Possible Easter Egg - who is Mike Apolis?
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Abalest,
Posted on: 2006-07-12 18:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Coal buddy? aww thanks. It was i. Cheap and me checked out a load of stuff today with not so much as a speck of info about any of the "secret" stuff in the game. I had a theory about the oil spil and thought if i could get my camera to go underwater i could look under the oil spill and see if theres something under it.
Eh and i sat in Grand for about an hour killing the same spawns from the underwater pool. The spawns ranged from level 13-15, minons-boss, and different emotes such as a /e coffee, clipboard, and warm up(or something like it).
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I had a theory about the oil spil and thought if i could get my camera to go underwater i could look under the oil spill and see if theres something under it.
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Well, the oil spill (if you look from above you'll see the Eye of Horus) is connected more to the Blood. But if you're looking for anything Coralax-related, other than dead Coralax rotting in the polluted water, I'm not sure you'll find anything - not that you can dive down anyway, lol.
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Defeated it earlier, just like the NPC dialogue I got.
"Landwalker! How did you get down here?!"
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Yeah, weird text eh. Although, there's still a chance that the devs did it for fun.. or to make fun.. of me.
Yes thats it! The eye of Horus. I was trying to remmber that and tell Cheapman about it but he didnt see it. We were there but he couldnt actually see the image of Horus birdy
And i thought the oil spill had tons to do with the Coralax. THey spawn a lot around there.
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Yes thats it! The eye of Horus. I was trying to remmber that and tell Cheapman about it but he didnt see it. We were there but he couldnt actually see the image of Horus birdy
And i thought the oil spill had tons to do with the Coralax. THey spawn a lot around there.
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The Coralax sends Coralax-Hybrids to do their bidding, and in Port Oakes, because of the oil spill polluting the water in the Oil Spill (which story is connected to the Blood of the Black Stream Epic AT), the Coralax seeks revenge on the people there around the dock areas. It's that whole nature vs people battle. The oil spill is a whole different story - do Mr. Bocor's "The Mask of Mordrogar" story arc. Anyway, polluted water causes the Coralax's coral bodies to desintegrate. I assume this applies to their home, etc.
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ah i have.. didnt really read the clues or anything but i will now. Anything else i need to know 
doh.. i always mess up the quote thingy
I wonder if the other Zones have similar markings from the zone designers, Mike also designed Nerva (according to the board there), maybe there's a branch office in Nerva?
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ah i have.. didnt really read the clues or anything but i will now. Anything else i need to know
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Well, to somewhat extend the story of the BotBS (like 0.5 more), read the Prima guide talking about the Oil Spill.
As for more lore about the Coralax (some of it anyway), do Diviner Maros' 'Cult of the Shaper' arc.
Also, the Temple of Waters SF through Operative Renault.
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I wonder if the other Zones have similar markings from the zone designers, Mike also designed Nerva (according to the board there), maybe there's a branch office in Nerva?
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Someone should check it out. 
I'd laugh if it's underwater somewhere in that vast open ocean from the docks to the Thorn Isle.
Pretty obvious mark from Mike
EDIT: Found in Port Oakes
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There's no mystery here. The man's an Artist, so when he was done with the zone, he squiggled his name in the corner... 
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Cool you guys found one of em. Keep looking though, the biggest Grandville easter egg has yet to be found 
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You must mean the rooms with all of the artists Cubicles?
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Pretty obvious mark from Mike
EDIT: Found in Port Oakes
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And here. They're all over the place.
Also note in the above picture that if you go near the bar... you hear something. This is the same block of the main skyscraper in Marconeville of Port Oakes, facing the hospital.
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In Cap Au Diable, I happened to pass a Luddite guy that said "Does this mean I have to throw away my PSP?"
That was prob the closest to an easter egg I have found.
I used to have a screenshot, but my comp got messed up and lost it in reformat 
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I had asked Ghost Widow about what type of things Mike had hidden and where and she said "The ways of the Mapolis are a mystery" or something like that. We might have to get rough to get some answers out of him.
He was probalby the guy who specifically requested for the Primal Instinct badge to be damn near impossible to find without the aid of the internet.
It seems that along with the latest patch some Arachnoids found the Secret Dev Room and tore it up, they couldnt get rid of Moon River though!
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Lol I guess the devs are going to have a hard time working now arnt they.
Holy necro-post, Batman.
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Cool thread though, I didn't know half of this stuff existed.
I wonder if he's still with the company.
Time for a second post, Mapolis!
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I wonder if he's still with the company.
Time for a second post, Mapolis!
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He appears again in the Easter Egg room in the revised Faultline: Mike and Melissa (aka, War Witch) are hanging out in that room. I'm 99% positive he came over to NCNC with the IP buyout: Dev Tracker.
And I request that the Grandville Easter Egg room be reverted to it's pre-trashed form. The unexplained trashing of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth as I suspect that the devs who put it there were 'punished' for doing so.
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I wonder if he's still with the company.
Time for a second post, Mapolis!
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He appears again in the Easter Egg room in the revised Faultline: Mike and Melissa (aka, War Witch) are hanging out in that room. I'm 99% positive he came over to NCNC with the IP buyout: Dev Tracker.
And I request that the Grandville Easter Egg room be reverted to it's pre-trashed form. The unexplained trashing of it leaves a bad taste in my mouth as I suspect that the devs who put it there were 'punished' for doing so.
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Nah, they just had one hell of an office party.
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Cool you guys found one of em. Keep looking though, the biggest Grandville easter egg has yet to be found
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New redname sighting. So YOU'RE the one we get to blame for Grandville's horrific performance?
Grrrr.
That said, I love the zone, so well done on the imagery.
Would be nice if it didn't rip apart our rigs, though.
EDIT: Wow... got wrapped right into this necropost, didn't I?
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Defeated it earlier, just like the NPC dialogue I got.
"Landwalker! How did you get down here?!"
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