Game Mechanics: Fishing up junk

[Dolalin]

From Everquest Express:

When you are new to fishing, all kinds of crazy things happen. I’ve pulled up old sandals, rusty daggers, and even half eaten fish. It takes a while before you can get a sensitive enough feel for the line to be able to pull back fish most of the time. Until you’re at least below average at it, expect the following things:

Moldy sandals, fish scales, and rusty daggers.

Losing your bait to the fish.

Long sequences of throwing our your bait and getting nothing.

Broken poles. This happens 2 or 3 times in the beginning, but I’ve been using the same pole now for about 2 months, so it’s definitely an early risk that goes away.

Potentially the worst thing I’ve seen is this: sometimes, you spill your beer bringing your line back in. Once I had to jump in after it, and it tasted a bit funny after I rescued it from the vasty deep. Thank Brell, I had some backup beers to wash the taste out.

The good thing is that as you get better, you pull back more fish. I’m at the point now when I get a fish every 3 or so tries, and rarely get anything else, or lose my bait.

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