No need to apologize...it shows your individuality, and I enjoy
that! :-)
>>So?
>
>I will not offer a bounty on your turf, I will if I feel I am correct
appeal
>to the owner of the territory and ask for an explanation/measures.
That is _your_ option, is it not? You have every right to make that
determination for yourself. If others don't like it, they can try
and do something about it. One option is to go to war. There are
many other options. Not everybody plays by the same "rules". There
is nothing dishonorable in yours. You have every right to enforce
them.
The SuS has every right to make his decision to seek redress through
whatever means pleases him.
His "pleasure" is in violation of your rules. Anyone seeking that
reward in your domain should realize that he takes on this "quest"
at the peril of his own [noble's] life.
>
>>>2) Completely illegal, because stahl und stein do not have the rights to
>>>decree this. They can however contact the ruler of this domain and ask
for
>>>an explanation. This has not happened here. The rightful ruler of this
>>>domain can then consider if this is a valid reason for sanctioning.
>>
>>Really? Could you please point out the section in the rules that makes
>>this an illegal player device?
>
>The province the SUS noble got attacked is a LOTC-province, and the LOTC
>still rule supreme over their lands, not MING, nor you, nor anyone else
will
>have anything to say about this area. This is an excempt of our edicts, you
>and anybody else will have to respect these rules.
>
>/*
>Edict nr. 6 : As knights of honor we feel it is our duty to protect the
weak
>and innocent even outside our borders. If you were attacked, been robbed
for
>no good reason you can appeal to the Lords of the Crown. If your cause is
>just, your words the truth, we will consider help in anyway.
>*/
>
Ah. I see. We were getting tied up in symantics.
You are trying to tell everyone that this bounty/quest does
not have the sanction of the LotC and therefore anyone pursuing it
on LotC lands is in violation of your law, subject to your judgement.
This in noi way conflicts with the _right_ of the SuS to offer it.
The SuS can make whatever offer they want. The people pursuing
it are the ones who must first seek authorization from you, or whomever
controls the regions they pursue the villain into.
It is, afterall, possible the attacker is _not_ a LotC noble. The LotC
could, therefore, collect the fellon and receive the reward. Rather,
it was. Your post implies that the SuS noble was a trespasser who
instead of leaving your lands by the route he entered, traveled deeper
into your territory and was thus branded a target. Certainly you
would not have asked some one to leave your lands and then refuse safe
passage. So you have implied that it was the LotC whom attacked the
SuS. If this is an error, please correct my misreading of your last message
promptly lest my surmise plant a false impression on the
minds of others.
>>If we are talking "historical references", many Merchantile Houses
>>offered rewards for the apprehention of bandits what raided their
>>factors or trains outside the legal jurisdiction of their "country"
>>of origin.
>
>Exactly, OUTSIDE the legal jurisdiction. Thank you.
You're welcome. We don't disagree on all points. We may only be
disagreeing on wording. And we'll leave the debate as to whether
it was the Hapsburgs or the Fuggers who "ruled" the Holy Roman
Empire of the early Renaissance to historians with more knowledge
on the subject than I. :-)