On Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:52:31 -0700 (PDT), Dennis Higbee <den at monger.net> wrote: > But it's become a matter of FACE to the Jhereg. Vlad > Taltos, the easterner son-of-a-kethna who manage to > turn in a high ranked Jhereg to the Empire, toss > another to Greenare <sp?> for a nice beheading and > then walked into Valabars like nothing happenned. Face can be bought and sold. But the currency of choice is more face. > At the very least, he'll have his Baronacy <or > whatever his title was> stripped. But that is a slpa > on the wrist given what the empress gave him. If he's allowed to be powerful within the Empire and a way is found to turn him back into a Tekla good guy, they want him to be a Tekla nobel. So they need to come up with a way to turn him into a Tekla good guy - where face is maintained by letting him survive. If that is Steve's goal, it shouldn't be to hard - that kind of plotting is what Steve does for a living. The hard part will be to fit this in with his goals for Cawti and the other Easterners. I wonder whether Teklas and humans will be allies or competitors in his Grand Plan. (probably both).