Caesar nodded, standing up from his reclining chaise and brushing away the attendant harem as he clapped his hand to his embossed breastplate in salute. Gesturing politely towards the gynoid ambassador to follow him, the emperor and his guest walked leisurely along through the columns, admiring the view below as the Roman answered:
"Regarding your first question, I must applaud your powers of perception. In my idle youth I did indeed amuse myself with a good deal of role-playing games.. although I've since given most of that up, it has helped shape my writing and makes for good imaginative source material to draw upon in the Sharon the Gladiator thread. My campaign world featured a desert setting not too dissimilar to the one in StG; as the thread progresses and we get into the arena, all that roleplaying experience will probably play more influence in my writing."
"The other prominent sources of inspiration for that thread are twofold: one is a comic by the Italian illustrator Asperizi (fairly sure that's how it's spelled); the title escapes me but the main protagonist is in fact a lovely gynoid not dissimilar to yourself" -- here the emperor gave a half bow of courtesy -- "so perhaps you might be familiar with it. It features this woman's adventures in slavery under a depraved queen on a foreign planet, which was the original direction I was thinking of taking the Sharon's Slavery thread. That split at the slave market, with the House of Duchess Tiranda thread about the busty young Duchess petering out mostly because I couldn't sustain it all by myself."
"JH took interest in the gladiator idea and it ended progressing on its own from there; the Russell Crowe movie is the other source of (comparatively minor) inspiration, mostly for the initial sequences of being shaved and so forth (the bath and grooming sequence is inspired from a vague memory of Crowe walking through some chute in the movie.)"
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