User:A Neezles A/NQII Pop Culture References

These are taken from IDNQ's "Secrets" section of their NeoQuest II guides page.

• Mr. Insane looks remarkably like The Architect (Matrix).
• "Live in your world, Get eaten by a vampire bearog in mine". There are no vampire bearogs in NeoQuest II (or NeoQuest, for that matter).
• "Live in your world, Get eaten by a vampire bearog in mine". Or was it "Live in your world, play in ours" (PS2 slogan).
• NeoQuest II Characters are named after characters on an EverQuest Test Server. To quote Mr. Insane's shop: "Rohane was named after my level 60 Halfling rogue on Test Server in EverQuest. Mipsy, Talinia, and Velm were fellow members of my guild -- Balance -- on that server."
• In Neoquest II all of the neopets that are married (!) and have kids (!!) that are different species (!!!). An acara and a wocky can have a child that's a cybunny? Huh?

• Mipsy's red robe appears in the Terror Mountain, Lost Desert (background) and Haunted Woods cut scenes. In the game, however, she has no such robe (dressing up for the occasion, huh?).
• Velm, like Mipsy, has a fancy outfit in the third cut scene we don't see in the game itself.
• "I wish I didn't need these stupid shoes." Mipsy says that throughout the whole game, but does not have any shoes untill very close to the end of the game.
• Rohane says "We emerge victorious!" regardless of whether there's really a "we" or not.

• The Circuit Boards: in Act 1, the circuit board tiles periodically appear. Perhaps they're meant to signify glitches in the matr.. simulator.
• "En taro adun!" It seems that the phrase for Phorofor "ad ro un ta en" is made up of syllables from "En taro adun", which happens to be from the Protoss race in Starcraft.
• The lost city of Phorofor: Phorofor sounds a bit like 404 (which is the HTTP error code for "not found").

Buildings in the centre of Phorofor form the letter P.

• Chiaoscuro is spelled remarkably like chiarocuro, a technique of using light and dark in a work of art.

It can also be translated from italian as Dark Chia.
Alternatively, in The Tale of Despereaux, a rather lonely rat is named Chiaroscuro.

• The Chias in Chiaoscuro don't actually "talk" -- they spew out random words. If you refresh enough, you might actually get something meaningful (1 in... 1060 chance).
• Cave Scorpions lack the defining feature of a scorpion: a "tail tipped with a venomous sting".
• Who is Candar?: No, really, who is he?
• Scuzzy is the widest-spread pronounciation of SCSI (Small Computer System Interface).

• The Royal Bedchambers: Neopets refuses to aknowledge that there's no way to get in there.
• Selasa's words "I fell victim to one of the classic blunders, right after the ones about land wars in Tyrannia and going in against Skeiths when death is on the line--never buy land in the desert." are a reference to Vizzini's dialog in the Princess Bride: "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is: "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But, only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!""