# Pompeii IRARAH

Paul Koop

The Pompeii Project

IRARAH

Those who promise paradise often demand death.

A story from the Pompeii Project

I would be wary if someone promised me paradise but simultaneously demanded that I blow myself up to reach it.

Table of contents

Prologue – The Beginning of a New Era 3

InSim 4

The call 7

Way home to the Collegium 9

Trip to Pompeii 14

The workshop 19

Return trip to Rome and Pompeii 26

Back at the Collegium 29

ARS sends a carrier pigeon 34

Conversation with the Provincial and the Rector 40

Conversation with the General and the Pontiff 47

ARS and the software agents arrive at the Vatican's data center. 55

The encounter in the simulation 63

Escape from Pompeii 69

Flight to Germany 75

Arrival at the monastery in Germany 81

Epilogue – The message from ARS 88

Sources: 94