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[Steve Rapaport via Dragaera]

Noish-pa's lesson is one possible answer to the preceding question, I've
just realized.

On 23 October 2014 10:29, Steve Rapaport <steve.rapaport at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>>
>> Also, note that this isn't a risk.  The sentence is very, very clear;
>> it's just in abeyance as long as Vlad keeps it that way.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Complicated one: If Vlad gets killed, how can Khaavren get the Council
>>> members convicted, assuming they've committed a crime?  As far as I can
>>> tell, Khaavren has no evidence except Vlad's account of what he was
>>> planning, and Vlad won't be able to testify.  Could the Justicers compel
>>> the suspects to testify under the Orb?  If so, how, by keeping them in
>>> prison till they do?  They might prefer prison to that mass confiscation.
>>> Or by torture?  And if they can be compelled to testify, why couldn't Count
>>> Szurke always have gotten them compelled to testify about the price on his
>>> head?  Maybe they never said, "We'll put a bounty on him", but the
>>> Justicers could ask, "If someone had destroyed Count Szurke's soul, would
>>> that person have received money?  From what funds?  Who would have
>>> authorized the payment?" etc.
>>>
>> Khaavren was, himself, the witness; Vlad prepared the ground, and
>> Khaavren saw/listened to the whole thing.  Thus, there's an impecable
>> witness to the crime, one who is -not- forbidden by house law from
>> testifying against the Jhereg.
>
>
> If this is right -- i.e. if Khaavren actually witnessed the entire thing,
> subsequent to Vlad snitching in advance, then we do have a problem: What if
> the Jhereg Council had NOT betrayed Vlad?
>
> Remember, he was thinking through ALL the contingencies, not just the one
> that happened. The possibility that they'd play it straight had to be
> considered. In that case, Khaavren had just witnessed a crime and would
> have to arrest the participants, including Vlad, who would have been paid.
> It wouldn't make sense either for Vlad to let himself off the hook, or for
> Khaavren to turn a blind eye to a crime he'd been alerted to and then
> witnessed.
>
> So how did Vlad and Khaavren plan to handle that possibility?
> --
> \Steve
>



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\Steve