On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 04:55:55PM -0800, David Silberstein wrote: > 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. The Jhereg probably mostly kill each other, both for natural reasons like mostly dealing with each other in the first place, and for practical reasons such as not drawing attention to themselves. As long as they kill each other, or people who involved themselves in Jhereg affairs (by borrowing money, say) and came under Jhereg 'law', the Empire can afford to not really care. This doesn't rule out the occasional killing of others, especially for large sums of money. Even if the Organization disapproved, you could still get an assassin to do it. And, as pointed out, others have been killed. But I'd guess not often, and I think it's plausible that all of Vlad's paid kills were of Organization members or non-Jhereg working for Organization members, which he could rationalize as "they asked for it". Although he helped kill Loraan for pay -- not paid assassination, but killing in the course of theft. But Loraan was holding a sentient soul and is a standard prick noble anyway, so who cares? -xx- Damien X-)