On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 03:47:39PM -0600, David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote: > Grady Brandt <gbrandt at Tampabayfederal.com> writes: > >> From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net] > >> Maximilian Wilson <wilson.max at gmail.com> writes: > >> > On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 15:28:46 -0500, Ken Koester > >> > <kkoester at email.ers.usda.gov> wrote: > >> > IMHO, it's a Good Thing that Lady Teldra's nature isn't obvious. She > >> > can't make Morganti weapons *safe* for Vlad, but it does... Hmmmm. > >> > What would happen if the Organization killed Vlad, Morganti-style, and > >> > then learned he was prowling around Adrilankha again a few weeks > >> > later? I'm thinking they would probably just kill him again and then > >> > kill the assassin who "bungled" it the first time, so no interesting > >> > story there. Unfortunate, because the thought of how badly it would > >> > scare his original killer amuses me. > >> Since assassins mostly don't want witnesses, they might indeed just > >> assume it was bungled. On the other hand, when executing Vlad for > >> treason, they might request a more public demise. If 100 witnesses > >> all saw him killed Morganti, and *then* he turned up walking > >> around.... > > 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?" > It should still be a pretty good deterrant; not very many people are > willing to risk being killed morganti. More importantly, it sets up a very difficult barrier task. IF you want to rat out the Jhereg, you can get away with it IF AND ONLY IF you are the wielder of a Great Weapon. Anyone who plans to rat out the Jhereg will begin their quest by seeking a Great Weapon. This quest will likely kill them, or end in failure. I think the Jhereg could live with that precedent. -- Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/ Politics: http://triggerfinger.org/ Literature: http://speculativefiction.org/ Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt