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Alea Iacta Story Hour: A Mythic Rome Campaign (Baby Announcement: 8/17)
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<blockquote data-quote="Orichalcum" data-source="post: 1273367" data-attributes="member: 3722"><p><strong>Alea Iacta VI: When in Rome Chapter 4: Parade!</strong></p><p></p><p>My apologies for the lengthy delay – I’ve been working on AnonyCon for much of the last 6 weeks, for which I wrote about 130 single-spaced pages worth of about 5 modules. Everyone who braved the snow seemed to enjoy them immensely, thankfully. Piratecat’s quote about the Cthulhu game he ran Saturday night was “Better than sex, and less messy.”</p><p></p><p> The group is escorted away to a small meeting room in the Eastern Wing of the Imperial Palace, where a young Praetorian Decurion, Septimius Lucretius, awaits them. Lucretius is a handsome, dark-haired young man with startling grey eyes; he seems almost overwhelmed by the shiny and elegant red-and-gold uniform of the Praetorian Guards, the elite bodyguard of the Imperial Family. Cornelia also notes that he wears a discreet amulet of the Gorgon-shield on a leather thong around his neck, indicating that he is probably a worshiper of Minerva. Indeed, Lucretius explains that he was chosen to help organize the triumphal parade partially because he is not only a Decurion but one of the rare elephant cavalry warriors of the Praetorians. However, his elephant, Sapientia, is quite young, and therefore he was not asked to go east to Parthia with most of the other elephant Guardsmen. Instead, he was forced to remain here in Rome until she is more ready for full battle. </p><p> </p><p> Lucretius shows them an elaborate <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forums/images//rome-triumph-map.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> map of the triumphal route, which stretches from the Campus Martius, where the legions currently are, down from the Porta Triumphalis through the Circus Maximus before making a sharp left turn, proceeding towards the Colosseum, and then left again up to the Forum to the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. He explains that the order of the triumph will be a set of floats depicting the major events of the campaign in Britannia, which we are expected to help design, the prisoners of war, which include six Druids and the Aurochs Druid of the Ouenikones, as well as the Auroch and Wolf Chieftains, the floats with the booty of the campaign on them, which was regrettably paltry and small in nature, Cimbrus in the Triumphal Chariot, with a trusted slave holding the triumphal laurel wreath above his head in the chariot and whispering in his ear, as per ancient tradition, the words, “Remember, you are mortal,” the Senators, the Equites, and finally the parading troops, of whom there are regrettably few, as most of the hardy ones were sent off to Parthia, or remained in Britannia.</p><p></p><p> The parading troops, in order to fill out their number, will be followed by loyal free British subjects of the Empire; Wena and Heilyn are invited to join this group, if they wish. Cornelia, as the daughter and heir of one of the major heroes of the war, is offered a seat in the Imperial Box in the Circus Flaminius where Hadriana and the baby Cimbra will be sitting. </p><p> </p><p> Everyone immediately begins planning for the Triumph; Cornelia, Wena, and Llyr focus slightly more on the decorative concerns and how to build appropriately glorious floats, while Marcus, Metellus, Lucretius and Meloch worry about the security issues. Lucretius seems surprisingly unfazed when Meloch broaches the issue of using “his” arcane magics; it is eventually agreed that Meloch will use them to make himself, Marcus, Metellus, and Lucretius invisible during the Triumph, so that they can directly guard the Triumphal Chariot unseen. Meanwhile, Cornelia will watch from the Box; Wena and Heilyn will guard the end of the parade route, and Llyr will help operate one of the floats with the waving trees, so that he can watch from that position. I, Shast, decide to stay at home away from all the crowds unless Meloch really really needs me.</p><p> </p><p> After the initial planning has been established, Marcus asks if they can go to view the Eagle. Lucretius speaks to a few other Praetorians and leads the group deep into the heart of the Imperial Palace, passing through a few heavily guarded rooms in the Outer Treasury before coming to a room where there sits, on a small column on a lonely pedestal towards the back, the newly polished, glistening Eagle of the Ninth, which has had its wings restored to it. </p><p></p><p> Several people immediately sense that all is not well with the Eagle, however. Marcus feels his brooch warm, and receives a vision again of yellow triangles and a sense of profound weakness from the Eagle; it does not give him as much courage and strength as he is accustomed to receive from a Legionary Eagle. Heilyn, Llyr, and Wena, using their Lugh-granted gift to see into the spirit world, see thin black chains wrapping around the Eagle to its wings and stretching out beyond the boundaries of the treasure room. To Heilyn, the Eagle seems not to be a bronze statue but a tiny, mewling eaglet fledgling, looking at him with eyes that seem both frightened and ferocious. They relate all this to the rest of the group, who tries to trace the thin black chains, but they fade out into the grey mist of the spirit world shortly beyond the door of the main room.</p><p></p><p> No immediate attempts are made to free the Eagle from its bondage, although the group suspects the work of the Black Chain Philosopher. Judging from the current amount of black chain and the battle flags used by the Eagle, Marcus guesses that the Eagle has only a few more months before the metaphysical chains envelop its body completely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orichalcum, post: 1273367, member: 3722"] [b]Alea Iacta VI: When in Rome Chapter 4: Parade![/b] My apologies for the lengthy delay – I’ve been working on AnonyCon for much of the last 6 weeks, for which I wrote about 130 single-spaced pages worth of about 5 modules. Everyone who braved the snow seemed to enjoy them immensely, thankfully. Piratecat’s quote about the Cthulhu game he ran Saturday night was “Better than sex, and less messy.” The group is escorted away to a small meeting room in the Eastern Wing of the Imperial Palace, where a young Praetorian Decurion, Septimius Lucretius, awaits them. Lucretius is a handsome, dark-haired young man with startling grey eyes; he seems almost overwhelmed by the shiny and elegant red-and-gold uniform of the Praetorian Guards, the elite bodyguard of the Imperial Family. Cornelia also notes that he wears a discreet amulet of the Gorgon-shield on a leather thong around his neck, indicating that he is probably a worshiper of Minerva. Indeed, Lucretius explains that he was chosen to help organize the triumphal parade partially because he is not only a Decurion but one of the rare elephant cavalry warriors of the Praetorians. However, his elephant, Sapientia, is quite young, and therefore he was not asked to go east to Parthia with most of the other elephant Guardsmen. Instead, he was forced to remain here in Rome until she is more ready for full battle. Lucretius shows them an elaborate [img]http://www.enworld.org/forums/images//rome-triumph-map.jpg[/img] map of the triumphal route, which stretches from the Campus Martius, where the legions currently are, down from the Porta Triumphalis through the Circus Maximus before making a sharp left turn, proceeding towards the Colosseum, and then left again up to the Forum to the Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus. He explains that the order of the triumph will be a set of floats depicting the major events of the campaign in Britannia, which we are expected to help design, the prisoners of war, which include six Druids and the Aurochs Druid of the Ouenikones, as well as the Auroch and Wolf Chieftains, the floats with the booty of the campaign on them, which was regrettably paltry and small in nature, Cimbrus in the Triumphal Chariot, with a trusted slave holding the triumphal laurel wreath above his head in the chariot and whispering in his ear, as per ancient tradition, the words, “Remember, you are mortal,” the Senators, the Equites, and finally the parading troops, of whom there are regrettably few, as most of the hardy ones were sent off to Parthia, or remained in Britannia. The parading troops, in order to fill out their number, will be followed by loyal free British subjects of the Empire; Wena and Heilyn are invited to join this group, if they wish. Cornelia, as the daughter and heir of one of the major heroes of the war, is offered a seat in the Imperial Box in the Circus Flaminius where Hadriana and the baby Cimbra will be sitting. Everyone immediately begins planning for the Triumph; Cornelia, Wena, and Llyr focus slightly more on the decorative concerns and how to build appropriately glorious floats, while Marcus, Metellus, Lucretius and Meloch worry about the security issues. Lucretius seems surprisingly unfazed when Meloch broaches the issue of using “his” arcane magics; it is eventually agreed that Meloch will use them to make himself, Marcus, Metellus, and Lucretius invisible during the Triumph, so that they can directly guard the Triumphal Chariot unseen. Meanwhile, Cornelia will watch from the Box; Wena and Heilyn will guard the end of the parade route, and Llyr will help operate one of the floats with the waving trees, so that he can watch from that position. I, Shast, decide to stay at home away from all the crowds unless Meloch really really needs me. After the initial planning has been established, Marcus asks if they can go to view the Eagle. Lucretius speaks to a few other Praetorians and leads the group deep into the heart of the Imperial Palace, passing through a few heavily guarded rooms in the Outer Treasury before coming to a room where there sits, on a small column on a lonely pedestal towards the back, the newly polished, glistening Eagle of the Ninth, which has had its wings restored to it. Several people immediately sense that all is not well with the Eagle, however. Marcus feels his brooch warm, and receives a vision again of yellow triangles and a sense of profound weakness from the Eagle; it does not give him as much courage and strength as he is accustomed to receive from a Legionary Eagle. Heilyn, Llyr, and Wena, using their Lugh-granted gift to see into the spirit world, see thin black chains wrapping around the Eagle to its wings and stretching out beyond the boundaries of the treasure room. To Heilyn, the Eagle seems not to be a bronze statue but a tiny, mewling eaglet fledgling, looking at him with eyes that seem both frightened and ferocious. They relate all this to the rest of the group, who tries to trace the thin black chains, but they fade out into the grey mist of the spirit world shortly beyond the door of the main room. No immediate attempts are made to free the Eagle from its bondage, although the group suspects the work of the Black Chain Philosopher. Judging from the current amount of black chain and the battle flags used by the Eagle, Marcus guesses that the Eagle has only a few more months before the metaphysical chains envelop its body completely. [/QUOTE]
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