Naming stuff on the ground

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Suppose I find a cursed load stone, and I want to name it without
picking it up. How do I do that?

 

[seraphim]

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"michapringle@yahoo.com" <michapringle@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:1108858314.620778.217820@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> Suppose I find a cursed load stone, and I want to name it without
> picking it up. How do I do that?

You don't.

 

[James]

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In article <1108858314.620778.217820@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
michapringle@yahoo.com <michapringle@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Suppose I find a cursed load stone, and I want to name it without
>picking it up. How do I do that?

You can't, and I suspect that the reason you can't is precisely because
of loadstones and a certain other item.

You are forced by the game to name other items and figure out loadstone
by the process of elimination, or do it the easy way by picking one up
and uncursing it.

 

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On 2005-02-20, james <fishbowl@conservatory.com> wrote:
> In article <1108858314.620778.217820@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
> michapringle@yahoo.com <michapringle@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>Suppose I find a cursed load stone, and I want to name it without
>>picking it up. How do I do that?
>
> You can't, and I suspect that the reason you can't is precisely because
> of loadstones and a certain other item.

What other item are you referring to?
--
Andrew D. Hilton
UPenn Phd Student

 

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Andrew D. Hilton wrote:
> On 2005-02-20, james <fishbowl@conservatory.com> wrote:
>
>>In article <1108858314.620778.217820@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>,
>>michapringle@yahoo.com <michapringle@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Suppose I find a cursed load stone, and I want to name it without
>>>picking it up. How do I do that?
>>
>>You can't, and I suspect that the reason you can't is precisely because
>>of loadstones and a certain other item.
>
>
> What other item are you referring to?

Scrolls of scare monster, I can think of off hand. Only a few items
carry penalties for picking them up. These would be loadstones, ?oSM,
and the artifacts that zap you. There's at least one other circumstance
when you might want to name an item without having to pick it up: if
you're in a store and have teleportitis (and can't afford the credit).