Inside joke?

In Madam Lil's there is a couch called Plastic Couch. This is a reference to one of the original fans.
I found this out ages ago and never thought much of it. Recently I stumbled across some couch related scripts:

03065Plastic_Couch_Hit
{6664}{6664 Daniel McPherson} (the name of belle the sheep)

03085PCouch_Bust

If you hurt the couch then Belle "Baaas" and you lose your credit (i.e. if you have already paid for a girl then your credit is cancelled}.

Belle has the internal name Daniel McPherson. The name sounds familiar. Is he a character in the game? Or another inside joke?

Near the couch scripts were these scripts:

03064MasteroftheFG_EndCombat
{8817}{idontcarewhohewas.wav} (calls this sound)

03062MasteroftheFG_Ent-Combat
{8816}{FG-enterCombat.wav} (calls this sound)

03063MasteroftheFG_CriticalHit
{8805}{FG-equip.WAV} (calls this sound)

The sounds are very un-Arcanum like and it's obvious they are part of some sort of joke. One of them sounds a bit like Vincent Price talking over some music.
Does anyone know what this is about?

 

Isn't he the Master of Disarm Traps, located in Caladon?

He's also a real person who works for micros*ft...
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/

 

Isn't the Vincent Price thingy what you hear when you get to the Blind Master's place? It gives me the creeps, it's triggered every time I use the aerial decapitator.

 

That's precisely the reason I use the Aerial Decapitator. Though, it sounds more like someone banging on a gong to me.

 

He is definetly scary, killing his chickens like that. And the decapitator... I love it but hate it. It's a cool but frightening weapon.

 

The sound reminds me of the INto to the Mortal Kombat movie theme....

...as for killing chickens with the decapitator....

...better that than stumbling accrooss an old man "choking his chicken" ...............uhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh

*badum* *Chhhhhhhhh*

 

I'm the one who shot him. You guys should thank me.

 

The dialog and sound effects are courtesy of a Kung-Fu movie called "Master of Flying Guillitine".

A couple weeks ago it ran on one of the movie channels and startled me out when I first heard that sound. (I hadn't gone after the decapitator yet.) Long story short, I watched the rest of the movie, and there was the dialog "I don't care who you are!"

 

Well, the title of the movie explains how the aerial decapitator got its name. Pretty funny, I guess those guys thought the movie was cool enough (or sucky enough) to make a joke about it in their game. Neat!
Of course, now I want to see the movie.

 

Fair warning - Even for a kung-fu movie, this one has it all.

Bad acting, bad script, bad special effects, bad editing, etc., etc., etc.

Beyond that you're on your own. I'm not entirely sure, but I think it was on Encore. Enjoy!

 

Well thanks for clearing up that mystery.
But now the remnants of Troika will be hunted down and sued for copyright infringement by some obscure Chinese director.
I hold you personally responsible.

 

ooooppppsssss........

 

Lynch him.

 

(Scampers off, whimpering)

 

*Brings the rope and leads the mob*

 

(Stops cold)

Hey, wait a minute.... You're trying to string me up for something that hasn't even happened yet!!!

 

We're just being cautious. Now stop fighting and surrender, worm!

 

Nuts! Feet don't fail me now!

Back to the subject though...

Has anyone identified that sound effect the sewer shambler or fleshy mound makes when it dies? For some odd reason I keep getting reminded of an old grade-z sci-fi flick called "Galaxy of Terror".

 

Vorak, have you just recieved a custom avatar?