Game Mechanics: Preserved Chodaki Vocal Cords - Improper mechanic

[Rygar]

https://web.archive.org/web/20000119.../howto/97.html
This seems to say voice graft no longer worked on NPCs mid Sept 1999 era. Has some other details of an echo effect you used to see prior to patch on your screen only, but was later removed:

I like the spell for the times when you have to take a break from fighting and to make some Jokes.
- Cast spell on Pet
- Select Pet (either manually or hit F1 twice)
- type /say ........
You will see a screen like this:

You say "Look at me. I'm a skinny one"
Gobann00 said "Look at me. I'm a skinny one"

But everyone else only sees this:
Gobann00 said "Look at me. I'm a skinny one"

So it only works when you select your Pet first =)

5 . "Voice doesn't seem to work anymore post-patch"
Posted by Diabolus on Sep-16-99 at 03:10 PM (EST)
Cannot make mobs talk. Works fine with MY pet. Other pets, mobs, NPC's etc. do not talk any longer. You no longer see the "echo" effect also so they did something to it. But now it's no fun.

[Rygar]

So interesting here, but NPCs saw pets as indifferent, so apparently voice graft allowed you to get quest text from NPCs when hailing through pet. You could apparently even get items from the quest to your pet.

This would require much greater research / corroboration, but apparently the beg skill could be used to get items back from your pet as long as they weren't no-drop

https://web.archive.org/web/20051216...php/t-236.html

This link is from Dolalin's engine, the page doesn't load but preview text does

03-30-2002, 03:33 AM

I recently just got sentient axe and was having so much fun messing around in freeport. Other than being able to talk from your pet, is there any other good use for voice grafting? I read from another forum that you can do certain quests with it since pets are indifferent some npc's.

03-30-2002, 04:02 AM

I've yet to teach Jobeker what it means to give items back to me or to anyone else, so even if he has better faction than I, I don't see how he can do a quest for me, even if he can get the dialog. I can't think of any quests that can be completed verbally without some sort of item transfer.

By all means, if somebody can cite examples of using a pet in this manner, I'm all blue pointed ears.

As for pets giving stuff back, if it's not No-Drop, /beg will get the items back off your pet. Next time your medding and bored give him some cp, or a wep and /beg it back.

velourea

03-30-2002, 06:11 PM

begging gets your stuff back? wow, i wish i would have known that when i accidently gave jibober that ebon razor... (stupid icon graphic)

Ronoh

04-01-2002, 10:43 AM

Yes, the pet begging tip was from me. I've tested it and it does work, though it is tedious.

If your Cha is below 100, you have less than a 1% chance per beg to get items back (or so my findings went). If you have cha at 100, it jumps up to (roughly) 5% chance per beg. Of course the higher your Cha, the higher the percentage will be to get your item back from pet.

This was tested at a begging skill of 200. All the times prior to having begging at 200 resulted in nothing being begged back. But then again, I never had my Cha over 100 during those times either, so you might be able to get items back prior to a 200 skill level if you have very high Cha to compensate the lower skill level.

I have tested it by handing pet a tradeable weapon and someone else with high Cha and high begging skill, and they were able to beg the item from pet.