text: InnerRayg Report post Posted July 9, 2012 (edited) Polls are NOW OPEN! Click the banner to vote now!Welcome to FLASH FIRE, the quickest character design contest this side of the BBC!So what's all this then, I hear you asking, and to you I say, this is a contest. We're doing it quick and dirty guys - you've got about two weeks, starting now until Sunday, July 22nd, 2011 at 11:59 PM Central Standard Time to illustrate one (or all!) of three characters from Ta-Koro. Toa Tahu, Turaga Vakama, and Jaller or Takua as a Matoran. We will then take the winners for each design, print them out on a sturdy board and cut them out to be free standing figures. These figures will then go on display at Brickfair this year in front of a matte painting made by yours truly. You can do this in any style, as long as you follow a few rules.1. Your entry must be an entire standing figure.As you can see, the entry on the left has made the mistake of cutting off part of the figure. This is bad! The goal of this is to make some paper doll style figures we can cut out and pose amongst the many MOCs at Brickfair - it's our chance as flat-medium artists to show those sculptural guys what for! So make sure you draw an entire figure.2. The figure must be by itself, with little or no background elements. As you can see, again our foolish member on the left has messed up and included a lot of extra background on his piece! This is pointless, as we will be cutting out the figure anyway and so please do not do this.3. Your characters must be in scale!As you can see, it's a big problem when the figures don't have a good scale relationship to each other! So here is our rule of thumb for figures. If you are drawing them by hand, then just measure them with a ruler and scan them at about 150 DPI. If you are doing digital work, then make sure your canvas in your favorite program is set to the proper scale, again at minimum 150 DPI. Not sure what any of that means? Get ahold of me by PM, I'll help you figure it out.For your Toa Tahu, the figure must be between 5.5 to 7 inches tall.Turaga Vakama must be between 3.5 to 4.5 inches tall.The Matoran must be from 3 to 4.5 inches tall.Got it? Good.FAQ:How is height measured?It is measured from the bottom of the feet of the character to the top of the head. This is about keeping things in scale, not necessarily the height of the image. If your character is contorted, it might not be technically the right height, but if he was just standing it should be proportioned so that he would be within the guidelines.Can I enter for each character?Sure. Everyone gets up to three entries, one for each character/category. You should keep them all in the same topic though.Enter by posting a link to your entry picture in this topic, using the entry form.Which version of Tahu/Vakama/Jaller/Takua can I draw?Any version you prefer, as long as they can be properly described as TOA Tahu, TURAGA Vakama, and MATORAN Jaller/Takua. If you're drawing Takanuva, that's not really a Matoran, is it. However, Tahu Nuva is still a Toa, as is the Phantoka version.Can the character be in an action pose?As long as it follows the rules stated above, then fine. No backgrounds, and full character must be visible. And remember, this is going to be a physical standee so try to give it a fairly solid base. If you need some small decorative background element to make this possible then we will make an exception for it, like if Tahu's doing a flip and has his hand on a rock, then that's fine. This is up to my discretion, don't be cute.Can the character have some fire background elements?This is up to my discretion, but with characters that can control fire a little bit won't hurt. If it's so much that it could be considered a background, then it's too much.What style can I use? Does it need to be in color? Can I do a silhouette? Can I use (X) medium?This is the part of the contest where you need to start making some decisions for yourself. I've told you what to draw, you decide what the best solution is for it. As you can see in the examples above, I took three very different styles which if they were actually drawn by me would all be excellent entries into the contest. You choose the style, you choose the look, you choose the method. You just need to find the solution that is going to be best for the scenario I have given you, posed amongst several colorful MOCs with a fully colored backdrop behind it.Be good, don't whine, don't flame, and don't spam PM people to vote for you.Reminder! Don't break BZP rules!If something isn't allowed in a post or a signature, please don't put it in your entry.Entry Form:Please fill out the following form and post it with your entry. I try to semi-automate the process of making the entry list, so please just cut and paste the following; don't re-order lines, change words, or add code tags. Member name: Entry Category: (Toa, Turaga, or Matoran) Entry URL: optional: Thumbnail URL: Topic:Following is the standard stuff many of you end up not reading...General Rules:Entries: A violation of any of these rules may result in your entry being disqualified. You may be given the opportunity to correct any rules violations, but all corrections must be completed prior to the entry deadline. Most people don't bother following the restrictions, so I'm not going to bother listing them. Just keep in mind that there are a lot of people who don't have as fast an internet connection as you have, and aren't going to spend 5 minutes or half an hour downloading an entry to look at it; I know I'm not going to. If someone tells me that an entry breaks the rules, and it takes too long for me to verify it, I'll probably just accept what they tell me. I think one of the reasons for fewer responses in artwork topics is the increase in pictures that are one or two megabytes. Also, I don't see any reason for entries that can't be viewed without scrolling. In order to further save download time, please do not post your entry in the entry topic. Instead, please provide a link to your entry.Only one entry per category per member. You may switch or modify your entry during the entry period. If you are correcting a rules violation or are submitting a clearer image of your entry. In both of the cases, you must notify me as to what changes you have made. Any other changes to your entry mid-contest may result in disqualification.The artwork portrayed must be new and never before published on BZP prior to the start of the contest.All entries must be posted in this topic, using an entry form.A low resolution thumbnail picture representing your entry, no larger than 128 pixels by 128 pixels (just like they have on BrickShelf!), is strongly encouraged. It may be a reduced picture of your entry, a cropped picture of your entry, or a combination of the two, as long as it represents your entry. If a thumbnail picture is not provided, one will be made for you, and you might not like it.Conduct: Although some specific rules are mentioned here, all BZP rules apply. Any violation of BZP rules may result in you being disqualified from the contest.No posts saying "Did you see my entry on the ** page?" and other like them in the Entry Topic.Any flaming will result in disqualification from the contest. Let's keep it fun, nice, and clean.None of the "unfair" whining & crying. We're all aware that some people have better animation and painting programs, such is life.Don't play Moderator. No posts saying "that's spam", or "don't double post", or "your entry should be DQ'ed because...", or any other comments pointing out possible contest or BZP rules violations. As well intentioned as these comments are, they are wrong often enough that it only creates more work for me. If a post is spam or a double post, I'll just delete it, which is easier than deleting it and a second (and third, and fourth...) spammy post that points out the alleged problem with the first post.Discussion is encouraged. There will be no Discussion Topic this time, since most people have ignored it in the past and posted comments in the entry topic anyway. Feel free to ask questions about entries you see or about the contest in general. This is for all people on BZP and the BZP Artwork Community.The contest is public & open to all BZP members, including the contest officials. Signature advertising is colorful & encouraged, but please use good judgement if you choose to promote yourself and your artwork, do not spam PM people to vote for you (if spamming is detected you may consequently be disqualified for it) or pester members or likewise bribe them into voting for you. Let your art speak for itself. Also, all signature advertising must, obviously, follow the BZP signature guidelines.I don't want to disqualify anyone, and I've tried to be lenient in giving people an opportunity to conform to the contest rules. I don't always have that option if you break the BZP rules, so be careful.For those who don't know how to resize images, convert file types, or determine file size, I'll try to help when I can. If this looks like it may become a problem, I may ask for some volunteers to help.Any questions may be asked in this topic, or you may PM me directly. I may answer questions by editing the post asking the question. I'm sorry if I miss a question in a post, if I don't answer then PM me.Voting:Due to the fact that Brickfair is right around the corner, there will be one round of voting to determine the category winners.This round will last three days. Nice and simple, most votes for each category wins.During the polling, the official contest entry topic will be locked, however, all open polls will have the posting option. Feel free to discuss whom you voted for and why. Remember that peeking at a poll without voting will make your vote null (not count). To hit null vote is to not have voted at all, and you can't go back.Prizes:Each of the three category winners will receive:Awesome, limited edition Hapori Tohu stickers, previously exclusive to BZP Staff!A sweet prototype part and/or small set of their choicePossibly an amazing Lego built trophy (no promises on this one, but we're working on it!)So get entering guys! This one's gonna go fast. Edited July 23, 2012 by InnerRayg Latest Update: STORM AND SAND Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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George Allen fended off three opponents in a rain-soaked, low-turnout primary Tuesday to secure the Republican nod for U.S. Senate in Virginia, clearing the way for a battle against fellow former governor Timothy M. Kaine that could help decide which party holds the keys to power on Capitol Hill.
In the race to succeed retiring Sen. James Webb (D), Allen won the nomination over Chesapeake minister E.W. Jackson, Del. Robert G. Marshall (Prince William) and former Virginia Tea Party Patriots head Jamie Radtke, all of whom argued that he was insufficiently conservative and a poor choice to face Kaine (D) in November. None of the three was able to compete against Allen's near-universal name recognition and large fundraising edge.
At a crowded victory party in Richmond, Allen called himself "the common-sense conservative nominee" who would create jobs and work to repeal President Obama's health-care law.
"We want to send a message to the world that America is open for business again," Allen said. "We envision a better future than what we are enduring today."
Kaine quickly made clear how he would run against Allen in their head-to-head matchup.
"Voters already had the chance to experience George Allen's vision during his last term in the Senate, which turned record surpluses into massive deficits, added trillions to our debt, and put opportunity for a select few ahead of opportunity for all our businesses and families," Kaine said in a statement Tuesday night. "George Allen's approach helped create our economic mess; Virginians can't afford six more years."
With 99 percent of precincts reporting, Allen had 65 percent of the vote. Radtke was running second at 23 percent, Marshall had 7 percent and Jackson 5 percent.
In Northern Virginia, Rep. James P. Moran beat back a Democratic primary challenge from Navy veteran Bruce Shuttleworth by a wide margin, while retired Army Col. Chris Perkins defeated traffic engineer Ken Vaughn for the Republican nomination to face Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D).
Tuesday's Senate result cements a matchup both parties have expected for 14 months, since Kaine announced he was leaving his post as Democratic National Committee chairman to enter the race. Polls have consistently shown a tight contest, one of a handful that will determine whether Democrats can maintain control of the Senate.
The contours of the general election contest between the two well-known, well-funded Virginians looked clear before the primary made it official.
For Allen, the race represents a chance at redemption after his dramatic reelection loss to Webb in 2006. Allen appeared to have that contest well in hand — and was already mulling a run for president in 2008 — when he referred to an Indian American volunteer for the Webb campaign as "macaca," an ethnic slur in some cultures.
Allen's support steadily eroded after that, leading to his Election Day loss to Webb by fewer than 10,000 votes out of 2.3 million cast. Since then, Allen has worked as a consultant while giving speeches, authoring a book and awaiting his chance to make a comeback and put the Senate seat back in the red column.
For Kaine, the contest marks a return to state politics following a detour to serve as Obama's DNC chairman. Rising from the Richmond City Council to become the city's mayor, then lieutenant governor and governor, Kaine sought to craft a reputation as a moderate willing to work with both sides of the aisle, in the mold of his longtime friend, Sen. Mark Warner (D).
By taking the DNC post, Kaine opened himself to attacks from Republicans that he is now too partisan and too closely identified with controversial policies of the Obama administration to reclaim the centrist mantle.
Kaine has focused much of his campaign message on cultivating Virginia's "talent economy" by improving the state's educational system and job-training programs. Allen has emphasized the need for lower taxes, less regulation of business, and increased domestic production of coal, oil and natural gas.
At Lake Anne Elementary in Reston on Tuesday, Frank Carlson said he supported Allen because he was impressed with Allen's history as governor.
"He's a moderate, and he's a good man," Carlson said. "It wasn't a hard decision."
Carlson added that he doesn't like the tea party and has been alarmed by its rising role in national politics.
At Rivers Edge Elementary School in Glen Allen, north of Richmond, Jeanne Nugent, a 42-year-old costume designer, said she voted for Radtke. "I think she stands for what real family values are all about," Nugent said, referring to the former tea party leader's focus on getting federal spending under control.
On the House front, Perkins will face a difficult campaign against Connolly, whose fortunes have improved since he defeated businessman Keith Fimian (R) by less than 1,000 votes in 2010.
The new congressional district map made all of Northern Virginia's incumbents safer, including Connolly, whose seat lost some Republican-leaning portions of Prince William County and picked up more hospitable territory along the Dulles Toll Road.
Unlike in 2010, Connolly will probably benefit from having Obama atop the ticket to boost Democratic turnout. And the incumbent had a campaign war chest of $1 million as of May 23, while Perkins had $60,000.
At Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax County, Walter Bajkowski, a government IT contractor, said he voted for Allen and Perkins.
"I like George Allen from before — his philosophies and what he works toward," Bajkowski said. "I was satisfied with what he did."
And Bajkowski opted for Perkins over Vaughn because of his personal story.
"He's retired military, family guy," Bajkowski said.
Elsewhere in the state, Republican Reps. Eric Cantor, Randy Forbes and Robert Goodlatte all defeated primary challenges with ease.
Tuesday's turnout appeared to be dampened by morning rain in much of the state, and by confusion over the fact that Virginia held its presidential primary in March. In the days leading up to the vote, many residents told candidates they thought the congressional primary had already happened.
"People don't even know there's an election today," said Robert Strange, precinct chief at Alvey Elementary School in Haymarket.
By 4 p.m. at Robinson, only 178 voters had cast ballots, or about 4 percent of the precinct's approximately 4,600 registered voters. James D. Emery Jr., the precinct's chief election officer, said it was lighter than the March presidential primary.
"It's surprising," Emery said. "I don't know that we're going to make 5 percent."
At Loudoun County High School, precinct officials were eagerly awaiting their 10th voter of the day, who had not yet arrived by 1 p.m. Election volunteer Donna Darnes said she blamed a combination of bad weather and minimal outreach.
"Usually the streets are lined with signs," she said. "There's practically nothing around here."
At Albert Hill Middle School in Richmond, voting was so light that one poll worker appeared to be snoozing late Tuesday morning while another had her nose in a book plucked from the school library shelves. Only 18 voters had been in by 11 a.m.
Election officer Joyce Trickett, 68, had the foresight to bring a leather-bound book, "English History" by D.H. Montgomery, from home.
"I'm up to the Norman Conquest," she said.
Staff writers Jeremy Borden, Caitlin Gibson, Anita Kumar, Fredrick Kunkle and Laura Vozzella contributed to this report.

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text: I had the video preview for this show posted but it seemed to be clogging things up a bit. Long story short, this man has my dream job. He travels the globe in search of antiques, unique artifacts and local artisans to stock Anthropologie stores. Man Shops Globe premeires on the Sundance Channel in October. You can bet I'll be watching. It's like one big treasure hunt!


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Go overland & get off the beaten track
West Africa is an unforgettable cultural and musical journey, and is quite incomparable to anywhere else in the world. From the stunning beauty of the Fouta Djallon highlands and the Beninese coast, to the myriad of remote villages dotted through the landscape, to the warm friendly smiles that greet you everywhere you go, to the sheer adventure of the journey, the region is truly unique and very special - it is frequently the top of the favourites list of many of the most well-travelled people in the world!
Our route starts (or ends!) in the cosmopolitan Senegalese capital of Dakar on the western tip of the continent, and heads through the rarely-visited and wonderful countries of Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone, before heading east through the remote roads of the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Benin.
Spontaneous, unpredictable, exciting!
West Africa is not the easiest place to travel through, and for many of us that is one of the reasons to go! Roads are rough, things don't go to plan, and the climate can be uncomfortable – but the unpredictable and spontaneous nature of the travel here keeps things very interesting and gives us a lot of freedom!
The region has a wealth of attractions including the little known highland region of Fouta Djallon, the colonial centre of Bissau, and the impressive Basilica of Yamoussoukro. You can enjoy fantastic wildlife experiences and scenery in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Kiang West, Kakum and Pendjari (home to one of the last populations of West African lions) National Parks and the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary in remote eastern Sierra Leone.
You can witness incredible voodoo and drumming displays at Mont Klouto, Togoville, and Grand Popo, and learn all about the sad history of slavery from the coastal forts of Ghana to the Route des Esclaves at Ouidah. The true highlight of touring West Africa is meeting the people, and you'll be greeted with curiosity and joy at every turn by the friendly locals!
An unforgettable overland journey
An overland journey through the countries of West Africa will almost certainly involve some incredible sights, adventurous journeys, dozens of new friends across the region, many changes of plan, lots of time to relax and freely explore, and at least one truck bogging on the challenging roads! You'll go home buzzing from the life-changing travel experience you've just had, and already dreaming of when you'll return.
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text: It goes without saying, but this was a fun shoot. Set build at Milk Studios in LA, and working with NBA superstar Kevin Durant. Big thank you to KD, Roc Nation, Sparkling ICE, Javelin, and Production on 5th. Total team effort. Last year I also shot a print campaign for Sparkling ICE with Robinson Cano. This was the follow up shoot, plus I directed a few web interviews with KD which you can see above as well.


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Hitman: Blood Money – Easter Egg FAQ
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Easter Egg FAQ by Refreshment
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HITMAN: BLOOD MONEY. EASTER EGG AND DETAILS FAQ. Publisher: EIDOS Interactive. Creator: IO Interactive. Date: 30/05/2006 Genre: Stealth/Action/Adventure Author: Refreshment (GCPS) Yanki TABLE OF CONTENTS. I. Introduction. II. Version History. III. Details Guide. a. Levels b. Enemies c. Weapons d. Miscelaneous. IV. Thanks/Credits. V. Legal stuff. VI. Contact information. I. Introduction. Many people enjoy the details and easter eggs FAQ's so while browsing the Blood Money message boards, i came in contact with the "The Hunt for the Easter Eggs and Secrets" topic by "ElricVanClaus", so i decided to compile the information in an easy to read guide. As a tribute to Blood Money, which has proven to be not only a very fun, incredible looking and creative game, but also a game that offers a considerable amount of cool and subtle details. This guide has the risk of passing as inane, but take into mind the fact that developers created this game's worlds from ground zero, realizing them in their minds and materializing them through thousands of hours of code, sweat, blood and tears. So, the reason for the guide to exist is to acknowledge that. As for the details listed, we picked the ones that are subtle but also the ones that, while obvious, are too damn cool. So here's to hoping you find this guide amusing in a very good way. Maybe this is yet another incentive to replay this great game this time paying close attention to the surroundings. II. Version History. 15/06/2006....................Version 1.0 First attempt. 29/06/2006....................Updated Ranks. III. Details Guide: How to read: The theme of the section is inside the >>>Theme<<<, followed by the subject between ===Subject===, and then proceeds with the person that made the contribution. The themes are: Levels, Newspapers, Accidents, Enemies, Weapons, Ranks and Miscellaneous. >>>LEVELS<<< =============================================================================== ====================================HIDEOUT==================================== =============================================================================== Jebus117 -In your hideout, if you kill all of the rats (or at least the 4 in front of the cardboard boxes with targets on them) a message will pop up saying, "You sent all the rats to a happy place in [however long it took you to kill them.]" Maximum Fish -In 47's hideout, in the room with the newly painted wall, there is a birdcage on the table with a yellow canary inside. This is likely a reference to Jean Pierre Melville's Le Samourai, which if you haven't seen it, was a French film about a contract killer named Jef Costello. =============================================================================== =================================DEATH OF A SHOWMAN============================ =============================================================================== Maximum Fish -The drug dealer in 'Death of a Showman' is named "Scoop", and looks strangely like "Snoop". p_tear_griff_on -The TMP with the 666 rounds its in that garbage pile near the two guards are at the start check around near the pile closest to the railing there standing at its like 5 inches away from that railing. Refreshment -The white car outside the park belongs to Andrew Chiseler. Thats the atorney riding the little elephant when the gangsta is about to burn him. Notice the blood and sign of violence in the car. -After watching the cinema in wich 47 hits the gangsta's head with the front door, you enter the room with the gansta and the lawyer above the toy pony. Instead of killing the gangster torturing the lawyer, wait a while, the gansta will pour gasoline on the lawyer and set him on fire. -In the same room, if you shoot the gasoline tank multiple times, it'll blow up and kill both (ganster and lawyer). -Inside the drug facility, when you sabotage the lights, look to the right while sneacking. Two of the light clothed babes will head but in the darkness. Strato -The bat on the wall in "Death of a Showman" has Dolph written on it. The bat is of course Dolphs (the Blue Hippo) weapon of choice. Terror Risk -One of the tunes in "Death of a Showman" is a remix of the main freedom fighters tune, and another tune in the game sounds like it has the faint singing from the H2 main title theme in it.(you will hear it while in the house on "A New Life") =============================================================================== =================================A VINTAGE YEAR================================ =============================================================================== Anjow -I've just noticed another thing in the newspaper, on A Vintage Year I just completed it with silent assassin and then read the article on Fernando Delgado. The article says his wines were renowned for excellence and won competitions all over the world, yet the caption for his picture says "Fernando Delgado produced some of the worst wines in Chile". Jebus117 -In "Vintage Year" there are several pictures of 47 in the mansion. Maximum Fish -It might be that this isn't a reference, but as an avid fan of Patrick O'brian I thought it worth mentioning that Don Fernando in 'A Vintage Year' plays the Cello Solo No 1 in G major, the same song played frequently by Stephen Maturin in the novels of Patrick O'brian, and the Don also has a large butterfly collection and is quoted as saying in the newspaper article that he appreciates nature's beauty. Dr. Maturin was also a naturalist. If this were really a reference, which it would be almost too cool to be true, than this game would be the greatest ever constructed. Intentional IO? Mikeawmids -A cool place to hide a body - but you can dump any inconvenient corpses that might be lying around the Vineyard level into the wine vats littering the cellar area. Whether or not this will improve the taste remains to be seen -though it is sort of ironic to have drowned a vintner in his own wine. Razen -A painting in Don Fernando's room (Chile mission); reminding me of 47 killing the 48 series clones in the Setup (from the first Hitman game), and of the first cutscene in Contracts. Refreshment -There are 2 "Ducks of War" paintings. Both are inside the main house. One, in the hall at the first floor, to the left of the main entrance. The other one is inside Don Fernando Delgado's room. Torture_Killer -In a vintage year one of the target breifs has a quote of him saying "only pussies hide under boxes" or something like that. A reference to metal gear. =============================================================================== =================================CURTAINS DOWN================================= =============================================================================== Refreshment -The death scene belongs to the Opera "Tosca" by Giacomo Puccini. The part represented in this game corresponds to Act III. A super quick resume of Tosca is this: Cavaradossi is a roman painter with liberal ideas and loves Tosca. Baron Scarpia is the chief of the Roman Police and desires Tosca. One day Cavaradossi helps sacape a fellow republican fugitive and hides him in his house. Scarpia figures this out and Cavaradossi is condemned to death. Pressured by the situation Tosca accepts Scarpia's propostion to spend the night with him in exchange of Cavaradossi's life and a scape plan. So Tosca and Scarpia plan a fake execution. Apart: Tosca never sleeps with Scarpia, she kills him instead. In "Tosca" (like the game) that execution was supposed to be fake, in an attempt to simulate the Death of "Cavaradossi" so him and his true love (Tosca) could scape. But Scarpia never intended to let Cavaradossi live, so his plan was always to execute Cavaradossi, he gets the last laugh from the grave. Just like 47 does in the game. Agent: Smith -There is a famous danish hippopotamus in the newspaper, but you can only see his eyes. Its mentioned in the french quote at the bottom. ElricVanClaus -"Curtains Down": In the basement of the Opera house, there is a room which contains a couple of rats. Shoot these critters and a card should show up on the desk in that same room. It opens a door all the way to the back of the Opera, on the 2nd Floor, which is only accessible through the stairs next to the Actors' rooms. (Next to the bathrooms the Guard keeps going to) Ne-Yo -I like it when you can push one of the workers on Curtains Down over the railing above the stage. Its classic to see all the guards and people running around and telling the dead body to get off the stage. Refreshment -You can asume the role of the executioner in the opera scene by grabing the actors outfit and using the real WWII handgun. -Also, you can dress as a police officer and make the people follow you, just like a tour guide. Then someone comments how this is "the worse tour ever". -In the basement, theres a worker shooting at the rats with his nail gun. -Instead of switching the guns, if you shoot the Tenor at the execution scene, it will count as an accident regardless. -The keycard for entering the famous "rat club" is tiled "You Dirty Rat" club. -Inside the "executioner" dressing room, over the counter, there are instructions written in french for his correct positioning in the stage in relation to the other actors. SyroVision -Noticed in the 2nd mission at the opera, downstairs, near the trash room of the opera house there is a room with shelves in the tiers of the shelves are various props of other operas that have been performed, for example the Phantom of the Opera monster mask, there is a blue trident there too not sure what opera thats from though. (Note: Probably Dante's Inferno) Strato -One of the french quotes in the newspaper is a tribute to Dolph the blue hippo. Read about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolph. ViciousPiggy -Just something to show how much attention to detail is given: when you replace the prop gun for the real thing in Curtains Down, the executioner will say (in french) "Wow, this thing feels so real", or something to that effect. =============================================================================== =================================FLATLINE====================================== =============================================================================== Millers C -Ever noticed the statues on the sides of the pool in Flatline? Worth taking a look. (*Note: Little fountain fellows urinating the pool) supermanseatgrab -Here is something I believe is kinda funny. In the level where you have to find the agent in the psych ward there is someone you have to kill once you end up finding out the info about him. If you notice you can kill him by poisosing his drink which happens to be hiding in the ass crack of one of the statues by the pool. Its funny sticking a needle in its ass lol. NinjaFerret -In the newspaper after Flatline there's an advertisement for a Chinese Restaurant, their speials are named after things in the chinese missions in Hitman Contracts: Blue Lotus clan, Red Dragon clan, Zun (fat bodyguard) and Mei Ling (prostitute you help to escape). =============================================================================== ===================================A NEW LIFE================================== =============================================================================== -The catering van in "A New Life" is called Wong Wei Dung. Wong Wei Tung is a chinese actor, specializing in action- and especially ASSASSIN movies. IStompYa -One thing I found out though. If you break the box outside the house where the guard leaves Sinistra in the living room, you can poison Sinistra in the chair and the guard will come back and never notice Sinistra is dead. Namingway -Lauritz (Knudsen) and Co. is the name of the vehicle in which the 2 FBI-agents are hiding. The firm is actually real, trading mostly oil- and rubberrelated products in Denmark and internationally. Refreshment -Inside Sinistra's house on the second floor, theres a bodyguard patroling rooms. One of the rooms appears to be Sinistra's daughter room. Well, when this bodyguard enters the daughter rooms, it grabs a red pantie from the top of the drawer and starts to smell it. Great guy to thrust for your security. Also you can pour some ether on the panties to knock the bodyguard. -Sinistra is kind of a playboy. If you go to his room notice a collection of mirrors in ceiling. -Both the Garbage Truck and the Van with the FBI agents, feature a license plate that says "Bad Blood". Robert Ninja -If you run with the jogger in the mission "A new life" He will comment on your running and the way you are not dressed properly. Shortymrbig In the Sinistra's Daughter room (with Agent Panties Sniffer), check the posters with the girl, she is wearing a Freedom Fighters shirt. Zor4fins -On A New Life if you climb the drainpipe to the left of the house and climb through the window, you step on a squeaky toy. Like in comedy shows :D =============================================================================== ================================THE MURDER OF CROWS============================ =============================================================================== Gnoofz -On the Murder of Crows level, at the hotel you start at, there is a locked hotel room upstairs with 2 men, both in boxers. One in the shower, one on the bed. Kelayr -Raymond Kulinsky, the name of one of the assassins in The Murder Of Crows, is likely to be a reference to Richard Kuklinski, a notorious hitman who died a few months ago. *Note: And his girlfriend is Angenila Mason, wich has another killer lastname (Charles Manson). Imagine what kind of kid this 2 could have. Namingway -You can hear the Crow-targets speak passionately to each other if you have the walkie talkie. Refreshment -Follow the delivery boy as usual. Once he is out of public view, sneak to him and take it as a human shield. Knock him down, place a mine inside the suit case. Now, get out of there. After a while a police officer will come by to wake him up. The delivery guy, grabs the case and starts runing to the crows hideout and puts the case on the table. Just blow them to bits. -Walk inside the bookstore (next to Mark Purayah's headquarters), the shop keeper comes to attend and starts making fun of 47, calling him "Mr. Clean", "Kojak" or "Jean Luc" (Jean Luc Piccard of Star Trek). SpikeSpiegel -Just finished the Mardi Gras level in a barbarian style and in the newspaper, the police officer is called Wiggum, like Chief Wiggum in the Simpsons. Tamsakki -In Murder of Crows, theres bar called BLUE OYSTER. Remember movie called police academy?. Well theres an bar called blue oyster and its Gay bar. =============================================================================== =================================YOU BETTER WATCH OUT========================== =============================================================================== Maximum Fish -The level called 'Better Watch Out...' may be a reference to the Iron Maiden song 'The Assassin' in which the refrain is "Better watch out, cause I'm the assassin". *Note: Heyhey123 says: "or simply the christmas song "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town". -From screenshots, i've noticed that the logo for the playboy-esque magazine company is a pig instead of a bunny; possibly some commentary on the Heffner's of the world. Illuminattile -In "You Better Watch Out", in the room that controls the laser grid, there's a magazine called "BADASS BABIES". The kid on the cover is wearing what I think might be a 'Hitman' t-shirt. Namingway -In "You Better Watch Out", you can drag the body behind the assassin's couch out in the open. When a guard spots and wakes the girl up, she falls asleep immediately thereafter again! But you ain't seen nothing yet, the guard then aims his gun at the poor girl and shoots her! Kinda freeky. Refreshment -If you pay close attention to the loading screen for this level you'll notice a "?" sign and a siluete next to the 2 targets. That's because theres an undercover woman assassin in this level. She's inside the room next to the one Chad Bingham Jr. uses when he bangs the jacuzzy girl. If you enter the room, she starts seducing 47 and says something alone the lings of: "Men are so predictable", if you stay put a cinema is triggered where she stabs you. On the other hand if you move, she pulls a hand gun. If you kill her, 47 will receive more money at the end of the mission. -More over, If you look behind the sofa in the woman assassing room, theres the body of a party girl. Probably she knocked her and took over her identity. -The assassin woman has a small "Skull head" tatoo in her left butt cheek. -Talk to the photographer near the small fountain. He sas something like: "This babes are out of my league, but with this camera they'll do anything to get a cover". Well if you take his outfit, when you get near some of the girls they say stuff like: "Nothing has to interfere between me and your camera...Nothing" or "I'll let you take special pictures of me". Plus you get VIP pass to the Helipad and studio. Is great being a photographer. Zor4fins -There is 2 photographers, one in the studio taking soft porn pictures, and one sitting by a fake waterfall. You can quite easily kill/sedate this one because you can hide in the waterfall. =============================================================================== ================================DEATH ON THE MISSISSIPI======================== =============================================================================== Hitmangeek -The Newspaper that is for Death On The Missisippi (Lousiana Mail) has a headline at the top that says "Janitor burned to death" and a picture of him. It is suppose to be Freddy Kruger. *Author's note: Or probably a Simpson's reference from one of the Holloween episodes (in the episode the burning took place in the "SMARCH" month same month marked by the Lousiana Mail newspaper), wich in the Simpson's is a reference to Freddy Kruger of course. Jitka -After you complete "Death On The Mississippi," the newspaper's date says "Smarch" instead of March. Also, there's an article about a school janitor being burned to death in that same paper. That has to be a reference to the Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror VI. Lars Saetaberget -Some quotes from Kurt Thyboe from the webpage http://bevs.dk/thyboe: -Had only himself, his fists, his courage... -One of the businesses most harsh analysts -A battle fought in a higly intellectual, intelligent level -He wins it with his mind, a thinking battle -It tightens, the drama lurks just beneath the surface Namingway -In the level newspaper (The Lousiana Mail) the webpage http://bevs.dk/thyboe appears. Is a collection of Danish quotes related to sports, here are some translated quotes: Kurt Thyboe, boxing commentator "...a little, intelligent, refined elegantier, who on his big nights raised his brutal athletic skills to rare, intellectual heights." - about Borge Krogh, from "Lord of the Rings" "...with the frayed towel, serated as if it was slashed with a flick knife, over his shoulders..." - Tyson approaching the ring "Tyson's fists are raging, born with the rush of blood" - Tyson in the ring "Witherspoon looks like one of those houses where the lights are on, but nobody's home" - Brian Nielsen's victory over Witherspoon "The ring was his Shangri-La - this famous wonderland where noone grew old even if they lived there for hundreds of years" - about Jorgen Hansen There are also some from Tour de France-commentators, but they aren't as good, and you have to know the world of Tour de France to truly understand them. Refreshment -If 47 is using the first class sailor outfit, Captain Skip will chase him around. Maybe Skip is trying to hit 47. But seriously, in the newspaper chronicle it says: "his appetite for fatty desserts is only matched by his appetite for fit, young crew". =============================================================================== ===============================TILL DEATH DO US APART========================== =============================================================================== David angell -Go to the area where the guys are shooting the crocs and look over the river you can see 3 bottles on a tree stump if you shoot them the boyz cheer you on. dtmdarknessdtm -This is funny i thought. In "Till Death Do Us Apart" you can help the guys shoot the alligators. Some times they will put down there weapons, start drinking while you shoot them. You can put on a good shooting. -Near the the white padded dance floor, there's fist fighting. You can go over and take both fighters down. Dont kill them but just knock them down. Head but and punch or shove them down. The guards will come over and break it up. Jebus117 -At the end of "Till Death do us Part" there is an ad in the paper for Pine Cone Rehabilitation Center. One of the lines reads something like, "Specialists for burned out gamedevelopers." Refreshment -To make 47 perform the wedding ceremony. Take the priest outfit (withouth being noticed obviously). Head outside to the main entrance, look for the bell (theres a guest near it) and ring it. Everyone in the dining room will go outside. Follow them to the small hut, climb the steps and get behind the altar. An option for the "A" icon, titled "perform wedding ceremony" will appear. Whats cool is that you see how the bride hates so much the groom, she doesnt even allow the guy to kiss her after 47 pronounce them "Husband and wife". -Even more, if 47 performs the wedding ceremony, the people turn around and some guests start shooting. Since everybody is turned you take out a handgun and shoot the groom. Then laugh until it hurts when you hear the bride saying: "Finally!". Take about a quickly extinguished bonfire. -You can shove the people standing near the lake railings, when they fall down the alligators bite them. -Bad spelling. These guys from the south, Check the hub near the cemetery, infront there's a sign that says: "Restrict!d Area". Terror Risk -If you go inside the house with an invitation uisng your standar suit, people keep commenting on how you dress: "ooh ain't you fancy", "trying to show up the groom?", "Geese man, its a wedding not a funeral". Vigsted -In the cutscene to "Till death do us part" you see a weather forecast for Denmark on 47's TV, Denmark of course being where IOI are from. Also, in the ending cutscene Diana's office is that of IOI or at least very close to it. http://www.dk360.dk/images/360-koebenhavnsk-solopgang.jpg (it's a panorama picture so the angles are little distorted, but IOI are located on the left, and the buildings you see in the game are on the right). =============================================================================== =================================A HOUSE OF CARDS============================== =============================================================================== End Boss -In House of Cards, if you do some sneaking around on the outside ledges, you can see a room where a bunch of guys and a showgirl are playing strip poker. Unfortunately, it's quite evident that one of the guys is the big loser, and the showgirl has a huge pile of chips in front of her. Namingway -In "A House of Cards", enter Mr. 47's room. Zoom in on the TV, and you should be able to see two rows of words crossing the screen rather quickly. Nothing special at first clance, but if you wait a little bit, you should see the words "FCK HURRA!" in the upper part of the screen quickly sliding by. Its cheering the Danish footbal team FCK (FC Kobenhavn). -When agent 47 checks his reservation in Las Vegas, he says his name is "Cropes", which is an anagram for "corpse". Phaedrus -The music in the elevator in House of Cards is the Hitman: Codename 47 opening theme. Refreshment -At the entrance of the Shamal look at the screen displaying "Jackpot 630,000" thats the price for the main hit in this mission. -There are signs at the Shamal (specially a big one in the lobby) that say: "Allan Hansen's Street Magic". Allan Hansen is one of the developers of the Hitman series and Freedome Fighters. =============================================================================== =================================DANCE WITH THE DEVIL========================== =============================================================================== Codename 36 -In A Dance With The Devil, next to the tourture room the guy sitting on the couch is wearing the same costume as the lawyer in the meat king level in "Contracts." But you cant get into the room, you can only look into it from behind a gate, so you cant take the outfit. Part-time killer -The Maynard John guy could have been inspired by Tool singer Maynard James Keenan. Well, I think he was right. Keenan played the Devil in a strange movie called "Bikini Bandits Go To Hell" and he looks somehwat like Maynard John. Dominian -John Maynard actually is a pretty unknown poem by Theodor Fontane ( which to most people not living in a german speaking country might as well be pretty unknown). In Wikipedia a guy called John Maynard Keynes , A mathematic and economic mastermind. He stood for a International currency, but failed against the will of the US (Harry Dexter White (what a tell-tale name!) Namingway - -In "A Dance with the Devil", the song Eve sings is the song you hear in the credits. turkish92 -On "Dance with the devil", if you pick up the food crate and go into your inventory, the description will read "Allan please add details". I can't remember exactly where it is, but I think it's in the basement. Refreshment -At the hell's party, in the backroom where Vana does the pirotechnics show, you can push people into the shark tank. The Shark will come by and eat them. Is great to watch the shark emerge to the surface with a big splash dragging the victim to the debts. Then go to the dance floor to watch the shark play with its pray while everybody keeps dancing. -A group of 3 guests in each balcony gathers everytime the pyro show is performed, you can hear them say "cool" or "amazing". But After sabotaging the pirotechnics show and cooking Ketlyn, you can hear a guest saying something alone the lines: "That show was amazing, especially the shark attack at the end , how do you figure she made it so realistic?!". -At the back of the garage, near where the "Heaven party" member suit is located, a "Hell's party" guest comes after a while and starts puking, saying how bad the "bartender" does his job. That's refering to the assassin Maynard John, wich obviously isnt a bartender. -If you talk to the bartender at the "heavens party", he starts talking about how bad the singer is and how they had to quickly hire her since the traditional singer died "at a tragic accident". Thats a great clue right there about the truth identity of Eve (the bad singer and assassin). -If you follow the singer (in Heaven) to the room and she kills you, a cinema scene is triggered where 47 gets stabbed several times. -We are used to lesbian scenes in Hitman games, our traditonal lesbic scene takes place inside the "torture room" in this level. -The laptop you need to extract the data from, has 47 profile on the screen. =============================================================================== =================================AMENDMENT XXV================================= =============================================================================== Agent: Smith -In Amendment XXV, there are two guards talking about this: "Check this out!", "What you got there?", "Swedish women wrestling team webside". Dionysios II -In Amendment XXV, the first Lady calls the vice president to take "Justice" (the dog) for a walk. When he enters the room, she says: "Justice needs to be taken out for a walk, make sure she does a number two". When she walks away, he whispers: "I'll give justice a number 2 alright" Jebus117 -On Amendment XXV in the guard room next to the tape and keycard there is a book with the Hitman logo on it. -At the end of Amendment XXV there is an ad in the paper for a fight (I forget the names). On Requiem, At least one of the gravestones has the names of one of the fighters (dated 1998 to 2004). I think another grave has the name of the other fighter on it, but I'm not sure. -Also the paper at the end of Amendment XXV says it's the 666th year and No. 256 (which is probably a programming joke). Namingway -The two boxers that fight it out at IO Grand Palace in the add after Amendment XXV are actually Martin Guldbaek and Rune Brinckmeyer, two programmers that worked with the previous Hitman-games. Brinckmeyer missed Hitman 2, though. They also programmed Freedom Fighters. -If you drag the janitor-body out of the bathroom in Amendment XXV and place it in the door and go out on the lawn and scare the target through the windows by shooting a bit, he'll run into the room where you put the janitor. The catch is that with the janitor blocking the door, you may enter the Oval Office and make a majestic assassination in it instead of waiting for him to run up to the roof. Don't enter the room, though, because the cut-scene will then be triggered. Or place a bomb on the spot where he will shoot at you and blow him to bits. -In "Amendment XXV", there are a lot of pictures of former American presidents, including George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Nice Guy Cody -Outside on the West Wing roof, waiting on those Secret Service guys in that little security room right by the door (the one where the Janitor and SS guy come out to have a smoke occasionally). In the back room, the guards mill around and do stuff, and one of them goes to the other and they say something along the lines of: "Hey, come check this out." "What is it? More midget porn?" "Nah, It's Pokey the Penguin." Split Infinity -When you're about to exit to the courtyard where the vice president walks his dog, the sign by the door says: Department of Stuff. UnoShotUnoKill -In the White House level (PC version), in the security room next to the metal detectors, there's a newspaper with the text: "PPOT ROCKS! The Commodore 64 revial band gets major breakthru in the U.S." *Note: Larsec says: "Indeed. One of the game's programmers, Theo Engell-Nielsen, plays synths in that band (PPOT). =============================================================================== ====================================REQUIEM==================================== =============================================================================== fellermooty -At end when 47 wakes up at his 'funeral', the objective is to kill everyone. The ex-FBI director, Alexander Cayne, aka Wheelchair Guy, has a gun and tries to shoot you. Did anyone know that you can disarm him, and he will get up from his wheelchair and crouch in surrender like other NPCs? gorgat -In the level "Requiem",the two cars you can find near the gate have the license plates 666 and IO Interactive. Namingway -The name on the gravestones in the last level is "Guldbrandsen", a talented programmer that worked on all the previous Hitman-games and Freedom Fighters and some other games, hence the dates "1998-2004". -In "Requiem", the journalist will beg for mercy by saying "I'm just an observer, I'm a journalist, I'm not involved!" and "Your secret's safe with me, I swear to God, I won't tell a soul!" Refreshment -If you dont press the joystick to wake up until the credits end, 47's coffin is dragged underground for the cremation. Game over. -If you wake 47 when the priest gets to his leftside, as soon as he revives, 47 will take the priest as a human shield. Xx_Zalo_xX -If you lure Cayne to the top of the stairs his wheelchair tips over and he dies. Zor4fins -After you have completed requiem, the title screen will show 47 lying there with nobody else there, and blood stains everywhere. >>>ACCIDENTS<<< Accidentes are posible in every level. The general type of accidents across the levels consist of: -Pushing someone (target) into a pool, Jacuzzy, vat or bathtub. -Pushing people over rails or great highs. -Knocking people down the stairs. -Smashing people against an obstacle or object. Like a wall or door. VINTAGE YEAR. -Use Delgado's son or any other character as a human shield and push him into the wine vat. Delgado's secret recipe for great wine. -When Manuel Delgado is giving the drug facility tour, you can shoot a gas tank causing an "accidental" explosion. FLATLINE. -The target that drinks from the bottle placed at one of the pool statues also likes to pump weights. Wait for him to start doing his routine and stand behind the bench. After some lifts he becomes tired and the command "drop weight" appears. A NEW LIFE. Refreshment -One of the most interesting accidents in the whole game happens in this level. Go to the room with the indoors pool, look at the ceiling, its made out of glass, if you shoot the ceiling the glass will fall over anyone below, killing it. But watch out since it can kill 47 also. YOU BETTER WATCH OUT. Refreshment -Shoot the glass floor of the jacuzzy to make its ocupants drop down. Also, you can knock out Lorne de Havilland, drop it inside the pool and shoot the glass floor. A DANCE WITH THE DEVIL. -At the Hell's party where you rig the pirotechnics machine, you can throw people into the shark's tank. The sharks will eat them. >>>NEWSPAPERS<<< The newspaper system in this game is really interesting, for example: -The main headline title corresponds to your mission rating. -When achieving Silent Assassin rating the picture in the article shows the main target. -There's always an add or reference of a following level. -There are 1 or 2 funny articles in each newspaper. -You can follow Tom Stewarts (president 47 protects) progress in the campaign. ***THE LONG ISLAND SUN*** Level (Death of a Showman) Date (January 10 2004) Articles of interest: "Why is nose picking a way to greater wisdome". "Kids Lemonade Stand Condemned and Demolished". Adds: "Taste the exclusive grape of El Diablo". Reference to, A vintage year level. "FCK - Exclusively For Men". FCK is a Danish football (FC Kobenhavn team that the programmers from Denmark are fond of, IO Interactive is Danish. ***EL TIEMPO.*** Level (A Vintage Year) Date (Febraury 29 2004) Articles of interest: "The mouth from hell". This is in reference to the Chiliques Volcano. What's interesting about the article is that it has infact a 18957 summit elevation. Also in 2002 NASA, took a satellite image showing the volcano hot spots. Adds: "Tosca". This one is in relation to the next level, Curtains Down. Quotes: "Va el juego a fuera o leyo un libro. Jugar juego de video solamente le hara mas estupido." This quote at the top, is written in very bad spanish. Basically it tells you to read a book or play outside instead of playing, because videogames will only make you stupid. "No tengo ninguna pista que estoy escribiendo". This one is at the bottom, in bad spanish. It means: "I have no clue what im writing". ***L' EXPRESS PARIS***. Level (Curtains Down) Date (Mars 18/2004) Articles of interest: "Do we really need the police?" (Thanks to "Agent: Smith", "Matt Puckett", "Namingway", "Pea-brain") The headlines which are in french are as follows from left to right: "Des grenovilles tuesuses une petit ville". Translation: "Killer frogs destroy small vila". "La tour Eiffel construite por des Aliens de Jupiter". Translation: "Eiffel Tower supposedly built by aliens from Jupiter." "Invasion Danise en Chypre". Translation: "Danish invasion in chypre". "Cat Spark Killer Explosion". "How to Replace an American Vicepresident". "Brazilian Ambassador to Kenya Shot Dead in Brusselas: Police Appeal to Public" Assesination courtesy of our Albino friend. Adds: "Le cochon Rouge". "Theatre Faux: La ecole de pantomime". Quotes: "Hippo bleu est invivible, personne peut le voir. Partir furtivement comme un ninja japonais. Vous etes tous ouverure d'anus de 100% Oui Monsieur!" Translated it says something to the effect of: "Blue Hippopotamus is invisible, nobody can see him. He Leaves stealthy like a Japanese ninja. You are all 100% assholes" Yes Sir!" *Note: This Hipo is a famous character: "Dolph the Hipo". ***LOS ANGELES GAZETTE***. Level (FlatLine) Date (April 1 2004) Adds: "Cheung Chou 2 Chinese Restaurant". This restaurant specials features names that make reference to the chinese triad hits of past Hitman games: Deep Fried Red Dragon feet, Blue Lotus Spring Rolls, Zun's Noodle Feast -6 persons- (probably cause Zun was really fat), Mei Ling Stir Fry (prostitute from the Lee Hong's Assassination level). "Move to sunny Del Mar". Reference to the level A New Life. Quote: "I just want you to know that when we talk about war, we talk about peace" G. Bush June 18, 2002. ***SAN JOSE JOURNAL.*** Level (A New Life) Articles of Interest: "Local Play Ground Trap". Very funny article. "Grill Code Sparks Debate". Industrial Grills for the win. Adds: "Mardy Grass Party". Add at the top left corner for the Mardy Grass Party, thats a reference to the next level (Murder of Crows). "Heli Motor's". But we dont have money back guarantee! ***THE LOUSIANA MAIL.*** Level (Death On the Mississippi) Articles of interest: "School Janitor Burned to Death". Adds: "Street Magic". Add for a magic show, at The Shamal, thats the name of the hotel in "A House of Cards" level. "Drink Kinky Cola". Thats in reference to the cola brand that appered in Hitman Codename 47. Webpage: A very funny webpage is mentioned. It's in Danish, though: http://bevs.dk/thyboe It's figurative quotes from renowned Danish sports commentators (Kurt Thyboe specially). ***THE NEW ORLEAN STAR.*** Level (Murder of Crows) Articles of Interest: "Mardi Grass Drinking Deaths Down". Adds: "Haris Taxi: XAMNHE". "River Boat Trips". Add titled in reference to the "Killing in Mississippi" level. It features Captain Skip picture. ***MONTANA MOUNTAIN NEWS.*** Level (You Better Watch Out) Date (Dember 25 2004) Adds: "Albina Protection + Care". Funny add for a non protective sun lotion. "Pink Mansion Adventures". Promotion for a porn movie produced by Lorne de Havilland, one of your targets in the level. Quotes: "I have opinions of my own-strong opinions- but i dont always agree with them". G. Bush. ***JACKSON CRONICLE.*** Level (Till Death Do Us Apart) Date (Febraury 18 2005) Adds: At the top left corner theres the Add: "Join the red forces". Thats a reference to another IO interactive game, called: "Freedom Fighters". "Pine Cone Institute". Add for a recovery institution specialized "in burn out game developers". ***DAILY MAIL.*** Level (A House of Cards) Date (June 10 2005) Articles of interest: "Lady Luck Gets a New Twong: Bajou Beauty Spreads the Chips". This "Bajou Beauty" is non other than Margaux Leblanc, the bride from the level "Till Death Do Us Apart". "Daily Mail on the internet: Hitmanforums.com". This is the adress for the Hitmans forums in reality. "Lion mutilated 42 midgets in Cambodiam ring fight". Funny article about the Cambodiam Midget Fighting League. Adds: Theres an add with a cool reference of the "A Dance With the Devil" level. It features a picture of both Eve and Maynard John with its respective outfits. Eve is holding an "Stileto" in the picture. ***VEGAS TRIBUNE.*** Level (A Dance With the Devil) Date (August 16 2005) Articles of interest: "Poodle Explodes in Microwave Killing 2". Funny article about a women drying her "toy poodle" in a microwave. "Business man gets robbed of kidneys by sexy woman". "Politician wants prostitution legalized". "Ugly Dog Show". Vegas ugly dog show, with a postum recognition to the exploding poodle. Adds: "Ducks of War" "Uncle F's Canadian Mapple Syrup" ***THE WASHINGTON GLOBE.*** Level (Amendment XXV) Date (September 23 2005) Adds: "Guldbaeck Vs Brinckmeyer". Add for a fight at the "IO grand palace". Something to notice is that the fights date is Saturday, June 08 2002, and its 2005. Quotes: "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." Albert Einstein. >>>RANKS<<< *Credit goes specially to Jeron and the rest of the contributors at the Hitmanforums. Noise = the summary after a mission of how silent and undetectable you were (witnessess, bodies found, covers blown, caught on camera). Violence = how many people you killed and the way you killed them (headshots, shots fired, shots hit, close combat kills). Bonus = the extra money you get for acheiving the rating for the current mission. The more stealth + the less messy = the larger the bonus. Full List of ratings: A: Alphabetical order: - Armed Madman - Assailant - Assassin - Beelzebub* - Berserker - Chirurg** - Cleaner - Clumsy Killer: - Contract killer: - Deranged Slayer: noise = 2; violence = 6+ - Dr.Death*: noise = 2; violence = 6+; bonus = $100,000 - Electrocuter* - Eraser: noise = 2; violence = 4; bonus = $15,000 - Evil Eye Gouger*: - Exhibitionist: - Expert - Fierce Offender: - Frenzied Firefighter*: noise = 4; violence = 6+; bonus = $55,000 - Gangster: noise = 4; violence = 1; bonus = $25,000 - Garrotteer* - Ghost: noise = 0; violence = 2; bonus = $50,000 - Hired killer: noise = 0; violence = 2 - Hitman: noise = 0-1; violence = 0bonus = $100,000 - Hoodlum: noise = 1 - Insane Florist*: - Insurance Agent - Invisible Killer - Killer: noise = 4; violence = 5; bonus = $5.000 - King of the Jungle*: noise = 4; violence = 6+; bonus = $50,000 - Lean Killer: noise = 1-2-3; violence = 5; bonus = $10,000 - Loose Cannon - Lunatic: noise = 5; violence = 4 - Mad Butcher*: - Madman - Man In Black**; noise = 0; violence = 3; bonus = $75,000; damage control=$0 - Maniac - Mass Murderer: noise = 6+; violence = 8+; bonus = $0 - Messy Murderer: - Mobber - Mugger: - Murderer: - Murderous Manicurist - Needle Pumper* - Perpetrator: noise = 4; violence = 1 - Phantom Killer: noise = 1; violence = 3-4; bonus = $25,000 - Pianoman*: bonus = $90,000 - Prince of Darkness* - Professional: noise = 0; violence = 1; bonus = $100,000 - Psychopath: noise = 5; violence = 6-7; bonus = $0; - Raging Bluecollar - Russian Hare*: noise = 3; violence = 6+; bonus = $75,000 - Serial Killer: noise = 0-1; violence = 6+; bonus = $5,000 - $10,000 - Shadow Killer - Silent Assassin: noise = 0; violence = 0; bonus = $150,000 - Slugger*: noise = 2-3; violence = 6+; bonus = $55,000 - Skull Splitter*: - Sociopath - Specialist: noise = 1; bonus = $75,000 - Stalker: noise = 0; violence = 1-2; bonus = $75,000 - Sushi Chef*: noise = 3; violence = 6+ - Swashbuckler*: - Terrorrist: - Thug: noise = 5; violence = 1 - Undertaker: noise = 1; violence = 5 - Violent Thug * = special ratings ** = blood money german version ratings How to get them: - Armed Madman:noise = 6; violence = 6; bonus = $0. Only kill armed people, no innocents, no stealth stuff, rambo style - Assailant - Assassin - Beelzebub* - Berserker - Chirurg** - Cleaner:noise = 3; violence = 2; bonus = $15,000. Killed targets with bombs and had few unlucky bystanders - Clumsy Killer: - Contract killer: Kill target with bomb, take out few bystanders, no covers blown, no witnesses and no bodies found. - Deranged Slayer: noise = 2; violence = 6+. - Dr.Death*: noise = 2; violence = 6+; bonus = $100,000 Kill lots of people with poison syringes. - Electrocuter - Eraser: noise = 1-2; violence = 4; bonus = $15,000. - Evil Eye Gouger*: Kill lots of people with Screwdriver. - Exhibitionist: - Expert - Fierce Offender: - Frenzied Firefighter*: noise = 4; violence = 6+; bonus = $55,000Kill with a fire extinguisher - Gangster: noise = 4; violence = 1; bonus = $25,000. - Garrotteer* - Ghost: noise = 0; violence = 2; bonus = $50,000 - Hired killer: noise = 0; violence = 2; bonus = $75,000. Kill targets any way you want, kill some bystanders, some witnesses alowed. - Hitman: noise = 0-1; violence = 0bonus = $100,000. use silenced pistol. No witnesses and no body discoveries - Hoodlum: noise = 1. - Insane Florist*: Kill lots of people with the Hedge Cutters. - Insurance Agent: 2 noise, 0 violance. All accidents. bonus = $100,000. Many accidents, few witnesses. - Invisible Killer - Killer: noise = 4; violence = 5; bonus = $5.000 Kill the guards and only kill other people out of selfdefence (cover blown, witnessess) - King of the Jungle*: noise = 4; violence = 6+; bonus = $50,000 Kill most people with a bowie knife. - Lean Killer: noise = 1-2-3; violence = 5; bonus = $10,000. kill people with unsilenced gun, try to avoid witnessess, about a dozen kills in total - Loose Cannon - Lunatic: noise = 5-6; violence = 4; bonus = $5,000 Kill dozen guards, with guns, have most of the bodies discovered and have a few witnesess. - Mad Butcher*: bonus = $0. Kill lots of people, leave lots of witnesses. - Madman - Man In Black: noise = 0; violence = 3; bonus = $75,000; damage control = $0 - Maniac - Mass Murderer: noise = 6+; violence = 8+; bonus = $0. - Messy Murderer: knock everyone out, have lots of witnesses, get caught on camera, target = accident, the rest all zeros - Mobber - Mugger: - Murderer: - Murderous Manicurist - Needle Pumper* - Perpetrator: noise = 4-5; violence = 1; bonus = $15,000. Run up to your targets and just kill them, kill no one else. One or two extra kills allowed, one or two knock outs allowed. - Phantom Killer: noise = 1; violence = 3-4; bonus = $25,000. No witnessess. - Pianoman*: bonus = $90,000. Kill many people with fibre wire - Prince of Darkness* - Professional: noise = 0; violence = 1; bonus = $100,000 - Psychopath: noise = 5; violence = 6-7; bonus = $0. Just kill people for no reason. - Raging Bluecollar: noise = 5; violence = 6+; bonus = $40,000. Kill almost everyone with the hammer, mostly stealth kills - Russian Hare*: noise = 3; violence = 6+; bonus = $75,000. Use mostly the sniper rifle, must be all headshots. - Serial Killer: noise = 0-1; violence = 6+; bonus = $5,000 - $10,000. - Shadow Killer - Silent Assassin: noise = 0; violence = 0; bonus = $150,000. Sedating people allowed, no bodies found unless it's one of the targets, targets don't have to be accidents, you must end with your suit. - Slugger*: noise = 2-3; violence = 6+; bonus = $55,000. In 'a new life' kill everyone with baseball bat + take out dog. - Skull Splitter*: Kill lots of people with the Hammer. - Sociopath - Specialist: noise = 1; bonus = $75,000 - Stalker: noise = 0; violence = 1-2; bonus = $75,000. Silently kill targets, shoot few guards who stand in your way, no bodies found, no covers blown, no witnessess - Sushi Chef*: noise = 3; violence = 6+. Use kitchen knife - Swashbuckler*: Kill lots of people with the Cane Sword. - Terrorrist: noise = 4; violence = 6. killed a few guard without silencer, left witnessess but no appearance discription. - Thug: noise = 5-6; violence = 1; bonus = $15,000. kill handful of people, allow witnessess - Undertaker: noise = 1; violence = 5. 15+ kills, no witnessess. Silent weapons
(preferebly all kills with fibre wire), no witnessess. -Violent Criminal: noise = 2; violence = 6+; bonus = $5,000. have low stats, but many witnesses - Violent Thug: * = special ratings ** = blood money german version ratings >>>WEAPONS<<< Namingway -The stiletto and the kitchen knife are the only weapons that have the honor of performing three different gruesome stealth kills: slitting the throat, thrusting the knife into the victim's back, and thrusting it into the skull. Refreshement -When entering the selection menu you'll get a description of the item or weapon. Well, some melee weapons like the bat, hedge cutter, hammer or fire extinguisher get covered with blood when giving a blow with them. Then the item description chances to: "Its covered with blood". -Is posible to stick mines to the walls. Equip a mine, look at the cross sight adjust the angle in relation to the wall until the crossight gets red and press the fire key. Also is posible to throw, or put the mines in flat srfaces like tables, trays, etc. -Melee weapons like the knife, screw driver, stilleto, hedge cuter and hammer kill when throwed to a person. Also when aimed to the head it counts as a head shot in the end level stats. -As we know, weapons can be gained for succesive use by exiting a level with say weapon. But another way to gain them, is by droping a weapon inside an ICA box. There are marked with the agency symbol on the map and typically there are 2 of these boxes in any given level. To put a weapon inside an ICA box, equip and unholter the weapon, the "place item" option will appear. >>>MISCELLANEOUS<<< Loke_Trenzeta -I think that the ICA might be Dutch. If I'm correct then I've proven Wikipedia wrong when they say that they are British. the simple two words that come out of Diana's mouth leads them to believe the entire agency is British. "Your Majesty" but England isn't the only monarchy left in the world, certainly not the only one with a queen. Her Majesty Queen Margarethe II of Denmark could possibly be the lady on the other end of that phone call. The second piece of evidence they use to support their theory that the ICA are English is they claim on the seal (source 1) you can see a crown which is true. But they claim that crown to be The British Imperial Crown (source 2) which to the untrained eye at first glance one wouldn't think twice and say to themselves "oh look a crown..it must be the royal crown" but on closer inspection you can see that they are two although some what similar in shape are in fact two different crowns. So where could the crown come from then if it's not that of her majesty Queen Elizabeth? The very crown of the royal family of Her Royal Majesty Queen Margrethe II . The crown can clearly be seen on both the seal of the Danish royal family(source3) and the Coat of Arms to Denmark (source4). You can clearly see the difference in the raised arches of the crown lined with pearls, the three (clovers?)in the center. The three gems inset around the brim of the crown, and finally the reoccurring globus cruciger(globe/cross) found on the top of the crown of both the British and Danish crowns (hence I believe the crown was overlooked to be British). Although the possibility that Diana may be British it is very very likely that the Danish queen speaks English and would be able to communicate with Diana. This doesn't say with out a doubt they are Danish, however one thing this does say and that is that the crown is indeed not the British imperial crown but rather the royal Danish crown. Other little tid bit I forgot to mention....Diana was talking to "her majesty from a phone somewhere in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark. "The waterfront in the final cut scene with Diana is that of Copenhagen harbor. Additionally, the posters on the walls of Diana's office display Copenhagen landmarks such as Christiansborg and Børsen. "(source4) source1= (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Merces_letifer.jpg) source2= (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Imperialcrown.jpg) source3= (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3f/COA_Danish_Royal _Family.png) source4= (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fb/Denmark_coa.png) source5= (Trivia #10 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman:_Blood_Money) Wikipedia source for the ICA info same as above: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitman:_Blood_Money) Brienj -The barcode found near the bottom of most issues of the newspaper is a UPC code for the Washington Post Daily 25 cent edition, even though all the newspapers are not that type of newspaper. Casyle -To get the "Insurance Agent" Rank You don't have to kill everyone. That will actually only net you a Professional ranking, at least on A New Life. *A New Life now seems to be everyone's favorite for getting this rank* Statwise, 2 noise, 0 violence seperates ya from Insurance Agent and Professional. All accidents, no kills, 2 Noise, 0 Violence = Insurance Agent. 0 Noise and 0 Violence = Professional. CWBbot -I think that Mark Pariah and Mark Parchezzi are nearly the exact same clones. They both have the same first name, and one's a II and one's a III. I think they're cloned from the same DNA, and they're given different codenames (Pariah, Parchezzi) But they're 'Marks'. They might be the beginning in a long line of Marks. Like following their DNA line Marks IV, V, VI, VII, and so on have been created, only Mark II and III were included targets in the game. I think it's a good way to explain their identical appearance. *Author's note: Technically 47 kills the same target twice in the game. Falcon2000 -When you have loaded your profile and are sitting at the "start game" screen, it shows the funeral scene. The people sitting in the rows are your targets. The three patients from the rehab center are in a row together, Skip the captain is there, Vinnie "Slugger" Sinistra in his hawaian shirt, Mark Purayah II and Mark Parchesi on the left front, Lorne on the back left row, etc. Feomathar -All of 47's audience in the main title screen are future hits. If you stop on a mission with a specific target, that person will dissapear from the audience, and so on and so on until very little people are left in the audience. Install_Wizard -In the A Dance With The Devil newspaper (Vegas Tribune) it mentions "Bent Bendtsen". He is the leader of the danish right-wing party "Conservative People's Party." By the newspaper "Politiken" he is often called "Bedt Betjendtsen" (betjent = police officer) because of his politics, which someone think will turn Denmark into a police state. Author's note: Funny thoguth, the main article mentioning the late "Anthony Martinez" has him dressing in a police officer uniform. Lars Saetaberget -The big red demon head in the room where a gangster is setting fire to a lawyer in "Death of a Showman" is the same as the mask you can wear in "A Dance With the Devil". Namingway -The "Murderous Manicurist" is an interesting special rating. You get it if you kill a lot of people with the nail file, but since they didn't want that included in the end version of the game (damn those IO-people!), you can't get it at all, not even in Germany. -Fernando Delgado is a Spanish actor. Carmine Desalvo is a character from "Walker, Texas Ranger". Randymgreen -How the payment system works when replaying a level: Play a level and get say $400,000 for completing the contract, plus any bonus, and say I get a rating of "Specialist" and get a $75,000 bonus. Total that comes to $475,000 which jumps my account up. By replaying that same mission, it won't bump it up nearly that much again, since I won't be getting that initial award for the contract ($400,000), BUT say after replaying I get a better rating of "Silent Assassin" then I get the full $150,000, NOT just $75,000, that being the difference between "Specialist" and "Silent Assassin". You will always get your full rating bonus from $150,000 - $0, depending on how well you do. If I play the mission over and over, and get SA every time then I will always get the SA rating bonus of $150,000, but no more, nothing for re-completing the contract. Now if I go back through the same level and get a rating of "Shadow Killer" it may only be $10,000 rating bonus, or whatever. So you can see it is difficult to increase your account by replaying missions over and over. You only get the big bumps by completing a new mission. It gets kind of boring trying to earn money by getting SA rating over and over, but that's the best way. Refreshment -When your health is diplited the slow motion sequence will start, if you shoot 3 people in the head consecutively 47 will resurrect. Yet you dont get full life bar. -When a guard founds a weapon lying on the floor (handgun or mine for example), he will pick the weapon up and deposit it in one of the guards quarter boxes. You can use this to alter a guards normal patroling route or rutine, as a matter of fact it works better than the coins. Another example, in Ammend XXV toss a gun over the right grate. A patroling guard will pick it up and drop it in the quarters that has the survilance video tape. -As well, when a guard founds a dead body, he will conceal it inside a bodybag and drags it to a guard quarters. So dont be surprised by the macabre spectacle. -In most levels theres a radio. If 47 stays close to the radio is posible to hear news regarding the presidential campaing and desicions of president Stewart. -In the levels with people dancing like Murder of Crows or Till Death Do us A Part, if you have the apropiate custom (same as people dancing) and leave 47 in the dance floor without touching the controller, 47 will start dancing. Is posible to rotate the camera or enter first person mode to watch 47 move those feet. -Instead of lock picking, is posible to shoot the locks of some doors to open them. In fact, when shooting the non locked doors around the knob area, it'll make them swing open. This is useful when there are people near the door you need to open, instead take some distance and break the lock with a silenced weapon. -List of products that appear in the game: Old Fartz "Baked Beans". "Bobo Cola". "Yummy Cola". "Freedom Snacks". "IOI Vodka". "Super Diva" (make up). "Great Grip" (tires). -Bodies murdered with violence, leave a blood trail when 47 drags them. -Desarmed guards or civilians will pick any gun nearby, if 47 is threatening their lives. -Across the levels you can see computer screens featuring the Hitman: Blood Money webpage. -Also scattered across the levels theres a magazine with the ICA symbol it says: "Get a Carreer in games or die trying." -The list of license plates: IO Interactive, BADBLOOD, M 666, 1LEMN3Y (I love money? this one on the Limousines) -2 of the election candidates are named "Sen. N(o) F(***ing) Chance" and "Gov. H(?) Behind" Kringel -In the early newspapers there is a presidential candidate called: "Lance O.RegenT", I wondered why the t was capitalized. This is mostly for the danish people to discover 'cause L O R T means: Excrement in danish. SlowBurn76 -You can shoot cameras, single shot will do it. Saves having to steal a tape. SpikeSpiegel -Death of a showman is surely a reference to Death of a Salesman, but did you know that Jesper Kyd scored the music of Death of a Saleswoman ? Thiefx100 -You ALMOST get some good stuff 3 times in the game. In "A new life" take the pool guy's clothes and see the wife. She will bring you to her room and tell you she "isn't in the mood after all". Author's note: Then she'll fall sleep, this is a good oportunity to get the micro film. In "You better watch out" there's the girl in the grotto. That tries to poison you. In "A dance with the Devil" if the singing angel (Eve) isn't singing and sees you she will bring you to a room to show you what else she's good at. Uzi -47 wear his suit in 2 different ways. Tie in, and tie out. Mainly the outside levels he has tie out with his jacket not buttoned up (the tie moves freely, when crouching or turning quickly), and on the 'inside' levels he has his jacket buttoned up with the tie tucked in. 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text: DysoForums :: View topic - Postage DysoForums Gallery Donate Dyso.com Search Memberlist Usergroups Stats Register Login to check your private messages Login Postage DysoForums Forum Index -> Tempest Steel (Private) View previous topic :: View next topic :: Hide signatures Author Message kental-sinMasterJoined: 02 Dec 2002Posts: 225 Level: 14 XP: 3% Posted: Fri Aug 28, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject: Postage Well finally this is unlocked and people can post here well at least i can, But when Jon left and the server fell through. I restarted TS under the server muric was hosting, So even though im not able to play until i return. This will be a hello to all who use to be in TS. Please feel free to post if you use to be in TS and who your character was. Also feel free to post a memory or two. Lets see shortly after joining TS, i was haning out with jon whom i believe was playing valas at the time. When we were invited by Black paladin, i think the moderators name was Uin, it was a female character but some others i believe where associated with LGoG, to render ourservices. They umm found a "key" into the castle that use to sit outside of Kraven wood, I think this was owned by OSB or whom ever westwhitewind was. We then proceed to take in the scenery of the castle and rape and pillage what we could while we where getting payed as mercenarys to do it. Was a splended sight to see the faces of certain individuals when they heard how we defiled there guild headquarters lol. Feel free to share_________________Eternally, Order Of The White Rose Tempest Steel Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First DysoForums Forum Index -> Tempest Steel (Private) All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum General----------------Official AnnouncementsChatterHelpComplaints, Rants and FlamesOff TopicWorldbuilders General - History (Read-Only)----------------Chatter - HistorySuggestions - HistoryBugs - HistoryComplaints, Rants, and Flames - History Dysotopia----------------Dysotopia Information (Read-Only)Dysotopia: The RebirthSuggestionsDyso Quest Idea VaultIn-CharacterBugsEvents Cities----------------EleriinaKravenwoodSylvandaleGloth Guilds----------------General Guild TalkLeague of Shadows (Private)White Guardians Of Eleriina (Private)Order of the Shining Blade (Private)The Lost Guard of Glorin (Private)Keepers of the Long Story (Private)Order of the Howling Wolf (Private)Druid Circle (Private)High Knights of the Lost Guard (Private)Tempest Steel (Private)Kravenwood Militia (Private)The Kraken Society (Private)The High Council (Private)Kravenwood Leaders (Private)eXiled Spirits (Private)The Scamps (Private)Nel's House / Rumanos' Dark LairShadow Clan (Private)Black Shadows (Private)Salon de la RoseThe Shadow Bretheryn (Private)Items 'R UsTrader's GuildHigh Order of the SpammersWilwarin-Men' Cobar Arulean----------------State of the WorldIdea MillCobar Wide Bugs Har-Rhun----------------AnnouncementsIn-CharacterHar-Rhun BugsSuggestions Tuskandale----------------AnnouncementsIn-CharacterTuskandale BugsSuggestions You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB 2.0.2 © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Mitt Romney says the Iranians released hostages in 1981 because they feared Ronald Reagan's approach to foreign policy
During a March 6, 2012, video address to a conference of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, Mitt Romney seized the tough foreign policy mantle of President Ronald Reagan.
"I believe the right course is what Ronald Reagan called peace through strength," Romney told the pro-Israel group. "There's a reason why the Iranians released the hostages on the same day and at the same hour that Reagan was sworn in. As president, I'll offer that kind of clarity, strength and resolve."
But was Reagan's "peace through strength" philosophy really responsible for freeing the 52 Americans who were taken hostage by Islamic militants and held for 444 days?
First, a reminder of what the hostage crisis was all about. In 1979, the Shah of Iran -- who had been installed and supported by successive United States administrations -- was overthrown by Islamic revolutionaries. Militants took over the American embassy and held hostages from Nov. 4, 1979, until Jan. 20, 1981 -- the day President Jimmy Carter passed the reins to Reagan, who had defeated him amid widespread public disapproval of the incumbent's handling of the crisis.
"Iran contacted the Carter administration in September 1980 with a proposal to end the hostage crisis," said Gary Sick, a Columbia University professor who has written two books about the Iran hostage crisis. "The U.S. made a proposal. Iran responded with an unacceptable offer just a day or two before the election. Afterwards, they nominated the Algerians to act as intermediaries. Those valuable discussions went on until literally the day or two before the inauguration, and they were settled by the Iranians caving in on a number of issues that were extremely costly to them. By my calculations, the Iranians ended up paying about $300,000 per hostage per day of incarceration."
The agreement that led to the release, as described by the New York Times 11 days after it occured, revolved around $11 billion to $12 billion in Iranian assets that Carter had frozen 10 days after the seizure of the U.S. embassy. It had been negotiated over the course of several months before Reagan's inauguration.
The Times, in its account of the inauguration, reported that "no one on the speaker's stand knew of the latest developments in Iran. Word quickly spread among the governors, Congressmen and Reagan friends, family and aides as they left the platform."
Carter informed Reagan at 8:31 a.m. that the release of the hostages was imminent, "but the onetime bitter rivals for the presidency told reporters as they entered the speaker's area separately, to the flourish of trumpets, that the hostages had not yet taken off from Tehran. The President got his first chance to announce the news at 2:15 p.m. at a luncheon with Congressional leaders in Statuary Hall in the Capitol."
So Reagan, not Carter, got to bask in the glow of the hostages' safe return. However, we contacted seven scholars of the period, and their consensus was that neither Reagan nor his philosophy played any significant role in freeing the hostages.
"Well before Reagan became president, the deal for releasing the hostages had already been worked out by the Carter administration's State Department and the Iranians, ably assisted by Algerian diplomats," said David Farber, a Temple University historian and author of Taken Hostage: The Iranian Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam.
"No Reagan administration officials participated in the successful negotiations," Farber added. "The Iranian government waited to officially release the Americans until Carter had left the presidency as a final insult to Carter, whom they despised. They believed Carter had betrayed the Iranian revolution by allowing the self-exiled Shah to receive medical attention in the United States and then had threatened their new government by attempting, unsuccessfully, to use military force in April 1980 to free the hostages."
"By doing this, Iran thought they were showing the world that they could meddle in our affairs, just as we had done to them in 1953," added Dave Houghton, a political scientist at the University of Central Florida and author of U.S. Foreign Policy and the Iran Hostage Crisis. Houghton suggested that Iran had a relatively unsophisticated grasp of U.S. politics, and said he thinks it's possible that the Iranians "didn't even know what Reagan had said on the campaign trail."
"I don't think they were scared into the release," Houghton said. "In all likelihood, they released the hostages because they needed the sanctions we'd placed on them lifted so they could finance their war with Iraq."
The one scholar who entertained the possibility that Iran was taking heed of the future president's philosophy was Michael Gunter, a political scientist at Tennessee Tech University and the author of several papers about the crisis. Still, Gunter added, the "main reason for the release" was that "the mileage the Iranians had gained by holding the hostages had been used for everything it was worth and there was no further advantage in continuing."
Several other experts agreed that the Iranians' focus was on Carter, not Reagan.
"If it was related to the occupant of the White House, it certainly had more to do with Carter than Reagan," said Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times reporter who now teaches at Boston University and authored the book, Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future. "My guess is that the hostages would have been released even if someone else had been inaugurated -- anyone but Carter. The Iranians had come to hate Carter and didn't want to give him a triumph. Giving it to someone else was fine with them."
Sick, the Columbia University professor, said that "those who wish to believe that the final flurry of activity was out of fear of Reagan have a right to their opinion. Those closer to the events believed that the Iranians, who had clearly decided months earlier that the hostages were a wasting asset, feared that they would have to start the whole laborious process of negotiation over from scratch with a new administration, which obviously had no great appeal."
The Romney campaign did not return an inquiry seeking backup for the candidate's claim.
Our ruling
We can't read the Iranians' minds, but seven scholars of the period told us that Reagan's foreign policy approach was either a minor factor in the release of the hostages or not a factor at all. The fact that the deal was negotiated entirely by the Carter administration, without involvement by Reagan or his transition team, seems to support the expert consensus. Romney made a claim that flies in the face of history and offered no evidence to support it. We rate the statement Pants On Fire.