Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or not?


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Slime Squisher

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Post Tuesday, 19th July 2016, 06:04

Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or not?

When you slimify a summoner, his summons remain hostile towards you. The jelly produced during the process is neutral, but does it mean that summons should remain hostile or at least they should become neutral too?

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Post Tuesday, 19th July 2016, 19:34

Re: Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or n

I think the summons should disappear, as if you had banished the summoner.

Currently neither slimify nor successful polymorph will cause summons to time out. Not sure if this is a bug or an intentional feature, but it seems to me that either of these effects should unsummon any allies created by the enemy.

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Post Tuesday, 19th July 2016, 19:36

Re: Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or n

I'm not so sure about polymorph, but slimify or banish definitely should. I mean, if you polymorph the summoner you can still kill them, if you slime them you really can't without getting in trouble.
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Post Tuesday, 19th July 2016, 19:52

Re: Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or n

Also an orc turning friendly if you're a beogh follower, which can be messy with orc high priests/sorcerers.

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Post Wednesday, 20th July 2016, 02:59

Re: Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or n

With polymorph if should depend on whether the new form has the INT to maintain a summon spell.

edit.> Actually no it wouldn't because poly doesn't affect the mind, only the body. So I think slimify should end summons, but polymorph should stay as it is.

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Post Wednesday, 20th July 2016, 03:39

Re: Slimifying a summoner should abjure hostile summons or n

Summons should agree with summoner's mood, at least.

Interesting thought: what if imp is angered? Orcish wizard angered, or abjure?
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