Weaver Effect

It has long been known that fluxweavers construct traps for their prey, consisting of a ring of a concrete-like substance regurgitated by the animal, which sets in a roughly circular pattern. Prey become fixated in a spot projected in front of the center of the circle, seemingly without physical interference, called the ‘weaver effect’. Historically, this was assumed to be due to some kind of hypnosis, due to the strange acute headaches that people experience when near a fluxweaver trap. However, Learned Pac discovered that the effect also works when the fluxweaver is absent, and on small inanimate objects. This lead to a closer study of the substance the trap is made of, revealing an effect intrinsic to the material itself.

For several years, experiments had to be done by collecting fluxweaver traps for raw materials, but it was eventually discovered that fluxweavers create the material by ingesting bridgestones, concentrating the mineral now known as apacite, and regurgitating a thick paste which sets firm. After this discovery, University alchemists began extracting apacite directly from harvested bridgestones, and have gone on to discover several other attrapulsive materials.