Hurricane (and some UI problems)

[ghostbuster]

1/ I am playing with my first tempest and I am experimenting with hurricane.
Indeed, it does not seem to work as intended.

It was with a skel warrior and a sandworm. I casted Shock on the skel warrior, it got a hurricane; and for several turns (5 or 6...), I saw the hurricane (nice graphical effect), but their life stayed unchanged around 70 HP... At the end, the warrior got killed by the hurricane, and I just manathrusted the worm.

I tried with other npc and it happens that the hurricane properly displays at every turn, but it does always not deal damage either to the caster or to surrounding monsters. On the average, it does damage 20 or 30% of the time. Maybe it is intended, but the spell description states that it should happen each turn.

2/ I was puzzled by that and I tried to check on the display log, but the scrollbar did not seem to work (either by clicking or by dragging it).

3/ And I finally did a character dump to check the last messages and I discovered that colored messages are not saved...

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Qarq casts Nova.
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 

Skeleton warrior uses Stunning Blow.
Skeleton warrior hits qq for 
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Qarq resists the stunning blow!
Qarq casts Shock.
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Skeleton warrior is dazed!
Skeleton warrior is caught inside a Hurricane.
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Skeleton warrior is not dazed anymore.
Qarq hits sandworm for 
Skeleton warrior hits qq for 
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Qarq casts Phase Door.



Qarq hits skeleton warrior for 
Qarq killed skeleton warrior!
Qarq casts Manathrust.
Qarq hits sandworm for 
Qarq killed sandworm!
Resting starts...

[ghostbuster]

I probably finally found what was the problem with hurricane. It seemed to work in a very random way, dealing damage occasionally, but most of the time it was not striking anybody, despite the graphic effect.

I was escorting a loremaster and an archer at least 10 squares away was on hurricane. And the loremaster took lightning damage every turn until he died . In fact, I think that the hurricane damage is centered **on the player** not on the NPC. I experimented by teleporting close to a npc on hurricane and he and his buddies properly took damage. If I go away, they are no longer hit by lightning.

I looked at the source code and did not understood why this happened, but I am rather sure it is the explanation.

[darkgod]

Well spotted, fixed!