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WHO: Jon & You!
WHERE: Ren Fair
WHAT: REN FAIR!
WHEN: Ren Fair Event
WARNINGS: I dunno.

Research

Walking past those unmoving figures comes with an eerie sensation, one that isn't too unfamiliar to Jon, which results in him spending quite some time studying the projections or plain watching them. Where of course watching means he will outright stare at them, daring them to move or flicker.

They don't flicker.

Which is an interesting observation to make, given the effect his powers tend to have on electric devices. He isn't sure what he is looking at...

Of course he also gives the different food items a try. For science. And as he is looking at one of the still figures spread around the market and taking a bite of what at least looks like a flatbread covered with sour cream and some herbs, Jon can't help himself but make a small noise that is bordering disappointment at the person next to him. "And here I almost have forgotten about their weird endorsement of peanut butter."

Experiment

Well, making those candles hasn't been that bad, even if they turned out rather bland and uninspiring. They are functional and will do what a candle is supposed to do: Burn.

He has skipped the stands with the fabric and sewing materials, instead having moved on to the blacksmithing area and finds himself looking at the pile of colorful metal pieces before picking one up and contemplating this raw piece of- The Archivist has no idea what he is even looking at and that gives him pause.

Getting past that discovery of Not Knowing takes a moment and Jon turns his attention over to the fire before slowly and very carefully starting to work. No, he has no experience at all or any idea what he is even trying to make and the soft muttering is more directed at himself. "I had plenty of opportunity to have Tony show me how to do this, but have I ever asked him? Nooo, of course not..."

Evaluation Valentine's Special!

The bonfire is a nice place to relax and Jon can't help but wonder if the Agrii have added it in response to the little beach party their He-Rows had set up last summer. Not that he would mind. He does, however, frown a little at the piles of pink, purple and red glitter now setting the scene rather than the pink snow that had been present the previous day.

Scooping up a handful of it, Jon inspects the pieces as he lets them fall slowly back down to the ground. Sure they don't melt. Which will make cleaning up this mess even worse. It isn't like he hasn't still been finding glitter from last year in the library.

"At least the mothcats will have their fun with this..." He observes with a mild chuckle, letting the rest of the stuff drop and pulling a fortune cookie from his pocket. These have become a little ritual over the past few days: Every evening at the bonfire, Jon will open one - And then make fun of its prediction.

Wildcard

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"Christ, it would probably be easier if they were afraid of us. But... No. They celebrate us. There is an entire space ship filled with aliens up in the orbit of this planet that is starstruck by our presence. Unfortunately, they can't come down here. Not without literally risking their lives." Jon answers and watches the little droid fend off the offending mass of glitter.

"Cal found... Echoes. Of the Agrii that used to live here and tried to hide from the first storms hitting the city. It... Didn't go well. Wait." And he pulls out his phone to open up a certain video to show her. "I... I don't know if you have seen this yet."

"Echoes?" Rey repeated that curiously, having not heard Cal speak of it before, but something about that struck a chord within her. "Within the Force?"

Her question unanswered though it is lays forgotten when she sees the video. She watches it mutely, the crease between her eyebrows steadily deepening.

"So they're trapped up there. Because they don't understand the technology." This prospect is truly horrifying to her. "What happens to them if the ship malfunctions? If their food runs out or life support fails? How could another sentient species just leave them like that?"

As lawless as the galaxy that Rey calls home can sometimes seem, there's still rules when it comes to pre-space civilizations, what few may remain, and mostly those within wild space. Interference is only expected of the Republic if they're in extinction level danger, otherwise they're left to their own devices. Were something like this to happen there, then those people would be brought into the Republic, taught how to use the resources suddenly appointed to them.

Sometimes those planets ended up being slave fodder for the Hutts and their ilk, but that was less and less common after the death of Jabba.

"Yes, those kinds of echoes. There is also plenty of residual fear where he found them." Ancient terror. Jon shrugs once and turns off his phone before returning to the matter of the recording. "They aren't necessarily trapped. They know how to fly their ship and have, indeed, done so after it has proven more dangerous for them to stay too far out of our reach." That trip has been... Interesting. And Jon still doesn't wish to think about all that could have gone wrong on this... Rescue.

It had worked out in the end. And thanks to how it had turned out, Sh'Ka feels a lot less like a mystery today.

Jon considers Rey's questions for a moment. "I only know for certain that to the Atroma all of this is purely entertainment. Reality TV without any of the safety measures because to them, not a single one of us has any value. Which is why I hope we will eventually be able to face them." He wants to believe the Agrii to have figured this out as well. And that, despite appearing absent, they are trying to work out a way to fix this entire mess.