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"The rote we perfected works directly on the brain of the subject. Essentially, it re-tunes your brain, making it more sensitive to stimulation. All the senses are heightened. When the Technocracy was through with me, my clothes felt like razor wire and fiberglass soaked in alcohol. The food I ate for breakfast tasted like sulfur and acid. I constantly felt as if I were staring into a fusion reaction, and I could smell the disgusting stench of my captors under the cheap perfumes they used to mask their body odor. My constant retching felt as though my body was turning itself inside out. They did this to me for a full year. I nearly died.
They should have killed me."
Mage: The Ascension - Tradition Book: Virtual Adepts

"When the Infiltrators approach, their prey's every sensory apparatus is bombarded by overwhelming stimuli. Vox-casters howl with anguished feedback whilst vid-screens craze with fizzing static. Yet this crippling assault is even more effective upon natural senses than artificial ones. Ears ring with cruel tinnitus, eyes water and turn red, and the taste of burnt metal fills the mouth. It is all the Infiltrators' victims can do to remember how to breathe. As their prey clasps hands over bleeding ears and screws shot bloodshot eyes, the Sicarian Infiltrators simply walk into point-blank range and open fire."
Warhammer 40,000: Codex - Skitarii

"QUIET! PLEASE, MAKE IT STOP!"
David Archer, Mass Effect 2 Overlord DLC

"I rigged ultrasonics up an hour ago. Works like silent whistles do on dogs. Every pooch in the neighborhood starts howling. Even with the earplugs I feel like puking my guts up. What it does to those senses of his— I can't even imagine."

"Whatever euphoria she felt before escalated tenfold as her lungs completely filled with the alien atmosphere. Then she twitched as the walls seemed to fade right before her eyes. She could see Jax in the other room and even Zod then the two turned into skeletons and then shapes of bright red light. the sound of the engine, machinery, footsteps as Kryptonians wandered the halls of the ship, all roared in Kara's ears. Everything was so bright and so loud, it was all too much. Screaming, she quickly tapped her helmet once more and its shield reactivated. Kryptonian air quickly replaced the alien air as Kara dropped to her knees, slowly regaining her senses."

"Oooh, too much... music!...Music overload!"

"Ears ringing— Where are these sounds— ... Please... Stop... coming from?!"

"Madeline and I are like figures of fine glass. The slightest touch and we may shatter. Both of us suffer from a morbid acuteness of the senses. Mine is the worst for having existed the longer, but both of us are afflicted with it. Any sort of food more exotic then the most pallid mash is unendurable to my taste buds. Any sort of garment other then the softest, is agony to my flesh. My eyes are tormented by all but the faintest illumination. Odors assail me constantly, and as I've said, sounds of any degree whatsoever inspire me with terror."
Roderick Usher, House of Usher

"Dear universe, please... SHUT UP!"
Helmut Fulbear, Psychonauts 2

Supergirl: M-my eyes! I can't see! Great Krypton! I'm blind!
Amalak: Of course, Supergirl— And exactly as I planned! Your super-optic nerves may be capable of unique perceptions...but they are not invulnerable to severe shock! I am merely the first person in history to have discovered a means of producing light bright enough to blind you!

"Anyone else feel like this audio-visual experience is a little... overwhelming?"
Sprig Plantar, Amphibia, "Mr. X"

"The sound of them… that little one was one thing; the ones on the walls are going to kill me…"


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