>From: Bob Stewart <bstewart@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@onelist.com
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Weapons that Cast Spells
>Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:33:46 -0400
>
>From: Bob Stewart <bstewart@...>
>
>Apologies that this is not bard specific, but it is certainly strongly
>related to the playing and discussing of EverQuest. Although we are
>generally bards here, with bardic concerns, it is my belief that, with a
>strong bias toward bardic concerns in bardic terms, this forum is easily
>one of the best, if not the best, for considerations of life in Norrath in
>general.
>
>Second only to being there, it is certainly my most important and effective
>means of understanding how Thrush may most enjoy and profit from his life
>in Norrath.
>
>At 09:10 AM 6/29/99 -0700, jay schultze wrote:
> >I don't know, for me it's just so much easier to cry out, "proc damn
>you!!
> >proc now or i'll trade you in! Why won't you pro- .. <CRACKLE> THANK
>YOU!!!"
> ><mob keels over>
>
>So how is that better than "cast now or I'll trade you in?" In fact,
>saying and thinking "cast" seems better to me. I imagine shaking the fool
>weapon between blows and thinking, "It's supposed to cast that fool spell,
>why won't it do it when I need it most. I need a rune I can touch or a
>word I can say to make it cast when *I* want it to."
>
>Imagine that the recalcitrant caster is not a weapon that casts in its own
>sweet time and whim but rather a slow, confused, undependable member of
>your party. I doubt you'd feel the need for a special word to encourage
>the person.
<sigh> ... Bob, I know you mean well and you seem well-mannered and
well-read and all, but I was being a little sarcastic... =)
A proc is a magical weapon effect is a proc is a magical doohickey...
nm, Bob...have a beer on me.
Sartori D'Elsiraad
Bard of Kelethin of the 30th Chorus
Veeshan