[Dragaera] "Work" and money

[Jon Lincicum]

Philip Hart wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Jon Lincicum wrote:
>
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>> Philip Hart wrote:
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>>> I'll have to do some rereading apparently to remind myself
>>> why Vlad doesn't just throw money at the problem early in _Teckla_.
>>>
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>> It seems to me, he tried to talk with Herth about it, but Herth wouldn't
>> even discuss the situation with him. Hence, not possible to buy him
>> off
>>     
>
> I was thinking more of a go-into-a-crouch and
> hire-all-available-muscle-and-throw-them-at-Herth strategy a la _Y_.

Hmmm... Seems like it would have been hard to do that without alerting 
Cawti to what he was up to--which was a major concern of his at the time.

As it happened, he *did* hire Ishtvan in this capacity...

Majikjon