Hi everybody. I've been lurking on the list for quite a while now. I
really like all the great information and friendly atmosphere here. It
helps make it so fun to be a bard.
I think I can help corroborate the theory that a flute boosts Charismatic
Carillion's effect (at least slightly).
example:
About a month ago I spent most of a week helping my roommate's barbarian
warrior repeat the Langseax quest to get him a Langseax of the Wolves. I
was 29th level at the time and I'm pretty sure my wind skill was maxed, if
that matters. My base faction with the Wolves of the North was
indifferent. I Carillion'ed Renth before I gave him my first Basil head
and it bumped my faction up to amiable. Gave him the head and got "Run
while you can... blah blah", faction still wasn't high enough to get the
langseax. We go do the quest again and this time I Carillion Renth with
my flute. It still only bumps my faction up to amiable, but this time he
gives me a langseax for the head. On the next repeat of the quest I
forgot to use my flute with Carillion and he wouldn't give me the langseax
again. We had to do the quest 20 times to get Paglan to spawn, by the
way.
Anyway, what I'm suggesting is that even though I was still only amiable
with the flute, it was a higher amiable than without the flute such that
he would let me successfully complete the quest only if I used the
flute. Just an observation of mine, your mileage may vary.
Suladan
32nd level flute tooting bard of Innoruuk
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 15:58:20 -0500 (EST)
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
> Subject: Re: Tooting flutes (was: Re: Char Catillion)
>
> > carrilon also, once I used it on a dubious and didn't get my flute
> > equipped before pulse, and she was only indifferent. Repulsed with flute,
> > and she was amiable.
>
> I definitely need to test this again, because the flute made no
> difference whatsoever in any faction adjustments when I used it
> in the past. Dubious to amiable? Are you sure? That's a bit
> much.
>
> Harmonic.
>
>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 16:17:04 -0500 (EST)
> From: Ryan Honeyman <honeyman@...>
> Subject: Re: Tooting flutes (was: Re: Char Catillion)
>
> > > carrilon also, once I used it on a dubious and didn't get my flute
> > > equipped before pulse, and she was only indifferent. Repulsed with flute,
> > > and she was amiable.
>
> I just logged on to test this. I could only find apprehensive things.
> I could not locate anything dubious (where I was at). Both with and
> without the flute, I could get apprehensive to amiable. I'll try
> again later when my boss is not expecting some project to be on my
> screen. I think the merchants near the guard tower in Rathe Mountains
> are dubious to me, I'm right outside Oggok now, so the trip would be
> quick. ;)
>
> Harm.