One question reguarding this song, does it affect the whole party or
just the bard singing?
Minkin of Solusek Ro
Bard of the 18th Kazoo
> From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Proteus wrote:
> >
> > Last night I was checking prices on plate mail, and
> > decided to mem up the charisma song just to see if it made
> > even a 1cp difference in prices. I used my mino horn and
> > targeted the indifferent shopkeeper. Low and behold, he
> > con'd amiable after the song took affect. Not only did he
> > con amiable, but so did every other shopkeeper in east
> > Freeport.The price of the chest plate remained at 794pp
> > though with my 90 charisma. (I think prices can only go so
> > low).
>
> Yup, I've pretty much verified this. I dropped by the gypsies
> again and at 110, 115, and 120 charisma, their price for a
> combine longsword was always 52.5pp. The selling price was
> 47.5pp, so that establishes (for gypisies and this item at
> least) a base price of 50pp and +/- 5% being the best you can
> do.
>
> The shady swashbuckler is still giving me better prices as I
> increase my charisma though. 223pp at 110, 220pp at 115. I
> just got back to Freeport last night and need to test it at
> 120. So there's definitely some faction/race/diety component
> to all this. The charisma song may be worthwhile in this
> regard (especially since half those damn stuck-up Erudite
> merchants won't sell to me).
>
> > thru Neriak for a half hour. On the other hand (if you
> > dont have invis yet), use it on a Dark Elf guard and run
> > thru Nektulos on your way to Lavastorm without them
> > attacking you. Thats just an example. I'm sure there are
> > many other uses yet to be discovered. Say you die inside
> > the house of Unrest and you need to get your corpse.
> > Perhaps you can target a skel or whatever, use the song on
> > it and then the entire UnrestInhabitants faction will be
> > amiable to you for a few minutes? Enough time to /corpse
>
> Perhaps that's the intended use of the song? Not getting
> better prices at merchants as previously thought?
>
> > your corpse to safety and wont have to worry about getting
> > someone to cast invis + invis vs undead on you. Just an
> > idea, but I havent actually tested these things yet. I
> > suggest you all experiment with this a bit.
>
> Just a safety question - does the NPC ever attack you if the
> song somehow fails? I get nervous targeting songs at NPCs
> that are red to me. :-)
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
>
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