The climate: is kinda trashed. It is not raining anywhere in sight, and she can see quite a ways. There are dead plants in a lot of places, although in some places the fiends have already eaten up even the lifeless husks of trees, leaving the ground completely bare.



What's that smudge on the horizon?

Oh hey, it's an improbably huge raging thunderstorm! That might be a good starting point for investigating the climate problems.

(Meanwhile, Milan gets the ten-second version of the essence shortage problem and starts making lots and lots of essence spheres.)