Fumbling

Fumbling is a property acquired extrinsically by wearing gauntlets of fumbling or fumble boots. You also fumble when walking on ice unless you are wearing snow boots or are naturally cold resistant (e.g. a valkyrie or polymorphed into a winter wolf). Wearing cursed gauntlets of fumbling or fumble boots counts as a minor trouble.

Effects

• Abuses dexterity every five turns.
• Every d20 turns, you'll slip or trip and be helpless for 2 turns if you attempt to move that turn; if you're carrying more than a certain amount, you'll make noise and alert nearby monsters; if you're riding, you'll fall off.
• You fall when going down stairs.
• Your dexterity is abused if you try to move into a closed door.
• Saddling ridable monsters is less likely to succeed.
• Attempting to mount a steed will always fail.
• Digging with an implement may not succeed, and may cause it to hit you or be dropped.
• Your chance of disarming a trap is halved.
• You have no chance of disarming a container trap or trapped door.
• You have no chance of escaping traps.
• Setting traps may cause them to go off.
• Applying cans of grease can cause you to drop them.
• You are less likely when applying a bullwhip to produce the desired effect, and may drop it instead.
• Kicking monsters or objects is less likely to be successful.
• As a Valkyrie, Mjollnir will hit your arm rather than be caught on its return.
• Your multishot is impaired.
• Returning boomerangs will hit you rather than be caught.
• The following items will end up on the floor rather than in your inventory:
  • potions of oil that you light (if one of several)
  • wished-for items
  • tins made with a tinning kit
  • items from a horn of plenty
  • scrolls of mail
  • gems thrown at you while you're a unicorn
  • items stolen as a nymph
  • weapons snagged with a bullwhip
  • arrows created by the Longbow of Diana
  • saddles removed from a steed
  • written scrolls and spellbooks.