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Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro

There was 0% chance this game of me going for the partisan "victory". Wouldn't feel like winning, and I usually enjoy being town more than mafia these days.

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You're getting old *grin*

For ease of reference, tally as of post 1471:

johnhughthom: 5 (LG, Beefy187, TheFlax, Jolt, Khazaar)
Beefy187: 3 (johnhughthom, split, Ignoramus)

Abstain: 1 ('khaan)

Unvote:Beefy,

Vote:Abstain

John goes down today, probably no question about that. I have no reason, other than a quick victory for myself and nothing for the republic, to vote beefy any longer.

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Originally Posted by spL1tp3r50naL1ty

Unvote:Beefy,

Vote:Abstain

John goes down today, probably no question about that. I have no reason, other than a quick victory for myself and nothing for the republic, to vote beefy any longer.

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This isn't going to save you, you know. You've proven yourself a threat and you and Greyblades will either die tonight or tomorrow.

Okay?

I've escaped death magically one time, I don't expect to again.

Despite the fact that I'm not mafia, or caeser, you can still lynch or kill me. Whittle it down some more! The less living senators in the curio the better eh? Less people to disagree with your totalitarian rulings.

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Originally Posted by spL1tp3r50naL1ty

Okay?

I've escaped death magically one time, I don't expect to again.

Despite the fact that I'm not mafia, or caeser, you can still lynch or kill me. Whittle it down some more! The less living senators in the curio the better eh? Less people to disagree with your totalitarian rulings.

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Yes, soon I will be ruling you all from beyond the grave! Bow before your undead master! *evil smiley*

Haha, not you specifically :P

But yes, obviously to get to caeser I see we have to kep some poplares, or cesarians (I'm so bad at remembering which is which, the ones on pompey's side, is what I mean) alive so that the other side doesn't straight win.

God I feel so dumb being in this game

Vote:johnhughthom

LG seems to know what he's talking about, so I'm going with him.

Firstly Andres I did not target these people because of thier faction, they were planning on killing (or lynching actually) a senator purely for the benefit of a faction victory over a victory for the republic. As a dead townie (you are right ?) surely you can see the problem with this, also they are suspects to be mafia. Actively seeking the faction victory condition is the straw that broke the camels back....

If you'll notice a few weeks back i was happy to lynch beefy off until some information came to light, im not sure if Beefy is completely cleared, personally i don't know if pompey is still alive or not.... if some information comes to light pointing to an optimates i will happily reveal that to...

The other suspicious thing which pointed suspicion at Iskander and John was the night they decided to investigate AggonyDuck he died, they came back with the wrong result on his faction as well....

That night greyblades was in group attacking split and split was at home defending himself...

So John is priority, greyblades or split may be able to be cleared by other methods...

Well as it seems I am as good as gone, I think you should all look closer at split afterwards. He is the only person left I still have suspicions of.

I've already shown all that I can, if I'm to die for showing nothing more, then I'm to die because I HAVE nothing more.

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Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly

The other suspicious thing which pointed suspicion at Iskander and John was the night they decided to investigate AggonyDuck he died, they came back with the wrong result on his faction as well....

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Can you quote the pm's where they gave you the wrong result on duck? That's pretty solid evidence.

FYI, a major storm is about to hit my area. Check out this weather warning:

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THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH... PREPARE IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS... DESTRUCTIVE HAIL... AND DEADLY CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER... PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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This is due to pass by around the time the day phase ends. If I don't end it prompty at the proper time, it probably means I've lost power and can't get on the internet. If so, I'll end the day as soon as I an.

Solid evidence in what way? It might only mean AggonyDuck had lied about his faction to LG.



Woah, stay safe TC.

Sweet! I'd ignore the advice and go outside for a bit if I were you. Just watch out for twigs flying into your eye. Big storms are awesome.

Weather warning says hail the size of nickels and wind at 70mph. Did I mention I have to commute home in this?

whee....

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Originally Posted by johnhughthom

Solid evidence in what way? It might only mean AggonyDuck had lied about his faction to LG.

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So you didn't claim to have investigated AggonyDuck? Mind posting your result on him if you did? My tally of optimates vs populares was off by bit...

Yikes, be safe!

The result was pmed to LG, I think. If not I don't have it anymore, I deleted all the pms I thought irrelevant.

Day XI is over, write-up commencing.

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Originally Posted by TinCow

Weather warning says hail the size of nickels and wind at 70mph. Did I mention I have to commute home in this?

whee....

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Wait aren't you just south of me in DC? How the heck are you getting hail o.O!?

“Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The relative serenity of the previous evening had emboldened the Senate. Despite the reputed note from Caesar, the restoration of order at last seemed to be a real possibility. Those who had weathered the crisis and emerged intact struck out viciously against those of their colleagues who were suspected of holding partisan views. The debate quickly focused on Beefy187 and johnhughthom.

At first, the accusations flew in both directions, but as the pressure mounted, johnhughthom’s friends began to abandon him. What was at first an even contest soon turned into a landslide. When the votes were finally tallied, johnhughthom sighed heavily. He bowed his head briefly in contemplation, then stood to address all in the Curia. “What you have done here today has doomed the Republic! You think that you have saved it, but you are wrong. Caesar crossed the Rubicon not to destroy Rome but to save it! The Republic has grown corrupt and the people clamor for reform.”

johnhughthom turned to face Jolt, “Will you give it to them? You claimed to uphold law and order with your accusations against Lucius Sergius Catiline, but then you executed him and his conspirators without a trial! Is this the way of the Republic? Those in power executing whom they please on a whim and without an opportunity to present a case in their own defense?! That is the way of Lucius Cornelius Sulla, not Lucius Junius Brutus. No, you are no true defender of Rome; you speak of upholding law, but you discard it whenever you feel it expedient!”

johnhughthom then turned to face Caius, “I would have to be a comic to place the word reform in the same sentence as your name! What do you care about except tradition and the Old Ways? You follow these as if they were the teachings of Jupiter Optimus Maximus himself, yet you ignore all of the evils that the ancient traditions have brought upon us! If Rome had always believed in upholding tradition, the Tarquinian Kings would rule us to this day! You pay homage to Lucius Junius Brutus, yet you are too stupid to realize that he was a revolutionary, a radical who overthrew the established order and created a better system! Change is not always an evil, sometimes can be good, and sometimes it is necessary. Your ways lead to stagnation, decay, and death.”

“As for the rest of you,” johnhughthom scowled at the remaining Senators, “you will see soon enough that this is not the end. All that you have done is prolonged the struggle. There are others who will take up arms to do what must be done to save Rome!” He turned back to Jolt and Caius, bowing low, “Might I have your permission, most honorable Senators, to address the public before I meet my end?” Jolt and Caius looked at each other briefly. What harm could a few words from a proscripted man do? They nodded in assent. With that, johnhughthom turned and strode out into the forum.

The crowd was baying for his blood, expecting another opportunity at enrichment. Boldly, johnhughthom walked to the rostra and raised his arms. He gestured, at them to let him speak, but it was no good. Suddenly, a disturbance began off to the side of the forum, and a procession of legionaries began to make their way forward, pushing through the crowd. Between them, they carried the body of Andres. At the sight of this, the mob began to hush, and soon they watched in silent awe as the body was brought to johnhughthom and placed on the rostra. With that, johnhughthom began to speak.

“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 Cicero hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault and grievously has Caesar answered it.”

“Here under leave of Cicero and the rest --- for Cicero is an honorable man --- so are they all honorable men --- come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me --- but Cicero says he was ambitious and Cicero is an honorable man.”

“He has brought many captives home to Rome whose ransoms did fill the general coffers. Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When the poor have cried, Caesar has wept --- ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Cicero says he was ambitious and Cicero is an honorable man. I speak not to disprove what Cicero spoke, but here I am to speak what I do know.”

“You all did love him once, not without cause. What cause witholds you then, to mourn for him now? Oh judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts and men have lost their reason. Bear with me. My heart is in the coffin here with Caesar and I must pause til it come back to me. But yesterday the word of Caesar might have stood against the world; now he lies there. And none so poor to do him reverence.”

“Oh masters, if I were disposed to stir your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, I should do Cicero wrong, and Cato wrong, who, you all know, are honorable men. I will not do them wrong; I rather choose to wrong the dead, to wrong myself and you, than I will wrong such honorable men. But here's a parchment with the seal of Caesar --- I found it in his closet, 'tis his will: Let but the people hear this testament, which, pardon me, I do not mean to read, and they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds and dip their napkins in his sacred blood, yea, beg a hair of him for memory, and, dying, mention it within their wills, bequeathing it as a rich legacy unto their issue.”

The crowd had long ago grown quiet, their bloodlust sated by johnhughthom’s elegant words. Yet with the revelation of Caesar’s will, they found their voice again; pleading with johnhughthom to continue, to tell them of Caesar’s final wishes.

“Have patience, gentle friends, I must not read it; it is not right you know how Caesar loved you. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men; and, being men, bearing the will of Caesar, it will inflame you, it will make you mad! 'Tis good you know not that you are his heirs, for if you should, oh, what would come of it!”

johnhughthom made to stop, and turned away, but the mob screamed out for him. Slowly, he turned back towards them and continued, making obvious sidelong looks at the Curia.

“Will you be patient? Will you stay awhile? I have overshot myself to tell you of it. I fear the honorable men whose daggers have stabbed Caesar, I do fear it!”

With this, the crowed howled with violent anger, and the Senators watching from the steps of the Curia glanced warily at one another. This was not what they had expected from the proscription, not at all. johnhughthom continued.

“You will compel me, then to read the will? Then make a ring about the corpse of Caesar, and let me show you him that made the will. Shall I descend? And will you give me leave?”

The people responded with cheers. Descending from the rostra to stand amidst the people, johnhughthom continued his eulogy.

“If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this coat --- I remember the first time Caesar put it on. 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, that day he overcame the Huns.”

“Look --- in this place ran Ahenobarbus’ dagger through! See what a rent the envious Metellus Scipio made! Through this well-beloved Pompey stabbed, and as he plucked his cursed steel away, mark how the blood of Caesar followed it, as rushing out of doors, to be resolved if Pompey so unkindly knocked or no.

“For Pompey, as you know, was Caesar's friend and son in law --- judge, oh you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all! For when the noble Caesar saw his stab, ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, quite vanquished him, then burst his mighty heart, and in his mantle muffling up his face, even at the base of Pompey's statue, which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.”

“Oh, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I and you and all of us fell down, while bloody treason flourished over us. Oh now you weep and I perceive you feel the dint of pity --- these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what weep you when you but behold our Caesar's vesture wounded? Look you here! Here is himself marred as you see with traitors.”

“Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up to such a sudden flood of mutiny. They that have caused this deed are honorable. What private griefs they have, alas, I know not what made them do it. They are wise and honorable and will, no doubt, with reasons answer you.”

“I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts. I am no orator, as Cicero is; but, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, that loves my friend and that they know full well that gave me public leave to speak of him --- for I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech to stir men's blood. I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor dumb mouths, and bid them speak for me … but were I Cicero, and Cicero, Lepidus, there were a Lepidus would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue in every wound of Caesar that should move the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.”

With this, the crowd began to gesture angrily, and hands that were previously raised with open palms now clutched knives and cudgels. With shouts, a few men began to move towards the Curia, but johnhughthom continued.

“But friends, you go to do you know not what! Wherein has Caesar thus deserved your love? Alas, you know not - I must tell you then - You have forgot the will I told you of. Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every several man, seventy-five drachmas! Moreover, he has left you all his walks, his private arbors and new-planted orchards - he has left them all to you. And to your heirs forever, common pleasures, to walk abroad, to recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! When comes another?”

With this revelation, the crowd emitted a sound the like of which Rome had never heard. Part elation at their inheritance, part outrage at Caesar’s death, it was all passion. The crowd surged up the steps towards the Curia, but the Senators had seen what was coming and they had long since departed. With no target for their anger, the plebeians settled for defacing a few statues before marching back through the streets of Rome, singing the praises of those who had fallen in the crisis. johnhughthom slipped away amongst the crowd, his proscription forgotten by the people who had been so enriched by his words and Caesar’s will. He removed his white Senatorial toga and vanished into the city.

That night was a restless one for the surviving Senators. In the morning, they met again, though this time privately in the house of Cicero. The city had quieted down a great deal since the previous day’s excitement. There was still great turmoil amongst the populous, but without any partisan Senator to lead them it remained a simmering discontent instead of a boiling rebellion. Cicero and Cato now sat in firm control of the Senate. With the dual threats of Pompey and Caesar defeated, the work of restoring the Republic to its old glory was about to begin. It would be hard work, and it would take much effort, but with these two dedicated and talented men leading the way, there was hope at last. The Roman Republic would survive.

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It was late at night when he reached Velitrae. The town was dark, but the light of the moon was bright and guided him on towards his destination. With Cicero and Cato in control of the Senate, he had no choice but to go into hiding. Yet, there was power still in the name of Caesar, and he had not said all during his eulogy on the forum. True, Caesar had given much to the plebeians, but that was but a small part of the boundless wealth he had appropriated during his time in Gaul. A full two-thirds of that wealth was bestowed on another beneficiary, one who Caesar had formally adopted as his son and heir in his will. That man would receive not only the wealth required to pay armies, but the name required to inspire them: Gaius Julius Caesar. True, he was still young, but he was ready for the toga virilis, and more importantly, Caesar had believed him worthy of his great legacy. Perhaps he would succeed where his adoptive father had failed. Perhaps there was still one man who could do what had to be done for the sake of Rome.

johnhughthom reached his destination, and rapped hastily on the door. After a few moments, the shuffling of sandaled feet could be heard, and a small window opened to reveal the face of an elderly servant. “Yes, what is it?” johnhughthom pulled back his hood, so that the moonlight spilled onto his face. “Tell Gaius Octavius Thurinus that Marcus Aemilius Lepidus has arrived with news from Rome.”

Republic Victory

johnhughthom: 6 (LG, Beefy187, TheFlax, Jolt, Khazaar, Marshal Murat)
Beefy187: 2 (johnhughthom, Ignoramus)

Abstain: 2 ('khaan, split)
Not Voting: 2 (Greyblades, Caius)

Alive (11):
Beefy187 - Appius Claudius Pulcher (Pulcher) – Optimates Senator
Greyblades - Gaius Asinius Pollio (Pollio) – Populares Senator
LittleGrizzly - Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus (Lentulus) – Consul, converted by Cato
Shinseikhaan - Publius Attius Varus (Varus) – Optimates Senator
spL1tp3r50naL1ty - Lucius Munatius Plancus (Plancus) – Populares Senator
Khazaar - Lucius Afranius (Afranius) – Optimates Senator
Jolt - Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero) – Republican Orator
Marshal Murat - Publius Cornelius Dolabella (Dolabella) – Populares Senator
Ignoramus - Tiberius Claudius Nero (Tiberius Nero) – Optimates Senator, switched to Populares Senator
TheFlax - Aulus Allienus (Allienus) – Praetor, converted by Cicero
Caius - Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) – Republican Orator

Killed (14):
White_eyes:D - Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Marcellus) – Optimates Senator
mini - Gaius Cassius Longinus (Cassius) – Optimates Senator
Beskar - Titus Labienus (Labienus) – Populares Senator
Yaropolk - Quintus Cassius Longinus (Longinus) – Populares Senator
pevergreen - Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (Decimus Brutus) – Populares Senator
Glenn - Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony) – Caesarian Legate
GeneralHankerchief - Quintus Scribonius Curio (Curio) - Praetor
Andres - Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar) – Caesarian Dictator
woad&fangs - Marcus Junius Brutus (Brutus) – Optimates Senator
Sasaki Kojiro - Faustus Cornelius Sulla (Faustus) – Optimates Senator, converted by Cato
Askthepizzaguy - Marcus Terentius Varro (Varro) – Optimates Senator
Gaius Scribonius Curio - Quintus Valerius Orca (Orca) – Populares Senator
Ichigo - Gaius Claudius Marcellus Major (Marcellus Major) – Consul, converted by Cato
AggonyDuck - Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (Spinther) – Optimates Senator

Proscripted (11):
navarro951 - Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus (Calvinus) – Caesarian Legate
Tiberius of the Drake - Servius Sulpicius Lemonia Rufus (Sulpicius) – Populares Senator
Cronos Impera - Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito (Salvito) – Optimates Senator
Cultured Drizzt fan - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) – Pompeian Dictator
YLC - Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (Bibulus) – Optimates Senator
atheotes - Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Ahenobarbus) – Pompeian Legate
Captain Blackadder - Marcus Caelius Rufus (Rufus) – Populares Senator
Chaotix - Cleopatra VII Philopator (Cleopatra) – Queen of Egypt
Tratorix - Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (Metellus Scipio) – Pompeian Legate, promoted to Dictator
Iskander 3.1 - Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (Paullus) – Populares Senator, recruited to Caesarian Legate by Lepidus.
johnhughthom - Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (Lepidus) – Populares Senator, recruited to Caesarian Legate by Caesar, promoted to Caesarian Dictator

WoG/Suicide (1):
everyone - Publius Vatinius (Vatinius) – Optimates Senator

Awesome game, well played surviving Senators and thank you very much TinCow.

glad we accomplished some things. great game everyone, was a lot of fun being the bad guy for my first ever mafia game. This was awesome, I thank Tratorix and Atheotes for dealing with my crazy plans as dictator. hope everyone found my messages humorous, I sure did.

My dream came true.

Congratulations fellow senators! We'll have a few fiestas.

Thanks TinCow!!

It was great to have some good old fashioned Roman politics!
I am particularly glad I got to personally send out the hit on Caesar himself!

“It is pleasant at times to play the madman.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Caesarian Roles

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“I love treason but hate a traitor.”
- Gaius Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar)
Caesarian Dictator
(Populares Faction)

The great Caesar needs no introduction. The Republican system is weak and corrupt. Rome needs strong leadership to achieve its true potential and to ensure the safety and prosperity of all Romans. Rome needs a Dictator who can cut accomplish anything, despite the obstructionist Senate. Rome needs you. All that stands in your way is Pompey. He was once renowned for his skill as a general, but that was long ago. He is now little more than a pawn of the archaic and greedy Optimates. Crush him and the pathetic Optimates that support him, and Rome will be yours alone. Under your steady hand, all will prosper, and the Republic will become an Empire of unmatched glory.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Pompeians and Optimates Faction Senators. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this condition is met while any other Caesarian member is still alive.

Your allies are:
Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony) - Caesarian Legate - Glenn
Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus (Calvinus) - Caesarian Legate - navarro951

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Veritas (Investigate) - You can investigate another player. The investigation will show the player's faction and whether they were active that night (though not what they were doing).
(2) Speculatores (Kill) - You can attempt to kill one player per night. If you attempt to kill alone and the target is protected, you will fail. If two Caesarians attempt to kill the same target, you will succeed even if the target is protected.
(3) Cohors Praetoria (Protect) - You can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(4) Adrogation (Recruit) - If there are no Caesarian Legates alive, you can anonymously recruit any living player who has elimination of the Optimates faction as an optional victory condition. If they accept, this will permanently change that player’s role into that of a Caesarian Legate. If they decline, this will permanently remove the option to eliminate the Optimates faction from that player’s victory conditions, thus forcing them to eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians in order to win. This ability may not be used more than twice during the game, even if it is used by different Caesarian Dictators. If this ability is used on a player that does not have elimination of the Optimates faction as an optional victory condition, it will operate as a normal Veritas action, and will not count against the twice per game limit.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. Note that since you can kill or protect alone, Senator kill and protection groups that you take part in will succeed (unless otherwise prevented in some manner) even if all of the players do not submit proper orders. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Acta Diurna (Propaganda) – You can submit a PM to TinCow which will then be posted anonymously as a message from Gaius Julius Caesar to the Senate. This could be useful in swaying Populares Faction Senators to join you, or otherwise aid the Caesarians, but beware of giving yourself away with your writing style as I will post your PM exactly as you have written it, but with your identity removed from the QUOTE section. The message will be posted at the start of the next day phase, and will be placed in the same post as that which narrates the results of the most recent night actions. Only one message can be posted in this manner per day phase.

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“Opinion is the main thing which does harm or good in the world. It is our false opinions that ruin us.”
- Marcus Antonius

Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony)
Caesarian Legate
(Populares Faction)

Caesar's best friend and greatest general, as a die-hard member of the Populares, you have promoted Caesar's interests in every way you can. In 50 BC, you were Tribune of the Plebs, and used your veto to block the attempts of the Optimates and Pompey to strip Caesar of his power. They responded with violence and expelled you from the Senate with force. You fled the city and have now joined up with Caesar who has marched south to deal with them once and for all. Your loyalty is certain and the road before you is clear. Defeat Pompey and crush the power of the Optimates once and for all. When Caesar rules Rome, you will surely be his most favored aide. Perhaps, in time, you will become Dictator as well.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Pompeians and Optimates Faction Senators. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this condition is met while any other Caesarian member is still alive.

Your allies are:
Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar) - Caesarian Dictator - Andres
Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus (Calvinus) - Caesarian Legate - navarro951

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Speculatores (Kill) - You can attempt to kill one player per night. If you attempt to kill alone and the target is protected, you will fail. If two Caesarians attempt to kill the same target, you will succeed even if the target is protected.
(2) Cohors Praetoria (Protect) - You can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. This means that, operating together, two Legates can conduct a basic Senator investigation. Note that since you can kill or protect alone, Senator kill and protection groups that you take part in will succeed (unless otherwise prevented in some manner) even if all of the players do not submit proper orders. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Cursus Honorum (Promotion) – If at any point the Caesarian Dictator dies, your role will permanently change to that of Caesarian Dictator. If multiple Caesarian Legates are alive when this happens, the promotion will be determined randomly.

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“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus (Calvinus)
Caesarian Legate
(Populares Faction)

Long known as one of Gaius Julius Caesar's most loyal followers, the gens Julius have been your close friends and allies for many years. This is an arrangement from which you have personally benefited. With the aid of Caesar, you were Consul in 53 BC and since then your loyalty to him has never been in question. As one of his most trusted and devoted men, you have been given the honor of helping him cleanse Rome of the taint that has been eroding the Republic. It is time to march forth and dispose of the corrupt Optimates that have been slowly destroying Rome from within.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Pompeians and Optimates Faction Senators. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this condition is met while any other Caesarian member is still alive.

Your allies are:
Gaius Julius Caesar (Caesar) - Caesarian Dictator - Andres
Marcus Antonius (Mark Anthony) - Caesarian Legate - Glenn

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Speculatores (Kill) - You can attempt to kill one player per night. If you attempt to kill alone and the target is protected, you will fail. If two Caesarians attempt to kill the same target, you will succeed even if the target is protected.
(2) Cohors Praetoria (Protect) - You can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. This means that, operating together, two Legates can conduct a basic Senator investigation. Note that since you can kill or protect alone, Senator kill and protection groups that you take part in will succeed (unless otherwise prevented in some manner) even if all of the players do not submit proper orders. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Cursus Honorum (Promotion) – If at any point the Caesarian Dictator dies, your role will permanently change to that of Caesarian Dictator. If multiple Caesarian Legates are alive when this happens, the promotion will be determined randomly.

Pompeian Roles

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“Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!”
- Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus

Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great)
Pompeian Dictator
(Optimates Faction)

Primus Inter Pares; the first among equals. No living Roman can match your reputation for skill in warfare. You served with distinction in the Social War. When you were still in your early 20s, you raised an army and conquered Sicily and Africa in the name of Lucius Cornelius Sulla. You were given a triumph, and then subdued the rebellion in Spain. For this you were given a second triumph, and became Consul at the unheard of age of 35, and without ever having been a Senator! You then continued your glorious acts by crushing the Mediterranean pirates and defeating Mithridates of Pontus.

For these deeds, and many others, you have been given the agnomen of Magnus. You have been elevated to the level of Alexander the Great, and you bear that title with pride. Yet, your work is not complete. Rome is once again threatened, this time from within. Your former Triumverate partner, Caesar, has shirked all of the laws of the Republic and is a dire threat to its very integrity. You must eliminate him and all of his Populares supporters. It is time to act as your old ally, Lucius Cornelius Sulla, once did. Rome needs a Dictator to return it to the proper course. Rome needs you.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Caesarians and Populares Faction Senators. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this condition is met while any other Pompeian member is still alive.

Your allies are:
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (Metellus Scipio) - Pompeian Legate - Tratorix
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Ahenobarbus) - Pompeian Legate - atheotes

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Veritas (Investigate) - You can investigate another player. The investigation will show the player's faction and whether they were active that night (though not what they were doing).
(2) Speculatores (Kill) - You can attempt to kill one player per night. If you attempt to kill alone and the target is protected, you will fail. If two Pompeians attempt to kill the same target, you will succeed even if the target is protected.
(3) Cohors Praetoria (Protect) - You can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(4) Adrogation (Recruit) - If there are no Pompeian Legates alive, you can anonymously recruit any living player who has elimination of the Populares faction as an optional victory condition. If they accept, this will permanently change that player’s role into that of a Pompeian Legate. If they decline, this will permanently remove the option to eliminate the Populares faction from that player’s victory conditions, thus forcing them to eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians in order to win. This ability may not be used more than twice during the game, even if it is used by different Pompeian Dictators. If this ability is used on a player that does not have elimination of the Populares faction as an optional victory condition, it will operate as a normal Veritas action, and will not count against the twice per game limit.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. Note that since you can kill or protect alone, Senator kill and protection groups that you take part in will succeed (unless otherwise prevented in some manner) even if all of the players do not submit proper orders. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Acta Diurna (Propaganda) – You can submit a PM to TinCow which will then be posted anonymously as a message from Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus to the Senate. This could be useful in swaying Optimates Faction Senators to join you, or otherwise aid the Pompeians, but beware of giving yourself away with your writing style as I will post your PM exactly as you have written it, but with your identity removed from the QUOTE section. The message will be posted at the start of the next day phase, and will be placed in the same post as that which narrates the results of the most recent night actions. Only one message can be posted in this manner per day phase.

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“The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (Metellus Scipio)
Pompeian Legate
(Optimates Faction)

Descended from a staunchly aristocratic family, you have always been a rock of the Optimates and have stood for Roman values of the Old Style. On this platform, you were elected Consul in 52 BC and worked to suppress the Populares and their corrupting influence. This time, with their champion Caesar, they have gone too far. It is not enough to simply stop the law-breaker himself; it has become clear to you that the entire Populares faction must be crushed, or the threat to Rome will never be over. A strong Optimates Dictator is the only hope Rome has left, and Pompey is the only man who can fit that role.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Caesarians and Populares Faction Senators. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this condition is met while any other Pompeian member is still alive.

Your allies are:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) - Pompeian Dictator - Cultured Drizzt fan
Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Ahenobarbus) - Pompeian Legate - atheotes

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Speculatores (Kill) - You can attempt to kill one player per night. If you attempt to kill alone and the target is protected, you will fail. If two Pompeians attempt to kill the same target, you will succeed even if the target is protected.
(2) Cohors Praetoria (Protect) - You can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. This means that, operating together, two Legates can conduct a basic Senator investigation. Note that since you can kill or protect alone, Senator kill and protection groups that you take part in will succeed (unless otherwise prevented in some manner) even if all of the players do not submit proper orders. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Cursus Honorum (Promotion) – If at any point the Pompeian Dictator dies, your role will permanently change to that of Pompeian Dictator. If multiple Pompeian Legates are alive when this happens, the promotion will be determined randomly.

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“For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous.”
- Publilius Syrus

Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus (Ahenobarbus)
Pompeian Legate
(Optimates Faction)

A die-hard supporter of the Roman aristocracy, you have long been a shining example of the Optimates. Your conservatism won you the honor of marrying Porcia, the sister of the great Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger). Though you have always fought to uphold the rule of law and defeat corruption, you are a conservative first and a republican second. You believe that any compromise of the conservative position and the aristocracy will lead to the ruin of Rome. The Populares, and Caesar in particular, now pose too strong a threat to be ignored. You are determined to save Rome from itself. Rome needs a strong Optimates Dictator to eliminate the radicals who are polluting the city. Rome needs Pompey, and you plan to make sure it gets him.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Caesarians and Populares Faction Senators. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this condition is met while any other Pompeian member is still alive.

Your allies are:
Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great) - Pompeian Dictator - Cultured Drizzt fan
Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica (Metellus Scipio) - Pompeian Legate - Tratorix

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Speculatores (Kill) - You can attempt to kill one player per night. If you attempt to kill alone and the target is protected, you will fail. If two Pompeians attempt to kill the same target, you will succeed even if the target is protected.
(2) Cohors Praetoria (Protect) - You can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. This means that, operating together, two Legates can conduct a basic Senator investigation. Note that since you can kill or protect alone, Senator kill and protection groups that you take part in will succeed (unless otherwise prevented in some manner) even if all of the players do not submit proper orders. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Cursus Honorum (Promotion) – If at any point the Pompeian Dictator dies, your role will permanently change to that of Pompeian Dictator. If multiple Pompeian Legates are alive when this happens, the promotion will be determined randomly.

Special Roles

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“He speaks in the Senate as if he were living in Plato's Republic instead of Romulus' cesspool.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis

Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger)
Republican Orator
(Optimates Faction)

You are the rock on which Rome stands. You are the moral center by which all others are judged. From the moment you were born, you knew that the Republic was a sacred state that could never be abandoned. At the young age of 14, during the height of Sulla’s reign of terror, you asked your tutor why no one had killed the dictator. He replied, "They fear him, my child, more than they hate him." In response, you stated, "Give me a sword, that I might free my country from slavery."

Others made grand gestures like this, but for you it was the truth. You are a rich man, but you scorn displays of wealth. You wear your uncompromising morality on your sleeve, and it is all the adornment you need. Though you are a conservative and the strongest supporter of the Optimates, for you there is nothing more important than the Republic. All who would destroy the Old Ways must be themselves destroyed, even the Pompeians who seek a noble end by ignoble means.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.
Unlike the other Optimates Senators, you cannot win by eliminating the Populares. Your only option is to save the Republic.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Veritas (Investigate) - You can investigate another player. The investigation will show the player's faction, full name, role, and whether they were active that night (though not what they were doing).
(2) Pietas (Convert) - You can attempt to change the victory conditions of any living player. This ability will fail if attempted on any role other than Optimates Senator or Consul. If successful, this will permanently remove the option to eliminate the Populares faction from that player’s victory conditions, thus forcing them to eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians in order to win. This ability can only be used three times.

Day Actions:
(1) Rhetoric (Vote Change) - During a day phase, you can submit an order which will change a single player's lynch vote to another player in the final tally and lynch write-up. You MUST submit this order before the time limit for voting expires. In your order PM, you must give the name of the player whose vote you want to change and the name of the player you want them to vote for. It does not matter who that player was intending to vote for or whether they were even active at all. You may also choose to have your target player vote abstain or no lynch instead of voting for someone else. However, you cannot make a player vote for himself.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Dignitas (Immune) - If you locate Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero), both you and he will become immune to Proscription (lynching) during the Day Phase. In order to prove that you have located Cicero, you must send me (TinCow) a PM telling me who Cicero is and Cicero must send me a PM telling me who you are. Locating Cicero may prove difficult, but perhaps he might recognize you if you spoke a few words of Latin…

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“The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero)
Republican Orator
(Populares Faction)*

You are the most powerful novus homo that Rome has ever seen. You are low-born, and not even a true Roman by ancestry, but you have shattered the notions of what a man can accomplish by will alone. Through skill at oratory and politics, you have bested countless opponents who sought to undo you. During your Consulship in 63 BC, you exposed the conspiracy of Lucius Sergius Catiline and saved the Republic from immense bloodshed. You are respected and admired as few in Rome have ever been. The consummate politician and philosopher, you have achieved more than nearly any man who has ever lived, and you have done it with nothing more than your mind.

The Republic is what allowed you to live and prosper. That institution is unique in the world, allowing (some) men to rise based on merit alone. Without the Republic, you would not be and in gratitude you defend it until your last breath.

*Historical Note: In real life Cicero, though a political moderate, was always allied with the Optimates. In this game, he is Populares for balance purposes only.

Victory Conditions:
Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.
Unlike the other Populares Senators, you cannot win by eliminating the Optimates. Your only option is to save the Republic.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Veritas (Investigate) - You can investigate another player. The investigation will show the player's faction, full name, role, and whether they were active that night (though not what they were doing).
(2) Pietas (Convert) - You can attempt to change the victory conditions of any living player. This ability will fail if attempted on any role other than Populares Senator or Praetor. If successful, this will permanently remove the option to eliminate the Optimates faction from that player’s victory conditions, thus forcing them to eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians in order to win. This ability can only be used three times.

Day Actions:
(1) Rhetoric (Vote Change) - During a day phase, you can submit an order which will change a single player's lynch vote to another player in the final tally and lynch write-up. You MUST submit this order before the time limit for voting expires. In your order PM, you must give the name of the player whose vote you want to change and the name of the player you want them to vote for. It does not matter who that player was intending to vote for or whether they were even active at all. You may also choose to have your target player vote abstain or no lynch instead of voting for someone else. However, you cannot make a player vote for himself.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Dignitas (Immune) - If you locate Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger), both you and he will become immune to Proscription (lynching) during the Day Phase. In order to prove that you have located Cato, you must send me (TinCow) a PM telling me who Cato is and Cato must send me a PM telling me who you are. Locating Cato may prove difficult, but perhaps he might recognize you if you spoke a few words of Latin…

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“I will not be triumphed over.”
- Cleopatra VII Philopator

Cleopatra VII Philopator (Cleopatra)
Queen of Egypt

You are the daughter of King Ptolemy XII, the former ruler of Egypt. He died two years ago, and his will stated that you and your younger brother, Ptolemy XIII, would be joint rulers of the Kingdom. However, you have no intentions of sharing your power with him, and likewise he seeks to be rid of you at the earliest opportunity. You are planning a rebellion against him, but your brother's power is great and he will be difficult to overthrow. Unless you obtain the support of Rome, you will surely be defeated in your bid to become the sole ruler of Egypt. It does not matter to you who rules Rome, be it Pompey, Caesar, or even the Senate. You are confident that you can convince any of them to help you, if you can only manage to navigate the treacherous waters of the Civil War.

As Queen of Egypt, you have great wealth at your disposal. It has not been difficult for you to find lesser Roman Senators who are willing to serve your interests in the daily proceedings in the Senate itself. In return for your financial backing of their political campaigns, they will act as your mouthpiece in the Senate and give you a vote in the impending Proscriptions.

Victory Conditions:
Survive until the end of the game. It does not matter to you who else is victorious, as long as you are alive. As you are not Caesarian, Pompeian, Populares, or Optimates, you do not count against anyone else's victory conditions.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Seduction (Block) - You can seduce one player per night. That player will be blocked and fail at any night action they attempted. You will be informed if the player was attempting a night action and the target of that night action, but you will not know the type of action that was attempted. If you are attacked at night, you will gain the benefits of any protection that the target of your seduction has on that night. Obviously, if your target has no protection, you will gain no benefit from this. If your target is attacked but you are not, you will remain unharmed.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use a night action.

Special Ability:
(1) Ambitus (Investigation Spoofing) – The Senators that you have bribed are residing at your residence at night and will make themselves visible to any prying eyes. If you are investigated, you will show up as the same Faction (Populares/Optimates) as the player who investigated you. If the player investigating you has to power to uncover specific identities, you will appear to be one of the minor Roman Senators that you have bribed to represent your interests in the Senate. If the investigator is Optimates, you will appear to be Aulus Caecina Severus (Caecina), and if the investigator is Populares, you will appear to be Gaius Caninius Rebilus (Rebilus).

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“Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favors you have received.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Quintus Scribonius Curio (Curio)
Preator
(Populares Faction)

Your father was the famous Gaius Scribonius Curio, the orator and Consul. Despite your family’s long friendship with Cicero and your father’s opposition to Caesar, you have decided your loyalties on a more practical basis: money. Caesar paid off your debts, and for that you served his interests first as Tribune and now as Praetor. It is up to you whether you remain Caesar’s ally or use your rank and position to protect the Republic. The position of Praetor grants you the services of a group of Lictors. These men wield fasces and act as bodyguards that respond to your orders alone. In this time of crisis, they will be useful in keeping you and your allies alive.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Lictors (Protect) - As you are Praetor in 49 BC, you have a group of lictors to guard you. You can send your lictors to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night. Alternatively, you can have your lictors remain at your side to protect you instead. Either way, you must submit a Night Action PM with your orders. Your lictors will not protect anyone, including yourself, if you fail to submit a Night Action PM.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use your lictors to protect anyone, including yourself.

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“It might be pardonable to refuse to defend some men, but to defend them negligently is nothing short of criminal.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Aulus Allienus (Allienus)
Preator
(Populares Faction)

You are a novus homo, and men in that position often stick together to avoid the prejudices of the ancient Roman tribes. In your case, you could not have chosen a better fellow novus homo to befriend. From an early age, you became close with the great Marcus Tullius Cicero, and the friendship benefited you greatly. After Cicero achieved the Consulship in 63 BC, the ascendancy of his family was greatly increased. In 60 BC, you furthered your career by serving as legate to Cicero’s brother, Quintus Tullius Cicero, who was serving as Propraetor of Asia. Since then, you have followed the usual cursus honorum, and have been fortunate to reach the rank of Praetor this year.

As a novus homo, you are acutely aware of the prejudices of the old ways and have always been solid Populares. As the Civil War breaks upon the Republic, you find yourself heavily favoring Caesar and his followers. If you decide to let the Republic die, it is to them that you must look for your future prosperity.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Lictors (Protect) - As you are Praetor in 49 BC, you have a group of lictors to guard you. You can send your lictors to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night. Alternatively, you can have your lictors remain at your side to protect you instead. Either way, you must submit a Night Action PM with your orders. Your lictors will not protect anyone, including yourself, if you fail to submit a Night Action PM.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use your lictors to protect anyone, including yourself.

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“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca”

Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus (Lentulus)
Consul
(Optimates Faction)

Like all true Romans, you have long sought power for your own personal gain. Unlike most Romans, however, you have actually achieved it. As Civil War is thrust upon the Republic, you find yourself in the supreme position of Consul. You have long been a vicious opponent of Caesar and the Populares, but your loyalty to the Optimates extends only so far as it will benefit you. While you could certainly support them, you would surely be hailed as one of the foremost saviors of the Republic if you decided to eliminate both threats. It is up to you to decide where your best interests lie. Fortunately, the position of Consul grants you the services of a group of Lictors. These men wield fasces and act as bodyguards that respond to your orders alone. In this time of crisis, they will be useful in keeping you and your allies alive.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Lictors (Protect) - As you are Consul in 49 BC, you have a group of lictors to guard you. You can send your lictors to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night. Alternatively, you can have your lictors remain at your side to protect you instead. Either way, you must submit a Night Action PM with your orders. Your lictors will not protect anyone, including yourself, if you fail to submit a Night Action PM.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use your lictors to protect anyone, including yourself.

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“The higher your station, the less your liberty.”
- Gaius Sallustius Crispus

Gaius Claudius Marcellus Major (Marcellus Major)
Consul
(Optimates Faction)

The Consulship and the cognomen Marcellus go hand in hand these days. Your brother, Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Marcellus) was Consul in 51 BC and your cousin, Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (Marcellus Minor), was Consul in 50 BC. With your election to the pre-eminent position in the cursus honorum in 49 BC, you have continued the legacy of your proud family. You have also continued the fine example set by your brother and cousin, upholding the righteous cause of the Optimates, and obstructing the traitorous Caesar whenever possible. With the Consulship in your hands at this, the moment of his rebellion, you are well placed to gain glory and fame by defeating him.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) Lictors (Protect) - As you are Consul in 49 BC, you have a group of lictors to guard you. You can send your lictors to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night. Alternatively, you can have your lictors remain at your side to protect you instead. Either way, you must submit a Night Action PM with your orders. Your lictors will not protect anyone, including yourself, if you fail to submit a Night Action PM.

Participation in Senator Groups:
(1) You count towards the success of Senator kill, protection, and investigation groups. If you join a group, you will not be able to use your lictors to protect anyone, including yourself.

Populares Senators

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“Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternatives."”
- Cato the Elder

Marcus Caelius Rufus (Rufus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

A wealthy man, you have courted high and powerful friends. You bedded the sister of Publius Clodius Pulcher. It was fun for a while, but soon the affair soured. That vindictive wench then had the temerity to bring suit against you on trumped up charges! Fortunately, your connections brought the powerful Marcus Licinius Crassus and the influential Marcus Tullius Cicero to your aid. With their help, you were acquitted, and have continued to live out your life of luxury and privilege.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

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“Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.”
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Quintus Valerius Orca (Orca)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

A prosperous Roman Senator, you have achieved great success in life. You were Praetor in 57 BC and governor of Africa in 56 BC. Despite your close friendship with Marcus Tullius Cicero, you have always been a die-hard Populares. Your father was a supporter of Gaius Marius and was murdered during Lucius Cornelius Sulla’s proscriptions. Caesar is clearly the political successor of his uncle Marius, and as such if you are going to abandon the Republic and take sides, it is to him that your loyalties will fall.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Manumission: You have several slaves in your household. For years now, you have been training one of them as a gladiator to fight for your profit. This man has become a deadly weapon, and in this time of crisis, he is a weapon that may be worth using. In return for his freedom, he will attempt to assassinate anyone you wish. You can attempt to kill another player by yourself one time.

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“The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (Lepidus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Your father was a controversial man, in the best traditions of Rome. He supported Lucius Cornelius Sulla while he was Dictator, but quickly turned on him once he retired from public life and dedicated himself to the Populares cause. His consulship was… eventful… to put it kindly, but the children of powerful exiles are still the children of powerful men.

Both you and your brother, Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus, have followed in your father’s footsteps as supporters of the Populares. In your case, you served Gaius Julius Caesar during the Gallic Wars, and have recently secured the coveted title of Praetor. Despite this rank and the traditional benefits that go with it, your true strength lies in cooperation with your brother. In times of crisis like these, you are one of the few men in Rome who knows that he has an ally he can rely upon. Your odds of emerging from this political storm are surely far greater if you work together.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Amicitia: Over the years, you have developed a very close friendship with another Senator. You share a strong bond and are truly amici in the finest traditions of Roman society. You know that this Senator holds the same political beliefs as you and you are confident that if you work together, you will both have a better chance of surviving this crisis, regardless of the course that you chart through it. You know the identity of another Populares Faction Senator, and he knows yours. That Senator is your brother, Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (Paullus) – Iskander 3.1.

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“Think to yourself that every day is your last; the hour to which you do not look forward will come as a welcome surprise.”
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Lucius Munatius Plancus (Plancus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

You served in Caesar’s legions well and ably during the Gallic Wars. A veteran of glorious combat with powerful friends in the Senate, it was only a matter of time before you became a Senator yourself. With you long-standing friendship with both Gaius Julius Caesar and Marcus Antonius, your allegiance to the Populares has never been in question. However, you are a flexible man and know that loyalties can change over time, given the right circumstances. You are free to support the Caesarians or the Republic as you see fit.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

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“Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.”
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Publius Vatinius (Vatinius)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

You have had a long and… interesting political career. Quaestor in 63 BC, Tribune in 59 BC, and Praetor in 55 BC. The last was secured due to the support of no lesser men than Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and Marcus Licinius Crassus, and you defeated Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis to boot! Early on, you sold your loyalty to Gaius Julius Caesar and have strongly supported him and the Populares ever since. However, your cursus honorum is not yet complete; you still desire the Consulship. Perhaps the Caesarians can give this to you, but perhaps the Republic can as well. Your options remain open.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Gravitas: Through your personal actions and service to his cause, you have earned the trust and respect of Gaius Julius Caesar. You know people, who know people, who know people. Even though he is in hiding, if you wish to communicate with Caesar, your connections make it possible. You may send an anonymous message to Gaius Julius Caesar twice during the game. To do this, send a PM to TinCow. The message will be forwarded to Caesar exactly as you have written it, but with your identity removed from the QUOTE section. If Caesar wishes to respond, he can do so with a single message in the exact same fashion.

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“The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, "De Amicitia"

Lucius Aemilius Lepidus Paullus (Paullus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Your father was a controversial man, in the best traditions of Rome. He supported Lucius Cornelius Sulla while he was Dictator, but quickly turned on him once he retired from public life and dedicated himself to the Populares cause. His consulship was… eventful… to put it kindly, but the children of powerful exiles are still the children of powerful men.

Both you and your brother, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, have followed in your father’s footsteps as supporters of the Populares. In your case, you have followed the cursus honorum, as Quaestor in 59 BC, Aedile in 55 BC, Praetor in 53 BC, and finally as Consul in 50 BC. You owe Gaius Julius Caesar a great deal, but your experience and titles allow you the freedom to lend your strong support to the Republic, if you so choose. In addition, despite your high prestige, your true strength lies in cooperation with your brother. In times of crisis like these, you are one of the few men in Rome who knows that he has an ally he can rely upon. Your odds of emerging from this political storm are surely far greater if you work together.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Amicitia: Over the years, you have developed a very close friendship with another Senator. You share a strong bond and are truly amici in the finest traditions of Roman society. You know that this Senator holds the same political beliefs as you and you are confident that if you work together, you will both have a better chance of surviving this crisis, regardless of the course that you chart through it. You know the identity of another Populares Faction Senator, and he knows yours. That Senator is your brother, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus (Lepidus) – johnhughthom.

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“We can learn even from our enemies.”
- Publius Ovidius Naso

Decimus Junius Brutus Albinus (Decimus Brutus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Though less famous than your cousin, Marcus Junius Brutus, you have milked your ancient and revered gens Junius name for all it is worth. It has served you well. You were able to secure a commission as Legate under another one of your cousins, Gaius Julius Caesar, during the Gallic Wars. This opened many doors to you, and your skill in warfare brought great benefits from Caesar and the Populares who follow him. In this time of crisis, it would be wise to use these benefits to aide whichever cause you decide to follow.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Clientela: As a prominent Senator, you have spent a lifetime cultivating an expansive web of connections. All over Rome, men both high and low owe you great obligations. In this time of crisis, you have decided to call in one of your most valuable favors. One of your clients is well-placed inside the household of another Senator, and he will provide you with information. You may investigate alone once. The investigation will show the target's faction and whether the target was active, though not what they were doing.

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“Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.”
- Publilius Syrus

Gaius Asinius Pollio (Pollio)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

You are an intelligent young Senator with a promising future. Few men in Rome are as intelligent, witty, and talented as you, but many are more experienced. Your inherent abilities have brought your great success and prosperity that is unusual in a man of your youth, but you know that you can accomplish far, far more. However, you must first survive this political cataclysm before you can demonstrate your true value to the Roman people. Perhaps it would be a good time to call in some of those favors you have accumulated with your recent successes…


Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Clientela: As a prominent Senator, you have spent a lifetime cultivating an expansive web of connections. All over Rome, men both high and low owe you great obligations. In this time of crisis, you have decided to call in one of your most valuable favors. One of your clients is well-placed inside the household of another Senator, and he will provide you with information. You may investigate alone once. The investigation will show the target's faction and whether the target was active, though not what they were doing.

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“Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.”
- Quintus Horatius Flaccus

Publius Cornelius Dolabella (Dolabella)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Your relatively young life has been… eventful, to say the least. Only a year ago, you managed to secure a marriage with no lesser woman than Tullia, daughter of the famous Marcus Tullius Cicero. The match was not a perfect one and you are already quarrelling bitterly with her and her cantankerous father. Even so, a union with the daughter of Cicero has its benefits, and one of them is wealth. You have wavered in your support of the two potential Dictators for some time now, but recent quarrels with your father-in-law have essentially alienated you from the Optimates cause. At least the old Consul’s wealth can be put to use in your aid, even if he and his daughter are nothing more than annoyances!


Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

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“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
- Publilius Syrus

Titus Labienus (Labienus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Some men cower before Gaius Julius Caesar, but you are not amongst them. Caesar may have taken credit for the victories in the Gallic Wars, but you know in your heart that a great deal of the success was due to your efforts alone. Your victories and accomplishments are many, and those who know you celebrate your military skill as equal to that of Caesar and Pompey.

Now that your commander, Caesar, has done the unthinkable, you find yourself at a crossroads. Your long service to the favorite of the Populares will allow you to follow Caesar to further victories without question. Yet, your skill in arms and reputation for upholding the best in Roman values has endeared you to the Optimates. Should you wish it, you could cross over to them at any time. Then again, you could also aid the dying Republic. There are few in Rome who possess your unique political flexibility, and it will allow you the freedom to chart your own course, going wherever the winds of fortune take you.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Damnatio Memoriae: Despite your long-standing ties to the Populares, there has always been a part of you that has sympathized with the ideals of the Optimates. Unlike most Senators, you are capable of crossing over to the other side and convincing them that the shift was sincere. Of course, such an action would only be believable once. You can switch your allegiance to the Optimates at any time, but you cannot switch back. This will permanently change your role and victory conditions to those of an Optimates Senator.

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“He who spares the wicked injures the good.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Quintus Cassius Longinus (Longinus)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Brothers often disagree on issues, but few on one as important as that which divides you and Gaius Cassius Longinus (Cassius). You have had parallel careers in many regards. You started the cursus honorum in 54 BC as Quaestor, while your brother began as 53 BC as Quaestor. You spent a great deal of time in the western province of Hispania Ulterior, while your brother spent his time in the eastern province of Syria. As the year 49 BC begins, you are both once again in Rome, and have both been elected as Tribunes of the Plebs. Yet despite your parallel lives, there is one key difference. Cassius has thrown in his lot with Pompey and the Optimates, while you have chosen to back Caesar and the Populares. You expect great personal rewards from Caesar for your loyalty to his cause. The only question remains whether you shall survive long enough to profit from it.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Manumission: You have several slaves in your household. For years now, you have been training one of them as a gladiator to fight for your profit. This man has become a deadly weapon, and in this time of crisis, he is a weapon that may be worth using. In return for his freedom, he will attempt to assassinate anyone you wish. You can attempt to kill another player by yourself one time.


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“Every man is the architect of his own fortune.”
- Gaius Sallustius Crispus

Servius Sulpicius Lemonia Rufus (Sulpicius)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Few can boast of being friends with the preeminent Marcus Tullius Cicero (Cicero), but you count yourself in that elite group. The two of you studied rhetoric together when you were students. You quickly found yourself outmatched by the great orator, but found your own calling in the law. Cicero is a legendary lawyer himself, but he publicly proclaims you as his superior in that aspect of the verbal arts. Your success in law and your keen mind has served you will in Rome, eventually elevating you to the supreme position of Consul in 51 BC. As the Civil War breaks over Rome, you waver between support of Caesar and support of the Republic. Whichever side you finally decide to back will be greatly served by your legal talents.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

Optimates Senators

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“I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (Spinther)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

There are few family names in Rome as important as those of gens Cornelius, and you have proven that their influence has not faded over the ages. You began your cursus honorum as Aedile in 63 BC, followed by the Praetorship in 60 BC, and finally the glorious Consulship in 57 BC. Despite owing some great political debts to Gaius Julius Caesar, you have remained true to your patrician heritage and are a die-hard member of the Optimates.

The benefits of high office have not passed you by. As governor of Hispania Citerior in 59 BC, and Cilicia from 56 to 53 BC, you acted wisely and fairly, unlike most of your counterparts who sought only to enrich themselves. Instead of material wealth, you earned the esteem of many prosperous and influential Cilicians. While not Roman citizens, they can provide great services to you, their patron, if you ever have need of them.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Clientela: As a prominent Senator, you have spent a lifetime cultivating an expansive web of connections. All over Rome, men both high and low owe you great obligations. In this time of crisis, you have decided to call in one of your most valuable favors. One of your clients is well-placed inside the household of another Senator, and he will provide you with information. You may investigate alone once. The investigation will show the target's faction and whether the target was active, though not what they were doing.

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“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus

Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus (Bibulus)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

As the son-in-law of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticencis, there has never been any doubt as to which political party you have supported. You are a staunch Optimates, and your efforts on their behalf have been richly rewarded. Unfortunately, the main reward that you were given was to be Consul in 59 BC with none other than Gaius Julius Caesar himself! That impudent lout turned the Mob against you, and they attacked your bodyguards and dumped human excrement on you! To save your own skin, you wisely retreated to your home and fortified it against intruders. You did you best to thwart Caesar by constantly proclaiming bad omens, but your term has often been ridiculed as the Consulship of Julius and Caesar.

You have never forgiven Caesar and the Populares for these grave insults, and rightly so! Perhaps now would be a good time to get revenge for all of the humiliations they have heaped upon you… sometimes literally!

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

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“Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca”

Gaius Cassius Longinus (Cassius)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

Few in Rome have the strength to do what is necessary in the face of adversity. You are one of those few. After serving as Quaestor in 53 BC, you joined Marcus Licinius Crassus’ expedition against the Parthians. You could tell right from the start that the old Consul was marching to his own doom, and tried repeatedly to change his strategy. Yet, he would not listen and met his fate at Carrhae. Not one to shirk responsibility, you gathered those survivors that you could and held the line against the Parthians in Syria for the next two years. It was a remarkable accomplishment, and you are rightly praised for your steadfastness and virtue.

Now, Rome has need of such attributes again. Gaius Julius Caesar and the Populares are attempting to overthrow the Republic and destroy all that your ancestors have built over the past 700 years. Whether you support Pompey or take a purer Republican line, you know that the Caesarians cannot be spared. Fortunately, you know that your brother-in-law, Marcus Junius Brutus, feels the same way. He too has a reputation for honesty and virtue, and together, you would be a force to be reckoned with. There is no doubt in your mind that when all this is over, history will remember the names Brutus and Cassius!

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Amicitia: Over the years, you have developed a very close friendship with another Senator. You share a strong bond and are truly amici in the finest traditions of Roman society. You know that this Senator holds the same political beliefs as you and you are confident that if you work together, you will both have a better chance of surviving this crisis, regardless of the course that you chart through it. You know the identity of another Optimates Faction Senator, and he knows yours. That Senator is your brother-in-law, Marcus Junius Brutus (Brutus) – woad&fangs.

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“He who is brave is free.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Marcus Claudius Marcellus (Marcellus)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

Up the Optimates! You are a classic example of what it means to be a Roman. You hail from the noble gens Claudius and have vigorously followed in the footsteps of your patrician ancestors. First, as Aedile in 56 BC, and then as Consul in 52 BC, you have done all in your power to uphold conservative tradition. The Populares hate you with a passion, but what else can one of such mutinous scum? This Civil War comes as no surprise to you. While other Senators are trying to determine how to extricate themselves from this mess, you are capable of independent action. At any moment, you can unleash a vicious blow on the Caesarians and Populares. The only question is how you select a target to make the best use of your unique asset.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Manumission: You have several slaves in your household. For years now, you have been training one of them as a gladiator to fight for your profit. This man has become a deadly weapon, and in this time of crisis, he is a weapon that may be worth using. In return for his freedom, he will attempt to assassinate anyone you wish. You can attempt to kill another player by yourself one time.

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“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Afranius (Afranius)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

You have long been a friend of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. Both of you grew up in Picenum, at you have been his comrade in arms on many campaigns. You remained loyal to him even when others would have felt slighted by his actions. In return, he rewarded you by buying your election to the Consulship in 60 BC. Since then, there has never been any question of which faction you would support in the event of a crisis.

Now that the crisis if finally here, you have the advantage of the great wealth bestowed upon all Proconsuls through the governorship of a province. Money may not be able to buy happiness, but it can certainly give you a longer time in which to find it!

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

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“To like and dislike the same things, that is indeed true friendship.”
- Gaius Sallustius Crispus, The War with Catiline

Marcus Junius Brutus (Brutus)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

As a member of the gens Junius, you are a direct descendent of the founder of the Republic, Lucius Junius Brutus. As one of the scions of the Old Republic, you are extremely well connected. Your father served as legate to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis is your uncle, and your mother has long been a mistress to Gaius Julius Caesar. These connections have already served you well in the early stages of the cursus honorum, which you began as Quaestor in 53 BC.

Despite your relative youth, you hold great sway amongst those who seek to uphold the Old Ways. Gaius Julius Caesar and the Populares are attempting to overthrow the Republic and destroy all that your ancestors have built over the past 700 years. Whether you support Pompey or take a purer Republican line, you know that the Caesarians cannot be spared. Fortunately, you know that your brother-in-law, Gaius Cassius Longinus, feels the same way. He too has a reputation for honesty and virtue, and together, you would be a force to be reckoned with. There is no doubt in your mind that when all this is over, history will remember the names Brutus and Cassius!

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Amicitia: Over the years, you have developed a very close friendship with another Senator. You share a strong bond and are truly amici in the finest traditions of Roman society. You know that this Senator holds the same political beliefs as you and you are confident that if you work together, you will both have a better chance of surviving this crisis, regardless of the course that you chart through it. You know the identity of another Optimates Faction Senator, and he knows yours. That Senator is your brother-in-law, Gaius Cassius Longinus (Cassius) – mini.

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“While there's life, there's hope.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolarum ad Atticum

Publius Attius Varus (Varus)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

It’s good to be a Roman. It’s better to be an Optimates. It’s best to be an Optimates of rank. With the backing of your conservative allies, you were elected Praetor in 53 BC. When your term was over, you exercised your rights as Propraetor and were awarded the governorship of Africa. The former Carthaginian homeland is a wealthy and fertile place, and the position you obtained is highly coveted. During your time in Africa, you have followed in the glorious tradition of the Republic, and grown vastly wealthy off of official bribes and taxes on local trade. Now that Civil War has broken you’re your material wealth will have significant material benefits.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

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“I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.”
- Publilius Syrus

Publius Cornelius Scipio Salvito (Salvito)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

Gaius Julius Caesar is an impudent lout! The man is a scoundrel and a disgrace to the descendents of Romulus! That scoundrel abused his position as Pontifex Maximus and threw you out of your own position of Pontifex! The temerity! Fortunately, Rome has Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus to defend it from Caesar and the base-born Populares. That man was even so good as to let you marry his great granddaughter, Scribonia. Surely that woman could not hope to find a better match in all of Rome than you! In any case, have a political marriage with the most powerful man in Rome is nothing to sneeze at. Perhaps you could put this connection to use to get revenge on that bastard Caesar…

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Gravitas: Through your marriage to his great granddaughter, you have earned the trust and respect of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus. You know people, who know people, who know people. Even though he is in hiding, if you wish to communicate with Pompey, your connections make it possible. You may send an anonymous message to Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus twice during the game. To do this, send a PM to TinCow. The message will be forwarded to Pompey exactly as you have written it, but with your identity removed from the QUOTE section. If Pompey wishes to respond, he can do so with a single message in the exact same fashion.

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“Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Terentius Varro (Varro)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

Ah, Civil War is a game for young men and fools. You are neither. You are nearing 70 years old and have already achieved so much in life. Sure, sure, there was the usual cursus honorum progress… Tribune of the Plebs, Quaestor, Aedile, and Praetor, but that was long ago. You never did get around to the Consulship, but that was because you were doing something more important: writing! Knowledge and wisdom is all that is truly meaningful in this world, and of those you have an endless supply. This Civil War is interrupting your studies, and it’s not like you’ve got any time to waste at your age! Perhaps if you can figure out a way to end this thing, you can get back to doing something useful.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Clientela: As a prominent Senator, you have spent a lifetime cultivating an expansive web of connections. All over Rome, men both high and low owe you great obligations. In this time of crisis, you have decided to call in one of your most valuable favors. One of your clients is well-placed inside the household of another Senator, and he will provide you with information. You may investigate alone once. The investigation will show the target's faction and whether the target was active, though not what they were doing.

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“Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.”
- Publilius Syrus

Tiberius Claudius Nero (Tiberius Nero)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

The gens Claudius are nearly as old as the Republic itself, and you are a prime example of their aristocratic heritage. Your father was an ally of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus and took a strong stand against Lucius Sergius Catilina’s failed Populares uprising. Everything you have been taught, and everything that you are, is a conservative and an Optimates in the finest traditions of Old Rome. Yet, you have always admired Gaius Julius Caesar. The man is charismatic and friendly to those who would be his friends, including you. More than once has he extended a kind word when it was unnecessary, or voiced support for you in the Senate when it was of no benefit to him. You know that there would be worse things in the world than Caesar as Dictator.

Should you wish it, you could cross over to the Populares at any time; Caesar’s blessing would surely be enough to convince all of his followers to accept you. Then again, you could also aid the dying Republic. There are few in Rome who possess your unique political flexibility, and it will allow you the freedom to chart your own course, going wherever the winds of fortune take you.

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Damnatio Memoriae: Despite your long-standing ties to the Optimates, there has always been a part of you that has sympathized with the ideals of the Populares. Unlike most Senators, you are capable of crossing over to the other side and convincing them that the shift was sincere. Of course, such an action would only be believable once. You can switch your allegiance to the Populares at any time, but you cannot switch back. This will permanently change your role and victory conditions to those of a Populares Senator.

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”There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right.”
- Publius Terentius Afer

Faustus Cornelius Sulla (Faustus)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

The gens Cornelius is an ancient and respected family, but none of the Cornelii, indeed no single Roman, has ever had more power than that which was wielded by your father, Lucius Cornelius Sulla. You are the son of the great Dictator, and in turn much has been promised to you, and even more is expected.

You have upheld your father’s political alliances, and have been a keen supporter of Pompey for many years. Pompey was himself one of your father’s strongest allies, and so it was natural for you to back him in turn. Pompey has been generous indeed. You were given his daughter, Pompeia Magna, as your wife. You then accompanied Pompey on his campaigns in the East, and when he decided to make Judea a Roman protectorate, you were the first man over the walls of that’s city’s ancient Temple in 63 BC. In 54 BC you began your cursus honorum as Quaestor, and at the young age of 32, you find yourself anticipating a long and glorious career. At least, you would be if that traitor Caesar was not threatening the destruction of both the Optimates and the Republic!

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Manumission: You have several slaves in your household. For years now, you have been training one of them as a gladiator to fight for your profit. This man has become a deadly weapon, and in this time of crisis, he is a weapon that may be worth using. In return for his freedom, he will attempt to assassinate anyone you wish. You can attempt to kill another player by yourself one time.

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“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Appius Claudius Pulcher (Pulcher)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

You are a traditionalist in the purest sense of the word. Many men, including those who call themselves Optimates, adopt conservatism as a political tactic more than a personal belief. You are not one of these men. The College of Augurs became your focus. The augury has long been used by corrupt politicians for political means; auspices were intentionally distorted and falsified to serve the ends of the man reading them. You boldly proclaimed that augury should be respected in its true form: adherence to the divinations without political ends.

That your extensive efforts to achieve this augury reform amounted to nothing is better forgotten. Best to ignore as well that incident in which your choice of words resulted in a minor war with Armenia. Probably best to ignore Cicero’s accusations about your corrupt practices in Cilicia as well. After all, everything you did was at least done in the traditional manner; it’s not your fault if those barbarians do not understand proper Roman customs of speech and gubernatorial compensation!

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1) Villa Stronghold: You are a wealthy man and own a fine villa which you have designed for security as well as comfort. Your guards are loyal and will fight to the death to protect you. So long as you remain inside your fortress home, you will be difficult to kill. You can survive one successful attack if you are inactive on the night of the attack.

Extra (Unused) Roles

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POPULARES SENATOR FULL NAME (NICKNAME)
Senator
(Populares Faction)

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Optimates Faction Members, including Pompeians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1)

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Extra Populares Senator Names:

Gaius Trebonius (Trebonius)
Quintus Fufius Calenus (Calenus)
Quintus Fabius Maximus (Fabius Maximus)
Publius Cornelius Sulla (Cornelius Sulla)
Marcus Valerius Messalla Rufus (Messala)
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus (Marcellinus)
Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus (Vatia)
Gaius Vibius Pansa Caetronianus (Pansa)
Aulus Hirtius (Hirtius)
Quintus Pedius (Pedius)
Aulus Allienus (Allienus)
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OPTIMATES SENATOR FULL NAME (NICKNAME)
Senator
(Optimates Faction)

Victory Conditions:
(1) Eliminate all Caesarians and Pompeians. You will be victorious even if you are dead if this goal is met.

OR

(2) Survive and eliminate all Populares Faction Members, including Caesarians.

Role Description:
Night Actions:
(1) With 1 other Senator, you can investigate one player per night. Successful investigations will show the target's faction.
(2) With 2 other Senators, you can attempt to protect one player per night. Any player you protect will be very difficult to kill that night.
(3) With 3 other Senators, you can attempt to kill one player per night.

Special Ability:
(1)

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Extra Optimates Senator Names:

Publius Nigidius Figulus (Nigidus)
Gaius Claudius Marcellus Minor (Marcellus Minor)
Marcus Petreius (Petreius)

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Neutral Senator Names:
Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus (Piso)
Lucius Marcius Philippus (Philippus)
Aulus Gabinius (Gabinius)
Lucius Cornelius Balbus (Balbus)
Publius Servilius Vatia Isauricus (Vatia – the Elder?)

Does the last line suggest a sequel? Or perhaps a Sulla/Marius prequel?
Thanks for the dignified end my character received TC.

Ah, the sweet smell of victory. Well done, town.

Very nice game, TinCow. I must admit, though, that not once did I take advantage of night abilities. Guess it worked. *shrug*

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Originally Posted by johnhughthom

Does the last line suggest a sequel? Or perhaps a Sulla/Marius prequel?

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Perhaps eventually, though I suspect for a sequel I would have to 'reboot' history a bit. A lot of the main players in the second civil war died in this game and I would have to resurrect them to properly populate it. In any case, a second Rome-based game won't come until after I do my original idea which is a game based around the Thirty Years War.