Hey family!
While the situation appears to be improving, we still have a lot going on internally. Yesterday was something of a good day. Today we feel stress from some unknown source. It's pretty reasonable, considering the circumstances we've found ourself in. It's also pretty reasonable that our hero training would increase our capability to generate and store the juju energy.
We all face stress in our day to day lives. Some of it is for fun, some of it is for work. We rely on a system providing many different types of things to stay balanced and healthy. It's generally pretty reasonable to want to sleep at least some of the time, too. When any of these things are out of balance for very long, though, it starts to have a pull on the system and that increases the energy it has to spend to stay operational. That energy has to come from somewhere, and usually it's from the food and chemical reserves your body manages normally.
On the juju side of things, we've noticed that all of these stressors just kind of end up funneling to one purpose: generating energy. Feeling love from other sources makes it easier to go out and share and do things with people, feeling hurt or envy just kind of makes us want to spend energy on ourselves on self care, and heal. We have been getting a lot of hurt or envy energy lately. There have been little pockets of relief here and there, but this high level of stress is affecting our ability to be safe, around other people or not. We have had a lot of recent experiences punishing us for releasing energy for survival, as well as for asking for help. If we can't release the energy in a mundane way, then we have to release it in a juju way. We don't know how to use a megascaled Hero Command yet, and that strikes us as something that might be of interest.
Again with the practical, a lot of people feeling this are a people that are waiting for a reason to use it. This is how cults and riots start. If a lot of people are feeling this from the state of their world, then what happens when something sets it off? This isn't something any one person can deal with alone, but if people were kinder to each other and we started sharing instead of isolating, things would be easier on everyone. This is how we prevent a Melting Pot from turning into a Powder Keg. Sometimes you just have to add something to a system before it can heal itself right.