[Dragaera] _Iorich_ plot criticism (spoilers!)

[Maximilian Wilson]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 03:46:38PM -0600, Konrad Gaertner wrote:
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>> Oooooh.... I like this.  Also, Vlad now thinks he might have a way
>> to get the Jhereg off his back.  Maybe he's looking for a way to
>> use the financial mess to put himself in a position where his death
>> would cause more harm to the Jhereg than his continued existence?
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> Oh, the Mellar-Dzur strategy, applied to the Jhereg.  Nice.

Is that irony, Damien? The Jhereg showed pretty conclusively with
Mellar that a little short-term financial ruin is less concern to them
than the long-term destruction of their business model. I.e. no amount
of financial damage is worth the permanent loss of face of letting
someone get away with ripping them off.

-Max

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