Dragaera

Alternate ending for _Jhereg_

Howard Brazee howard at brazee.net
Thu Mar 25 13:04:31 PST 2004

Jerry Friedman wrote:

> I agree with Bob that it must be possible to rob the Jhereg
> treasury.  Money is for spending, so there have to be trusted
> people with the authority to take money out, and one of them
> could steal, if nothing else.

What is interesting is that there IS a crime that's greater than any
robbery - as defined by every single state in our world.

That crime is killing the head of state.

But the response of the Dragaerans is pretty close to deification of the
Mario.



> One benefit to the Jhereg of my suggestion is that Mellar
> did do something stupidly suicidal.  They can say for internal
> consumption, "He robbed us, but he wasn't hoping to get away with
> it.  He knew he couldn't; he knew he was going to die.  He was
> hoping to start a war with the Dragons, but it would have been
> bad for the Organization, and we don't get manipulated into
> blunders like that."

But they do.