On Thu, Sep 09/99, Mike Roach <mroach@...> wrote:

>
> I was in N FP last night working on Brewing when a Paladin friend of mine
> came along and I told him I had been fishing in the moat around the
> Paladin's guild and I then brewed some wine using the fish I caught there -
> I offered him some of the wine and we had a few drinks, then, with my
> fishing pole equipped, standing in front of the Bank, I targeted him and hit
> "Instill Doubt" which initiated that wacky graphical emote that looks like a
> combination of casting a buff and doing a dual-wield attack followed by the
> amusing message "you're not scaring anyone". The funny part was that it
> LOOKED like I was attacking him with my fishing rod and a bunch of people
> were standing around the bank laughing their helmets off at the whole scene
> - someone commented, "Look at that drunk half-elf dueling with a fishing
> rod!".

Unfortunately this is about the only use instill doubt actually has.
Even rogues find it useless. When it does work, it's just like the fear
song or spell and sends the mob running off, where he will most times
tell a few of his friends about the scary bard, and as they won't
believe him, they will come back with him to see for themselfs.

Rogues wish the mobs wouldn't run away so fast so they might be able to
at least get a backstab in. Our skill caps so low at it that it's only
real use is amusing your friends while you sit around waiting for some
rare mob to spawn. :)

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