In destruct.c "Shadow waves an arm forcefully and sixty-eight lovaes of bread is disintegrated", athenon, 2003-09-07 08:02:14

In destruct.c "Shadow waves an arm forcefully and sixty-eight lovaes of bread is disintegrated"

Fixed, shadow, 2003-09-07 08:43:03

The problem was ~vertis instead of ~verbis.
The correct file is in /home/shadow/bin/wdestruct.c
Need a wiz with access to update.

~vert was correct, zarylse, 2003-09-07 12:29:50

32 this_player()->msg_local("~CBRT~Name ~verbwave" + t +
33 (this_player()->query_level() < ADMLEVEL ? "forcefully" : "lazily")+
34 " and ~targ ~verbis disintegrated.~CDEF");

Since it is the object being destructed, its verb should agree with it, not with the subject doing the destructing. ~verb agrees with the actor, in this case the destructor, and ~vert agrees with the target, in this case the destructee.

I would suspect interplay between query_is_plural() and query_quantity() as the culprit.