Let's talk missing kids!

[Tgo01]

So, missing kids! What's the deal? Am I right?

No but seriously. I thought missing kids only followed you to a new room if all critters in the current room are dead. Or are the kids considered your level and they ignore critters that are 10+ levels lower than them and only won't follow you for like level critters?

[Orthin]

So, missing kids! What's the deal? Am I right?

No but seriously. I thought missing kids only followed you to a new room if all critters in the current room are dead. Or are the kids considered your level and they ignore critters that are 10+ levels lower than them and only won't follow you for like level critters?

That is only for official escorts. Kids will follow you from room to room no matter what, stupid kids

[Gelston]

I thought this was going to be a different kind of post and didn't notice it was in a GS topic.

[Tgo01]

That is only for official escorts. Kids will follow you from room to room no matter what, stupid kids

Interesting. Is it generally safer to kill critters though? Or do critters pretty much never target kids even if they are left alone in a room for a second or two?

[Orthin]

Interesting. Is it generally safer to kill critters though? Or do critters pretty much never target kids even if they are left alone in a room for a second or two?

I would definitely do something (sanct, stun, kill). I tend to get unlucky and they bonk my kid. Oddly enough if I miss the initial spawn of the kid the mobs tend to be nice until the moment I come back.

[Lavastene]

I have only once ever had a kid die from a critter. I was walking one back from Ruined Tower and a Moor Eagle decided to pick him up and drop him.

[Viekn]

I'm a Bard. Child2 (the child rescue script) automatically uses 1005 (Lullabye) to sleep critters before automatically proceeding. I don't know if there's a level cutoff or a my level minus critter level adjustment, I don't remember. But Ego2 (the citizen escort script), never does that. On the way to Solhaven, I have to fight or manually sleep every damn lesser orc, greater orc, or forest troll along the way. Is that because bandits show up for citizen escorts and not child rescues? It would be nice if Ego2 recognized the difference between a lesser orc and a bandit and just slept the orcs. And this comment is more to do with citizen escorts than children (just because I haven't had to use this with children), but why doesn't song of peace work with escorts? Once I tried using song of peace during an escort bounty and the escort just refused to follow me if I was singing that song. I guess it would be too OP to simply be able to skip the bandits that show up on escort bounties using song of peace? Semis/Pures are already gimped in comparison to squares when it comes to bandits, we should be able to use whatever guile's we have against them.

[Tgo01]

I'm a Bard. Child2 (the child rescue script) automatically uses 1005 (Lullabye) to sleep critters before automatically proceeding. I don't know if there's a level cutoff or a my level minus critter level adjustment, I don't remember. But Ego2 (the citizen escort script), never does that. On the way to Solhaven, I have to fight or manually sleep every damn lesser orc, greater orc, or forest troll along the way. Is that because bandits show up for citizen escorts and not child rescues? It would be nice if Ego2 recognized the difference between a lesser orc and a bandit and just slept the orcs. And this comment is more to do with citizen escorts than children (just because I haven't had to use this with children), but why doesn't song of peace work with escorts? Once I tried using song of peace during an escort bounty and the escort just refused to follow me if I was singing that song. I guess it would be too OP to simply be able to skip the bandits that show up on escort bounties using song of peace? Semis/Pures are already gimped in comparison to squares when it comes to bandits, we should be able to use whatever guile's we have against them.

Yeah they probably made it so you can’t just keep song of peace up to bypass all the bandits for escorts. Does minor sanctuary 213 work?

[Orthin]

Yeah they probably made it so you can’t just keep song of peace up to bypass all the bandits for escorts. Does minor sanctuary 213 work?

My guess is the escorts are looking for a target to be incapacitated. Since 213 and song of peace just sanct the room and don’t change the status of the mobs the escort won’t continue.

[Tgo01]

My guess is the escorts are looking for a target to be incapacitated. Since 213 and song of peace just sanct the room and don’t change the status of the mobs the escort won’t continue.

That makes sense.

[gilchristr]

Those are kids? Mind blown, I always thought I was rescuing gnomes

[Gelston]

Those are kids? Mind blown, I always thought I was rescuing gnomes

Murder all gnomes.