When the G2 rules were first published for comments, I had a discussion
with Rich over ambiguities in this exact area. Rich decided on the liberal
approach: as long as the noble was *yours* before it renounced loyalty, you
are able to bribe/terrorize it back into the fold even if you have no NP's
available at the time.
Of course, whether or not it *actually* works that way when this was
implemented is a different question (that I don't know the answer to),
but it is *suppose* to work.
> Good question. I'm due for an extra NP next turn because of renounced
> loyalty. I may discover another way to permanently lose an NP.
No, it doesn't work like that. You don't get the NP back just because
the character renounced loyalty: the NP is still bound up in that noble.
You have to either kill him (and wait for the body to decompose or be LR'd),
or bring him back into the fold.
At least, that's the way I read the rules.
-- Please use bron-oly2@bronze.corp.sgi.com for Oly2 correspondence. Use bron@sgi.com only if you require fast response. These statements are my own, not those of Silicon Graphics.