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Message ID: 5084
Date: Sun Aug 8 18:50:40 BST 1999
Author: Datlon Handy
Subject: Re: Bards and Mob Hate


Something I've noticed in a great many zones (I love to travel and we do it
very fast, very early) is that there are a great many creature types that don't
seem to like music.. Perhaps they just don't appreciate its gentle rythm and
cadence, but I happened upon a document in Everfrost the other day about a
named skeleton called 'vengeful lyric'.. Someone who was looking for Karg
Icebear out near the entrance to Permafrost said that he had just seen this
skel take off like a shot.. I didn't think anything about it at the time, but I
had just started playing Selo's at the entrance to Halas..

Within mere seconds this mob was all over me.. he was way too big for me to
kill (yet).. But I firmly believe that there are creatures that DO NOT like
bards instinctively.. as a list the following creatures dislike my bard more
than they dislike my Warrior (same level, race and have killed the same
creatures)

beetles (all)
undead (greater and magic hit only it seems)
griffons
evil eyes
plague rats

Hope this helps.. Still need to look into others, but I'll let you know.

Milistrious Songspinner
Bard of the Elves of Kelethin
Brell Serilis

silky@... wrote:

> From: silky@...
>
> Ok, I've read a lot on this list about how badly the critters hate us,
> never really experienced it till last night.
>
> I expected it to come from me healing my group - the way it happened was a
> bit of a surprise.
>
> 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!
>
> We probably could have handled it had I known the reaction was gonna be
> like that, and I sure as heck would have run quicker - thankfully, I am the
> only one that died.
>
> I was only affecting my group - these things came from out of NOWHERE - why
> would this act like such a magnet?
>
> Anyway - I think I'm gonna get a really good group together (one that can
> handle that kind of heat) - and do it purposefully (a little less long) and
> we won't need to debate on who the puller is anymore - looks like I'm
> nominated as bait.
>
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