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Voice un: Sunai; A Performance

[Since his powers had come back, Leo has been seized with one thought in mind. He's got to find something to eat. Or rather, someone, a sinner with a soul dark enough that it'll satisfy him. He's got an idea, which is likely not going to endear him to a lot of people, but he doesn't give a fuck. There's no introduction when the audio starts, just the sound of a guitar being played in an odd finger-picking style most players don't use.

It just sounds so nice, doesn't it? Like the most beautiful song you've ever heard. You just want to keep listening to it and hope it doesn't stop. Eventually, it sends all the listeners into a calm and blissful state, which considering how things are around here, isn't the worst idea in the world. It does also provide a compulsion to confess. It can be the telling of a regret never realized, someone's worst sins, or anything in between. When he's played for about a minute or so, he finally speaks.]

Anyone out there listening to this?

[If he's ended up putting anyone under his thrall, they'll most likely answer before they even realize what they're doing. Sunai songs are powerful things.]

[OOC: Good time to check out his permissions post beforehand so you and I can know your character will react and be affected!]

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[Suffice to say Harlan has decided to keep an eye on this guy since their last conversation... And it's a good thing he did, apparently. He feels that familiar tug in the back of his mind the moment he opens up the audio. It doesn't work on him, but it will work on a lot of others. This is not good.]

What the fuck do you think you're doing? Turn that shit off. Now.

[Oh boy, this guy again? Leo is definitely going to need to do something about him eventually. He is starting to become an annoyance.]

Hmm, no, I don't think I will.

[He's gonna see how many little flies can be drawn into the spider's web. When he's as hungry as he is right now, all bets are off.]

Who the fuck are you to judge people when you're trying to use this bullshit magic on everyone in town? Fucking hypocrite.

[Harlan's not exactly sure what he's expecting out of this, though. Obviously Leo's not going to listen to him.

But, still. He can't stay quiet and just let this happen.]

You need to learn to breathe in between ranting and raving.

[He says the words calmly, continuing to play his guitar.]

This song is how I judge everyone, you ignoramus. Consider it a census. Which seeing the fact it doesn't seem to be working on you either means you don't have a soul-- [He mutters the words "wouldn't surprise me" under his breath.] --or there's more to you than I initially thought.

[Luckily for Kyna, it's tough for this sort of thing to affect her, so her compulsion to respond isn't so much due to his ability as it is due to her inability to keep her nose out of anything. She recognizes the press of it anyway, not quite an enchantment spell but close enough to clue her in.]

Cool, this is definitely what we need right now. What the fuck is this supposed to be?

Consider a performance.

[Sunai are incapable of lying, but they can skirt around the truth, which is precisely what he's going to do here.]

It's not just a performance and you know it, dude. Knock it off.

Tell me why you're apparently not affected by it and I might.

[That's a new one for him. Either she doesn't have a soul or there's something else at work here. Until then, he'll just continue to pluck at the strings of his guitar, the song beginning to wind down. He never usually gets to play it all the way through, for the victim is dead long before ever hearing it.]

[Jo doesn't have a lot of music and it's really something she misses here.

So she does pay attention and as soon as he speaks, whoops-]

Yes?

Sounds calming, doesn't it?

[A Sunai's song could stop a whole room of people dead in their tracks. It was a powerful thing, but then, it had to be to steal the soul of a person away.]

It is. [It's a little strange to her.]

Makes a person feel like talking about almost anything.

[It's that little nudge, just enough for those under the sway of the song to confess. It only works in sinners, so he's testing the waters here.]

[Jo pauses for a moment, looking a little lost.]

About what? [She has regrets, but not much guilt.]

[ Since his arrival, Kylo’s largely avoided the network, tuning in only long enough to look for scraps of information amidst a sea of personal posts and other pointless content. Music would normally be included in the latter but... there’s something different here. The song, while unrecognizable, keeps him rooted, and when the question is prompted, he is unable to stop himself from answering. ]

Yes.

[ Blissful is not a state he himself would recognize. Nonetheless, there’s a strange contentment, clear even through voice alone. A far cry from the usual monotone or rage others may have encountered. ]

It’s a lovely piece.

[He knows that tone. Someone who has fallen under the spell of the song. Good to see it can affect at least a few of the residents of this city.]

Thank you. I composed it myself.

[It had all just come to him the first time he'd ever heard a piece of music. It happened different for each Sunai depending on what instrument they heard. Leo had heard a song composed of many different instruments and so the ability to play anything he could get his hands on had always stayed with him.]

[ Perhaps in person, he could put up a fight, however futile, against the compulsion. Not so over the network. Here even the Force gives little sign of anything amiss. ]

Why broadcast it for the rest of us?

[ With the effects of the spell, there’s no suspicion behind the words. Only curiosity. ]

Seems like after the week people had, they could use something like this.

[Sunai can't directly tell a lie, but Leo's learned to get around that over the years by telling a version of the truth. What he's saying has a double meaning, for he thinks they could use something like this, but more for the purposes of deciding who to feed upon than a more altruistic one.]

Besides, I wasn't able to play the entire time. Pure torture.

I can imagine.

[ More than imagine. The past week has been torture and even under the calming effect, a ghost of his former fury remains. ]

I am.

It's very relaxing. What's the name of the piece?

It doesn't have a name. Never had any reason to give it one.

[Sunai simply knew their songs the way they knew the back of their hand. Each one was unique to each individual.]

Maybe the name should have something to do with water. The song kind of washes over you, through you, washing away all the bad feelings.

[She gives a contended sigh.]

Maybe you're right. It doesn't need a name.

That's a lovely way to put it.

[It certainly was something that was useful here. Even if he wasn't doing it for the most altruistic purposes, it was a good way to feel after everyone had to have been feeling stressed out with losing their senses.]

I felt sort of like this once before. Drinking shroom tea.

[She chuckles.]

Maybe your music is like a drug.

[He'd never felt the need to respond to anyone before. He checked when anything new came in, just in case there was anything useful. He's not entirely sure why he continued listening to this music, as it wasn't normally something he cared about.]

Not bad.

[Leo has an almost indignant expression on his face. Excuse you, he plays the guitar better than anyone you will ever hear in your life. His voice has an amused tone as he continues to play, emphasizing the chords a little more as he plucks them with his fingers.]

Faint praise, but I'll take it.

[It's high praise coming from this jerk]

Hn

[He's not much of a conversationalist, which is why he normally avoids talking to people with these phones. If look closely you might see a twitch in his eye as he tries to figure out why he responded at all.]

[Lance is always drawn to music anyway, so he would've listened and been interested even without the effects of Leo's ability. The calming feeling doesn't stand out either, not just because of the power itself but because that's his usual response to music, just not exactly as strongly.

His voice is quiet when he responds, for a few different reasons.]

Yes. That's an unusual playing style; is there a particular reason you use it?

[He knows the basics of guitar but not a lot of details, and so although he can recognize that the way Leo plays is out of the ordinary he doesn't know anything more than that. However, he plays piano, and whatever the instrument people often develop their own techniques for reasons that are usually pretty interesting.]

[Leo answers as he continues to play, looping the song's bridge back around again. Not that anyone will mind if they're already invested in the music.]

Instinct mostly.

[Leo automatically knows how to play any instrument he picks up, but he doesn't always understand the reasons why he plays the way he does. His powers hadn't come with an instruction manual.]

[Not too weird of an answer, especially since he isn't thinking too much about it considering the song's effects.]

How long have you been playing?

Twelve years.

[Ever since he was created as a teenager.]

It is rather calming. Makes someone feel a bit like confessing.

[But that's a compulsion that affects sinners more than innocent souls, so Lance won't really be affected at all.]

[That's a comment that would normally very much catch Lance's attention and make him suspicious, but although he doesn't feel compelled to confess anything the other effects are still very much working. So he doesn't think anything of it, instead focused more on the conversation about music.]

Do you play any other instruments?

[Harlan like, literally just told him not to open this audio post. And yet, here he is, immediately spacing out under the effects of Leo's song.]

I like this a lot, it's so nice and it makes me want to go to sleep without sleeping so I can just listen forever!

[A few days ago, this probably wouldn't have had any effect on him, but here he is, his soul back and ready to make him talk way too much way too suddenly.]

Hello I'm Hayden, Mister Music Man, sir!

[Sounds like there's someone young listening in on the other end. That might be the first kid Leo has found here. That's alright with him. Most kids have pure and uncorrupted souls.

There's a soft huffing sound from Leo that most people wouldn't recognize as being soft laughter coming from him.]

Hello there. My name is Leo Flynn. It is rather nice music, isn't it? Very relaxing.

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