--- Philip Hart <philiph at SLAC.Stanford.EDU> wrote: > So the Demon hires Vlad in part because Mellar may have fled to the East > and V has contacts there. I was just wondering, if M wanted to flee > there, how long would it take him? It's not entirely clear to me how > far > the Orb's influence extends - though from _BP_ probably well into the > East. In that case it's quite possible that Mellar could have gone there and that Vlad could find him. Anyway, I assume the worry that he might have gone to the East is just a way to set up the plot. > Anyway, if M can't teleport directly, lacking for example the > coordinates, he'd presumably have to travel to the mountains and cross a > pass, which would make him a good target. If anyone knows what pass he's crossing. > Most likely he would instead > go to Greenaere, perhaps by being teleported to a ship near the edge of > the Orb's influence. An interesting thought. I imagine it would involve a friend on board, which is quite possible. Apparently not everyone knows about Greenaere, though. > Anyway, it seems to me that the Organization has too short a deadline to > go looking for M out East. Given the situation, they have to do whatever it takes. > They should probably consider faking a corpse > and getting a loan from the Empire. It's not even clear that they need the loan. > Actually, they're heavily invested > in certain banks, as we learn in _Orca_ - why do they have such a glut > of cash in _Jhereg_? Another interesting question. I've never quite known what "lighten the Jhereg treasury" means. Other houses have treasuries too. Are these really stocks of cash in private vaults? Or did Mellar make unauthorized withdrawals from bank accounts? Does it matter? Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools