Talk:Andy Warhol's “Marilyn Diptych”/@comment-5476376-20131125020503/@comment-25173670-20140823025353

Okay. I get your point. Now I'm just gonna explain myself here. But gonna at least state that I'm not mad, and this is not me coming after you.

So, the thing is, you don't need to just touch it with your hands, as long as you touch it, meaning a foot, an arm, your head, the effects take place, which means it basically kills you. The thing about Stormy Night, is that for about...30-40 seconds there is just a big gust of wind, and as long as you hold onto something you'll be fine, as we saw when Artie, Steve, and Sally had to survive it. The scroll, well I believe you need to hold it in order to activate it, because it doesn't stick to your skin (but we don't know that).This painting has two ways of making you fade away, one is by looking at it for a long period of time without breaking away, which takes awhile; the other is by touching. Now if you touch it, you barely get any time to do anything, you start to fade away in moments. Since the Warehouse has problems of artifacts activating despite that they shouldn't, then one can free the painting, and a agent can touch it by mistake. Being in the Dark Vault means there is the added protection because rarely do the agents go in there, and rarely do the artifacts act up. Though, when it comes to Stormy Night, it's not the only artifact that is set out in the open that when disturbed it gets activated.

 But if we go by what you say about Stormy Night and the Scroll. Then to me, Lucrezia Borgia's Comb shouldn't be in the Dark Vault, because you need to be a “woman who is in the "ruling" class – single, successful, survivor of family tragedies and the death of loved ones – and connected to a young man who she believes needs her protection” (taken from the Wiki), and either read/see the phonetic trigger, though there is no one in the Warehouse who is like that. But yet it was placed in the Dark Vault well out of way of anyone despite such specifications. So to me, since that comb is in the Dark Vault, the painting here should be placed there as it can cause a person to fade away just by touching it, there is no reason to take such risks.

 Also, I understand your point about Prof. Draco being an admin, but just saying, I was one too when I left. So if I had stuck around, I would have kind of overruled myself. I respect his opinion on this artifact, but since I was the one who made it, I think that this is how it should be.