NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BoldItalic" data-source="post: 7117084" data-attributes="member: 6777052">"What do you reckon," she asked Sashi, "Beauty is mightier than the sword"?"Could be, agreed her player, "It's a bit obvious, though, isn't it?""Just a minute, dear, I'll level you up and spend your ASI on +2 Charisma. There. Now you look stunning.""So, if I walk up to a swordsman and just smile and flutter my eyelashes, he'll surrender to my charms?""That's the idea. Want to give it a try?""Oooh!"The next door wasn't a puzzle door at all but was oddly marked with advice to charioteers: When in Rome, don't make a right. Beyond was an arena, somewhat larger than the well-known Circus Minimus, where a cohort of gladiators waited, equipped with a variety of gladii atque scuta ¹. As one man, they turned to salute their emperor, Tactician.Verice walked forward, struck a classical pose with a jug on her shoulder and smiled. The effect was instant. The gladiators, as a man, dropped to one knee and presented their swords to her hilt-first, assuming she was a goddess. Then they set to, demolished the Circus and used the stones to build a temple in her honour.<img src="http://tanguay.info/learntracker/customImages/itemTypes/templeofmars.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Temple of Verice, in the Via Catena Operta ²  Meanwhile, back in the tavern, things were not going so well ...[HR][/HR]¹ swords and shields² In case you don't know Latin, it means "The Way of the Secret Chain", an inverted reference to Sashi's monk archetype masquerading as a Roman street name. Don't even try to use Google Translate on it - it will get the cases ludicrously wrong and make no sense of it at all, thus ruining the joke completely.</blockquote>

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