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New Subforums
So, one of the things that has changed in the new site is that the new PSF is visible to everyone. This provides us an opportunity and so, this morning I've created some subforums in there - for completed / approved threads....
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The trial was warm; warmer than usual, in fact. Teddy strolled through the street, whistling some tune he’d heard and could only vaguely remember. Even his whistling had a lilting quality to it, sounding like windchimes blowing in a gentle breeze. With nowhere to be, Teddy could just find his way...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=100&image_id=3346 10th Saun, 716 Florence!? FLORENCE!? Which one is the slave you hired? the man in the very proper suit who was standing in the doorway yelled back to the shop floor. Faith was in work, this time in the seamstress' shop where she worked in order to...
The Mortalborn arranged the books on the desk in front of him carefully before he looked up at the students that were sitting in front of him, waiting for him to begin. He knew some of them from the previous season when he had taught an introductory class on chemistry, but there...
The Skyrider felt like a naughty schoolgirl. Her green dress had been let out at the sides and now hung straight down from under her bust. There was no hiding the pregnancy at this point and she had no desire to try. Still she waited in...
The sound of swords clashing could both be heard before seen in the grass fields just outside the city as two mercenaries sparred openly and competitively with one another. One was male, the other female, and the pair seemed evenly matched, fending off each other’s attacks with...
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My two natures had memory in common.
25 of Saun, 716
The men were restless.
Shifting, staring into the dark horizon with nervous eyes that darted around. Sweaty hands gripped inexperienced weapons, waiting. Andras was standing atop the city walls...
. Imogen held close a crumpled note as she wandered the streets of midtown, unfamiliar with the neighbourhood and the people who lived in it, and therefore appropriately wary, treating with them as if it were lowtown and she were about to be robbed. She wore her...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1253 110 Ashan 716
Malcolm looked up from his book at the class of students sat in front of him. The youngest looked about seventeen arcs old, while the oldest must have been almost three times that age. Not only was the captain a teacher of history, a...
2nd Saun 716 This was, frankly, unacceptable. Celeste was finding it increasingly difficult to maintain this house, although she was doing what she considered a passable job of it. But the garden? Well that was simply impossible to maintain. But yet, she knew, it had to be kept tended and...
In regards to efficiency? Yes Mama. Whenever possible, actions should serve more than one purpose, even should some of those purposes seem small or insignificant.
The mid-town guard post of the Iron Hand was a great building. Built with stone, as most of the military facilities were, it was built not only to last, but also to house a great portion of the military personnel to avoid overrunning the...
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
~~~ Michelangelo ~~~
/gallery/image.php?album_id=101&image_id=3083 7th Saun, 716
Closing her eyes, she considered...
Where Vakhanor tread work was soon to follow him. Hired to help train the apprentices while their masters were away the smith sat behind the anvil of an open sided shop with no walls, a series of benches filled with half rusted and...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=2262 40th Ymiden
They had retired to bed early the night before. The breaks filled with intimate caresses and soft whispers. Elyna had felt the passing of time like never before. Where she wanted it to stand still it had raced ahead. It would never be...
Quio was lost. He had meant to find some place that he might figure out a temporary job --a bulletin board or city office-- but this... this obviously wasn't it.
At first he thought he had somehow wound up in a library, it was so hushed. People were everywhere, rows upon...
Seira was incredibly excited at the thought of the performance she was getting ready to give. She loved performing in front of a crowd...any crowd at all. It offered her a thrill of excitement that little else could. And the reward that was...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1597 1st of Ymiden, 716
Contrary to popular belief, Peake was an educated man. Perhaps his antics, his way of communicating, or his brash attitude often said otherwise, but he had spent quite a while hidden between mountains of books. In fact, most of his...
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They met up with him just as the border between the regions came close. The first thing they did was show him the scroll, the signature, the wax seal. Afterwards they explained it all: the intelligence, the precedent, and the...
The night draped its deep blue blanket over the city and brought a cool wind with it. Above, the sky glittered, not as clearly as in the Warrick mainland, but dazzling still. Rafael leaned out the small window of his room and let the fresh air cleanse his lungs.
Dusk was coming later and later. It fell over the landscape with a careful whisper and the world held its breath. Elyna had been trying to remain calm and not fuss but she’d managed to make sure that all the laundry for herself...
They smell. They reek. They’re mostly men … the Iron Hand!
The call to arms radiated through the capital falling the death of the queen, rumors flew with the wind and many an able-bodied man suddenly took an interest in patriotic and blind warcraft. Her goal from Labrae...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=41&image_id=3262 26th of Saun, Arc 716
Continued from Negotiations Between Parties
There had never been an atmosphere quieter or colder than the one inside the royal tent at this moment. Centered in an encampment, surrounded by thousands of men, horses, and weapons, the...
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