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» Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:58 pm » in Global Announcements

Rebirth Cycle: Arc 723

The Rebirth Cycle has Cylus (30 Trials) and then Ashan (123 Trials) which are open for you to play. All new threads from February 1st 2023 - May 31st 2023 should be timestamped within one of those two seasons.

Please see Timekeeping for more information and reach out to a...

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Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:58 pm
A Guide to BB Code & Box Code Creation!

This thread shows the available BB Code on the site, and then gives a basic tutorial on boxcode construction

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We have the following BBCode on the site.

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Color Change 1 Color Change 1 - this uses colour hex codes. A useful site for finding...

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• Site News • News & New Features!

This thread will keep you updated on news and new features!

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/gallery/image.php?album_id=143&image_id=4097 The PSF

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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Tue Feb 07, 2023 5:39 pm
Standing Trials Terms of Use

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Standing Trials: Rules and Expectations

The Website: Standing Trials ( / ), referred to through the rest of this thread as the website , our website , the site , our site , Standing Trials , and Trials .
You: The person reading these words right now.
The Staff: All users who are identified as...

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Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:52 pm
Kudos Thread

Recognize others for their help and contributions here.

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Kudos Thread

Use this thread to say thanks and publicly recognize others for their help!

We have so many amazing players and mods on ST, and we love to see them appreciated for their thoughtfulness and hard work.

If someone was particularly awesome or helpful in chat, in your thread, in your...
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• Placeholder • Dimza Nil's Reckoning

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Demda

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Demda

» Sun Jan 15, 2023 10:46 pm

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Zi'da722

Return to the Caravansary.

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• Placeholder • The Witch of Ulema

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Vhalar 722

Return to the Caravansary.

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• Placeholder • Birds of Paradise

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Demda

» Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:45 pm

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14th Saun 722

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• Placeholder • Springheel Tim

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Demda

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12th Ymiden 722

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Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:45 pm
• Solo • Nashaki Treasure

Demda and company set out on a treasure hunt.

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Demda

» Mon Nov 30, 2020 2:45 am

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17th of Vhalar 720

Dusk was falling on the treasure hunters’ camp, and it was Demda’s task to try and organize this group into something resembling a neat and orderly gathering of archeologists. What she’d gotten, since signing on for the treasure hunt, was a...

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Fri Oct 15, 2021 1:47 am
• PM To Join • The Edge of the Scimitar

Hankley please

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Doran

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Demda

» Sat Oct 24, 2020 3:44 pm
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43rd of Vhalar 720

It’d been days since Demda had mixed the tanning solution, and the stench was still on her nose, although she tried to cover it with what scents she could acquire to her face covering. Even after the sandstorm had divided the tribe, leaving them to scatter to the sands of the...
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Doran

Tue Jan 26, 2021 5:16 am
• Memory • Storm

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Avalon

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Rokas

» Fri Dec 25, 2020 3:19 pm

Saun 39th of Arc 700

Rokas wandered unseeing through the swirling sands and howling wind, following the call of the water.

Eyes pinched shut, he struggled against the raging winds, ignoring the sand clinging to his lashes. Clothes billowed, the fabric unable to resist the storming gusts. The air...

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Thu Dec 31, 2020 5:08 pm
• Solo • Demda Was Right

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Doran

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Hankley

» Fri Dec 18, 2020 12:29 am

Timestamp: Vhalar 45, 720

Hankley awoke with a start. She sat up in her straw bed, naked in the darkness of her home. She had heard something. She slipped out from her thin sheet she used, more as a comfort than a protection from the cold, straining her ears to focus. The wind was howling outside,...

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Doran

Sat Dec 26, 2020 5:09 am
• Memory • Companions

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Pig Boy

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Rokas

» Fri Dec 18, 2020 2:42 pm

Saun 24th of Arc 700

Somehow, Rokas had made it out of the quicksand without Zaruid’s help. Nature’s trap had swallowed him whole, dragging him down too far. He’d been beyond saving. And yet, he found himself back on the desert’s surface. Sand roughly caressing his skin, the suns baking him from...

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Thu Dec 24, 2020 1:11 pm
• Memory • Burial

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Kasoria

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Rokas

» Fri Dec 11, 2020 11:55 am

Saun 24th of Arc 700

From his upper chest down, Rokas’s entire body was buried in sand. Unlike before, he could not move his limbs. At most he could wriggle a tiny bit back and forth, but the weight of the earth was too much for him to overcome. It was a good thing, in a roundabout kind of way....

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Kasoria

Thu Dec 24, 2020 5:40 am
• Solo • A Word of Warning

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Doran

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Demda

» Sun Nov 29, 2020 6:02 am

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45th of Vhalar 720

The howling sandstorms had abated as Demda made her way north, through the slaver's corridor, giving way to milder winds, with the occasional dust-devil sprouting up from the updraft. That was a small discomfort to deal with, and occasional at...

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Doran

Fri Dec 18, 2020 7:22 am
• Memory • Comparative

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Saza Moshe

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Saza Moshe

» Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:53 am

20 YMIDEN, 719 ‣ NORTHERN FORTRESS RUINS In harsh rays of golden sunlight, the dust and debris formerly known as the Northern Fortress hung heavy in the air. Ymiden in the Hotlands was always hot, but the disturbance of the sands and destroyed stone structures only worsened the dryness of it all. A...

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Saza Moshe

Mon Nov 30, 2020 3:53 am
A Date with Dates Part 1 (Solo)

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Doran

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Hankley

» Mon Oct 12, 2020 4:32 pm

Timestamp: Vhalar 1, 720

The day began as it always did, with Hankley doing a walkabout through her property. It was still early morning, and the sun was just beginning to rise in the west, casting bright orange and gold hues over her many date palms. The land she inhabited, her budding food...

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Doran

Tue Nov 10, 2020 4:20 am
• Solo • A Date with Dates (Part 2)

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Hankley

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Hankley

» Sat Oct 24, 2020 11:42 pm

Timestamp: Vhalar 1, 720 following Part 1

Hankley turned to step out of the house when she heard light, scampering footsteps across her roof. She scowled. Monkeys from the mangroves. They had been a constant thorn in her side since she came out here. They seemed willing to eat anything and...

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Hankley

Sat Oct 24, 2020 11:42 pm
Southern Hospitality (Nox Cross)

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Hankley

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Hankley

» Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:13 pm

Timestamp: Vhalar 7, 720

Hankley approached Brach gently, cooing toward the Nashaki Ox softly. It seemed that this morning he had a bit of the zoomies and was using them to jump around on a small section of her melons, spilling juicy, flesh, and seed all over the fertile soil. My love, please...

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Hankley

Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:13 pm
• Solo • Bargain for Passage

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Doran

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Woe

» Wed Oct 07, 2020 3:34 pm

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85th of Vhalar 720

85th of Vhalar 720

Woe had made arrangements to meet Fleaface in the port of Ivorian, and to make their way together, with all of their party and items they intended to bring along with them. The Mortalborn had wanted for Fleaface to bring...

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Doran

Thu Oct 15, 2020 1:23 pm
An Echo of Meilin

A ghostly case of mistaken identity

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Alistair

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Eddrick Brodon

» Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:16 pm
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/gallery/image.php?album_id=116&image_id=10967 An Echo of Meilin Ashan 5, arc 719

Were he not dying, Eddrick would have taken the time to log in his journal what an odd mercy it was that the body made itself so comfortable at the end of its trials. The sand he'd been dragged through by his poko,...
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Alistair

Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:10 am
Getting the Word [memory]

Eddrick learns his Status with Nashaki

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Strange

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Eddrick Brodon

» Thu Jul 28, 2016 8:00 pm

/gallery/image.php?album_id=2&image_id=1500 Getting the Word
45 Ashan, arc 715

Eddrick had largely forgotten the question of how he stood with the city of Nashaki. A diplomat had been found murdered in Athart, Eddrick's home town. She was a Qi'ora diplomat, and Eddrick had spent a notable...

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Strange

Sun May 05, 2019 5:14 pm
Contract With a Shadow

Eddrick calls in a favor

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Strange

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Eddrick Brodon

» Mon Apr 22, 2019 5:48 pm

/gallery/image.php?album_id=116&image_id=10967 Contract With a Shadow Cylus 12, arc 719

They were not as stupid as they first appeared. Their leader had the wit to keep their night fire confined within a thick-fabricked tent. The bit of lit smoke wafting up from the tip of the inverted cone was...

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Strange

Sun May 05, 2019 4:42 pm
• Memory • Nothing Stone Can Stay

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Zevan

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Zevan

» Wed Mar 14, 2018 4:25 pm

Traveler
2 Ashan 718
I remember the glaring suns vividly that trial. Ahmir and Keffe were mirages to me, wavering on the line between real companions and fever dreams, and every time I blinked, so did they from my vision. I don't know if I'd ever been quite so scared of losing them in the...

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Zevan

Mon Aug 20, 2018 10:07 pm
• Graded • Separate Ways

A Falling Out in the Rhakrii Ranks

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Rynata

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Eddrick Brodon

» Sun May 27, 2018 4:34 am
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/gallery/image.php?album_id=116&image_id=10967 Separate Ways Ashan 12, arc 718
Eddrick sat in his rough chamber awaiting the inevitable. It was not something he feared, but there was apprehension.

When he'd returned from the battle in the east, he'd returned with the blessing of Raskalarn, a new...
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Rynata

Sun Aug 19, 2018 12:37 pm
• Closed • An Imperial Audience

Edd meets the Empress

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Basilisk Snek

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Basilisk Snek

» Sun Jan 14, 2018 4:57 am
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/gallery/image.php?album_id=261&image_id=11100 23rd of Zi'da, 717

Things had been quiet in the Hotlands since The Eternal Empire had laid claim to the Northern Reaches Fortress. Granted, military campaigns always slowed down in the winter, due to the difficult of transporting food, so it wasn't...
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Basilisk Snek

Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:30 pm
Zi'da PH 2

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Zelferan

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Zelferan

» Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:53 am

Zi'da PH

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Zelferan

Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:53 am
Zi'da PH 1

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Zelferan

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Zelferan

» Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:53 am

Zi'da PH

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Zelferan

Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:53 am
Battle: Northern Reaches Fortress Exterior

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Basilisk Snek

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Basilisk Snek

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26th of Ymiden, 717, Early Morning

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The sun had risen over the Hotlands, and it's light glinted off spearheads, armor, and shields as the forces of Nashaki and The Eternal Empire arranged to do battle once more. The Imperials had made it...
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