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Possible Easter Egg - who is Mike Apolis?

Abalest

By Abalest,
Posted on: 2006-07-12 18:43 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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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 Nerva in general?

Grrrr.

That said, I love the zone, so well done on the imagery.

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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt

 

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I found that room in Grandville ^_^

Im trying to find that underwater area, but I thing I have not seen metioned in this thread is what zone it is in. Im guessing Port Oakes.

 

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The underwater room is also in Grandeville

 

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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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Lol I guess the devs are going to have a hard time working now arnt they.

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And the forum moderators, too.

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Wow... got wrapped right into this necropost, didn't I?

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Me too. Not looking at the OP date FTW!

 

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The Faultline room seems to be missing content now. I can't believe when they left they went and took the widescreen TV!

 

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But you can can still kick around the balls from the pool table

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Cool thread to be necro'd...just a little disappointed that it wasn't Justice's resident thread necromancer (TheFrog) who did this unholy act.

 

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I may be onto another Easter Egg. In the Midnighter's club, there are many clickable objects with pop-up histories to various topics. One of these is a clickable vase from Cimerora said to have a picture of 5 men bowing to a tree with the sun upon them.

Me thinks this image is a bit odd, and that considering the sun in Cimerora doesn't move, that perhaps something happens when either someone or 5 people do either a bow or praise emote around a tree that has something to do with the sun, perhaps being closest the to sun in the west. It would certainly qualify as an Easter Egg. I could be just be digging too much though.

 

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Hmmm, this explains the name of the cartography store in, I think, Nerva, called "Mapolis."


And, point of information, an Easter Egg is *hidden.* That's hidden hidden, not just hard to see. A true Easter Egg would be behind a door that's not supposed to open, or a graphic that's invisible unless you stand in the right spot, or using a power in a specific place that causes an NPC to say something in response, or an undocumented emote.

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The Most Famous Example of an Easter Egg in a game...

 

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It would certainly qualify as an Easter Egg. I could be just be digging too much though.

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http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt

 

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A badge for thread necromancy?

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Damned undead MMs always using summon powers in weird spots.

 

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It would certainly qualify as an Easter Egg. I could be just be digging too much though.

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I'm not saying the urn is the egg, I know its part of a badge. I'm wondering why such a random picture was depicted on the urn. 5 men bowing under the sun is pretty simple and expected for some ancient artifact, but bowing to a tree?

Considering Cimerora has an unmoving sun, and that there's not too many trees to say that it would be impossible, perhaps one of the trees closest to the sun or highest up may have a reaction when 5 people use an emote like bow or praise to it. I wouldn't consider it impossible. So either that urn's description has something to it, or some dev is quite good at being random in thinking people praising a tree is a believable picture that would be found on an ancient urn.

(Necro thread FTW, the info here is priceless! It shalt live again!!!)

 

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Was just "downstairs". Now this is hanging around:
Arachnoid Spitter Level 46

Not sure of the name, positive of the level. Tried to kill it with a claws/regen stalker level 41. Just didn't have the dps to take it down solo. Had fun self-destructing on it though.

Good luck hunters.

Edit: Thanks Cheapman for directions.

 

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Okay so I went back loaded with reds and purples, a couple of yellows and killed it. Nothing happened. I got 9000 some odd xp and inf. I noticed that the cubicle it was in had blue strips that lit up earlier. This time nothing. So I self-destructed in the cubicle.

Will be going back to see if anything respawns.

 

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Please excuse my spamming but i have an interesting question:

Note the differences in the following screen shots.

First occurence:

I See Arachnoid

It sees me? Lit Cube.

Those first two are almost seconds apart. Note the lines in the cubicle glowing blue.

Second occurrence I'm back, stealthed but Arachnoid is not in the right cubicle.

Live Arachnoid

Dead Arachnoid

In both of those last pics, the walls of the other cubicle do not glow.

Discuss.

 

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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.

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He's listed as working for Cryptic rather than NCNC in your link.

 

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I think the urn means that that this thread is going to be mystically re-animated around springtime every year.

 

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Mike remained at Cryptic. Got Dev confirmation on that.

He was an environmental artist for CoV, that's why his name is hidden on a plaque and there is a cartographer's shop called Mapolis.

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Also Arbiter Apolis in Grandville. Although I'm almost positive that's already been mentioned in this thread.

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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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Oh wow, busted.

Watch, it's probably up in the butt of Lord Recluse's statue.. lol.

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And you could get lost in there for weeks.

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