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1 Ashan 722

Maxine's first love was alcohol when it came to vices. She was a master at binge-drinking by now, and the thought of a healthy drinking habit was an impossible suggestion at this rate. When she drank, she drank . There was no such thing as casual drinking....

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12 Ashan 722

Parental figures.

It was a ridiculous concept in a way. It felt like a crutch for the absence of that traditional, nuclear family she had missed out on. Orphans, like other children with some sort of parental deficit, were especially prone to search...

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27 Cylus 722

It had been a long couple trials. The business at the mysterious Khenji's drug house hadn't left her mind. No matter how artificially busy she made herself, Maxine remembered. The smell of cheap incense. The ginger sensation of fingers caressing her bare...

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25 Cylus 722
Started from here . A continuation from a part two in the Adult Forum from here . Split in sections due to changing levels of mature content.

The heavy wooden door to Sabrina's bedroom quarters slammed open with such violence that the Naerikk woke...

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25 Cylus 722

Maxine was becoming a little less of a vagabond and something more resembling that of a regular in the Etzos Underground. Her commandeered tent on the surface still fluttered its damaged, muddy fabric in the wind, but she'd been resting her head more...

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3 Cylus 722

Martin, that stupid drug dealer, was right despite how much she loathed to admit it. She was in a bind. When she landed in Scalvoris she knew she had just enough bare skills to score a job as a mercenary. She had to do some proving, but it was done and...

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20 Cylus 722

The small stone suite was still cooling down from the heat generated by two active bodies within it. Without a window, even outside of Cylus, this place in the Underground was like a capsule. The passage of time was hard to determine, and even more so...

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Arc 721, Zi'da 7
Immediately following When Worlds Collide...

The evening, to that point, had been remarkable. Yes, remarkable was a good word. Unique? Memorable? Those too. People generally didn't enjoy being identified as puzzles for the amusement of others,...

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1 Cylus 722

An entire arc had passed since Maxine had unceremoniously landed in Etzos. Her life, a whirlwind of chaos, had once been a stampede of trials and tribulations of epic proportions, one after the next in head-snapping succession. No longer. The cadence of...

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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....