Episode 2.3.b

>Marcus's Villa, Pompeii, Italy, 79 CE<

The atrium is large and still, moonlight pouring through the open roof and spreading in a wide pale rectangle across the floor. A small shrine stands to the right, the marriage bed to the left. No one is in sight.

 

From deeper in the villa, though, voices carry: laughter, then more voices, then a thin line of lamplight under a door. Marcus is awake, and he is in the trīclīnium. That is not a door you want to open.

 

Every other room in the villa is open to you.

 


Prompt: Find the scroll of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas somewhere in the villa. You are free to search any room you wish, but stay away from the trīclīnium, and stay alert for guards.

CODEX 2.3

 

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