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#2000
Entrance~
   The lighted passageway continues to the north where you can hear loud
cheering and the sounds of battle.  The walls are covered with posters
announcing future bouts in the arena with some of the famous gladiators.  
One poster catches your eye as it is written in blood red ink.    
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poster credits info~
   Builder   : Rumble
Zone         : 20 Arena
Began        : 1998
Player Level : 10-20
Rooms        : 100
Mobs         : 23
Objects      : 15
Shops        : 0
Triggers     : 0
Theme        : Gladiator Arena
Plot         : Modeled after a roman ampitheater.
Links        : 00es
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#2001
Spectators Entrance~
   A sign points spectators towards the stairs leading up into the balconies
while another points down towards the gladiators cells.  Yet another sign
points north towards the Gladiators Entrance.  The cheering is even louder
here.  You can barely hear the clash of weapons and screams of pain over it
all.
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sign~
   _____________________________
  |      Up - Balconies         |
  |   Down - Gladiators Cells   |
  |North - Entrance to the Arena|
  |_____________________________|
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#2002
Gladiators Entrance~
   Five separate arena's are accessible here, Four for each class and a 
fifth which can be used by any.  To the north is the Mages Arena, down
is the Warriors Arena.  East is the Thieves Arena and west is the Clerics
arena.  Stairs leading up take you into the Main arena in the center of the
Ampitheater.
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sign~
   _______________________
  | North - Mages Arena   |
  | East - Thieves Arena  |
  | West - Clerics Arena  |
  | Down - Warriors Arena |
  | Up - Main Arena       |
  |_______________________|
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#2003
Gladiators Cells~
   There is noise everywhere produced by the equipment of death, here a sword
is being sharpened, there someone is heating metal plates to be used on fallen
gladiators, to see if they are dead, here rods are produced, there whips to
encourage unwilling participants.    
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#2004
Training Room~
   These rooms are set aside by the Lanistas to train the gladiators.  The
vairous moves and attacks seem to be more for looks than anything else.  
Gladiators always have to play to the crowd.  
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#2005
Training Room~
   More gladiators spar and tussle back and forth across the room.  Sawdust and
dirt covers the floor.  Everything in the room is spartan and dull.  The only
thing extravagant is a few bits of the gladiators weaponry and armor.  
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#2006
Gladiators Cells~
   As unattractive as being a Gladiator may sound, a gladiator's life takes on
new meaning.  First, his status is now voluntary rather than involuntary.  He
also becomes a member of a cohesive group that is known for its courage, good
morale, and absolute fidelity to their master to the point of death.    
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#2007
Training Room~
   The Lanistas are hard at work preparing their gladiators for the big show.  
Many are scarred gladiator veterans themselves and know very well how to please
the crowd.  
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#2008
Training Room~
   A Lanistas demonstrates a few moves to a gladiator who is just learning the
ropes.  The motivation to learn is high since failing at this usually costs
someone their life or limbs.  
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#2009
Gladiators Cell~
   Gladiators are usually criminals, slaves, captured fugitives or 
prisoners of war.  It would seem that for men of these categories it 
was a matter of going from the frying pan into the fire, but that is 
a misunderstanding.  Becoming a gladiator is obviously better fate 
than being put to death by being set upon by wield animals or being 
tortured in the amphitheater
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#2010
Training Room~
   A lone gladiator here is on the verge of a breakdown.  He is faced with
either fighting to the death in the arena or being hung for not fighting.  
Either way death is assured with time.  
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#2011
Gladiators Room~
   A Gladiator devotes himself body and soul to the owner of his troupe or
lanista by swearing an oath "to endure branding, chains, flogging or death 
by the sword" and to do whatever the master ordered.   
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#2012
Gladiators Cells~
   No doubt it was thought too dangerous to allow private citizens to own 
and train gladiators, who could be easily turned into a private army for
revolutionary purposes.  Therefore, with very few exceptions, gladiators are
under the control and ownership of the emperor.
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#2013
Gladiators Room~
   A Gladiator devotes himself body and soul to the owner of his troupe or
lanista by swearing an oath "to endure branding, chains, flogging or death 
by the sword" and to do whatever the master ordered.
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#2014
Retiarius Cell~
   This room is set aside for the Retiarius who fight with a net, a spiked
trident and a dagger.  The floor is lined with straw and a smelly pot sits 
in the corner, how could anyone live in these conditions?
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#2015
Gladiators Cells~
   The gladiators life becomes a model of military discipline and through
courageous behavior he is also now capable of achieving honor similar to 
that enjoyed by Roman soldiers on the battlefield.
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#2016
Mirmillones Cell~
   This room is set aside for the Mirmillones, so called from the fish 
ornament on their helmets, armed with a short, thick sword, an oblong shield 
and leg and arm shields of metal.  A smelly pot sits in the corner.
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#2017
Retiarrus Cell~
   This is where the Retiarris wait to be brought up to the arena for their
bouts.  Most of them are dressed up in funny armor and look like common
thieves. 
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#2018
Gladiators Cells~
   Gladiators are owned by a person called a lanista and are trained in the
lanistas school . Training involves the learning of a series of figures, 
which are broken down into various phases.  The training of gladiators has 
been taken over by the state.
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#2019
Mirmillones Cell~
   This is where the Mirmillones wait to be brought up to the arena for 
their bouts.  Most of them are dressed up in funny armor and look like common
thieves.
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#2020
Samnites Cell~
   This is where the Samnites wait to be brought up to the arena for their
bouts.  Most of them are dressed up in funny armor and look like common
thieves. 
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#2021
Prisons~
   Cell doors to the east and west are closed and barred from the outside, you
hear voices muttering in a different and very strange language behind each door.
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#2022
Thraecian Cell~
   This is where the Thraecians wait to be brought up to the arena for their
bouts.  Most of them are dressed up in funny armor and look like common
thieves.    
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#2023
Ostrich Cell~
   This is where the exotic animals for the arena games are kept until 
needed.  Straw lines the floor and the animals refuse is thick on the floor.  
The animals are starved before the games so they will be crazed and 
aggressive. 
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#2024
Prisons~
   These dungeons are damp, dark and reek of some unidentifiable source.  All
the victims to be led into the arena are kept down here until their fight.  
Those that do not fight are killed.  
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#2025
Animals Cell~
   This is where animals for the arena games are kept until needed.  Straw
lines the floor and the animals refuse is thick on the floor.  The animals 
are starved before the games so they will be crazed and aggressive.
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#2026
Elephants Cell~
   This is where the exotic animals for the arena games are kept until 
needed.  Straw lines the floor and the animals refuse is thick on the floor.  The
animals are starved before the games so they will be crazed and aggressive.
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#2027
Prisons~
   The smell of refuse is strong here, coming mostly from behind the closed
doors to the east and west.  The prisons continue north and south with a long
hallway of cells.  
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#2028
Giraffes Cell~
   This is where the exotic animals for the arena games are kept until 
needed.  Straw lines the floor and the animals refuse is thick on the 
floor.  The animals are starved before the games so they will be crazed 
and aggressive.
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#2029
Lions Cell~
   This is were the wild animals for the arena games are kept until 
needed.  Straw lines the floor and the animals refuse is thick on the floor.  
The animals are starved before the games so they will be crazed and 
aggressive.
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#2030
Prisons~
   Doors to the east and west lead to the prison cells.  You hear growling and
snarling in both directions.  The prisons continue north and south with no end
in sight.  
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#2031
Animals Cell~
   This is were the wild animals for the arena games are kept until 
needed.  Straw lines the floor and the animals refuse is thick on the floor.  
The animals are starved before the games so they will be crazed and 
aggressive.
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#2032
Prisons~
   The Prison to the south is full of activity while to the north you see a
trail of blood.  You also notice light filtering in from the north penetrating
the gloom.  
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#2033
Prisons~
   The prison continues north out the back entrance of ampitheater and south
deeper into the prisons.  A trail of blood leads to the east.  Wheelbarrow
treadmarks are visible in the blood.  
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#2034
Training Room~
   Another practice room the Lanistas set aside for their gladiators.  The
competition is intense and a good gladiator can make their owner very wealthy
and famous.  
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#2035
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The 
air in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue 
of forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow 
with a faint phosphurescent light, making the paintings of various mages 
locked in battle along the walls seem alive.
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#2036
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The 
air in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue 
of forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow 
with a faint phosphurescent light, making the paintings of various mages 
locked in battle along the walls seem alive.
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#2037
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The 
air in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue 
of forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow 
with a faint phosphurescent light, making the paintings of various mages 
locked in battle along the walls seem alive.
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#2038
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The 
air in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue 
of forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow 
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#2039
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The air
in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue of
forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow with a
faint phosphurescent light, making the paintings of various mages locked in
battle along the walls seem alive.  Are you ready to Rumble?    
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#2040
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The air
in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue of
forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow with a
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#2041
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The air
in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue of
forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow with a
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#2042
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The air
in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue of
forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow with a
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#2043
Mages Arena~
   This arena was built solely for gladiatorial duels between mages.  The air
in this room seems to be charged and you can feel the powerful residue of
forces that have been unleashed during previous battles.  The walls glow with a
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#2044
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2045
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2046
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2047
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2048
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?  Are you ready to Rumble?    
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#2049
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2050
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2051
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?  
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#2052
Thieves Arena~
   This room was made especially for gladiatorial bouts between thieves.  
Pillars of black marble and widely spaced torches cause shadows to dance wildly
around the room.  A thief could easily practice his skills in hiding and
backstabbing in such a room.  Life size drawings of famous thieves cover the
walls, which one of them isn't a drawing?    
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#2053
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2054
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2055
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2056
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2057
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.  Are you ready to Rumble?    
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#2058
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2059
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2060
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2061
Clerics Arena~
   This arena was made specifically for gladiatorial matches between clerics.
The room is well-lit by some unseen source from high above.  Though clerics are
usually thought of as healers they can also be deadly opponents.  Murals of
clerics from the past hang on all the walls.    
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#2062
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.    
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#2063
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2064
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2065
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2066
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling. Are you ready to Rumble?
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#2067
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2068
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2069
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2070
Warriors Arena~
   This large dome-ceiling room has been set aside for gladiatorial fights
between warriors of great strength and weapon-skills.  The room has a slight
smoky haze from the torches sputtering in brackets lining the walls.  
Paintings of famous battles and past gladiators cover the room floor to
ceiling.
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#2071
Main Arena~
   The arena continues east and south the walls are too steep and sloped 
inward to climb to the north or west.  The crowd above starts yelling at 
you to begin fighting soon or they would send in some real gladiators.
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#2072
Main Arena~
   The floor of the arena is covered with a fine sand.  The crowd cheers in
anticipation of the fighting and blood shed.  The sound is deafening and
definitely distracting.  
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#2073
Main Arena~
   The crowd is deafening and the heat stifling.  The sand is baking underneath
your feet.  This is where the gladiators fight to the death for the pleasure of
the citizens of Rome.  
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#2074
Main Arena~
   The arena floor is slick with blood and other bodily fluids that make 
your stomach turn.  Above you is the Imperial Box where Emporer Titus 
commands the fights of the arena.
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#2075
Main Arena~
   You stand in the center of the arena, the crowd starts to calm down and
silence blankets the arena as everyone waits in anticipation.  Are you 
ready to Rumble?
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#2076
Main Arena~
   Thousands of battles and even more deaths have colored the sand on the
arena floor a sickly brown.  Slaves are dumping fresh sand over the 
stains, but it doesn't seem to be helping.
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#2077
Main Arena~
   The crowd is going wild and you start to wonder if some of them may come
down into the arena after you.  In the crowd above you sits the prestigous
magistrates senators augurs and priests of Rome.
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#2078
Main Arena~
   The walls slope inwards above you making it impossible to scale.  The 
heat and noise of the crowd is very aggravating.  Your foot sinks into 
a puddle  of blood from the last person who came into this arena.
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#2079
Main Arena~
   Prisoners can fight for their freedom here to become gladiators and make
some good money or even better become a famous gladiator and be in awe 
from all the citizens of Rome.
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#2080
Roman Ampitheatre~
   The arena below you is empty right now, but from the shouting of the 
crowd you expect the games are about to begin.  The crowd that seems to 
be more of a mob than anything else is growing impatient.
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#2081
Roman Ampitheatre~
   The amphitheater is a microcosm of Roman society.  The seating 
arrangements reflect the stratification of Roman society.  The emperor 
has a special box for himself and his family.  Senators and knights sit in 
their own special section.  Soldiers are separated from civilians, married 
men, from bachelors.  Boys and their tutors sit together.  Women, except 
for the Vestal Virgins who sit in the best seats with religious officials, 
sit with the poorest men in the top tier.
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#2082
Imperial Box~
   The emporer sits on his lavish throne, watching the bouts that he has
provided for his people so they will look upon him with favor.  The Vestal
Virgins sit to both sides of the emporer fanning themselves from the 
opressive heat.
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#2083
Roman Ampitheatre~
   Certain criminals are executed here by being given to the wild beasts 
or are forced to fight to the death as gladiators.  It also represents the 
domination of Rome over its enemies: prisoners of war are either executed 
or forced to fight each other as gladiators.  But for the professional 
gladiator it is also a place of redemption, in which one can overcome death 
by victory or by stoically accepting it.
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#2084
Roman Ampitheatre~
   Several slaves walk into the arena with barrows of sand to cover over the
blood stains and prepare for the next bout.  The populace is once again 
getting restless.
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#2085
Roman Ampitheatre~
   Slaves, that had been forced to exhaust themselves helping to finish
building the very amphitheatre in which they are to die, are pushed into the
arena.  As the mob screams, howls and roars, barred doors are lifted, 
releasing man-eating lions and tigers who have not been fed for quite a time. 
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#2086
Roman Ampitheatre~
   At last this fighting seems to have gone on long enough to satisfy,
momentarily, the mob.  The few survivors retire to get their laurel crowns,
their bags of gold and to anticipate the adulation of Rome.  Squads of 
little men run into the arena with ropes and metal hooks to drag the bodies of the
dead and wounded to a mortuary cell where valuable weapons and armour are
retrieved and sorted out.  The gasping, bleeding, groaning and wounded are
finished off.  The bodies are then piled into carts to be taken and flung 
into a nameless common grave.
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#2087
Roman Ampitheatre~
   Flashing swords, the clash of steel, and the first wounds arouse the
passions, the hatred and the desperate fury of the gladiators and inflame 
the blood-lust of the mob.  The shouts and yells and screams of the 
onlookers grow to a huge, roaring crescendo of sound as one Samnite after 
another go down with their stomachs gashed open or their necks spouting 
blood and one Thracian after another crumbles with a Samnite sword through 
his chest.  Reinforcements are rushed in to restore the balance and to add 
to the pile of bleeding, writhing bodies on the sand-strewn floor. 
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#2088
Roman Ampitheatre~
   Another fanfare of trumpets announces the entry of two teams of 24
gladiators in charge of two renowned trainers, themselves former gladiators
who, scarred and maimed, have some how survived with their glory from many a
combat.  According to tradition, 24 men heavily armed as the ancient 
Samnites, Rome's oldest enemies, face 24 lightly clad and lightly armed 
'Thracians,' each with exposed chests.  Both teams march smartly up to face 
the Emperor in his resplendent Imperial Box to shout as one man: 'Hail, 
Caesar.  Those about to die salute you.
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#2089
Roman Ampitheatre~
   A tremendous fanfare of trumpets follows the entrance of the Emporer.  
The Games begin.  It is the turn of the gladiators, men trained for battle, 
sworn to the gladiators' oath to suffer death by fire, in chains, under 
the lash or by the sword as their master might decide and to obey as a 
true gladiator should.
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#2090
Roman Ampitheatre~
   You walk under a spread of canvas which sailors of the fleet have slung 
as a partial roof from masts all around the amphitheatre's rim, to serve 
as a shield against the sun.  It makes a hothouse of the upper seats.  
After the solemn, long procession of civic dignitaries, priests and 
performers, together with images of the gods, the entry of the Emperor 
Titus across the floor of the arena is the signal for renewed frenzied 
applause from the restive crowd. 
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#2091
Roman Ampitheatre~
   The first rows are filled with senators, priests, augars, magistrates, 
and other officials of distinction.  Up to the first 17 rows are crammed 
with the worthy citizens of wealth and standing.  Above them and entirely 
filling the second and third rows up to the very top is the mob making up 
the great mass of the inhabitants of the Imperial City.
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#2092
Roman Ampitheatre~
   The whole amphitheatre and the lavish shows held in it are arranged to 
keep the populace of this city amused.  Excitable and noisy the crowds 
near-animal instincts and passions unrestrained by education, good manners 
or breeding, are squashed promiscuously together, men, women and children, 
crying, shouting and sweating in a deafening crescendo of noise.
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#2093
Roman Ampitheatre~
   It is here the Roman's hold their gladiatorial games, with man against 
man or man against beast.  Trap doors in the floor allow famous gladiators 
to make grand entrances, or to allow the Caesar to spring animals into the 
arena.  The Colosseum looks like it could hold about 50,000 spectators,
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#2094
Roman Ampitheatre~
   You have entered a great oval amphitheatre, also known as the Colosseum,
crowds of people pour in through the entrance, pushing, shoving and 
scrambling to fill the top half of the immense number of seats looking down 
on the huge arena.  It looks like the whole of Rome is here.
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#2095
Roman Ampitheatre~
   Thousands of people are crowded together, pushing, shoving, trying to 
find the best view of the arena below.  A bout must be getting started soon.  
Gladiators fight for money or in order to compensate for crimes they have
comitted.  The money is good and the adoration of the people of Rome is even
better.
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#2096
Mortuary Cell~
   The losers of various bouts in the arena are piled high while slaves sort
through the corpses retrieving the weapons and armor for a future battle.  
Flies are everywhere and you gag at the stench.
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#2097
Outside the Ampitheater~
   The ampitheater towers above you to the south and you stare at the impressive
roman architecture.  The smell of death hangs heavy in the air.  So many
gladiators have fought and died in this place.  
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#2098
Common Grave~
   A massive hole has been dug here to dump all the corpses from the arena
fights.  A few beggars scrounge through the corpses looking for valuables.  The
stench is overpowering.  
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#2099
Trophy Room~
   Trophies line the walls of all the famous gladiators.  You notice 5 
medals hanging inside a glass case, 4 of them are for the strongest 
gladiators of each class, Mage, Thief, Warrior and Cleric.  The fifth is 
for the strongest gladiator alive, no matter what class.  Do you think you
could compete for and win one of them?  A sign listing the rules of the 
arena is posted here. 
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godsign~
     This arena is not meant for random player killing of anyone within, 
but was instead made for players to challenge and fight against each other
to see who is the strongest.  Players can challenge each other in any of 
the arenas, the strongest of each class will be awarded a medal, or if 
he/she is the strongest of all classes he/she will also receive the
gladiators medal.  There will only be one medal for each class and the 
gladiators medal.  Who ever holds a medal MUST meet all challenges, within 
one day of the challange, or forfeit their right to keep it.  Do not make 
the gods interfere.  If you can't meet a challenge for whatever reason 
simply give up the medal and win it back at another time.  If you are 
going to be gone for more than a week junk the medal and inform the gods 
so other players can compete for it.  Player looting and Player stealing 
is NOT allowed. Matches can be played to the death or the first to flee.  
Either way the loser, if he has the medal, must give it to the winner.
The gods will give out the medals to the first champions.
After that we expect the players to handle it.
Again, don't make the gods interfere!
Rumble
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