On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Lonnie Lewis wrote:

>
> Speaking of pixie strike... Last night I was in CT and ended up
> having to pixie strike a yellow gator. I only got about 1 failure out of 5
> without flute, and no failures out of about 30-35 attempts with a flute.
> (had to keep it pixied while a pallie medded and healed himself). After the
> first failure, I had no reason not to switch to a flute, so I did. My
> charisma is about 120-125 or so.

The flute theory... While waiting for the boat in BB, I tried
Pixie Striking myself.

1. Resisted about half the time (my normal MR is 61), stunned
2 times, got the "you send forth music" message with no effect
about 8 times.

2. Ok, switch to the flute. Still resisted about half the
time, stunned about 6 times, no effect about 3 times. Wow,
maybe there's something to this theory.

3. Then I unequipped the flute again. Resisted about half
the time, stunned 11 times, no effect 2 times. Ugh.

The only other thing I can think of is that I think I had
weapons equipped the first time, and my MM drum equiped the
third time. GZ mentioned something about some instruments
being focus objects. Maybe the MM drum has that effect. I
will have to test it some more with the log on so I can get
exact counts.

--
John H. Kim
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