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Arc 721, Zi'da 9

Grayson was off someplace, doing whatever it was that Grayson did. Talking to people, getting information, and mainly staying out of Natalia's way while adjusting to the new environment surrounding Etzos.

As advertised, it wasn't the nicest of...

Ashan 56th Arc 721

His hands trembled as he tried to fit the key in the lock, bronze clattering against metal casing. He muttered impatient curses, sweat gathering on his palms and brow, itching in his armpits, and trickling down his back. Grabbing his own hand by the wrist, he managed to...

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Arc 721, Zi'da 7
Immediately following The New Girl

As day shifted to night, the mood of the tavern seemed to follow suit. A livelier crowd soon arrived, giving Natalia a whole new slew of diverse subjects to observe. To truly blend in within the intrigue of...

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Arc 721, Zi'da 30

The frozen mists of Zi'da spun lazily within the darkness as she walked through the city, making the ends of the streets disappear into nothingness. The season had always been a favorite, but within the arms of Etzos, things around her finally...

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Arc 721, Zi'da 7

After arriving in Etzos, Natalia and Grayson made their way to the 'Inn for Dinner,' which was recommended by the guard at the Great Parhn Gates. As her cousin had been to the city before, he had no trouble following the directions given to the...

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77th of Vhalar Arc 721
Previously

Smoke scented the air as the flame was smothered. But darkness did not come. In fact, the room grew more brightly lit by the second, beams of light spilling from between Oberan’s fingers.

“You will do no such thing.” He sighed,...

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77th of Vhalar Arc 721
Previously

Oberan lounged in his seat, leaning against the rest, arms crossed and one ankle perched on the opposite knee. A lazy smile playing around his lips. Casual, at ease. But there was a tension to him, hidden in the set of his...

Vhalar 77th Arc 721
Previously

She stepped aside to let him pass, moving with the languid grace of a cat completing a satisfying stretch. Oberan kept half an eye on her as he did, holding up his Daylight Stone to illuminate the pitch-black room behind her. It wasn’t very big at all, but more...

Ashan 56th Arc 721

Jessom Daggett –proud and new owner of a small tailor shop in the Northern Oh’Pee, leader of an up-and-coming gang, and bastard of the fourth degree—leaned back in a comfortable chair. Legs crossed, his feet rested on an expertly crafted desk of glossy dark wood. A smile tugged...

Vhalar 77th 721

Idalos mourned. The natural phenomena of the world and even esoteric concepts like emotions crying big salty tears. Like a people who’d just lost their ruler, they seemed uncertain as to how to continue. A guiding beacon that had steered their actions for so long now no longer...

Vhalar 75th 721

Oberan had sensed it, sure and true.

The hollowing of a gaping hole within him, a void where there previously had been none. A distinct feeling of something now missing. Of loss.

Stuck in Emea, the significance was lost on him at first, unable to witness the repercussions...

Ashan 56th Arc 721

An atmosphere of revelry suffused the backroom area of the Snapped Thread tailor shop. About two dozen rough-looking men and women gathered there, sitting on crates and reclining on the floorboards. Beverages in hand, they toasted and drank, cheered and laughed, played dice and...

Saun 10, 721
The Underground
Dawn

It wasn't much of a home to leave. Being as it was room he'd claimed as his own, decades if not centuries after anyone held any care for the forgotten place. No light save for what he brought with him; no air save for what tepid, stinking atmosphere managed to...

40th of Ymiden Arc 721

After the battle for Etzos’s continued freedom of the yoke of Immortal rule, Oberan had found himself in bad shape. Both the wounds sustained during the struggle and the backlash of the extensive use of his Thrill Domain confined him to a bed that wasn’t his own, the first...

And this is the OTHER placeholder that was approved after-the-fact as taking place just a few trials before the Rebirth Cycle begins.
My bad. Sorry :oops:
The 90th of Zi'da 720

It’d been a while since Oberan had last found himself in jail, and it was every part as horrid as he remembered....

Ashan 30th Arc 721

Earth weighed down cool and heavy, yet gentle, holding Rokas within a lovers’ embrace from all sides. Resting on him and being rested on by him. Clasping his hand in its own just like its body wrapped around his. Soft like satin, a reassuring pressure that put him at ease, the...

Ashan 7th Arc 721

“Thank you, and come again!” the vendor called, handing Rokas a paper bag with vegetables. They received no response in return, though they barely noticed; already addressing the next person in line.

Due to Lisirra’s plague, the market was less crowded now than it had been in...

Ashan 4th Arc 721

Spying to the left and right as inconspicuously as possible, Rokas approached the weathered wooden door. One of the many in this grimy and dark alleyway. Although similar to those neighboring it, it was unique in minor ways; the grain of the wood, the way passage of time had...

Cylus 22nd Arc 721

He inhaled the scent of fresh-fallen rain, the humid aroma that mixed with that of the forest and strengthened it. Puddles splashed against his boots and mud suckled at his soles as he trudged through the moist underground of the North Woods. The dark of Cylus still lingered,...

Ashan 1st Arc 721

Ashan 30th Arc 721

Previously

Rokas burst from the ground, earth pushing him up at the shoulders so his body swung upright as if mounted on a hinge. He focused on the nearest flabbergasted thug, grabbing him by the shirt and yanking him close. Not a moment later Rokas smashed his skull into...

Ashan 26th Arc 721

Upon returning from a quick check-up of his leg at Doc’s practice, Rokas once more became aware of a figure lurking at the edges of his vision. Trailing his path, keeping a set amount of distance between them to ensure he wouldn’t notice. Earth and air did though, sniffing them...

Cylus 14th Arc 721

Immediate excitement of the kerfuffle with Barry having passed, adrenaline drained away. Its effects waned, pain breaking through the haze. Sharp and hot and worse every time he moved his leg. The fabric of his trouser leg was stained red, soaked and heavy, sticking to the...

Cylus 14th Arc 721

Previous

For several moments there was nothing but deep silence echoing through the loggers' camp. Silence that grew louder with the continued sound of crackling flames and the occasional puff of wind. The bearded man who called himself Barry sat frozen despite the fire, no...