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• Information • Welcome to the Hot Cycle, 722 (Active Cities, Site Wide Stuff)

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Arc-722

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Hot-Cycle

Hot Cycle: Arc 722

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 2022 - September 30th 2022 should be timestamped within one of those two seasons.

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

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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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Basic Formatting Bold , Italic , Underline Bold , Italic , Underline

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

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News & New Features!

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

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The PSF

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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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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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• Information • The Map and the List

Where to start

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Maltruism

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Maltruism

» Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:26 am

The Outlying Cities

This is very much a work in progress.

However I will give you what I have so far to work with...
Some of the towns are more finished than others. As yet, they are all mostly in concept form, but they should be able to be played in without too much concern over any...

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Thu Mar 23, 2017 5:26 am
[Foster's Landing] The Sea and Me

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Doran

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Max

» Sun May 15, 2022 3:03 am

5 Ashan 722

It was rare that the woman thought about her somewhat brief time with the Biqaj. Time felt as though it moved quickly...too quickly. She found that as time went on it became harder to recall memories and faces no matter their importance. There was no certain cause. Either drugs were...

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Sat May 21, 2022 5:22 am
• Solo • [Forbidden Spit] Praying Works Y'all

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Balthazar Black

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:52 pm

61st Zi'da 721

So... Rakvald reflected, as he stared at the over-sized mantis, its pincers and long bladed arms dicing into the bodies of the poor slain scouts. They want me to acquire this things totem... or?

He'd been briefed on the creature's special properties. Its exoskeleton had a...

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Sun Mar 06, 2022 12:50 am
• Mature • [Forbidden Spit] The Headless Know No Horrors

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Doran

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Mon Jan 31, 2022 9:54 pm

61st of Zi'da 721

The mage was meditating in his chambers. In his hand, he held the totem of Hollow Hand, a totem offshoot of his deceased friend Ash-Flaw. The totem that he'd had wings grafted onto in seasons past, only having perfected the method of making wings recently. However, now he wished...

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Fri Mar 04, 2022 12:19 pm
• Mature • Cold Kisses

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Doran

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Clavam

» Wed Feb 09, 2022 12:50 am

3rd of Cylus 722

The fuck are you doing?

Clavam flinched when Gladis sidled up to him on his bunk wrapping her arms around his shoulders. It wasn't the most unsubtle advance he'd received, nor the boldest, but he'd not expected it from the likes of an Imperial Agent. On consideration, perhaps...

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Sat Feb 12, 2022 4:54 am
• Solo • Where I'll Go, You Won't Find a Hero

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Clavam

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Clavam

» Sat Feb 12, 2022 3:27 am

5th of Cylus 722

Finding the right paths through to Mama Joe's kitchens wasn't easy, but with Kurt himself accompanying him, Clavam found he could learn a lot about planning routes ahaead of time, against prepared patrols of watches. Not that the Forbidden Post had a great many soldiers with...

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Sat Feb 12, 2022 3:27 am
• Solo • [Forbidden Post] When and Where

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Clavam

» Sun Feb 06, 2022 10:03 am

Continued from here...

2nd of Cylus 722

Clavam picked up the copy of the dossier, and shoved it into his satchel. He turned around and faced Gladis, frowning at her, Listen, I don't care why, who, or what this is about. If it gets me off this post, count us in. Truth be told, the man didn't know...

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Wed Feb 09, 2022 3:30 pm
• Solo • [Forbidden Post] While the Hounds are Away, the Sheep will Stray

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Jackalope

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Clavam

» Fri Feb 04, 2022 9:44 pm

1st of Cylus 722

Perhaps not the most opportune of seasons to consider mutiny or desertion. Yet Clavam had enough of the degradation, the spit of his 'comrades' for the cause of his punishment. And most of all, the desire to break free of it all, to run and make his own way in the world, rather...

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Tue Feb 08, 2022 4:57 pm
Paging Morgue, Battlemage Morgue?!

Malt plz

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Balthazar Black

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Clavam

» Tue Apr 28, 2020 9:39 am
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5th of Cylus 720

Having languished in a dungeon for the better part of two cycles, Clavam awaited his turn to appear for slaughter in the open courtyards of the Citadel. There, he'd heard without seeing the long recitation of the many offenses of the men put down like animals. Executions of...
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Sat Feb 05, 2022 9:39 pm
• Solo • [Forbidden Post] Allow me to be Blunt

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Doran

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Mon Jan 31, 2022 10:51 pm

17th of Zi'Da 721

Word had come from abroad Bailey's Peninsula. Well, no, rather it was the lack of information that came in torrents of abyssal silence. The quiet was telling the Forbidden Post enough, really more than they wanted to know.

Bassett had sent out another patrol to wander the...

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Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:55 pm
• Solo • [Forbidden Post] Rakvald Steel-Eyes

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Doran

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Mon Jan 31, 2022 12:41 am

Zi'Da 12th, Arc 721

Morgue blamed beginner's luck on Rakvald's sucessfully identifying the properties of Embersteel, Onyx, and for transmuting lead on his first attempt. Rakvald wasn't so sure. When examining the glass discs that they brought to him in the Battlemage's office, he swiftly...

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Wed Feb 02, 2022 7:57 am
[Forbidden Post] A Matter of Palate

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Sun Jan 30, 2022 3:11 pm

1st of Zi'Da, Arc 721

Who is Lord Karnos Vuda?

The benefit to being a captive to an open-ended exploration and interview, was that one was often afforded the opportunity to ask as many questions as they liked. In fact, under most circumstances it was encouraged. Yet as Rakvald asked this...

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Tue Feb 01, 2022 1:08 pm
• Solo • [Forbidden Spit] Between a Rock and a Hard Place

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Sun Jan 30, 2022 7:43 am

111th of Vhalar 721

As the Shadowhound's jaws closed in around his left arm, tightening and piercing the dermis of his tentacle appendage, Rakvald reflected that perhaps chasing wolves halfway across Etzori territory for the better part of Vhalar hadn't been the best idea. He thought maybe,...

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Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:17 am
• Mature • Expectation vs. Reality

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Oberan

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Kasoria

» Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:47 pm

14th trial, Saun, 721
Westguard
Dawn

It ended as he knew it would. Without forgiveness, but not without some kindness. As much could be allowed, anyway.

As much as he deserved.

He died badly, that must be said. Whatever composure and grace he swore to himself he'd show in the last walk...

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Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:49 pm
[Forbidden Spit] The Hounds of Rakvald

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Doran

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Tue Oct 26, 2021 3:23 am

1st of Vhalar 721

It was unlike Rakvald to go so long without a word spoken to anyone, even if in passing to himself. Not one for prolonged absences from society. Yet the population in the area around Etzos, and even within it seemed to be emptied of all civilized life, or extremely scaled back...

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Sun Oct 31, 2021 2:57 pm
• Solo • Flesh versus Steel

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Rakvald Tentacle

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:58 am

21st of Saun 721

Continued from here

It'd been two days since he'd left the pyre of Ash-Flaw to the banks of the river. Still he hadn't eaten. A gnawing hunger tore at his insides, but he had water in plenty. That much he would allow himself. He couldn’t very well survive without it....

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Fri Sep 17, 2021 3:58 am
• Placeholder • Unforgiven

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Kasoria

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Kasoria

» Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:41 pm

Continued from here

14th trial, Saun, 720
Westguard, Etzos
Dusk

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• Solo • No Easy Way

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Kasoria

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Kasoria

» Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:41 pm

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14th trial, Saun, 721
Westguard, Etzos
Midday

He didn't know exactly where to find him, but he could guess. In an educated fashion, of course. Blindly picking a place or a time or a face rankled him on an instinctive, visceral level. It wasn't how he'd been trained, nor...

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Kasoria

Fri Sep 10, 2021 12:41 pm
• Solo • Ashes to Ash-Flaw (Graded)

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Balthazar Black

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Fri Aug 27, 2021 12:21 am

19th of Saun 721

All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and the lamps expire.

~ Robert E. Howard

Continued from here.

Ash-Flaw's body was light in Rakvald's arms. Owing to the strength lent from the Swine King's buckle that rested on his girdle, every ounce...

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Balthazar Black

Fri Sep 03, 2021 5:17 pm
• Mature • Hunger, Why Fight It? (Graded)

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Doran

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:41 pm

18th of Saun 721

An overgrown cockroach skittered beneath the rocks that Ashflaw had overturned, leaving a veritable feast for his brother, Rakvald. He only had to reach out to grab the little skittering bugs and make them his meal. Rakvald looked at the little beings, so full of vitality, their...

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Doran

Mon Aug 30, 2021 6:13 am
• Mature • "Wait, Ain't 'choo...?" (Graded)

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Pig Boy

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Kasoria

» Sat Aug 14, 2021 3:15 pm

12th trial, Saun, 721
Two trials West of Etzos
14th break

Slim' fuckin' pickins', boss.

Fates, an' dat's bein' gen'russ.

Their accent alone would have made a law-abiding man cross the street and check his purse. Even the tones of their words, the letters they drawled, dropped, or replaced...

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Thu Aug 26, 2021 4:01 am
• Solo • [Forbidden Spit] The Sleeper and the Saboteur (Graded)

Starter Quest

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Fate

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Clavam

» Sun May 24, 2020 7:37 pm

Cylus 28, 720, 11th break

The Coop Keeper's rookery was a mess of bird noises, feathers, and bird smell. All of these various breeds were arrayed in cages, some with hoods, others draped with a black cloth to keep them calm as soldiers came and went about their business. Under most circumstances,...

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Fate

Fri Aug 20, 2021 9:23 pm
• Mature • [Foster's Landing] Vestigial, Singular, Individual. (Graded)

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Jackalope

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Rakvald Tentacle

» Fri Jul 30, 2021 6:55 pm

8th of Saun 721

Ahh, the swampy freshness of the Western Continent. This is what it means to truly embrace the essence of the wilds. Rakvald remarked to Ash-Flaw as he set foot on the soil of Foster's Landing. They'd arrived some days out of Rharne. It was a good trip, all told. Rakvald didn't...

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Jackalope

Wed Aug 18, 2021 4:14 pm
• Solo • [Forbidden Post] Just Like Billiards (Graded)

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Doran

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Clavam

» Mon Jun 08, 2020 4:37 am

4th of Ashan 720, Ninth Break.

The winged spear in Clavam's hand was crooked, dulled in the edge, and looked near enough to fall off its shaft. Yet it was the best he could manage to grab from the armory. A veritable lost and found the armory of the Post was, most of it's inventory occupied the...

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Doran

Fri Jul 16, 2021 5:02 am
[Foster’s Landing] Rough Landing (Graded)

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Doran

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Max

» Mon Mar 08, 2021 8:35 am

1st of Cylus, 721

Immortal bitch !”

The exclamation was followed by a hard thump of a body hitting the dirt of a narrow alleyway. Maxine winced at the unkind impact and laid for a moment, regathering the air that left her lungs. She shook her head. Then her fingers curled into tight fists....

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