I was trying to add an NPC to the Plane of Knowledge that you could Hail, then respond to him and he would cast some buffs on you.
Rather than using typical player buffs, I was attempting to have him cast a couple of buffs that appeared to be unused but were in the same vein as player spells. (I was trying to edit them to have ridiculous durations.)
The two spells, specifically, were Endeavor (10152) and Refraction of Light (8464).
When I had the NPC casting them, there was something wrong. He would put a type of Engulfing Darkness and Bard HP/Mana Regen song on my character that would last 27 minutes. And I could click them both off, despite the Engulfing Darkness type one being red and damaging my character.
I tried for a little while to figure out what was wrong with the buffs because I didn't see anything different with them than with typical player spells... Then I tried copying them in the database and giving them new spell ID numbers. After I did that, I updated the ID numbers in my NPC's quest to buff.
After that, I tried rebooting the server and found out that I couldn't zone into PoK. That's when I checked everything and realized that zone.exe was now crashing every time it started. Naturally, I tried undoing everything that I'd just done, but it didn't fix anything.
Everything was working flawlessly before this.
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