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When Josh harpooned me, he replaced my icon with that of an empty square. Yet under Rule 2.3.2 (Blood!), “Immediately after a Gladiator Dies, if the square where this death occurred is Empty, a Blood Pool is created there.”, so updating the square to be empty was an illegal modification. (This mistake has since been corrected by another player.)
You modified IconKevan to IconEmpty; there was no legal way to do that given that his death immediately causes the creation of blood; you couldn’t have updated to the state in between.
(“Immediately after” implies that they can be separate actions, rather than having to be the same one.)
But the Blood Pool is created “immediately after a Gladiator dies”. There is no legal way for an Arena square to change from “a Gladiator” to “an Empty Square”, if the Gladiator has been killed in this way.
(That was a simultaneous comment meant in reply to your original vote.)
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