Sound Propagation

A relatively salty meme- Sound Propagation refers to when a PC can't hear the sounds of death and dismemberment, even though said sounds of death and dismemberment are being produced in a room or location relatively close by, thus leading to the death of a helpless PC.

In the initial case of this occurrence, every single PC at the table had, according to the DM, gone completely deaf, and were unable to hear the sounds of the guard-birthing walls rush a pair of unfortunate and suicidal PCs, thus leading to their deaths. Because of this, every PC in every campaign now memely asks the DM regardless of who they are if the sound of a fireball going off in a 5 foot tile adjacent to them propagates correctly to their location, and if they are able to act on this sound at all.