well...

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1st of Ashan, 718

The guilty were so gloriously nervous when they were confronted with their wrongdoings. Even when nothing was said out loud.

It was moot that one hunter or another had betrayed Ivanthe to his prospective...

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Finn O'Connor :: 81st of Vhalar, 717
His friend, the vulture with the crimson eyes, had left him a message. As befitted an outcast, the crow had not shown himself but instead seen a crumpled note slipped into his pocket. Finn only discovered it when...