MORITURI TE SALUTANT

MORITURI TE SALUTANT is the fourth battle of Season Intermission, created by Wojjan and XX.

The battle was originally located here.

Player Characters
Originally Grotto's place was occupied by Mysiddion written by Godbot, until he withdrew from the battle for his own reasons. Both Pharmacy and Sanzh were later arrivals to the battle to occupy spots left by inactive or eliminated authors.

Supporting Characters
The Haruspex - The Grandmaster in charge of this battle.

Vox Nihili (or Stephanoxis) - A Grandmaster killed by the Haruspex. She is forced to take on his responsibility, i.e. his battle about to start. He now has the form of a hummingbird.

Round One: Jamie Knight and the Mystery of Shrewdish Manor
Dead Characters: Grotto and Varljiv

This round takes place in a haunted house with trick mirrors and secret passages and all that kind of stuff. Jamie Knight is a detective investigating the house. There is rumoured to be some treasure hidden somewhere in the mansion.

Round Two: Il Maledicta
Dead Character: Hector

Il Maledicta is an ancient, titanic theater built solely to house the legendary operatic epic In The Company of Full-Stop Angels, a production so many years in the making no one is entirely sure when it began or what exactly they’re supposed to be doing about it. Over the years the hordes of extras, stagehands, lighting crews, and bit part players have settled down and started families, gradually forgetting all life outside the theater and developing a rich and complex culture revolving around the secular worship of the thespian life. A vast number of forged copies of the script of Angels have emerged, to the point where no one can agree on who is playing who, or what the play is actually about, but everyone is certain that they have a leading role. The people of Il Maledicta are always in costume, always ready for the stage, and have sworn upon their great-grandparent’s linebook to never, ever break character.

An additional subplot is that the contestants are tasked with finding and killing Imago Dei, Vox’s old associate of dubious relationship.

Two additional characters were incorporated into the battle in this round: Nestor and Lavi Lannon.

Round Three: Ophidian Jade
A speakeasy hidden beneath the streets, Ophidian Jade is one of the premier sources in the city for Red Harmonic- a wild and dangerous drug that’s fiercely guarded, extremely illegal, and naturally incredibly popular. Crime families wage war beneath the city to keep the smuggling routes open and to battle each other for control of the trade. Each contestant arrives with a small unremovable pin showing allegiance to one of the crime families.