The solo Jester run again...

My two jesters at the moment are both sitting in Ruida's at L52; I rotate all my supporting characters in and do four levels at a time with each, so I'm most of the way through taking the entirety of the squad of 14 from L48 to L52, and I'm going to catch up these four additional characters we've discussed on your solo cleric thread one at a time. The reason it's the squad of 14 when I have 19 characters before the four last ones is that hero is L99 and has been for some time, and the four thieves are all somewhat higher.

I can tell you that the self-paralysis dosn't end at L40. I've thought about that interlude in my thread when LoveSheep showed up for a while then disappeared again, too, and occasionally wondered just how weird it gets. Into the 40s and even 50s they definitely still self-paralyze, just not as often because other things keep getting added. I wonder if it's just a continually additive thing where as the pool of possible antics grows, all the previous ones stay possible just at constantly shrinking odds, or if any of the previous ones do get retired for good. Once in a while, they also still just gawk at the scene, and fall over and self-sleep without the paralysis, which both started earlier than the self-paralysis did.

Some of the most recently added antics include them doing a puff-puff massage on enemies with any of a few different effects, them "thinking lewd toughts and drooling", which just eats that turn but has no other effect, them lighting some paper on fire and throwing it at the enemy, which does generally around 70 damage, them taking a drink of booze and getting sick which eats that turn then the next turn they're still sick, them sneezing which surprises everybody including the enemies and causes everybody to miss the next turn including the enemies. I've seen a new thing once, so perhaps it's the level 51 or 52 thing, where it seemed to have the effect of raising all allies' agility to max, but what he actually did to do that went by so fast I couldn't clearly see it. I have my text speed at 2, I think, maybe 3, so those in-battle texts often go by fast enough that it takes a jester doing whatever he or she does a few times before I'm certain exactly what the text says.

Even though it's by no means frequently asked, I've given a little consideration to doing a comprehensive jester effect FAQ, or if not a full-on FAQ, at the very least creating a thread dedicated to just the comprehensive list of jester effects. I think if nothing else, once I have my two new jesters through all the other classes and ready to go, I'll start compiling the list and sending out the full four-jester squad from time to time with my message speed temporarily slowed down for accurate transcription.
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