[s-b] Consultation: Count the Rapiers

["Jamie Dallaire" <bad.leprechaun@xxxxxxxxx>]

As Registrar, I went earlier to record Charles' mutation on the public
display of players and wipe off pikhq. Thing is, pikhq had a Rapier, with
which he was defending, and now he's gone...

With pikhq gone, what happens to the rapier???

I submit the following Consultation:

{
As of the time at which this Consultation is submitted, do there exist more
than 4 Rapiers within the Game of B?

Reasoning: According to Rule 35, there is an Attribute "device owner" with a
scope of all devices and a range of all device owner objects (which we shall
call DOO (singular) or DOOs (plural)). Further, the rule states that a DOO
is a type of Game Objet that may own devices, and that all Players are
DOOs. According to Rule 2, Game Objects may only be created, destroyed, or
modified if allowed by the Rules, in a manner explicitly governed by the
Rules. The Rules specify no Game Objects other than Players as
DOOs; therefore Players are the only DOOs. The former Player named pikhq was
the device owner of a Rapier before he Forfeit the game earlier today. There
currently exist 4 other Rapiers in the game, which are owned by Hose, 0x44,
Wooble, and Billy Pilgrim. When pikhq Forfeit, he ceased to be a Player and,
by extension, also ceased to be a DOO. The Rapier that was owned by pikhq,
then, could be said to have lost its device owner. Further, the Rules
specify no mechanism that stipulates a transfer of ownership or the
destruction of devices owned by forfeiting Players. The Rapier formerly
owned by pikhq should thus still exist. However, the Attribute "device
owner" applies to all devices, and the device owner object can only be a
Player (it cannot be "no one"). Does the Rapier in question currently exist,
in addition to the 4 other Rapiers? An additional query that falls outside
the scope of this Consultation: if it exists, who is its owner?
}

Billy Pilgrim
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