“Citizens of Rome,
I have a special announcement to make! Today, on the forum, the last rites will be performed for Gaius Julius Caesar. Marcus Anthonius, who has protected the body and kept vigil over it, has announced that the time has come to say farewell to this most virtuous of Romans, and guide Caesar into the embrace of the Gods. The grieving Marcus Anthonius will lead the ceremony for his former comrade in arms! Come, and pay Caesar the respect he deserves, one last time!”
When enough people have gathered, Marcus Anthonius steps up to the stage, showing Caesar’s remains and the dark brown stains where daggers struck true. The crowd howls, and the general pauses in silence, seemingly struck by grief. Then, when the cries have died down, he raises his voice, and starts the eulogy of the great leader, weaving an accusation against his opponents through it:
“Friends,
Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interred with their bones, So let it be with Caesar ...
The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious:
If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answered it...
Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,
(For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all; all honourable men)
Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral ...
He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man….
He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill:
Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept:
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And Brutus is an honourable man.
You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown,
Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;
And, sure, he is an honourable man.
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know.
You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to
mourn for him? O judgement! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost
their reason…. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar,
And I must pause till it come back to me.”
With those words, Marcus Anthonius stands aside, hands to his sides, and the fury of the people turns against Brutus, who has no other option than to seek refuge in the senate. And the people are convinced: Brutus is not the saviour of the Republic, but the traitor who murdered a great man, and who now seeks control over Rome.
It seems Marc Anthony now firmly holds Rome in his grasp, his own enemy now an enemy of the People, too.
Many a night will have to pass before the hatred of the people will start to fade.
Mockra is Brutus, he is of the Brutii Faction.
Brutus – Brutii
You are Marcus Junius Brutus, and you are the saviour of the Roman Republic. You killed your friend, Caesar, because he was rapidly becoming a dictatorial tyrant. However, the siren song of absolute power is now rampaging through Caesar's followers, the Julii. It seems your work is not yet done. Once again, you need to convince your fellow senators that the Republic needs to be restored, and that you're the man to do it. Your opponents aren't just the Julii, though. The Pontifex is whispering of reconciliation between you and Marc Anthony, blind to the 7th Legion that Anthony is using to establish a stranglehold on Rome. Unless he is stopped now, he will conquer the city in spite of whatever treaty he signs.
Night Power: You're an influential man, and your whispers don't fall on deaf ears. Every night, you can recruit a player to your cause, making them a member of your faction. You win when your faction is the sole one remaining. Your recruited followers will learn the identity of your right hand man, Caius Cassius Longinus.
EDIT: Speech is ® by Shakespeare.
This post has been edited by Path-Shaper: 09 January 2009 - 10:30 PM
Only someone with this much power could make this many frittatas without breaking any eggs.