put triggers first; don't tell unless you have the method

If the triggers are done first then it seems a routine
can be assured that none of the simple triggers are true.

The InconsistenAssumption error was being emitted when
we tried to tell something. Don't use tell unless you are
going to actually start the process. Hence, put it in the
else part of the `try`.
This we should also remove before the release, because it could potentially be expensive if this method otherwise wouldn't need to be called. But it is good for debugging things for now.