I was recently in the Newton Caves doing the newbie thing--killing finks, selling them, collecting widgets, and giving them to Cranky; ah! the boredom--and I've found that sometimes when engaged with a fink if you use the "previous command" key (which is !) and there is more than one fink about you are likely to strike the second fink. The problem not being that I can't take them both, but that I will kill one and then still be being attacked by the other. This wouldn't be a problem except that the game won't allow me to fight the second fink; who happens, after furiously entering "swing fink" and even spelling it out slowly and correctly, to be giving me the beat down. I died for the second time because of this (not my second time dying, unfortunately, but the second time due to this problem). Further, this would not be much a problem for me, except for the fact that even after I've left the room and regenerated health, upon re-entering the fink naturally attacks me. Now the problem here is this: when I try to fight back the game insists that there is no fink in the room, yet I still get pommeled by one. Am I the only one who experiences this? Or is it a fairly common glitch?

It's very very common, the targetting system in the game doesn't work so well when something with the same name enters the room while you're fighting. It's generally best to use INFO HERE and target by number.

It's targetting the body still. It happens on only a select few things, and I don't really know how it works. My only guess is that it will always target a 4 digit number thing instead of a 5 digit one, but that might be just me. GET FINK, and then keep attacking.

Finkettes do it a lot, I hated it.

So what then when I come back and the fink is still attacking me, but I can't fight back because the game doesn't "see" it there?

Ok. I just did the number target and killed the bastard in one swing. Awesome. Thanks guys!

Ithylar bows gracefully...

what I always did was type get fink, until it said you cannot pick up a dirty fink... then just swing, It'll be faster than getting their ID number

That works, sure, but if you hit one, they walk out of the room, you do swing fink again, and the other walks back in, you have two attacknig you. With certain things, you don't want to fight more than one.

Using numbers is the best way to bash if you can't handle getting teamed.

he said he didn't mind getting teamed... whatever

*huff* WhatEver!

Wait till you're around lv 30 and get teamed by 3 spectral paladins at once. You'll care then.

Anyway, he thanked everyone in post 4 for getting the info to him, so it appears the matter is closed.