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You are a second-year student at the Ankh-Morpork Assassins’ Guild.

You are not top of the class. Not bottom either, which is worse, because nobody remembers your name until something goes wrong.

Tonight your name has appeared on a black-edged assignment card pinned to the noticeboard outside Advanced Infiltration.

Assignment:

• Conduct discreet observation of Commander Sir Samuel Vimes’ estate.
• Identify one suitable surveillance point.
• Do not engage.
• Do not assassinate.
• Do not enter the nursery.
• Do not annoy Lady Sybil.
• Do not be seen by the Commander.

Extra credit: return with boots unbitten.

Madam Shank looks over her spectacles at you.

“Commander Vimes is not to be harmed. He is not to be threatened. He is not to be startled. You are simply to find a place from which one could watch the estate.”

She pauses.

“Also, if you are caught, we never met.”

You have one hour before dusk.

First, choose what sort of mistake people will assume you are.