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A deer mask as loot... a bug?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:46 pm
by Hale
I happened to be in the bottom of Deceit during a respawn earlier today, when something spawned on me that I thought was a slime, but what later turned out to be a doppleganger. Me and my dragon took it down pretty fast, so it didn't have time to change shape.

I then went over to check the loot on it, and was quite surprised to find a deer mask and a druid staff on it. I thought that the masks can only be found at the AG. My first thought was that someone had died there and lost their staff and mask, but the items were not .owned, and the druid staff was brown (looked like a gnarled), not green like they usually are. Besides, I had just seen the creature spawn, so there's no way it could have looted anyone.

So I'm pretty sure this is a bug, resulting propably from me killing the dopple before it could change shape. Or are dopples meant to drop masks? And if it's a bug, should I just trash the mask?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 6:50 pm
by Wolfie
Sounds like a bug to me. Especially since those masks cost so many tickets, they wouldnt become a drop. But I'd hang onto the mask until I heard from staff about it.

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:50 pm
by Azzo Ranar
Is it a "mask claim deed" or a "deer mask" looking like a set of antlers and a bit of snit attatched?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:12 pm
by Hale
Azzo Ranar wrote:Is it a "mask claim deed" or a "deer mask" looking like a set of antlers and a bit of snit attatched?


It's a deer mask... Not a deed or anything, but a wearable mask

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:44 pm
by Atei
And a brown druid staff? No way I would trash those, they sound pretty special. :D

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:47 pm
by Drocket
Well, that is rather strange... Especially the brown druid staff. Dopplegangers only copy other players, and items that that player has, and I don't know if I've seen a brown druid staff... I'm not sure if it would work anyway, though, since dopplegangers tend to make 'cheap' copies of items (it may, though.) The mask should be OK, though.

I guess I'd just have to say, 'congratulations on your find' :)

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:01 pm
by Xanola Remings
is it possible that he killed it as it changed shape, but before it newbiefied those items (or recolored the staff)?

Re: A deer mask as loot... a bug?

PostPosted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:08 pm
by ShadowStone
This exact same thing happened to me Drocket, about 1 and a half years ago. I think it might have also been a dopple. Who knows, my memory is shot from studying :(

PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:24 am
by Azzo Ranar
I am almost positive that's how I got mine also.

PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 12:24 am
by Azzo Ranar
By the way, we are ranked #8 right now lol!!

PostPosted: Tue Mar 30, 2004 3:42 am
by Joram Lionheart
It's happened to me too (probably about 5-6 months ago). I thought it rather strange that someone had forgotten to .own his/her deer mask but never really bothered to search for an owner. I guess now I know I didn't really have to.

PostPosted: Tue Jun 15, 2004 4:42 pm
by Wolfie
*digs post up from its grave*
Just happened to me and it definitely came off a slime that was a doppleganger.