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Cross-Series (Super Mario Bros.): Get a high score, and Mario will appear in a desert scene, wearing a sombrero and playing a guitar. You also get different Mario "dressup" images for each 100,000 you get in a game. 100,000 is Mexican Mario, 200,000 is African Mario. Unfortunately I have not gotten 300,000 or 400,000 yet, but apparently there are new pictures at these two hi-scores as well. (Credit: Flying Omelette & Mark Kelly)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO.
Cross-Series (Super Mario Bros.): Mario and Luigi appear in the Link-Up multiplayer game as player 1 and 2. (Credit: Mark Kelly)
Status: TRUE: Verified by FO. Source: Nintendo Power.
Quest For Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero? (PC)
Cross-Series (King's Quest 4): (EGA version only): Type "Laugh" at the parser while in Erasmus's house to get the message, "This is a serious game, Rosella". Rosella being the main character in King's Quest IV. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Maniac Mansion): The town's resident pub is called the SCUMM bar. SCUMM being LucasArts' proprietary adventure game scripting engine (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion), which rivalled Sierra's SCI (Sierra Character Interface?) at the time. SCUMM was used for classic point-and-click adventures such as Broken Sword 1 and 2, Flight of the Amazon Queen, and Sam and Max, as the system actually evolved throughout the years.(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: (VGA version only): Looking at the lamp in the inn tells you that it's for rent, and that you should inquire in Quest for Glory II. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: (VGA version only): Looking at the empty patch on the ground tells you that Ali Chica (QFG2) once set up store here. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (The Three Stooges): The 3 guards attempting to cut you off in the bandit hideout are spitting images of Larry, Curly, and Moe, the Three Stooges. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: The Sundries store shopkeeper is reading a book; when asked about it he says it's entitled "Quest for Glory: A Hero's Death". (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Literature (Baba Yaga): Baba Yaga is the same cannibalistic, polymorphing witch character from English children's folklore. Although the real Baba Yaga doesn't have a talking skull helper, this game's rendition of the witch also has the characteristic bird-legged hut, which also responds to the ditty "Hut of Brown Now Sit Down". (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Codename: Iceman): At mirror lake, you can sometimes see the periscope of a submarine which then proceeds to run aground and sink. This one refers to Codename: Iceman. You do get to pilot a submarine in that game, and it's annoyingly easy to die by running aground. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (EcoQuest): Also at mirror lake, you can sometimes see a dolphin. Looking at it tells you that it's Delphinus the dolphin from EcoQuest, and it's asking for directions back to its game. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Loch Ness Monster): Also at mirror lake, you can catch the Loch Ness Monster. It can't find the way to Loch Ness. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Dinosaurs): (VGA version only): Sometimes, when walking along the path east of town, you will encounter a miniature Earl Sinclair (from that old sitcom Dinosaurs). You can encounter him twice a day, when he's going to work, and when he's going home from work. Complete with ground shaking. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Looney Tunes): Thieves only: One of the houses you can break into (belongs to a nice old lady) contains a cat and a bird in a cage, references to Warner Brother's Tweety and Sylvester. Examine/talk to them for more references. Save before doing this, as they can KILL YOU. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: (VGA version only): You can ask Sam the Beggar about Silmaria, the setting of Quest for Glory V. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Steven Spielberg): (VGA version only): You can also ask Sam about "cider", to which he tells you about a guy named Amblin from Spielburg who started a cider company. Amblin Entertainment was the company that Steven Spielberg started as a private venture.
(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Monty Python & the Holy Grail): The Gargoyle that guards Erasmus's tower does a mean "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" bridgekeeper routine. He specifically asks you "What is your name?" and "What is your quest?".You can't make him commit suicide, however, so answer truthfully. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Monkey Island): Answers to the Gargoyle's question includes the line "to become a pirate", which illicits a response straight from Monkey Island. In the VGA version, the Gargoyle says "Boy, have you got the wrong game", and then sends you down the mountain to your death a la Holy Grail. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (King's Quest 4): Amongst Erasmus's curios is a Rosella Stone. Pun on Rosella from King's Quest IV, as well as the famous real life archeological find. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Space Quest): As the adventurer's guildmaster tells you, one of the monster trophies was earned and donated by the "Two Guys from Andromeda", the programmers of the Space Quest series. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: The Black Falcon Statue is amongst the brigand's treasure hoarde. It appears in every QFG game. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Programmers: The finale of the game has the game's producers amongst the cast (more apparent in the VGA version). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire (PC)
Literature (Mother Goose): Right clicking on the candle in the menu screen tells you that it belongs to "Jack B. Nimble". You know, the guy who's being nimble, the guy who's being quick, the guy who jumped over the candlestick? (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Star Trek): Our heroes have a near miss with the USS Enterprise from Star Trek during the intro movie. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Programmers: The city of Rasier is an anagram of Sierra. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Marx Brothers): The Marx Brothers are programmed into the game. Here's where to find them:
Chico Marx: Ali Chica, the annoying salesman who doesn't seem to have anything other than a map and compass.
Groucho Marx: Ali Fakir, who sells you the green saurus.
Harpo Marx: Turn the "Silly Clowns" option on, then explore the streets of Shapier, particularly the T-Junctions.
(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Merv Griffin): Shoot the Griffin with a targeted magic spell to wake him up and learn that its name is "Merv the Griffin". I wonder if that film production company's still around. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Programmers: Producers Corey and Lori Cole appear as ration sellers Scoree and Sloree in the Fountain Plaza. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Literature (Roget's Thesaurus): When the Saurus follows you into Aziza's abode, you learn that it's name is "Roget the Saurus" (Roget's Thesaurus).
(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Star Trek): A model of the USS Enterprise is in the magic shop. The game sarcastically tells you it's the USS Exitprize. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (King's Quest 4): Also at the magic shop is a Rosella doll. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Also at the magic shop is a QFG1 antwerp, on a stick. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Cecil the Seasick Serpent): Also at the magic shop is a doll of Cecil the Seasick Serpent. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Harry Houdini): Wizards only: You can request that Harry Houdini be your mentor...unfortunately, he's too tied up. Literally. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Wizards only: Zara, potion seller from QFG1, is a potential mentor (refuses you).
(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Merlin): Wizards only: Merlin, legendary wizard, is a potential mentor (refuses you). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Wizards only: Erasmus and Fenris, the wacky wizard duo from QFG1, agree to be your mentors.
(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Space Quest): Ask the astrologer about the solar system model, and he'll tell you that Ortega, Phleebut and other Space Quest locales are part of it. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Real Place (Stock Market): Yes, that's a stock market chart on the astrologer's wall. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Conquests of Camelot): Mirages in the desert include a dead King Arthur from Sierra's Conquests of Camelot. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Products (Microsoft): In Rasier, the windows above the plazas are made by the MS Window Corp. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: The Black Falcon Statue which appears in every single QFG game is the one that Ferrari asks you to steal.
(Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Beavis and Butthead): After stealing the statue, you can "Give Ferrari the Bird", Beavis and Butthead style. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Quest For Glory 3: Wages of War (PC)
Specific Reference: There's a silly clown in the inn. Reference to the Silly Clown option in QFG2. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Music (White Rabbit): Note the music playing in the apothecary; it's an actual song about drug abuse. It's entitled "White Rabbit", circa 1960's, by Jefferson Airplane. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Smokey the Bear): Use the rest option in the savanna, light a fire, sleep awhile, and then attempt to leave without putting it out first. You'll see Smokey the Elephant (rendition of Smokey the Bear, wilderness fire prevention mascot) chide you about preventing forest fires in a death screen that turns out to be a test. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Laura Bow): The weapon store is selling "Lara bows" and "Daggers from the Aman Ra tribe". This refers to another of Sierra's adventures, "Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra". (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (Sanford & Son): Sanford and Son, straight from the TV show, run the junk shop. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Stuff in the junk store includes the Black Falcon Statue, which appears in every QFG game. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Products (SPAM): Inventory check: The icon representing your rations shows cans of SPIM. This is a poke at the real life canned processed pork product SPAM. SPIM is also an in-game acronym for "Special Portion Instant Meal". Isn't that what SPAM is as well? (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: You can find signs in the wilderness that tell you Shapier is about 5,000 miles in (direction). Shapier is the setting of QFG2. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (King's Quest): Repeatedly looking at a tree tells you that it's a DavenTree. Daventry is the setting of the King's Quest series. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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TV Shows (The Pink Panther): Kill a giant ant, then examine its body. You get an old, lame joke about the Pink Panther song ("Dead ant, dead ant...dead ant...well, you get the idea.") (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Ask the apothecary owner about his dream to get him to talk about a tree, which turns into a woman. Reference to Julunar the tree girl in Quest for Glory 2. You can also tell him about her once he mentions this. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: Sierra loves to predate itself: Rakeesh and his wife will tell you about Shakra, who has set up shop in Silmaria. You won't get to visit Silmaria until QFG 5. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Leisure Suit Larry): To get a Leisure Suit Larry reference, attempt to buy an "amulet that would make any woman want to kiss you" from the dubious amulet seller. The game will tell you that you're "playing the wrong Sierra game". In one of the earlier LSL's, you ALSO buy a good luck charm from a dubious charm seller with the same promise. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Famous Person (Laurel & Hardy): You can encounter Laurel and Hardy (as Ollie and Stanley), looking for the French Foregin Legion, whilst sleeping in the wilderness. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: Sometimes, you can come across traps that you can spring for no apparent reason whatsoever. The traps are reminiscent of the one you freed the talking fox from back in QFG1. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Quest For Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness (PC)
Cross-Series (The Castle of Dr. Brain): A brochure in the adventurer's guild is for Sierra's puzzle game "The Castle of Doctor Brain". And speaking of Doctor Brain, you'll encounter his ancestor, Dr. Crainium, in town. His house is laden with puzzles that also dot his descendant's abode. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Feed fake info into the TRAP device in Dr. Crainium's house. One of the possible critters you can ID is Smokey the Elephant from QFG3. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: Click on any chandelier in the game to get the message "Your chandelier swinging days are over". Reference to QFG1, where you used this method to knock the 3 Stooges (see corresponding QFG1 cameo) senseless. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: Katrina mentions something about being kicked out of the Wizard's Institute of Technocery. Reference to QFG2. Now you know what's with that blank picture there. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (Monty Python & the Holy Grail): A monster you can encounter is the vorpal bunny, a white rabbit with blood on its mouth. Reference to the rabbit in the cave of Caennerborg, a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Baba Yaga (your nemesis in QFG1) is also in this game, playing a bit part. The witch isn't too happy about being chased away. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Cross-Series (Gabriel Knight): See that hanged man outside Baba Yaga's abode? It also appeared in Gabriel Knight. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: One of Dr. Crainium's conversation options refers to an antwerp population explosion in Spielburg. Spielburg is the setting of QFG1...and YOU were the one who caused it (see corresponding QFG1 cameo). You can also catch an antwerp in the game. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: Sierra loves to predate itself: Dr. Crainium also mentions a science guild in Silmaria. Yes, there is a science guild in Silmaria in QFG5. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Thief only: The Black Falcon Statue that appears in every QFG game appears in the monastery. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Quest For Glory 5: Dragon Fire (PC)
Cross-Series (Monkey Island): If you die from drowning, you get a death message telling you that you aren't Guybrush Threepwood. Reference to the protagonist of LucasArt's Monkey Island series, who can hold his breath underwater for 10 minutes (real time). (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: The cloud face guardian outside Erasmus's abode forces you to replay the scene with the guardian gargoyle in QFG1. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Literature (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy): The cloud face guardian may ask you about the Meaning of Life, to which the correct answer is 42. This one's from the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Salim from QFG3 and Julunar from QFG2 run the apothecary. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: Sam the not-a-beggar-now from QFG1 runs the bank (!!!). Oh, and because you helped him back then, he opens an account for you with no hassle. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Programmers: You finally find the Famous Adventurer's Correspondence School in 12345 Aerris Way. Aerris is Sierra spelt backwards. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: Wizards only: If you have the manual from QFG3, there's a listing for the spell "Thermonuclear Blast" which cannot be learnt in that game. Well, the Famous Adventurer gives the scroll containing this spell to you if you perform a certain task (fighters and thieves get something different). Useless spell; casting = instant death. Natch. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Movie (The Lion King): There's a boar head trophy in the adventurer's guild which (according to description) makes you feel like singing Hakuna Matata. It's the head belonging to Puumba from Disney's Lion King/Timon and Puumba. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: The Dead Parrot Inn is a poke at the OD'd parrot back in Rasier's Blue Parrot Inn in QFG2. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Programmers: Look past the gazebo which takes you to Erasmus's abode to see mountains that look suspiciously like those in the Sierra logo. If you click the eye icon on them you'll get "a subliminal message to buy more games". (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Literature (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde): Dr. Moebius/Dr. Praetorius (you'll find out they're one and the same later on) parallels the classic Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. You even buy two separate pizzas for them (both with different toppings) in order to please both sides of this guy. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Specific Reference: You can access the QFG2 Silly Clowns "option" in the game after you provide entertainment in the inn (between rites 6 and 7 I think). Does nothing but give you stupid messages in this game, however. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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Character Cameo: You get not 1, but 2 Black Falcon Statues this game. Thieves only: You start with one (the fake one that seems to be around every other game). Everyone: It's in the governor's mansion treasure room. It COULD be the real one, but nobody ever confirms it. (Credit: Ultimate Chicken)
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