Off Week and the end of the world

So, between the Nightmare Server Upgrade From Beyond The Grave and just generally feeling kind of worn out and icky, I haven't done much with the blog this week. It's not for lack of ideas; it's for lack of time and energy. It's also a matter of priorities; where I have found time to write, I've mostly used it to inch along on my current novel-length project.

So, yeah: I'm still destroying the world. (Bare Infinity is the current soundtrack for the fall of humanity.) We're just coming out of the plague; I haven't even gotten to the zompires yet. It's a good time to be writing this, since (like I said) I'm not feeling entirely well myself.

I've pushed the mortality rate for the plague up a bit; it's around twelve percent, at the final count. Which presents me with some interesting problems: does anybody have any idea what the short-term economic effects of losing that much of the population in the space of a month would look like? Or where I could go to look for that sort of information? I don't think we'd suffer complete economic collapse, but I bet the stock market would take quite a hit...

Of course, there would probably be some new jobs available, particularly for the non-squeamish...