That's what happens when you pick up a 12 string guitar for the first time.
;-)
Kit
-----Original Message-----
From: John Tatsukawa [mailto:
john@...]
Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 12:08 PM
To:
eqbards@egroups.com;
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Subject: Re: [eqbards] Hotkeys Hazards
Well like all things in music, practice makes perfect. I guess you could
add some emotes about re-tuning your instrument or something until you get
it perfected. :-)
---Windleaf
Play an accordian, go to jail. It's the law.
At 01:14 PM 12/4/00 -0500,
JESSICA_WEBBER@... wrote:
>Thought you might find this amusing...
>
>I hadn't played my bard since the 10 slot hotkey banks went live, but
>decided to finally sit down & remap the keys & give my rogue a rest. So I
>get the hotkeys all mapped from using Numpad 7, 8, 4, 5, 1, & 2 to using
>Numpad "/" through "." Then I create a bank with all my songs, a "/g INC -
>%target" message, and an Off Hand slot to swap instruments. Look up,
>forward, and down got moved from Numpad 96&3 to Numpad 74&1.
>
>That accomplished, I try to attack something. I spot a Lion Matriarch,
>blue to me at level 13, and try to hit it with one pulse of Bellow. The
>lioness wanders off unharmed while I figure out why I'm suddenly staring at
>my feet.
>
>I realize my error and reposition my hand a bit more to the left. Then I
>make my way towards a carrion spider and try to hit it with one pulse of
>Bellow. The spider wanders off unharmed while I try to figure out why I'm
>talking to myself. I remind myself that Bellow has moved from slot 5 to
>slot 9.
>
>I run off to a safe corner and rehearse my battle setlist (Bellow, CoD,
>Hymn) a couple times to make sure I know where my hands should be. Then I
>go looking for another mob.
>
>I spot another spider and hit it with Bellow. Yay! I finally hit
>something! I restart Selo's and head to the zone edge. I turn around and
>attempt to switch hotkey banks to grab my mandolin out of inventory. That
>would be a shift 1, but my hand has gone back over to the old keys, so I
>find myself staring at the sky. I look forward again and try to hit Shift
>1 again. I inadvertently turn off numlock. The spider is on me now and
>I'm attempting to sing while struggling with the hotkeys. I soon discover
>I've turned off Numlock, toggle it back, restart Selo's, and hit the zone.
>No sense messing around - I knew I'd botched that battle.
>
>After about a half hour of similar mishaps, I finally start killing things.
>Yay! Then a druid guildmate who's primary is a bard - and a good one -
>asks to group. I warn her of the difficulties I've been having but she
>assures me I'll do fine and tells me to start pulling.
>
>I find a spider and try to hit it with bellow, but instead tell the druid,
>"Inc - a carrion spider...Inc - a carrion spider" Said it twice because i
>thought I was starting and stopping a song, see? It wouldn't have been so
>bad except in the time it took me to realize what I'd done wrong the spider
>hand wandered dangerously close to a gorge hound. So I quickly scour the
>area, find another spider and bring it back to the druid, who's scratching
>her head wondering why it took so long to pull a spider.
>
>I make that same mistake a few more times, and eventually she has to ask
>whether I know multiple incoming messages are supposed to be an indication
>of multiple mobs being pulled. <sigh> So much for making a good
>impression.
>
>Furthering my reputation as Newbie For Life, I turned numlock off 4 more
>times over the next half hour. If I managed to keep two songs up during
>battle I was doing good. But my druid friend stuck with me, and eventually
>I started getting the hang of it again. Yay! Three songs, almost four
>stacked up at a time. Pulls as fast and smooth as an expensive German car.
>No more than a few seconds downtime between battles, and rarely that much.
>Oh yeah, this is what being a bard is all about!
>
>That's when I notice I'd been singing Elemental Rhythms against spiders all
>night. Heh, I used to have ER in slot one, PR in slot 3. I cleverly
>switched them when rearranging keys. Oh how I blushed...
>
>Evulia, singing 13 songs, all in the wrong key, Tunare
>
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