Aurelia is from Cato path. Boadicea is the childhood friend if your MC is male I believe.
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Male and from Gaul.
Egyptian males get Ebe, and I donāt know about Greeks.
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Ok thatās why I was confused. I always pick a female character and the only childhood friend I remembered was a male. I didnāt know they changed depending on gender- interesting!
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Sheās called Dionysia if youāre Greek.
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Well, thatās what spending an hour of looking at the code will do to your MC.
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It is used in pulling people out of the rubble or something like that I donāt remember but when you rile up other slaves to help, and so I think itās kinda like leadership stat in ZE-SHā¦
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@cottoncandy
Yep! I gender flipped the best friends so each race has a pair of possible best friends! The idea is that thereās these 2 best friends, and you can kind of think of it as playing as either one of them hahaha. If that makes sense?
@AAO
I take that as a compliment haha I think you probably know the stats better than I do ><
@Urban @AmericanShakespeare
Up till now itās been very cursory. But then again your MC hasnāt really been in group situations. I envision it as a late game stat though, to be used in conjunction with things like renown. But donāt quote me on it ><
Iām currently writing (and failing horribly) about the ludus dynamics. And with any bunch of highly testosterone charged men and womenā¦
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I just wanted to drop in and say I played the demo again recently and Iām still so excited by it!
It was the first time I played with a Latin-literate character and wow did it open up a whole new bunch of stuff 
Also, Iām falling more and more for the best friend 
Seriously though, this is such an incredible game- good luck with it and know Iām cheering on your progress from the sidelines, lol!
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This is a gooooood game. I love it.
Played through the Cato and Mine Slave paths so far. The Mine Slave one reminded me of a certain docudrama I watched a while ago, Colosseum: Romeās Arena of Death. Seeing as the main characters have an almost identical fight to the Mine Slave one, I imagine you watched it too?
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Are Catoās valueās messed up? Iāve been a good slave I feel like the give it your all choice should at least give a small boost to their relationship
He should know my name at the very least.
Ah, I got the cheater achievement, fitting. Well itās easier than the normal way.
BAM!!! Your fists land with a resounding smash, sending shock waves of pain through Boadicea, who quickly realises your ploy. she counters with a quick backhand but you quickly drop back!
cap she
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@Seraphinite
Hi there!
Awesome haha Iām glad you enjoyed it! Was a little afraid that all the effort spent into branching would have gone to waste hahaha 
Thank you so much for your support!!! It really means the world to me and pushes me on to write that 100-200 words even at the end of crazy long work/school/life days. Iām sure you can relate to the super power that all authors have - staring at a screen for 4 hours āwritingā and coming up with nothing to show for it haha. Thank you so much for your kind words!!! It really means a lot 
How did you find the Chapter 4 teaser? Were there any good/bad things that stood out for you? And for the best friend, do you have comments on any of the scenes? Haha itās the first time Iām writing anything remotely romantic so your thoughts would be super helpful (:
@Perfect_Storm
Thatās really awesome to hear! It really keeps me going at it (: Do you have any comments on particular parts of the story / the relationship between characters? Perhaps some parts that felt weird and didnāt flow, or parts that were particular good?
Waittttt no way. Are you serious?? Hahaha I donāt remember watching that haha. But Iāve to admit that I re-watched the Gladiator (the Russell Crowe) one, read a few books, watched some youtube videos and read a few journals/articles to prep the material for this so maybe I might have been influenced by one of those.
Hmmā¦ I watched Colosseum: A Gladiatorās Story on youtube! Which was a documentary and the mine slave route was quite heavily based on that! Maybe itās the same documentary? hahaha.
@Dark_Stalker
Hmm. I must take a look at the values again, I might have forgotten to change them. Thank you for letting me know!
And yes I definitely missed out the logic here. Iāll fix it, thank you for reporting!
And here too!
Hahahaha tsk tsk. It was fun writing in that achievement hahaha. Wellā¦ itās normal hahaha we all cheat >< the reason why the player code is so convoluted in the first place was because the first one was too easy to cheat with HAHA. Youāre still welcome to study the code and tweak your player code to give you max stats haha.
But thanks again for the continuity/ grammar reports! Super duper helpful How was the Cato path for you? Did anything stand out in particular? Esp bad/ weird parts?
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I was kinda disappointed that reporting Elder Catoās death really had no effect for me. Otherwise itās my favorite path, since Iāve interacted with more of the Cato family.
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@nauhziy Iām pretty sure weāre thinking of the same one, I might have buggered the name. I remember that the main charactersā names were Verus and Priscus, one lean and dark haired the other buff as hell and blond. I watched it an age ago, so Iām probably misremembering some things.
Iāve not really gone over it looking for errors or the like, just been enjoying it. Iāll be sure to go back and have another go.
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@Dark_Stalker
Hmm, that makes a ton of sense! I will look into it. Thank you!
@Perfect_Storm
Hahaha I think it is! Heh it was a pretty good documentary though! And I got a lot of information and mental imagery from there 
Ahh I see, no worries! Thanks anyway (:
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Cheers lad, been having a hell lot of fun playing as tattooed Gallic noble ! You sure know about the stuff youāre writting about so as far as interaction and combat goes, I fully trust you and your work. Great stuff, lovely. But I thought, will our gladiator get the opportunity to distinguish himself in the arena from others (and be known) through an external sign or feature ? Such as a little trinket reminiscent of home (think of a gold torque for the Gaul) or an extra tattoo, distinctive head-gear, bonding with an animal perhaps, ā¦ so on, you get the idea. Might be a little fun thing to add. Donāt be afraid to make the world around us living with small everyday stuff like strolling down the streets for whatever you wish. And so thereās lots of material for for comic relief to be had too !
As for romance, one cannot underestimate how popular it is with the players. You shouldnāt be afraid to add such scenes with both established characters (think of your BFF) or with random opportunities. Gladiators were very popular and a great one had his fair share of groupies or pleasure girlsā¦ think of that one scene in Spartacus. Donāt be afraid to make raunchy or explicit at timesā¦ thatās always fun. 
Keep it up lad. 
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Just found this WIP and love it, hope this get released someday, really great work.
Quick question: I am pretty sure I canāt be the first to ask this, but is polygamy going to be a thing in this game? Itās historically valid in the given context.
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Were slaves allowed to have multiple wives though? Because bear in mind that while we may be able to become a great gladiator and champion of the arena and cover ourselves in glory and all thatā¦weāre still a slave until we gain our freedom.
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On that matter, are slave marriages even legally recognized by Romans?
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Sure, the greatest disadvantage was that arena champions and victors were often lend out to āpleaseā their masterās patrons without any say in the matter. Though because of both CoG policy and likely simply our current morality about it I believe this is one of those things were the author is again deviating from strict historical accuracy and the mc in-game can in fact refuse such things, though that may or may not have other consequences.
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