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Winny: /* A vs an unicorn horn */ i still can't get it straight

2023-06-18T21:25:36Z

A vs an unicorn horn: i still can't get it straight

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	== A vs an unicorn horn ==		== A vs an unicorn horn ==

	TIL. According to the internets it's "an unicorn horn" https://michigantoday.umich.edu/2015/11/17/a-vs-an/ . ——[[User:Winny\|Winny]] ([[User talk:Winny\|talk]]) 21:25, 18 June 2023 (UTC)		TIL. According to the internets it's "a unicorn horn" https://michigantoday.umich.edu/2015/11/17/a-vs-an/ . ——[[User:Winny\|Winny]] ([[User talk:Winny\|talk]]) 21:25, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Winny: /* A vs an unicorn horn */ new section

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A vs an unicorn horn: new section

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	[[Special:Contributions/96.230.120.71\|96.230.120.71]] 20:55, December 10, 2010 (UTC)		[[Special:Contributions/96.230.120.71\|96.230.120.71]] 20:55, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

			== A vs an unicorn horn ==

			TIL. According to the internets it's "an unicorn horn" https://michigantoday.umich.edu/2015/11/17/a-vs-an/ . ——[[User:Winny\|Winny]] ([[User talk:Winny\|talk]]) 21:25, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

Tjr: /* BUG? Horn polymorphed into an oil lamp but it shouldn't have... */ spelling

2010-12-10T22:30:12Z

BUG? Horn polymorphed into an oil lamp but it shouldn't have...: spelling

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	== BUG? Horn polymorphed into an oil lamp but it shouldn't have... ==		== BUG? Horn polymorphed into an oil lamp but it shouldn't have... ==
	:''Moved over ~~form~~ the old wiki --[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 22:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC)''		:''Moved over from the old wiki --[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 22:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC)''

	Here's what happened:		Here's what happened:

Tjr: moved over from the old wiki

2010-12-10T22:28:57Z

moved over from the old wiki

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	thats what I figured, thanks [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 16:39, December 13, 2009 (UTC)		thats what I figured, thanks [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 16:39, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

			== BUG? Horn polymorphed into an oil lamp but it shouldn't have... ==
			:''Moved over form the old wiki --[[User:Tjr\|Tjr]] 22:28, 10 December 2010 (UTC)''

			Here's what happened:
			#I had an unknown potion (identified by its look only);
			#dipped my unicorn horn into it : a message said that it cleared the potion;
			#since I did not identify water yet and I wanted to know which potions were cleared by the horn, I CALLED (not individually named) that potion "Horn cleared";
			#later on in the game, I dipped my horn again into that "Horn cleared" potion... And "pufff", '''my unicorn horn got polymorphed into an oil lamp''', and the "Horn cleared potion" was left untouched.
			#I then identified that potion called "horn cleared potion", and '''it was still a potion of hallucination'''!...
			So it seems that in the first place the horn cleared the potion, but then after calling the potion, it looks that the whole behavior just got bugged : dipping into it again polymorphed my horn even though it was not some "polymorpohing" potion, and the potion wasn't "cleared" anymore (potion of hallucination). BTW the potion and the horn were uncursed the whole time. Weird...

			[[Special:Contributions/173.206.1.213\|173.206.1.213]] 17:24, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

			You probably made a typo and dipped the horn into a different potion, thus why the one you called was left untouched.
			Also, come to the new wiki, I only found your post by chance. http://nethackwiki.com

			[[Special:Contributions/96.230.120.71\|96.230.120.71]] 20:55, December 10, 2010 (UTC)

Tjr: Text replace - "nethack.wikia.com" to "nethackwiki.com"

2010-11-11T19:38:46Z

Text replace - "nethack.wikia.com" to "nethackwiki.com"

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	== "Unihorn" listed as an acronym ==		== "Unihorn" listed as an acronym ==

	Unihorn is listed in [[:Category:Acronyms]] for some reason... http://~~nethack.wikia~~.com/index.php?title=Unihorn&redirect=no --[[User:88.108.198.28\|88.108.198.28]] 21:28, 18 November 2006 (UTC)		Unihorn is listed in [[:Category:Acronyms]] for some reason... http://nethackwiki.com/index.php?title=Unihorn&redirect=no --[[User:88.108.198.28\|88.108.198.28]] 21:28, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

	== Polypiling unicorn horns ==		== Polypiling unicorn horns ==

Feagradze: /* How do you apply them? */

2010-06-28T01:22:07Z

How do you apply them?

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	It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}		It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}
	:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)		:You see here a blessed +0 unicorn horn named 4th Annual Leapfrog & Wet T-shirt Contest<br>[[User:Feagradze\|Feagradze]] 01:22, June 28, 2010 (UTC)

			:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
	According to mythology, which the devteam bases a majority of things on, unicorns were prized for their miraculous healing abilities, which supposedly came from their horn. If by some way, a fortunate being happened to come across one, it could be used, by either 1. drinking a liquid poured into it that would be purified, the main purpose to this was to identify or null poisons (hence #dipping a unicorn horn into certain detrimental Nethack potions), or 2. drinking liquid that was stored or that materialized inside of the "unihorn". So essentially what you're doing by applying the horn, is drinking out of it. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)		According to mythology, which the devteam bases a majority of things on, unicorns were prized for their miraculous healing abilities, which supposedly came from their horn. If by some way, a fortunate being happened to come across one, it could be used, by either 1. drinking a liquid poured into it that would be purified, the main purpose to this was to identify or null poisons (hence #dipping a unicorn horn into certain detrimental Nethack potions), or 2. drinking liquid that was stored or that materialized inside of the "unihorn". So essentially what you're doing by applying the horn, is drinking out of it. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

DrakeKobra: /* Inventory of Pet Dragons */

2009-12-13T16:39:14Z

Inventory of Pet Dragons

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	I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)		I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
	:Many pets will pick up and use Unicorn horns. Titans, for example, will unblind, unconfuse, etc themselves using one. I don't believe that a dragon is capable of using a horn, but I don't find it at all surprising that they'd pick one up anyways. Hostile dragons can be seen picking up potions and scrolls that they cannot use, among other items. I assume that it's an unintended side effect that they'll pickup a unicorn horn when tame but then can't use it. -- [[User:Qazmlpok\|Qazmlpok]] 00:05, December 13, 2009 (UTC)		:Many pets will pick up and use Unicorn horns. Titans, for example, will unblind, unconfuse, etc themselves using one. I don't believe that a dragon is capable of using a horn, but I don't find it at all surprising that they'd pick one up anyways. Hostile dragons can be seen picking up potions and scrolls that they cannot use, among other items. I assume that it's an unintended side effect that they'll pickup a unicorn horn when tame but then can't use it. -- [[User:Qazmlpok\|Qazmlpok]] 00:05, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

			thats what I figured, thanks [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 16:39, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

Qazmlpok at 00:05, 13 December 2009

2009-12-13T00:05:54Z

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	I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)		I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
			:Many pets will pick up and use Unicorn horns. Titans, for example, will unblind, unconfuse, etc themselves using one. I don't believe that a dragon is capable of using a horn, but I don't find it at all surprising that they'd pick one up anyways. Hostile dragons can be seen picking up potions and scrolls that they cannot use, among other items. I assume that it's an unintended side effect that they'll pickup a unicorn horn when tame but then can't use it. -- [[User:Qazmlpok\|Qazmlpok]] 00:05, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

DrakeKobra: answered and asked a question

2009-12-12T22:01:08Z

answered and asked a question

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	It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}		It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}
	:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)		:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
			According to mythology, which the devteam bases a majority of things on, unicorns were prized for their miraculous healing abilities, which supposedly came from their horn. If by some way, a fortunate being happened to come across one, it could be used, by either 1. drinking a liquid poured into it that would be purified, the main purpose to this was to identify or null poisons (hence #dipping a unicorn horn into certain detrimental Nethack potions), or 2. drinking liquid that was stored or that materialized inside of the "unihorn". So essentially what you're doing by applying the horn, is drinking out of it. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

	== Swirly Potion? ==		== Swirly Potion? ==
	When I was applying the horn to multiple potions one turned into a swirly potion. I don't see anything in the article about this. Edit: Never mind, looks like that is the appearance of unidentified fruit juice. Maybe the article should point this out? [[User:Kadoba01\|Kadoba01]] 23:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)		When I was applying the horn to multiple potions one turned into a swirly potion. I don't see anything in the article about this. Edit: Never mind, looks like that is the appearance of unidentified fruit juice. Maybe the article should point this out? [[User:Kadoba01\|Kadoba01]] 23:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

			== Inventory of Pet Dragons ==

			I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

Kadoba01: /* Swirly Potion? */

2009-05-18T23:26:56Z

Swirly Potion?

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	== Swirly Potion? ==		== Swirly Potion? ==
	When I was applying the horn to multiple potions one turned into a swirly potion. I don't see anything in the article about this.[[User:Kadoba01\|Kadoba01]] 23:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)		When I was applying the horn to multiple potions one turned into a swirly potion. I don't see anything in the article about this. Edit: Never mind, looks like that is the appearance of unidentified fruit juice. Maybe the article should point this out? [[User:Kadoba01\|Kadoba01]] 23:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

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	It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}		It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}
	:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)		:You see here a blessed +0 unicorn horn named 4th Annual Leapfrog & Wet T-shirt Contest<br>[[User:Feagradze\|Feagradze]] 01:22, June 28, 2010 (UTC)

			:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
	According to mythology, which the devteam bases a majority of things on, unicorns were prized for their miraculous healing abilities, which supposedly came from their horn. If by some way, a fortunate being happened to come across one, it could be used, by either 1. drinking a liquid poured into it that would be purified, the main purpose to this was to identify or null poisons (hence #dipping a unicorn horn into certain detrimental Nethack potions), or 2. drinking liquid that was stored or that materialized inside of the "unihorn". So essentially what you're doing by applying the horn, is drinking out of it. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)		According to mythology, which the devteam bases a majority of things on, unicorns were prized for their miraculous healing abilities, which supposedly came from their horn. If by some way, a fortunate being happened to come across one, it could be used, by either 1. drinking a liquid poured into it that would be purified, the main purpose to this was to identify or null poisons (hence #dipping a unicorn horn into certain detrimental Nethack potions), or 2. drinking liquid that was stored or that materialized inside of the "unihorn". So essentially what you're doing by applying the horn, is drinking out of it. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

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	I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)		I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)
	:Many pets will pick up and use Unicorn horns. Titans, for example, will unblind, unconfuse, etc themselves using one. I don't believe that a dragon is capable of using a horn, but I don't find it at all surprising that they'd pick one up anyways. Hostile dragons can be seen picking up potions and scrolls that they cannot use, among other items. I assume that it's an unintended side effect that they'll pickup a unicorn horn when tame but then can't use it. -- [[User:Qazmlpok\|Qazmlpok]] 00:05, December 13, 2009 (UTC)		:Many pets will pick up and use Unicorn horns. Titans, for example, will unblind, unconfuse, etc themselves using one. I don't believe that a dragon is capable of using a horn, but I don't find it at all surprising that they'd pick one up anyways. Hostile dragons can be seen picking up potions and scrolls that they cannot use, among other items. I assume that it's an unintended side effect that they'll pickup a unicorn horn when tame but then can't use it. -- [[User:Qazmlpok\|Qazmlpok]] 00:05, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

			thats what I figured, thanks [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 16:39, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

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	It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}		It's a long, narrow object. I can't help but have uncomfortable ideas about what I'm doing to myself with it whenever I say "apply unihorn."{{unsigned\|72.77.104.145}}
	:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)		:I like to think of it as touching the unicorn horn to my forehead. A live unicorn can apply its horn without doing anything in particular. It's up to your imagination.--[[User:Ray Chason\|Ray Chason]] 05:48, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
			According to mythology, which the devteam bases a majority of things on, unicorns were prized for their miraculous healing abilities, which supposedly came from their horn. If by some way, a fortunate being happened to come across one, it could be used, by either 1. drinking a liquid poured into it that would be purified, the main purpose to this was to identify or null poisons (hence #dipping a unicorn horn into certain detrimental Nethack potions), or 2. drinking liquid that was stored or that materialized inside of the "unihorn". So essentially what you're doing by applying the horn, is drinking out of it. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)

	== Swirly Potion? ==		== Swirly Potion? ==
	When I was applying the horn to multiple potions one turned into a swirly potion. I don't see anything in the article about this. Edit: Never mind, looks like that is the appearance of unidentified fruit juice. Maybe the article should point this out? [[User:Kadoba01\|Kadoba01]] 23:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)		When I was applying the horn to multiple potions one turned into a swirly potion. I don't see anything in the article about this. Edit: Never mind, looks like that is the appearance of unidentified fruit juice. Maybe the article should point this out? [[User:Kadoba01\|Kadoba01]] 23:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

			== Inventory of Pet Dragons ==

			I'm not sure if anyone else has noticed this, but should a tamed draconic pet take a turn for the worst, occasionally it will have been holding a unicorn horn, I noticed this when one of mine picked up a horn, and didn't drop it like a normal item. I was curious about this so I experimented in Wizard mode, A dragon (regardless of color) that has been tamed, will pick up and keep unicorn horns in their inventory. I'm not sure if (or how) they apply them. Is it just random code for dragons or is it something deeper. [[User:DrakeKobra\|DrakeKobra]] 22:01, December 12, 2009 (UTC)