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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pacdidj" data-source="post: 5175310" data-attributes="member: 86793">"Hmm..." says Matjala, considering Alnar's question, "Some my people got talents, eh? Like tricks. Make small light, make fake noise, pickup something far away... but no one teach them. We not book-learning, no read and write. A few they go off island for a while. I been work on fishing boat for two year when I was young man. That how I learn your speech. Some go off island, learn little bit of wizard magic, but none of us wizard for true.""But, them gnome. Fizzenden people. Lots of them wizard. Always read book, gather thing for ritual." Matjala shrugs, "They always been friendly though. Fizzenden he come down here for trade many time.""Nge. This wise. Ma. I go get Gepu, you mob wait here."The Djaapana leader then departs, striding quickly back to his people's campsite. He returns with a short, stooped old man, who is almost certainly blind in one eye, given the milky film that completely covers the iris. The old man greets you, saysing, "Yo, marrkapmirri djambatj mala," it is soon apparent that he doesn't speak a word of Allarian.He exchanges a few quick words with Matjala in his own tongue, then begins to inspect the tree. He moves around the root ball, touching it in many places, chanting words under his breath to a simple, two-note melody. He inspects the dying grass, rubbing it between his fingers, then smelling and tasting the residue they leave. Gepu then goes very still and quiet for a few moments.When he comes out of his apparent trance he looks somewhat upset, he speaks briskly and at some length to Matjala. After hearing the old man out, the Djaapana leader summarizes his findings to you. "Old man say there something wrong in the dream, in echoes of this world. There a small hole in the dream right at opening of mulka. Gepu say someone reached through the dream, from... somewhere else... but also from here, make no sense... them pull tjurunga out through this hole, that's how they get around sacred wards. But hole still open just a little bit. It like, leaking, eh? Letting some of that other place in. That what kills grass, scares little ancestors. Gepu not notice it at first. But it spread more now. Yatj dhawu, more bad news this is."[sblock=ooc]Welcome back Phoenix![/sblock]</blockquote>

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