On Tue, 2003-03-11 at 18:47, Philip Hart wrote: > > As an aside, what prevents Zerika, impervious to harm under the Orb, from > walking up to Skinter and chopping off his head? Or walking up to him and > blasting him with the Orb? What keeps Sethra from teleporting someone > there to do the job? What is all this about having to be there? The Orb has a link to everyone in the Empire. This allows possible communication with the emporer, ability to always know what time it is, and the ability to use sorcery. So, I am quite sure that if the Emporer(ess) thought to and knew how to, they'd be able to just fry someone's brain, or just channel more sorcerous energy into the person than they can handle and let them explode. They could actually probablly do either, depending on what they felt like.