Sorry that I haven't responded to this sooner, I was released from the hospital late this afternoon and haven't been able to get online for several days.<br/><br/>I don't want to turn this into an argument, or a fight. I hate PVP in any form because this is suppose to be cooperative. None of my PC's will ever attack another PC. If it actually comes to that, I'll back out rather than ruin the game for someone else.<br/><br/>The way that the post was written, or the implication of the way that I read the post, Drip cast while Natasha was talking, stopping her from from explaining her talents, that Drip dismissed. Her resulting action, the embrace and dagger, was not an offensive action, but a means to attempt to make Drip drop the spell; nothing more. I agree that things were getting out of hand and I apologize for the post. Up until this exchange, Natahsa saw it as , well, not harmless, but good natured ribbing. It should not of gotten to this point.<br/><br/>In response to the area of effect and the bar room. No, the spell would not of covered the entire bar, and I didn't intend to imply that it would cover the<em>entire</em>bar. It would, however, cover a 20 foot circle around Natasha and that, unless Drip and Natasha were all alone on one end of the room that the spell would not effect a sizable portion of the room; NPC's and PC's would of been effected... and wasting a 2nd level spell on that piddly of a reason??<br/><br/>q As Natasha was clearly the target and she wasn't shouting from 30 feet away, and as far as I know, you can't turn a circle into oval, Drip got caught up in it. If he had targeted the spell on another target, then he didn't state another target.<br/><br/>I'll edit the post, assuming that things haven't progressed to far beyonfd it, and remove the dagger. It was a step too far.