On 1/12/06, Davdi Silverrock <davdisil at gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I could handwave a vague explanation: Regular psychic > communication is more like telephony or radio; there are formal > magical connections made between individuals. Vlad has essentially > put himself in a Faraday cage by donning the Phoenix stones. Whereas > the witch-familiar bond is more like quantum entanglement ("spooky > action at a distance"), and thus cannot be defeated by the same > methods. > It can't? I thought I remembered Loiosh having trouble communicating with Vlad on Greenaere. I'm almost positive Loiosh commented on the difficulty of sensing *others* there, but I also thought he had trouble communicating with Vlad when Vlad was in jail and Loiosh was flying back for help. Max -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.