Blood & Laurels

It's the eight hundred and twenty first year of the city of Rome, a year of bad omens and unrest under a bloodthirsty Emperor.

Marcus is concerned with two things: his poetry, and keeping his patron Artus happy. But when Artus sends him to ask a secret question of an oracle, Marcus is forced to get involved -- with conspiracies, politics, and a woman he is trying to forget.

-- Guide Marcus through conspiracies and prophecies. Determine whether he lives or dies, whom he loves, and what his motives are

-- Interact with AI-supported characters who remember past events and respond dynamically to the player, becoming friends, enemies, or romantic partners

-- Discover your own outcome in a highly replayable story with many available endings, in which a single reading encounters less than 20% of the possible text

-- Unlock different relationships with other characters and experiment with how they change the story experience