According to my clock, this was posted about 12 hours ago on HIH.Ducain of HIH wrote:What the heck is a megg?
Well, to answer that, you need to understand what the first megg was (found in the original Halo game). You can find a wealth of information about this at halo.bungie.org. A few of the pages are listed here:
* HBO's Halo 1 easter egg page
* HBO's original mini-FAQ
* HBO's mirror of Meg's writeup (originally made at subnova)
The short answer is that the megg is an easter egg hidden in the game that is a tribute (or whatever you want to call it) to a specific person, in this case Pallor (Meg), a long time Bungie community member.
Recently, a search for a megg in Halo 2 was touched off on our forum by this thread:
http://highimpacthalo.org/forum/showthread.php?t=11658
Leaving the drama behind (you always have those that are more interested in personal glory than having a good time), we can move on to the fact that the Halo 2 megg was indeed found. MANY people cooperated on finding and documenting it, though I'm not going to credit anyone, because that's not what this is about anyhow. I will however say that the guys in the Halo 2 campaign forum did a great job overall, and the overwhelming majority of them continue to be an encouragement to me, and to the rest of our members. Thanks guys.
The egg itself is small, but it's an interesting one. It's found on cairo station, and the egg itself is audio that you hear over the station loudspeakers.
Here is a link to a video of getting to the egg.
http://highimpacthalo.org/misc/halo2megg/halo2megg.wmv
http://highimpacthalo.org/misc/halo2megg/halo2megg.mov - Thanks HBO
Here is a link to the actual audio of the egg, in .wav format.
http://highimpacthalo.org/misc/halo2megg/halo2megg.wav
http://highimpacthalo.org/misc/halo2megg/halo2megg.mp3 - Thanks HBO
What you actually hear is: "Paging Meg: please report to the red courtesy phone. Meg to the red courtesy phone."
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As better documentation of this egg is put together, we'll reference it here.
NOTE: This is a locked archive section of our forum, but if you want to discuss this topic, please feel free to do so in the Halo 2 Campaign section of the forum. Thanks - Duke
For those of you with dial-up or who don't feel like downloading the video, here are the 5 triggers:
1. The Thunderstorm skull must be activated before the first checkpoint of Cairo Station.
2. You must be on legendary, doesn't work on co-op.
3. You can't die, revert to save, or quit while searching for it.
4. Your shields cannot be fully depleted at any time during the level.
5. Get to the bomb room on Cairo Station, with all of the above done, and no other skulls activated. The egg is an audio bit played over the room's loud speakers.
If anyone else can do this, I will be EXTREMELY impressed. o_O
