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. ]

[fiendennor]

But they had to consume it directly. It couldn't, say, be turned into a mist form, from what you saw.

[sparsity]

mist...i guess it could
but i never saw anything like that

[fiendennor]

All right, thank you for the confirmation. There has to be some link. It'd be very coincidental for two unrelated substances to have the same effect on people.

[sparsity]

well
arent they always competing

[fiendennor]

Wyver and Olympia? That's not untrue, but "substance to drive our own people mad and destroy our own city-state" seems... ...counterproductive as an arms race.

[sparsity]

some people care more about winning
than they do about their people, anyway

[fiendennor]

I suppose.
But in that case, what does "winning" look like?
Who wants to rule an ash heap?

[sparsity]

i dont know
someone who doesnt mind rebuilding it how they want it, i guess