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Easter
Eggs
Alternate
Endings
Missing
Movies
Fun
Observations
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Fun
Section
EASTER
EGGS
The easter eggs section will list all the fun things that
have been inserted in the game. I will
not include any picture of them since they are
Easter Eggs after all ;-) Happy hunting. If you do
find
more eggs not listed here, please send me an email telling me the location
in the game.
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Main Island - Also called
Temple Island. After being saved by the Moiety rebel in the
beginning
of the game, walk towards the cliff face
(near the stairs going up to Rotation Room) and
look down the cliff. You should see
the body of the guard who took your Prison Book.
Return
to this location after investigating the rest
of this island, look at top left corner and
you
should see a picture with 2 kids on it. The
picture only appears when the body is not there.
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Main Island - Walk to the
cave entrance which is blocked by the closed wooden gate. Sneak
under the gate to enter and on the first screen, have a look
at the rock on your lower left. There is a kid's face
on the rock. Go back to the Rotation Room, rotate the room so that
the room in the cave entrance is opened. Return to
just near the gate and have a look at
the rock on your
right. You should see faces of three
children.
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Crater Island - Walk pass
the boiler and go towards the ladder up Gehn's Lab. Before going
up look at the top left corner and you
should see "ALEX". The writing is very, very tiny!
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Gehn's Journal & Katran's
Journal - The fish with tusks, Gehn's pet, is reffered in both
journals BUT they are spelt differently. In Gehn's
Journal it is "WHARK" but in Katran's
Journal it is "WAHRK". I guess Gehn
is more correct since he wrote Riven.
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Gehn's Lab - There is a
magnifying glass inside Gehn's lab which is magnifying a cross
section of a piece of wood. Look closely on the grain
structures.....it looks like a fish.
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Forest Island - At the
Sunner's rock pool, facing the stone path, there is scribbling
on
the sand. I couldn't work out what it is but if
you can....do tell.
ALTERNATE ENDINGS
These are the
10 alternate endings found in the game:
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Winning Solution - Open
Star Fissure after meeting Gehn, capturing Gehn in the Prison
Book and freeing Katran.
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Losing Solution - Open Star
Fissure after meeting Gehn, capturing Gehn in the Prison
Book and not freeing Katran.
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Losing Solution - Open Star
Fissure after meeting Gehn, not capturing Gehn in the
prison book and not freeing Katran.
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Losing Solution - Open Star
Fissure before meeting Gehn, not capturing Gehn in the
prison book and not freeing Katran.
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Losing Solution - Refuse Gehn's offer 3 times
linking to Prison Age.
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Losing Solution - Touching
Prison book in Riven after meeting Gehn and capturing Gehn
in the Prison book.
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Losing Solution - Touching
Prison book in Moiety Age after meeting Gehn
and
capturing Gehn in the Prison book.
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Losing Solution - Touching
Prison book in Moiety Age before meeting Gehn
and
capturing Gehn in the Prison book.
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Losing Solution - Touching
Prison book in Riven before meeting Gehn and capturing Gehn
in the Prison book.
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Losing Solution - Meet
Gehn, find linking book at Moiety Age and touch it before going
back to Gehn.
MISSING
MOVIES
This section list currently found missing movies
using the Riven Movie Player program written
by John
Marvin. If you do find more missing movies not
listed here, please send me an email
telling
me the location on the CDs.
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Crater Island [304_bpressup.mov and 304_bpress.mov] Book pressing
machine.
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Plateau Island
[266_gptty.mov] "...Nothing else is silly putty", an advert shown on one
of the consoles in the Underwater Chamber
Complex.
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Plateau Island
[220_g8.0c.mov] This is not a missing movie but you can use this to
look
at Gehn's Scribe if you have not seen
him.
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Gehn's Age [10_ogo.mov]
Gehn singing Italian Opera. You will also hear some clapping
at the end of the singing.
FUN
OBSERVATIONS
New Fun
Observation
Gehn Transmisson Into The Temple From The
Cage
contributed by Rob
O'Connor)
The cage in Gehn's temple (The one that has a
big glowing pentagram in it, and
the food sacrifices to beasts on
either side), is indeed used to transmit
signals.
If you are
nearing completion of the game, and you walk in the front door of
the
temple room, the first thing you notice is that someone has closed
the
front door again. When you open the door, you will see a big
glowing Gehn
inside this cage, watching you. The glowing Ghen looks
like a bigger version of
the prerecorded schoolhouse Gehn message. This
one, however, seems this one is
a live transmission. It only lasts for
a few mute seconds then blinks out.
The reason why it is live: Gehn
has made a quick stop on Riven to spy on you. I
took a mag-lev as part
of the journey back to the temple (the mag-lev that
parks outside of
Gehns' laboratory, and for which the blue "call-button" is
inside
Gehn's lab.) However, when I went to go back to this mag-lev,
someone
had used it, for it was not outside Gehn's now moved to the
other end of its
track.
I wondered where Gehn could transmit
from: the answer of course is the
"throne-inside-the-cage" room, near
the temple room. When it is time for the
natives to do a sacrifice,
Gehn can sit down on this throne, push the button to
open the front
door of his temple, command them through his big glowing
head
transmission in the temple room, and watch the natives tremble in
fear by
looking to the right of his throne, and peering at them through
his portal
window to the temple.
(1) These are what some
of the actors did before Riven.
KATRAN
(Sheila Goold) Crazy In Love [1992
TV]
NELAH (Christine Steel) Team
Knight Rider [1997]
MOIETY PRISONER (Ernie Whitecloud)
Sorority Girls And The Creatures From Hell [1990]
(2) The Cages at Main Island are not used
in the game. I wonder why? The cages look very
simular to the video units found inside the D'ni
School and Gehn's bedroom. Probably the
cages are used
to trasmit video signals. The videos are in D'ni. Anyone out there have a
translation?!?
(3) The Pods. After
knocking 5 times on one of the pods/Riven house at Forest Island, a
Rivenese peeps out
at you.
(4) Gehn's Scribe.
There is a robed man running away using the cable car at Plateau
Island.
This happens to
be Gehn's scribe played by Tony
Fryman.
(4) Wahrk. When you are at
the underwater viewing chamber, press the button that lights up
the
red light to called Gehn's pet....the Wahrk. Press
it a few more times and it will head butt the
viewing
glass.
(4) Cave Painting. The
painting found on the cave wall at Forest Island depicted how Gehn
punishes
the Moiety rebels. Gehn uses the Wahrk Gallows
to lower the bait into the mouths of hungry wahrks.
This
is also being told in Gehn's Journal and is shown by the number game found
inside the D'ni School.
(5) Huge Daggers.
Gigantic weapons can be found at some of the islands. Why? Well if you
have
read Gehn's Journal,
the daggers are placed around the islands as a reminder of Rivenese of
their failure. So far I have not found any on Crater
Island and Prison Island. My best guess is that
the
Rivenese are prohibited from going there so there is no need for any
warning signs.
(6) D'ni Script. On the
Main Island, D'ni scripts can be found on the walls of the Rotation
Room
and at the circumference
of the Golden Dome. D'ni scripts are written on the wall at
the D'ni
School on Forest Island. On Plateau Island,
D'ni scripts can be found on the base of the Mapping Room.
In Gehn's Age, D'ni scripts can be found above his desk. Is
there anyone out there with a translation of the
scripts?
(7) Animal Pictographs.
Non of the animals shown on the manual contribute to the solution
of
the Animal Pictograph puzzle inside the prison
cave(Forest Island).
(8) Missing Pictures. There
are 2 pictures published on official sites but is not in the game.
[From Mark H. DeForest, CYAN].There was one image on a
Myst calander of a small stretch
of land that is not
accessable in the game. And there was a picture in the Cinefacs magazine
of the sunners swimming in the
ocean.
I've seen another one at the Official Riven site
that looks like a Riven tool.
(9)
Explanation As To Why Gehn Is So Easily Tricked Into Entering
Prison Book.
[From Mark H. DeForest, CYAN].Yes,
Gehn is an intelligent man, but he is also desperate.
This scenario is much like a poisoned glass of wine. If
you offered Gehn a glass of wine he
suspected was poisoned, he would
ask you to drink it first. If you drank it without hesitation
then he would think that it might not be poisoned and
if it was something he really wanted
(such as a linking
book out of prison), then he might take a chance. Admittedly, if you
didn't
use the trapbook until the third time, Gehn
should be a little more suspicious than if you
used it the first time
he held it in front of you. But this is hard for you to see while you are
trapped in the book. And actually, there was suppose to
be a much longer delay before Gehn
uses the trapbook
after you use it to represent that many days have past. But because of
gameplay reasons, we couldn't leave the screen black
for very long or else people would reset
their machines thinking the
game crashed (Doh!).
(10) Eggs at Gehn's
Lab.
On one of the tables,
there is a box with drawers. Open the top drawer to reveal rows
upon
rows of eggs. Move your cursor third row from the
bottom, them move to 2nd egg from
your right. Click on
the egg and your cursor disappear. |
