[Dragaera] An alternative solution to the Mellar problem

[Eugene Zaretskiy]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 2:49 PM, Alexx Kay <alexx at panix.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine has just started reading the Vlad books.  Though he
> clearly quite liked _Jhereg_, he came up with an alternative solution to
> the Mellar problem that I don't recall having heard floated before.
> Presented for your interest:
>
> "The thing is, the bad guy had to be killed, but couldn't while he was in
> Castle Black, and the clock was ticking, because the Jhereg Council was
> out eight million, and things were starting to unravel. But there's no
> time limit if the Jhereg can keep operating, so one way to save face is
> for Morrolon to lend the Jhereg enough money to keep going for thirteen
> days. Even if he isn't rich enough to float eight million, he seems rich
> enough, and has enough favors, to scrape up enough money to cover things
> until the bad guy is no longer his guest, and can be killed with no loss
> of honor."

>From what I understood about Morrolan, he isn't the type to agree to
"loopholes" like this easily. He was willing to put up with Vlad and
Aliera's solution partially because he had absolutely nothing to do
with it whatsoever. Vlad didn't tell him the plan, if I recall, on
purpose. In the same sense, paying the Jhereg money could be construed
as dishonorable because Morrolan was becoming directly involved in
actions leading to the death of his guest, immediately after leaving
Morollan's home.

Furthermore, I haven't read Jhereg in a while, so pardon me if this
isn't correct, but I don't recall the Jhereg's lack of funds to be the
entire motiviation behind the swift schedule. Waiting any longer
simply multiplied the risk that Mellar's plan would become known and
the Jhereg's reputation is sullied, permanently. Similar to why they
want Vlad dead as soon as possible.

>
> Alexx
>
> Every program has at least one bug and one unnecessary instruction --
>  therefore, every program can be reduced to one instruction that doesn't
> work.
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