My Mage is a Looney -- and paid the price

[tinkthank]

Playing Pythium, I was very happy when Bart the Very Excellent Priest showed up at my wizard's tower to fight for my cause. I put him with my Arch-Theurg the prophet and two-dozen Communicants, gave him a Copper Plate armor and scripted him for "communication master, quickness, mistform, personal luck, mirror image, spells". My Prophet had no such armor, but a crystal matrix, and was scripted "resist lightning, wrathful skies, quickness, divine blessing, body etheral, spells". A couple of spring hawks on "guard commander" finished up the platoon of otherwise 26 units, all commanders.

My prophet is scripting just nicely. But Bart seems to have a chip on his shoulder. He'll cast "master", and "quickness", and often mistform, but sooner or later, instead of smiting, or casting the otherwise favorite post-5-queue Pythium spells (ghost wolves or falling frost for some odd reason), or the ones I had hoped he would cast (e.g. thunder strike, orb lightning, soul slay, enslave mind),
he will just run out to meet whomever it is that is charging at him and try to punch him to death.

He actually survived quite a few battles doing this, thanks to his mistform and often body etheral. He never actually *harmed* anyone doing so, but who cares.

I checked him time and time again: there were *NO* berserker attributes on him at all, and no one ever cast "Rage", or anything else of that type. But consistently, he and only he would run out of the pack and duke it out with the baddest of them all. And that is where he met his fate -- in hand to hand combat with an enemy Earth Mother on the far side of the field. Yikes!

My question: Is Bart a natural born looney or am I missing something yet again?