[Timmer]

One of the funnies things I came across in the EGA version that has not been mentioned is dancing with the fairies. We all know that our Hero does a very beautiful dance. The fairies think its beautiful.

However, every once in a while the hero does some crazy dance (similar to when you step in the ring of mushrooms) and the fairies comment with something like: "Hee Hee! That's a dance?" Don't know if this should be called an easter egg, but I think it's funny as hell

I don't know whenever this happens but I think it's completely random. Maybe it has something to do with a low intelligence score, that would make some sense I'm now learning how to use SCIstudio so I think I could find out under exactly which conditions the hero does this, and maybe I will do this.

Then again, maybe I won't...

[Brightshadow River]

That particular dance has something to do with low dexterity, I think.

There's a lot of easter eggs in this game, though I fail to think of most of them off the top of my head. The gargoyle makes a lot of Monty Python and other interesting references, I know. There's a dolphin that appears in Mirror Lake, and I swear I saw Nessie one day. And other stuff, but of course I can't remember anything interesting.

[Almirena]

In the VGA version, the hero has three choices - yes, no, or maybe - when he's asked by the fairies "Can you dance?"

If he chooses "Maybe", he dances a long and elegant example of the art of terpsichore.

If he chooses "Yes", he performs a faster and more manic version.

[Crowley]

Swordfish: the classic reference is that it was the password to a speakeasy in the Marx Brothers movie Horse Feathers. Also, one of the possible Thieves' Guild passwords is 'Schwertfisch', which is German for swordfish.

Another Sierra reference in Erasmus' place: above the chair there is an instrument called OnKlunk (twisted from On-Line?), which was featured in Leisure Suit Larry 2.

Sometimes you can see eyes in the bushes two screens east of the town gate.

[Orion]

Those eyes are of the fox

[Tallin]

I was just reading through your walkthrough, 'rena, when something connected (ouch!). I realized the "marvellously realistic dragon carving on the wall in front of you: “Let’s see, was it the “dragon with the flagon”, or the “flagon with the dragon”?”" is referring to the fabulously funny 1956 movie starring Danny Kaye, called the Court Jester (also stars Basil Rathbone and Angela Lansbury). Danny Kaye's character has to remember a rhyme about the "flagon with the dragon" and keeps getting it confused.

[Almirena]

It is indeed... and it's a great film, too. I videotaped it from the television about a year ago when I saw it was going to be shown, since I had wonderful memories of it.

[Paladin Wizard]

Usually I know the movies people talk about. But here is one where the name only seems vaguely familiar.

[Rognik]

I saw that movie in the past year on television. (The CBC often plays really old movies.) "The pellet with the poison is in the vessel with the pestle. The flagon with the dragon has the brew that is true." Or something to that effect.

[Spikey]

In the VGA version, the hero has three choices - yes, no, or maybe - when he's asked by the fairies "Can you dance?"

If he chooses "Maybe", he dances a long and elegant example of the art of terpsichore.

If he chooses "Yes", he performs a faster and more manic version.

This is also in response to all QFG1 dance related posts:

I don't know if what 'Rena said here is technically right. If you choose yes, and your dexterity or vitality or whatever it is (as our favourite demoness said) is good enough, your hero dances finely and the Fairies are impressed and will speak with you.
If you choose yes and have insufficient dexterity/etc, your hero is unable to perform adequately and shows his poor dancing ability (and gets booed out of the mushroom stage).

If you choose no, regardless of stats, the Fairies will force you to dance magically and the Hero complies Techno-style (which is an easter egg in itself, as Mark Seibert ripped his own Police Quest 2 Intro theme off to create this musical piece), and then collapses and dies to a (typically) humourous punny death.

There's a dolphin that appears in Mirror Lake, and I swear I saw Nessie one day.

With Mirror Lake (Lake Spiegelsee) in EGA you can see Nessie or the sub from Codename:Iceman, and in the VGA version I think Nessie is still there, but also the 'dolphin' V referred to, which is actually everyone's favourite, 'Delphineus' from Eco Quest 1: The Search For Cetus.

- Spike

[Paladin Wizard]

I'm still learning new stuff about these games. I didn't know about the dolphen. But then again I only played the EGA through a few times before I got tired of the bugs.

[Spikey]

I've actually got some printouts from this OLD QFG site which had pages of easter eggs for each game. Almost all.. not ones like marriage with Khaveen, though.
I'll post it here if I find the link again..

- Spike

[Almirena]

I have never seen the dolphin in the VGA version. I went back to that Spiegelsee hundreds of times... still no dolphin. My hero encountered the submarine and Nessie, but no dolphin.

[Spikey]

I've seen Delphineus there once before.. maybe you need a certain version.

He just pops up and looks at the camera.

- Spike

[D-Boy the Fighter]

But the best In-Game Goddie of all - Amelia's Kiss!

Um, I think I may have missed that one.