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It is interesting that dolphins became so closely-entwined with Jun at all, as although they famously love to talk to terrestrial folks, they are mostly very self-contained in their societal workings, having little need for material goods. Instead, they place emphasis upon storytelling (stories they consider living, evolving entities) and a mystical oneiric realm called the Dreamsea, which they can only access communally by linking minds in a semi-conscious state. Although Jun remains pretty sceptical that the Dreamsea is anything more than a sort of collaborative dreaming, dolphins usually find equal meaning and importance in their Dreamsea experiences as they do the waking world: events, interactions, visions, and dreams within dreams from this “other realm” often have an equal bearing on their lives. The act is extremely Dew demanding and so dolphins often congregate around areas of rich Dew-flow, particularly around coral reefs - psychedelic places of roving bands of semi-conscious dolphins, bathed in the Dew pouring through the many branches of the coral-gods.

When Jun developed coastal urban centres such as Oanisi and Grujabar, they acted as new Dew-rich sites of congregation for dolphins, coming to commune with peoples of land and river. In a dark twist, Jun stumbled upon the perfect way to leverage an indefinite partnership with the toothed whales. Traditional drug use by dolphins tends to involve either pufferfish or being stung by specially-bred coral cultivars (users of which can be identified by the red blisters left around their jaws and melon), but terrestrial substances such as the hallucinogenic millipedes and smoked herbs that Jun prefers gives an entirely different kind of experience: enticingly alien. Addiction is common because long-term use of many of Jun’s drugs degrades a dolphin’s ability to access the Dreamsea - except while under the influence. This particularly cruel aspect keeps entire populations of dolphins locked around urban coastlines and estuaries, cut off from their mainstream culture and entirely reliant on Jun to provide their fix. Some even move into freshwater full-time to live in the canals and waterways of inland cities like Za’ul.