Your operative team is now a young Roman of the family called gens Recentia.

You find yourself standing in a vast room with almost-translucent purple lines criss-crossing in a grid pattern. Your eyes shift to three objects that are just beginning to materialize: an Italian olive tree, a Roman temple, and the famous statue of Augustus from the Prima Porta. All three objects have a strange glow about them.

Suddenly Lusy the Owl flutters in and startles you. She lands on a branch of the olive tree and looks at you intently, as if trying to determine whether you are ready to begin Operation LAPIS. She seems friendly, but you know that it's very hard to tell with owls.

"This," Lūsūra inquit, "is the texto-spatio-temporal transmitter... well, the visualization of it, anyway. Mission Control (we usually call them 'MC') is able to create anything that is possible within the ruleset of the Texto-Spatio-Temporal Transmitter that the Demiurge designed for this operation. We call that the TSTT, and it's part of the Demiurge's policy that we in MC don't understand it completely, and that even he can't control it completely. Something about free will, you know. Anyway, that means that while certain magical things are possible, like rings that help you persuade people to do what you want, for the most part the TSTT is completely historically accurate, to the best of the Demiurge's knowledge. And he knows a lot.

"Anyway, that means that certain parameters are set from this, the outset of the operation. No, you can't jump in a red ferrari and drive to Rome; if you tried to narrate yourself doing that, the TSTT would probably return a result like 'The youth falls into a swoon in which he imagines a strange device carrying him across the landscape. Then he wakes up.'"

Lusy pauses to let you take in the world around you. "Getting used to moving around in the world that the TSTT imagines can be difficult at first. Before we move out of the staging area and into your cohort for the operation, we have to make sure that you can move your Recentius with ease. For example, if I wanted to walk to the statue, I might say:

Lūsūra ambulat ad statuam.

"Of course that's silly — why would I want to walk anywhere when I have these wonderful wings?" She extends them to show you — they are indeed a beautiful shade of green.

"But," she continues, "if I wanted to fly to the temple, I would instead say:

Lūsūra volat ad templum.

"Both of these actions are acceptable inside of the TSTT and would allow me to continue the narrative of my approach to either object. Now, let's give you an opportunity to move your Recentius towards one of these objects. Here are a few verbs to choose from:

ambulat — contendit — currit — festinat — persultat — salit — saltat — volat

And remember, you'll want to move ad arborem, ad statuam, or ad templum.

"You should also get a little practice combining English with Latin. If I wanted to get fancy, I could write: 'Wishing to show her devotion to the gods, Lūsūra volat ad templum.' Feel free to add that sort of thing any time, including now."

Prompt: In collaboration with your teammates, move your Recentius towards one of the three objects. You may wish to take turns "moving" your Recentius as the Lead Operative in order to each be comfortable with the mechanics of posting as your character.