Its shape, name and function refer to the once widely-used torture device of the same name. Using a Tamer's whip on a pet who is situated in the same tile as the wooden horse and selecting any of the options causes a message to display and a change to a hidden variable on the pet. Depending on the option chosen, this change can be either negative or positive - the only other way to manipulate this variable is sleep sharing, which only allows positive modifications. This variable controls flavor text that the pet makes when whipped.