Mors Fit (Death Happens)
Players die under the following circumstances:
- the Senate issues a proscriptio
against a player and the proscribed player is in Rome, or a player enters
Rome at any point when proscribed
- a player is assassinated by the Senate and the order of assassination
(caedes) is carried out by Mars/Phobos/Deimos
- a numen discovers a rex
in Rome without Roman escort and decides to execute him
- the loser in a proelium loses
all of his legiones, leaving him "unprotected," and
the winning imperator/rex chooses to execute him
- any imperator/rex comes into contact with an "unprotected"
player outside of Rome and chooses to execute him
- a player chooses to commit suicide by appealing to Persephone/Pluto for release from life. Persephone/Pluto may decide to accept or refuse the player's plea. If s/he accepts the plea, s/he may dispose of any of the player's property at will, abrogating that player's right to choose a heres
Heredes (Heirs)
Upon death, players may will any transferrable property in their possession
to a heres. These transferrable properties include legiones
clientarum, Denarii and suffragia, but not legiones
curiales which become the property of Venus. If the player is married,
his/her spouse inherits all properties, except suffragia, belonging
to his/her deceased husband or wife. Deceased husbands may will their
suffragia to any senator/imperator they choose. Persephone/Pluto
oversees the execution of the dead player's will.
Becoming an Imago (Ghost)
Once a player dies, s/he becomes an imago (ghost) by invoking
Persephone/Pluto through lamentation to meet him/her in Cumae (Southern
Italy) or Taenarum (Greece) and be accepted into the company of the dead
as an imago. When Persephone/Pluto appears, s/he bestows two
things upon all imagines waiting at that entrance to the Underworld:
- the corona caliginis (the garland of invisibility)
- a legio ultrix (yellow or orange die)
The Nature and Function of Imagines
Imagines may move anywhere at any time at will, in spite of
sedes. One imago may attach itself to any one player
engaged in a proelium or collecting tributum and affect
play under the following conditions:
Aestas
After parties engaged in a proelium have each rolled a die against
each other in a concursatio, an imago may temporarily
halt the proceedings and roll its die (legio ultrix) and add
the number on it to the total of either player, thus affecting the outcome
of that concursatio. An imago may affect the outcome
of only one concursatio per proelium.
Hiems
An imago may attach itself to a player collecting tributum
and appropriate 100,000 D out of the total being dispensed, even if 100,000
D constitutes the entirety of the tributum. Multiple imagines
make each take a full 100,000 D from each tributum being dispensed.
If there is not enough tributum to go around to all the imagines
claiming it, the player will decide which imago/imagines receive
what portion of the tributum being dispensed; the player may
not keep any portion of the tributum. The imago must
be present at the same time that the tributum is being dispensed
and declare its attachment to the player in the presence of the numen
distributing the tributum. A player may delay the collection
of the tributum until the imago has drifted away or
is not paying attention, for as long as the hiems lasts. If
the hiems ends before the dispensing of the tributum,
the numen is not obliged to dispense any tributum. Imagines
may retain or dispense at will all Denarii accrued.
Ὦ ξεῖν',
ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις
ὅτι τῇδε
κείμεθα, τοῖς
κείνων ῥήμασι
πειθόμενοι.
(Stranger, go tell the Spartans
That here, obedient to their laws, we lie.)