Spells: Benevolence causing massive agro

[guineapig]

Forgive me for not checking to see if any change has been made to Alliance but I recently tried using the upgrade, Benevolence (on a brownie merchant that was dubious to me).

So I get the message %t looks friendly [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] followed by a bunch of red numbers [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] and a message saying that I have been slain by %t [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] (and all her little buddies). [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I liked it better when the Alliance spell line simply wouldn't land on anything.
Is this a cruel joke? And any chance I can get GM rez?

After my corspe run from South Karana back to Lfay (didn't see the need to rebind on such a "safe trip" I dragged my body to the MM zone line.

(If there is no GM rez available I guess I will have to donate to a cleric kind enough to take a few moments of their time).