YANI - horse

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Oh hey, on horse feathers:
#apply dagger to horse feather
"you fashion a quill from your horse feather"
x - magic marker

Considering that one has to find a horse, and a polymorph wand (which
together might be about as rare as random magic markers just lying around),
then also kill the horse, and use up a charge on the wand.
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"AngleWyrm" <anglewyrm.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Oh hey, on horse feathers:
> #apply dagger to horse feather
> "you fashion a quill from your horse feather"
> x - magic marker
>
> Considering that one has to find a horse, and a polymorph wand (which
> together might be about as rare as random magic markers just lying
> around), then also kill the horse, and use up a charge on the wand.

PS: And did I mention horse corpses rot away? Polypiling that charge would
be a race for whatever's nearby.

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endless.timetunnel DeleteThis @gmail.com writes:
> Here's a YANI:
> When you eat a horse it says "You eat the horse corpse. You must have
> been hungry!"
> from the old saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"

What's more, a similar idiom exists in Finnish, and probably also in
many other languages, so people with non-English background could get it
right away. :>

Toni
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Toni Keskitalo wrote:
> endless.timetunnel RemoveThis @gmail.com writes:
>
>>Here's a YANI:
>>When you eat a horse it says "You eat the horse corpse. You must have
>>been hungry!"
>>from the old saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"
>
> What's more, a similar idiom exists in Finnish, and probably also in
> many other languages,

And also in German.

> so people with non-English background could get it
> right away. :>

There's already a horse related idiom implemented that has, I suppose,
a more limited cultural distribution; "Why beat a dead horse?".

Janis
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On Jan 2, 10:22 pm, "AngleWyrm" <anglew... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> "AngleWyrm" <anglew... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:T8-dnXILnuDb2eHanZ2dnUVZ_qKgnZ2d@comcast.com...
>
> > Oh hey, on horse feathers:
> > #apply dagger to horse feather
> > "you fashion a quill from your horse feather"
> > x - magic marker
>
> > Considering that one has to find a horse, and a polymorph wand (which
> > together might be about as rare as random magic markers just lying
> > around), then also kill the horse, and use up a charge on the wand.
>
> PS: And did I mention horse corpses rot away? Polypiling that charge would
> be a race for whatever's nearby.
>
> --
> Still wishing usenet had edit.

except you could do this recursively (well, as long as your polymorph
source holds out, which in case of spells is ad infinitum, as long as
horses dong go extinct) to gain entirely too many magic markers?
each polymorph = 5 quills
each quill = 5 daggers + 5 horse corpses.
daggers are trivial to collect in large amounts.

5 horse corpses come from 5 horses.
5 horses come from 1 scroll of genocide
and you can easily squeeze 3 genocide scrolls from one marker
(usually).

maybe if you had to poly kracken corpses for the ink...

(this is a similar problem to slashem and gypsies)
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On Jan 1, 6:26 pm, endless.timetun....DeleteThis@gmail.com wrote:
> Here's a YANI:
> When you eat a horse it says "You eat the horse corpse. You must have
> been hungry!"
> from the old saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse"

There once was a valkyrie who ate a horse -
she's dead, of course!

(Muahahahahaaa)
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XyZZy wrote:
>
> except you could do this recursively (well, as long as your polymorph
> source holds out, which in case of spells is ad infinitum, as long as
> horses dong go extinct) to gain entirely too many magic markers?
> each polymorph = 5 quills
> each quill = 5 daggers + 5 horse corpses.
> daggers are trivial to collect in large amounts.
>
> 5 horse corpses come from 5 horses.
> 5 horses come from 1 scroll of genocide
> and you can easily squeeze 3 genocide scrolls from one marker
> (usually).

AngleWyrm's original suggestion didn't mention the probability of
getting a feather from a horse corpse, but with the word "might" it
didn't seem definite.
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XyZZy wrote:

> On Jan 2, 10:22 pm, "AngleWyrm" <anglew....DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>"AngleWyrm" <anglew....DeleteThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>>news:T8-dnXILnuDb2eHanZ2dnUVZ_qKgnZ2d@comcast.com...
>>
>>
>>>Oh hey, on horse feathers:
>>>#apply dagger to horse feather
>>>"you fashion a quill from your horse feather"
>>>x - magic marker
>>
>>>Considering that one has to find a horse, and a polymorph wand (which
>>>together might be about as rare as random magic markers just lying
>>>around), then also kill the horse, and use up a charge on the wand.
>>
>>PS: And did I mention horse corpses rot away? Polypiling that charge would
>>be a race for whatever's nearby.
>>
>>--
>>Still wishing usenet had edit.
>
>
> except you could do this recursively (well, as long as your polymorph
> source holds out, which in case of spells is ad infinitum, as long as
> horses dong go extinct) to gain entirely too many magic markers?
> each polymorph = 5 quills
> each quill = 5 daggers + 5 horse corpses.
> daggers are trivial to collect in large amounts.

You don't need five daggers. The dagger is used to fashion the quill out
of the horse feather.

Which brings up two questions:

1. Wouldn't knife be better tool to fashion the quill?
2. Where does the ink come from?

So, my suggested changes: require a knife and the magic marker is empty.

> 5 horse corpses come from 5 horses.
> 5 horses come from 1 scroll of genocide
> and you can easily squeeze 3 genocide scrolls from one marker
> (usually).

But you need the blank scrolls and if my suggestion is added you need a
scroll of charging (or the PYEC).

Topi 'With those changes: maybe.' Linkala
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