Horned, brown-furred ox

[jcljules]

What is this creature? Its available at one of the mount shops IG, and I haven't been able to find out from any of the docs what its good at, or if there is another name for it. I hope this isn't a question thats too IC; but since every other creature I've seen for sale at a mount shop has a description and traits listed on the website, I thought it wouldn't be too secret.

[Lizzie]

OOC: It's an ox. You know, like we have oxen in real life. Sort of like, cows and buffalo. Oxen are used traditionally in the USA for pulling farm equipment (before god invented the engine). Big burly strong plodding slow as molasses lazy-ass critters.

IC: if you're in the mount store, you can "view ox." I don't think you can "view #3" in mount stores but you -can- view the actual critter if you use that syntax instead of the number.

[Tisiphone]

Horned, brown-furred ox

[jcljules]

Ok, ok; so same as an earth ox. 

I never trust RL names in Zalanthas, but I suppose this one was right. Thanks for your help. I also didn't know you could "view ox," I just tried "view #3"

[Tisiphone]

I never trust RL names in Zalanthas

That's wise of you. However, yes, this one happens to work out somewhat similarly - though I think they're a bit different in some minor ways. Still, visual representation is good.

[Haze]

I never trust RL names in Zalanthas

I think you're usually pretty safe to trust RL names in Zalanthas.  For all the weird creatures out there, the game is still written in English.

Snakes are snakes, ox are oxen, swords are swords...  I can't think of any place where an English word is used to describe something other than what that word would normally describe.  I'm sure there are probably a couple, but I can't think of them right now.

What am I missing?

[touringCompl3t3]

Dwarves.  Real-life dwarves typically are not hairless and will usually respond with confusion if you ask them about their focus.

[a strange shadow]

[FantasyWriter]

Dwarves.  Real-life dwarves typically are not hairless and will usually respond with confusion if you ask them about their focus.

HaHa, LMFAO

[Tisiphone]

Mantis.

[Fathi]

I always kinda pictured 'em as yaks.

[FantasyWriter]

I always kinda pictured 'em as yaks.

Me too, especially with the sdesc of their wild counterparts.
a woolly plains ox  or something like that

[brytta.leofa]

IC: if you're in the mount store, you can "view ox." I don't think you can "view #3" in mount stores but you -can- view the actual critter if you use that syntax instead of the number.

"view 3" (instead of "view #3") should work, as well.  Mount shops are odd.

[Majikal]

I never trust RL names in Zalanthas

I think you're usually pretty safe to trust RL names in Zalanthas.  For all the weird creatures out there, the game is still written in English.

Snakes are snakes, ox are oxen, swords are swords...  I can't think of any place where an English word is used to describe something other than what that word would normally describe.  I'm sure there are probably a couple, but I can't think of them right now.

What am I missing?

Tarantula. Scorpion. A wee bit different than the tarantulas and scorpions I've seen wandering around my house. 

Not trusting the english interpretation on zalanthas = good caution.

[Manhattan]

 

[Tisiphone]

Aurochs are subtly different.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

And yet they boast the slightly-fictional appearance that oxen lack ... I vote to see Aurochs be the Zalanthan Ox.

[brytta.leofa]

That particular auroch's horns aren't reaching towards the sky.

[Lizzie]

I miss my aurochs. I hope someone is taking good care of it, somewhere in the world.

That is all.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

That particular auroch's horns aren't reaching towards the sky.

Uh, I'm pretty sure that's not the same thing. Those are described as antlers, and antlers have a different appearance than horn, as the auroch has.

[Tisiphone]

That particular auroch's horns aren't reaching towards the sky.

Uh, I'm pretty sure that's not the same thing. Those are described as antlers, and antlers have a different appearance than horn, as the auroch has.

Let's head off this discussion right here, shall we?

[brytta.leofa]

That particular

Uh, I'm pretty sure

Let's head off this discussion right here, shall we?

The white-jacketed orderly subdues you, despite your attempts to struggle away!
> tell 7DV (flailing wildly, spittle flying) I refute you!  I refute you without mentioning any IC-sensitive evidence!

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

*snicker*

[jcljules]

I prefer to imagine Zalanthan oxen as a bit less shaggy...

[Vessol]

I always pictured Gwoshi more like a yak.