“The Pirate should react to a request to Parley by Telling a Tale, if they have not done so already for that request: upon doing so, they reduce the Hunter’s Pieces by the value specified in the post (this reduction may cause that number to become negative) and privately message the Hunter a Tale to that value, as listed below.”

If I don’t process the action, no Pieces are exchanged; thus, if it’s cancelled by a comment, the refund isn’t actually a refund. One could rob me blind.

@RaichuKFM I think that’s the point: it forces you to respond to parleys within 24 hours.

Which sometimes I can’t manage?

I don’t want to feel like I’m slowing this Dynasty down, and a few requests have gone a bit long, which I’m sorry about; but one shouldn’t be able to gain Pieces just because they’re reasonably confident I’ll be gone for a day.

It seemed more like a system allowing for cancelling Parleys that had mistaken when the transaction happens?

Punishing me via Pieces loss makes little sense; I’m not really playing, that doesn’t matter to me.

So it just potentially helps Hunters randomly; which, yes, would motivate me to check in more often to prevent that, out of interest for fairness; but largely when I’m not on for an over twenty-four hour period it’s because I can’t be, not because I choose not to be.

Forcing me to do a thing that I will always do when I can doesn’t really accomplish anything.