Hawaiian shirt
[ Hawaiian shirt 
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| Appearance | Hawaiian shirt |
| Slot | shirt |
| AC | 0 |
| Special |
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| Base price | 3 zm |
| Weight | 5 |
| Material | cloth |
A Hawaiian shirt is a type of shirt that appears in NetHack. It is made of cloth, and is nearly identical to the T-shirt.
Contents
Generation
Tourists start the game with an uncursed +0 Hawaiian shirt.[1]
The Hawaiian shirt makes up 0.8% of all randomly generated armor. General stores, used armor dealerships and antique weapon outlets can stock Hawaiian shirts.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
As part of commit 20cbadc—which strengthens quest leaders and makes it so that killing them no longer makes the game unwinnable - Twoflower, the Tourist quest leader, always generates with a +3 Hawaiian shirt.Description
While worn, a Hawaiian shirt provides no base AC.
Entering a shop with a visible worn Hawaiian shirt will cause the shopkeeper to charge an extra 1⁄3 markup and buy things for 1⁄3 of the base price.
The following information pertains to an upcoming version (NetHack 3.7.0). If this version is now released, please verify that the information below is still accurate, then update the page to incorporate it.
Per commit d8dc16e3, reading a Hawaiian shirt that is not worn under body armor will print a message describing its design—as with the T-shirt, the design is dependent on the item's object ID, so it will remain consistent for any one shirt. Since the hero is not actually reading any text, this does not break the illiterate conduct.Strategy
Like the T-shirt, Hawaiian shirts are generally employed to enchant as an additional source of AC, but are best reserved until after a character obtains protection from polymorph traps - worn torso armor will be destroyed if they polymorph into a large form. Tourists in particular may want to consider removing their shirt as soon as possible for this reason and hold on to it for later use once they have magic resistance, along with solid enchantment on their other armor if possible. An enchanted Hawaiian shirt may also be wished for in order to top off an otherwise-complete ascension kit.
For characters not averse to polypiling, shirts are fairly easy to obtain with a wand of polymorph (or the polymorph spell for powerful enough casters) and a large pile of armor, which is most easily obtained in the Castle or Fort Ludios. The Castle's armor storeroom in particular has a 13.13% chance of containing either a Hawaiian shirt or a T-shirt, and the random general store items in Orcus Town may also have a Hawaiian shirt among them. A bones containing a Hawaiian shirt is very likely to belong to a Tourist.
History
The Hawaiian shirt first appears in NetHack 2.3e, where it generates if the SHIRT compile-time option is defined—in NetHack 3.1.0, this is changed to the TOURIST compile-time option.
Origin
The Hawaiian shirt or "aloha shirt" is a style of dress shirt originating in Hawai'i. They are collared and buttoned dress shirts, usually short-sleeved and made from printed fabric. They are traditionally worn untucked, but can be worn tucked into the waist of trousers. They are worn casually or as informal business attire in Hawaii. "Aloha Friday", or Casual Friday, a now-common tradition of celebrating the end of the workweek by wearing more casual attire on Fridays, initially grew out of an effort to promote aloha shirts.
There are many origin stories surrounding the design: According to some sources, the origin of aloha shirts can be traced to the 1920s or the early 1930s, when the Honolulu-based dry goods store "Musa-Shiya the Shirtmaker" under the proprietorship of Kōichirō Miyamoto started making shirts out of colorful Japanese prints; it has also been contended that the aloha shirt was devised in the early 1930s by Chinese merchant Ellery Chun of "King-Smith Clothiers and Dry Goods", a store in Waikiki. Although this latter claim has been described as a myth reinforced by repeated telling, Chun may have been the first to mass-produce or to maintain the ready-to-wear in stock to be sold off the shelf. In the origin stories that attribute the shirt to Koichiro Miyamot, the name is said to have come from his father Chotaro, who emigrated to Hawai'i from Musashi Province, Japan, and started a store named after his home province.
Variants
NetHack brass
In NetHack brass, stylish clothing stores can sell Hawaiian shirts.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, the two tourist player monsters in The Guild of Disgruntled Adventurers generate with Hawaiian shirts.
dNetHack
In dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack, the Hawaiian shirt grants 0 base AC and 0 base DR while worn, and appears as a flowery shirt when unidentified.
Twoflower always generates with a blessed +0 Hawaiian shirt.
xNetHack
In xNetHack, Hawaiian shirts that are not worn under body armor can be read to print a message describing the shirt's pattern.
Twoflower always generates with a +3 Hawaiian shirt.
SpliceHack
In SpliceHack, the Cartomancer role starts with a +0 Hawaiian shirt.
EvilHack
In EvilHack, Hawaiian shirts that are not worn under body armor can be read to print a message describing the shirt's pattern. Tortles that play as Tourists have their starting shirt replaced with a toque.
Twoflower always generates with a Hawaiian shirt, and player monster tourists that are not tortles will generate with Hawaiian shirts.
Hawaiian shirts can be made of other materials such as leather, which provides some base AC and may make them more valuable to wear early on. Shirt wishes are just as popular as in NetHack if not more so: object materials and properties make the shirt slot valuable for characters that are not giants or tortles. An example of such a wish is "blessed greased fixed +3 dragonhide Hawaiian shirt of decay", with "decay" being an object property that provides drain resistance.
SlashTHEM
In addition to SLASH'EM details, SlashTHEM adds Musa-Shiya, an artifact Hawaiian shirt that grants a +2 AC bonus and hallucination resistance while worn, and can be invoked for enlightenment.
Hack'EM
In Hack'EM, Hawaiian shirts can only be made of cloth, as in SLASH'EM.
Encyclopedia entry
'One of the things he can't do, he can't ride a horse,' he
said. Then he stiffened as if sandbagged by a sudden
recollection, gave a small yelp of terror and dashed into
the gloom. When he returned, the being called Twoflower was
hanging limply over his shoulder. It was small and skinny,
and dressed very oddly in a pair of knee-length britches and
a shirt in such a violent and vivid conflict of colours that
the Weasel's fastidious eye was offended even in the half-light.
