[quote=@Etcetera] The fields are one-way. *All of the beings enter the field and are compressed to the size of a single strand and release the same amount of energy as before* [/quote] Now [i]that[/i] is an interesting tactic. It's oh-so-close to saving your friend--but, alas, I've found a weakness. Easy, really. *the connections that have now been made are incredibly distorted, so that both ends of any connection receive the other sides all wrong, so the ends completely reject each other*