Last Days of the Library

The year is 273 C.E. Emperor Aurelian, the “Restorer of the East”, is in battle with Queen Zenobia, the Warrior Queen of Palmyra, whose empire has cut into what was once Roman lands. Zenobia currently rules all of Egypt, and Rome is not pleased. Especially since the rich Egyptian grain harvests no longer flow into Roman ports. In retaliation Aurelian orders the Brucheion, the royal section of Alexandra, burned.

Unfortunately, the famous Library, part of the Musaeum of Alexandria, is located in the Brucheion. What Aurelian doesn’t know is that there is a second library, the Serapeum, located in Rhachotis, the city slums, found in the southwest of Alexandria. As Aurelian’s men prepare to burn the Brucheion, others prepare to save what they can.

That's where you come in. You play as someone tied to the Library, living in the Brucheion, or working in the Serapeum who wants to save what they can before the Library burns.

Tragically, just over 100 years later, the Serapeum is razed, but that tale is best left for a different game.

This is an adventure written for the DramaSystem. It requires the DramaSystem to play.

This game was created for the RPG Geek DramaSystem Contest 2015