Catgirl Isekai Gone Wrong

[JHMV]

Well, that's somewhat terrifying. I can only assume that the gods, or something impersonating them, ate the souls of everyone who accepted their deal. And it almost certainly wasn't just the people on the ship. It sounds like roughly 5% of people who heard the call refused it (everyone who rolled a nat 20), which means it's a post-apocalypse out there.

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Half of them refused, most of the rest died to sickness and giant monster... which is probably also true in the rest of the world.

A few years ago with COVID, we saw how devastating a sickness that puts a fraction of the population down and has a 1,6% mortality rate can be. Something that straight up kills half the population is going to destroy any and all society.

 

[Doomsought]

Half of them refused, most of the rest died to sickness and giant monster... which is probably also true in the rest of the world.

A few years ago with COVID, we saw how devastating a sickness that puts a fraction of the population down and has a 1,6% mortality rate can be. Something that straight up kills half the population is going to destroy any and all society.

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The panic was worse than the disease. The Spanish Flu was far worse as plagues go, and people pushed through to keep WWI running despite it. The knowledge that the gods are gone would have done far more damage than the deaths.

 

[JHMV]

The panic was worse than the disease. The Spanish Flu was far worse as plagues go, and people pushed through to keep WWI running despite it. The knowledge that the gods are gone would have done far more damage than the deaths.

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More damage than half of everyone dying? If half the population dies, that's half of every job you need to keep society going, dead. And now you have one corpse for every person. How are you burying everyone? So you have people rotting in the streets while you find out which vital roles in society have no one alive that knows how to do it.

We don't know how their society is like, but if they have battleships, they probably have an industrial economy. That comes hand in hand trading. Half of everyone dying on the ship killed the rest of the ship, and that definitely happened in all the other ships. So sea shipping is gone, even if the gods were still around, even if there was no panick at all. That's more than enough for a generalized economic colapse, famine, all that good stuff.
Panic is going to make any crisis worse, but there's no worse than "There's so many people dead that we don't have a society anymore".

 

[HiddenMaster]

More damage than half of everyone dying? If half the population dies, that's half of every job you need to keep society going, dead. And now you have one corpse for every person. How are you burying everyone? So you have people rotting in the streets while you find out which vital roles in society have no one alive that knows how to do it.

We don't know how their society is like, but if they have battleships, they probably have an industrial economy. That comes hand in hand trading. Half of everyone dying on the ship killed the rest of the ship, and that definitely happened in all the other ships. So sea shipping is gone, even if the gods were still around, even if there was no panick at all. That's more than enough for a generalized economic colapse, famine, all that good stuff.
Panic is going to make any crisis worse, but there's no worse than "There's so many people dead that we don't have a society anymore".

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Don't forget the gods having polite and cordial disagreements with each other.

 

[The Radiance's Follower]

Lot of lore. I don't know what they expected to do seeing as their own gods we're losing that fight.

But maybe not totally as the world is still standing.

Heck maybe they are not dead at all, just having to guard the monster with all their might or they die.

Still. This is quite the pickle all around. Hope they can reach safe ground.

Wth will the people even think after finding their long lost captain if they are alive that is.

 

[vladspellbinder]

I didn't expect the reason for "no one to answer" to be something somewhat known. Real interested to know just what was going on there but unless golden pawprint thing wants to answer some questions we'll probably never really know what happened.

And I'm guessing that the rice is something more important than just being a food staple. Probably some sort of magic rice that has a critical nutrient in it they can't get from some other food.

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[HiddenMaster]

I didn't expect the reason for "no one to answer" to be something somewhat known. Real interested to know just what was going on there but unless golden pawprint thing wants to answer some questions we'll probably never really know what happened.

And I'm guessing that the rice is something more important than just being a food staple. Probably some sort of magic rice that has a critical nutrient in it they can't get from some other food.

Thanks for the chapter.

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It's more that the island forage is terrible and stores are running pretty low. That said, the blue rice is somewhat similar to golden rice in that it was engineered to have extra nutrients compared to its more mundane counterpart, so you're not wrong, either.