You feel a surge of power! The flame hits the orc wizard.
 You kill the orc wizard!
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 robe
     item #1:  base: 2; sub: 0; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; colour: 4; ident: 0x00000100; ident_type: 0
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27084
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 whip
     item 0000006:  base: 0; sub: 1; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; colour: 7; ident: 0x00000000; ident_type: 0
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27084
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 shield
     item 0000053:  base: 2; sub: 13; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; colour: 3; ident: 0x00000000; ident_type: 0
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27084
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 ring of protection
     item 0000054:  base: 6; sub: 1; plus: -3; plus2: 0; special: 16
     quant: 1; colour: 7; ident: 0x00000100; ident_type: 4
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27084
 Item cursed -3 ring of protection claims to be held by monster DEAD MONSTER,
 but it isn't in the monster's inventory.

 You climb downwards.
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 runed hand axe
     item 0000125:  base: 0; sub: 18; plus: -2; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; colour: 5; ident: 0x20020100; ident_type: 0
_    x: -2; y: -2; link: 27010
 There is a stone staircase leading up here.

 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 trident
     item 0000005:  base: 0; sub: 24; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; colour: 4; ident: 0x20000100; ident_type: 0
_    x: -2; y: -2; link: 27034

 You feel a surge of power! The fireball explodes!
 The fireball engulfs the deep elf priest.
 You kill the deep elf priest!
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 uncursed shortbow
     item 0000247:  base: 0; sub: 30; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; ident: 0x20000003; ident_type: 0
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27108
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 uncursed scimitar
     item 0000248:  base: 0; sub: 16; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 1; ident: 0x20000003; ident_type: 0
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27108
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 15 arrows
     item 0000249:  base: 1; sub: 2; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 0
     quant: 15; ident: 0x20000002; ident_type: 0
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27108
 Unlinked item held by dead monster:
 ring of protection from magic
     item 0000335:  base: 6; sub: 20; plus: 0; plus2: 0; special: 288
     quant: 1; ident: 0x20000000; ident_type: 4
     x: -2; y: -2; link: 27108
 Item ring of protection from magic claims to be held by monster DEAD MONSTER,
 but it isn't in the monster's inventory.

The problem was with named followers who had been gifted items.  What
was happening was that both drop_item and take_item could fail, but
beogh_gift_item() didn't check for these fail conditions and forced the
gift on the follower regardless. If the follower had an old item in the
relevant slot, this left the old item still associated with the follower
but unlinked, and errors started showing up when the follower died and
the item didn't get properly converted to a floor item. The main case
where this came up was if you gifted a follower an item and the item
they already had in that slot was cursed, causing drop_item to fail. The
key symptom (which is rather hard to notice) is that the follower
wouldn't generate a drop message for the old item. I have changed things
so that Beogh removes the curse in these cases, so that the follower can
drop their cursed item.  Alternatively, the gift could just fail, but
this harsher behavior didn't seem to me to contribute anything
interesting to gameplay.