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<b>Message ID:</b> 143 <br/>
<b>Date:</b> Tue Jul 13 18:52:05 BST 1999 <br/>
<b>Author:</b> Aaron Braunstein <br/>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: Feign Death vs. casters and anomolous failures <br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1217531090">At 3:32 AM -0700 7/13/99, Jeffrey Sue wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;Well it&#39;s not a targetted effect, so there is probably a check to see if<br/>
&gt;you performed<br/>
&gt;the skill, and then a check to see whether each monster in the immediate area<br/>
&gt;is fooled.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>	Kind of... and this would fit in with my previous theory.  A<br/>
successfully performed Feign may remove you from any monsters target lists,<br/>
meaning both &#39;current target&#39; and &#39;targetable if I ever get around to it&#39;.<br/>
However, if anything happens to put you back on that list (say, a completed<br/>
blow or spell), then you have to re-feign to try and get yourself out of<br/>
the loop again.  I don&#39;t think that each and every monster performs an<br/>
individual check, that would be way too resource intensive in terms of cpu<br/>
time and would have to be re-executed for each new monster that spawns or<br/>
otherwise nears you.  Besides, when six or seven critters are on you and<br/>
you manage to Feign correctly, they all turn as one and leave.  It&#39;s not<br/>
like four leave, but the other three are still thumping happily away.<br/>
<br/>
--<br/>
Aaron Braunstein<br/>
Pacific Data Management, Inc.<br/>
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