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So some people are ask'n 'bout how well Amy can resist Sami's flute if she plays it, so I guess welcome to Illusions 101.
Illusionary programs work by tapp'n into the subconscious and because a lot of the time people are way too willing to see what they wanna see.
Controll'n grown ass adults is a lot harder than children, and children are harder than animals. Dumb animals are pretty easy to hack because you can mess with their instincts, and insects are the freaking easiest 'cause they're halfway to being programs anyway.
Kids are pretty easy to fool, you play a pretty song and most of them will play right along. 'bout one in a hundred might not fall for it but that's not a hard and fast rule since Sami only survived 'cause of her water faerie blood.
Adults have a lot more variables, they've seen different things, they want different things, they respond different ways. You can maybe sway small groups of like-minded types, unless you get an organized group that are religious, cultist, or military trained. All that training to act in an organized way also gives you a real in by mak'n them think they're gett'n orders from their masters. Again, it's not perfect. You're sometimes gonna get a skeptic hidden in the order, or a loose canon. Sometimes they can break the sway, sometimes they can't. Depends on the make-up of the group. The less restrictive or disciplined the group is, the less likely the charm will keep hold once one person breaks away. Which makes me sound like religion n' military are evil but they're not -- I'm just say'n, it's got its pros and cons and one of the cons is the training to act as a group also creates an exploit when it comes to hacking. A group of chaotic individuals might not be charmable but they're probably gonna get trounced by an organized one.
ANYWAY what you're here for is "Is Amy gonna get messed up if Sami starts playing" and that's why I told ya all that other crap.
Amy is chaotic, and she knows how charming songs work. That means she has a real good chance of resisting or at least figuring out what's going on.
Amy is also under a lot of stress, she's never heard Sami play, and she loves her. Which means she might be drawn towards Sami anyway, and we won't know if that causes a problem without knowing where she is, and we can't figure out where she is 'cause Hailey has her spoofed. If Hailey drops the spoof, then it means the Curse might be able to find her... which is only a problem if Amy's still in range of it.
I also told you that crap about illusions 'cause SAMI is frigg'n in the middle of it. She can't see anything as it is because no matter what you tell her waking mind, no matter how much you support her, you can't change the fact that deep down she hates herself and thinks she deserves to suffer -- not in a few days at least. That kind of wound's been festering for YEARS. Even with Amy's help it's going to take years for that part of Sami to totally heal and until then, CURSE can use it. She'll see bad things and she'll feel 'em 'cause part of her won't forgive herself for not being able to save any of her friends.
It's the spiritual version of an infected wound. Some infections never totally go away y'know -- they just go dormant. If she heals, she can starve it out so it's so weak it can't ever take hold of her the same way again but it's probably never gonna be gone completely, it's shaped who she is.
Since Sami's your anchor for what you can see, you don't get a clear view of anything either and Oculus can't do much without putting himself at risk of being attacked.
Ya gotta make a call.
Show mercy and potentially get betrayed 'cause they're just animals too dumb to know they're being spared, or drown 'em and basically relive the whole thing over as the Piper. Amy might get attacked by the vermin, she might fall in to the river, you don't know. There's no safe or easy decision, you just have to go what you think is right.
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