Editing The Simurgh (section)

====Active Scream====
Acting as her active sonar system, the Simurgh's 'active scream' is a psionic signal that she consciously chooses to emit that collects a steady feed of information about the environment.<ref name="II19.z e16" /><ref name="II19.z eQuarterMile">By another mechanism she would employ in three minutes, accessing a computer in a house her signal told her was a quarter mile away, she would shut off communications at a critical time. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref><ref name="28.x e1" /> This active scream is optimized for combat: it exerts a psychic pressure<ref name="reddit eSummary1" /><ref name="17.3 ePressure">“She’s modest,” Oliver suggested.<br><br>Krouse twitched with irritation.  He wanted to stab his finger in Oliver’s face, growl, ''you don’t know her''.<br><br>He bit his tongue and kept from reacting, reminded himself that he was under the influence of that incessant screaming in his head, a constant pressure on his psyche.  If he let himself slip, he knew how easily he could transition into tearing into Oliver, expressing all the frustration he had over how passive and submissive and ''fucking'' whiny he was.  The guy wouldn’t even fight back.<br><br>''Noelle’s not modest.  She’s damaged'', Krouse thought.  He glanced at Marissa, and he didn’t say anything. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/10 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.3]]</ref> that presents an offensive time-intensive threat to her opponents.<ref name="17.2 eWaves">The heroes had been working in waves, because apparently too much exposure to her, to this ''fucking'' screaming in their heads that never stopped or let up, it was dangerous somehow.  Only a few heroes fighting at a given time, enough to maybe try to disrupt whatever it was she was up to.  Staying for an allotted amount of time.  - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.2]]</ref><ref name="II20.1 eLegendSpeech">Images of the Simurgh appeared on the screens.<br><br>“Her precognition gets better at assessing targets and threats the longer they are in range of her scream.  The initial attack is ''key''.  She will not dodge everything we throw at her.  You may feel the attacks don’t matter.  They do!  Our initial approach will emphasize chaos and disturbance.  This delays the point in time where she has the ability to see ''everything''!  We will rotate people in and out, minimizing exposure.  Past a certain ‘code yellow’ point you’re an increasing danger to others.  Past a ‘code red’, you become her weapon to use against humanity.  Play it safe, taper off, be prepared to back out, or know who you can go to to get a ride or evacuation.  We will have resources as we split apart the teams.” - [[Last 20.1]]</ref><ref name="II20.3 eRefine" /><ref name="II20.4 e2" /> As a result, her signal is telepathically audible, though it remains untrackable by conventional devices.<ref name="28.x e1" />

Her active scream tapers off with distance.<ref>It took maybe a minute before Krouse could be sure it was happening, but the screaming began to fade.  Two more minutes passed before it was gone in entirety.<br><br>Silence.  Absolute silence, without any screaming in their heads, rumbles of destruction miles away, or ambient urban noise. - [[Migration 17.5]]</ref><ref>The screaming in our heads was fading, now.  This time, I was pretty sure, it was because she was leaving.  Escaping. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/17 Excerpt] from [[Last 20.7]]</ref><ref>“What happened with the Simurgh?” he asked.<br><br>“Answer my questions first.”<br><br>“The scream tapered off.  I don’t think she died.  She left.  From the state of you and your focus on ''this'', you did enough damage to her that you’re fairly confident she’s not about to pull off her endgame - [[Last 20.8]]</ref> In close proximity, the Simurgh's signal strength is at its strongest;<ref>The screaming was a roar in my ears, like the adrenaline in my ears when I’d been trapped. - [[Last 20.3]]</ref><ref name="II20.5 ePlunger" /> her signal strength is at its weakest near the edge of her active scream range.<ref name="17.4 e1">They took a path that kept the fence to their right.  It meant they stayed on the fringe of the Simurgh’s power, the volume of the keening song as low as they could hope to keep it, and it meant there was one less cardinal direction that any creatures could approach them from.  There ''were'' soldiers stationed at the far end of any roads, a ways back from fences, but they weren’t taking shots at them.  If the soldiers happened to shout at them through a loudspeaker, he considered it a bonus, something to draw others closer.<br><br>He cursed the heavy clouds of fog and dust that were resulting from the ongoing fighting and the snow that had evaporated or scattered on a massive scale.  It wasn’t bad enough that there were monsters prowling around the city, but his key senses were being obscured.  He couldn’t see more than one or two hundred feet ahead of him, and the noise… there was no absolute quiet.  The screaming in their heads continued without end, low in volume and apparently low in effect, but ''there''.  Always there.  Just as distracting and nerve-wracking were the rumbles and the sounds of gunfire, of distant explosions, of buildings collapsing, and of city streets being blasted to shreds. - [[Migration 17.4]]</ref><ref>The screaming, at the very least, didn’t feel that bad.  Was the Simurgh further from the building?  That wasn’t necessarily a good thing, as relieving as it felt right this minute.  It meant she might be getting away. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/03/07/last-20-4/ Excerpt] from [[Last 20.4]]</ref> Her active scream is explicitly range-limited: she would have to fly closer and then emit her signal to even have a chance at working around [[Dinah]]'s blind spot to figure out what happened during the remainder of [[the Wardens]]' meeting.<ref name="II19.z e16" /> 

<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:100%">The range (i.e., radius) of her active scream is at least a quarter mile<ref name="II19.z eQuarterMile" /> and is roughly at most a mile.<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><small>(When [[Defiant]] fired the [[Marduk]]'s G-driver outside her active scream range,<ref name="II20.a eOutsideRange" /> the path of the resulting beam pulverized a mile-long area of [[the City]] before clipping the Simurgh.<ref name="II20.a eFirstShot" /> During the Simurgh's attack on [[Madison]] in December 2009, her active scream did not hit the Marquette neighborhood nor parts of the Tenney-Lapham neighborhood when she was at Madison's east isthmus.<ref>'''themanwhowas:'''
:6.How large are the zones? A mile in diameter? Five? Ten? Is it as far as the Simurgh's psychic scream, and if so, what is that range?
'''Wildbow:'''
:6.Scream's rage varies. Fight took place over hours and covered an area of the city. Covered roughly the following area: [[:File:Madison_By_Bow.png|http://i.imgur.com/sRbKrDI.png]] - Conversation with Wildbow on Reddit</ref><!-- https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/3ec7eu/comment/ctht547/  --> [[Krouse]] estimated the Simurgh was roughly a mile away<ref name="17.3 eHundredTargets" /> when his group was near the edge of her active scream range.<ref name="17.2 eQuieter">One by one, they each came to a complete stop.  Krouse noted how the screaming in his head seemed quieter.  Were they almost out of her range? - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/01/09 Excerpt] from [[Migration 17.2]]</ref>)</small><br></div></div><br>If desired, the Simurgh can choose to emit a signal with less strength than normal.<ref>But no sooner had Canary’s Song gone away than the Simurgh began screaming.<br><br>Not as intense as I’d heard it described.  Barely audible.<br><br>More ominous than anything.<br><br>“''Not full strength'',” Miss Militia’s voice came over the comms.  “I give us five minutes.  Wrap this up.”<br>[...]<br>“She’s singing,” Tattletale said.  “So that’s either a good sign or a very bad sign.”<br><br>“''Going by the numbers'',” Miss Militia said, “''If we assume it’s half strength, I’d say three minutes before we have to abort''.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/cockroaches-28-4/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.4]]</ref><ref>She sings, and subjects stationed here are immediately on guard.<br><br>Adjusting the song, then.  Something else.  She looks forward to see what she’ll need.  Something that will encourage rest.<br>[...]<br>No need to draw on the full force of her feedback when she already has the key elements deciphered. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/17/interlude-28/ Excerpt] from [[Interlude 28]]</ref> When going all out, she can deliberately stop using her active scream to better hide her presence<ref name="II20.1 eHide" /> and set up ambushes.<ref name="II20.1 eBakunawaCancel" /><ref>“Defiant!” I called over.  “Are the labs clear?”<br><br>“Only if you help to clear them!  Sixth floor, feel free!” he barked.  He looked like he was going to say something else, then stopped.<br><br>He turned, raising his head to look ''up''.<br><br>The ceiling caved in.  A plume of dust, concrete-<br><br>Simurgh.<br><br>I thought at first that it was just a psychological tactic.  Telekinetically controlled dust, to scare us, remind us we weren’t safe anywhere here.<br><br>Then it ''screamed''. - [[Last 20.3]]</ref>

A tuned Stilling attack, such as one from [[Scion]], can momentarily cancel her active scream.<ref name="17.2 eHaloDestruction" /> The [[Dragonflight#Bakunawa|Bakunawa Zero]] can send out pulses capable of disrupting powers<ref>On the battlefield, the Bakunawa Zero was her tool against Pouffe, a ship loaded down with ten different disruption factors.  EMP, a gravity disruptor that had been converted from a failed attempt at making an antigravity device capable of lifting a town, an engine modified from the work scavenged from the Thomais Fallen that would push time manipulation attempts off by microseconds, forward, back, or to either side.  The list went on.  Temperature, radiation, causality, biological signals…<br><br>Her plan had been to try to scramble the signals the Titans were exchanging, or, should the situation become dire enough that she had to fight the Machine Army, it would disrupt their interlinked communication across the 15.9 million kilometer square network, allowing her to portion off sections for elimination.<br>[...]<br>Dragon’s approach was to use every system she could that could disrupt time, space, temperature, gravity, even by the smallest degrees.  Titan Cinereal was halfway through the cloud-portal when the mist shifted abruptly and the portal distorted.<br><br>Sheared by the distortion, Titan Cinereal left a quarter of her body, mostly lower body, behind, the rest of her dropped off near Gimel’s analogue to Boston. - [https://www.parahumans.net/2020/02/23/infrared-19-z/ Excerpt] from [[Infrared 19.z]]</ref> to scramble the Simurgh's signal.<ref name="II20.1 eBakunawaCancel" />