I couldn't reproduce the problem; it appears to depend upon whether
the file-scope variable 'otmp' has a stale value, and that might
happen after a monster has tried to steal mon's saddle. However,
the code pointed out in the report is clearly wrong. This prevents
feedback of "glorkum" (with plural verb since quantity of 0 isn't 1),
but the potential stale value hasn't been dealt with.
If either rumors.tru or rumors.fal was empty when makedefs made
'rumors', init_rumors() will set true_rumor_size to -1 to indicate
that rumors aren't available. It also closes the input file, and
then #wizrumorcheck closed that again, triggering a crash in the
dlb code.
Fortune cookies and oracles work ok (just not very interesting)
when rumors aren't available. Only the check command had trouble
with that.
