Evil Eye in East Karana

[talian21]

I killed the Evil Eye, and the text I got was:

"a gas spore explodes releasing infectious spores!"

I think it's supposed to say "An Evil Eye explodes, etc....

and be capitalized first word

[Sunderfury]

Some research shows gas spores can mascarade as evil eyes.
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=155&p=2#comments
Oct 25 2001
There are two types of 'Evil Eyes' or rather mobs with the 'Evil Eye' Graphic.

1- Your standard Evil Eye, and Enchanter (unless in Runnyeye, then they are Wizards) and WILL charm you at any oppotunity. From experience they will usually try to hit you with a blindness spell, if that happens, don't panic, if you are a caster, nuke it using your ALT+(spell number) to nuke it, if you are a melee, if you are too far away from the evil eye to remember its approximate location, just run off and type /loc, just in case you die, when you return to your bind point and the screen clears at least you will see your location. Anyway, never bother with the pet first, just lay the smack down onto the EE and if you can fear, just fear the pet away, when fear breaks and it realises it's master is dead, the pet will suicide. Might as well, since you get almost 0 exp from killing pets.

2- Gas Spores that look like Evil Eyes. These you can tell are fakes, because they will NOT have a pet with them. If you are in an outdoor zone, and have no pet it is a Gas Spore, indoors the Evil Eyes are usually wizards, so they have no pets to check this with. If you see an EE outdoors without a pet, Shoot it with an arrow or throw something at it, or blast it with a spell or something, but stand a distance away, when these die, they realise an invisible AOE spell of Infectious Spores. I'm not sure but i think it is a 6hp/tick over 20 ticks. I don't have EQcaster.exe to counter check this, maybe i will in the future. or not. But sometimes the Gas Spore is much more deadly that the EE, as the EE's spells can be resisted with enough Magic Resist, and usually no one will think to buff their Disease Resist when fighting an 'Evil Eye', and 90% of the time you will NOT resist the disease spell.

Gas Spores also do not drop anything.

Take care adventurers.

Seems like it was D&D thing prior to EQ. I didn't find the death emote, but my guess is Telin knows a lot of classic quirk messages like this.