SPQR: The Empire's Darkest Hour - Hints

Game Start
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Sewer: Examine the machinery.
First room: If it's broke, fix it!
Second room: Reading is fundamental.

January
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Where are the scrolls? Ask someone with a map.

Getting the scrolls:
Verania: Under your nose.
Lucius: Drinking and boating DO go together -- count on it!
Gordian: Pick one from column A, one from column B, etc. -- but
get it right from the ground up. (See Lucius's notebook.)
Xanthus: A stone is a many-sided thing. (See Gordian's
notebook.)

Sibyl: Mirror mirror on the wall . . . . Monkey see, monkey do. (See
Sibyl's notebook.)

The strongbox:
The twins have the key, and the box.

In Gordian's journal, between a nag and an inconvenience lies a
security precaution, especially on January 22nd.
Trust Gordian -- he knows all the angles.

February
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Treasure lies beneath your feet.
You pay your money and you take your chances.
Every picture tells a story. (See Verania's notebook.)

March
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Restarting the Navitor: You'll get it by hook or by crook in Spring.

The puzzle: Get thee behind me and figure out the difference
between then and now. Then light my fire!

April
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Play the ancient fiddler.
The right isn't right, but be quick.
Patience is a virtue when you want to leave.

May
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What really weighs what -- and where?
Remember your multiplication tables.

June
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Restarting the Navitor: Optimum is best where Spring leads to
Summer.
The puzzle: The Sacred Grove holds many secrets. Can you dig
it?
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the
topless towers of Ilium? (See Verania's notebook.)
A very jarring situation.

July
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What comes up, must come down, then go out, then go up.
Veni, vidi, vici -- chronologically. (See Gordian's notebook.)
If heat makes things bigger, then cold . . .
Go with the flow of hot to not so hot.

August
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Can cows swim?
I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth with a bang over there.

September
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Restarting the Navitor: Get the connection in Autumn.
The puzzle: Whaddaya got that Vespasian ain't got?
Crawlin' through the wreckage.
Jupiter has something to relay.
Find in the light going up what you couldn't find in the dark going
down.

October
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Spell it, outside and inside.
Who conquered what? (See Gordian's Notebook.)

November
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Restarting the Navitor: See Cornelius's sketch and go from Spring
to Winter.
The puzzle: Rebuild, and add your own touch.

December
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On top of old Severus, all covered with clues . . .
The glittering monument has got your number.
You can run rings around Saturn.
Able was I ere I saw Elba.
Be forceful with the statue -- if you choose.

Endgame
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Brave the elements.
Not all woods are created equal. (See Gordian's notebook.)
Go out with a bang, but don't give up!
Who left the most toys?
If I were Calamitus, I'd enjoy Winter, where:
I could be rather cutting,
OR
the shinbone's connected to the . . .





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