Dangers of mountable flying pets ><

Minette · **Joined:** Sat Jul 16, 2005 7:50 pm **Posts:** 1798

Here's what happened: A companion and myself were visiting sites for pilgrimage. We came upon Marfik's spot, in the sky, did that, and recalled from there. At the time my character was mounted on a flying young dragon, self-propelled.

Edited to not reveal IC info wrote:

The Corner of the Sky
Floating improbably in the midst of the sky is a clump of
earth, about five by five feet, looking something like a
* half-sphere. Bits of dirt and pebbles fall from it occasionally,
plummeting down into the void. In the center of the patch of
earth is a stone with an inscription written on it. It's clear,
very, very hot, and calm.
Obvious exits: s w sw
(Charmed) A young white dragon is flying here mounted by you.
Bunny is here flying on a silver-winged pegasus.

' 100% ' 100% ' 97% '
You gaze out into the vast Realms of Chaos.
You feel the touch of Marfik on your soul.

' 100% ' 100% ' 97% '

Bunny gazes out into the vast Realms of Chaos.

' 100% ' 100% ' 97% '
You say 'neat'

' 100% ' 100% ' 97% '

Bunny asks 'time to recall?'

' 100% ' 100% ' 96% '
You say to Bunny 'are we goin to recall'

' 100% ' 100% ' 96% '

oOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOo
o [Affects] Me. o
o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
o Affect: 'detect hidden' o
o Affect: 'detect invis' o
oOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOo

' 100% ' 100% ' 96% '

Bunny starts to concentrate.

' 100% ' 100% ' 100% '

Bunny utters the words, 'xafe ay candusqarr'.
Bunny disappears.
A silver-winged pegasus disappears.

' 100% ' 100% ' 100% '
You tell the group 'anyone there'

' 100% ' 99% ' 100% '

Bunny tells the group 'oope'

' 100% ' 99% ' 100% '

Group: !
(11:F1) [------------] (12:F2) [ Me] (13:F3) [------------]
(21:M1) [------------] (22:M2) [------------] (23:M3) [------------]
(31:B1) [------------] (32:B2) [------------] (33:B3) [------------]
Characters Rank Pos In room Follow HP ME PE
Me Leader 12:F2 Yes No 100% 99% 100%
A young white dragon Member ??:?? Yes Yes 100% 100% 100%
Bunny Member ??:?? No No 96% 34% 65%
A silver-winged pegasus Member ??:?? No No 80% 100% 61%

' 100% ' 97% ' 100% '

Your stance is now neutral.

' 100% ' 92% ' 100% '

You dismount from a young white dragon.
You plummet to your death!
Your equipment is scattered beyond retrieval.
You have been KILLED!!

A young white dragon stops following you.
You no longer see invisible objects.
You feel less aware of your surroundings.

A circle of stones
rvv/---/f Not far from the city of Teron, this small clearing is home
rv/yyyyff to the renowned portal stones, of which several scatter the
#--*yyyF realms. Brave souls have been known to utilize the arcane power
#rryyyyFf that is bound to the stones, travelling to far lands in the blink
|yprrrrrf of an eye. A path leads west through the fields, directly to the
city gate. It's partly cloudy, cold, and calm.
Obvious exits: n e s w nw ne sw se portal rift
(Glowing) A mystical aquamarine portal flickers in the midst of the stones.
A magical rift is glowing violently in the mid-air.
A set of rune-inscribed stones frame the center of the clearing here.
Bunny is here flying on a silver-winged pegasus.

' 100% ' 125% ' 67% '
You soar southwest.

Thistle Fields
vrv/yyyyf A field of lush green grass has grown up in this spot, marked
# #--?yyy here and there by thistles and heather. Occasionally one can spy
y#rr*yyyF a bird's nest hidden in the fields or a gopher hole. It's
p|yprrrrr partly cloudy, cold, and calm.
/p\-----=
Obvious exits: n e s w nw ne sw se
( 2) A scrumptious looking steak is here.
A very ornately detailed statuette of a heron is here.

' 100% ' 125% ' 66% '

The wind changes and begins blowing from the northwest.

' 100% ' 100% ' 88% '

It is noon.

' 100% ' 100% ' 88% '
You can't do that. You are dead.

' 100% ' 100% ' 88% '
You can't do that. You are dead.

My first thought was someone pulled a quick cleave/backstab on me at the portal stones, but then I looked carefully and that's not what happened. As you can see, I died recalling while mounted on a flying pet. It went from: Mounted flying --> recall command --> dismount in the sky --> therefore plummet to death --> ghost recalled.

The recall command was typed in after setting stance to neutral. I don't play with command echoes so it doesn't show in my logs. Is this a bug? If it is not a bug, can we have some kind of safeguard against this kind of thing happening? If not, may this post serve as a warning to future adventurers.

(I forgot to test whether if a ghost can recall but from fuzzy memory I think it would say, "You can't do that. You are dead.")

Achernar · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2008 3:14 am

I think that's a bug. I'm sure we can fix the code issue. My sincere apology for the error.

Gremlin24 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:00 am

I think the actual problem here is that you regular recalled. I know that doesn't help the fact that you died, but the fact that you can't take your pet with you is what caused you to dismount before being transferred. I'll be interested in seeing whether or not they can "fix" this in order to make you able to recall while mounted. Until then, you should try to use word of recall or move away from such areas before recalling.

sleeper · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:40 am

Gremlin24 wrote:

I think the actual problem here is that you regular recalled. I know that doesn't help the fact that you died, but the fact that you can't take your pet with you is what caused you to dismount before being transferred. I'll be interested in seeing whether or not they can "fix" this in order to make you able to recall while mounted. Until then, you should try to use word of recall or move away from such areas before recalling.

The regular recall should act like a dismount + recall, so only a fraction of the characters HP should have been affected.

sleeper

ObjectivistActivist · **Posted:** Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:07 am

sleeper wrote:

Gremlin24 wrote:

I think the actual problem here is that you regular recalled. I know that doesn't help the fact that you died, but the fact that you can't take your pet with you is what caused you to dismount before being transferred. I'll be interested in seeing whether or not they can "fix" this in order to make you able to recall while mounted. Until then, you should try to use word of recall or move away from such areas before recalling.

The regular recall should act like a dismount + recall, so only a fraction of the characters HP should have been affected.

sleeper

It did. In that order.

Malhavoc · **Joined:** Sat Oct 01, 2005 11:32 pm **Posts:** 424

And in this case sky>Min. Though I don't think you should have to dismount to recall myself. I think that it should have recalled and then dropped her for the damage because the pet didn't come.

Enishi · **Joined:** Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:05 pm **Posts:** 769

Oh man... owned.

Cyra · **Joined:** Sat Aug 24, 2002 6:56 am **Posts:** 1858

Yeah, Bunny got owned.

I approve of this log.

TehResren · **Joined:** Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:55 pm **Posts:** 206

Ah, I remember when I played Tulthius...Xvasiar and I went to see the shrine of marfik off the edge of the world....same thing happened to him..it was pretty funny...goood times

Lirimaer_Elda · **Joined:** Mon Jan 23, 2006 3:19 pm **Posts:** 562

Same quest...

One of the NPCs charmed two of us and we were riding wolves that had flight spells cast on them. When the NPC moved and took us with it, our mounts no longer followed us for some reason. We were forced to dismount and we fell to our death.

I guess it could be that the group was disband so they no longer were following us? But that still does not make too much sense. :-?

It makes for very sad people and Marfik being a big killer!

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