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Sevan had opened and was totally walking out of the Collateral Damage door that Asher and Hannah just walked on through~
 
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Suzuki Mine] [SIZE=10px]Psssst~! [/SIZE][URL="https://www.rpnation.com/profile/15444-dj-magichat/ said:
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Sevan had opened and was totally walking out of the Collateral Damage door that Asher and Hannah just walked on through~
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OH GOD I'M SORRY I'LL TRY TO FIX THINGS AFTER WORK rushes out the door with lunch box plastered to face
 
[QUOTE="DJ MagicHat]OH GOD I'M SORRY I'LL TRY TO FIX THINGS AFTER WORK rushes out the door with lunch box plastered to face

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I was just going to jump on that to add that if you would collect my wayward student before she escaped, I would appreciate it. I was tempted to post a very brief post to the effect of "Sevan please don't leave, it may not be safe." But now I am glad I waited, so Asher can be the heavy, instead of Aaron. ;)


Edit: see what I did there?
 
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@DJ MagicHat This post also has me thinking, inevitably, about the physics of the situation. Am I correct in understanding that Asher's powers do not physically restrain, but rather distract? Crowd control is mentioned, but seems to be in the sense of dispersal through discomfort, and also making concentration and coordinated efforts difficult. Do I have that right?


On a related note, I looked up the track, and was pleased to note that it is a 'golden oldie' from the early twenty-teens, when Aaron was in high school, so I think it might give him a weird flash of nostalgia.


@welian this might be the opening you need to make a break for it, assuming you are not disabled by the sonic attack itself; it will likely distract Aaron, who is already quite slow to react. Also he is exposed, while you are about 90 percent covered by ceiling tiles which are generally quite sound absorbent. At any rate, I will wait for your post before posting again.


This also has me thinking about Solo's suite of vulnerabilities, and I am going to think out loud for a bit here. Feel free to skip this last paragraph all, if you like, or to wade in if you have thoughts...


Can sound attacks harm Aaron? I don't think so, because then he could also be taken down by a solid punch to the ear, and he is meant to be virtually invulnerable to physical attack. But now I am wondering how he hears at all... His tympanic membranes alone must weigh close to 500 quadrillion tons. So how does ANY sound get detetcted? It seems the energy required would be phenomenal! I was mulling this over on my drive to work and I think I have a soulution that doesn't require me to be deaf. I think all sounds get 'capped' for him. All his tissues are infused with dark matter, giving him his incredible mass, but without directly intersecting normal spacetime; if it did, kiss the world goodbye. He is the interface between the world of normal matter and dark matter. So there has to be a discontinuity somewhere very close to the surface of his skin, otherwise he would shred any clothes he put on through tidal forces. And let's face it, you can only write so many scenes with your character losing his clothes before people start to wonder about you, so that is a non starter. (Related note to self:Lucas needs to befriend GAD)


Anyway.


Presume Aaron's virtual mass particles stop interacting about a nanometer outside his skin. It then follows all his tissues would have a nanometer or so of 'give' before the force required for further flexing rises to absurd levels. What I think this would mean for his hearing is that he can hear down to whisper levels, as well as a normal 43 year old man (spoiler for you young folks: not well) And he can hear conversational levels more more less normally, but with flattened intonations. But increasing decibel levels just sound all the same as normal conversational tones to him, because they can't push his eardrums any further inward. This will cause several effects: Music all sounds a little flat, different voices will be difficult to distinguish, and his directional hearing will be terrible, as stereophonic hearing depends largely on differences in the perceived loudness in each ear. Sorry for droning on. This is my particular geekery, and I had not thought about hearing at all until now. Thanks for bringing it to my attention, and for indulging my exploration of the topic.
 
^TLDR: Aaron has poor directional hearing and poor discrimination between subtle qualities of sound, but he is not hard of hearing NOR vulnerable to sonic attacks because reasons.


Incidentally I think a fall could in fact kill him, even a relative low one such as a two story drop. Even falling off of the desk might knock him out if he landed badly. I will add that to his weaknesses list on his CS just as soon as I can figure out how to phrase it without writing an 11 page paper.
 
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Math class is art class. That's Ioana, obviously :)

 

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[QUOTE="Lazy Rocktime]What does she have against that poor, poor latex mask?

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Nothing really. That's one of the few things she actually doesn't have anything against.
 
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That's a latex mask :D
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Are you sure? Because I remember a conversation from before about somethingsomething Ioana massacre the whole house including the dog 8D
 
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ViAdvena said:
Are you sure? Because I remember a conversation from before about somethingsomething Ioana massacre the whole house including the dog 8D
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100% sure that's a latex mask.
 
To be fair, no one knows the name of Schrodinger's cat. People are too busy guessing whether it is alive or not.
 
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@Giyari to be thoroughly pedantic, it is not that Viola's reasons for being unconcerned were wrong. You are not wrong to be unconcerned about ostrich attacks in downtown Baltimore, even if you are subsequently attacked. ;)


The trouble is finding a clear and correct alternate way to say that is tricky.


Mabye something like: while her estimation of the odds was flawlessly correct, it appears concern would not have been misplaced in this instance, even if still unwarranted under Bayesian analysis.


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Why do I see the zoo situation becoming a running battle through downtown Baltimore until it intersects with a battle at a mall?


Captain Hesperus
 
[QUOTE="Captain Hesperus]Why do I see the zoo situation becoming a running battle through downtown Baltimore until it intersects with a battle at a mall?
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Shit! Eve needs a post as well.


They're coming, I swear!
 
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