On 1/12/06, Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> wrote: > 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, I would argue that "dampened" is distinct from "defeated". The fact that Vlad and Loiosh could communicate *at all* means that the link was still there. Although I suppose Daymar's getting through later (very weakly) suggests that defeating psychic communication is just an extreme level of dampening. > but I also thought he had > trouble communicating with Vlad when Vlad was in jail and Loiosh was > flying back for help. > But was that due to the Phoenix Stone or to distance? I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that that is the furthest that Loiosh has ever been from Vlad, in the stories we've had so far.