On Sat, 15 May 1999, Beth Moursund wrote:

>
> >Actually there's a very easy way to "fix" this. After any weapon's special
> >effect goes off bard songs get hosed. To fix it just hit any song 2 or more
> >times until you get the "You have not recovered yet" message and that will
> >fix it. The stuck icon on the screen will wear off and you can then cast
>
> I tried this and it didn't help one bit. What exactly are
> you doing? Are you using hotkeys or the mouse? I didn't
> try it with the mouse.

I managed to put myself into this wedged state without a
magical weapon by hitting my song hotkeys too quickly. So I'm
sure doing so can unstick you (though I don't know how to do
it consistently). Try hitting your song hotkeys really
quickly for a while.

It's a simple programming issue that's causing the problem.
The client and server get out of synch. The client thinks a
song isn't playing, the server says it is. You try to play a
song, the server says you're already playing. In the opposite
case (what happened to me), you try to stop playing a song,
the server says you're already stopped. They just need to add
something to resynch the client and server.

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John H. Kim
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