Shovel Riots

The shovel riots occured on the day of Akhet I-21, year 0, ATITD 2 beta. The devs promised the testers free cheap shovels so the vicious shovel-medium stone-shovel could be broken. The University of Art in Sinai was soon crowded with dozens of hopeful testers waiting for shovels. As the timer slowly counted down, the testers got more and more anxious, setting up where they were all going to dig, how to split the things they found, etc. When the timer reached zero, several shouted "HAPPY NEW YEAR!" as they all rushed to get the new skill, Fine Casting. Then, the unthinkable happened.

"eGenesis made a mistake: tutition not specified correctly."

Screams of "NOOOOOOOO!" could be heard all over Egypt. People ran all over like headless chickens. They screamed for justice. Eventually, sand was dumped in front of the University in protest of professor's failure to provide shovels for the masses. Bonfires were lit, and the protestors danced around it in some sort of bizzare pagan ritual. They threatened to burn down the University itself, fortunately, nobody had figured out how to make a torch.

Luckily for the stability of the entire Egyptian society, the problem was quickly fixed by the Pharaoh himself, and there was a mass exodus as all ran to their home compounds to make their shiny new shovels.