I did well in this Vlad Taltos (talk) 12:57, October 8, 2014 (UTC)
A very interesting passage (as evidenced by it being the only Popular Highlight in the book in Kindle):
- Yeah, yeah. I was wearing the harness you gave me, with the fancy strange sticky stuff you can pull off and put on again, and I had a few weapons attached to it. There. Are you happy?
Who gave Vlad a tactical velcro vest and why should they be happy he admitted to using it? 78.25.120.209 19:40, October 9, 2014 (UTC)
- Same dude who gave Vlad a 'silver box with ears' to record his adventures, I'm betting. That would be the author or his representative. Sounds to me like someone asked Steve "if you could give Vlad just one useful thing from our world, what would it be?" And yes I read it as a velcro vest too.
I reread Hawk recently, and something puzzled me. After Vlad sets up in Kragar's office he says:
- Oh, I suppose they could have staged a military-style assault or blown up the building, but, seriously, they don’t do that kind of thing. The Empire gets touchy about it.
Isn't this exactly what happened in Yendi, twice? Laris torched Vlad's office, and Vlad ended up assaulting Laris's HQ and killing him. The Empire did get touchy about it, but things smoothed over and it doesn't seem like Vlad should believe it would deter the Jhereg in his case.
Orogogus (talk) 22:17, December 30, 2019 (UTC)