David Silberstein wrote:
> Note: spoilers below.
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> Another possibility that occurs to me is that Aliera may have been too
> proud to tell her father about the arrest, since that might have a
> taint of cowardice ("Oh Daddy, I've been arrested, come save me!").
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> But maybe not. See below.
Actually, that makes more sense to me, especially when its
"Oh Daddy, I have been arrestted for helping a Jehreg Assain escape
cause he was cute."
That one might not go down quite well.
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> Gametech wrote:
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>>[The prisons have black phoenix stone, which prevents such
>>communication.]
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> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Andrew Bailey wrote:
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>>Not really. Given that they are different buildings :)
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>>They may have used Black Phoneix stone in the old building, but then
>>they may not have, since psionic communication wasn't particullary
>>common.
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> It was uncommon, but it was known. There may have been some
> situation, early in the history of the Empire, where the ruler needed
> to be sure that prisoners who were also sorcerors were unable to
> communicate at all with the outside, and the only way to do that was
> to use black phoenix stone. So it may be a traditional component of
> all prisons, not just the one in Adrilankha.
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Yes but was it known that Black Phoenix stone stops psionics :)
If psionics weren't _that_ commonly used then finding out that
information is not that likely.
And when I say uncommon, its like really uncommon.
Basically the impression I got was psionic communication required a
quite substantial link , and a great deal of compentance on both sides
or devices.
Of cource there are exceptions but you're unlikly to be imprisoning
either of those[1].
And anyway I didn't say that it didn't I just said you cannot infer
>from the construction of one prison, the constructions of all prisons.
> Indeed, perhaps gold phoenix stone is used as well. After all, if
> there isn't anything, what is to prevent a sufficiently competent
> sorcerer from simply breaking out?
Their Honour?
Andrew.
[1] The Emperor/Emperess and Sethra[2]
[2] Sethra is the exception to everything :)