Dragaera

Kelly's Movement

Derrill 'Kisc' Guilbert lister at insaneninjahero.com
Wed Jan 21 17:19:59 PST 2004

David Silberstein wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004, lazarus wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:15:23 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
>>
>>
>>>At some point or other, Vlad threatens to kill a deadbeat Dzur (in
>>>such a way that he'll seem to have been killed ignominiously in
>>>a tavern brawl), and in _Jhereg_ Kragar explains to Leareth's stooge
>>>what will happen if the stooge doesn't reveal what Leareth did with
>>>incriminating information on a Dzur.  (Same Dzur, right?  I'm AWB.)
>>>So Jhereg do kill non-Jhereg now and then.  For "good reason".  But
>>>then I assume "work" is done for good reason, too.
>>
>>Or, possibly, just threaten to do so.  And only if they get involved
>>with the Jhereg.
>>
> 
> 
> Was Baritt involved with the Jhereg?  In /Yendi/, we learn he was
> assassinated because he fell out with his former co-conspirators, by a
> Jhereg, even though he had nothing to do with the Jhereg.
> 

Dunno about this one... but it seems like hiring someone to do a job on 
someone outside the Jhereg isn't completely unreasonable. Everyone has 
made much of Mario assassinating them Emperor ... noone has made 
anything of the fact that he wasn't a Jhereg when it happened.

> How about wossname in /Teckla/, the Easterner who had his throat cut?
> He wasn't involved with the Jhereg, except inasmuch Kelly's movement
> was involved in that it was interrupting income in South Adrilankha.
> 

This is about as involved as you can become... interrupting Jhereg 
income is ... not on the list of things you do if you want to ensure a 
long life for you and yours.

Kisc