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Roma

⚄ In in Cloacas Fecit

Those Stolen by Cronos

~ Drusus Julius Caesar -- Castor - the son of Emperor Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina and heir to Tiberius - 23yrs old

~ Goda -- Mortal wife of Cercyon and mother of his son.

~ Morpheus -- Hero of Dreams

⚄ Those in Pursuit

Praetorian Guards

~ Sejanus -- Captain of the Praetorian Guard {In charge of the investigation into the murder of Germanicus}

Contubernium of Sejanus

~ Avilius

~ Cornelius

~ Gnaeus

~ Lucianus

~ Longinus *

~ Maximianus

~ Nonus

~ Sextilius

Divine Heroes

~ Cercyon -- God of Fire

~ Alfhard -- Elderly smith & new Priest to Cercyon

~ Mors -- Goddess of Death

~ Anso -- Mortal follower brought back from the dead. {Her first priest}

~ Gerlind -- Ghost of a woman who sacrificed herself for her two lovers. She now follows Lady Mors.

The Hidden Temple

Room #1

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Room #7

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Room #9

Room #10

Room #11

⚄ Story Recap (02-15-2020 to 07-03-21)

The current story or rather our short chronicle concerning the manipulations of Cronus
in the affairs of his most recent progeny (the PCs) is called Quincunx.

The term Quincunx means: an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

In Roman times the term is often a reference to a five-sided die and in our story refers to the
five-sided involvement of Cronus and the Nova Tetrad of Venus, Mars, Vulcan and Mercury.

Our chronicle began with the PCs becoming divine beings, or Heroes, and stumbling through
the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest or as the Romans at the time called it: "Varian Disaster."

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place in the Teutoburg Forest of Germany in 9 AD, when
an alliance of Germanic tribes led by the Cherusci chief Ariminus ambushed and decisively destroyed
three Roman legions under Publius Quinctilius Varus. The loss at Teutoburg Forest was Rome's greatest
defeat, and it was a turning point in history, as Roman occupation and colonization in Magna Germania
was brought to an end, and the Romans never again made attempts to conquer lands to the east of the
Rhine, apart from Germanicus' punitive expeditions from 14 to 16 AD.

And here lies the crux of our story, for Cronus a Theoi titan seeks to change Roman history for his own
gain. To achieve this end he has taken advantage of the "Varian Disaster" and its key players to
shift Roman history down a different track leading to a postnatal abortion of the empire.

The most important individuals to this plan are Tiberius (Augustus' adopted son and unwilling heir to the throne of Rome),
Germanicus (son of the great general Nero Claudius Drusus whose conquests in Germania led to the posthumous title of Germanicus
which his son inherited) a successful general in his own right and recent adoptee into the gens Julia or the ruling family of Rome,
and lastly Drusus Julius Caesar (often called simply Drusus and not be confused with his adopted brother's father)
son of Tiberius and final heir to the Empire.

During the second story of our deities campaign the Avatars recover from the great battle in Germania and then split up,
the war-goddess Siobhán makes her own way alone deeper into Germania and the remainder of the Avatars travel with the Theoi
god of roads Mercury to Rome. These events were the original iteration of that story and were supplanted by Morpheus when he
altered time with the artifact known as the Roman Loculus.

In the original timeline of that story Siobhán travels to a village called Wolfsheim and has her own adventures, while the core
of the Theoi-wannabees: Cercyon, Mors, and Morpheus settle in Rome and establish their respective cults and temples.

In the original timeline, the core group arrived at the beginning of October and were involved in the Kalends and Ides of October,
as well as the October-Horse festival that glorifies Mars and overlaps with one of the openings the Temple of the Dii Inferi a
lost temple dedicated to the subterranean gods of death.

The entry of the rescue-party into the Hidden Temple of Cronus

A second timeline was created by Morpheus when he uses the Victorian Loculus to escape Caer Ludein an alternate temporal
shard-realm containing a version of 19th century London. For a brief period, the core-group were transported to Caer Ludein when they
chased Cronus there in pursuit of the kidnapped Morpheus, Drusus and Cercyon's mortal wife Goda. Cercyon and Mors, along with the
praetorian captain Sejanus and a dozen of his men along with some of the followers of the young gods find Morpheus, Goda and Drusus
prisoners in Bedlam Hospital for the insane. By hook and crook Cercyon and Mors free the inmates and escape into the shard-city of
Caer Ludein ultimately becoming involved in the murders carried out by Jake the Reaper a son of the New Gods of Caer Ludein who
sought to purify the city of evil which he believed was brought there by Cronus. In a strange twist, Jake was able to steal the
Glass Knife from Cercyon during one of the murders and severely injured Lady Mors in the process. The core-group struggled
with finding and stopping Jake the Reaper while contending with Caer Ludein's twin pantheons of the Old and New gods. Ultimately,
fearing that everyone from Rome would be trapped in a divine civil war the core-group decided to make their escape from Caer Ludein
and did so using another loculi-box the Victorian Loculus.

⚄ Mundus est Scaena

Their Return

The group of young gods returns to Rome on the evening of the 10th of October in 762AUC (9AD).
Their arrival occurs backstage at the Theatre of Balbus. Their arrival through a false door in
stage background stuns the collective actors and stagehands enough to permit their easy escape.

Missing Cohorts

Cronus' plan is far from being frustrated for a number of missing Romans could spell doom
for the plans of our band of divine youths.