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[nick_garou]

Woke up to find a mass e-mail from Salem talking about the need for tightened security in the tenement due to there being a hostile changeling in the area that likely knew the location of the Tenement. It mentioned that Glass Walker safehouses have a tendency towards being compromised, so everyone should have at least two evacuation routes. There's a drain pipe that runs down the side of the building near my window, and my room is only 3 stories up. I've also removed any personal identification effects--which ended up being just the laptop I'd brought earlier and the reward tags for LOLcat. (Sorry, cat. Don't get lost.) My wallet and phone I just keep on me or nearby, ready to grab and go.

I e-mailed Salem back suggesting that requiring Walkers to pair up when they left the building might be a way of thwarting the mind-influencing/reading changeling. I also offered to assist in detection efforts. I figure I could sit in the lounge downstairs about 8 or 12 hours a day, watching TV, movies, or reading, and manually check everyone as they came in. Or set my room up with a front door feed so I could be up in my apartment, get alerted whenever someone came in, and scan them from two floors up without their knowledge or me needing to be seen.



I spent most of the day in the lobby watching movies. There was one--Pontypool--that was kind of interesting. It was about how the human brain, upon hearing a certain word, could go bonkers and turn people into zombies. The premise was that a virus had evolved so that it spread by sound. This got me thinking about music and neuroscience and how music can evoke emotions in people. Using Forces and Mind, I bet I could find sympathetic sound frequency resonances that influence the human brain. Subtle stuff. Where adjusting the sound of my voice's tone, pitch, and inflection a little bit might influence a listener's reactions. But it might also be a way to calm--or incite--larger groups of people. Suddenly I wish I still played bass guitar in a band, because I bet I could get people to really enjoy the music that they hear. This prompted me to fire up Spotify and listen to some music. I ran across a song by Daisy Chainsaw--"A Dog with Sharper Teeth"--and .... Yes. Definitely. There's sublimely subtle emotional influences--leaning towards chaos and insanity--embedded in that song's lyrics. I need to study this effect more.



Just prior to sunset, I walked to the park to tap the node and harvest some tass: I'd depleted all my "lucky pennies" earlier, giving them out to help defeat the Nephandi down in San Fran. While there, I checked in on the node and the park. The node is healthy, the park was fine, but I noticed Val in the spirit world... talking with that stormcrow spirit she'd rescued. I think it spotted me, then Val did as well. Val turned into a raven and put on this little top hat coated with green sequins--which she'd been showing to the injured spirit--and crossed over in an attempt to surprise and amuse me. I pretended to barely notice her when she did her whole 'ta da!' gag, claimed she had poop on her foot, and then got her with a "made you look" gag. She's called me One-Ups-The-Raven a couple times now. She's going to pull a fast one over on me eventually: I should probably just let her "win" the next prank she tries to pull--if I detect it coming in advance. Besides, Val's a hoot when she's not preoccupied with something serious. Reminds me of the back in the day when I pranked that garou lawyer.... whatserface... Brittany Sterling, a Silver Fang, after she'd done something to piss off Brigid: I had Brittany's briefcase fall open on a windy day right before she got into the courthouse for a trial--and randomized her papers. I was such a bastard in my youth.