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MEIER’S BASTARDIZATION

The thing about plagues is that they tend to catch everyone off guard. That was certainly the case when I triggered a plague age in Rome in the early common era. But since these undesirable ages are triggered by the accumulation of chaos and unrest in the first place, it wasn’t as though my Roman empire was in great shape before the coughing started.

I’d been fighting off barbarians for so long, I inadvertently triggered a chaos event: a rebellion,

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