I love how this is presented. Just because you lost status nothing is lost.
You can easily recover from this, Kol isn't a deus ex machina that cannot be disarmed, nor has there been any decieving going on.
I am terribly amused that you are still riding on that damn draw despite me iterating five times that the draw was irrelevant to the situation. You didn't get screwed over because i did some obscure rules lawyering, you got screwed over because you simply ignored the warning i gave and don't tell me you weren't warned enough before.
You were told that throwing acts in an active Gambit is a big No-No and that that escalates things. You acted anyway, with three whole acts. that produced lifeslayer and lifeslayer ends the gambit. The gambit ends, it is tallied up and it came out with: Everybody lost. Acter and Varalin because they cheated and lost the Acterians, Lu because he lost the worship and Kol and Phalanalin too because he lost the worship. Tartin is the one that got screwed over by association but that was clear from the beginning that you are tied to your house, in good as in bad times.
Anyhow, those who are still interested are more than welcome to stay, i will continue to GM this and if it stays at these four players (ATH,Roboson,Glass and Madman) we have barely lost one House and still more than enough players to continue.
EDIT: Nevermind. seems like more than posted in here left. Well we will lose two Houses but if the rest wishes to continue, we can simply continue onwards. Would just be four players for now. Alternatively we can put this on hold until more players are interested in joining. Depends on you folks i guess.