Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20161222000051/@comment-25155763-20170109133953

Ea225225 wrote: Commander Tool Belt wrote: MarcakidofHermes wrote: Like every monster,a kid of Aphrodite is always underestimated. Piper has the potential to be the most powerful out of the 7. Charmspeak is degrading it's actual meaning. It's control.

Ok. IL bite. Let Leo use earwax. So he can't hear a thing. :)

Remember when Piper woke up Festus? It's metal. No organs, no EARS, not even EMOTION. It's literally like Piper telling a remote controlled helicopter to FLY DESPITE HAVING DRAINED BATTERIES.

So Piper woke up a non human metal with no emotions and no ears. Look at Leo. Human, and in this case, no ears. O_o. Question. What if you dont need ears to be controlled? After all, freakin metal which doesnt even have EMOTION nor EARS was under the control of Piper and WOKE UP.

Heres whats badass about Piper's powers. If doesnt even DRAIN HER. You see Jason with his lightning and Percy with his tsunamis and Nico with his ghostifying power. Piper has the power to make you follow every command, basically a slave, and no backlash from it. Lol whats funny is that she has few training too.

Well anyway. Thats how I see it. Tell me. Festus, a ship, metal, that was shut down, has no emotions nor organs, was inder the control of Piper.

Then theres Leo. Human. Just turning off his hearing. Quite a similar situation to Festus. No ears or organs after all and not even human. Your passion and energy are admirable, but your points are ''moot. '' Festus, (Warriorfan beat me to saying this) but Festus obviously has a way of hearing things, as he communicates with Leo quite effectively. Festus understands Leo, and Leo understands Festus. The whole thing about automatons is that they are meant to be human like, but stronger and hopefully better. Therefore, they exhibit most of the life processes of a human. They move, they respond to stimuli, Festus (who remember was a more advanced prototype) even ate/drank, which falls under nutrition. (he loved tabasco sauce and motor oil).

Now, putting an automaton to sleep, otherwise known as shutting down is the same as humans sleeping. They still respond to stimuli, and their senses are not shut off. That is why you can wake up someone by calling their name, or attention, which Piper did to Festus, whose ears (or whatever he uses to hear) were wide open. The feat is worthy of praise, and could not have been easy, but the point is that Festus' ears were not blocked.

So, if Leo blocks his ears with some earmuffs (remember anything from a machine shop is available in his tool belt and earmuffs are at a lot of machine shops due to the noise) Piper's charmspeak will be incredibly ineffective. In hand to hand combat, Leo has been shown to be quite capable, with his primary weapons being two silver-tipped blacksmith hammers, one in each hand, which he defeated many monsters at the Wolf House with. Piper uses a sword, and has become quite good at it. I daresay it would be an even fight...... until Leo sets his hammers on fire (like he did at the Wolf House). Correction. At the Wolf house, he set both his hammers and his whole body on fire. That repels Piper a bit, don't you think? And then of course, Leo finishes up a neat job on a terrified Piper who can't come near him. C'mon dude, I'm against MarcakidofHermes and all, but even I admit that his points are not "moot' No, almost that entire post is moot due to the fact that Festus clearly does have ears as he and Leo talk all the time.