#circular room

[vintagehomecollection]

The Floral Decorator, 1993

[toadstooltealights]

[danddfan-madeconcepts]

Turnabout Turret (trap idea)

Here's one for you DM's that want a trap that is active, till destroyed.

The players are going through a circular shaped room where their are exists in each of the cardinal directions. If any of them walk near the center of the room, they will start to hear a weird crank like sound. Soon enough a mechanical device with a crossbow on the top comes out of the celling & aims at the closest player. Make the player roll a dex check & if they get a 14 or slower they will get hit by an arrow.

This device will continue to search & aim for whoever is closest to it every other turn & will not be able to hit anyone who is out of the room. The device has roughly 25 arrows in it & can take about 10 damage before breaking. If it is unable to sense anyone after three hours it will retract back into the celling.

[paintingsandhistory]

Seneca, after Opening his Veins, Goes into the Bath and his Friends, Overcome with Grief, Swear Hatred for Nero who Decreed the Death of their Teacher

Artist: Manuel Domínguez Sánchez (Spanish, Madrid, 1840-1906)

Date: 1871

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain

The Death of Seneca

Tacitus, in his Annals (15.60–64), describes the details and circumstances of Seneca’s death. Seneca was at a villa he owned a little outside of Rome. Granius Silvanus, tribune of the Praetorian Guard, arrived with a group of soldiers right when Seneca was at supper with his wife, Pompeia Paulina, and two of his friends.

Silvanus relayed the Emperor’s orders, after which Seneca calmly tried to explain that he had nothing to do with the conspiracy. The tribune returned to Rome, but Nero told him to go back to Seneca and order him to kill himself. Tacitus notes that SIlvanus took the long way back to Seneca’s villa, as he had himself been one of the conspirators. In the end, he resolved to send a centurion in his stead and demand that the philosopher perform the deed.

The centurion arrived back at Seneca’s villa and told him what had to be done. Tacticus continues (Annals 15.61):

Seneca, quite unmoved, asked for tablets on which to inscribe his will, and, on the centurion’s refusal, turned to his friends, protesting that as he was forbidden to requite them, he bequeathed to them the only, but still the noblest possession yet remaining to him, the pattern of his life [imago vitae suae], which, if they remembered, they would win a name for moral worth and steadfast friendship. At the same time he called them back from their tears to manly resolution, now with friendly talk, and now with the sterner language of rebuke. “Where,” he asked again and again, “are your maxims of philosophy, or the preparation of so many years’ study against evils to come? Who knew not Nero’s cruelty? After a mother’s and a brother’s murder, nothing remains but to add the destruction of a guardian and a tutor.”

Seneca then turned and embraced his wife, asking her not too grieve too much. But Paulina told him flatly that she, too, had resolved to die. Together, they cut the veins on their arms. However, Seneca bled only a little, supposedly due to his age and his “frugal diet”, so that he also cut his knees and legs. Seeing his wife suffer, both on account of her own wounds and her seeing him try vainly to kill himself, Seneca ordered his wife to withdraw to another room.

But Nero had ordered Pompeia Paulina to live. Her slaves and freedmen, by the order of the soldiers, tended to her wounds. Tacitus suggests that she didn’t realize this at the time; perhaps she had fainted on account of the loss of blood. In the meantime, Seneca was dictating his last words to scribes. As bleeding to death was taking too long, he asked one of his friends to prepare a poison, perhaps inspired by the death of the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates (who had been condemned to drink hemlock).

However, the poison, too, had little effect.

In the hope of easing his pain and causing the blood to flow out more quickly, Seneca took a bath with warm water. Some of the water he sprinkled about, proclaiming it a libation to Jupiter the Liberator. Seneca expired soon afterwards. He was then, according to his wishes, cremated without any of the usual, and often ostentatious, funeral rites.

Written Text Source: Ancient Work Magazine

[tutu-cuteboutique]

A small transitional sunroom with a skylight and dark wood flooring is an example.

Fukushi Amma

[ruhele]

Modern Living Room - Living Room Inspiration for a large modern open concept living room library remodel with beige walls

[paradis-kiss-blog]

 "Zmiany zachodzą tylko wtedy, gdy idziemy pod prąd, kiedy robimy coś całkowicie wbrew wszystkiemu, do czego przywykliśmy."

[thedesignaesthetic]

It's a mirrored fireplace. And a circular room surrounded by windows. And an "L" shaped couch. For LOVELY. This is a great room. It's so fresh and young without being too trendy.