On Mon, 5 Jul 1999 silky@... wrote:

>
> I was showing the group I was with what twisting guardian and protective
> rythms did for their resistance with a drum, and good god - every greater,
> db and barbed skele on our side of unrest was making a beeline for ME!

What were you doing before? Unrest has a lot of pathing
problems. What happened to you sounds like you let a mob go
back through the house to chase you, or a train passed by as
you were fighting something or playing a buffing/healing song.
In the former case, the mob can run past other mobs and
activate them or add you to their hate list. You kill your
original pull, but the other monsters end up being trained by
someone else. In the latter case because bards seem to
attract more attention from passing mobs that are fighting
others, you can easily get on the hate list of a passing
train, which does not seem to be a problem for other classes.

The train gets pulled to the zone and people try to take it.
Sometimes they manage, other times they all have to zone.
When they zone, they're removed from the hate list, and you're
the only one left so they all make a beeline for you (well, in
Unrest they make a lot of U-turns too).

If I see a train about to pass by, I try to stop any songs I'm
singing. That seems to help stop anything from the train
peeling off to join our fight. It really is ridiculous
though. The bartender once dropped off someone who attacked
him and was pulling him, and chased me out. The guy gave me
an earful for "stealing" his pull.

Oh, another possible explanation. There are some idiots who
when they get a train, instead of zoning or gracefully letting
themselves be killed, they drag it through all the other
players in the hopes the train will get off them and on the
others. Since bards tend to be mob magnets, they usually end
up getting dumped on us.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...