On 7/7/06, Jon_Lincicum at stream.com <Jon_Lincicum at stream.com> wrote: > >interferes with teleportation *by* its holder, but it appears to me in > >Issola-2 that Teldra contacts Sethra and Sethra teleports both Vlad > >and Teldra to Dzur Mountain. Sethra is obviously outside the stone's > >field effect.) > > Ah, but that's only after Vlad has put the stones into his box of > nevermind. My point is that if it only interfered with the /source/ of the teleportation instead of the object being teleported, Vlad would be unable to teleport without removing the stone, but he wouldn't need to take it off for Sethra to teleport him. > It's interesting that he has this in /Issola/, while it's not present in > /Athyra/ or /Orca/. Makes me wonder if someone *did* manage to track Vlad > down sorcerously at some point shortly after /Orca/? Or perhaps this was > simply in response to how Timmer located him at the end of the book? Except that Teldra also uses Timmer's method. My reading of /Orca/ is that Vlad had the gold stone, but not the nevermind box, when he was being trailed by Loftis and Domm. -Maximilian -- Be pretty if you are, Be witty if you can, But be cheerful if it kills you.