No, that's quite alright. [ He snorts. ] It's actually a pleasant change to talk to people who ask questions instead of those who believe they can lecture us on what we should have been doing all along.

Every couple of months... something happens here, something affecting the place or the people or both. Something other than magic spells or attacks by inhabitants, that is, but rather things which as far as we know are caused by this place.

It can be as benign as when every building in Everglade turned into candy or it could have you replaced by an evil, mass-murdering doppelganger. These things usually pass within a week or two but the damage is done by then.