The scaly beast is not instantly affected by poison. While not affected by it yet, he is enraged. It's not a bug. It's no use complaining because it's not a bug and it has ALWAYS been this way. Yes, there is info telling you that it is this way, though I accept that some people may not be familiar with it.

It might be handy to actually edit down the log. Just because you have pruned the text won't immediately make people suspect you are distorting the truth. No-one wants to read irrelevant text like narrates and inventory. I might be wrong though, maybe people on mume.net like logs like this.

ERM thiondash not to say anything but you have to wait 1 (or 2 tics) to let him be poisoned, I thought an player like you should know that. *chuckle*

yep, gotta wait for poison to take effect

It might be handy to actually edit down the log. Just because you have pruned the text won't immediately make people suspect you are distorting the truth. No-one wants to read irrelevant text like narrates and inventory. I might be wrong though, maybe people on mume.net like logs like this.

Btw why people call me a newbie I read funny stuff at mume.net from players who are supposed to be experienced *stare*

From what I know, beast starts this dt-procedure when it's hps are <= wounded and when it engages a fight, not when he is enraged.
Drake-slumber lore says the poison will debilitate even a very powerful beast. It doesn't says anything about the need to wait 60 or more minutes (rl seconds) or anything similar.
Time between poisoning the beast and attacking it was some 15-30 seconds. It took some more time till Margret died.
And regarding the statement: "it has ALWAYS been this way" - There has ALWAYS been bugs in MUME.

First sentence fix: From what I know, beast starts this dt-procedure when it's hps are below wounded and when it is engaged.

It's true that there are bugs. However this particular thing you are complaining about is a very well documented feature.

If its so well documented feature, tell me why all commonly used poisons - ARACHNIA, VENOM and PSYLONIA have immediate effect on the victim?
And please tell me where its so very well documented also.

I'm afraid it's your problem if you don't know where it is documented and if none of your or other people's previous experiences taught you how it worked.

Even I knew that. Thiondash, Drake Slumber isn't a 'commonly used poison' like arachnia, venom, psylonia. How many times have you seen Drake Slumber used on a player? It is well documented in that most people that so Scaly know that you have to wait a tick before the poison starts working. The same way that people know that he can DT you. Things like that aren't written down, you have to learn from experience or have someone tell you. :P

Fuck you Nienor, it is not documented, you are so full of shit!

Fuck you unknown, it is documented, you are so full of shit!

And btw, if you noticed that Scaly was going through his DT routine why did you keep fighting?

I kept following it. Thats the way you can't die to dt, problem was that beast ended incap instead of dead (which is why i didnt lead margret out).
And arguments like "experienced players know that" are bullshit. All of those experienced players don't know for sure, unless they have V+ friend who tells them, which I don't.
Bug that is well known to some experienced players is still a bug. If it is supposed to wait for poison to take effect, could we PLEASE get notified WHEN it took effect?
Since we don't get any message about that, I thought it was not needed to wait several ticks. Would you wait several rl hours after poisoning your prey before u would actually attack?
How can we be sure that the poison doesn't wear off in few ticks? Guess we have to dt some.

I don't have a V+ friend I have some other friends on mume who are not asslickers so they tell me stuff without trying to get better from it themselves.

pukes die!

pukes die!

once I dt'd as folko after I poisoned Beast. I got no reimb too (I didnt dare to ask tho)

Btw it is a special brew to sleep very powerful beasts u cannot compare it to stuff like arachnia *chuckle*

kinda logical that a huge beast aint immedately affected by a kind of poison.... xcuse my fucked up language =p... although i agree with thiondash that a msg when he's poisoned would be nice, like "you hear a loud crie from inside the caves" or WHATever.....

Just check time, its a slumber lore so if u think logical, you would not hear crie or so. If you take some pills to sleep better u don't crie or whatever, U just get sleepy after some time, others see it easily if they in room but they don't hear strange sounds if you get sleepy =P

pukes die!

Stop calling me a bug!!!

Fuck you Feature!

Its like thinks in ms windows, some call it feature some call it bug .. ;)

Edvard, 40 rl seconds is 40 mume minutes. So it takes more than 40 minutes till the poison starts working. Well maybe if it ticked right after it devoured the flask, all would be fine. Who knows?

Just wait one single tick like everybody else does and you will be fine. Is that so hard? Geez.

actually the scaly beast only starts his dt muddle when he gets casted on on wounded, being hit phsically doesnt trigger it

Fuck both of you!

Bulldozer, check the log again? He starts his DT mudlle before any spells go through.

Though that was on lower hps...

I felt sorry for the poor beast :(. Couldn't we let orcs feed it every once in a while, so that the poor creature would stop devouring all the shit pukes throw at him, like some damn kids in Zoo :(?

Take a few and call me in the morning. Smobs are dangerous and unpredictable in general. Honorable of several high gods to comment on it in a friendly way trying to help.

The scaly beast roars in anger, and spits out most of the foul mixture, as it realizes its mistake.

It saved.
Cele, 21, 6% The scaly beast

That ain't a safe, that is what he usually does. He spits out most, not all, so it takes a while, and he doesn't really fall asleep.