Case 5 - The Latest Hit Case

Case file: The Latest Hit Song

Location: Worldwide/ primary lead Stavanger, Norway 

An account on a media sharing site named ‘’6I6’’ uploaded a song that started with the captions “If you listen to this song you die.” Analysis of the song showed that its mostly hard to describe as its a morphed noise of many instruments with faint screaming of a male voice in the background. In the middle of the song, a distinctive piano tune can be heard. The composition’s main feature however is a chant which Quintus was able to amplify. The amplification showed that the chanting was a repetition of the same sentence in an ancient Germanic language. The premise, as described, was that if you play this music exactly seventeen days before the full moon, it would summon the devil which would then come and take your soul. Secondary requirement, equally peculiar is that the music must be played in a room that is underground.

It was removed only sixteen hours after being uploaded and becoming viral. Quintus is unsure if that was done by the owner or the website. Currently there is no known way to download it. Its hard to track who uploaded it and how many people in how many countries have downloaded it. Aurum as well as the other agencies have noted this event and worked together to mark any suspicious happenings, tracking down IP addresses and the like. This song appeared 36 days ago to the day and only on this day has Aurum gotten a real lead in this case. Kjellberg Folden from Stavanger, Norway has called Aurum to report that something weird has been going on with his boyfriend, Klaus Mizuhara. He and his friends were one of the few people who had downloaded the song and listened to it. It happened while Kjellberg was away visiting his family. As of late though, Klaus’ behaviour has become increasingly odd and disturbing, very much unlike his usual self according to Kjellberg. Klaus had--amongst many other violent things-- pushed his niece from a stroller six days ago. The Grand Master of Aurum immediately sought a meeting with Aeris agency’s Primus. Another lead similar to this came from Australia where Aeris investigated an eerily similar case related to the downloaded song  but their lead ended in a dead end. The person that had started to act strange was a young girl that killed herself after poisoning her own parents. 

Right now, Klaus is our only active lead and it requires agents to act promptly as whatever the source behind the song is needs to be stopped right away. There is quite possibly more disturbed and affected people having something tamper with their behaviour which is surely to lead in horror. Agents may freely use the Folden family vacation home which is empty during this time of year while they stay in Norway. Although with this specific case, clues may lead could be to any part of the world, so agents will be set up with new locations if they request it. Agents must also take note to respect sole territory rule and if the case clues point to Aeris and Argentum agency territories (Australia or South America) it must be handed over to their agents.

We urge caution as well with listening to the song, it is permitted but make sure to be safe and break one of the two rules: by not listening to it exactly seventeen days before the full moon or doing it in a room which is above ground instead of underground.

Experience Points: 18

Deadliness Rating: 4 (dropped to 3)

Agents on the case: [Lin Zhou/Lotus][Zachary Asher/ Jackal][Nicolae Badi / Stotti][Aiah Ramsumair/ Hummingbird]

Rolls result: Nothing happened to Aiah and Lin. Nico broke his arm and Zach got bronchitis. 

EXP gained: 18 (Case) +  2 (Reputation) = 20

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Summary (continued from PhantomMuse's summary

After they got the Location of the IP address of the user from the Website's Manager, the team travelled to the states and contacted the leader of the band who created the song. 
The Band Leader, Travis, explained that he had found this old book in an estate sale of an old manor and decided it would look cool with his home decor, which it did, but when he got home and opened it, he found it had all sorts of cryptic instructions for rituals and rites that were of a demonic nature. 
Being the head of an 'edgy', digital punk band, he decided to incorporate one of the rituals into the song he created. Not long after they performed, recorded and posted the song online, one of his band members died after exhibiting the same if not stronger symptoms as the other Leads in the case. Travis himself almost got killed in the process. 
After hearing his part of the story, the team began to think of ways to destry the book and settled on using the dagger Zachary aquired from the Weapons Raffle. 

As it would turn out, the ritual brung out by the song summoned a Lesser Demon who has been trying to use the song to find a host from anyone who listens to it under the right circumstances. 

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