If Rich really intends this desert'n'die thing to damage people, we now
have the game loophole needed to make war painful:
Find an enemy.
Beat his contract or fear nobles in battle.
Hold them prisoner until their loyalty lapses.
Kill them.
No NP comes home.
I cannot read the letter or the spirit of the rules to countenance this.
It looks like it clearly is a bug that, for whatever more pressing reason,
Rich has not bothered to fix. This has harmed me, Jon, Keith Hearn, and
others. Although we has lost so many noble-days of use of the NP, I guess
that Rich thinks us of no worse off than a late entrant to the game.
Still, we're getting reamed because we expected the rules to work the way
they're written. We have a right to be torqued off.
Rich, do something, or else we'll be forced to coninue to play in a
vaguely pissed-off mood.
-Chris