From: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> > At 10:56 PM 5/20/2003 -0500, Mia McDavid wrote: > >But, I've *been* to the Bakery, and nobody ever got assassinated > >there! > Nobody ever got assassinated at Valabar's, either. Of course not. You think it's an unwritten rule with only the Empire, 'Whatever you do to the Easterners, don't mess with Valabar's'??? Every House has it, even the 'non-House' Jhereg. It should be carven in stone on the first step up to the Empress' throne: 'Don't Mess With Valabar's.' It should be engraved in tiny sigils on the obverse side of every orb: 'Don't Mess With Valabar's.' For the Jhereg, it'd be like deliberately assassinating some two-bit hood inside a Dragonlord's home; do it and be *screwed*. Of course you don't assassinate anyone at Valabar's -- it's -that-good-. Which means that Vlad might be a rules-breaker once more, the first guy whom the Jhereg attempt to assassinate inside Valabar's.... -- Thomas Crain