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Episode 2, Chapter 15: Beer, Parties, and Trials We draw back from the Tigurini, and try to figure out where to go from here. "Maybe we can make Orgetorix die nonmysteriously," Henry suggests. "If there are lots of witnesses who see him die, then he can't be replaced." "But our tethers say...

Episode 2, Chapter 14: A Geneva Convention So now that we've dealt with Roach!Memmius, where do we go next? Apollonius? It's much farther forward than we are now (as Michel objects), but it's a definite person who's got a location that's easy to pin down. The other main source of Ezeru...

Episode 2, Chapter 13: Roaches Check In, But They Don't Check Out We start our preparation to capture Roach!Memmius. But Edward has a few words before we go: "Just to be clear, because our last target got spooked and tried to get away - our objective is to capture and interrogate.” "So…no...

Episode 2, Chapter 12: Bug Bugs and Buzzbuzz And then, after a lovely afternoon on the beach, we finally get down to business. We ask around after Titus Memmius, and find out that at this time of day, he's usually in the tepidarium room of the baths. So that's where we go. It's easy for us to...

Episode 2, Chapter 11: The Hardworking TimeWatch Team Something about this rings a bell with Henry. "Some of my fellow agents in HM Timewatch have encountered giant cockroaches before," he remembers. "In the mid-1960s - they had something to do with the Cuban Missile Crisis. They kept trying to...

Episode 2, Chapter 10: On Bugs and Bugs Looks like we erased our primary lead. Oops. Edward checks his tether, and discovers that Lucretius hasn't entirely disappeared from history. There was still a poet Lucretius, and he still wrote De Rerum Natura. And, just as the tether had told us...

Episode 2, Chapter 9: Poetry (and Poets) in Motion We decide to look for the poet/philosopher Lucretius in 56 BCE, when he;s is in the middle of writing, or has already completed, his great work De Rerum Natura. That's also when Caesar's conquests are going on, so maybe we can get some more...

Episode 2, Chapter 8: All Dacia is Divided Into Three Parts Fortunately, one of the best libraries in Rome is right here in the Forum. Unfortunately, it's evening right now, so the library is closed. "I suppose we'll have to wait until morning," Edward sighs. "Or," Yves points out, "we could...

Episode 2, Chapter 7: Title Track As it turns out, the general flow of traffic is going towards the Forum of Trajan anyway. The Forum is a huge plaza full of people, and at its center is Trajan's Column: a giant column covered in carved depictions of Trajan's triumphs. That's what we expected...

Episode 2, Chapter 6: Making Heads and Fish Tails of New Religions We're starting to see the differences between our timeline and this one, so Yves tests out a big one: "Have you heard of Jesus of Nazareth?" The shopkeeper nods. "Oh, yes! You're one of his followers? Would you like a fish on...

Episode 2, Chapter 5: A Slightly Radioactive Thing Happens On the Way To the Forum The Random Roman is only too happy to tell us about the new forum. "Oh, it's a marvel! It's going to be considered one of the wonders of the world! Our emperor is an architect himself, you know. Here, let me tell...

Episode 2 Chapter 4: Hitting the Road (to Rome) By the end, Edward has his head in his hands. "Foreknowledge? Curing plagues? He is totally a time traveler." "And bilocation!" Yves adds, groaning just as hard. "He could be time-traveling back to meet himself." We have two choices at this...

Episode 2, Chapter 3: Hitting the Books We've got a person and a place on which to focus our research, so Henry hits the tether's databases. He finds a summary of a third-century-CE biography of Apollonius - at least, it purports to be a biography, but many people doubt its truth. Here's what...

Episode 2, Part 2: Familiar Patterns Sorry for the long time between posts! Real Life got away from me, and unfortunately I couldn't hop backwards in time to post something more punctually :) But now, on with the show! -- Henry double-takes at the reaction, and Edward sighs, explaining...

Episode 2: The Glow of the Talisman Pillars Here begins Episode 2! There were a few changes in personnel for this one. Orichalcum is the GM for this episode, and Cerebral Paladin joined us as a new PC, Henry. Kat's player couldn't make it for this one, alas, so the team is a little smaller...