h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

this contains most things nneeded for torcher...
and some truth potions for thoses of you who cant bare to hear the screems of those the guild has found guilty of trechery

*picks up a torch and waves it at anthea*

*pins a notice to the outside of the door stating; "On entry please state if you are coming quietly or kicking and screaming"*

~Skenvoy

*Looks at the sign above the door. Sighs and corrects the spelling*
*Finds the potions*
Good these will be usefull (Anyone who uses them must have some sympathy for traitors, I needed a way to self-regulate)

MWA! *Looks at all the torture devices and rubs hands together in anticipation*

scorpian, you here to Torture or be tortured?

Nobody has, as yet, arrived to be tortured.
Well unless arrived to be tortured of their own free will

While some of us like that sort of thing in RL I'm yet to see a person running a character who does.

Well, maybe art.

*arrives, comes through the door tall and proud. Guild cloak flowing in the air behind him*


lets discuss this inquisitional accusation shall we. but first, answer me what you think an assassin is?

*Somewhat surpised to see creachy calmly walk in after I took a shot in another thread, just gives this up as the sort of thing that always happens in the guild*

Finally someone willing to discuss things. Sit down.

*Indicates a big red leather chair, sits on a similar one himself*

I see an assasin as someone who kills for money. But thats not the question that you are asking. What you really want to know is how to I see an assasins guild.

Its not just a collection of assasins standing in one place. It is a collection of assasins working together for mutual benefit allowing them to drive up the cost and sucsess rates of assasinations while leading to a lower rate of assasin fatalities performing missions.

To this end our leader makes and breaks alliences which ensure that we are controlling as much money as we can and to ensure that we do not end up taking any stupid or underpaid contracts. Since she keeps the finances a secret (and frankly I would in her position) I do not consider it our place to second guess the leadership.

My objection is not that you are killing for money, but that you are not taking your contracts through the guild and are writing your own contracts and putting them up for assasins to fufill without passing it to the guild leadership first for vetting. There is a procedure for these things, its why we had a guild.

Furthermore I am worried by your divided loyalties - you will protect a target of the guild because they share a second organisation with you as you showed in the Thor operation. By contrast the corrupt thingite leadership has taken up arms against the thingites in the TA v Thingite conflict not once but twice (thought that may change)

Once I wanted to question you on these subjects you have been noncomplient and frankly made an arse of yourself. Why are you so suprised that this might make an orgnaisation designed to protect the interests of the guild from triators hostile towards you?

*does not sit down. looks pretty p****ed off at the comment about making an arse of himself. wonders where and when he posted his own contract. would like to point out that after day two of the thingite v TA war the name creachy ceased to appear in the threads. is pretty damn sure he never second guessed the leadership and begins thinking to himself, 'what the hell has loyalty got to do with killing and money?'*

i have come to a decision. obviously you are here to stay. when a monkey gets hold of a banana, he will peel it until there is nothing left to peel. it is on that note. i leave the guild and become an independent assassin. i take with me the House of Gods and bid you a happy existence.

*exits*

your thinking of leving...
*the image of the room wavers sligtly....*
we need more non-thingites....
but if you no-longer wish to lead them....
to be honest i toulk the alience with the thingites for power
i am considering asking the Ta for such an allieship as well...
and a few others...
however i did not expect one of my head Assassins to leve me at this point
if you chose to go i hope there can still be a firm friendship between the guild and the house of gods....

important note, i am a meber of TA as well as teh thignites, and though i wasa thingite at teh time i fought for the TA against teh thingites, my loyalty being to the protection of the guild leader in the time of battle.

anyway, PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE

indeed it would be a sad thing to see you go

*considers whether to either renounce his thingite membership, or join the No-things as a double agent*

i donr that... only the other way around

ahem, we have no contracts against the no things

none at all

Well, joining the thingites seemed like a good idea at the time, 'specially cos I was still a newbie, but with so many divided loyalties about... *ducks*

*awaits the inevitable 'duck' joke*