Episode 14.3.a
>The Final Chamber of the Praetorium of the Societas Potentium, Aegyptus, 80 CE<
The door grinds shut behind you, and you are in the final chamber.
A pedestal stands at the center of the room with a small light flickering above it, and there is nothing on it. After everything, the Lapis is not here, and nothing in the room says where it has gone.
Then something small and gold catches your eye, lying in the dust some way off: a Roman aureus.
On the far side of the door the fighting grows louder. You go toward the pedestal together, slowly, none of you sure of anything. This could be one more trick of the place.
Up close, you can see that something large and heavy once rested on the pedestal. The dust and sand lie thin across the middle and deeper at the edges, where nothing pressed them down.
When you reach the aureus, it is not lying flat after all. It is standing on its edge. One face carries the head of Marcus Antonius; the other, Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus.
Prompt: Say something about the aureus. (Deliberate the meaning of the coin and what clues it may give about the Lapis. Deliberate first in your teams, then in the immersion prompt with the other Recentii.)
