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Old 04-29-2021, 05:43 AM   #53
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Default Re: Catalog Of Super Realities

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Originally Posted by Not another shrubbery View Post
Euterpe (Muse of Music/Lyric Poetry): Important people and events here have audible theme music accompanying them, which tends to get louder (rarely uncomfortably so) in dramatic situations, but never clashes with the soundtracks of others nearby. Natives have mostly tuned out the background strains, but immediately know when "something's about to happen". Many supers (not all) have sonic related powers.
You've got me thinking of those scenes in many Old West films when a stranger enters the saloon and everybody's suddenly paying attention to him. If they could hear the soundtrack, the scenes would make a lot more sense (and some of them would start making bets, or making for the exists).
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