Posted 05 January 2009 - 11:37 PM
Cicero - Kesso-Grief scene:
Main piece:
Cicero (1)
The debate on the senate floor between the
various faction leaders is heated, and senators shout their approval, scream
their outrage, applaud their leaders and booh their opponents, they whisper in
the walkways, using their leverage and calling on favours. Then, all of a
sudden, a single man takes to the floor of the Senate, shouting over the
general noise.
“My fellow Senators, we are supposed to be Rome’s wisdom, Rome’s guides, not Rome’s fishmongers! Yet, what I see here is nothing short of a disgrace!”
“Good old Cicero, always there to brighten our day,” the senator next to you mumbles. His comment echoes through the senate, coming just when the old orator inhales visibly, shaking on his feet with anger.
“Brutus, Anthony, Octavian, the Pontifex, all these glorious leaders of our
Senate… look at them! Shouting their best offers, brazenly displaying their
wares… if I want to hear such things, see such a show, I could get a much
cheaper deal with a prostitute on the Palatine! And you, you… actually see virtue here?”
He points towards your neighbour.
“Take him, for example, he who just felt the need to mock me. What has he ever done in his life? Let me tell you!
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Cuckold:
“This man, gentlemen, is here because of his wife.
You probably know her – intimately. She sleeps around, doesn’t she? Do I see a
nod there? Don’t be so shy, you are not the only one who shares her bed. In
fact, when I look around me, I see preciously few who are not plagued by a
guilty conscience!
And well you should be, for a week after you spend that hour
between silken sheets, her husband, that man there, came to buy your silence…
isn’t that how it went? Adultery turned into industry without the interference
of a prostitute… you have to commend the sheer ingenuity… but I wish it was
spend on a sound strategy to defeat the Easterners, instead.”
Casca:
“Cowardly Casca, the man who was the first
to stab Caesar. Did you tell Brutus how your bowels turned to water the night
before the murder, how you went to his house to warn him, only to turn back on
the porch? I thought not. You snivelling snake, I know what you have been up
to: whispering in this ear and that, swaying opinions, marking targets, all the
while making sure your hands are clean!”
Anthony:
“Marc Anthony, Rome’s golden man, the flamboyant seducer of
our women, and those he can’t seduce, he will buy. Marcus the Insatiable, is
what the prostitutes on the Palatine call him, and well they should know. But beneath the carousing visage he presents, lies a serpent. This is the man who would
have crowned Caesar as King of Rome…on whose authority but his own?
Marc Anthony, the man who would have that crown for himself now. Marc Anthony, who did all he could to make Caesar’s legacy his own. Marc Anthony, who keeps a Legion at hand to ‘keep the peace.’ Need I say more, my colleagues?”
Octavian:
“Octavianus, not even a man yet but still presuming to speak to this assembly… the folly. Caesar’s heir, but what did you inherit, boy?
Nothing except that which Marcus Anthonius would allow you to have! There’s a brilliant mind, but better get your affairs in order at home, my young friend, and leave the politics to your betters. What can you do, but hide behind the back of a man willing to protect you from the barbs and daggers pointed at you by Anthony?”
Every piece is then followed by the complete role PM of the player targeted.
Only someone with this much power could make this many frittatas without breaking any eggs.
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Path-Shaper, on Jan 5 2009, 08:37 PM, said:
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