Blue twirly thingy over my head

jerrye · Post by **jerrye** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:01 pm

I am just curious about the little blue twirly things that pop-up over my head after I killed the gladiator in the arena in skuldoon. They look like little orbiting blue comets......don't seem to do anything....just distracting.....Thanks

kathycf · Post by **kathycf** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:56 pm

Odd, I can't say that I have ever noticed anything like that. Does it happen everytime you are in the arena? Did your character get hit over the head? Maybe he or she is seeing stars...

If you have a screenshot of it, I would like to see that. (sorry, I am not too much help on this one...)

P0IS0N · Post by **P0IS0N** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 1:22 am

It happens to me too, sometimes. I don't know exactly why, it's usually when I deal with witches, so I thought it was a spell or something.

kathycf · Post by **kathycf** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:59 am

Mm, that is what I thought at first that jerrye meant when I saw the title of the thread. There is a spell called "Silence" which renders the target unable to cast spells for a short period of time. A witch can cast the spell as well as a player character. That is why you see the swirly thing over the character's head.

It just seemed weird that somebody would see it in the arena because I don't think the minotaur has enough brains to cast a spell.

jerrye · Post by **jerrye** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:23 pm

I will try to capture a image next time

I cannot explain it either....as I remember it happened twice....once when I was in the weaponry and then it happened twice in the arena...both times after I finished off the Gladiator....sorry I don't have anymore information.

P0IS0N · Post by **P0IS0N** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 2:37 pm

I also got it in a deathmatch with one of my friends. I didn't ask him what he did, though

kathycf · Post by **kathycf** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:55 pm

Does the swirley thing look like this?

The snakes have that thing over their heads because we cast "fear" (purple) and "soften" (yellow) on them, both are nether spells. The blue swirly does come from the silence spell which is a celestial one, which I mentioned in my earlier post. If you see it over the character's head in the arena after killing the monster, it might be some weird glitchy thing...and goodness knows the word glitchy surely reminds me of Dungeon Lords!

P0IS0N · Post by **P0IS0N** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 11:49 pm

Yup, that's the swirly thing allright. But I'm still not sure that the blue one is only made by silence.

kathycf · Post by **kathycf** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:42 pm

Did you ever figure out what the swirley thing was jerrye? You have whetted my curiosity...

POISON, if your character is a magic user, your friend might have cast silence on you to prevent you from temporarily casting spells. Or maybe a nether spell, lots of those leave swirleys over the head too. Looks very colorful.

jerrye · Post by **jerrye** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 4:56 pm

blue thingys

No .... Kathycf I never found out what they are.....so ...... I just moved on....since they went away after a short time......grimace

Queen_Articuno · Post by **Queen_Articuno** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:07 pm

yellow swirly

can the yellow swirly have an additional status effect besides soften? bcauz i was fighting some direwitches in FG and i had a yellow swirly above my head and i was sleeping. so can the yellow swirly indicate sleep as well?

Claudius · Post by **Claudius** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 2:28 pm

I never had any idea what that one was (I know what you mean though). I thought that some of them incapacitated me maybe sleep? But I thought some were like curses that lowered my abilities??? I thought of curses since I could still move around and stuff but I figured they weren't helping me.

Slider051870 · Post by **Slider051870** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:02 pm

this is usually cast by the twisted sylph and believe it or not every once in a while a baddie will get into skulldoon via the mountains try running behind the arena when this happens and see if you spot an enemy up on the mountains

she may be stuck in a rut just out of your scoutting range

better yet if you have a crystal of vision turn it on and take a look at the surrounding area skulldoon guards dont attack enemies unless the are somewhere near the road or gates so anything to the sides is fair game

Slider051870 · Post by **Slider051870** » Mon Nov 19, 2007 6:07 pm

oh i almost forgot there is a renegade that cast silence the wylvan renegade i think someone correct me if im wrong and i have many times left feros' shop and found wolf beasts or death widows waiting for me so like i said check your mini map to see if all the enemies are dead he may very welll be right behind the arena and just stuck