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[Avis-Mergulus]

Marius Stonejawed Secundus ? ? (triple name, as suggested by Avis-Mergulus)

Martial arts Negotiator & Gunpowder knowledge
2, definetely

((Yeah, and our students would be on the very edge of every attack))

EDIT: My opinion slightly changed with discussion.

This. Also, since when does Martial Arts have the lead with only two votes for it?

[Evil Marahadja]

22 April- A new beginning

As you make your way along the outskirts of Narsis you make a mental note to yourself. This is not a place where a  educated man shall be after nightfall, especially without a bodyguard. The sun is shining brightly and you can still see hookers, beggars and you have noticed thugs from at-least two gangs. This world is very different from the mansion where where you grew up.
For a moment your mind wanders away to the family estate, where servants were ready to accommodate your every need, where every meal was delicious and you had a personal room larger than most folks homes. It was a good life, but not perfect. You were never very close with your siblings, Decima was inside and isolated most of the time, being educated how to be a proper wife. But the few times you actually meet, you came along just fine. She even had you smuggle a few of your study books to her room now and then.
Primus never had much time for you nor your younger brother, when he wasn't busy being his fathers right hand he socialised with his noble friends, partying and visiting the local whore houses, habits he have to this day. And your younger brother, while much more willing to actually speak with you, is a very different man than you are. When you were in your room studying and experimenting with gun powder and ancient magic, he socialised with the guards, sparring with them all day long. He always had a way speaking with the common folk, and he never quite understood why you always had your noose stuck in an book. “It´s easier to stab someone with a sword” he used to taunt you with a friendly smile glued on his face. But he was always determined to excel as a soldier and an officer, and if the latest reports from the western fronts are correct, he´s doing well for himself.

Your mind returns to the present as you approach your new home. It's hard to not be disappointed.  The holdings seems to be surrounded by a approximately 2 meter high wooden palisade. There doesn't seem to be any obvious holes in it, although a few of the stakes have decayed and has started to rott away. The gate is in worse condition, missing entirely, that is. You enter the school where the gate should have been, and you wonder why your father didn´t have enough common sense to sell this sad school years ago. Every building is neglected, with holes in the roof, it looks like the walls could fall down at any given moment and when you take a look in you realise that almost all furniture has been sold or stolen.

On the bright side there doesn't seem to be any homeless people pestering your holdings and using it for shelter. Rumours travel fast in this part of the city, and you assume that they fled the area in case you brought any guards to clear your new holdings. As you walk around your new  holdings you instinctively move your right hand to your purse, it is heaver than ever. You father at-least had some parts of is mind left when he wrote his testament. The testament obliged Primus to give you a small part of his income to you, as a help to “Get things moving” with your school.  This particular part of the testament made your brother quite upset, which might be the reason why he more or less kicked you out of the family holdings after he gave you the money.

You take a seat on the stairs leading into your small “mansion” and sight deeply, it will take a lot of work to make this sad excuse of a gladiator school profitable. You consider your first moves.

Spoiler:  Secundus Icilius Speratus (click to show/hide)

Age: 22
Reputation: Close to none; “Secundus Icilius Speratus” Neaver heard of him.
Decent Rider
Novice Fighter
Decent Reader
Decent Scribe
Novice Negotiator
Novice Public speaker
Decent Gunsmith
Novice magician (Practice)
Good knowledge about Arcane knowledge (Theory)
Good knowledge about Gunpowder

Spoiler: Economy (click to show/hide)

Savings:
+++++++

Monthly income

Monthly expenses

Spoiler: Gladiator school (click to show/hide)

Small neglected slave-holdings (0/10)
Neglected guard barracks (0/5)
Small neglected mansion
Small training yard.
Small neglected armoury
Small neglected pallisade
Small empty space

Spoiler: Contacts (click to show/hide)

Narsis(Hometown):
Primus Icilius Speratus- Your elder brother. Member of the senate.
Aelia Icilius Speratus- Your widowed mother.

Western front(Exports a lot of slaves, especially those with magical talent):
Tertius Icilius Speratus- Your younger brother, military officer.

Eastern front (Exports many exotic monsters):

Easthall(Hub for a lot of trade and tournaments, Capitol:
Decima Icilius - your sister.
Cato Livius- Sisters betrothed, member of the senate.

Spoiler: GM to players! (click to show/hide)

I am still experimenting with the economy, so it might change quite a bit. Right now it is very abstracted, but to give you a clue how much 7+ is worth you could probably:
Restore a single building (++ or +++ depending on which)
Buy three normal slaves (+)
Hire 3 guards for a month (+)
Restock the armoury (+ to +++++++ depending on what kind of weapons and the quality.
And along those lines it goes!
I also edited your brothers names to fit with your guys suggestions.
If you envisioned your character a year or two older/younger suggest away.

[Detoxicated]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

We cannot do all of that - the slaves and guards are worth six + of our seven already. I vote we restore the slave holdings for more security, then hire a guard and three slaves, and yes, ask our brother for military delinquents. And check if the armory still contains anything.

[3man75]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

+1

Also not now but we should think about having some hookers for our better fighters. You know the champs/awesomes can have a hooker paid for in their beds and hopefully the others will want the awesome life STD'S fun so they fight harder. It was a Roman thing correct?

[Avis-Mergulus]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

+1

Also not now but we should think about having some hookers for our better fighters. You know the champs/awesomes can have a hooker paid for in their beds and hopefully the others will want the awesome life STD'S fun so they fight harder. It was a Roman thing correct?

Bro. We have no best fighters yet. And no money to do all those things. Reread the "GM to players" spoiler.

[sjm9876]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

1) We DO have the money for the original suggestion - THREE slaves/guards are 1 +
2) I'd personally skip on guard room until we gather some sort of reputation - the only reason to get guards would be for training.
3) It may be wroth considering trying to recruit hobos in return for shelter, but that can wait until we have a reputation.

[Sarrak]

I think we must make our protagonist a bit older. We're somewhat based on romans, so, considering that our older brother (probably not very much older) is already in senate and younger (reverse situation) is a military genius... I'll say Tertius is around 22~23, with Primus in his thirties. That, excluding our sister (she must be the youngest - romans married on girls in their 15~20), poses us anywhere from 24 up to 30. My guess - 26. Still young, capable and a good prospect for marriage (elitist young man usually started to search for brides after army service, in their mid-twenties).

Still pounding on economical decisions. We must renovate slave den, armory and training yard. I don't know why everyone is bent on better guard rooms - guards morale and loyalty is of little importance for now.

[3man75]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

+1

Also not now but we should think about having some hookers for our better fighters. You know the champs/awesomes can have a hooker paid for in their beds and hopefully the others will want the awesome life STD'S fun so they fight harder. It was a Roman thing correct?

Bro. We have no best fighters yet. And no money to do all those things. Reread the "GM to players" spoiler.

I said "not now but...} basically something to think about in the future. Also i'd like to ask the GM to put actual numbers in instead of "+++++++" simply because i think having normal numbers like "1k, 2k, 3k, etc" in Empire currency {we can just keep it simple and call it gold}.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

1) We DO have the money for the original suggestion - THREE slaves/guards are 1 +
2) I'd personally skip on guard room until we gather some sort of reputation - the only reason to get guards would be for training.
3) It may be wroth considering trying to recruit hobos in return for shelter, but that can wait until we have a reputation.

Oh! Yes. I misread it, my apologies. But I think we do need guards, because the place we reside in is shady as fuck. I mean, a local gang could just force us out and move in or something. And we need to do an inventory of the armory.

Also, our mother and sister would have two-part names, like Aelia Icilia. Only men get three-part names.

[Evil Marahadja]

Restore the training yard and the slave rooms, as well as a guard room
Hire 3 guards and buy 3 slaves.
Ask your younger brother for military delinquents to be serving as gladiators.

1) We DO have the money for the original suggestion - THREE slaves/guards are 1 +
2) I'd personally skip on guard room until we gather some sort of reputation - the only reason to get guards would be for training.
3) It may be wroth considering trying to recruit hobos in return for shelter, but that can wait until we have a reputation.

Oh! Yes. I misread it, my apologies. But I think we do need guards, because the place we reside in is shady as fuck. I mean, a local gang could just force us out and move in or something. And we need to do an inventory of the armory.

Also, our mother and sister would have two-part names, like Aelia Icilia. Only men get three-part names.

Fixed!
Yes, it is + for three guards/slaves. That is for rather poorly trained and equipped guards. It gets more expensive if you want guards with more combat experience.

[sjm9876]

Aye, we need guards, just not sure if the cost of upgrading the guard room is worth it just yet for basic guards.

[Avis-Mergulus]

Aye, we need guards, just not sure if the cost of upgrading the guard room is worth it just yet for basic guards.

I think stuff it, let's upgrade the slave holdings to stop the buggers from escaping.

Also Marahadja, why did you cut the "Speratus" from our younger bro's name? And Roman names are gendered, so our mother would be "Icilia", not "Icilius". I'm not insisting on proper historical accuracy or anything like that, just a FYI.

[Sarrak]

Aye, we need guards, just not sure if the cost of upgrading the guard room is worth it just yet for basic guards.

Yeah. We need guards, but new room for them? Not really.

As it goes, slaves, guards, slave holdings, brothers help. Also, add armory restock (small party of decent-quality weapons) to the mix.

[Evil Marahadja]

Also Marahadja, why did you cut the "Speratus" from our younger bro's name? And Roman names are gendered, so our mother would be "Icilia", not "Icilius". I'm not insisting on proper historical accuracy or anything like that, just a FYI.

By accident, fixed!
Ah, I see, coolcoolcool. Luckily for me this is only inspired by a roman empire, so I can make those kind of mistakes. Its not bugs, its features.