On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Blitz Krieg wrote:

>
> >This is not a problem with the /follow command. Everyone (including the
> >bard) targets and /follows the person with the lowest swimming skill and
> >everyone will stay within range of the song.
>
> As with Invis and Selo's, except for the a problem I seem to have. I am the
> one that usually knows where we're going : ) Invis' range is soooo small
> it's frustrating. Definately not a travel song. I just finally made it to

It's definitely not a long-range travel song, but it can be
useful for short hops through dangerous territory. You lead,
everyone /follows you. You switch to walking, everyone else
keeps running. You go your merry way and nobody should fall
out of range. That's what I did to help a friend recover his
corpse in Nektulos right out from under the eyes of two dark
elf guards. Just be sure you switch back to run mode if you
have to run, although at my level it's gotten so I can
Accelerando-walk faster than most mobs can run.

By the way, you're not invisible if any other song is playing.
If you have a second bard in the group, if he plays a song
while you play Invis, his song will give you away. The same
applies if you have the invisibility spell cast on you and you
try to charge through somewhere playing Accelerando.

And I'll reiterate that being a bard is very dangerous if a
member of your party is KOS. Say you're escorting a dark elf
to the Freeport docks using Invisibility. If he should become
visible and the guards attack him, the next time your song
pulses, the guards see that as you helping someone they want
to kill, and thus they will want to kill you as well.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...