<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Summary 2</strong></span><br/><br/>This all takes place after William arrives at Holy Question Mark.<br/><br/>Carefully monitoring the music of the world, and correlating it with news reports, gives William the distinct impression that the world gets most upset when the monsters are most active. It doesn’t seem to be localized—the music is the same everywhere. So when there’s a big offensive in, say, Ismailistan, it upsets the music in New York. If that’s the sole explanation for the music being disturbed, there’s a lot more monster activity than the news is reporting on.<br/><br/>William will try reassuring the world when he hears the other voice doing it…he will try to see if this has any effect or strengthens the other voice as well or efforts to fight the monsters.<br/><br/>Yeah, the world seems to become familiar with William’s voice and accept it as a calming influence. It does not seem to have any impact on news reports of the monster war.<br/><br/>I'm wondering if it's possible for William to explore the darknet, get bit coin, and gamble slowly to try and accrue wealth, since that doesn't seem to be a thing that requires points.<br/><br/>Sure sure, that would be a Warfare thing. He’s got a lot of money squirreled away in various offshore havens then :)<br/><br/>He hires some minions to manage his money for him, but also does electronic trading from school using a VPN and anonymous accounts. He has a few safe houses and weapons caches, a couple in the US, a couple other places.<br/><br/>William wants to secure his computer and phone, but he's not a hacker. With regular contact with Penn, and knowing her reputation, he's pretty sure she knows how to do a good job—and she probably already owns his systems. He decides to pay her regularly to keep them secure from everyone else, and trust her honor (and desire to keep getting paid) for protection against her peeking.<br/><br/>Some of William's Power Words are designed to affect minds. They don't work on the music of the world. He realizes that the music, though it has a very powerful mind, is too inhuman for him to affect.