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Announcements

Welcome to the Cold Cycle, 721! (Active Cities)

Last post by Pegasus « Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:06 pm
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by Pegasus » Thu Sep 30, 2021 11:06 pm » in Announcements

Cold Cycle: Arc 721

Welcome to the Cold Cycle 721. Every Cycle in Standing Trials runs over four real life months and has two in-character seasons. The Cold Cycle has Vhalar (123Trials) and then Zi'da (93 Trials) which are open for you to play. All new threads from October 1st 2021 - January 31st...

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News & New Features!

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

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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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Wed Oct 13, 2021 4:35 pm
Standing Trials Terms of Use

Last post by Munchkin « Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:52 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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• Out of Character • Orm'Del Sea Roster

Cold Cycle, arc 720 - Sign up, ya scurvy rats!

Last post by Thomas Karver « Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:36 pm
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by Maltruism » Mon Jan 22, 2018 5:51 am

Sea Roster: Cold Cycle 720! Hello and welcome to the Orm'del Sea , and possibly even the moving city of Blackbrine , amid the central ocean waters of Idalos. Please make sure you have read all of the stickied information before writing in this area so that you will best understand the dangers to be...

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Last post by Thomas Karver
Sun Aug 08, 2021 8:36 pm
• Out of Character • Over the Railing

The oceangoing OOC forum

Last post by Maltruism « Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:23 am
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by Maltruism » Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:10 am

Over the Railing Hello! I have decided it is time to toss an OOC chat forum into the briny deep, and see if it floats. You are welcome to shout into the winds to your heart's content. And I believe I can say, without fear of contradiction, that everyone here will pay as much attention to you as...

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Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:23 am
• Out of Character • Shipboard Employment

What're you lookin' at? Get back to work!

Last post by Maltruism « Sat Oct 06, 2018 5:43 am

by Maltruism » Sat Oct 06, 2018 5:43 am

Blackbrine Employment

This job and wage request topic is a bit different than some others in that it is assumed that it is conducted on board whichever ship of which you seek to become a member.
If you are choosing a vocation listed as one ship's specialty, that is the ship you will placed...

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Sat Oct 06, 2018 5:43 am
• Out of Character • Peer Review Requests

The Orm'del Sea

Last post by Jade « Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:53 am
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by Kingdom » Mon Jun 20, 2016 4:57 am

Peer Review Requests PLEASE DON'T EDIT OR REMOVE REVIEW REQUESTS.
Welcome to the Request Thread! Here you may make requests for your finished threads to be reviewed, all other requests should go to Kingdom's Office . The Prophets here are more than happy to help! Posting your review requests here...

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Last post by Jade
Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:53 am
Captain's Log: Through the Tempest II

Last post by Thomas Karver « Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:20 pm
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by Thomas Karver » Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:19 pm

Captain’s Log, Querencia
Course: N
Weather: Stormy
Souls: 15
Watch Officer: T. Karver
Date: 40th Ymiden, 721th Arc

Previous Entry

The storm stalked closer behind them as the crew scrambled. Tom stood like stone at the quarterdeck, staring back at the dark cloud. His mind scrambled as he...

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Last post by Thomas Karver
Thu Aug 19, 2021 3:20 pm
Captain's Log: Through the Tempest I

Last post by Thomas Karver « Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:07 pm
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by Thomas Karver » Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:02 pm

Captain’s Log, Querencia
Course: NbNE
Weather: Choppy waters and a strong wind
Souls: 16
Watch Officer: T. Karver
Date: 40th Ymiden, 721st Arc

“Reef those sails, steady salts!” Tom yelled. He heard Jori’s booming voice repeat his order almost at once from the foredeck. It had been a fortnight...

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Last post by Thomas Karver
Sun Aug 08, 2021 9:07 pm
• Memory • [Mature] Surprising Discoveries

Last post by Avalon « Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:22 pm
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by Sei'rue » Sat Jul 31, 2021 8:33 pm

53rd Ymiden, 713

Routine was a good thing. It made sure that everyone was in the right place at the right time as they should be. Routine brought order and prevented chaos. That's what the masters said, and she believed it. Chaos was bad. The masters said that a lot too. She heard the masters...

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Last post by Avalon
Sat Aug 07, 2021 10:22 pm
• Memory • [Mature] The Power of Music

Last post by Doran « Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:07 pm
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by Sei'rue » Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:25 pm

75th Ymiden, 713

After she had used the strange ability she seemed to have to cure the other slave child's cold, it had taken five full trials for her to regain the strength she needed to get back to work. Only totrial was she strong enough to get up and begin working once more. During those...

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Last post by Doran
Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:07 pm
• Memory • A Change in Circumstances

Last post by Bumblebee « Fri May 14, 2021 6:58 pm
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by Sei'rue » Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:18 pm

83rd Ymiden, 713

The life of a slave was a predictable one in some ways. A slave woke when they were required to. They ate if and when their masters told them to. They did the work that they were ordered to do. They went to sleep when they were ordered to. And if they failed in their task,...

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Last post by Bumblebee
Fri May 14, 2021 6:58 pm
Within Earshot [modded]

Last post by Darius Baer « Fri May 14, 2021 4:35 am
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by Yeva » Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:38 pm
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Josef's tales of swashbuckling adventure were something special, and Yeva, more than once, found herself knocking shyly on the father's door to ask for 'just one more' while his son busied himself with captaining a ship of his own. Some were simple, straightforward and easy to...
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Last post by Darius Baer
Fri May 14, 2021 4:35 am
• Mature • To Cast Off

Kirei Travel I

Last post by Pegasus « Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:54 pm
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by Hart » Sat Sep 22, 2018 8:45 pm

Speaking in Rakahi
Speaking in Common
Speaking in Common sign
35th of Saun, 718

It had been some fifteen days of travel and Hart was feeling well. More than well; he was feeling great.

The first few days had been a hardship, trying to get everyone used to the ships and the sea. Hart had the...

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Last post by Pegasus
Wed Apr 21, 2021 1:54 pm
Knotical Study

Yeva draws in her notebook, and contemplates her own story.

Last post by Pig Boy « Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:00 pm
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by Yeva » Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:12 pm

24 Ymiden 720

The trials at sea had been an experience to say the least. Yeva had been doing her best to keep herself preoccupied, deciding it best to stay out of the way while men and women seafarers hoisted sails, pulled ropes, and tied knots. Once or twice, Yeva had tried to imitate working...

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Last post by Pig Boy
Tue Mar 23, 2021 11:00 pm
Hunt of the Golshi

Last post by Ologologotak « Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:58 am
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by Aisharak » Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:52 am

26th Cylus, 721st Arc
Owaenar Territory, Orm’del Sea

Golvak was a stout and fearsome Mer. While she spent much of her time hunting and gathering rare plants and algaes now, it had not always been so. In her younger arcs Golvak had been a renown warrior of the Owaenar. She had reached the rank of...

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Last post by Ologologotak
Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:58 am
• Solo • Sea Legs (Graded)

Last post by Doran « Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:43 am
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by Praetorum » Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:10 am

Date: 15th of Ymiden, Arc 720 Status: Wobbly
Weapons: None Armor: None

Prae enjoyed being on solid ground. He also enjoyed being in the water (more than he used to, now that he was a defier).  
 
He did not enjoy being on something solid floating on water.  
 
I really don't see why we...

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Last post by Doran
Sat Jan 09, 2021 6:43 am
• Placeholder • There And Back Again

Last post by Darius Baer « Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:44 am

by Darius Baer » Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:44 am

Arc 720, 72nd of Ymiden - 25th of Saun
PLACEHOLDER

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Last post by Darius Baer
Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:44 am
• PM To Join • 1.4 A Tuft Problem [The Frigid Main]

Alas for Valaris Part 1, Chapter 4.

Last post by Maltruism « Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:17 am
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by Llyr Llywelyn » Mon Sep 21, 2020 9:27 pm

VALARIS: THE FIRST EXPEDITION
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30 SAUN, ARC 720

The expedition ship, a sea-vessel just large enough to fit the 40-some team of explorers, slowed once they passed the Gulf of Vigilance, just east of the city of Hiladreth. North, they would continue, along the western coastline....

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Fri Sep 25, 2020 3:17 am
• Closed • We Bare The Fires of Our Souls (Graded)

Edalene

Last post by Doran « Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:39 pm
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by Aeodan » Tue Mar 13, 2018 5:01 am

First trial of Cylus, arc 718

I'd spent a season reasoning with myself, hiding behind my guilt and shame at leaving behind Nolan, allowing Ninacky to die, and the consequences facing Aegeo for his despicable but necessary deception... I hid from it, buried it beneath logic in an attempt to...

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Last post by Doran
Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:39 pm
Chapter I: We Go To Sea...

Last post by Arlo Creede « Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:03 pm
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by Vega » Thu Dec 12, 2019 2:21 am

Zida 20th, 719
Gerroff me, you big lummox, Vega said, her actions belying her words as she leaned in to him when Arlo wrapped her in a hug. Turning around so she was facing him, Vega tilted her head to kiss him. It were jus' a dream you know. They'd shared the strangest dream the night before, of...

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Last post by Arlo Creede
Thu Feb 06, 2020 4:03 pm
• Memory • Hunting For Vengeance (1)

The Lightbringers set out to find the Pirate Ship Vengeance.

Last post by Ulric « Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:39 am

by Ulric » Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:39 am

43 Ashan 708 | Ulric | The Orm'del Sea

The Lightbringers had managed to barter they way onto a ship to travel from Scalvoris to Melrath where Corvus heard that there would be work waiting for them. The payment they offered, which now seemed validated, was protection from any pirate attack that...

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Last post by Ulric
Sat Dec 28, 2019 3:39 am
No Tools, No Brains

Last post by Mer « Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:12 am

by Mer » Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:12 am

Mer floated nearby a rock wall, the old Mer staring angrily at the wall that was not responding to his telepathy. The blacksmiths of the tribe had explained to him that they required ores to forge more weapons, and the rocks held all the ores. To aid the tribe, he had been trying to figure out how...

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Last post by Mer
Tue Dec 10, 2019 4:12 am
• Graded • Some Assembly Required [Llyr, Kas]

Part III of "Zarik"s journey to Etzos

Last post by Maltruism « Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:51 pm
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111 Ashan, arc 719

Continued from here and here.

Hazel cowered before her...

Under most circumstances Graeslin would have relished her fear; would have used it to squeeze the Quacian noble further. Zarik had proven himself to have been holding back as far as his...
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Sat Dec 07, 2019 11:51 pm
Saving Sergeant Sebastian

Last post by Garner « Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:56 pm
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by Farmer the Mer » Tue Nov 05, 2019 1:38 am

The Sharkpit, the number one undersea dive in the whole of the Minisink territory. Farmer had often visited under the pretense of delivering kelp and crabmeat, but beyond that business he also used it as a collection point where his various informants would leave their maps with the bartender....

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Last post by Garner
Sat Nov 30, 2019 9:56 pm
• Memory • Blood in the Water Part 4 (Graded)

Last post by Werewere « Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:36 am
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by Mathias Blackwood » Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:04 pm

'You get one chance. I'll take the pillow out of your mouth and you will tell me the truth. If I think you are lying, I cut something off. It'll be fun, like a game.' Mathias laughed slightly 'Should we see just how much of you is left by the time you tell me the honest truth?' - Blood in the Water...

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Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:36 am
• Memory • Blood in the Water Part 3 (Graded)

Last post by Werewere « Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:19 am
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by Mathias Blackwood » Thu Aug 22, 2019 6:04 pm

The first step of transmutation was deconstruction... what if he just didn't put it back together? - Blood in the Water Part 2

101 Ashan 715 | Mathias Blackwood and Sylvia Lockson | Orm'del Sea
Inspired, Mathias squeezed his hand with it's glowing silver veins around the lock. He felt his...

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Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:19 am
• Memory • Blood in the Water Part 2 (Graded)

Last post by Werewere « Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:00 am
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by Mathias Blackwood » Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:33 pm

They remained perfectly in place on the main deck as they watched the body of a member of their traveling city float by them in the water, full of holes. - Blood in the Water Part 1

101 Ashan 715 | Mathias Blackwood and Sylvia Lockson | Orm'del Sea
There was a sense of panic but it was...

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