Chapter 1: Aftermath
Schulminator: Thanks! Yeah I hear those things can be deadly.
Cisco2: Most of the natural stuff was from the rural renewal project on the SC4D Lex. I also used Jeronij's plop water, and some of his rocks, and some sim peg rocks. My terrain mod is the columbus terrain mod and the water mod is brigantine by simpeg. Oh, I use cycledogg's trees. That pretty much covers the general. If you have any specific ones you want to know about.
Vivipanda: Thanks for coming back! I am glad you liked them.
It was the day after the Solace Bay Riots (entry 16), and the very same day that Robert Wyant Went on his journey(entry 17). Robert's Brother James had come back to the Wyant Mansion after his exhausting day in the City. He was now sitting in his study drinking a glass of the Lake Maureen Produced Evanson Whiskey and considering the events of the day.
He and the other Wealthy inhabitants of Solace Bay (who all lived in the neighborhood of Wyant's Landing across the bay) left early this morning before dawn and sailed across the bay on the ferry.
They entered the city and marched through its streets armed to the teeth and dared any workers to challenge them. When the remaining Solace Bay company guards saw them arrive they joined them and began marching though the streets of the worst neighborhoods. Surprisingly, no workers challenged them, and the few workers that they saw on the streets they immediately arrested even though most of them were collecting the bodies of those who had been killed the day before.
Once the city had been reclaimed by the guards and the wealthy, criers were sent all over the city escorted by guards telling the workers, who peered at the criers from the doors of their houses, that tommorrow they would return to their factories or to where their factories used to be and they would be assigned their jobs for the reconstruction of the city.
It was this that James wyant was thinking of as he drank his whiskey and sat in his study. How to rebuild the city? what do do wbout the future of the company?
He looked at the statistics he had written down on the sheet.
Total High level employees dead: 70
Total Workers dead: 329
total workers arrested: 386
total factories destroyed: 3
total workers residencies destroyed: ~60
estimated total damages in Inakaye Dollars: ~$27,000
he thought about the different neighborhoods and the damage each sustained:
western end had taken the most damage with three factories and several blocks of workers housing.
The north shore came next with several more blocks of workers housing.
Derrik though it somehow housed the secret organization "the brotherhood of Derrik," only lost a few homes.
downtown lost two apartment buildings and a couple shacks. these were actually pretty big losses because there were about 100 people displaced from the burning of these two medium density buildings.
James sat there and pondered . . .
He made a list of things to do.
Two woodworking factories and a machinery factory need to be rebuilt.
Alot of workers housing needs to be rebuilt.
The Solace Bay Company Offices were at capacity before the riots and were ransacked in the riots. They must be refurnished or rebuilt.
our business is being hindered by our tiny docks. Also we must have a rail connection to our docks. It is imperative that we build a proper seaport and connect it to the rail line.
We must built a city hall to house the city administrative offices.
we must build the prison factory complex to house our common and political criminals.
Not only does this list need to be prioritized (what needs to be done first? second?), the locations of some buildings need to be decided.
Should the prison be built on top of the ruined blocks of the north shore?
or should it be built on the previously undeveloped land north of the western end.
Building it in the north shore would be a message to the workers, but building it north of the western end would be safer and more secluded. It would also leave room to build whatever measures needed to be placed to ensure maximum security . . .
Next should the Solace Bay company headquarters and the Solace Bay City hall be built in downtown
or in wyant's landing?
Downtown is more central and gives the administration and immediate presence in the lives of the workers, but after these riots many wealthy are considering the city across the bay unsafe, and would prefer to work in wyant's landing where a bay separated them from the violent workers.
Also, James recently had sent recruiters to Mariston, which has sometimes over 1000 immigrants arrive each month, and has nothing to do with them. Jame's idea was to sign some of them to contracts and ship them to solace bay. The first boat should be arriving in a week or two and the city doesn't have enough houses to house the current population. Clearly higher density housing is needed. Shacks just wont do it anymore.
These thoughts overwhelmed him, But they also distracted him from the thought that was pounding at the base of his spine. "Robert."
He had read the note on his door whenever he returned from the city.
"Tired. Look in top drawer of my desk. Take care, and be careful. We were to be farmers when we came here. Be sure to think of what you're planting. Your Brother, Robert"
In Robert's desk he found Robert's Will, which left all his assets and properties to James. Even though he had almost hated Robert for the past couple months, this still upset and disturbed James. The man whom he had grown up with had apparently committed suicide. When He found the note he began an official search for Robert with the new Chief of Police, Garrett Hays. But when they found that Robert's boat was missing, James realised that Robert would likely never be found. "Why Robert? This thing happened and you had nothing to do with it. Sometimes things happen. People are violent creatures and they kill one another. it was that brotherhood's fault, not yours . . ."
But Robert was long gone. James took another swig of whiskey and returned to his endless list of decisions. He had no idea what to do. Any suggestions?
Whatever is decided, there sure are some great changes ahead for Solace Bay . . .
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