...which has been part of "Krakii's Big Laundry List of Bardic Stuff to Work On"...

...while I'm sitting here looking at moving into the Confluence, and I see that Huge Water Elementals can cast Mystic Impedance/1208 at folks, and prevent people from even preparing spells higher than 10th level...

...and I'm noting that 'renew' does not, in fact, PREPARE a new spell...
(I mind me of the time I had a spell prepped [shown in the 'casting hand' in the FE] in the Duskruin Arena, and I did a 'renew' of three different spell effects before I ever got around to doing a 'cast'...)

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Well, this looks like just all KINDS of ripe for Bards to go rampaging through and ignoring this spell effect. Renew depression, renew disrupt, renew holdsong (beats the level limit anyhow), renew noise, whatever. (Would prevent Tonis, though.)

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Am I mistakenly interpreting anything?