Almund is a thriving township with a dark side. With houses made from the wooden bodies of decommissioned ships, there are many opportunities here, coupled with many dangers.
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Welcome to the Hot Cycle 720 (Active Cities!)
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Pegasus » Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:03 am
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Hot Cycle: Arc 720
Welcome to the Hot Cycle 720. Every Cycle in Standing Trials runs over four real life months and has two in-character seasons. The Hot Cycle has Ymiden (83 Trials) and then Saun (40 Trials) which are open for you to play. All new threads from June 1st - September 30th should be...
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Last post by Pegasus
Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:03 am
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News & New Features!
This thread will keep you updated on news and new features!
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Pegasus » Fri Aug 10, 2018 10:26 am
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Global Announcements
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. You'll note that there are now separate...
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Last post by Pegasus
Fri Jul 24, 2020 9:43 pm
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New Player Guide!
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Pegasus » Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:10 pm
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New Player Starting Guide Hi there and welcome to the site! We're glad that you've taken an interest in our story and hope, with the help of this guide, that you'll stick around and enjoy all the chaos-packed adventures we have planned. But first, you're probably wondering what Standing Trials is...
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Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:10 pm
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Standing Trials Terms of Use
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Pegasus » Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:50 pm
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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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Last post by Munchkin
Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:52 pm
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Council Meeting: Rebirth 720
Closed until 1st Feb 2020. On 1st Feb post rules will be posted.
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Pegasus » Tue Jan 28, 2020 8:19 pm
Rebirth Cycle 720
~~1st Cylus 720~~
Alright, said Brandel, looking around the room. As always, the Council members sat in the central area, each in their assigned seat. The public gallery was full to bursting and he knew that everyone was wondering what was happening. I've come to a...
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Last post by Pegasus
Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:13 pm
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• Information •
[Almund]: Area Overview & Link Map
Overview, links and information on Almund
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Pegasus » Sat Jan 07, 2017 3:48 pm
Please Note: This is the overview and link map for this area of Scalvoris. For a full island link map please see this thread in the OOC forum. Thank you!
Almund has become a true cultural melting pot since Vhalar 716. Almost all races are represented here, although the greatest number of those...
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Last post by Pegasus
Mon Jan 30, 2017 6:09 pm
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Touch Me With Your Eyes | Part II
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Isodol » Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:58 pm
27th Trial of Saun, 720
The two continued to engage in some rather awkward small talk for several more minutes before the waitress returned with their meals. Sal gobbled up the dish like he hadn’t consumed anything substantial in trials. Isodol wondered if the food was the gap he was trying to...
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Last post by Isodol
Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:58 pm
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Touch Me With Your Eyes | Part I
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Isodol » Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:56 pm
27th Trial of Saun, 720
Her eyes were like wells, holding immeasurable litres of water; but the damn she had constructed to keep the water at bay had collapsed under the weight of the salty liquid. Water flowed free through the broken barricade, cascading down her cheeks in a gushing waterfall...
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Last post by Isodol
Mon Aug 03, 2020 1:56 pm
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• PM To Join •
Almund's Missing Children
Balthazar assembles a group of people to investigate the serial killings around Scalvoris. (Nir'wei, Oram, Balthazar)
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Balthazar Black » Sat Jan 04, 2020 4:50 pm
43 Zi'Da 719
Time had helped Balthazar grow more accustomed to the cities of Scalvoris where it seemed that work was always around the corner for a private investigator like himself... though he was arguably becoming more of a bounty hunter. He'd been in The Siren's Embrace looking for leads on...
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Last post by Oram Mednix
Mon Aug 03, 2020 2:07 am
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Hitting the Mark
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Isodol » Mon Jul 27, 2020 6:23 am
18th Trial of Saun, 720
Underground Fighting Arena
She hadn’t planned to be here, at least not tonight. But loneliness had just grasped its devilish hands on her tent zipper and had begun to draw it down. She did not want to spend another night wide awake with the stars as her only company. She...
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Last post by Doran
Fri Jul 31, 2020 3:39 pm
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A Bet to Fight For | Part II
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Isodol » Sat Jul 11, 2020 12:55 am
37th Trial of Ymiden, 720
Underground Fighting Arena
For the first few moments, Valmond merely scoffed. Soon the scoffing turned into pure humourous chuckling. Then his laughter died into a stoic expression, one of stern disposition. He finally came to realise that Isodol was serious. Was her...
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Last post by Kasoria
Fri Jul 31, 2020 12:53 am
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[Memory] Pretending to Pirate
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Isodol » Tue Jul 21, 2020 7:31 am
101st Trial of Ashan, 705
Something was making Isodol’s nose itch. A hot, steamy breath kept crashing onto her cheeks and smelled of alcohol. She grimaced in her sleep, chalking whatever it was up to a very lucid dream. But as she was forcefully poked in the side, she knew that she was not...
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Last post by Doran
Thu Jul 30, 2020 12:35 pm
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Cheaters Never Prosper
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Tio Silver » Sun May 31, 2020 4:27 pm
The Scalvoris Sapphire Inn, Almund.
11th of Ashan, 720.
That's another win for me! Guess Chrien's luck is with me tonight.
Tio glared across the table at the speaker, hoping to somehow set him on fire with the sheer force of glare alone. The target of his ire was a muscular yet dumpy brute...
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Last post by Tio Silver
Sun Jul 26, 2020 2:46 pm
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[Solo] Hound
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Bond » Mon Jul 20, 2020 5:13 pm
14 Ymiden, 720
Almund
No matter the urgency surrounding his visits to his hometown, Bond never could escape the required visitations insisted upon by his parents on that first day. He wholeheartedly believed that his Ma had an entire network of mothers and widows established across the...
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Last post by Bond
Mon Jul 20, 2020 5:13 pm
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• Closed •
Be Still, My Beating Heart (Tio)
or A Valentine for Tio
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Rakvald » Wed Jun 17, 2020 12:01 pm
20th of Saun 720
Rakvald had only just bought his house in early Ymiden. t was a very fine house, in one of the more affluent areas of Almund. Of course, being in an affluent neighborhood in a town such as Almund meant some of Rakvald's neighbors may not have come by their significant wealth so...
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Last post by Rakvald
Fri Jul 17, 2020 2:08 am
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* OPEN *
A Curious Celebration?
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Nir'wei » Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:23 am
30th of Cylus, 720.
Status report. The room would have been spacious, were the floor not overcrowded with the Councillor's personal menagerie. What could even fit inside the room at all, that was. If Wesley found it at all distasteful, he had a knack for schooling his expression to the point that...
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Last post by Pig Boy
Wed Jul 15, 2020 1:19 pm
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A Bet to Fight For | Part I
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Isodol » Thu Jul 09, 2020 11:20 pm
37th Trial of Ymiden, 720
Underground Fighting Arena
Isodol stood back as she watched the man’s fist connect with the other man’s face. It happened so quickly, if she were to have blinked, she wouldn’t have known why one man was lying face down on the ground. The crowd went wild, applauding like...
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Last post by Doran
Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:39 am
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Finding the Perfect Aim | Part I
A wealth thread for Ashan 720
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Isodol » Sun May 31, 2020 2:57 pm
118th Trial of Ashan
The Wilderness
It was all an act of survival. It was all for the greater good; for her good. She was doing this for her survival and no one else’s’, nothing else’s’. She had to do this in order to keep on living. Why did she even care? She didn’t. But she was very much an...
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Last post by Praetorum
Fri Jul 10, 2020 6:29 am
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Larceny is Rather Unbecoming
Isodol learns the hard way that she really isn't that good at stealing.
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Isodol » Mon Jun 22, 2020 9:49 pm
24th Trial of Ymiden, 720
She couldn’t see. Someone had turned the lights off in her head. But she could still think and all that was pounding inside her head, aside from the massive headache she had somehow gotten, was “WHERE THE FUCK AM I?”.
She couldn’t move her arms, couldn’t kick her legs...
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Last post by Praetorum
Thu Jul 09, 2020 6:59 am
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[Decked Halls] Raw Calamari
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Rakvald » Tue Jun 30, 2020 3:55 pm
1st of Ymiden 720
Rakvald arrived at the Decked Halls in the early hours of the morning. He had a score to settle and heard from some among the regular crowd that the Mer who'd beaten him halfway to incoherence hung around at around that time, showing off for his 'mate', a female mer who when...
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Last post by Doran
Thu Jul 02, 2020 6:26 am
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Stealth and Explosions (3)
Tio and Morgana take a fishing trip.
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Tio Silver » Mon Jun 15, 2020 7:25 pm
The Coast of Almund
5th of Ymiden, 720
“It’s just a fishing trip. I swear. That’s a totally normal thing for families to do.”
Morgana eyed Tio suspiciously. “You never do anything normal. What’s your angle here?”
Tio rolled his eyes, an exasperated but fond smile on his face. Morgana was a...
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Last post by Doran
Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:35 am
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• Open •
The Fire Sands
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Emelia Enners » Tue Jan 07, 2020 3:10 am
7th of Vhalar, 719
It was like an itch she couldn't help but scratch. A wound scabbed over that she plucked off until it bled everywhere but even if she hadn't, it was as if she was nothing more than kindling when the urge struck. It was always there but sometimes, the sight of more fire, the...
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Last post by Emelia Enners
Thu Jun 18, 2020 1:02 am
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Rakvald Manor
Rakvald's residence and mailbox.
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Rakvald » Sun Apr 26, 2020 1:00 am
Rakvald Manor
The manor's ownership was re-established after 108th of Ashan in 720. It stands in a richer section of Almund, a large townhouse once known as Devukrad manor (now Rakvald Manor).
The main house is about two stories high. As one moves through the front door, they'll find...
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Last post by Llyr Llywelyn
Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:16 am
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Stealth and Explosions (2)
The Court of Miracles makes preparations for its next heist.
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Tio Silver » Tue Jun 09, 2020 10:01 pm
The Court of Miracles
3rd of Ymiden, 720
“See. Isn’t this fun?”
“This is not fun! This is the exact opposite of fun!”
Tio looked around in confusion, trying to identify what part of this Morgana wasn’t enjoying. Was it the soot covering both of them head to toe? The thick acrid smoke that...
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Last post by Oberan
Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:54 am
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Stealth and Explosions (1)
The Court of Miracles plans their Hot Cycle 720 heist.
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Tio Silver » Sat Jun 06, 2020 6:38 pm
The Court of Miracles.
2nd of Ymiden, 720.
Ta da!
Tio spread his arms out wide with a flourish, eyes dancing with barely restrained joy. The others looked around at the scene before them. Cobra even gave a low, appreciative whistle.
“Not bad at all Assface. Where’d you get the money for...
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Last post by Doran
Tue Jun 09, 2020 1:23 pm
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Pre-Meeting Mission
Tio brings his evidence before the council.
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Tio Silver » Sat Jun 06, 2020 11:20 am
The Council Hall.
1st of Ymiden, 720.
There were probably some kind of rules as to how council meetings were supposed to go; some sets of routines designed to keep things civilised and professional. If there was then Tio hadn't read them. And so it was that an hour before the council was due to...
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Last post by Tio Silver
Sat Jun 06, 2020 11:20 am
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• Mature •
Meat Grinders
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Rakvald » Mon Apr 20, 2020 3:15 am
91st of Ashan 720
Perhaps one would think that being an ugly son of a bitch, with a bunch of mutations that twist one's face and warp the flesh of a seven-foot behemoth of a man, might put people off from picking fights with him. Yet every time Rakvald walked into a tavern, it seemed there was at...
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Last post by Doran
Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:52 pm
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[Location] Prospect Tavern
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Pegasus » Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:34 pm
Prospect Tavern
The Prospect Tavern is located not very far outside of Almund. It was once a blacksmith's shop but was converted into a Tavern and Inn some time in 652 after the ownership of the tavern mysteriously changed. It is a decent place with good enough rooms by Almund standards. You...
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Last post by Pegasus
Wed Jun 03, 2020 12:34 pm
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Training the Blind
Balthazar gets lost in Almund and discovers The Decked Halls
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Balthazar Black » Mon Mar 30, 2020 6:24 pm
30 Ashan 720
This is stupid. Balthazar grumbled to himself as he shifted the blindfold in his hands and slowly brought it up around his eyes. Isabella had gone back to Almund for work but Balthazar had known better to ask than what type of work. She'd left him with the simple instruction to keep...
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Last post by Doran
Tue Jun 02, 2020 6:10 pm
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