At 01:52 PM 1/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
>It does Not always give you a boost, I have noticed. If you are allready
>considered above indifferent, it will not change anything.
>and, you dont have to be right next to the person to use it. it works across
>the counter
The actual way that this works is it increases your FACTION with that
person's FACTION. So, let's say you're in Freeport. If you target a
Militia, and fire the CCC, it will give you increase to FreeportMilitia
faction for the duration of your stay in the zone. If you turn around and
target a member of the merchants instead, your faction from the
FreeportMilitia will vanish, and you will get a bonus to your FACTION with
FreeportMerchants.
The instrument is a significant improvement to both range AND power. I
have never seen the faction end, so I don't know if it fades.
Here's a real-world example from shortly after I'd first gotten the
song. I was living in Greater Faydark, hadn't been in Lesser Faydark very
much, so I didn't know anything about Brownies. Someone rather young came
started shouting for help retrieving his corpse, and as it was very late,
no one was answering, so I did. He asked me to meet him at the entrance to
Lesser Faydark, that a Brownie had killed him. As I had never killed a
Brownie, I assumed my faction with them would be, at very worst, neutral,
so I figured I could just go grab his stuff and run. Little did I know
that that was a whole Brownie city. I get close and see "A Brownie Guard
begins casting" and next thing I know is "Loading... please wait...."
WELL!
Not very friendly, are they?
To make a long story short (because it's time to go home ;) as I was
running back and trying to decide to help this poor newbie who was nearly
in tears, afraid he was going to lose his corpse and stuff, as well as
getting my own stuff back, when I suddenly remembered something someone had
told me about the Charismatic Carrilon... and how it would make some
unfriendly people friendly.....
After comforting the bereaved young one, I travelled quickly to the site of
the Brownie Village, and snuck as close as I thought I could without
enraging any Brownies... Firing up my new song, I was rewarded with a glow
and the appropriate message, and when conning, sure enough, the Brownie
guards were indifferent.
I wasn't sure how long the effect lasted, so I flanicked and peed... er..
panicked and fled with the contents of the little guy's corpse., while
dragging my own. A few moments later, he was reunited with his stuff, and
shortly thereafter, I was as well. What a deal ;)
Talies the Wanderer