

Easter Eggs: the Thread
#18
Posted 16 July 2003 - 03:47 PM
Till next time stay cool

"A gun is a tool, Marian. No better, no worse than any other tool. An axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." Shane, played by Alan Ladd, in the movie Shane (1953).
"Blaming a gun for an action of a criminal is like blaming a car for some accident made by an idiotic driver." Paladinlover.
#19
Posted 18 July 2003 - 10:51 AM
The rhyme about Hut of Brown is taken straight out of Russian folk-tale, da? I seem to remember reading all those stories of Baba Yaga, who flew around on a spoon, and if I recall correctly, that was the translation of the rhyme for her hut...
#20
Posted 18 July 2003 - 11:55 AM
Till next time stay cool

"A gun is a tool, Marian. No better, no worse than any other tool. An axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." Shane, played by Alan Ladd, in the movie Shane (1953).
"Blaming a gun for an action of a criminal is like blaming a car for some accident made by an idiotic driver." Paladinlover.
#21
Posted 18 July 2003 - 02:08 PM

Funnily enough, most of the stories, or at least - the most famous one - revolves around Baba Yaga and a Hedgehog... (NOT a blue one <grin>)
#22
Posted 18 July 2003 - 04:15 PM
Now SHE, Baibichia, is the one who flies around on a spoon. How on earth could I forget that????
More than two hundred versts north-northwest of outer Mosovoka, in the midst of marshy land (now frozen over with snow), which produced little in the way of crops during the warm months, was an area which was permanently dank and fog-strangled; this was a terrible swamp known as Bestol’ by all the city dwellers. The peasants and minor nobility who lived closer to it knew it by another name: Fen of the Witch.
Names do not spring out of nowhere—not as a general rule. And in this case, there were terrible legends about the fen to support such a name. Most puzzling was the way in which the surrounding marshes would be frozen during the long winters, but the Bestol’ would remain boggy and was always shrouded by fogs. The legends included such creatures as the tree-man, who strangled lonely travellers to death, and Baibichia Vyedmina, the frightful witch who dwelled in the heart of the fog-ridden marsh with her house made of dead men’s eyes, and her macabre spade with which she dug up the graves of murderers and sinners, and her wooden spoon with which she removed their eyes. By such creatures were the fairy tales of children made horrible, and yet strangely fascinating.
#23
Posted 19 July 2003 - 07:41 PM
Till next time stay cool

"A gun is a tool, Marian. No better, no worse than any other tool. An axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." Shane, played by Alan Ladd, in the movie Shane (1953).
"Blaming a gun for an action of a criminal is like blaming a car for some accident made by an idiotic driver." Paladinlover.
#24
Posted 30 August 2003 - 06:00 PM
A rare one, though.
And, Almirena, 'Hut of Brown' is not a correct translation of the rhyme.
The real prophecy, um, rhyme, is:
'Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest and your face to me!'
And Baba Yaga wasn't that bad in the folk tales. She usually helped to the main characters of the stories.
Trust me, I'm Russian...

...tsk, tsk. I told you: do NOT smuggle water.
#25
Posted 31 August 2003 - 02:47 AM
I'll have to use that...
#26
Posted 05 September 2003 - 10:25 PM
A rare one, though.
And, Almirena, 'Hut of Brown' is not a correct translation of the rhyme.
The real prophecy, um, rhyme, is:
'Hut, hut, turn your back to the forest and your face to me!'
And Baba Yaga wasn't that bad in the folk tales. She usually helped to the main characters of the stories.
Trust me, I'm Russian...

The Dinosaur is Earl Sinclar from the TV series 'Dinosaurs', it was really popular and I very often watched it, so I recognized him almost instantly when I first saw him. Also, if you see him during the day, you can come back at sunset and see him going back home!
Thanks for the infor on Baba Yaga, I never thought she might actually help people!
Till next time stay cool

"A gun is a tool, Marian. No better, no worse than any other tool. An axe, a shovel, or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that." Shane, played by Alan Ladd, in the movie Shane (1953).
"Blaming a gun for an action of a criminal is like blaming a car for some accident made by an idiotic driver." Paladinlover.
#28
Posted 07 October 2003 - 12:38 AM
I do know that "Hut of Brown, Now Sit Down" is the most popular translation of Baba Yaga's rhyme. This isn't to say it's correct, but how English Writers make it to sound poetic.
'Swordfish' is the password from an old movie. Don't know which one, but I've heard this is an easter egg. Also in the VGA version, the only password used is a corruption of that phrase.

Reading through your Easter Egg comments, "A Hero's Death" is the subtitle of Kaspar's book in the EGA version as well. You just have to 'ask about book'. On those same lines, I think that's the same with the 'Gone Fishing' signs.

The password to get into the cave entrance is "Hiden Gosiek", or "Hide and Go Seek" as they observe in the VGA. You're telling Fred the Troll to go hide and you'll find him!
The meeps toss up a baby meep along with some apple cores while searching for the scroll after you ask for the hair. He's so cute as he's hopping towards the hole again!



That's all I can think of off-hand. You've already
#29
Posted 09 October 2003 - 11:51 PM
"the only good goblin is a dead goblin"
"a good goblin"
"this poor slob was the big looser at last nights poker game, he didn't even have lunch money"
#30
Posted 10 October 2003 - 04:27 AM
It contains every single easter egg and joke and dialogue of the QfG1 VGA version, fighter version. Other walkthroughs are in the pipeline...