Ostia and Portus, spring 62 CE, Nero's ninth year.

• All characters are adults.
• Sex cuts away at the door; desire, tension and aftermath stay on the page.
• Violence may be graphic where earned.
• Never instructional detail for weapons, drug synthesis, or intrusion methods.
• No slurs written out. Bigotry shows through behaviour and consequence.
• Slavery, coerced labour, threatened sale, patronal control, and a freedom price.
• Institutional hunger, ration queues, financial fraud, poverty, and corpse recovery.
• Graphic fire injuries and one death in the warehouse; custodial assault and bruising.
• Alcohol misuse, grief, class and gender subjugation, and legal intimidation.

Text-first draft: backgrounds and character art are generated placeholders and there is no audio yet.