// if we allow acquirement-type items to be orcish, then
    // there's a good chance that we'll just strip them of
    // their ego type at the bottom of this function. -- bwr

    // If we allow acquirement-type items to be orcish, then there's a
    // good chance that we'll just strip them of their ego type at the
    // bottom of this function. -- bwr

        // thoroughly damaged, could had been good once

        // Thoroughly damaged, could had been good once.

            // brand is set as for "good" items

            // Brand is set as for "good" items.

        // Make a better item (possibly ego)

        // Make a better item (possibly ego).

        // odd-looking, but this is how the algorithm compacts {dlb}:

        // Odd-looking, but this is how the algorithm compacts {dlb}.

        // odd-looking, but this is how the algorithm compacts {dlb}:

        // Odd-looking, but this is how the algorithm compacts {dlb}.