On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:13:14PM -0800, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: > >Now -that- might give the Council an excuse to let him off. > >"Well, we had him done Morganti. That's punishment enough, eh? No reason to > >rub it in by harassing the boy. No hard feelings, right?" > You use morganti when you want someone completely destroyed. It's not > something where you can just go through the motions and say "There, we're > even". If the target is up and walking around a week later then obviously > someone failed and you need to hire someone better to do the job right. It's > not like the casual "warning shot across the bow" style of killing. The > Council can't afford to let up until he's verifiably obliterated. That's how > they keep order in the ranks. The only way out is to somehow do something so > legendary that people will say "Only Vlad could get away with that kind of > betrayal" in the same way that they say "Only Mario could get away with that > kind of assassination". Like, say, slaying a God? (Hey, Morrolan set the precedent!) -- Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/ Politics: http://triggerfinger.org/ Literature: http://speculativefiction.org/ Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt