<span style="font-style: italic">Awesome artwork there! I love it!</span><br/><br/>Celrie can recall a great deal about this technique, since she's a bit of an expert in psionic arts that involve melding one's senses with another... Of course, what the bat is describing is a very demanding, often joyless form of manipulating such power. The key points that she knows is that the participants have three times the sum of their normal potential psychic energy available to them. Although she politely makes a show of asking the charming bat, the elf already has a fairly good idea what's going on here - normally, it's very difficult to make a spell or psionic power permanent on someone or something, requiring a permanent investment of some of one's life energy. However, a mystic triad has so much energy available that they can and do maintain permanent webs of magic. The arachnid metaphor goes far with them, as such psychics and sorcerers are noted to often pursue esoteric or seemingly insane goals. Aside from magical power, they are also spatially coterminous, which means that any of them can switch physical position at a thought, and the magic users can revive themselves from utter destruction - even digestion, which usually would absorb all their power - as long as even one of them remains to ritually retrieve the others from psi-space. She also knows a rare secret that most pampered psychics do not - something she wasn't taught but knows through innate intuition. This is an example of how joining one's senses and emotions to another is perhaps the greatest potential source of power - but when the conscious minds are permanently joined like that, discord will inevitably result. Good fences make good neighbors, especially when the fence in question is your head. Thus they are fragile to disturbing outside influences, despite their arcane powers.<br/><br/>The bat girl Yvonne nodded knowingly. "You speak as one who knows something of the topic. Ahh, I shouldn't say too much yet, but perhaps you might like me to accompany you all back to Catspaw for a brief encore? I think you would be excellent protection from the proverbial spider at the center of that web. Mmmmhh... you see, there are a certain three ladies who came with the first wave of settlers that gave me the sense of worry I alluded to before. They are very rarely seen by anyone, but the settlers don't need to speak to them to know they are best avoided. There were also a few coincidences that helped convince me my presence was not wanted, for the moment. In fact, there is a lot of bad luck going around for the settlers in general... especially for those who don't stay away from the mountain's summit."<br/><br/>She looked at Arcea for a moment and struck a pose, tugging down the thin cloth that hid her soft white bosom ever so slightly. "What about you, Arcealandria? Have you much experience with those who practice esoteric arts? Mmmm... have you ever eaten one? If not, I'll let your friend explain the unique pleasures of it... I'm sure she would be more eloquent than I. Oh, but I hope my... crude, not-so-private fantasies don't offend?" she flicked her tongue seductively at the two.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Yeah, still chuggin along here... I'm hoping that in about a month from now I'll have a lot more free time and be able to post more! Fingers crossed.</span>