That's just it, I hadn't been doing ANYTHING - we had pretty much just
gotten there (well from rezoning).
I've been to unrest numerous times since 13th (just made 20th now) and
never EVER gotten that kind of reaction, nor have I tried to play those two
particular songs there till now.
At 11:23 AM 7/5/99 -0400, you wrote:
>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>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@...
>
>
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