OOC: Death In Pompeii is the easiest and shortest RPG in the world! I designed it to accomodate people who are busy, and those who might otherwise join a regular RPG and then unexpectedly vanish {muct to the chagrin of the other players}.
Each player in DIP writes only one post; a description of your character's death in the catastrophe of Pompeii. You character does not have to die in the city of Pompeii itself. Outside the city or even in another town like Herculaneum is equally acceptable. All your character has to do is die.
Simple, eh?
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IC: Marcus Lupinius Paulus was enjoying himself at the games in Pompeii. Little did he know that in less than a 5 minutes he would be as dead as the gladiator he had just seen decapitated in the circus! For as he saw the severed head roll away from the shoulders, the mountain exploded.
The noise was almost deafening, but Paulus could hear the terrified screams of the citizens in the ampitheater, but being quick of feet, he at once got up and ran out of the building. The blast of hot air had struck the city, the sky instantly had grown dark with smoke and falling debris, and the air was becoming difficult to breathe. Coughing, he staggered out of the entrance next to a large 20 foot statue of Mars.
"What has happened?" he exclaimed to no one in particular. The scene was chasos as men and women were running terrified in all directions. And it was at that moment Paulu s heard the ominous sound...a groaning-like sound of a large object coming loose.....
He spun around at the sound. And then, his eyes opened wide as he stood transfixed and paralyzed by terror, he saw the massive statue of Mars falling foward, down upon him!
Paulus vainly held up his hands in front of his face as if he could by so doing stop the falling statue from crushing him.
He screamed! "NO! NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!"
As Paulus was squashed beneath the monsterous idol, his blood splashed upward, painting the sides of the statue in crimson, and splattering unfortunate passersby.