Editing Behemoth (section)

===Roar===
By manipulating sonic energy, Behemoth can unleash a roar that grows steadily more powerful.<ref>His ‘mouth’ opened, the craggy spikes of obsidian ‘teeth’ parting.<br/><br/>And he roared.  A sound that was slow at first, growing steadily more powerful. - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> The force of the noise is so powerful at its crescendo that with enough time, he can topple nearby buildings.<ref>She turned to the capes, but a heavy crash interrupted her before she could speak.<br/><br/>A building had fallen, toppling, and Behemoth hadn’t done anything to precipitate it.  Nothing except the roaring.<br/><br/>Was that enough?  Was this building coming apart beneath us? - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> To people close by, Behemoth's roar can obliterate eyeballs, rupture eardrums, induce vomiting and fainting, and turn organs into jelly with enough time.<ref>The creature roared, and as invulnerable as she was, it almost ''hurt''.  A whirlwind blast of sand ripped past them.  Kaveh stumbled back, collapsed, blood pouring from his ears, one of his eyeballs obliterated.<br/><br/>The fight hadn’t even started, and they’d lost someone. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref><ref>Closer to Behemoth, capes were bleeding from their ears, vomiting, passing out.  Organs and brains would be reduced to jelly as he continued.  My bugs weren’t doing much to muffle the noise or soften the damage, if they were helping at all. - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> 
Even with some distance and cover, his roar can mess with the sense of balance and cause buildings to shudder.<ref>I fled, cranking my antigrav to ‘high’ and risking unfolding my wings to use the propulsion systems as I made my way to for cover, putting as many buildings between Behemoth and I as I could.<br/><br/>My swarm responded to my call, assisting the capes who weren’t fleeing fast enough.  They rose as a singular mass, a wall of tens of thousands, and absorbed the worst of the scream.  I wasn’t sure it was enough.  Even with some distance and a dozen buildings between Behemoth and I, I had no defenses as it reached a crescendo.  My sense of balance went out the window, my very ''bones'' hurt.<br/>[...]<br/>The roaring made it impossible to hear.  Even seeing was difficult, as my vision distorted and lost focus.  I very nearly tipped over, until I turned to my swarm sense.  Not perfect.  Even they were suffering, scattered and dying, at close range to the roar.  But it gave me an orientation, a plane to compare the tilt and angle of my body with.<br/><br/>I looped to one side to intercept some of my bugs, collecting the strands of silk they’d woven in one hand, then made my way around to the back of the building the heroes were clustered on.  Flying capes were settled on the ground, pausing to recuperate from the roar.  I took a second, myself, to get my bearings.  My back against the concrete, I could feel the ''building'' shuddering in response to the roar.  But at least there was a small degree of reprieve, here. - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref><ref>We took off, moving behind cover, running, as Behemoth crashed through a line of buildings.<br/>[...]<br/>Behemoth roared, and I could see the Wards and Undersiders suffering.  A dog shook its head in an attempt to shake off the noise, and lost its sense of direction.  It crashed into a bike and sprawled.  Parian, Foil and Grace were dismounted. - [[Crushed 24.5]]</ref><ref>She shook herself free of glass and dirt and threw herself back into the fray.  A bad situation was suddenly critical.  The creature roared again, and the force of the noise threw her flight off course.  Eidolon’s makeshift walls collapsed and more heroes fell, bleeding from heavy internal damage. - [[Interlude 15.z]]</ref> However, it is possible to block or suppress this noise.<ref>Sound was a bitch of a thing.  It could be muffled, but blocking it entirely?  We didn’t have Grue.<br/>[...]<br/>Still, he was more focused on picking off the defending capes, the ones who were suppressing the noise.  Was Citrine among them?  I could see the golden glow of her power in the distance.<br/>[...]<br/>I bit my tongue as the roar abruptly intensified, jarring me enough that my jaw was slammed shut.  It wasn’t that he was roaring louder; one of the capes who’d been keeping the worst of the noise at bay had fallen. - [[Crushed 24.3]]</ref> Enough distance and/or cover can stop the sound from reaching someone.<ref>Behemoth was roaring, a sound that didn’t reach us underground.  With the monitors on mute, it didn’t translate there either.  Still, the images vibrated, the flickering intensified, and the defenses the heroes had established were crumbling.  India Gate was damaged, an incidental casualty of the fight more than a target. - [[Crushed 24.4]]</ref>