ORIGINAL BURN — EP03"Behind The Veil (Acoustic Cabal Mix)"

ORIGINAL BURN — EP03

"Behind The Veil (Acoustic Cabal Mix)"

“It’s a sinister tale… behind the veil.”

He walked off-stage, thinking the music had stopped.

But the silence? It had teeth.
And it hummed a name.

Jake Barron, frontman turned phantom, left Tube Haven behind with a bottle and a buzz — his silhouette swallowed by the dust. That Eye on his scalp? Still dim. But the storm? Already playing.

They say there's places you don’t walk past sunset. Places where the glitch breathes louder than the wind. And in the ruins, something old stirs. Not the Piper. No. This was the thing the Piper won’t touch.

Jahbulon.

The name that tears circuits in the dark. The name that etches the Eye into your mind before it burns onto your flesh.

He saw them in the static. Cloaks of silence. Rituals in ruined sand. The bone-and-circuit totem hissing with forgotten tones. A circle of flame built from wires and dust and the broken promises of old gods.

He knelt. Not in reverence — but in absence.

Then came the spark.

A sigil in data-shard. The acolytes twisted and sang, their faces stretched by static masks. Mechanical hands rose from beneath the circle like ghosts with agendas. His scream cracked the silence. His jaw cracked too — bones rethreading into chrome.

And when the Eye lit — neon orange, alive and unblinking — the man was gone.

They named him again.

The Barron.

But names mean nothing in the storm. The Piper watched from the edge, glitch-fog curling around her. She didn’t speak. She never does. The upgrade wasn’t hers.

The totem shattered. The sands broke geometry. And Jake — Barron — whatever they made him — stood up different. Skin flickered like analog tape stretched too thin. Chrome hands clenched to the rhythm of an unholy beat. His past, his pain, his song — overwritten by the Code.

He walked on, glowing Eye like a beacon through the storm. Alone. Mechanical. Reborn.

And the veil?

Still there.

Only now, he’s the one behind it.

FRAME 01: The Path to the Eye

— Jake exits Tube Haven — bottle behind him, silence ahead. The neon sign glitches above, but his path is clear: walk into exile. His silhouette, a ghost in progress. This is Jake at his most human — and most lost.

FRAME 02: Ritual Interface

— A faceless acolyte extends the call. This isn’t mercy — it’s mandate. The framing places Jake as a supplicant, but only in silhouette. We don’t see his face — because this story isn’t his anymore. Not yet.

FRAME 03: Eye of Providence

— The moment of ignition. The Eye lights. This is Jake’s erasure. From this point forward, his body is an altar and his mind a file system. We keep the shot tight — intimate, invasive, irreversible.

FRAME 04: Ascension Glitch

— A literal rise — but a spiritual collapse. His limbs hang like marionette strings. The glitch bloom is divine and destructive. The ritual succeeds. The human is overwritten. Long live the system.

FRAME 05: Behind The Veil

— This is not Jake Barron. This is the thing that was built from him. The Eye sees through rain and riot and ruin. The doors behind him will close. He won’t look back. The veil stays drawn.

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“Even the silence glitches when the strings break.”
Track: Behind The Veil [Acoustic Cabal Mix]
Episode: 03 | Log ID: OB-03_BTV
FEED STABILITY: 66% | ZONE: The Wasted Lands
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