I've had the exact same thing happen to me, I believe it's one of 2 things.
1) If you were ever inside, you went up by the hand room where the mobs
there are stuck on the railing by the stairs, and got onto their hatelist.
Even though they're stuck there, they pass on that hate to other mobs that
can path to you.
2) Sounds like you were sitting in the exact same spot we were when this
occured to me as well, right at the back of the house, almost straight in
line with the back door. If that's the case I'd be willing to be our song
effects are going through the ground into the basement and causing us to be
put onto a hate list. (We were only getting 'prime' pulls, werebats, hags,
gdb's etc -- basically basement critters)
#2 can still occur even if the songs you were playing were non-aggr'ing
songs (heal, accel, etc), there's a bug that occasionally occurs where
somehow even playing these songs places the bard onto the monsters hate
list. To check this, try running around Crushbone with accel on, don't kill
or attack anything but occasionally you'll get the faction message after the
other person kills the orc. As a result, always be careful running past
people killing 'good' factioned creatures.
-----Original Message-----
From: Greg Gillan <
GGillan@...>
To: '
eqbards@onelist.com' <
eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 4:38 PM
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Center of attention
>From: Greg Gillan <GGillan@...>
>
>I've noticed this phenomenum a lot in Unrest lately, and I've heard people
>here talking about it before.
>I've been peacefully sitting up against the wall, minutes after a battle
>healing my party up and strange things happen.
>
>Picture this: There I am resting quietly, 100 feet away from the house.
>*Creaaak*, opens the door. A dry bones skeleten is standing there, takes a
>look around, spots me out of a crowd of 30 camped players sitting against
>the wall, and makes a b-line for me. We handily dispatched him and all got
>a good laugh. 30 seconds later. *Creaaak*, opens the door. A reanimated
>hand is standing there, sniffs the air, spots me again and makes a run for
>me, completely ignoring everyone else. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat.
>
>This happened four or five times before we were forced to zone. My puller
>was pretty happy that his job was so easy, until a flock of GDBs came
>running and we had to run. I hadn't even been into the house that night to
>stir anything up. This has happened to me on several occasions. Its
pretty
>funny as long as its something you can handle, but a pair of hags hunting
me
>down for no apparent reason isn't a pretty sight.
>
>Ah well, life as a bard :)
>
>
>Elwyn
>26th level bard
>Erollosi Marr
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Llewrend Lynnhaven [mailto:lordartos@...]
>Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 3:18 PM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: [eqbards] Center of attention
>
>
>From: Llewrend Lynnhaven <lordartos@...>
>
>Well, one thing I like about this group is you all
>actually LIKE playing a bard. That may sound silly
>but a lot of message boards out there are just
>whinning about the class.
>
>Anyway, I had heard about the 'tauting' effects of our
>songs, but for the most part, it never bothered me,
>sure I get the mobs attention, and even take a lot of
>dammage, no biggie, just make nice with the cleric.
>Well, after turning 21, Guk and Unrest have become
>whole new places.
>
>First guk, near the scryer room my party of six where
>bashing every froglock in sight, gaining massive exp
>and loot. So we say, what the heck, lets go in the
>room. Well, on knight comes after us, so I use my
>melodic binding song that I love so much. Big
>mistake, from behind one of our tanks I saw no less
>than 15 assorted froglocks come up the stairs, and who
>do you think they were headed for? Well, after about
>5 minutes of root, root, root, root, I was taking the
>long walk back from freeport. Get back, grab my
>stuff, play anthem for my friends in battle, and what
>do you think happened? Again, I'm dragged down under
>a sea of amphibious flesh. So after a while, I say,
>heck, I'll head over to good ole unrest, what could be
>safer? Get there, find some good friends I could
>trust, and we get to slayin undead. One of the dry
>bones makes a run for the house, silly bard that I am,
>I chase him, again, still singing a song, forget which
>one. Withing seconds the doors fly open and carrion,
>monks and the reclusive ghoul magi beeline right at
>the wide eyed me, who didn't even have time to type in
>a profanity. So I come back from butchers block.
>Fighting a while, see a wisp to the left of the house,
>facing the back. Someone in my guild needed a light
>stone, so I run to grab it, while singing my little
>anthem. All of a sudden, the hag 3 floors up starts
>casting on me from a window, and I wake up at home
>among the trees. That sucked. Does this mean we
>can't use any of our aoe or buffs anywhere near a
>dungeon? Well, at least my calves are built up from
>zone running :)
>
>Llewrend Lynnhaven
>21rst song
>E Marr
>
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