Scenario:
The praefectus annonae has invited you to be part of a group of Romans who will accompany a young woman from the province of Baetica, Coelia Mascellina, on a tour of various locations in Rome. She has recently taken over her mother's business of exporting olive oil and wine from Baetica, and the prefect wants to make sure she enjoys this tour so that he can negotiate a favorable contract with her to supply olive oil for the troops. He is counting on you to introduce her to the part of Rome you know best.
Your Tasks:
1) Reveal your personality to Coelia and the others in the group as you converse and move about the city. You, Doctus, are a very successful mime actor, but you want to be viewed as an artist and intellectual. Your profession's low reputation makes you insecure, so you tend to be rather pompous and pretentious. You dress most respectably in a beautifully draped toga, and you declaim quotations from your favorite playwright, the mime author Publilius Syrus, whenever you can work them into the conversation. Here are a few such quotations; you can find many others by typing "Publilius Syrus quotations" in Google:
* It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody.
* Practice is the best of all instructors.
* No one knows what he can do until he tries.
* There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
* To do two things at once is to do neither.
* No one should be judge in his own case.
* Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently.
* Money alone sets all the world in motion.
2) Take the group to the Theater of Marcellus. Ask everyone to start at Rome by using the Quick Jump bookmark or typing @go Rome, then click on Region 9 South in the map (lowest part of the region near the bend in the Tiber), then click Theater of Marcellus. Using the exits, lead them through the Porticus, Vomitorium, Orchestra, Cavea, and Scaena. Tell them a little about the theater as they go; just pick out a few interesting facts to highlight for the group (and tell them which links in the descriptions they should click). Be sure to include information about the mime (and quotations from Publilius Syrus) whenever you can. Once at the Scaena, have them all click "Dressing Room (English)," Mercury, and Sosia to learn about the scene they are going to view. Then you type /activate Sosia (don't forget the slash) and after he has appeared type /activate Mercury to launch the scene. After the scene is over, you can make disparaging comparisons with the mime. If there is time, the group can go back to the Orchestra and attempt to converse with the comic actor Pseudolus (a bot).