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[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

[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?

[fiendennor]

Yes. There was a strange mist in the city. I can't say for sure that it was the cause, mind you, but it only appeared during the chaos; I hadn't seen it before and I haven't seen it since. If the mist isn't the culprit itself, I'd wager that it's somehow related.

[willrevile]

The mist caused the same rage as the dragon's blood, right? Or as best as anyone can tell.

Definitely related. I don't think it whatever substance this is can be the only thing, though. These communities were primed to be set off, and the momentum was well underway without stimulants.

[fiendennor]

Having not experienced the situation in Wyver myself, it sounds exceedingly similar. Similar to the point where I would be *very* surprised were it a coincidence. But yes, I don't think the substances were the only thing to blame. There's obviously sociopolitical tension here. A powder keg in need of a match, as it were. And it had an additional dose of kerosene on top.