Forum:Pet will not attack Quest Leader

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So I am below the necessary level for the quest. I decided to try to have my pet master mind flayer kill my leader. My pet will not attack either my leader or the one quest guardian that happen to by in the same room as the leader. I am playing a tourist. Is there a reason why?

Ndwolfwood 08:23, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
Pets are special-cased not to attack quest people unless confused or conflicted. This is because killing your quest leader makes your game unwinnable in vanilla. (Sporkhack improves upon this, but I'm not an expert on it.) dogmove.c, line 623 --Tjr 08:51, 24 February 2012 (UTC)