Bard/Concentration/Spirit Disorientation

Lagelli · **Posted:** Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:44 pm

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 [HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> sing tru
You can't concentrate enough.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> st
You stop resting, and stand up.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
sing tru
You begin to sing.
You sing: Heed the words of this song, ye who ail,

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> aff
 oOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOo
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o Affect: 'songs of healing'                                                o
 oOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOo
You sing: Let their powers sooth and relieve you without fail.  

[HP:100%] [ME: 99%] [PE:100%]
> att

  o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o       STR: Weak               INT: Brilliant          WIS: Wise           o
 o       DEX: Nimble             CON: Healthy            CHA: Influential    o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o Carrying capacity: 16 items with a maximum weight of 147.0 pounds.        o
 oOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOo

[HP:100%] [ME: 99%] [PE:100%]
> dance
You can't concentrate enough to dance.
You sing: Though wounds cut deep and poisons may afflict,

[HP:100%] [ME: 98%] [PE:100%]
> dance
You can't concentrate enough to dance.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> quit
You stop singing.
Alas, all good things must come to an end.
Connection has ended.
Connecting to mud.shatteredkingdoms.org...
Connected.
Welcome to Shattered Kingdoms.

A Plush Sitting Room
  You are in a large, plush room, filled with comfortable chairs,
bookshelves, and tapestries.  It seems very much out of place in
this dark, underground place.
Obvious exits: e
     The corpse of a half-elf is lying here.
An imprisoned elf is here.
Guy is sleeping here.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> sing tru
You begin to sing.
You sing: Heed the words of this song, ye who ail,

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]
> dance
You begin to shake your groove thing.

[HP:100%] [ME:100%] [PE:100%]

I died recently and couldn't sing and dance/rest at the same time while spirit disorientation affected me. Spirit disorientation lowered my int to smart if that helps at all.

Vermilion · **Joined:** Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:04 pm **Posts:** 76

Just log out and back in, intimidation does the same [REDACTED] to my hellion, gets to the point where I can't even dominate anything. Though a reconnect fixes the problem as a certain Admin won't.

YorikP.Pazu · **Joined:** Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:57 am **Posts:** 320

No, its something to do with spirit disorientation. A single one and my bard is reduced to only being able to sing and dance protection and healing songs... and thats with several int mods. Without them he can barely sing anything.

The effect doesnt seam to be too cumulative tho, four or five disorentations and I was still able to sing and dance the same songs. Altho the ones I could concentrate on to sing did drop steadily.

Dulrik · **Posted:** Wed Oct 20, 2004 12:49 pm

While spirit disorientation can certainly reduce your concentration, the actual problem described here is unrelated to it. I've never been able to pin down exactly when the concentration gets hosed up. If you'd like to post your theories here, and/or logs with supporting evidence, I'd be happy to entertain them.

Vermilion · **Joined:** Wed Aug 04, 2004 5:04 pm **Posts:** 76

Dulrik wrote:

While spirit disorientation can certainly reduce your concentration, the actual problem described here is unrelated to it. I've never been able to pin down exactly when the concentration gets hosed up. If you'd like to post your theories here, and/or logs with supporting evidence, I'd be happy to entertain them.

It seems to get hosed up once I intimidate something and kill it while it's still under the affect as it doesn't release when me or an ally initiates the attack. Apparently it doesn't seem to make a check once the creature is dead and removes it from the release list without fixing the concentration change. But just out of curiousity, why does it take concentration to intimidate something, if they are scared of you, they are scared of you not like you're making some mental link to their brain invoking it, and even if it's a god's unholy aura invoking it, it's has nothing to do with your brain at all.

Sysulan · **Joined:** Sun Sep 12, 2004 4:50 pm **Posts:** 37

Not true. You have to keep an eye on somebody you've intimidated - shoot them an occasional glare, continue to be generally threatening to them - otherwise they might just gather their courage and stab you.

Personally, I've found my bard unable to maintain Songs of Death and fight at the same time, though I have no idea whether this is a bug or intentional.

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