In-game movie/pop-culture homages - what have you found?Follow

Yeah it was, something around taking 1 dmg for each card over 5 at the upkeep phase of your turn. Trying to find a link...

Way off...my bad. Its the Black Vise that I was thinking about, no card named Ebon Vise.
Hey....its been awhile since my Magic days ok...I'm a little rusty.

Edited, Thu Jan 27 11:44:16 2005 by NephthysWanderer

Surprised no one has said this one yet, but in Loch Modan there're green monsters in the Lake that look like the Loch Ness Monster

I remember questing in Badlands awhile back and there are 2 gnomes in the NE that have a little robot running around them saying "One day I'll be a real boy!" I thought that was funny =)

Well you know Ebon is probably short for Ebony which is another word for black.

There's a quest that you complete while doing the Stockades instance entitled "The Hand of Dextren Ward", likely taken from the popular H.P. Lovecraft horror story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward"; both characters are accused of "delving into black arts".

yeah, when i got that one, i thought "what a pampered Pooter, uses silk to whipe his ***. And 15 to boot, thats alot of ****"

There is an NPC named Sven in the top left corner of Darkshire. He gives you a quest which takes you over to his farm, the Yorgen Stead.

For those who don't know, Sven Yorgen Erricson is the manager of the England Football team :D

Well here I go dating myself, but there is a miner's quest is called "Smelt On, Smelt Off", which is a reference to The Karate Kid and "Wax on, Wax off". Over three quests you have to bring the guy a whopping 160 metal bars (40 iron and 120 Mithril) and some odds and ends. It's a long, mundane task you might not see the purpose of, but it improves your skill greatly. :)

When you're done with him, he sends you to see "His Finest Pupil" Who tells you "Around these parts I am known as the Mithril Kid". His name is Trenton, probably because the Karate Kid was displaced from Jersey.

He also tells you "At last year's All-Valley Blacksmithing Championship, all those who watched saw my leg get swept from under me by a cowardly dog from the Venture Co. Foundry. What they didn't know, however, was the reason I was able to continue and ultimately win the tournament: That's right, ornate mithril boots!" Which is pretty much what happened in the movie. (Not the Mithril Boots, but his training)

The Trolls dance is based upon the brazilian form of "fighting without fighting" Caprela(not sure on spelling) which was made from nessesity(sp) when many brazilian slaves were banned from fighting amongst their various gangs by their "owners"(not entirely sure but think thats the general "jist" of it) basically, nether opponant can hit each other, I'm totally unsure of this but would imagine that the loser would probably be the first person to hit the other, rather then the last=) Personally, I think it's a shining example of finding a peacefull way of doing things, even if they were forced!

Unsure wether these weapons are uniform, like irl or other games, but I know the Zweihander(or simlier) and flamberge swords are from The final Fantasy series of games, and soul blade / edge beat-em-ups respectively (The Zwei one I remember from doing a mini-game in FF7, and the Flamberge one is a weapon you can earn with Seigfreid in the playstation version of the game=))

Please correct any mistakes, I'd like to know wether or not I'm right actually as I'm not personally convinced=)

Majria

edit: Doh, forgot to add the swords are sold in ether rachet or booty bay, cannot remember which one though=(


Edited, Fri Jan 28 22:07:25 2005 by Majria

I caught a reference today while running through Theramore.

There's a Captain Vimes in the Building behind the practice grounds in town.

This comes straight out of Terry Pratchett's 'Discworld' series of books. Captain Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork Night Watch is one of the main charachters. (in quite a few books, anyway.)

Highly recommended reading. Pratchett writes some really funny stuff.

I like the most obvious reference: 'This is mah BOOMSTICK!!!"

From the evil dead series of movies starring bruce campbell. boomstick is the cooolest word ever and i wish they had a voiced emote that just says that for dwarves...idk how many times i wanted to shout that out after a particulary nasty fight with the horde inwhich i was victorious.

That would be awesome. I can just imagine the little quotes the devs would give them - especiall for Truckle the Uncivil ^_^



If I ever see a Granny Weatherwax NPC I might run the other way tho, before she makes me think I'm a toad =D