There ssseem to be a lot of folks attacking provinces with ssscouts and then not retreating. My sssspies have ssseeen it happen to others.
I am glad to get notification publicly and not have to whine about it through back channels. It would have been an odd way to spend two scouts when you do have armies on my border.
You have looked upon the glory of T-rex. Other than that there was no harm. Your money holds little value to me, but I would accept two gems of any type, one for each province.
Yknow, in all the games of dominions n over the years I have played, this just might be the most color coordinated spectrum. We got a yellow on one side, and a green-yellow, then a green-blue, a true-blue, then two variations on blue-purple.
Emissaries arrived from the apes with gems. They were of an inferior grade to what we grow here in C’tis, but were perfectly adequate compensation for the damage your “scouts” caused.