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Since there's a lot of calls for an explanation, I will say that this was not a roll on a secret table or a way of punishing success. This was planned from the moment I revived this quest. I knew that I wanted to bring about a great flood as an apocalyptic event around the end of the Chalcolithic. As the quest progressed, I planned it for 400 Crototim but pushed it back to 500 Crototim. I knew from the start that it would be a bitter pill to swallow and I knew it would be even worse if it happened right after a second loss to the Scagravic.
I'm fully aware that I have committed a cardinal sin by suddenly dropping a bomb out of nowhere with no forewarning and I understand that it might kill investment for some players to have so much progress undone by something that could not have been prevented in any shape or form at this point. My only defence is that this is how history goes sometimes. Sometimes there is a bigger civilisation, sometimes there is a terrible plague and sometimes there is a natural disaster that levels civilisations. I absolutely understand that this is the worst one of those that I could have done due to the inability to predict or do anything about it, but that's just the choice I made. If people want to drop the quest because of what has happened, I accept that.
All I can offer are two reassurances. One, I am not planning for events like this to happen every era. Though I have planned challenges, I will not constantly be pressing the reset button. Two, the Croglatovic people live on and will recover. Whatever civilisation rises from the ashes will not take another three threads and four months to reach the point of the last one. Unpleasant as it might seem, this is an opportunity to remodel the civilisation and take it in a new direction if you want to, or double-down on it if that is your wish.
In short, I understand why this event might rub some people the wrong way and that it might cause some of you to lose interest. If that's the case, thanks for sticking with me until now. For those who remains interested, I'll be continuing at this same pace until I inevitably flake again, but I hope that it won't be for a while.
As an apology and consolation for the unpleasant surprise, here's a very rough world map for those who want a spoiler.
