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Post by sforza on Jul 4, 2022 16:33:35 GMT -5
Quirinal Hill {Career}
Tier I: Senatorial Entrance
Stage 0: Patronage - aged 25. Military experience as a military tribune is expected from prospective candidates, as is sponsorship from an existing senator. Serving in a campaign as a tribune allots a +1 to your characters dignitas.
Stage 1: Quaestor - aged 30. Grants this character the right to sit in the senate, giving them +1 Dignitas
Stage 2: Aedile - aged 35. Also grants the right to seat in the senate. Grants +1 Dignitas.
Stage 3: Plebeian Tribune - Plebeians only. Grants +1 Dignitas.
Tier II: Senior Magistrate.
Stage 1: Praetorship - Aged 39. Grants +1 Dignitas.
Stage 2: Consulship - Aged 42. Grants +2 Dignitas.
Stage 3: Censor - Reserved for Ex Consuls. Grants +1 Dignitas.
Stage 4: Dictator - Reserved for Ex Consuls. Grants +2 Dignitas.
Tier III: Honorifics and other accolades.
(This list is not exhaustible)
Be elected Pontifex Maximus. Grants +1 Dignitas.
Become a Pontiff, Chief Augur, or High Priest. Grants +1 Dignitas
Build a public work. Grants +1 Dignitas
Conquer an enemy of Rome. Grants +1 Dignitas
Win a military accolade. Grants +1 Dignitas
Win a Triumph. Grants +1 Dignitas (stackable).
Achieve three separate Consulships. +1 Dignitas
Dignitas: 2 + 0 (plebeian) + 4 charisma = 6 {Quintus Appuleius Pansa}
Quintus Appuleius Pansa
Born: 353 BC (27 in 326)Background: Plebeian Novus HomoArchetype: CiceroPatron: VenusRank: Military TribuneMarital status: unwedFamilia: /
Bio:
{Income}326 BC
One unit of land
2000 x1= 2000 denarii
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Post by Royal Joker on Jul 6, 2022 14:26:30 GMT -5
Lucius Livius Denter pays a visit to the home of his fellow plebeian senator.
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Post by sforza on Jul 6, 2022 15:44:45 GMT -5
Livius is led by a slave to the desk of Pansa, he would quickly notice that Pansa's residence was quite spartan. The appuleians had by far not the means to afford themselves villas as large as some of the patrician families. Still the residence had everything that was needed to live a decent life.
"Salve, i have just finished a poem about the plight of Rome"s citizens"
Several letters had piled up on Pansa's desk. Other than being quite renown for being handsome he was also famous for his oratory skills.
"But i suppose that a poem did not brought you here to my humble residence here"
Pansa smiled with a friendly laugh, the two had ofcourse met many times before and they were likeminded.
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Post by Royal Joker on Jul 7, 2022 11:56:40 GMT -5
"Salve, Pansa my friend. While your poem no doubt would bring me much satisfaction, I am here on other matters today. Perhaps afterwards."
The leaden-eyed plebeian smiled warmly at the other senator.
"The cause of the Roman people is my business. How far we have come since the ousting of the kings, yet how far we still have to go before the yoke of the patrician aristocracy has been broken. I know you will stand for tribune this year, as will I. I propose a cooperation, so that the cause of the plebeians is not squandered by bitter infighting."
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Post by sforza on Jul 7, 2022 12:44:55 GMT -5
"Your assessment is quite correct"
Pansa smiled from across his desk.
"It would be wise to cooperate. While much progress has been achieved there is still a lot of work to do"
Pansa guessed that he would need a lot of patience if he wanted to increase equality for the plebeian faction.
"While our republic needs reform it will take time and good thought. If we go too quickly we will invoke the wrath of the patricians, which is most of our August Assembly."
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Post by Royal Joker on Jul 7, 2022 14:39:08 GMT -5
"Too true, my friend. Too true."
Livius nodded in agreement. Rome had been built atop a mountain of its slain enemies. No doubt a few more corpses would go unnoticed.
"Our cause is just and our forefathers have already won us many liberties. Whatever fights we leave unfinished, our sons and grandsons will continue."
He glanced over the stacks of scrolls and papers on the desk, contemplating.
"I've been thinking about the nexum, how it forces the poorest citizens to sell their bodies into servitude. I find it incredulous that we allow such a practice on the citizens of our fine republic."
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Post by sforza on Jul 7, 2022 15:00:38 GMT -5
"Indeed, no citizen of our city should ever have to suffer such a humiliation. You have my full support"
Pansa said, only the most cruel of cruelest senator could oppose the abolition of such a shameful contract.
"I hope to see the priesthoods opened up to the plebeian cause one day. Many good citizens with good morals can not serve our gods only because they do not belong to a select few families. That is shameful"
Pansa would offer his friend a goblet of wine, a good Falernian.
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Post by Royal Joker on Jul 8, 2022 12:42:26 GMT -5
"It is outrageous, dear Pansa. Though I suspect and expect that those old dogs among the patricians will do their utmost to oppose any inclusion of plebeians in the priesthood."
Any man speaking with the gods held much power in Rome.
"We'll have to be careful, good men have been murdered for less."
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Post by sforza on Jul 9, 2022 4:11:45 GMT -5
"That is to be expected, my friend"
Pansa said, as he finished his goblet of wine.
"It might be prudent to perhaps seek allies in patricians who are more moderate in their views."
Pansa knew that the select few plebeians in the senate could not achieve much in the largely patrician and conservative senate.
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Post by Royal Joker on Jul 9, 2022 11:30:26 GMT -5
Lucius nodded in agreement.
"Naturally. There are always those who are interested in doing away with obsolete practices for the sake of bettering the republic. We are citizens loyal to Rome, and I'd be damned if I'd let some conservative accuse me of being a traitor."
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Post by sforza on Jul 10, 2022 14:13:07 GMT -5
"Agreed, well we shall hold a meeting with like-minded senators after the elections and then decide what we shall do and who to approach."
Pansa said, thinking about potential other plebeians who could join a common front.
"I shall reach out to Decius Mus soon in the meanwhile, you shall very shortly hear of me again."
Pansa said, putting some papers and documents away on some shelf.
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