>>5651874>>5652061>>5652111A valiant but unfortunately futile effort is made to fortify our buildings. However, the near-constant rain continually hampers attempts to transport materials, create adhesive substances to connect said materials, and the crowding and overall desperation of the populace makes things nigh-impossible to accomplish tasks. Starvation, drowning and infighting increases as the weather grows more severe; people found hording food are killed and the food quickly squandered in the chaos that follows. Truly it is a dark and terrible time for our people.
An attempt is made to send a group out west towards the mountains in the hopes that high ground will save them; they do not survive the journey and are never found or heard from again.
It is doubtless that in the future innovations will save us from situations like this; Architecture will allow for stronger and more durable homes, Masonry and Cement and Construction will only make them stronger, Irrigation and Canals will allow for the easy management of water flow and drainage, the Furance will allow for firing of materials to make them much more waterproof, and as well as numerous other things. Unfortunately, this storm simply hit us too early.
In the end, twenty-three percent of our population dies to the storms or other related circumstances this age. The only exception are our fishermen, who were hit exceptionally hard by this stormy weather; eighty percent of them perished, greatly diminishing our civilization's aquatic food production.
The storms, after hitting their hardest, quickly and rapidly lighten, until all things return to normal. The landscape is littered with debris and washed-up corpses of both men and animals, but our civilization has survived, even though our population went from 17433 to 12106.
Before we move onto player actions for the age, what will our reaction be in the post-storm time? How do we rebuild? What steps can we take to ensure this doesn't happen again? How does this event impact our future considerations for our agricultural prospects? Do we redistribute some jobs to fishermen roles? What religious or cultural significance will the storm, or the murderous sibling Rex and his gruesome end, have on our history?
