On Thu, Jun 10/99, Douglas Bierbower <Bierbower@...> wrote:

>
> Here is a thought and a story, maybe even a partial solution. Perhaps the Mobs are
> angry at you because you have been killing so many of their friends. I was in North
> Karanas around levels 11 through 14 killing beetles with my party. We noticed an
> odd effect which we called "Beetlejuice". It seems that after I had gone out to
> fetch a dozen or so pincers, borers, and scythe bettles, that every beetle in the
> zone became aggressive towards me, the fetching bard.

I've seen this too. Thought it was a bug. I've also had it happen in
Unrest when I pulled there. After a while I didnt even have to go into
the house, the mobs came to me for up to a half hour after the last time
I'd pulled something. My group at the time was quite powerful, and hence
loved it, until we got 2 hags and other assorted mobs in one batch.

>
> I have hunted in Crushbone and Befallen a lot, and I have noticed that I am a
> preferred target, but not to the extent being reported in this thread.

It seems to vary from zone to zone. I never had a huge problem in
Crushbone, but I have seen it in L3 of befallen and a few other bards I
talked to did as well. But in Befallen it seemed to be restricted to the
necromancers. My last time in Befallen I was at the back of the party,
not playing a song, when 3 necros down the hall past the elf skeleton
decided to open up with spells cast all on me, dispite the paladins and
clerics attacking them.

Another place I've seen weird effects just recently was in Solusek A
(eye). I was in a party and we were all invis'd to go through to one of
the entrances to Nagafen's. 3 times in a row low level fire goblins (not
wizards or shamans) saw through my invisibility and attacted me. They
didnt see one other member of my party. It was like they could smell me
or something. I tried with the invisibility song and got the same
problem, and when I checked my buffer there was no "you become visible"
message before the mob attacked.

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