'Contracts' for Killers

[Kylar]

Tal all

Something popped up IC today and I honestly couldn't roleplay the answer, and it concerns contracts. Or a contract in particular.....here's the scene setting:

A killer is approached and hired as a 'personal sword' to a woman that wants to protect herself from a rival 'merchant' who has threatened to have her killed for whatever reason.

The killer accepts the contract and agrees to guard her. This is not an unusual contract in the slightest as we know killers often worked as hired swords.

The Free Women is now accused of Murder, whether she murdered someone or not is irrelevant. Now the Magistrate issued an arrest warrant on the woman and she flees her Home Stone, protesting her innosence. The killer follows her, but she is now no longer a law abiding person. He is. Fleeing a city is not the same as being 'Outlawed' from a city as a result of the Law being passed. So she is still a Fee Woman, in whatever Caste she was in.

What about the contract? Does he prevent the law from catching up with her, does he step aside as she is arrested? What?

I personally would allow the full weight of the law to deal with her, but I have to break the contract. This is something I have not heard of or seen in the books. A contract is never broken. Only ended upon completion or total failure.

Would this then be deemed as a 'failure' on her behalf?

Thoughts and direction please?

Kylar

[Xaz]

The contract you accepted was to protect her from a rival merchant. That you did fullfill. She has left to a new city which I would assume is not allied to the city where she is now wanted for murder and will set up a new shop to sale her wares. Odd too as Gorean's rarely left there Homestones. Bascially I see the orginal contract fullfilled. The rival merchant now is the less of her problems.

If I was here, I would now hire you to protect me from the Bounty Hunter that is sure to come.

[Kylar]

The contract you accepted was to protect her from a rival merchant. That you can fullfill. But I guessing thar she is too a merchant, hence the rival merchant. She has left (Ok run away )to a new sim which I would assume is not allied to the city where she is now wanted for murder and will set up a new shop to sale her wares. Bascially I see the orginal contract fullfilled. The rival merchant now is the less of her warriors.

She has bigger troubles now, but that is a whole new contract.

I meant to add, she has fled to an allied city. Lets say then that the killer is hired to her as a personal sword because she is wealthy, her companion is away on business and all this happens without his knowlege. The killer was a precaution that the companion took, in his absence, to protect what is his. Her.

If City A sends he law after her and she flees to City B....the killer follows her. He is still bound by contract. Does he prevent her arrest? Whatever the reason for it may be?

[Xaz]

The contract you accepted was to protect her from a rival merchant. That you can fullfill. But I guessing thar she is too a merchant, hence the rival merchant. She has left (Ok run away )to a new sim which I would assume is not allied to the city where she is now wanted for murder and will set up a new shop to sale her wares. Bascially I see the orginal contract fullfilled. The rival merchant now is the less of her warriors.

She has bigger troubles now, but that is a whole new contract.

I meant to add, she has fled to an allied city. Lets say then that the killer is hired to her as a personal sword because she is wealthy, her companion is away on business and all this happens without his knowlege. The killer was a precaution that the companion took, in his absence, to protect what is his. Her.

If City A sends he law after her and she flees to City B....the killer follows her. He is still bound by contract. Does he prevent her arrest? Whatever the reason for it may be?

That is a different issue if her FC hired you to protect her. Was there a set time? A week..a month... a year? If it was me, yes I would raise my sword to anyone who lifted a weapon to harm her. That is what I was hired to do by her FC who contracted me under his House, not a city. Hence I would then follow her.

[Shjade]

Hm. Related question: does fulfilling this contract by protecting her from City A's law enforcement break the law as well? Is the assassin doing something illegal in protecting his charge from arrest? Or is this action somehow "protected" by being part of a contract? I'm a little fuzzy on what's legal and illegal when it comes to stabbing people in Gor.

On topic: in that second description it sounds like the FC is hiring the assassin to keep the woman safe, yes? If she's getting herself into trouble with the law, I might have to consider taking more...extreme measures with the woman to protect her from herself. I don't know how happy the FC would be about it, but hey, he just told you to protect her, right? If that requires removing her from public access entirely, well...she shouldn't have tried so hard to get herself killed.

[E. Edward Gray]

On topic: in that second description it sounds like the FC is hiring the assassin to keep the woman safe, yes? If she's getting herself into trouble with the law, I might have to consider taking more...extreme measures with the woman to protect her from herself. I don't know how happy the FC would be about it, but hey, he just told you to protect her, right? If that requires removing her from public access entirely, well...she shouldn't have tried so hard to get herself killed.

Exactly, you were not hired to keep her happy, just alive and I am assuming free..

Throw her in bracelets and chains, and a hood, leave her in a small cage, taking her out to be bathed and fed once a day, when he returns he can deal with her as he sees fit..

If she protest or tries to scream for help gag her..

If she is further disobedient whip her


You fulfilled the contract..

[Shjade]

That's pretty much what I was thinking, yeah. Minus the whipping: that'd be doing her harm.

[E. Edward Gray]

That's pretty much what I was thinking, yeah. Minus the whipping: that'd be doing her harm.

A thick whip leaves no mark..

[Xaz]

I was once hired to guard/protect a FW's daughter from her father. I was to deliver her to Treve. Along the voyage to Treve this daughter ( who was of age, 22 I think) would not shut up, she wanted to stop at ever port for a break. She would never shut up. I finally gagged her, put her in a big sack, delivered her to Treve as fast as I could.