On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Andrew Bailey wrote: >David Silberstein wrote: >> Note: spoilers below. >> >> Yet another possibility - Aliera deliberately refrained from communicating because she wanted her father to attack, and not send a rescue operation (which he might have done if he knew the specifics of where she was being held, and of her impending execution). Or possibly, since no one's mentioned it, Paarfi wrote what he wanted to write. :-) >> >> On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Andrew Bailey wrote: >> > >Yes but was it known that Black Phoenix stone stops psionics :) It's part of the base assumption. Work with me here - I assume that at least the top-level Athyra experimentalists would find out, once they find out that there's something weird going on on Greenaere. > >Basically the impression I got was psionic communication required a >quite substantial link , and a great deal of compentance on both sides >or devices. > True. So? It was still *known*. If, say, in our would, one person in a thousand has a radio transmitter / receiver in their skulls (and this device is known about when the person is captured), wouldn't you have at least one or two cells set aside that are radio-frequency shielded, so that such a prisoner can't coordinate with his/her accomplices? Similarly, the prisons in the Dragaera City Palace might well have had at least one or two cells with black (and gold?) phoenix stone for imprisoning wizards, even if not all of them were constructed that way. > >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. > If the construction material has a specific analogous purpose (inhibit the prisoners actions and movements), I rather think I can. > >> 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? > If you're going to rely on their honor, why even have bars, locks and guards?