After attaching objects together, rename it as a whole

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Have you considered replacing the three chair legs with a separate ladder object when they’re assembled? That is, in the action handler where the legs are assembled, swap out the three legs for a ladder object. Something like this:

  action() {
    "You snap the final leg into place, creating a makeshift ladder. ";
    ladder.moveInto(brokenLegs.location);
    brokenLegs.moveInto(nil);
  }

Then, you can give ladder the appropriate vocabulary, description, action handlers, etc.

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