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It's a beautiful day in Ancient Rome and... you want to kill Julius Caesar.

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For weeks, you’d heard whispered conversation among the senators, their words heavy with discontent and conspiracy. Rage was brewing in Rome’s most cherished seats of power. Julius Caesar is a liar, a traitor, and, the worst insult to the Republic, a dictator. It’s time to settle a debt that can only be paid in Julius Caesar’s blood. It’s the Ides of March.

You want to kill Caesar because. . .

You’re a concerned citizen of the Republic

He owes you money

You want to be dictator in his place

Choice: You’re a concerned citizen of the Republic

You were raised to trust the government. When you were young, you were told the senate was run by wise men who worked in the interest of all of Rome. As you grew, you learned that was an idealized vision of the world, but still you knew Rome’s government kept the Republic stable and that the voice of the many was stronger than the voice of one.

You’re concerned because…

You want to preserve The Republic from becoming a dictatorship

You think foreign wars are destabilizing Rome

Choice: You want to preserve The Republic from becoming a dictatorship

You go to Caesar’s villa in the early morning, but you are informed he can’t meet with you. He’s attending to his wife Calpurnia who has had a terrible nightmare. Deciding to wait for him, you pace the length of a side garden at his home. All the while, you rehearse an imagined conversation in your mind.

You want to convince Caesar that preserving the Republic is the only way to…

Live a quiet peaceful life with your family

Experience and consume great artistic achievements

Choice: You think foreign wars are destabilizing Rome

You can’t remember the last time there was peace. Caesar doesn’t know how to lead in the senate only in the battlefield and you are tired of Roman government being treated as a theater of war. You are determined to prevent another civil war.

You decide to seek out support from...

Members of the military not loyal to Caesar

The leader of the assassination conspirators, Brutus

Choice: He owes you money

You’ve known Caesar forever. The two of you were priests of Jupiter together and even when he was stripped of priesthood, you remained. Politics means little to you but you hold a personal grudge no senator could match. When Caesar was forced into hiding by General Sulla, you lent him a significant sum of money. You thought Caesar would pay you back when he was able, then years passed, then decades.

You’ve heard rumor of an assassination conspiracy and you’ll be damned if Caesar dies without settling his debt to you. You’re going to…

Look for Caesar’s accountant

Look for a knife

Choice: You want to be dictator in his place

You’ve been in politics for decades and, unlike Caesar, your family lineage’s claim to divine ancestry is real. To rule Rome ought to be the birthright of a patrician of your caliber. It is a horror to watch Julius Caesar casually steal the life that should be yours.

You want to take Caesar’s place as dictator perpetuo, because….

You want the respect of your fellow statesmen

You want Cleopatra

Choice: You want the respect of your fellow statesmen

A citizen’s value isn’t measured in gold or property but in the respect he receives from his peers. You believe that as surely as you believe the she-wolf nursed Romulus. When you walk down the Via Sacra road, you want the crowds to part in deference before you. For you deserve their veneration. Caesar the man is nothing to you, but Caesar the idea is everything. You want to take all his power for yourself.

You decide to…

Look for a knife

Recruit supporters

Choice: You want Cleopatra

This has never been a shallow politically motivated grudge for you. Caesar is your enemy because he holds the hand of the most beautiful woman in the world. Cleopatra's not simply a sultry body of devastating curves. She's a brilliant mind with a sharp wit behind her dark provocative eyes. Caesar never deserved her.

The only question to your mind is whether you should first kill Caesar then seek out Cleopatra or vice versa. You decide to…

Look for Cleopatra

Look for a knife

Choice: Look for a knife

The rumors swirling around Rome of a vast conspiracy to stab Caesar on the Ides of March can’t be complete fiction. You want to count yourself among their number. As quick as you can, you weave through the crowds on the Via Sacra road until you reach your favorite smith’s shop. No one questions your motives when you buy a knife; small enough to easily conceal, sharp enough to easily kill.

Now you’re prepared, your next step is to…

Look for the leader of the assassination conspirators, Brutus

Join the assassination at the senate meeting

Choice: The leader of the assassination conspirators, Brutus

You seek out Brutus at the Theatre of Pompey. The rest of the senators have yet to gather for the scheduled meeting. You crowd close together in a secluded alcove, whispering your doubts about Caesar to Brutus. You had heard rumor that Brutus was leading a conspiracy against Caesar and you hope to find the rumors are true.

Brutus brings you in on his plan to assassinate Caesar. His speech is clear, passionate, powerful. You’re overwhelmed by his energy, you have to…

Conspire with Brutus

Kiss Brutus

Choice: Live a quiet peaceful life with your family

As you wait for Caesar, you notice a door left slightly open. It leads to a record room stacked high with various official documents and correspondences. You see a drawing of an odd creature among the papers. When you investigate closer, you recognize it as a rabbit, which is an animal you’ve heard of but never seen with your own eyes. Along with the drawing, there’s documents of ownership for a villa in Hispania at which facilities for cuniculture, rabbit farming had been built.

Suddenly, you overhear Decimus arrive and convince Caesar to come to Curia of Pompey for the senate meeting. Realizing that Caesar’s assassination is about to take place, you…

Join the assassination at the senate meeting

Disappear with the villa ownership documents

Choice: Experience and consume great artistic achievements

At the far end of the garden, you notice a door left slightly open. It leads to a storage room, piled high with untold treasure. You move aside gold jewelry and rich furs because underneath them you can see a box of scrolls. The box is marked Alexandria and you wonder, ‘Could these be from the great library?’ You slide a scroll loose from the rest. Beginning to read, you recognize Sappho’s poetry and lose yourself in the beauty of her words.

Suddenly, you overhear Decimus arrive and convince Caesar to come to Curia of Pompey for the senate meeting. Realizing that Caesar’s assassination is about to take place, you…

Join the assassination at the senate meeting

Keep reading the scrolls

Choice: Recruit supporters

You set out down the streets of Rome, knowing that simply killing Caesar won’t be enough to reach your goal. You need allies so that when Caesar falls you’re in a position to take over the power vacuum left by his vacancy.

There are two options as you see it. You could look for support among…

The senators

Members of the military not loyal to Caesar

Choice: Members of the military not loyal to Caesar

Your connections in the Roman military run deep. While most generals support Caesar, you’re able to organize a ragtag group of soldiers into a coup against him. However, word reaches Caesar whose friends slaughter the members of your coup. In doing so, they intimidate the senators from their planned assassination attempt.

Your part in the coup remains unknown. To keep it that way…

You have no choice but to feign loyalty to Caesar.

Choice: The senators

First you speak to the senators you know are part of the assassination conspiracy. You’re articulate and clever. Each word is carefully crafted to make the senators feel like you are on their side with no greater design than restoring Rome to its pre-Caesar greatness. You illicit vows of alliance from dozens of men before it’s time for the senate meeting.

You have one last delicate political decision to make. Should you…

Join the assassination at the senate meeting

Keep your hands clean

Choice: Look for Cleopatra

You go to Caesar’s villa, but do not ask after the man himself. Instead you seek out Cleopatra. This isn’t the first time you’ve met her in a secluded corner of Caesar’s gardens. You wrap your arms around her familiar waist. You press your lips to hers, wishing you could spend eternity holding her close.

You warn Cleopatra of the assassination rumors, but she already knows. She is leaving for Egypt as soon as she can. You confess that you’re in love with her and want to kill Caesar for her. In the end you…

Join Cleopatra in fleeing to Egypt

Join the assassination at the senate meeting

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