"Davdi Silverrock" <davdisil at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 06/30/06 12:47 PM To "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: What are the obvious hanging plot hooks? >On 6/30/06, Jon Lincicum <lincicum at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> Boiled Vegetables != Soup >> >> So even if they *were* potatoes, I'm not convinced. >> > >Well, I suppose I have no further argument on this matter, really. >Perhaps there may have been potato soup among the other bad food he >describes, and simply declines to mention it at the time. Meh. There's certainly room for SKZB to decide that Vlad simply declined to mention the potato soup during this imprisonment. Or to show a separate imprisonment where he *does* get crammed full of the stuff. Or maybe he'll just sit back and let us stew over it? (Sorry, couldn't resist the pun.) >However, I have been thinking about it, and it occurs to me that >Vlad's ability to teleport raises a serious question about *how* Vlad >might have possibly been held captive in the East, if indeed he was. > >We know that his ability to teleport was blocked by Phoenix Stone on >Greenaere (and possibly in the Imperial Prisons as well - Morrolan >gets a chunk from there, as I recall). > >What could have prevented him from teleporting away from any captors >in the East? Even a poor sorcerer like Vlad is more than a match for >anything the East has to offer. > >Hm. Unless the end of /Brokedown Palace/ is meant to imply that the >Orb cuts off entirely in the East now. Sandor, at least, seemed to think that this was the case, at least within Fenario, as he fell to his death... Majikjon