two yanis for the price of your bandwidth

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When using the "m" command to get past a peaceful and the peaceful happens
to be a lord, the message would be "Pardon me, m'lord".

Should one happen to kill a unicorn and take its horn then zap a wand of
undead turning on the unicorn's corpse, the unicorn is brought back to life
as a mere warhorse.

Meh, the last one might be too much trouble because then people would go
around dropping unicorn horns on horse corpses and reanimating them hoping
to get cheap unicorns.

 

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Haakon Studebaker wrote:
> Should one happen to kill a unicorn and take its horn then zap a wand of
> undead turning on the unicorn's corpse, the unicorn is brought back to life
> as a mere warhorse.
>
> Meh, the last one might be too much trouble because then people would go
> around dropping unicorn horns on horse corpses and reanimating them hoping
> to get cheap unicorns.

That's a YANI involving dead horses, glue and horns that don't quite
stick just waiting to be made...

 

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:15:52 +0200
"Boudewijn Waijers" <kroisos@REMOVETHISWORD.home.nl> wrote:

>Have you considered the teleporting ability, the chance of getting
>poison resistance when eating one, ...

Well... Maybe it should be a "hornless Unicorn" like a "Worm tail".
It would basically be just a horse that Teleports, has a chance for poison resistance,
And with a new description.

 

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On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 08:43:47 -0500,
noah bedford <noahbedford@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 13:15:52 +0200
> "Boudewijn Waijers" <kroisos@REMOVETHISWORD.home.nl> wrote:

>> Have you considered the teleporting ability, the chance of getting
>> poison resistance when eating one, ...

> Well... Maybe it should be a "hornless Unicorn" like a "Worm tail".
> It would basically be just a horse that Teleports, has a chance for
> poison resistance, And with a new description.

IOW, a hornless unicorn. :-/

I actually liked the idea of tying a unicorn's horn to its magical
abilities.

Regards,
Dan

--
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<http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/>

 

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Haakon Studebaker wrote:

> Should one happen to kill a unicorn and take its horn then zap a wand
> of undead turning on the unicorn's corpse, the unicorn is brought
> back to life as a mere warhorse.

As if the only difference between horses and unicorns is the horn.

Have you considered the teleporting ability, the chance of getting
poison resistance when eating one, ...

--
Boudewijn.

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as my signature..." - Me

 

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Boudewijn Waijers wrote:

>Haakon Studebaker wrote:
>
>>should one happen to kill a unicorn and take its horn then zap a wand
>>of undead turning on the unicorn's corpse, the unicorn is brought
>>back to life as a mere warhorse.
>>
>>
>As if the only difference between horses and unicorns is the horn.
>
>
Welcome to PT Barnum's Treasure Zoo -- more --
A gush of water hits the black unicorn-- more --
The black color runs. -- more --
The unicorn tosses its head -- more --
the unicorn's horn falls off -- more --
You see here a pony.

 

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"Boudewijn Waijers" <kroisos@REMOVETHISWORD.home.nl> wrote in news:dar01e
$9h7$1@news1.zwoll1.ov.home.nl:

> Haakon Studebaker wrote:
>
>> Should one happen to kill a unicorn and take its horn then zap a wand
>> of undead turning on the unicorn's corpse, the unicorn is brought
>> back to life as a mere warhorse.
>
> As if the only difference between horses and unicorns is the horn.
>
> Have you considered the teleporting ability, the chance of getting
> poison resistance when eating one, ...
>

Whee, fantasy physics! Well the poison resistance is conferred when eating
the tiny bits of the unicorn horn's root and the teleportation ability is
only active when a horse has an actual unicorn horn while alive because of
it's myserious, quantum mechanical "fantasy" effects.

 

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On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:17:57 +0200
Sean <sgegg@hotspammeallyouwantpop.com> wrote:

>Does anything eat bone?

[a quick wiz-test later...]

#polyself
Become what kind of monster? [type the name] purple worm
You turn into a purple worm!
Create what kind of monster? [type the name or symbol] white unicorn
.... You totally digest the white unicorn.

So I guess I ate the unicorn horn too. and I don't have teleportitis, teleport control,
or poison resistance.
This should definitely be implemented though.

 

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Haakon Studebaker wrote:

>>>Should one happen to kill a unicorn and take its horn then zap a wand
>>>of undead turning on the unicorn's corpse, the unicorn is brought
>>>back to life as a mere warhorse.
>>
>>As if the only difference between horses and unicorns is the horn.
>>
>>Have you considered the teleporting ability, the chance of getting
>>poison resistance when eating one, ...
>
> Whee, fantasy physics! Well the poison resistance is conferred when eating
> the tiny bits of the unicorn horn's root and the teleportation ability is
> only active when a horse has an actual unicorn horn while alive because of
> it's myserious, quantum mechanical "fantasy" effects.

Does anything eat bone? Because polymorphing into such a thing and
eating a unicorn horn should confer teleportation control.
I can't actually think of any monster that does, though. Which means we
need one!
(though really, any standard adventurer seems perfectly capable of it. I
mean, what happens to the REST of the poor unicorn's bones after our
hero has made an attempt at gaining poison resistance from it?)

 

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MMAgCh wrote:

> That's a YANI involving dead horses,
> glue and horns that don't quite
> stick just waiting to be made...

In all fairness, the only way to turn
a dead horse into a unicorn should be
to beat it sufficiently thoroughly.

HTH

xanthian.

Perhaps beating it with a unicorn horn
would be best?

 

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noah bedford wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 12:17:57 +0200
>Sean <sgegg@hotspammeallyouwantpop.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Does anything eat bone?
>>
>>
>
>[a quick wiz-test later...]
>
>#polyself
>Become what kind of monster? [type the name] purple worm
>You turn into a purple worm!
>Create what kind of monster? [type the name or symbol] white unicorn
>... You totally digest the white unicorn.
>
>So I guess I ate the unicorn horn too. and I don't have teleportitis, teleport control,
>or poison resistance.
>This should definitely be implemented though.
>
>
Since the "B" is already implemented for ravens, perhaps we could add
another bird to the flock
http://www.explorecrete.com/nature/gypaetus.html

These birds would appear anytime a corpse had passed edible stage and
before it rotted away; and consume the "bones". Knowing the magical
properties of the unicorn horn, they would be quickly appear after a
unicorn dies to eat the unihorn. (Nice way to keep the dungeon clean and
not accumulating unihorns just laying around.) So of course these
vultures would be able to teleport in to corpses; and resistant to
poison/sickness/etc. The birds would avoid PCs (unless he died of
course); and small spaces (anything space 2x2 or smaller).

One problem: how do you keep these birds from attacking zombies?