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The East

Nexus

The city of Nexus is going to pull through. The city of Nexus always pulls through. And they are, for this particular crisis, fairly well set up. As a city that has a governing council of men and gods, they are not truly crippled by the death of essence wielders; their human members are quite capable, and their gods will soon return. The Emissary of Nexus is, bizarrely, completely unaffected by the plague. Nobody dared to ask him why, and he didn't raise the topic.

The council of entities immediately hires the most competent of the mercenary squads available, including Dace's bronze tigers. He is an essence 3 solar and unharmed; Risa is also safe. Nexus basically goes through the normal procedures of life, essentially unchanged; the chaos of the gods passing is weathered through good governance and incredibly detailed plans for all eventualities that had been drawn up ahead of time. They take this opportunity to have the emissary clean out Hollow, and the terrors of the undercity are now rubble, with the council in control of the mysteries found therein. The council comes out of the month of disarray in firmer control of the city, in better shape and in a stronger economic position than anyone else in the east.

Great Forks

Great Forks does not fare as well as Nexus. Their guardian spirits gone, the city found itself relatively unprotected and in a dangerous position. An army of the Walker in Darkness's remaining troops attacked, and was barely repulsed; it did manage to do significant damage to the city. They were harmed primarily by the complete lack of organization in the wake of the spirits. The second attack managed to take the city, opening a small shadowland to base themselves in a major city square of Great Forks where the last stand was made. They had great difficulty holding the city; their zombies and war ghosts had trouble in the daylight, and guerilla warfare by large numbers of powerful godbloods drove them back to their shadowland continuously. With the damage that had been done to their ranks by the plague, they were short on capable commanders. By the end of the month after the plague, the troop supplies were too limited to scour the city, and they were forced to retreat. The spirits of Great Forks, on returning, rejoiced in the perseverence of their tales about the Walker and his armies and closed the shadowland.

Comments

Lookshy? Rathess? I'd imagine both of them would be fine, though the stalkers might actually get a chance to develop, in Rathess, and the DK return. Also, several lunar hordes, there.  :P - Scrollreader

Yeah, I just haven't written them up yet - I got distracted by my south, which is much more fun. I expect the Dragon Kings will do quite well by this. -TheHoverpope

As an idle Note. If going by canon, a whole lot of Mountainfolk are going to explode under the Imperial Mountain. All those desmenses ... what if the Imperial Mountain got /bigger/? - Scrollreader

I've mentioned that it a little note in the piece about the locust crusade and the plague on another page; creatures of Autocthon are immune to his weapon, so the Alchemicals and the Mountain Folk are spared. A good thing the mountain folk aren't all popping off, or I'd have to figure out what the swarming darkbroods did to the world. -TheHoverpope

Wouldn't only the older MF die, ditto with the more powerful darkbroods? ~ Haku

[15:00:54] <Ketrus> Then who fights the plot devices put below the earth's surface 
to keep the mountain folk busy?! 

Seriously though, sounds good enough to me. Scrollreader With a quote about what would happen if there were alot fewer MF