"Maximilian Wilson" <wilson.max at gmail.com> Sent by: dragaera-bounces at dragaera.info 07/07/06 02:58 PM To "Dragaera List" <dragaera at dragaera.info> cc Subject Re: What are the obvious hanging plot hooks? >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. Well, this certainly seems to be correct. The gold stone affects sorcery anywhere around it--whether that sorcery is being done nearby or from afar, the effects cannot penetrate the aura of the Gold stone. >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. ...Which I can confirm, as I was in the middle of re-reading /Orca/ when I posted that, and then right after I hit "send" I got to the end of chapter 6, where he mentions taking it off to teleport. Ah well. My memory is, apparently, like a whatchacallit. The nevermind box, well, we don't *know* that he didn't have it during /Orca/, he just never specifically mentions it until /Issola/. He must have had *some* method for blocking its effects in that puch of his, however. Majikjon