17 Works in The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
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Et Nos Cedamus Amori by SilverDeityOfSecretNight
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
02 Jun 2025
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In which the Oracle attempts to seduce Horatius, and things go wrong (but eventually pretty right).
Dating a man she met in hell who lived and died two thousand years before her birth was never going to be without its challenges. The Oracle is well aware of this, despite the fact that every interaction with Horatius is better than the last - especially those times when the warmth in his bronze eyes feels more like fire, and she nearly combusts from pent-up desire, and the only things stopping them from tumbling into bed (or wherever) are his Herculean self-control and her fear of disappointing him.
It's then she realizes: their problem isn't the time between visits, or the two millennia between their origins, or the demands of his military career. Their problem is in the bedroom.
Or rather, their problem is about the bedroom, since they never actually make it that far. Because if Horatius is a man for whom self-control is paramount and she's afraid to show him just how passionate she can be, how are they ever going to cross this line?
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- Part 5 of One for the Ages
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Quod Obstat Viae Fit Via by SilverDeityOfSecretNight
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
21 Apr 2025
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Time heals all wounds - or so the saying goes. A trite consolation for those who are helplessly mired in pain.
But what happens when time is the cause of one’s wounds? What happens when time, though wielded as a tool to redress unimaginable cruelty, has also carved out pieces of a person in the process? Displacement in time. Repetition of time. Separation by time. Injury after injury. Where is the consolation then? The comfort? The hope?
When time is what has wounded so deeply, where then does one turn for healing?
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- Part 3 of One for the Ages
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,575
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 8
- Hits:
- 27
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All That Time Devours by SilverDeityOfSecretNight
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
14 Nov 2024
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Faced with spending the rest of her life in classical antiquity, the Oracle adapts with the help of the ancient family who now, finally, remember her. If she leans most on the steady, reassuring presence of a certain Stoic legionary, it's only with the understanding that she can never allow herself to forget this truth: Horatius has three great loves, and she isn't among them. His life is ordered around Stoicism, the legion, and his girl. The Oracle always wanted him to be happy in that life. She just never thought she'd have to watch him live it.
For his part, Horatius thinks theirs will be a strange relationship. Fitting for a strange woman, from a strange world, with strange thoughts and strange speech, who looks at him with a strange familiarity that makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end. And yet, he cannot stop it, the compulsion to reciprocate in kind, and he finds that the strangest thing of all.
AU wherein the Oracle remains displaced in time.
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a gift or a present; an offering or a sacrifice
Despair mounts with each failed loop, her desperation to break the curse nigh overwhelming. But it's the generosity of a good man that is what truly breaks her.
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Twin Victims, Trapped in Time by DarkNightingale29
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game), Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
31 Aug 2024
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Based on the Forgotten City mod for Skyrim
Dwemora finds Jarl Metellus's secret room and discovers the chained prisoner within. When Metellus returns and catches his adopted daughter trying to free the prisoner, he is most displeased. He had other plans for Dwemora.
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Empire Is A Palimpsest [Meta] by osteophage
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
03 Mar 2024
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Metacommentary on The Forgotten City's portrayal of different ancient societies and how that reflects on the choice to give British accents to the Romans.
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- Part 4 of Land, Empire, and Colonialism
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Tendit In Ardua Virtus by SilverDeityOfSecretNight
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
13 Nov 2023
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In which the Oracle and Horatius visit the Borghese Gallery, prompting a series of confessions.
She’s fairly certain he’ll take them all in stride. This is, after all, Horatius: a thoughtful, steady, compassionate Stoic. But even if he doesn’t, there’s no avoiding the conversation. She, too, has her principles. And she will not hold him the way Pluto held Proserpina. She will not be so blindly desperate to keep him that she does him wrong.
A vignette from the week in Rome.
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- Part 4 of One for the Ages
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A Love for the Ages by Cantatrice18
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
11 Aug 2023
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Proserpina watches helplessly as Iulia is tormented and goaded into attempting suicide. Once the golden rule is lifted and the city is freed, the goddess seeks out Iulia and confesses that she has grown to care for the young Roman woman far more than she ever believed possible.
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Credo Quia Absurdum by SilverDeityOfSecretNight
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
25 Apr 2023
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Horatius is a man well-equipped to handle adversity. He learned long ago that the world is a harsh place, and he has no expectations otherwise. Happiness doesn't come from the external, but from the internal: from cultivating virtue, from doing what is just, from the discernment of what is and isn't in one's control, from moderation and courage and perspective. He knows how to find contentment. How to reconcile with fate.
The problem is, he keeps getting his fate wrong.
But in fairness, mortals can't be expected to anticipate the intervention of gods and oracles - especially when the oracle involved defies all definition.
AKA: How Horatius comes to ask a woman he's met only twice to be with him. Companion piece to 'Finis Vitae Sed Non Amoris.'
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- Part 2 of One for the Ages
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The Ending For Us by CptSacredSaxon
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
20 Nov 2022
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Rufius contemplates life, love, and his place in them.
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Finis Vitae Sed Non Amoris by SilverDeityOfSecretNight
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
20 Oct 2022
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She wonders which god is responsible for this sick joke - she's fallen for a (loyal, infuriating, principled, dedicated, wonderful) man who will never remember her, who just so happened to die two thousand years before she was born, and who will have been dead again for two thousand years if she ever escapes this hell.
Shakespeare’s Juliet has got nothing on her: this is some seriously messed up star-crossed something or other. But if Pluto can lock hundreds of people away under threat of being gilded if a single person sins, whatever the hell is happening - or, more accurately, not happening - between her and Horatius easily sounds like something a god would dream up.
But Horatius has taught her how to reconcile with fate. He has taught her not to fear her own love. And he has taught her that love means being willing to let go just as much as it means desiring to hold close.
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- Part 1 of One for the Ages
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Rufius reflects on last night's actions and further battles with his feelings around Vergil.
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- Part 2 of Torchlight
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River of Souls by Cantatrice18
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
23 Sep 2022
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Sentia refuses to return to the living world, having fallen hard for the enigmatic ferrywoman of the underworld, Charon.
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The Price of Love and Lust by Cantatrice18
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
17 Sep 2022
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Pluto's reign has ended, and as Proserpina readies the citizens of the city to leave and return to the world, certain truths come to light.
In which the extent of Sentius's cruelty is revealed, and we discover what the statues were really thinking as they watched over the final group of test subjects.
MAJOR SPOILERS (obviously)
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A Thousand Denarii by DarkNightingale29
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
16 Sep 2022
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Malleolus finds a way around the Golden Rule and delights in tormenting Iulia. But when he tries to involve his bodyguard, Domitius, in his crude games, the ex-gladiator is having none of it. With time quickly running out, Domitius must get his hands on a thousand denarii to free Iulia from her bondage. Yet he's not the only one in the city with a grudge. More than a few citizens are willing to foil Malleolus's plans, particularly if it means swindling a certain unpleasant barmaid in the process.
Alternate storyline in which Iulia is not driven to suicide, and Aurelia finally gets what's coming to her.
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Embraceable by BlackenedNightingale (DarkNightingale29)
Fandoms: The Forgotten City (Modern Storyteller Video Game)
08 Sep 2022
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Sentilla returns from her captivity in the cistern only to find her beloved Ulpius in the arms of his fellow bondman, Iulia. But the truth is far more sinister than it first appears, and Sentilla must set aside her animosity in order to save Iulia from despair.
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There's many things one can do with stones; exfoliate, skip one across water, chisel words and drawings into them, and of course, whatever the fuck poor Rufius has going on.
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- Part 1 of Torchlight