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