So what happens if characters try to be nice and offer the troublemakers food/berries/etc in an attempt to convince them to calm down a little? And can such random encounters be handwaved or will the mods be tagging into posts/logs for that?

ALSO so Sion and Ryner picked up a Silver Wing (i.e. a slightly tattered old Lugia feather) in the Whirl Islands ages and ages ago, with the approval of the mods at the time. It's not a widely ICly known fact though (they've only shown it to close friends) and at the time it was OOCly intended just as a souvenir of no real consequence or importance. And we don't expect it to be plot-relevant now, but since it's a thing that may well ICly get mentioned/come up during this event from the sound of it, we thought you guys might want to have a heads up that it exists. :|b