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....

'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...

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...

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...

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...

Putting to Sea

93 Ashan, arc 719

Continued from here.

/gallery/image/12675/medium 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...

Twists and Turns

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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...

Side Tracked

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...

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...

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

Continued from here

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...

A Band of Thieves Ashan 10
/gallery/image/16245/medium 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...

13th Trial, Ashan, 719
Orm'del Sea
Southwest of Volta

Continued from here

I really don't know about this.

It's not that complicated.

That's not what I mean.

I know.

I could kill you!

Aye, that's a possibility.

Legonne studied that leathery old face for any sigh of jest. His...

/gallery/image/16117/medium Ashan 8 719

Night fell early as it became darker than Enrick could've anticipated, thanks to the cloud cover which released the a turbulent deluge upon them. Even by now Enrick had expected to be accustomed to the sea, and how rough the waves were when they crashed...

6th Trial, Ashan, 719
Orm'del Sea
Southwest of Volta

There was a restlessness in seafaring that Kasoria discovered within a handful of trials. Once the shore had become a sunny haze behind them, then vanished entirely, there was naught but a vast emptiness of water in every direction. Break after...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=351&image_id=11165 Ymiden 1 718, Midday
Location: The Orm'del Seas

The Windrunner bobbed a little as she smoothly tread the vast open waters of the sea, by now their progress had been well in accordance to Qit's direction. Enrick had made sure to keep his ship more...

11th Cylus, 719
“I can’t believe you talked to Ryvern. Over my head.”

Pharan had stepped out onto the pier, his dark cloak wrapped tightly around his narrow frame. Above, seagulls wheeled against an iron colored sky.

“I tried to talk to Ryvern. They wouldn’t admit me.” His sister stopped beside...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=573&image_id=14324 Ymiden 20th 718, Afternoon

Oi stared hard. We'd no doubt braved a number of turbulent storms an' rollin' waves, but none were greater tan te one before us now. Even wit' all m' tenacity t'ere still lingered apprehension, Oi wasn't honestly sure if...

Ymiden 25, Arc 718

Ellen stared at the canopy of leaves ruffling in the dry wind that blew off the sea. Several meters away waves rolled up the shore in their rhythmic dance before sliding back out. She'd spent a lot of time watching the pulsing water at the end of every trial after foraging and...

33rd of Saun, 694

The ship was empty as she had been told it would be but there was little in it that caught her eye. The stories of treasure had been a lie the Mer thought as her lips turned downwards in a sulk, human liars the whole lot of them. Though she’d give her legged cousins a lesson...

/gallery/image.php?album_id=296&image_id=8401 35th Saun 718
She tried not to think too much about it.

Leaving was supposed to have been the best course of action, all things considered. Rynmere, for all its splendor, wasn’t entirely where she ought to be. The salt lingering on her tongue from...

Ymiden 10, Arc 718

Ellen only remembered bits and pieces of the event that led to her winding up on the island.

Two trials ago

They'd run into a hurricane on the open sea. The sailors weren't able to outrun it or change course in time. The waves rocked the ship so violently that she wondered...

Ymiden 11, Arc 718

Ellen waded up out of the surf, soaked to the waist and awkwardly pulling a broken barrel behind her. She'd drug several up onto the sand, salvaging them from a part of the ship's wreckage that lay partially broken half-on and half-off the beach. So far they were all empty. The...

17th Trial of Saun, 685th Arc
On the Orm’del Sea Aboard the Unrelenting

“Sail” The shout came over the wind as sailors all stopped in their work to stare at the man. It was a young pirate atop a shroud, clinging to the mesh rope with one arm and pointing three points off starboard with the...

32nd of Saun, 718

PH.

Speech Thoughts 29th Trial of Cylus, Arc 718

Continued from here...
It took 90 slaves to man the 15 oars on either side of the galley frigate Tyrant that bore them to Etzos. Of course, there were more slaves than the ones manning the oars. The overseers granted them each four hours shifts for...