On Tue, 5 Oct 1999 Valharick@... wrote:

> kim@... writes:
>
> << I used this song to practice up my brass skill a bit. I
> feared a bunch of snakes, skunks, etc. in Butcherblock and set
> myself on a hill near a goblin camp >>
>
> Everyone seems to think that the only way to practice brass is to have
> something being hit by the effect. I know for a fact that this isnt true. I
> set myself up on the side of a mountain in a newbie zone playing DDD for but
> 4 hours (this was at 18 when it was the first brass song); I gained almost 60
> points in that time even though nothing was being targeted.

Well I wasn't afk during that time, and I certainly wasn't
going to watch myself doing nothing for 4 hours. And because
I played with Screech the way I did instead of leaving my
character playing it overnight in the Arena, I could answer
the question that started this thread. :-)

--
John H. Kim
kim@...