Air speaks to you of what it contains. The fullness
of the message depends on the volume questioned, the more immediate the
volume then the more personal and vivid
the reply.
Speak With Air is almost useless in the outer
world, the air moves constantly and has no individual consciousness, any
attempt to speak with it is like speaking with the whole world.
In a dungeon, the air is stagnant. Still unmoving
air is cognitively dead, or, from its perspective, undead. It moans, sighs,
notices and reports little.
In the vast interconnected caverns beneath the
earth, the air is concentrated, shaped into personality and mindfulness, yet
also moves, flows and lives. In these circumstances, or those like them, the
air can speak.
Air does not understand mass, weight, colour or
light. It senses form, shape, texture and movement. It has a keen sense of its
own composition. It knows if it has smoke in it for instance, it knows its own
temperature. It senses the respiration of lungs as keen points of annihilation
and transformation moving through it. Like fires but lesser, rhythmic and mild.
Air can generally sense those human-shaped things
which move and do not breath, which can be useful in hunting undead.
Air thinks and forgets very quickly, so
information moving through, for instance, a series of interconnected caves, is
very quickly degraded the further it travels from its source. Air cannot be
bargained with as it will not recall the deal. Every minded self of air is
immediate and transient, regarding itself as eternal, yet lodged firmly in the now.
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The Volume with which you wish to speak.
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What is it like speaking to the volume?
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What level of information can it
communicate?
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1
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House room
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Speaking directly with another person
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Everything a person could say or know.
Like speaking to a blind and sensuous sculptor who exists only in one place.
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2
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Every room in a house
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A group of people shouting from room
to room.
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Numbers, movements, accurate
descriptively but no penetration onto cause.
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3
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Every room in an office building
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Addressing a crowded room, full of
people.
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As above but with much more disagreement,
vagueness and alternate views.
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4
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Volume of a stadium
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Being before a gigantic crowd
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Only massive events and basic one-word
emotions.
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5
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Volume of a city
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Shouting on the street of a city
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Possibly a very general mood and very
major events, for instance, something like 911 would be reported, or a major
riot.
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