Whips are preserved to very nasty scribes, and mine is a special bronze-boosted version Heraklia has donated me for all the spanking I've done. No way I'd lend it to anyone so next time, Laurels, Paullus (who started a nasty scribes area for NON-SCRIBES too and I'll NEVER be able to FORGET THAT), if he ever claims he has my whip... he's bluffing. It's rather obvious.

I'm starting to regret certain votes I posted at a certain other group lately, if that's not very very obvious now.

And. To proceed to other business. What I can offer all of you is a quill and a parchment. Now one would perhaps think these are for wossies such as Aulus Sergius. Nope. A quill is a very tactful small weapon. One can, for example, very well threaten a 20 AD bank clerk with one - the security systems are virtually nonexistent. In addition, the quills are rather short so you can easily hide them under your toga or even tunica if it's very hot. If I were an emperor, I'd ban quills instantly, but I'm just a Seneca.

The parchment is just to justify your holding a quill whenever you wish to assasinate someone without raising much doubt, or at least keeping the doubt reasonable (although that is not the foundation of our judicial system, but you never know how long they'll investigate the murder - think about the Swedish police, for example). Remember to make sure to tell people that you have got this new type of red ink to the quill from Nubia, or another such country they haven't visited but have only read Suetonius's fantastic tales about. Otherwise they'll start thinking about the red inklike BLOOD on the quill and report you to the nearest Vigile.

Is this clear?