Here are entries XVII, XVIII and XVIX for Essexian's convenience.

Here are entries XVII, XVIII and XVIX for Essexian's convenience.

A few thoughts have occurred to me:

1) Pliny the Elder's death during his attempt to evacuate Pompeii with the Roman fleet is very strange. Notably, all of his companions with him at the beach, including Pliny the Younger, survive. It is speculated that he could have succumbed to asthma, but it is remarked that when they returned for his body three days later, it didn't have a mark on it. Could Pliny have been a simulacrum? Could he have succumbed to a similar condition to Jarvis?

2) Vesuvius eruption date discrepancy- in a letter from Pliny the Younger to Titus recounting the eruption and death of Pliny the Elder, the date of the explosion is given as August 24. However, considerable archaeological evidence (the clothes people were wearing, the sealed wine bottles) indicates a September or October eruption. Most historians have ascribed the date discrepancy in the first letter to a transcription error. Consider the alternatives. Given what we know so far, it seems that an xm-induced temporal anomaly could explain the date discrepancy. The eruption might have been triggered by activating a powerful xm weapon. Perhaps the shield of Obsidius contained an xm or chaotic matter explosion, the release of energy triggering the eruption.

3) It seems that the Vesuvian Magnus, is indeed under Mount Vesuvius and is either a person or group of people.....

I can't wait to hear others' thoughts. Also, what do we think of the picture at the bottom? How will this new type of portal clue unfold?