On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, CMai wrote:

> From: CMai <CMai@...>
>
> <snip>
> Try it on yourself. Most of the time you will get the "you
> send forth music" message and icon, but will not be stunned.
> If you wait for the icon to disappear, you will get the "you
> are no longer stunned" message even though you were never
> stunned!
>
> It *is* broken.
> <snip>
>
> it is not broken! I used it in lguk 2 days ago. We were over swarm by 3
> mobs. So I used pixie strike on one of them and he was standing still for

The bug does not happen all the time. If you Strike something
often enough or get lucky on your first try, it *will* work
like it's supposed to. The part that's broke is that about
60%-70% of the time, it will not be resisted, you get the
"glaze" message, and it will have no effect. That's why I
said to try it on yourself - you will see the icon appear on
your screen, and absolutely nothing will happen.

> 10 second then started wacking again. Then I sang pixie again then it stop.
> The thing is you must stop fighting it and back off for the song to work.
> But it seems the duration is very unpredictable but the songs works. I
> also tried it on HG and it works too. When I was in Rathe Mtn, I
> accidentally pull 2 so I pixie on 1 and ran by real fast and it just stood
> there and eventually I lost the HG. it does work but not very reliable.
> You just have to keep doing it.

It is not a random duration thing either. The icon on your
screen disappears when the spell effect expires, whether it's
1 second or 10 seconds. But with the bug, the icon appears on
your screen and you get a message saying "you are unstunned"
when the icon disappears, despite never having been stunned to
begin with.

Try it on yourself before you argue otherwise. I'm not making
this up, I've played with it extensively for the last week or
two. It *is* broken. This used to be my favorite song before
they broke it. I don't even keep it loaded now.

--
John H. Kim
kim@...