On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Noel Anderson wrote:

>
> 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.

I've had occasions where using the song will not let me start
a quest, but using it with a flute will. Also, the effect
seems to become greater as you level (raises you to a higher
faction). Stuff that I could only take from dubious to
dubious now goes from dubious to apprehensive.

I happened to run into Paglan while helping a friend chase
down the Ghoul Messenger. Was mighty tempted to kill him, but
let him be since someone else had done all the work of
initiating the quest. Hope they enjoyed their LotW. :)

--
John H. Kim
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