This has an interesting side effect - intended? - that the previously-private information would have to be added to the public gamestate tracking document when disclosed, if there was one.

I prefer that it be an exception rather than a default. 

Something like “Sealed” seemed useful as a keyword. “Menus are privately tracked by the Yard, and their contents are Sealed.” signals to the reader that something unusual is happening here, and that they might want to look up that keyword. “Menus are tracked in a temporarily private manner by the Yard.” less so, and could be read as either “becomes public later” or “stops being tracked later” by a player who doesn’t realise that temporarily private is a term of art in the game.

I think Bucky’s “published [...] as soon as is practical afterwards” wording was also closer to what we’d want in practice. That’s essentially what we asked of the Puzzler at the end of last dynasty.

Agree that the “Sealed” concept is closer to what is desired. I’d rather see Bucky’s clunkier wording than lose that idea. 

Changing to based on the arguments.

In case my comment reads as an argument for keeping Bucky’s Sealed keyword (which I’m also voting against), I’m pitching at a middle ground. “Additionally; if a piece of private information is described as being Sealed, then the Emperor may publicly reveal it during an Interregnum or any subsequent dynasty.” would seem enough.

(... “then the player who was tracking it”, I guess, since they’ll stop being Emperor.)

I thought about it and I think a Sealed private one is *very* clunky - I’d rather it be something something dynastically private or tracked privately dynastically.

unless; they choose to split it as you wrote; private x and is Sealed you can’t put them nicely in a sentence.

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