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GAME: Denarius Avaricius Sextus
TEXT: Back in good old A.D. 79, there lived a patrician Roman
named Avaricius (Avvy to his friends.) He was about 26
years old and about six foot three. He had married a woman
named Arkata, which was a mistake he lived to regret- she
never stopped nagging him. His few slaves were so lazy he
hardly ever saw them, except for one named Crapulus, who
was always at least inebriated, if not downright drunk- apart
from reading Avvy's mail (amazing! he could read) and doing
the washing-up, he preferred to spend his time with an amphora
of wine down at the "Canis et Anas" (his local.) (*)
You'd think Avvy had problems enough. However, he also lived
in a pleasant seaside resort you may have heard of, called
Pompeii, and he was unaware that in a few hours' time he would
be buried alive. Well, maybe. Perhaps, with the guidance of his
guardian angel from the twentieth century
(that's where you come in) he might escape both Arkata and the
volcano. The date is... 24th August, A.D. 79.
AUTHOR: Thorsoft of Letchworth