Bestiary/Unicorn

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Unicorn

General
Type	Animal / mount
Category	Mounts
Alignment	Good
Karma	9,000
Fame	9,000
Behavior	Attacks evil creatures
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	296–325
Dexterity	96–115
Intelligence	186–225
Hit points	191–210
Stamina	96–115
Mana	186–225
Damage	16–22
Armor	0
Taming
Tameable	Yes
Min. skill	95.1
Control slots	2
Bondable	Yes
Rideable	Yes
Favorite food	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay
Resources
Carving	3 raw ribs, 10 horned hides

The Unicorn is a magical, good-aligned mount that only women can tame and ride. It hunts evil creatures and players, fights with spells, is immune to all poison, and can cure its rider's poison in an emergency.

Overview

• In-game name: a unicorn
• Corpse: a unicorn corpse
• Behavior: it attacks creatures and players with negative karma (evil) on sight, and fights like a spellcaster (mage AI), using both melee and spells. It is also hostile to the undead.
• Innocent: it shows as innocent (blue) to players. What happens to your reputation if you attack one hasn't been checked.
• Women only: only female characters can tame it or ride it.

Stats

Stat	Value
Strength	296–325
Dexterity	96–115
Intelligence	186–225
Hit points	191–210
Stamina	96–115 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	186–225 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	16–22
Armor rating	0
Fame / Karma	9,000 / 9,000

Skills

Skill	Range
Wrestling	80.5–92.5
Evaluating Intelligence	80.1–90.0
Magic Resistance	75.3–90.0
Magery	60.2–80.0
Meditation	50.1–60.0
Tactics	20.1–22.5

Abilities

Magic

It uses the mage AI with up to 80 Magery and 90 Evaluating Intelligence, so expect mid- to high-level spells along with its melee attacks. Which spells it casts depends on the AI and isn't listed here.

Poison immunity

It is immune to poison up to Lethal (Lesser, Regular, Greater, Deadly, Lethal).

Cures its rider

While you ride a tamed unicorn, if you're poisoned and an attacker's hit would drop you below 40 hit points, the unicorn may cure your poison. You'll see "Your mount senses you are in danger and aids you with magic." It can do this at most once an hour.

Its chance depends on its Magery and on how strong the poison is: 100% + 0.75% per point of Magery − 17.5% per poison level (Lesser counts as 1, Lethal as 5). A newly tamed unicorn has about 54–72 Magery, which gives roughly:

Poison	Chance to cure
Lesser	100%
Regular	100%
Greater	88–100%
Deadly	71–84%
Lethal	53–66%

Taming

Requirement	Value
Minimum Animal Taming	95.1 (below this you have no chance)
Control slots	2
Maximum owners	5 (each previous owner makes it harder to tame)
Bonding	Yes
Rideable	Yes
Favorite food	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay

• Women only. A male character trying to tame it gets "That creature can only be tamed by females."
• Success chance. For a first-time tame, your chance of success at the end of an attempt is about 10% at 100.0 skill, and it improves as your skill rises. Every previous owner adds 6 points to the difficulty.
• Don't hurt it. If it takes any damage during your attempt, taming fails with "The animal is too angry to continue taming."
• Stay close. You must stay within 6 tiles of it and keep a clear path to it.
• Obedience. Once tamed, how often it obeys depends on your Animal Taming and Animal Lore (taming counts four times as much as lore). With both at 95.1 it obeys about 70% of the time, and at about 100.0 it reaches the 99% maximum. Below 95.1 the chance drops quickly, to as low as 22%.
• Re-taming. If you've owned this one before, taming it again always succeeds ("That wasn't even challenging.").
• After its first tame, its skills drop to 90% of their wild values, or 86% if it was paralyzed while you tamed it. Its stats don't drop.

Bonding

Only the owner can bond with a unicorn, and they need at least 95.1 Animal Taming (base skill). Feed it to start bonding, then feed it again after 7 days to finish. When you see "Your pet has bonded with you!", it's done.

Riding

Double-click your tamed unicorn to ride it. Only female characters can ride it; anyone else sees "The unicorn refuses to allow you to ride it." It can run 4,480 steps before it gets too tired to move, compared with 3,840 for a horse. Only running counts (walking doesn't tire it unless you're overloaded), and it recovers 1 step per second while it isn't running.

Loot

Every unicorn carries:

• Gold: about 260–350 in total (from its "Rich" loot)
• 1 magic scroll from circles 1–3 (or now and then a blank scroll). With Necromancy enabled on New Bradford, necromancy scrolls can show up too.
• 1 random potion: Agility, Strength, Refresh, Lesser Cure, Lesser Heal or Lesser Poison

It may also carry:

• A magic weapon, armor, shield or jewelry (up to 3 chances, from about 20% down to 1% each)
• A musical instrument (about 1% or less)
• Unicorn ribs (35% chance). What they're used for on New Bradford isn't known.

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 3 raw ribs
• 10 horned hides

Tips

• Only female characters can tame or ride it.
• It attacks evil characters on sight. A tamer with negative karma will be attacked.
• At 100.0 skill each attempt has only about a 10% chance, and it needs 2 control slots.
• It can't be poisoned, and it may cure you when poison and damage put you in danger.
• Carve the corpse for 3 raw ribs and 10 horned hides.