Quote Originally Posted by Ksheep View Post
High-intensity sub-sonic sound, then. How much energy is lost per (unit of length) for subsonic sounds traveling through air? Is it on par with sounds in the normal audible range? How many decibels must be produced to damage someone over a distance, and wouldn't it damage everyone who hears it, i.e. everyone in a certain radius?
I'm working on a vague understanding from about a week in Physics I, but I think it's possible to focus sound. There's a kind of speaker someone told me about that's only audible if you're directly in its path, rather than the regular sort that allows sound to diffuse and diffract. Sort of a like a sound "laser", a focused beam of sound.
Anyway, that's not the point of this at all; the point is, there's no range on the ability, and that's dysfunctional. Sonic effects are largely magic, and that's good enough for me.