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[captain_vidal]

Will all ports be as that one, I wonder? I might have enjoyed it more, but the company kept could be so...Godless, at the best and worst of times. There were some things the Romans had right, but it would take the introduction of the Church to turn them from most of their vices.

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[tadwizard]

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Who are you?

[captain_vidal]

That is a little rude, is it not? You initiated conversation. Are you no obligated to introduce yourself first?

[tadwizard]

Fine. Tony Foster. And you are?

[captain_vidal]

Captain Sergei Vidal.

[sapphic_hero]

They had gods. They were simply not your god.

[captain_vidal]

All the better that they converted, then.

[sapphic_hero]

I assume you are a Catholic. This church of yours, it is too pushy.

[captain_vidal]

I was under the impression that you and I were not to be talking anymore, Signora.

[cautionarystory]

Yeah? I didn't find any of the things they had right. And I think some napalm and an acetylene torch would be more qualified to solve their problems than the Church.

[captain_vidal]

They knew how to celebrate the warrior; it is the one credit I will grant them.

[cautionarystory]

Did they give the warrior a nifty gold chair on a dais and parade him around while nubile slavegirls fed him grapes?

[captain_vidal]

I saw no such display, personally.

[quiteknavish]

So many of the pushy religious kind here! It's almost like I'm back in the beginnings of demonizing, how refreshing.

Their Roman vices were charming, weren't they?

[captain_vidal]

To which vices do you refer? The effeminate men and pederasts, the women in the Colosseum, or the public intercourse?

[quiteknavish]

Everything is charming if you tilt your head the right way and look at them upside down, I do so assure you!