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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 444741" data-attributes="member: 1656">"Work" comes in three variations, each with its own effect, purpose, price - and penalty.The simplest is not used often, but happens enough to have acquired the term "standard". The idea is that you want to warn an individual away from a certain course of action, or toward another. In this case, for a fee that starts at fifteen hundred gold and goes up from there depending on how hard the target is, an assassin will arrange for the selected individual to become dead. What happens after that doesn't much matter to the killer, but as often as not the body will eventually be found by a friend or relative, who may or may not be willing and able to have the person revivified.Revivification costs heavily - up to four thousand gold for difficult cases. Even the easiest takes an expert sorcerer to perform, and it is never a sure thing.In other words, the victim will wake up, if he does, with the knowledge that there is someone out there - and he usually knows who - who doesn't really care if he lives or dies and is willing to expend at least fifteen hundred gold imperials to prove this.This is rather chilling knowledge.  It happened to me once.- Vlad Taltos, Jhereg (by Steven Brust).</blockquote>