From the newsgroup: ``Something is engraved here on the water.'' An engraving written on a lowered drawbridge would be transfered to the underlying terrain when the bridge was raised. The coverse was also true; if you plugged the moat and then engraved on the ground, that engraving would remain visible--and touchable if blind--when the bridge was lowered to cover its spot. Rather than try to handle two different engravings at the same coordinates (with one of those two changing locations when the bridge is raised or lowered), this just wipes out any engraving at both span and portcullis locations whenever the bridge state changes, like is done for traps.
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