On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Paul Hancock wrote: > > And > > doing so would provoke Vlad into unconsidered action against them, and > > presumably Morrolan&Cie plus the heir apparent wouldn't be pleased. > > I never got the impression that the organization considered Vlad a > threat. They certainly didn't take into account the lengths Vlad was > willing to go to free her. In hindsight, they would have perhaps been > better off killing her. Regardless, I have trouble believing that > Vlad's reaction to whatever they did would have entered into the > equation. They're not stupid - they know Vlad can throw chaos bolts; that he's the fastest-rising Jhereg since council-member Mellar, who he personally took out; that he's buddies with perhaps the three highest-profile Dragaerans in the world aside from the Empress. I think this is a reasonable argument to frame not kill Cawti. > > > On the subject of the Cycle, everybody in the world except for Kelly > knows > > that there can not be a successful Teckla revolt in anyone's lifetime > > (ok, excluding Sethra [if she has a lifetime] and the SiG). > > Verra seemed worried enough about it to involve Vlad in getting Kelly's > group conscripted into the army. She doesn't like the slaughter of Easterners, not something most Dragaerans even notice. And she probably had longer-term goals in using Vlad. > It's a bit > > puzzling to me that the Jhereg don't just wait a few years for Kelly's > > group to die off (impressing future generations with the futility of > > the struggle), perhaps helping them along in subtle ways that don't > > announce Jheregs-were-here. > > They tried to "help" Kelly's group in a way that wasn't supposed to lead > back to Jhereg. Vlad tipped their hand. Now that I think of it, the whole "frame the watch-station bombing on Kelly" doesn't make much sense - the Empress just summons the group, says "Fess up under the orb", then goes after the real perpetrators.