comic/graphic novel ID request

[heirodule]

I recall flipping though this comic or graphic novel within the last couple of years.

Its set in ancient rome or greece.

A scene is depicted where a woman is bathing in a pool, assisted by slave girls. Someone converses with the woman, and a slave girl interrupts, and the woman orders her slave girls to hold the interrupter under water, "forgetting" her until she was dead.

I can't remember the name of the book. I don't *think* its age of bronze, but maybe.

Any ideas?

 

[Ed_Laprade]

300? I've never read it, but that sounds like something that might happen in it.

 

[heirodule]

300? I've never read it, but that sounds like something that might happen in it.

Nope. Well acquainted with 300 and thats not in there.

I'm mostly trying to duplicate the scene in an RPG setting and I can't come up with a smooth flowing narrative for what the slave girl interrupts about and why the owner is so teed off.

 

[Mistwell]

First thing that came to mind was Age of Bronze, but I do not recall that scene. Then again, I have only read the first book.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It sounds very much like something that would happen in Artesia.

 

[WayneLigon]

I'm mostly trying to duplicate the scene in an RPG setting and I can't come up with a smooth flowing narrative for what the slave girl interrupts about and why the owner is so teed off.

It could be anything. She's a slave and forbidden to speak until spoken to, so if she says anything at all, that's it for her. That would be part of the horror of the situation: that the owner is not teed off or thrown into a fit of anger. It's just a tiresomeness she shouldn't have to deal with and now she doesn't, simple as that.

Try this: The PC's have come to talk to the noblewoman, who receives them in her bath. They stand back as girls hold up a towel and she ascends from the sunken bath, barely visible throught the cloth. The women wrap her and the girl wraps her hair as she begins to converse with the PC's.

"Mistress, I.." the slave girl says, and the noblewoman makes a slight gesture with her hand to her other attendents, while she continues to talk to the PC's. The attendents slide a hand over the girl's mouth and pick her up, walk to the bath and slide her head under the water. Meanwhile, normal trivial conversation from the noblewoman.

Have her carry on a perfectly normal conversation about trivial things with the PCs while just visible behind her the slave girl's legs kick violently but quietly as she drowns, then slowly grow still. Then the attendents remove her, not even leaving a drop to sully the mistresses' marble floor.

 

[Mistwell]

Epicurus The Sage?