>The result of this reasoning is the Sudden Death method of
>extended contest resolution. You say what you're doing in
>the contest, and the GM sets an AP risk level (or however you
>determine AP stakes) as normal. Instead of keeping track of APs,
>whoever would normaly lose APs takes that as a penalty on
>future ability rolls in that contest instead.
These are called Penalties and Grievous Wounds, and are already in the rules! Any loss of 7 AP may instead be inflicted as a Hurt (-1), any loss of 15+ causes a -1 with FULL AP loss in addition. As Grievous Wounds are treated as though "inflicted in another conflict", you can get BOTH, for a -2, from one exchange. If you use these rules at every exchange, you'll rapidly lose both AP and Ability.
Nibbling away a point or two at a time isn't going to help much against multiple-mastery opponents, but if the two combatants started out near equal it helps.
Wulf
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