No bizarre area effects, definitely in a civilized area (Eastern road the first time.) It happened a few times since and I without a doubt typed sneak, I pretty much spammed it with this character when I played it. I am actually 100% sure that it wasn't a typo. I didn't type any commands that would have otherwise brought me out of hiding.
It happened at least 3 separate occasions that I can count. Might have happened more and been lost in the spam as I ran.
What I do know is that I stepped out of the shadows when I left from one room into the other (as a thief would stepping from civilized into non-civilized) not upon typing the command like 'eat pie' or whatever. So, either the sneak was not renewed upon me typing the sneak command and I was no longer sneaking. OR I was sneaking and stepped out of the shadows anyway.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2008 02:34PM by istirith.