Speaking of Song taunting, I had an interesting experience last nite. I was
in North Karana watching for the gnome watchman to spawn when some idiot
decided an unannounced Hill Giant train into the stone bridge watchtower
would be a good idea.

There were about a half dozen of us in there, 4 medding' casters a warrior
healing up, and me sitting and innocently singing Acellerando in the corner.
In tromps the HG, smashes its prey to the ground just as it reaches the exit
onto the bridge where it is immediately surrounded by guards. I'm standing
up at this point.

The HG bashes two of the guards once each as they pummel it, Captain
Linarius alone is doing over 100 per hit. Everything seemed fine at this
point...

Then Acellerando pulsed. The HG immediately ran over the 4 guards who had
at this point done over 600 hp's to it, past 2 of the medding casters and
the warrior who had just stood up, right to me. He immediately began
bashing my brains out. His first smack stunned my Accelerando off, so as I
started to run I tried starting it up again. The HG was happily bashing
guards again as I reached the exit back into the Karanas.

Then Acellerando pulsed. The HG again immediately ran past the now 5
guards, past the 2 medding casters that hadn't awakened yet, and right to
little ole me. Smack, smack and forthwith I was down to a bubble. At this
point the guards had done nearly 1000 hp's to the HG, a caster had awakened
and nuked it with a couple of frost spirals and still it ignored all in
favor of me. Fortunately it didn't stun me again and I was able to outrun
it while it let the guards and assorted PC's beat the daylights out of it
from behind.

After it was killed I got not less than 4 tells asking me how I managed to
taunt the HG so successfully that the group hunting near the bridge was able
to smack the heck out of it without risk. To my answers of I don't know,
guess he just hates lite jazz I was assaulted. Three of the /tell'ers
actually accused me of hiding an exploit that allowed me to taunt the HG.
Needless to say I politely asked them to /bug it so as to be sure I couldn't
get away with it again. They were not amused.

I haven't had many examples of 'bard hate' or whatever we want to call it
lately, but this was sure pretty apparent as a bizarre hate list incident.
Only thing I can figure is that somehow the code is messed up to the point
that when a song pulses, the mobs consider it cast on everything within its
radius, whether it has an effect or not. A similar example happened once to
me in Misty Thicket. I was singing Accelerando when someone not in my group
decided to duel someone else also not in my group. I was standing near the
aggressor and as soon as my song pulsed, the guards uttered that horrid
statement about 'bards like you'. I fled instantly, but since I knew
neither I nor my groupmate who wasn't even in the zone, had attacked the
guards I feel sure some bug occurred. I /bugged it at the time. Has anyone
else had similar things happen to them when their song radius might have
included someone but did not actually affect them?

Kitasi