From Tried's Mouth to the mysterious Tower, the waters around Scalvoris and the island itself hold a vast array of secrets, just ripe for discovery. Here are landmarks, jungles, mountains, forests and islands of note.
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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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You: The person reading these words right now.
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Maxine pulled her gladius back out of the Rupturer's throat. Her dark eyes glared down at her victim, meeting the tortured gaze as they succumbed violently to a merciless death. Disinterest came only when life had visibly left the blonde woman's stare. Max...
Qit'ria woke up after the second night she'd stayed at the Faldrass Luxury Resort . She'd been having a rough Vhalar so far, as it seemed something was driving off every animal she tried to hunt. She had begun to catch...
As the last few sets of hooks, ropes, and pieces of gear were loaded onto the ship, Rynata turned to the small group of fellow Biqaj assembled on the dock. They were all of the young sort. She estimated that some of them were even younger than she was. Most of them seemed...
Ten trials. Ten trials of obsessing relentlessly over the future. Ten trials that felt more like twenty, thirty, a hundred more. Every trill was too long. Too many thoughts and what-ifs filled her head. Ten trials ago an intruder had slipped past their careful defenses to attack...
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30th of Ymiden, 718
There was a frantic fluttering that caught her eye, peeking just beyond the faded gravestone and she yanked the partially embedded shovel from the soil, softening her footsteps as she...
Back in Gunvorton once again, Rynata traced now familiar steps toward the busier district in town. A few townspeople halted their conversation and acknowledged her with either a nod or a friendly wave. Ever since she had met with Shania to secure her place in the developing...
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5th of Saun, 718
He looked like a mercenary, a man of action. A tough guy, by all standards. There had been something in his gait, something that spoke of a firm step defying the quicksand. There had been something in his eyes, a glint of...
Cold, humid wind brought forth the smell of chaos brewing in the horizon. Pouring rain cleaned the jagged, ghastly rocks of Scalvoris’ shore whist feral waves crashed against...
2nd Ymiden, 718th Arc
The sloop glided smoothly over the waves as it reached the shore of Havardr. The familiar sight of simple boats bobbing up and down on the ocean swells as well as the yurts dotting the coast brought a strange sensation of nostalgia with it. Home. It looked small and even...
What a thing that a trial of travel from Scalvtown up north east to Ishallr could change the temperature of...well...everything. The air, the water, her feet! Frankly, Emerit's mood dipped a bit too when she realized what her plan could make her do. No wonder her feet were...
At first she thought the loud explosion of sound was a part of a dream. One moment she was blissfully unconscious, and in the next, Maxine was shooting up into a sitting position with wide eyes. Her head snapped in the direction of the sound just as the flash of green light evaporated...
The target Maxine focused her throwing daggers on was a grisly sight. Fastened to a stone column several paces away was a headless, limbless, deflated torso. Its arms, legs, and organs had been cooked over an Ithecal's fire for the prisoners-forced-to-cannibals to devour to sustain...
Throwing a dagger made from a Mer's rib cage had quickly become Maxine's new focus. Aiming at a stone column across the chamber, her weapons rarely ever hit their target. Almost every time she struck the far wall long behind the target. Her inaccuracy was discouraging to say the...
The only thing worse than hunger or thirst was anticipation. Maxine may have claimed a reliable water source as her own, sealed the most obvious entrances, and set up traps to catch those that slipped through the cracks with the help of her allies, but she was still no better than...
Anyone who tries to take it from me will meet the same fate as this stupid bitch. Maxine explained to spectators for the very serious, potentially traumatic event. Your body will be roasted over the pit to sustain me. The pieces of you that I have no use for will serve as my new...
She was nearing this hyena of a man, his rotten teeth flashed at her while his eyes studied her with lustful, ill intent. The small falls rushed beside her. This unsavory end of the highest criminal nature awaited before her. Just beyond laid the sudden dips...
8th Ymiden, 718th Arc
“So you saying whaling has been harder these days, aye?” Emerit called across the waters at Ade as they pulled off the coast. She decided to take one of those random jobs with a few of the fishers who have been struggling to catch the large beasts. Not only because it was...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=343&image_id=13875 95th Ashan, 718
Long After Zida
And so, they left the docks.
They had left a few breaks past dawn, on the tides. His family, of course, had come out to bid him farewell - Cyrus and Katie, Luna, the twins and Faith. Along with the two spirit...
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12th of Ymiden, 718
Long before the sun rose, Navyri stood before the old mansion, blue eyes glowing in the eerie darkness. A fog had settled along the property and she could smell the sickening scent of rotten leaves, heard the dead brambles...
/gallery/image.php?album_id=351&image_id=9935 Ashan 60 718, Late Morning
Location: Qit's Rendezvous Point
It was probably the worst idea he had ever committed to. Sailing into the open waters beyond Scalvoris was something he dreamed of for the longest time, and now it seemed like that dream was...
The painful truth had been an entity with teeth sharper than a blade forged to split hairs. The silence gnawed at the very being of those unfortunate enough to be plunged into the beasts abyss. There were three people, or rather two and a reptile that chose to survive together. As a cohesive unit...
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