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Welcome to the Rebirth Cycle 721 (Active Cities)

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Rebirth Cycle: Arc 720

Welcome to the Rebirth Cycle 721. Every Cycle in Standing Trials runs over four real life months and has two in-character seasons. 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 2021 -...

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News & New Features!

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

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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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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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[Faldrass] Saoire's Dream

Last post by Praetorum « Wed Apr 07, 2021 2:51 am
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by Pegasus » Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:13 am

Dream of the Blue Turtle

A School for Idalos

On the 1st Cylus 721, as the new Arc began on Idalos, a new building was created, some time after the eruption of Faldrass and the destruction of so much. So many lives had been lost but, in the darkness there shone a glimmer of hope. Saoire , the...

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Wed Apr 07, 2021 2:51 am
Saoire's Dream NPCs

Last post by Kisaik « Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:51 pm
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by Pegasus » Mon Apr 05, 2021 4:33 pm

Dream of the Blue Turtle

A School for Idalos
Use this thread to create classmate or mentor NPCs. This will allow consistency between players and will mean that you can have more skilled NPCs than the usual faceless ones being played consistently without needing to go through the full approval...

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Tue Apr 06, 2021 6:51 pm
The Rise and Fall of the Barony of von Smooglenuff

Last post by Pegasus « Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:30 pm
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by Pegasus » Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:53 pm

The Barony of von Smooglenuff

This is the thread where we will keep track of the rise and fall of the Barony of von Smooglenuff. As of this thread that Barony has be re-created. What will become of it? What will the fortune of the new Barons - and their wards - be? That is, as always, up to the...

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Sun Mar 28, 2021 8:30 pm
Faldrass Locations & Links

Last post by Pegasus « Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:18 pm

by Pegasus » Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:18 pm

Faldrass is an oceanic volcano which is the closest thing to a 'tourist spot' that Scalvoris has. Faldrass is rarely very active, and is often visited as during its more dormant phases it is covered with quite enjoyable hot springs, though a person has to be careful not to leap into one which is...

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[Faldrass] The Badlands

Last post by Pegasus « Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:13 am

by Pegasus » Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:13 am

The Badlands

After the eruption of Faldrass volcano in Ashan 720, large areas of the island were destroyed, hot lava pouring over them and burying houses, businesses, people. As the magma cooled, the area worst-hit became known as The Badlands. It is said that the Badlands are haunted with the...

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Mon Feb 01, 2021 12:13 am
[Haven] The Clam Chowder Methodology

Last post by Elisabeth Angelus « Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:18 pm

by Elisabeth Angelus » Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:18 pm

Arc 721, 19 Ashan

Elisabeth was on a mission.

The clams that she had discovered a few trials before were a great start to finding renewable resources available to the settlement. Balthazar was working on ideas about clam farms and such – ways to take advantage of their good fortune.

While he...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 9:18 pm
[Haven] Arming The Unarmed

Balthazar leads a training session.

Last post by Pig Boy « Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:51 pm
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by Balthazar Black » Tue Mar 23, 2021 5:33 pm
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18 Ashan 721

On the night of the eighteenth, as the time ticked by waiting for the arsonist to confess to their crimes, Balthazar lead another of the training sessions he'd been prompted by Silk to offer the settlers. He was good at what he did but he was not always the best at imparting...
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Sat Apr 10, 2021 7:51 pm
{Haven} An Unexpected Guest.

Last post by Balthazar Black « Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:53 pm
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by Pegasus » Mon Apr 05, 2021 11:26 am

Saoire

29th Ashan, 721
immediately following this

Maybe it was because of the focus on banging in nails, or the way that they were looking but the woman who was walking next to him as he moved away from one job to another seemed to have been with him for a while. She was just there, and so...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 5:53 pm
To the land where the Bong-tree grows.....

Last post by Pegasus « Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:47 pm

by Pegasus » Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:47 pm

19th Ashan, 721
Following this
There had been discussions and meetings on Faldrass, there were all sorts of things happening and going on.

But, that wasn't why he was here. Or, it wasn't the only reason.

And here is my son! Cassion said, walking up to Arlo with a smile on his face....

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• Open • [Saoire's Dream] Fear of the Heavens

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by Kisaik » Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:18 pm

1st of Ashan 721

On the first of Ashan, Ashan’s Dawn, his patron’s own holiday in Scalvoris, Kisaik rode on the back of his noble steed, Ibiti Hau, a housecat of proud and long lineage, going back to the founding of Desnind. It rode with purpose toward the middle of the shining lights of Saoire’s...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:16 pm
[Haven] Looking Into The Black

Last post by Balthazar Black « Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:35 am
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by Balthazar Black » Fri Mar 26, 2021 6:54 pm

16 Ashan 721

Balthazar sat in his tent behind his desk reading over the latest rumors that had reached him, both stretching around the settlement and reaching as far out as his network could in the given circumstances. His shadow stood over by the entrance, occasionally looking out towards the...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 4:35 am
[Haven] Vega & the Bookdweeb

Last post by Vega « Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:41 am
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by Elisabeth Angelus » Sun Apr 04, 2021 6:57 am

Arc 721, 19 Ashan

The meeting between herself, Kura, and Vega was complete, but Elisabeth wasn’t done yet. She had spent a lot of time recently, due to her visions, thinking about Vega and now Vega was right there, in Haven. It felt like, amongst other things, someone was trying to tell her...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 2:41 am
[Saoire's Dream] Time to talk

Last post by Praetorum « Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:53 am

by Praetorum » Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:53 am

12th of Cylus, Arc 721

You look antsy.  
 
Prae tried for a grin, with mixed success. That obvious, is it?  
 
The squirrel who'd introduced himself as Hong seated on a plush armchair on the other side of the room shrugged, a gentle smile on his muzzle. We don't have to do this sitting, if you...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:53 am
• Closed • [Haven] Visions & Volcanoes

Last post by Vega « Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:10 am
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by Elisabeth Angelus » Fri Mar 19, 2021 4:11 am

Arc 721, 19 Ashan

It was a typical morning in Haven. Ashan was beginning to warm a bit and although the burnt-orange sand beaches of Faldrass were warm on her feet, the air was still a bit chilly. The young mage couldn’t put her finger on what it was about the island that made her feel so…at...

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Sat Apr 10, 2021 1:10 am
[Hopetoun] Settin' Up Camp

Last post by Jackalope « Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:28 pm
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by Vega » Mon Mar 29, 2021 11:15 pm

20th Cylus, 721
They had, just a short while ago arrived on Faldrass where, it transpired, the manor house had burned down, the Noodlefluff Baron was dead, there was a new statue roughly the size of the mountains, and Darius was a new Baron. Vega knew Darius, she'd met him in Rharne when he'd...

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Last post by Jackalope
Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:28 pm
Feeding the masses

Last post by Arlo Creede « Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:40 pm
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by Vega » Fri Apr 02, 2021 12:09 am

1st Ashan, 721
Vega was making sure that their horses were tended and cared for. She'd asked where they could tether them when they arrived some trials ago, and she was making sure that Storm and Peg both had sufficient food and water. She'd brushed them both, checked their hooves, and had...

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Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:40 pm
[Hopetoun] Three Men Walk Into A Bar(ony)

Last post by Darius Baer « Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:37 pm
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by Darius Baer » Sun Mar 21, 2021 1:21 pm

Arc 721, 22nd of Cylus
Hopetoun. The settlement was less than twenty trials old when the visitors arrived, and yet in Darius' mind, they had already achieved much.

From a patch of unwanted dirt that had formed a natural clearing, there were now forty-one souls who were establishing a new life on...

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Fri Apr 09, 2021 6:37 pm
[Haven] Serenity & Serendipity

Last post by Elisabeth Angelus « Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:56 am
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by Elisabeth Angelus » Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:58 am

Arc 721, 17 Ashan

The Garden was something of a wonder. For everything they gave up for being in a remote, somewhat inaccessible area on Faldrass, was made up for by the presence of the Serenity Garden. The young woman visited it almost every trial, meditating and considering some of life’s...

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Last post by Elisabeth Angelus
Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:56 am
[Haven] One Bad Day

Last post by Balthazar Black « Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:13 pm

by Balthazar Black » Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:13 pm

30 Ashan 721

The ring Balthazar had been given by Saoire to link him and Elisabeth seemed to grant Balthazar a sixth sense- it would have probably felt more like an eighth sense if he still had his other magics but without them it was the only special sensing he had. He always knew when she...

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Thu Apr 08, 2021 9:13 pm
[Haven] Red Alert

Last post by Jackalope « Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:16 pm
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by Elisabeth Angelus » Sat Mar 13, 2021 5:10 am

15 Ashan, Arc 721
Her spur-of-the-moment research session had yielded results. Setting the books to the side and digging around in her pack for her stationery, Elisabeth set herself to writing the Albarech a letter, as Balthazar had asked her to do. Elisabeth had agreed not to say anything about...

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Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:16 pm
• Graded • [Hopetoun] It Was A Dark And Stormless Night

Last post by Pegasus « Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:16 pm
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by Darius Baer » Wed Mar 31, 2021 2:09 am

Arc 721, 23rd of Ashan
A wave of raucous laughter erupted from within the building.

Night had fallen, and within were a small group of Hopetounians enjoying each other's company over a shared meal. Darius sat amongst them, insistent that he shouldn't be at the head of the table, lest he be seen...

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Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:16 pm
• Closed • [Hopetoun] A Bedtime Story.

Last post by Pegasus « Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:15 pm
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by Nir'wei » Thu Apr 01, 2021 8:46 pm

23rd of Ashan, 721.

Pulling the book from Traveller's saddlebag, he propped himself against a tree trunk and traced the cover with his fingertips once more. Though the moon was obscured by clouds and the light of nearby Hopetoun was feeble and flickering, Nir'weis eyes still saw, clear as day, his...

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Thu Apr 08, 2021 12:15 pm
[Haven] Warning Shots

Last post by Doran « Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:31 am
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by Elisabeth Angelus » Thu Mar 11, 2021 5:35 pm
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15 Ashan, Arc 721

Elisabeth saw Balthazar in the distance, walking through the settlement. She had just experienced something that…she wasn’t sure of. The young woman knew what she had seen, but had no idea what to do with the information and was hopeful for a bit of guidance. Whatever it had...
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Last post by Doran
Thu Apr 08, 2021 5:31 am
[Faldrass] Salting the Wound

Nir'wei and Oram please.

Last post by Balthazar Black « Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:48 am
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Some scars never healed. - Almund's Missing Children

13 Ymiden 720
The most terrible thing had happened. Another child had disappeared in Almund but shortly after a tsunami had hit the town and the child was simply believed to be another one of casualties. In the wake of the tragedy most...
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Thu Apr 08, 2021 4:48 am
[Haven] The Sword of The Evening

Last post by Elisabeth Angelus « Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:41 pm
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by Balthazar Black » Fri Apr 02, 2021 5:32 pm
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18 Ashan 721

A short few bits after he'd called the unarmed training session to a close, Balthazar and Elisabeth met again on the beach to practice their work with various weapons. Well Balthazar wanted to practice with various weapons, Elisabeth was just working with her sword again. Balthazar...
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Wed Apr 07, 2021 7:41 pm

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