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You mean other than casual telepathy and emotions coming to life every time you feel something stronger than apathy?

[The problem with the gossip about "strange things" is that it's always a surprise. Nanu's given up trying to expect specific happenings, and just goes along with whatever crap comes next.] The first month I was here, gravity went screwy. People, buildings, all sorts of things flyin' around unless they found a way to stay grounded.

[He's thinking back, now. Some memories, here and there. Hey; Blue asked.] Lake Niras once receded on its own. Folks found a hoard of ancient tech down in the caverns. ...That Helisium festival last year had big walkin' teapots and kettles giving out emotion-infused tea—and, no, they were nothin' like pokémon. [eaugh that was unsettling] Then there was a nighttime carnival a while later, during harvest month. That had all sorts of loony crap—food that changed your appearance for the night, costumes takin' over people entirely. ...Someone just outright turned into a cat. [yeah he met that one personally]

Were you here for Selenium last month? Can't recall. That one was more somber, but the stuff no less peculiar. Come to think, most festivals have odd things pop up more often than just week-by-week.

I guess you don't know any Psychics. Sabrina's like this all the time at League meetings... Okay, you got me on the emotion stuff, though.

[Blue listens to this grocery list of oddities with a slowly growing confusion, the unsettled feeling creeping back across their crystal connection. Okay, so maybe he wasn't just bluffing... But Blue had a hard time imagining actually seeing these things in reality, and not just hearing about them like in a game or comic book.]

So then... No one knows why any of this happens, right? It's not those legendaries? The 'Arehtei's doing? ...At least none of it sounds too dangerous on its own, just weird and annoying.

[Nanu could probably dig up more, but those are the ones that stood out, and most of the ones he got directly involved with involuntarily. He still thinks some of the festivals and traditions are nice... it's just all the nonsense tied into it that makes dealing with them a gamble.]

Some of them might be. I know they've got their own way of making their presence known in town. [please don't try to catch the arehtei, blue...] It can go either way, sometimes. Since so much of it is focused on emotions and memories.

Selenium was a good example. Some folks observed family or friends and had a nice time. For others, it was a nightmare.

I heard something like-- Archie said they interact with humans a lot. [Look, Blue Oak don't fuck with no legendaries, this is Gen 1. He dislikes the idea, therefore, of actually seeking them out himself, but to others it seemed as though one didn't even need to hunt for them in order to cross their paths.] Do you think they're dangerous or anything like that?

[Nightmares... Legendaries certainly weren't 'good' or 'bad', he thought. They just were, tied to nature as they were. He wondered if the Arehtei were the same.] Then that's people's own faults, right?

They do. Not all of them are happy about it. ...I'd liken them to the legendaries of our world. They're plenty dangerous if they want to be, but so long as they don't have a good reason... [Insert a big mental shrug. It's pretty much what Blue's been thinking.] But do I think they're malicious? No. They serve their own purposes and are tied closely to the world—and our amulets. So whether we, or they, like it or not; we're tied together, too.

[He's not giving the impression that he's scared of them, if it's any consolation to Blue (not that the kid would admit it).]

Yes and no. The magic nonsense in this world doesn't always work the way we want or expect it to. The candles at Selenium brought forth images of people's loved ones. Doesn't mean they could control what they saw or the memories they dredged up.

Not all happy...? [Blue repeats, like he's trying to interpret that and not liking where it's leading his mind- an unhappy legendary never led to anything good.] Most people that've mentioned it seemed to like them. Did something happen with one of 'em?

[That said, if they're all really stuck together, then there's nothing to be done about it. Blue just hopes he doesn't cross the paths of any of the less 'happy' Arehtei by accident... And from Nanu's description, he's sure glad he wasn't around for this Selenium, either.]

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