Wow odd a ranger friend has gotten up to 7pp begging.

Naeeldar

-----Original Message-----
From: kim@... <kim@...>
To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 8:40 AM
Subject: [eqbards] Begging again

>From: <kim@...>
>
>I hit 40 begging skill over the weekend and the difference is
>like night and day. Whereas with a skill of 39 I'd have to
>beg 5 or 10 times for each success (targeting amiable paladin
>guards in North Freeport), at 40 skill I'm succeeding more
>than half the time. The success rate still stinks with the
>dubious militia guards in West Freeport though.
>
>I still get 1 cp per successful beg. I've had one paladin
>give me 1 sp, but that's it. All my other successes have
>yielded only 1 cp. My guildmates are complaining that I'm
>giving the guild a bad reputation by begging around the bank
>so much. :-)
>
>I estimate I've successfully begged close to two hundred times
>(I dumped something like 35 practice points into the skill),
>and the paladins are still amiable to me. I once begged from
>one paladin nonstop for half an hour, and he never got upset
>or attacked me. The dubious milita has not attacked me
>either. I did beg from the dubious S. Ro dark elf merchants
>and they got upset and attacked me. Fortunately, it was a
>drive-by beg (target them from a distance, run by at full
>speed with Accelerando and a drum, and hit beg just as I pass)
>so they didn't even hit me.
>
>"How DARE you beg from me!" :-)
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
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with the subject lol.

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