On 6/30/06, Maximilian Wilson wrote: > > If the worst thing about captivity was potato soup, cutting and > running may have been inferior compared with putting up with it until > he got... whatever it was he was looking for back East. Keep in mind > that these were Vlad's wandering years, and he's not in a hurry. > Imagine one plausible scenario: > > Vlad shows up in Fenario, looking for--tourist attractions? Family history? > Vlad mouths off at the wrong petty bureaucrat. > Vlad gets thrown in prison. > Vlad eats potato soup, taunts the guards, and mouths off to Loiosh. > Eventually, someone figures out that there's nothing Vlad can actually > be charged with. > Vlad gets out of prison and resumes sight-seeing. > Sorry, don't buy it. Unless the petty bureaucrat was the only way for Vlad to get something he specifically wanted, and for whatever reason could not be coerced. And even then, if he *could*, Vlad would teleport back to Adrilankha for a meal, probably cooking out of his own pantry, and maybe even sleeping in his own bed. He would then teleport back to the Eastern prison in the morning, well satisfied and smug.