Random verb selection on a MUCK

On SpinDizzy MUCK there are a bunch of “hug” verbs which are a bit whimsical and a bit nonsensical, and for reasons that are too silly to get into, I have been locked in an eternal battle with Austin in which I am constantly creating more.

A while back I ran into an issue with a few miscellaneous world scripts breaking around me, and it turned out to be that one of the global scripts, for reasons I’m still unclear on, attempts to parse every verb attached to a character object, and for other reasons I am also unclear on, it ends up attempting to push every name for the verb onto the stack.

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