text; un: beatrix [2]

[fiendennor]

I dearly hope everyone is safe after the turmoil in Olympia.
Wyver too, I've heard, though I was fortunate enough to not to experience it myself.

Does anyone else find it odd? That tensions were suddenly inflamed in such a way. Normal people turning violent.
Or the refugees ourselves having our own aggressive tendencies reinforced and heightened.

It's hard to believe that all of this is entirely natural, or the result of simple historical tensions.
Has anyone ever experienced anything like this before? Something that has this sort of aggressive effect on the populace?

Comments

text, un: mikazuki

[sparsity]

dragon blood

[fiendennor]

Really?
In both Olympia and Wyver?
How was it spread?

[sparsity]

i dont know about olympia
people here just drink it

you start to feel frustrated at first and it doesnt stop

[ Then, violence. So far as he can tell, anyway. ]

text, un: mai

[maipokerface]

Dragon's blood, combined with a nice helping of encouragement from others.

[fiendennor]

I suppose the effects of mob mentality can't be understated.
How were entire cities infected?

And that does beg the question of who did it and why.

[maipokerface]

You don't believe any of the rumors or anything like that?

[beatupgrass]

Apparently, people take holidays around here way too seriously.

[fiendennor]

I don't deny that the social aspects played a large part.
But somehow I don't think that's the totality of it.

[beatupgrass]

Honestly, some planets this shit is just how they spend boring days. It's probably not all that deep.

text | un: yusei

[planetary_bonds]

my roommate's been complaining about how the full moon in Wyver makes people horny. so i'd at least put forward the possibility of it being something we can't quite explain yet.

but yes, i'd also say "dragon's blood" as well.

[fiendennor]

Possible, but we've been through several full moons, and nothing like this has happened.

It just feels like too much of a coincidence, right when tensions are high.

[planetary_bonds]

Mn. It feels like something's been building up for a long time...whatever history these two countries had, it definitely got worse thanks to that attack a few months ago. The gala did nothing to soothe tensions, and now this...

I wouldn't be surprised if someone was taking advantage of this, honestly. The question is who, though, and why? What can they possibly benefit from this?

text | un: jtk

[willrevile]

There were definitely mechanics at play in both cities to alter the minds of some people, but I think it would be foolish to rest on that being the only - or even the most effective? - factor. Wyver's predisposition towards rewarding aggression and Olympia's fanaticism are states equally primed to be set off pretty easily. The timing of it, both cities losing it in tandem, is pretty weird.

[fiendennor]

I agree. I think that an outside influence can't bear all the blame.
Tensions between these two city states have been on the rise long before they broke out into open violence, after all. And there seem to be long ancestral hatreds at work.

But I can't say that this was the only reason. After all, refugees were also affected.
And we don't share these legacies of animosity, nor these cultural beliefs.

[willrevile]

You're completely right - I think I worded that way too dismissive of the drugs (?) going around in both cities. Something about the orchestrated feeling of it is just bugging the crap out of me.

There was dragon's blood being handed out in Wyver, deliberately, by the shamans from their mountain shrine. Does anyone know any specifics of whatever was happening in Olympia?

text; un: TeaOnRice

[gekkajuu]

There was that mist.
I've heard that there was something about specific water in Flona, too.

[fiendennor]

Yes, I think the mist is undoubtedly related.
What can you tell me about the water in Flona? I'm not familiar with it.

[gekkajuu]

I don't know the exact details, but a friend of mine was attacked there, and he blamed it on the local water.
I do know that the water of the lagoons around there can have specific effects, much like some of the streams and such in Wyver. I hadn't personally encountered one that increased aggression before, but then, I haven't sampled every mystical lagoon.

text - un: maxwell

[braidedwonder]

As someone who drank dragon's blood :

Would not repeat again.

[fiendennor]

What were the effects?
Also, more importantly: why on EARTH would you do that?

[braidedwonder]

Burns on the way down. Makes you hellaciously confident and ready to fight the whole world even if you don't stand much of a chance, that kinda thing.

Look, if it made 'em leave me alone for a while it isn't the worst thing I've ever eaten.

It was an easy way to get 'em off my back for a little bit.

text; un: unchained

[hedonistic]

"normal"

[hahaha. haha. ha. this doesn't strike a nerve at all, not even a little.]

people just need an excuse to get violent
that whole nithor bullshit was perfect for it
just takes one asshole shoving "the enemy" into a fire for the whole city to go to hell

[fiendennor]

Yes, normal. As in not inherently violent. You surely can't think that it was just social tension flaming up?

un: seraph

[circulets]

It is strange. To tell you the truth, it almost seems as though something is in the air again - just like the last time. Though, we should stay open-minded for any other possibilities.

[fiendennor]

Just like the "last time"?

Which last time do you speak of?