taking and dropping

take (taking) covers the verbs take, get, grab, acquire, collect, pick up, take up (bare pick is deliberately absent, since it would outmatch pick up); multi-object take all, take all but the lamp, take the key and the bottle. Anything is takeable by default: portability is the rule, not a trait. scenery, rooms, things already carried, and carrying limits refuse; a worn item is quietly taken off first; identity points awards score on the first take (treasure scoring).

drop (dropping) covers the verbs drop, discard, put down, throw away, and the multi-object form drop all. The destination is wherever the player is: the room, or the container or supporter the player is inside or on.

The author writes:

create the Lamp Room
  a room

  Shelves of unlit lamps line every wall.

create the brass lantern
  aka lantern
  in the Lamp Room

  A dented brass lantern with a wire handle.

create the marble statue
  aka statue
  scenery
  in the Lamp Room

  A blank-eyed statue, far too heavy to move.

create the iron ring
  aka ring
  scenery
  in the Lamp Room

  A ring set into the floor slab.

  on taking it
    refuse ring-fused
  end on

  phrase ring-fused:
    The ring is fused to the slab; your fingers just slip off it.

create the player
  starts in the Lamp Room

override message dropping-dropped
  You set it down with care.
end override

The player sees:

> take the statue
The marble statue is fixed in place.

> take the ring
The ring is fused to the slab; your fingers just slip off it.

> take the lantern
Taken.

> drop the lantern
You set it down with care.

Three seams in one scene: scenery refuses with the platform's fixed_in_place, the ring's on taking it guard refuses with its own phrase, and the story-wide override message rewrites every plain drop.

Interceptors: on taking it / after taking it on the item, and REMOVE-FROM phrasing cannot dodge a taking guard.