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First time in a while I had proper sleep and a dream.

As Roman Emperor I had to deal with another round of scheming, shouting and warring between the Senators on yet another useless Senate meeting that tried to get rid of me on 'legal basis' because some 'fraudulent charges' where put on me (I don't speak lawyerish, no idea), the whole circus led by prominent guy called Lucius. After hearing their constant droning for a while I had enough of it and of course left tehroom and asked the nearest guard to go hire me some armed men.

After brushing off some persistent wives and children of few prominent senators ("The session will end soon, go home"), my peacekeepers arrived and I let them into the Senate chamber with direct instructions of getting rid of that black hole of factionalism and conspiracy inside. One of the soldiers gave me a spare chainmail which I promptly began wearing.

The senators must've known what's going on because few have been killed, several fled and most began to pull out daggers and clubs from beneath their togas (damned old guys!) and massive fight ensued. What's worse, some armed senators fled the chamber and bumped onto me so I had to flee into one of the side corridors filled with traps and magical devices.

In the corridor I animated a chimera statue to life (it killed two Senators on spot), then prayed to statue of St.Peter which came to life and began spewing plasma bolts at Senators. An aztec-mouth-arrow-spitting-trap also scored few dead Senators while Jove himself infused my gladius with powers of thunder so I could protect myself better from the savage elderly...

...Unfortunately for me this whole situation began to grow bad anyways as I noticed that number of my soldiers and hired blades is dwindling rather rapidly while Senators' group is still going strong. After a brave fight in which I punched a one Senator's skull in and then stabbed another, I activated the teleporter fountain and transported home (you should read more history books if you didn't know that ancient Romans had teleporters, duh!) before Lucius and others could pounce on me.

Woe! The moment I arrive at my fancy villa I see that it is under attack by some Celtic warriors and buncha mercenaries. I got shot in the side by an archer but the chainmail that I wore (and which I forgot about already) protected me from a nasty wound. I directed the captain of my guard to prepare the onagers while I picked up a bow myself and shot my assailant who was hiding behind some pine trees. The mercenaries and celts then begun their charge as my captain of the guard had me escorted inside my villa.

Then my alarm clock woke me up, unfortunately.

"Do not concern yourself with these ancient devices." Margaret turned to Fer.

"And Nansee is name of security satellite that helps run the communications system, incidentally sharing the name of the Old Goddess of Sentries and Watchmen. Is this a sufficient answer?"

Hit: 127-19 = 108, autohit!
Damage: 12-8 = 4dmg

Ayzebel strikes again!
Hit: 127-19 = 108, autohit!
Damage: 12-8 = 4dmg

//Dindgindgndingidging!

Hit: 106+15-29 = 92
Hit roll: 96, miss!

Thief A retaliates!
Hit: 89-15-12 = 62
Hit roll: 91, miss!

Hit: 95-29 = 66
Hit roll: 57, hit!
Damage: 17-2 = 15dmg

10+9 /2 = Up to 9HP restored

As some peoples have problems with asterisks"

Autocannon:
Name            Type () RNG MT WT CR Hit QL   
Autocannon      -    (-)1-3 6  20 5  80  100/100 [Ignores user's STR, ignores target's DEF. 4 attacks, but no more]Plasma Sword:
Name            Type () RNG MT WT CR Hit QL   
Plasma Sword    Slsh (A) 1  10 10 10 75  30/30 [Halves target's DEF for damage calculations]

Ethan shrugged at all this.

"I said I need two canisters worth of molding material to make certain* weapons. Cheap and common materials like silver use only one. As for the battery-powered weapons, I currently have access to the Autocannon, a heavy multi-projectile cannon that can pierce armor* or the humble Plasma Sword, that can easily slash through most known substances*, but of course we have only one battery and one molding canister." Margaret made a strange bleeping noise.

"There's one message from Professor DeMurray to you."

"Huh? What is it?"

"Text only. 'I have established contact with several radio stations across your lands. Please come down here immediately.' End of message."

"As I said..." Margaret made a pause.

"...I can make a new weapon for you. Iron, steel, silver; axe, bow, or giant hammer, you name it. However, devices dealing with psionic or subspace manip-" Paaause.

"...magic items not included."

The temperature was slowly getting chillier.

@Fer:

Fer could see a lot of lines and numbers flying on the screen from bottom to top. They dealt with 'mind control station #4 not responding', 'pathogen propagation 0.00023%', 'audio recording @ Domiria-3 established' and other various things.

The name 'Nansee' also popped up quite a few times.