Golden Battleaxe rip spell minor bug

[Gardner Denver]

[HP=213]:
Huge Cavern, Training Area
You notice 93 gold crowns, 388 silver nobles, 4 orc-heads here.
Also here: orc fanatic, orc trainee.
Obvious exits: north, south, east, west
The orc fanatic swings at you with their black steel halberd!
The orc fanatic swings at you with their black steel halberd!
The orc trainee swings at you with their longsword!
You slash orc fanatic for 8 damage!
You slash orc fanatic for 24 damage!
You rip orc fanatic wide open!  Notice I ripped the orc....
You critically chop orc fanatic for 85 damage!
The orc fanatic dies gurgling on its own froth.  <-- died
You gain 400 experience.
*Combat Off*
[HP=213]:
Huge Cavern, Training Area
You notice 93 gold crowns, 388 silver nobles, 4 orc-heads here.
Also here: orc trainee.
Obvious exits: north, south, east, west
[HP=213]:a orc trainee
*Combat Engaged*
The orc fanatic dies gurgling on its own froth.  <--  message displayed again, same monster
You chop orc trainee for 14 damage!
You swing at at orc trainee!
You swing at at orc trainee!
The orc trainee swings at you with their longsword!
The orc trainee swings at you with their longsword!
You slash orc trainee for 22 damage!
You slash orc trainee for 23 damage!
You critically slash orc trainee for 95 damage!
1 gold drops to the ground.
The orc trainee falls dead holding its wounds.  <--- died, did not rip him
You gain 200 experience.
*Combat Off*
[HP=218]:
Huge Cavern, Training Area
You notice 94 gold crowns, 388 silver nobles, 4 orc-heads here.
Obvious exits: north, south, east, west
[HP=218]:n
Huge Cavern, Training Area
You notice 15 gold crowns, 46 silver nobles here.
Obvious exits: south, east, west

no extra message when not "ripped"

There isn't double exp, only the death message displays twice if the monster dies while "ripped"

[The Crazy Animal]

I'm just going to laugh at that... :)

[Gardner Denver]

Well I thought it was funny also, but today Russel discovered a not so funny side effect.  When the death message spawns a mob, double death messages spawn double mobs.

He suddenly found himself hip deep in gibbering horrors out in the ruins today...

Kill the big one, 2 normally pop out, he got 4.  Kill one of those, 3 small ones pop out, he got 6.  So I'm going to bump up my vote on the priority on this one to 5 stars.

[The Crazy Animal]

Well I thought it was funny also, but today Russel discovered a not so funny side effect.  When the death message spawns a mob, double death messages spawn double mobs.

He suddenly found himself hip deep in gibbering horrors out in the ruins today...

Kill the big one, 2 normally pop out, he got 4.  Kill one of those, 3 small ones pop out, he got 6.  So I'm going to bump up my vote on the priority on this one to 5 stars.

Interesting... This must be effects from the new DOT code that got them working some what right on mobs...

[MudHunter]

It sucked bad. Like a hooker with sharp teeth. My votes 5, too

[Gardner Denver]

This may or may not be related to the DOT spell issue but saw this for the first time today:
Huge Cavern, Training Area
You notice 1 gold crown, 327 silver nobles, 2 orc-heads here.
Also here: orc trainee.
Obvious exits: north, south, east, west
[HP=287]:a orc trainee
*Combat Engaged*
You hack orc trainee for 17 damage!
You hack orc trainee for 12 damage!
You chop orc trainee for 15 damage!
You hack orc trainee for 22 damage!
The orc trainee swings at you with their longsword!
The orc trainee swings at you with their longsword!
You chop orc trainee for 13 damage!
You rip orc trainee wide open!  <-- The rip killed him?
2 gold drop to the ground.
The orc trainee falls dead holding its wounds.
You gain 200 experience.
*Combat Off*
You chop orc trainee for 16 damage!
The orc trainee falls dead holding its wounds.
[HP=287]:
Huge Cavern, Training Area
You notice 3 gold crowns, 327 silver nobles, 2 orc-heads here.
Obvious exits: north, south, east, west

The rip killed him, I got the exp, but still had to hit him one final time.  Notice also that the game said *combat off* after the 1st death, and I hit him without having to engage combat again.

[MudHunter]

At least in majormud, the rip itself does actual damage. I think I remember 8 damage, plus the hp ticker afterwards.

In greatermud, this is what I have noticed, using the blackwood staff for so long:

Monsters that die via a spell on a weapon, when the actual spell damage is what uts them to 0 or - hps, get mortally wounded. They then hafta get to -31 hps to die. (Which is the current death setting, I think)

If they are killed by the weapon's actual attack, they die at 0 hps. But you still get the second dealth spell. Even if the spell is a damage spell like blackwood and not a rip.

I think. I may be completly wrong, but this is the mechanics of what I've noticed. I havent osted about it, but I have shown and explained it to vitoc...

[MudHunter]

Wait. I believe that I was wrong. you dont hafta get em to -31 hps. I believe you just hafta hit em again with a reg weapon hit. There's an issue with checking for dead when the damage comes from an effect.....

[Gardner Denver]

Today I got a 3 for 1 death....

You hack orc warrior for 21 damage!
You hack orc warrior for 18 damage!
You hack orc warrior for 12 damage!
You rip orc warrior wide open!
3 gold drop to the ground.
5 silver drop to the ground.
The orc warrior slips in his own blood, and falls dead.
You gain 275 experience.
*Combat Off*
You hack orc warrior for 9 damage!
The orc warrior slips in his own blood, and falls dead.
The orc warrior slips in his own blood, and falls dead.
[HP=290]:

[The Crazy Animal]

Wait. I believe that I was wrong. you dont hafta get em to -31 hps. I believe you just hafta hit em again with a reg weapon hit. There's an issue with checking for dead when the damage comes from an effect.....

Its very possible there could be multiply little bugs contributing to this effect.

[Gardner Denver]

The double DOT death msgs seems to be fixed.  Kudos Vitoc :)