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Deceitful Penguin posted:
 Steppes and Republics I leave the senate for two hours and now half the senators are drunk, and i'm pretty sure the one in the corner there is dead, what happened when I was gone? Are the Seljulks invading? Are did the Empress get assassinated? Are the Bulgarians rebelling again? It's the Croatians isn't it?
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Feb 28, 2014 02:24
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Blackunknown posted:
 (What follows is a rough translation of a drunken rant. It has been translated into readable text for your sanity.) I'm not quite dead yet! What happened is that the Komnenians make very nice drinks. Who's for going to go kill some Douxes! (The Senator then collapsed unconscious into a pile of maps of Europe.)
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Feb 28, 2014 02:37
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...you know, I'm starting to warm up to the idea of the Byzantines being basically just the Romans. We're certainly seeming to get into the swing of things as far as the decadence goes if we're having "let's all get shitfaced in the senate" parties. I'll fight the idea all the way, but I'm starting to warm up to the idea that I might be wrong.
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Feb 28, 2014 02:48
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Steppes and Republics ..... Well this isn't as bad as that time that crazy Vlach noble impaled all those people and drank their blood. And on the bright side we're not under attack by Croatian-Bulgarian Seljuk assassins...... I think.
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Feb 28, 2014 02:55
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It's going to be another one of those days isn't it?
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Feb 28, 2014 03:47
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 How was it Isiah put it? Ah yes. 'Heroes of the wine bottle! Brave and fearless when it comes to mixing drinks!' Needless to say the rest of the chapter... it did not go well for them. I will refrain except at communion, so consider me the designated sober and pious one.
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Feb 28, 2014 03:56
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TheMcD posted:
 The only way I can stand to look at the senate is with a strong drink in me. When I remember who the ruling factions are, I have to have a few more. When I remember these are the finest citizens of the Empire, the brightest and best, the rulers, the hope of the future, well. WELL. That is the time you really have to reach for the bottle and not stop until you see the bottom.
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Feb 28, 2014 03:56
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...I can only hope that the inevitable influx of dogs or other household animals in official-looking clothing tomorrow morning will be well-behaved, and receptive to belly rubs as political leverage. (OOC: Speaking of which, could anyone who knows something about the Byzantine Empire help me find a decent sense of what a senator or official might wear? I'd like to maybe do a drawing of Acting Senator Scruffles.)
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Feb 28, 2014 04:28
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D3m3 posted:
Steppes and Republics Perhaps it is not a good idea to call our fellow senators dog, I mean they could be Seljuks, or Bulgarians, or both. [OOC here is a picture of a Byzantine Senate for your reference.) 
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Feb 28, 2014 04:39
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Ratoslov posted:
Traitors? We are but the truest patriots in all of the senate! We simply want to bring this empire to greatness, but how can greatness be achieved when we do not follow the words of Allah? We simply want to bring the Truth of the Prophet (peace be upon him) to this great nation. 
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Feb 28, 2014 04:39
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Blackunknown posted:[OOC here is a picture of a Byzantine Senate for your reference.) Well, if you consider Cicero to be a Byzantine...
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Feb 28, 2014 04:41
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TheFlyingLlama posted:Traitors? We are but the truest patriots in all of the senate! We simply want to bring this empire to greatness, but how can greatness be achieved when we do not follow the words of Allah? We simply want to bring the Truth of the Prophet (peace be upon him) to this great nation. Steppes and Republics In all fairness they are actually some of the few who are never here drunk.
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Feb 28, 2014 04:42
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TheMcD posted:Well, if you consider Cicero to be a Byzantine... Sorry if its not actually a Byzantine senate, it just appeared in a Google image search for "Byzantine Senate". Also said search contains images from this LP so.... hurah?
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Feb 28, 2014 04:46
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Blackunknown posted:Sorry if its not actually a Byzantine senate, it just appeared in a Google image search for "Byzantine Senate". Also said search contains images from this LP so.... hurah? I don't think there's any real pictures of a Byzantine senate - seems best we got is a mural or two. The picture you posted was a pretty famous fresco called Cicero Denounces Catilina from the 19th century - I remember seeing it in one of my old Latin school books.
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Feb 28, 2014 04:52
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I did find an article about Byzantine dress but it only makes small mention of the Senate.quote:The chlamys, a semicircular cloak fastened to the right shoulder continued throughout the period. The length fell sometimes only to the hips or as far as the ankles, much longer than the version commonly worn in Ancient Greece; the longer version is also called a paludamentum. As well as his courtiers, Emperor Justinian wears one, with a huge brooch, in the Ravenna mosaics. On each straight edge men of the senatorial class had a tablion, a lozenge shaped coloured panel across the chest or midriff (at the front), which was also used to show the further rank of the wearer by the colour or type of embroidery and jewels used (compare those of Justinian and his courtiers).
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Feb 28, 2014 04:54
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No, that's pretty much perfect. It's just a quick sketch, but I'm way too entertained by the notion to not draw doggies. Presenting Acting Senator Scruffles! 
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Feb 28, 2014 05:28
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 I'll have you note that none of us Old Romans have sunken to this level of debauchery. By appreciating the glories of the past, we learn from it's failures! On that note, I personally feel that my horse is too good for this place, what with the way it has gone downhill recently. In fact, one might say that it has... gone to the dogs! NewMars fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Feb 28, 2014 |
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Feb 28, 2014 05:56
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Pyroi posted:
For all that some of my fellow citizens like to deride the Old Romans for being backwards-looking, I'd like to point out that you're the ones engaging in revelry best described as, shall we say, Dionysian. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just that if you're going to engage in this kind of behavior you could at least support the party that is willing to call it an Honorable Roman Tradition That Should Be Restored. 
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Feb 28, 2014 06:01
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Deceitful Penguin posted:(The senator then gently waddles off, obviously well in his cups)  This is what we're talking about. This and icons.
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Feb 28, 2014 06:26
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D3m3 posted:No, that's pretty much perfect. It's just a quick sketch, but I'm way too entertained by the notion to not draw doggies. His first order of business, outlawing cats in the Empire. 
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Feb 28, 2014 06:42
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Skyfinder posted:His first order of business, outlawing cats in the Empire. Do you want plague? Because that's how you get plague.
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Feb 28, 2014 06:47
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HenessyHero posted:
Ieasus, now I'm getting flashbacks to the last time we had to have the Senate re-carpeted and... He shudders. No more redecoration decisions. They're all the Empress's choice from now on.
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Feb 28, 2014 08:37
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Ahem, erm no that's not... *urrrrp* I approve of the portrait of the honorable Scruffles (though it fails to capture the full extent of his rakish charms), but must caution against praising him unduly. For you see, he has been a very bad doggie indeed and will have to spend the night in the dog house -- which is what I call the local drunk tank. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to buy new sandals, my old pair has been... defiled.
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Feb 28, 2014 11:00
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Kellsterik posted:
 I agree completely. Maybe your party and our party should cooperate on the issues of art and drink? Really, it's what's best for the Empire even from a purely strategic standpoint. If the Empire's enemies found out that THIS is the current state of the Senate, they would surely descend upon Rome at once! Therefore we should ban both drinking and all representational forms of art, so that this never happens again and nobody can ever depict this current spat of disgraceful behavior.
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Feb 28, 2014 17:10
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Well then, why don't we just ban coffee, hashish and complex geometric patterns? I don't see you being so eager to give up your own vices.
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Feb 28, 2014 17:29
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NewMars posted:
What's coffee? OCC: I was totally going to make a coffee hangover cure joke, but I think we're a few centuries too early for coffee to really be a popular thing in the Middle East? At least if I'm reading Wikipedia right.
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Feb 28, 2014 17:48
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OOC: Are we? Oh, well, a senator already made a joke about chai tea, so I think we can be a bit lenient with things like that. (I almost put hookahs in there because I forgot tobacco came from the new world.)
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Feb 28, 2014 18:00
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ooc: Yup, Coffee was attested to the mid-1400s in Yemen, we're a quarter of a millennium away. Chai, whilst exotic, can be dated to contemporary with the founding of the original Rome. Hashish goes back several millenia.
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Feb 28, 2014 21:47
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Fellow senators, can we not manage to keep the mood here light and airy after our duties to the Empress? Perhaps over this barrel of beer one of the merchants sold me? It's quite delicious.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:35
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Steppes and Republics ....Wow the senate is pretty empty, and here I thought that the senators here argued for most of the day before they left and the night senators argued in their place while the day senators were gone.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:36
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Blackunknown posted:
The senate is still full of senators. However, if those senators are in fact conscious is a different story, and the stench of alcohol and somebody's lunch is keeping the conscious senators out. The slaves had no opportunity to clean up as apparently orders came from the Kommenians to "not interrupt our important emergency senate meeting, regardless of the situation".
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Mar 1, 2014 03:41
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TheMcD posted:The senate is still full of senators. However, if those senators are in fact conscious is a different story, and the stench of alcohol and somebody's lunch is keeping the conscious senators out. The slaves had no opportunity to clean up as apparently orders came from the Kommenians to "not interrupt our important emergency senate meeting, regardless of the situation". Steppes and Republics ...... We're in an emergency senate meeting? For what? I thought this was the senate's usual daily meeting.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:45
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Every meeting is an emergency meeting!
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Mar 1, 2014 03:51
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Blackunknown posted:
No, the emergency meeting was in the night. Apparently it involved some sort of scandal regarding the wineries of the empire, as I saw a bundle of different wine barrels brought in and some senators talking about a "sampling". The meeting took the entire night and left the senators quite fatigued, if not downright knocked out, and left the senate hall quite a mess. I can't stomach alcohol of any kind, so I took an early leave, but found it hard to sleep, as the hard working senators had turned into quite the raucous bunch, singing loud songs for ages until it eventually faded out.
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Mar 1, 2014 03:54
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TheMcD posted:
Steppes and Republics Perhaps we need to ban consumption of alcohol until after the senate meeting. I mean if the wineries are in trouble we can't have drunk senators laying about, if this affects the Empire's wine trade it could be a serious issue to funding.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:00
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Basically, that lot over there busy themselves being incoherent and insensible, allowing those of us who remain sober to work on some useful legislation and pass it off as the handiwork of some unconscious sot's dog. They can't exactly vote against their own pets after giving them senatorial powers, can they?
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Mar 1, 2014 04:04
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Blackunknown posted:
Hey, let's not get crazy here. It was just a wine tasting party...I think. I don't really remember most of last night. Also, could you keep it down over there? You're yelling way too loud.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:04
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You know what they say, hair of dog and all that. Just not from Scrufles, I don't think he takes kindly to senators with scissors.
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Mar 1, 2014 04:20
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AJ_Impy posted:
That's how we've gotten all the useful legislation passed so far...
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DivineCoffeeBinge posted:
It doesn't hurt to insert a few 'Jar of wine for each senator' clauses scribed in large, easy to read letters above the small print, either.
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