[Rataxes]

Originally posted by weimer: In Wes-world, they all follow Ilyich around (kinda). If you have a spare minute, could you try this: cheat in a potion of invisibility, ctrl-J in to the middle of them and just sit around and watch what they do. Ctrl-Y the demon if it sees you. The rest of them *should* sorta walk down to the library, look around, then walk back over to the cambion room, lather, rinse repeat. If you then break your invisibility and attack one of them (say, the last one on the line) it should call all of the others over. Would you be so kind as to verify that my intended behavior (above) actually works? Then I can work on fixing up any unintended consequences (as you describe). Thanks!

Well I'm confused. I did some more testing with this group just now, and they acted somewhat different compared to when I first met them. Maybe it had something to with me activating the debug mode, or maybe it was nothing. Anyway, this time I met Ilyich all on his own on his way to the back of the library, I followed him, and it seems like he always stops on the exact same spot, since I witnessed him doing these little runs yesterday as well. Well off he went a few seconds later, not to join up with his team though, which had put up a permanent camp in the Cambion room. No, he stopped once again in the corridor, a few yards outside the entrance to the cambion room, and then went back to the same spot in the back of the library. He then strolled back to the cambion room, but this time went all the into the back of the cambion room, before he once again turned back and headed for the back of the library.

I then went into the room and made myself visible to the glabrezu, he was completely surrounded by his allies however, and couldn't move. In my second attempt though, he managed to break free, and everyone blindly followed him, which pretty much corresponded to what I had witnessed when first tried this version. Destroyed the demon with CTRL-Y, and this caused the remaining party to stop. They all simply stood put in the Cambion room until I decided to reload. This time, I destroyed the demon and revealed myself when Ilyich was on his way to the library again, and he didn't seem to react at all to me going hostile on his allies. He just kept on heading to the back of the library, and only attacked me when his patrol path took him back to cambion room and he saw me himself. Same thing happened when I attacked Ilyich when he was alone, no reaction what so ever from the rest of his group.

Tried it a third time. This time I revealed myself to the group and then went invisible once again. The demon kept chasing me naturally, but the other ones just stayed put, and after a few seconds, Ilyich went off (most likely to the back of the library again I guess) and the the rest of the gang, clustered up in a corner. This was an isolated event though. In all other tests I made, the party kept following the Glabrezu even if I went invisible again.

Once, when Ilyich was in the cambion room and was just about to leave, I revealed myself and then went invisible. This seemed to break Ilyich's pattern since he thereafter followed the Glabrezu blindly like the rest of his team.

Just some minor things.

- Ilyich seemed to sometimes teleport from the cambion room to the big room in-between (the one where they originally spawned) when he did these patrol walks.

- All of them, are very prone to stop pursuing you if you get out of their sight, even if just for a split second.

- I think I've gotten far too many random, weird and confusing results to really make an accurate guess on the behaviour of any part of Ilyich group, but here's a few things I'm pretty sure of:

* Rasputin, Zhivago, Karamazov and the Golem all follow the Glabrezu as if glued to him, and will very often surround it completely. Ilyich also does this sometimes, though I've no idea what triggers that, or what triggers him tonot follow the demon. There have been a few exceptions, but I've seen this behaviour in most of my tests.

* Ilyich has a personal patrolling pattern which starts in the cambion room and ends at the back of the library, this pattern was rarely ever disrupted in any of my tests, and even if it was, he always started anew once everything returned to normal or the threat disappeared.