On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Davdi Silverrock 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. > > Now watch Philip Hart smack me down for abusing the word "quantum". No, carry on. Though note that quantum entanglement (which I don't actually believe in, but whatever) doesn't allow communication.