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Hey, I just wanted to let everyone know...a spirit gifted me with a guitar. Flashy, sparkly, plays like a dream and-- right. First I noticed it was able to get Spirits to relax, then fall asleep. Now I think it might work on us too. Lantern-people, I mean.

So it might help with restless Spirits, right? And if anyone, I don't know, wants to chill out a bit...I take requests, or I can fake it.

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Huh, pretty useful. How long do they stay out for?

...a good question, and one I haven't figured out yet. It's a pretty deep sleep, at least for the little ones.

Good. Even the little ones can be enough trouble sometimes. Besides, being put to sleep can't be all that bad. Maybe they'll even enjoy it.

That's sort of the impression I got, like they wanted an excuse to have a rest. The one who gave it to me was encouraging when I started playing.

Cute. In a strange way, I guess, but I can't begrudge one that just wants to have a nap. Anyway, if they wanted you to have it then I guess that's a good enough sign they don't mind you using it.

I hope so. Otherwise I think there'll be opportunity to test it with a less...receptive audience.

Thank you for the warning. I will avoid where you are playing if you have that guitar out.

[It's not that they don't like the idea of chilling out, but the idea of magical or medically enforced chilling out gives Soldat shudders.]

Avoid? Alright.

[ here is Fitz being more confused than offended, don't mind him. ]

[There's a moment or two before Soldat parses the unexpected response as confusion and offers an explanation.]

The people who owned me did a lot of experiments with drug dosages and behavioral techniques to keep me functional. Especially near the end I think. Plus there was the programming.

So I don't like having my brain messed with anymore even if it's meant well.

Ah. I guess that makes sense.

[ what does it say about him that he hadn't considered that? that the guitar's supposed powers could be seen as manipulation instead of relief? maybe it's on account of his own head being mucked with so much, he just takes it as a matter of course. in any event: ]

I'll try and give fair warning if I give a public performance with it, then.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[Feeling kind of like a heel for the whole thing, now, they add in a second text,]

I am sorry. I am probably an outlier here.

It's alright. And if you are, a schedule would help everyone else know where/when they can go to hear it.

That is true

I hope it works for green-eyes. Nothing else has so far

I'd rather not have an opportunity to test that out, but I'm sure the time will come. Might need to find a way to rig up some sort of amplifier.

Probably doable but we would need a source of power

[And Soldat will need his earplugs. Good thing he has them, for parade-avoiding purposes.]

That's the tricky bit. Not really my speed, figuring that out. But it'd be good for loads of other things besides my little hobby.

Everything in the downtown area requires power of some sort, there are battery cradles with nothing in them. So yes. Just don't know where the power sources might actually be.

[Kind of annoying. And they haven't had the chance to really go looking.]

Odd they'd give you something that can be used against them.

Maybe they didn't know it's true powers. Or...I don't know. Maybe some of them need respite like the rest of us.

True, they do have such a strange outlook on things that it's hard to tell why they do anything.

One gifted me a mechanical flying dragon. I'm not sure why, but I appreciate it.

...that's a bloody amazing gift. How big is this dragon?

Small. Able to be held in one hand, I suppose so I could keep it in a pocket. If I wind it up it goes flying away and then lands.

[ that's unfairly adorable and Fitz struggles to not make giddy nerd noises. ]

Can it...do anything else? Maybe take pictures, like the tablets do?

I don't think so, but I haven't investigated too closely; I don't want to break it. If it could take photos I'm not sure how I'd get them onto the tablet, it doesn't have any ports or cords.

[It's pretty adorable and Kuai loves it.]

Really? What an astonishingly useful gift. [no sarcasm, he's as surprised as he is over his special wine bottle] That could make a difference if they try attacking us again.

Yeah, I'd thought of that. It takes a couple songs to send the smaller ones to dreamland, need to experiment more on other ones.

Think our local librarian would object to being a guinea pig?

[oh god that's...hilarious actually. tries not to laugh and snorts]

If you have a means of asking them nicely, I would start with that.

I'll work on that, yeah. They seem...receptive to helping us, at least.

Indeed. And they have been generous with their gifts as of late, so I would not expect that they would give you something that can be used on them without knowing that it could do so. Meaning, they may understand.

Maybe they're willing to risk being incapacitated for a chance at some of us getting respite from...everything.

[ you don't travel with the Doctor as long as Fitz has without coming away with some optimism. ]</small.

Are you saying they're begging for a nice nap? That would be...interesting.

Either that, or they're offering us the option.

When you say "chill out", exactly what happens to non-spirits? Are you sure we're not going to suddenly want to murder something, because that seems par for the course with spirit gifts lately.

...not a hundred percent sure, but from what I've seen it's basically the same effect as on the spirits. Calm, then drowsy, then maybe asleep.

( hmm. usually she doesn't like anything that's outside of her control, but... not feeling like shit might be nice, for a little while. )

What do you play? Country music would absolutely negate any effect of the magic guitar, for example.

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