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He should be resting.

Russel knew this. The Imperial Doctors knew this. Even his new commander-to-be knew this. It was evidently apparent to all of the above that Cyclus and his Curse did not mix well. There was a stiffness that had spread to his...

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The forest was watching him.

It watched him as he looped corded rope around stray branches. It watched him as he dug holes to set those wishbone-shaped branches into place. It watched him as he twisted the rope into loop, measuring out a space...

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5th of Cylus 722

The perpetual moonlight over the Hollow seas shone on the shoals that the sisters were swimming through. Nerostreia had borrowed Eia for her hunt and taken Menopeira with her for the backup, in case they ran into anything more dangerous. So...

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121st of Ashan 722

Totemic dedication, desert hawk.

1st of Cylus 722

The moons hung low in the sky while the desert winds were mercifully still as the night grew older. Demda approached the desert cave that she and Majaea Rosanna shared with each other. It appeared a cookfire was burning in the distance. How Majaea had found enough wood to serve...

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3rd of Cylus 722

A pair of piercing blue eyes glowed in the depths of the ocean, watching as the long-tailed mer dragged his collection of salvage behind him in a carry-net. Caphinkla caressed Eia, her tame Särkïn with whom she'd...

87th of Ashan 722

Wherein Calphinkla and company fight on behalf of the Empire, and attack raider ships.

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1sts of Ashan 722

I'm only saying, it's been far too long since we've tasted shorelander blood. Menopeira's complaint glided across the waters, to her two sisters. You've got the chain flail, for grabbing them, I stab them, we all dig in! Menopeira licked...

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87th Ashan 722

Continued from here

Lorogh was a bit addled when they roused him, but he was ready to do his part for the preparations of fortifications. While the infantry and cavalry platoons roamed the countryside, ranging from one point to another and...

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13th of Cylus 722

Finally, after what seemed like arcs, Lorogh would begin his formal introduction to learning in a structured curriculum. While it was a correspondence style course, at least for the time he'd remain in Winter's Reach, he was sure that the people...

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83rd of Ashan 722

The wagon wheels turned with nary a squeak as they barreled down the wintry road, to a nearby coastal village. The heavy draft horses pulling it along were well suited to the task of treading the snow, and managed admirably against the weather....

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5th of Cylus 722

It was the second day of combat training. Given the success that Lorogh and his small squad of trainees had in the previous trial of training, this encouraged Sergeant to try them at another round of drills, and also some sparring to loosen them...

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72nd of Zi'da 721

Demda had many questions, and Majaea had answers. Telling her what it meant to be a skin-shifter, a Becomer. The basics of what she’d have to do in order to secure her first totem other than herself. Yet, when it came to the question of...

1st of Cylus, 722

Russel had never spent a Year's Dawn without his family close at hand.

Peering out the window of the small room provided for him during his recovery, Russel wished for white snow instead of the raining ash which dusted down from the sky. He sat upright in an army-supplied cot,...

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10th of Cylus 722

Following the consequence in this thread ...

Lorogh had decided to wait before assembling the heavy crossbow. The celebration where he'd present it to Sergeant wouldn't be for another few trials. Besides, he wasn't entirely happy with the...

As both a decent engineer and a siege combatant, Lorogh is in a rare place for a Cadouri. As such, his commanding officers have given a unique assignment. While scaling down the controls and such of siege weaponry is certainly possible, and has been done, to make them usable by the Cadouri, the...

9th of Cylus 722

The days had progressed through Cylus all too quickly. From the Year's Dawn festival, which Lorogh had spent mostly alone due to the distance of his family, and because he hadn't yet acquired one in this new land, to the Feast of the Empress, where the stores of the nearby...

4th of Cylus 722

While it wasn't exactly a common occurrence for units in the Imperial Military to train during winter-time, one stationed in the Winter Reach could scarcely be choosey about the weather, where it often and almost always snowed the entire year around. Even so, Cylus was a period of...

8th of Cylus 722

There was an urgency to the task ahead of Lorogh. He needed to improve upon the design of the crossbow, specifically his heavy crossbow, and also its spanner mechanism. At present, his current crossbow was adequate, but far from perfect. The Cadouri was always trying to make...