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Announcements

Welcome to the Cold Cycle 720 (Active Cities)

Last post by Pegasus « Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:23 pm
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by Pegasus » Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:23 pm » in Announcements

Cold Cycle: Arc 720

Welcome to the Cold Cycle 720. Every Cycle in Standing Trials runs over four real life months and has two in-character seasons. The Cold Cycle has Vhalar (123 Trials) and then Zi'da (93 Trials) which are open for you to play. All new threads from October 1st 2020 -February...

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Wed Sep 30, 2020 11:23 pm
News & New Features!

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

Last post by Pegasus « Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:48 pm
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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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Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:48 pm
New Player Guide!

Last post by Pegasus « Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:10 pm
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by Pegasus » Thu Aug 09, 2018 5:10 pm » in Announcements

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
Standing Trials Terms of Use

Last post by Munchkin « Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:52 pm
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by Pegasus » Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:50 pm » in Announcements

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 Zemos « Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:11 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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Sun Oct 25, 2020 8:11 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
Within Earshot

Last post by Darius Baer « Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:59 am
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by Yeva » Fri Sep 18, 2020 1:38 pm

42 Ymiden 720

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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Thu Oct 22, 2020 10:59 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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Wed Sep 30, 2020 10:44 am
Knotical Study

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

Last post by Yeva « Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:12 pm

by Yeva » Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:12 pm

[size=250 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...

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Last post by Yeva
Mon Sep 28, 2020 1:12 pm
• 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

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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Mon Jul 13, 2020 1:39 pm
• Solo • Sea Legs

Last post by Praetorum « Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:10 am

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 Praetorum
Sat Jul 04, 2020 3:10 am
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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Last post by Maltruism
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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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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Last post by Werewere
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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Last post by Werewere
Wed Sep 18, 2019 10:00 am
• Memory • Blood in the Water Part 1 (Graded)

Mathias and Sylvia investigate a murder.

Last post by Octopie « Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:11 pm
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by Mathias Blackwood » Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:47 pm

101 Ashan 715 | Mathias Blackwood and Sylvia Lockson | Orm'del Sea
And so the time had come for the Traveling City to travel once again. Mathias and Sylvia sat across from each other at a table below deck of the cog ship that Perseus had rented for the journey. Rharne had been a fine place to live...

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Last post by Octopie
Mon Aug 19, 2019 10:11 pm
• Closed • Putting to Sea [Llyr, Oceta] (Graded)

Part II of "Zarik"s journey to Etzos

Last post by Maltruism « Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:21 am
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93 Ashan, arc 719

Continued from here.

The trip had perhaps been a slightly less traumatic ordeal then the group had feared. Since Graeslin was no longer considering their greatest value to be sold as slaves, they were given table scraps along with the swill. The man who'd...
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Fri Jul 26, 2019 4:21 am
Twists and Turns [Ynd, Obe, Cass and Kovic] (Graded)

Cold Cycle 718 Event

Last post by Maltruism « Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:42 am
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Vhalar 9, 718

The arrival was nothing if not timely. 'Well,' the Immortal thought, 'Perhaps predictable as well.' It was not unusual to have a naerikk seeking the soothing dark of the Underground from time to time. And the one who followed her would truly be an enjoyable...
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Thu Jul 18, 2019 2:42 am
• Graded • Side Tracked [modded]

Zarik becomes a person of interest

Last post by Maltruism « Sun Jun 30, 2019 12:17 am
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74 Ashan, arc 719

Etzos, 18 trials earlier....

The blankets erupted in silken grace to expose the face and upper body of Karnos Vuda, Chief Advisor to High Marshall Brogen Pahrn, the acknowledged leader of the city of Etzos. This morning those eyes wore the highly...
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Last post by Maltruism
Sun Jun 30, 2019 12:17 am
• Solo • [Memory] Go to Sleep (Graded)

Last post by Nursia « Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:59 am
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by Llyr Llywelyn » Thu Jun 13, 2019 4:05 am

96 Ashan 719

Escape seemed nothing more than a dream. A fanciful idea to consider in fleeting moments of terrible anxiety. Well-acquainted with such measures to keep a calm countenance, Zarik knew - deep in his heart - that to consider escape was to consider something as likely as Immortal...

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Last post by Nursia
Tue Jun 25, 2019 3:59 am
• Mature • Ill Winds (Graded)

Last post by Alistair « Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:42 pm
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by Kasoria » Mon May 13, 2019 3:42 am

18th Trial, Ashan, 719
Orm'del Sea
Southwest of Volta

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He was surrounded by enemies. Beset on all sides. Everywhere he turned were raised fists and scowling faces. The man in the circle was the smallest of their number, yet they felt the need to outnumber him seven times...

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Last post by Alistair
Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:42 pm
A Band of Thieves (Graded)

Last post by Praetorum « Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:47 am
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by Ricky » Sat May 18, 2019 10:20 pm

A Band of Thieves Ashan 10
E xhaustion had never haunted Enrick in such a way, as each drift over a wave felt as though he'd be taken down under. He hadn't a chance to eat or drink a single thing in two days, and what remained of his reserved energy slowly reached a critical point by now. The...

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Sun Jun 02, 2019 1:47 am

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