All OOC points are to be made here, both for game or just funnin'!<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Important Links</span></strong>:<br/>Character Sheet (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=99620.0)<br/>IC thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100193.0)<br/>OOC thread (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=100801.0)<br/>Interest check (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=99223.0)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Posting Rules</span></strong>:<br/>~ Please mark your location at the top of each post, for example:     ~[character name here] in the Ludus ~~<br/>Be sure to keep to making sure all other players have posted at least once each turn to reduce posting chaos and promote the flow of the overall story.<br/>~ Kindly respect all the other players/writers here, their ons/offs, etc.<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">Roster</span></strong>:<br/><br/><del>Manius Sertorius Atellus – Lanista/Dominus &amp; husband to Valeria (Cadavar)</del><br/><del>Valeria Caerellia Renate – Domina &amp; wife to Manius (PearlRuby)</del><br/><br/><del>Bastian Grandis Fascinum - Retired Primus Pilus, now running for Senate (Cadavar)</del><br/><del>Matriana - Wealthy wife to Bastian with Senate connections (Senti)</del><br/>Livia Sabina Metalla - Wealthy Citizen (Kendra)<br/>Patrocles Aktianos - Champion of Livia (OralAddiction)<br/><del>Liliana Nerva - Wealthy Citizen (Dragondancer)</del><br/><del>Lupis Dae Lucias - High Priest of Vestia (Ironwolf85)</del><br/>Aulus Livius - Roman Soldier (Drakan)<br/><del>Gaius - “Doctore” (AndyZ)</del><br/><del>Autolycus - “Medicus” (Prakkie)</del><br/><del>Burrus - Guard Captain (Pearlruby)</del><br/><del>Rioghan MacCarthaigh - Gladiator; Ludus Champion (Primarch)</del><br/>Marius Horatius/Ammon - Gladiator (Darkcide)<br/>Ryann ap Elim - Gladiatrix recruit (Bubby)<br/><del>Cingetorix - Gladiator recruit (Michael Corvus)</del><br/><del>Ger'hild Brunhild/Berenagrius  - Gladiator recruit (MarcothTalos)</del><br/><del>Marcus Didius - Gladiator recruit (grovercjuk)</del><br/><del>Amplus - Slave to Bastian &amp; Gladiator recruit (Cadavar)</del><br/><del>Nakia (of the Steppes) - Senior slave maid (Phoenyx)</del><br/>Cariad O'r Nant  - Educated slave girl (Damned Eternally)<br/><del>Sorcha - Extremely feral, Pictish slave girl (Senti)</del><br/><del>Galo - Head manservant to Dominus (Shadax)</del><br/><del>Nadia - Head house slave (Senti)</del><br/><br/><em>Retired character sheets</em>:<br/>Manius Sertorius Africanus - First version (adifferenceinsize)<br/>Aricus Canididus - Gladiator (AusGre)<br/>Chiara - Sweet dutiful slave girl (writersmelody)<br/>Asine' - Senior slave maid (LadyDiscord)<br/>Jarchanus/Doctore - “Doctore” (LadyDiscord)<br/>Bastian-Primus Pulus (Cadavar)<br/>Berenagrius- new Gladiator (MarcothTalus)<br/>Lupus Dae- High Priest (Ironwolf85)<br/><br/><strong><span class="bbc_u">The Setting</span></strong>:~<br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">The school</span>: Ludus Leonis Scopulus Tarraconensis.(Should mean "The Tarraco School of the Cliff Lions")<strong>Ground Floor</strong>:<div align="center">(http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m357/yuniebee/groundfloorludus.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_u">Notes</span>: - From the inner courtyard is a solid wooden jail-house style door, and 3 stone steps leading down to the training grounds. Guards are always standing watch at this week point, but it also serves as easy access to the training grounds.- The larder staircase is very similar to the stars that Naevia uses to talk to Crixus in the Spartacus series. In this version, that more secluded cell is perfect for housing the Gladiatrix instead. The other cells are open spaces for the gladiators.<strong>First Floor</strong>:<div align="center">(http://i332.photobucket.com/albums/m357/yuniebee/firstfloorludus.jpg)</div><span class="bbc_u">More picture refs</span>:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Villa_Rustica_Model_.jpg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Roman_Villa_Rustica_Model_.jpg)http://www.englishvillagedesigns.co.uk/img/gallery/1-sheet/15.jpg (http://www.englishvillagedesigns.co.uk/img/gallery/1-sheet/15.jpg)<strong><br/><br/><span class="bbc_u">General Historical/Geographical Notes</span></strong>:~ The year of this story is roughly 62 AD~ The Geographical location is Tarraco: a city far to the west of Rome  (Italy), based on the eastern coast of Roman Hispania (Spain). ~ Tarraco (Ταρρακών) is a rich city, and was capital of the province of Hispania Tarraconensis. The Roman colony founded at Tarraco had the full name of Colonia Iulia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco.~ Tarraco is the richest town on that coast. Its fertile plain and sunny shores are celebrated, and it produced good wine and flax.~ Exports from Tarraconensis included timber, cinnabar, gold, iron, tin, lead, pottery, marble, wine and olive oil.~ The Greeks also had established colonies along the eastern coast of Hispania. ~<br/><span class="bbc_u">Religion</span>: The most popular deity in Roman Spain was Isis, followed by Magna Mater, the great mother. The Carthaginian-Phoenician deities Melqart (both a solar deity and a sea-god) and Tanit-Caelestis (a mother-queen with possible lunar connections) were also popular. The Roman pantheon quickly absorbed native deities through identification (Melqart became Hercules, for example, having long been taken by the Greeks as a variant of their Heracles). Ba‘al Hammon was the chief god at Carthage and was also important in Hispania. The Egyptian gods Bes and Osiris had a following as well.