(11-01-2015, 05:49 PM)allgivenover Wrote: Anyone else think that Au Ra would be particularly sensitive to attack by noise? They can't easily cover their horns, and these horns give "advanced hearing".
In fact many helmets don't cover the horns at all.
How debilitating would a harpy screech for example be? What about a direct hit on the horns? Those things have got to be sensitive.
Then there's the other bit; "enhanced spatial recognition". What does this mean exactly? So far I've only used this once in RP, a character tried to sneakily poke my Au Ra's forehead as she half-dozed on a couch, and I role-played that she sensed the incoming touch without hearing the character or having her eyes open. Although now I don't really know if that's what "enhanced spatial recognition" is meant to imply.
Thoughts?
Spatial recognition isn't quite the sixth sense, to my knowledge its the whole "If I fold this paper ten times in a special way and stab a hole in it when I open it'll form a perfect star" or the likes. Likewise the pictures of lots of cubes together and if you rotated it what it would look like. Not going to lie I'm pretty vague on what it means exactly but its something looked for in aircraft pilots (Especially fighter pilots) and architects so on. I guess this would mean Au Ra have the added natural ability when it comes to craftsmen and might take to things like Magitek engineering/Piloting easier. Easiest way would be just to google Spatial Recognition and see.
As for protecting the ears, essentially an Au Ra's horns are part of their skull and any damage done to them I would guess is the same as having a drill shoved down your ear canal in terms of pain. I imagine even tapping them too hard or hitting them against an object could result in disorientation for a short while and would say Edgar's thoughts on them being filled with something or hollow are very accurate, I'd lean more towards hollow though.
I doubt there is a way for them to protect against noise attacks besides having something wrapped physically around their horns, with an enhanced level of hearing any sort of noise attack would naturally be more deafening and rehabilitating then on a race with less sensitive hearing.
