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[eudaimonikos]

[Michael's voice, though he has to raise it to be heard over the ongoing sirens, is casual. Deliberately so, like someone trying to hide how not-casual they feel right now.]

Hey, is there anybody else who's not fighting some kind of war right now? I'd really like to talk to you about...non-war things.

[...]

And if you haven't been to Nastrandir since the sirens started, maybe skip that for now.

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[eudaimonikos]

Oh my god.

[The act drops for a moment, Michael is so fucking relieved]

Where are you? I just went back to Enso, people are forming some kind of beach cult over there, they're gonna fight the islanders - there's islanders -

[He didn't like the look of it and he just bolted, but now he's starting to think that wasn't the right choice. He doesn't know what would have been, though...]

What do we do? We should do something, shouldn't we?

[semistableman]

[That? That's actually relieving for him, too. Bucky lets out an audible sigh.]

Me and Petunia are holed up further inland. People are acting nuts, and I didn't exactly want her to be left there in case someone decided it was a great idea to ransack my house.

[Bucky had dome similar, in other words.]

Shake people until they start acting rationally? I don't know.

[Dammit, he hates this place.]

Maybe it's some kind of spell.

[eudaimonikos]

Good news is, they don't seem interested in any other islands. Just killing each other over Nastrandir.

[But he doesn't think shaking is going to work. A spell, huh...?]

Those sirens started around the same time, didn't they?

[semistableman]

[He strains, trying to remember.]

I think so, yeah. That sounds right.

If it was the noise, I wonder why it affected only some people so dramatically?

[eudaimonikos]

I thought it might be because of my species, but you're human. And I think that one guy may have been a robot...

[So it's not targeting humans, maybe?]

It might just be a correlation. But if we can figure out how those are controlled, we might find out more.

[semistableman]

...Sounds like whatever it is, it's not species-specific.

Maybe it was one of the local gods causing chaos?

[Bucky has a very low opinion of the gods.]

Maybe if we shake of them hard enough, they'll snap out of it.

[eudaimonikos]

One of them did threaten me with a gun.

[That's not a direct no, but he does think grabbing and shaking one wouldn't be so simple.]

[semistableman]

[He sighs.]

Of course people have weapons.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah. I didn't even know people had guns!

[semistableman]

This is the first time I've heard about it.

I wonder where the hell the gun came from?

[eudaimonikos]

It wasn't one of those muskets someone found over there. Maybe he brought it from home and just doesn't usually run around pointing it at people?

[semistableman]

Maybe.

It'd make more sense than if they just magicked into existence.

[eudaimonikos]

None of this makes sense.

Anyway, I'm gonna try to shut the sirens off. Find a central control, or else just break them.

[semistableman]

Want some help? I'm ready to destroy them all myself.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah. Sure. Let's go for it!

[semistableman]

I'll meet you there.