I presume all admins make their own donations in the DB as well.

If not, it is the Church's responsibility to check (that silver thing is potentially difficult to ascertain, for ex)

Church will know the hour of the Earthquake such in advance that it has the opportunity to bless whatever they wish. They may not divulge this information.

The King remembers that as Mayor, CEO of many corporations, and wealth manager of many of his friends, also these items need to be protected.

He petitions the Church to extend Blessing to the Town items and buildings, if such is found worthy.

Asking to bless the Bank would be too much, and the Bank also is (privately) against "superstition".

Tavastia (willing to gain favor in the eyes of his father) is donating 100 gold and prays for blessing.

The Prince of Soul (the third person to own a handwritten Bible, in addition to the King and the Bishop) is again on his travels. The King ponders if he would be willing to gain Blessing. "He has said repeatedly (in private, of course - Soul is perhaps the closest friend of the King after 182 years of acquaintance) that there is one mediator between man and God, and that is our Lord Jesus Christ - there are many things in the Church ways that do not exactly correspond to the revelation he can read in the Bible in his own eyes (knowing how to read, knowing Latin, and being able to purchase an item worth years' of workman wages)." - Oh well, perhaps his God is protecting him, and his buildings are from the 1500s anyway.

The basements of the Triple Towers are large and h=4, making them good places to amass all the wealth of Soul and Tavastia (they have heavily invested in New City, and the rest need to be transported. Even the carriages are put in a soft surface to "protect them from dismantling by the tremors". (The King had dismantled his own - not that it is especially heroic, just practical - only the Red one is left for daily use.)

The lesser wealth management characters deposited their fragile items in earthquake-proof buildings provided by Soul and Tavastia.

The work involved in all this, in addition to the daily needs, was of course enormous (and it is not completely sure whether items may have suffered in transit as well!) but when it was all completed, the ground still had not shaken.

It didn't take much time for Mooo to pack his belongings in his wooden toybox. The earthquake warnings had become more urgent lately, and waiting more could prove disastrous.

Mooo stepped outside and put the toybox on the ground. He walked to the pagoda and carefully moved it away from the building, well clear of any collapsing walls. Its light frame would be a good passive defense against tremors, but falling stone could be a clear danger.

After securing it to his satisfaction, Mooo grabbed the toybox and headed northeast, to place it in safekeeping in a property built to - hopefully - withstand earthquakes (toybox and contents are in 1-NE-D8).

Once the box's safety was ensured, Mooo started towards the San Pietro cathedral, carrying his ocarina with him. Some pastoral music might go a long way to calm nerves.

Upon his arrival at the cathedral, Mooo donated two million moneritos to the Church and found an unobtrusive place to settle down among the crowd.

Smooth donates 150m to the Church:

1. 50m, on behalf of himself (50m)
2. 50m, on behalf of his various owned an affiliated business interests and managed characters (Smooth QC, Smooth IF, Hotel, BlackWidow and Itrix)
3. 50m, on behalf of and in the name of the University

All paid by smooth.

Valuable items and business records of all of the above are moved to the open fields of the smooth haw, where they are guarded by the encamped Smooth Company.

Lord noms looked out the hole where his window used to be and thought that he was worried about what may come this night.  He quickly gathered up all of his possessions and put them in the cellar of his palace. He remembered a proclamation by the King that any of the buildings created after 1580 would not be damaged by the earthquake, so he felt secure knowing that they would be safely stored in his palace.

He opened his doors to his fellow townsmen and let everyone know that if they wished to store any valuables in his palace, they were more than welcome to. He just needed to meet with them and safely store them.

He took his carriage as well as the other carriage he had purchased from the Late Marquess Arda, and moved them to a safe area of the swamp in borough 4, near his research center. He thought that such unstable ground might soak up the tremors and protect his carriages from the impending quake.

It is never too late to seek the comfort of Our Lord. Your donation has been noted and appreciated.

It is with some delight that Duke Joseph of New Liberty notices all the new attendees at the morning Matins in the Cathedral.  Many have given donations in lieu of attendance also, but the Duke takes a daily (and oft many times a day) drink from the cup of forgiveness.  The spiritual life and the physical life being unified and the Duke's visits so frequent that gossipers have speculated that it is more the wine than the forgiveness that was sought.

However a long life full of adventure and experiences may bring some measure of wisdom, it is the remembrance of humility and gratitude that are most important in these acts.  Contrition and supplication precede forgiveness, and these are most easily done from a state of humility and gratitude.  The grandiosity of the Old Town Cathedral with its great and ancient form are designed to evoke this humility and truly for anyone who could be impressed by an edifice, this does the job.  There may be larger or more expensive, but the humbling age and beauty of the Esteemed Cathedral can never be doubted.

And so the daily visits and communion wine drinking have kept The Most High within the mind and heart of all endeavors.  Humility is important and increasingly difficult as one's stature increases.  It would be easy to fall into the sin of pride for bringing the church to its first foothold in the New City Borough with services in the NLQI, or the early and frequent advocacy for the esteem of the Cathedral or the daily attendance at services.  

And so while most recently the crowding of the church has shifted the consumption of communion wine to the chapel in the Noble Palace with its view of the obelisk out the mysteriously intact windows, being present at the Cathedral, and being seen doing so, may encourage others by example.

And then, gracefully, the tremors started again. Slowly intensifying, so that no people got hurt. But the buildings shook. The King was standing in the Central Square (granted, the Parkside would have been safer, but then all action would be missed - at 234 years, you still don't want to miss action if it is reasonable safe to do).

The darkness made it difficult to get the kicks though, and a bit scary, since it was a possibility that building stone would fly to the air and drop to your head. After some time of intense tremors: the lights were on again.

Quick glances:
Sun - exactly where it was before the darkness started
Palace - safe
Grand Hotel - wounded but safe
NewLiberty Palace - looking ok
Obelisk - no changes
Lucky Lion - as if the south tower was not there...
Town Hall - oh my, the building is half fallen and looks like the other half is just about to do as well
Cathedral - a-ok
Noble Palace - noooOO! There is nothing but a pile of rubble here 


On a closer look to theBLDG DB (avoid to do it, as there is still work to be done on it), the actual collapses have happened in 6 buildings only, which out of 400 in the game is reasonable damage:

Noble Palace upper floors supporting columns did not take the horizontal movement and broke. Some parts of the ground floor are not collapsed but close to.

The Great Hall in Town Hall same recipe - central column broke and the whole roof came down with such a force that there was much collateral damage and everything looks very unstable. The majority of the building can still be saved with immediate action and great cost, (unlike Noble Palace sadly)

Lucky Lion Fine Dining Restaurant was supporting the weight of the south tower in quite suspicious designs. As the architect, I almost saw this happen when the building was built and it was too late. The tower fell on the void when there was not enough wall supporting it. The rest of the building is standing but on the verge of collapse due to it being even less solidly designed as the south tower.

Tsurugajo Art gallery from 1520 was a great loss and it remains to be seen if masterpieces were lost as well. The building is very high and has(had) an elaborate network of high arches shifting the vertical forces in concentric circles. When designed, it felt like a masterpiece of engineering as well as beauty. Obviously, a thick and low wall is better than a high and thin web of columns when it starts to shake

The last 2 buildings are hardest to explain. The Portal has been a home and office for dozens of people, and it is reasonably new, built in 1543. Witnesses claim (I don't know how they saw it since it was dark) that the ground floor of the Old Town side had a rupture first, and the massive building above it just completely collapsed. Only parts in the 1-2 floor on the East side remain, in reasonably good condition.

The University Main Building seems to have fallen on its footprint. Some say a bird with a flash of light hit its top floor and it collapsed as a result. Others explained this as a lightning, the third party claims that two towers were hit by the birds and collapsed, fourth party swears to have followed the situation closely, but not seen any light. Regarless of that, nobody can explain why University 7, the highest tower, collapsed, because it was never hit by anything according to reports (it was a funny custom to name the 6 small towers as University 1-6 and the central one as University 7 - that's what students do).

Many other buildings, while spared from outright collapse, are in immediate danger, because when repair% < 20%, there is a daily chance of collapse in the V.4. Collapse destroys the building and most if not everything of value there, except most of stone and all gold.

It is hard to decide which loss to lament the most. Despite that only 6 buildings were affected (out of 200 lots with floor area), the collapsed buildings are as though representatives of the different walks in life, each a masterpiece for its own purpose. After quick meetings with Church officials, it seems that even they attribute the worst damage to structural causes - while the whole Earthquake clearly seems to have been planned in advance; how else could it have been known before any buildings were even built?

All the buildings collapsed share the properties of having been the latest the regulations could permit. They reached the highest height allowed, often to the meter (NP, Portal, LL and University) or 1-2 less (TH, Tsurugajo). The opulent interiors required many windows and columns, to replace what would in less magnificent constructions be solid stone walls.

To answer my own question - I select the loss of the University to be the most lamentable. Every other building will certainly be replaced as soon as the rules allow and resources can be mustered, but the University is not likely to recover from the loss.

Let's have a quick glance on the history:

The Town was founded in 1430, and building started the same year, with the oldest private house being that of Mistress Liekki from 1432. Originally the private dwellings were directed to the free land in 1-C (inside the ring road, later to become Earl's Street - King's Park Street, the land cost originally a hefty price of 20 mil/q, for which reason the oldest buildings are in the outer circle).

The 1-C was zoned such that public and commercial buildings would be to the south, and the lots now occupied by the NP, GH, MH and Casino, were to be given for free to "commercial multipurpose palaces whose design pleases the King's eye. In the 1440s it was difficult to find anyone to design (, build and own) such buildings despite the free land, and also hard to find buyers for the lots to the south, because the land was free in 1-N, and the great buildings were considered a great risk and involvement in the young game.

Lord smooth asked to have the 1-C-A1 (NP lot) for a University he had wished to start, but we considered that the lot was far too central for such a sprawling organization, and in connection to this, far too small as well. He did not present any plans either, so the plan fell through.

After the Golden Jubilee in 1450, the West Side (1-W,NW,SW) was opened. The land was selling badly, with most of the land offered at 7-10 mil/q and still often not catching a buyer. The West side was fragmented and never really enjoyed a heyday (except the Jousting, and even that was short).

By the 1460s, the situation with the game and the land had improved, and a small "land craze", first boomtime in the Town, was experienced. The prices in the centre reached such heights that by 1468, all the land had been sold, with the current Embassy Tower lot for as much as 125 mil/q. By this time, Monero House and Grand Hotel had been built, and NP was still in the drawingboard.

The 1460s was the time to organize many game elements. The University and Army were both organized in 1466, Church 6 years later. We hoped that the University would become a great Special Organization (which was formally subgame-ized in 1565, but would have much earlier if the University would have worked). Towards the purpose, we nominated Lord smooth Chancellor, soon promoted him Earl (at the time when there would be only 1 Marquess for another 25 years!), and gifted the nascent University 108 quadrats of land in the Old Town, making it a bigger landowner there than ourselves!

What is the sad part - this gift was never used to any remarkable extent. The 1400s was great time for late-medieval universities, and we could have produced so many masterworks, even starting the Renaissance on our own right - but not a single building was built, no thread posts survive, no nothing.

Just before the barbarian invasion deadline, too late to be of much help if the invasion would have happened, the Military Science dept was constructed.

And then, the 1500s saw a great increase in everything, even the time was slowed to accommodate it all, and for decades, still no university. In 1525, the Villa Rotonda School of Economics, with a sting towards the lack of university-level research, but no university.

Finally the new-rich Sir Paul, Ph.D, Earl of Soul, promises to donate the main building, originally intended to be a 300 million affair, later enlarged to 1.5 billion. Still it takes years.

When the plans are ready and funding is ready, still it takes years.

When the building is ready, there is nothing happening there for more than 10 years, "because there is still deficit". Deficit is supposed to be covered by donations, not by rendering unusable a building that was first waited for 100 years, and then could have immediately been used in the subgame that was designed for it, and the building for the subgame!!

And when the AIC process is happening, we purposefully leave the University balance empty, even negative, and yet no one, not a single one, during the 10 days period, cares. The building would have been probably the most AIC of any building (in traditional sense).

The Prince of Soul has joined us meanwhile and together we weep for the final loss of so many hopes, and the opportunities, and the time, never to be reclaimed.

His Majesty, the King, will receive the counsel of the wise men concerning what to do with the University (the whole concept, of course including the wreckage). The current administration, as well as anyone with a vision, may present their plans within 5 days. In absence of credible plans, one option is to shut down the University and give donators a claims process if they so wish.

/lament  I don't usually lament, but when I do, it's safer to stay away.