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"I would have been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence."

— Sergeant Johnson

The Seven Rings the player must jump through for the skull.

John-117 with IWHBYD skull.

The Halo 3 IWHBYD (I Would Have Been Your Daddy) skull is located on the campaign level The Covenant. This skull has no actual gameplay effects, but reverses the frequency of the dialogue spoken by non-playable characters, allowing several humorous lines to be heard where otherwise such humorous lines would be very rare.

Origins[edit]

The name of the skull is based on a statement, occasionally uttered by both Sergeant Johnson and Sergeant Stacker in Halo: Combat Evolved: "I would have been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence!" The quote was originally spoken by Pete Stacker.^[1]

It is also the name of the first chapter of the campaign level Assault on the Control Room in Halo: Combat Evolved. Not only is the skull's name a reference to this line, but the skull's description reads "But a dog beat me over the fence" The exception of this is in Halo 3: ODST and Halo 4, where the description reads, "Rare dialog is common and vice versa".

Walkthrough[edit]

The IWHBYD skull is located on the level The Covenant. To obtain the skull, the player must start the level from the very beginning, and not from a Rally Point, and on Normal, Heroic, or Legendary.

When you reach the final scene, where the Prophet of Truth is planning on lighting the seven rings, proceed as you would normally: kill the Covenant, kill Truth, and kill the Flood, but do not jump down the elevator shaft once you have finished that.

Once the bridge is devoid of enemies, you will have to jump through the seven holograms of the Halos in a specific order.

You should jump through the rings after Truth dies. The skull will still appear if you are playing in co-op (2-4 players).

Note: you can restart jumping through the rings without restarting the level over as long as you start from the beginning.

The 7-ring sequence is as follows. Each number corresponds to the ring you must jump through; the ring at the elevator is 1, and the ring next to Truth is 7. The ring with red on it is 4.

Sequence order:

4 6 5 4 5 3 4

Once you have completed the sequence, the skull will appear at the beginning of the light bridge leading to Truth's podium. If you are not sure you got it, then look at the rings when you complete the sequence; they will be blinking in sequence. The Halo theme will play as you get the skull. You must then finish the level, or the skull will not be saved to your profile and you will have to do it all over again.

Effect[edit]

The IWHBYD skull causes rare dialogue in the game to become commonplace, and normally frequent dialogue to become rare. These lines are can be heard spoken by all talking non-player characters; both enemies and allies.

For example, if a Jiralhanae is killed, one of the surviving Brutes might say, "He was my lover!" or "Every pack-brother for himself!" These lines can be heard without the skull on, but it becomes much more likely to be spoken with it on.

Trivia[edit]

The skull was intended to be the hardest skull to find, and was in fact the last one to be discovered. However, it was discovered very quickly after the game's release when hackers looked in the game's scripts.^[2]
The further the skull is carried from the control panel, the brighter the rings will glow until the lights become blinding. It is assumed that the holograms would have also behaved in this manner if they were all activated.
Each of the holographic rings sound a different tone of the E Dorian mode when the player stand near it. The sequence, if one pays attention, plays the final 7 notes of the Halo theme song.
Once the player grabs the skull and the new music begins, the eerie Flood music fades, and when the player finishes the level, there will be no music while Master Chief is following Cortana, although the Halo theme will play as scripted as the ring rises out of the Ark.
The task to complete this skull was most likely intended to be a humorously literal allusion to the phrase "jumping through hoops". This phrase refers to the process of completing seemingly meaningless, but nonetheless required, tasks to achieve a desirable end result.

Sources[edit]

[1] YouTube: Halo Fest: Halo Universe

[2] halo.bungie.org: Phooey.

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-In Halo 3, the IWHBYD (I Would Have Been Your Daddy) Skull is located on the level [[The_Covenant_(Level)|The Covenant (Level)]]. For this skull, you may be on difficulty levels: Normal, Heroic, and Legendary to acquire the skull.
+{{Status|Gameplay}}
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+{{Center|''Were you looking for the [[Halo 2 skulls#I_Would_Have_Been_Your_Daddy_.28IWHBYD.29|Halo 2 version of the IWHBYD skull]]?''}}
+{{Quote|I would have been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence.|[[Sergeant Johnson]]}}
+[[File:H3_ArkCitadel_HaloRings.jpg|thumb|200px|The Seven Rings the player must jump through for the skull.]]
+[[File:H3_John117_IWHYBD.jpg|thumb|200px|[[John-117]] with IWHBYD skull.]]
-[[Image:Halo_Rings.jpg|left|thumb|200px|The Seven Rings you must jump through for the Skull.]]
+The '''Halo 3 IWHBYD (I Would Have Been Your Daddy) skull''' is located on the campaign level ''[[The Covenant (level)|The Covenant]]''. This skull has no actual gameplay effects, but reverses the frequency of the dialogue spoken by [[non-playable character]]s, allowing several humorous lines to be heard where otherwise such humorous lines would be very rare.
-In order to get the IWHBYD skull, you must complete the entire mission until you reach the final battle scene, where the [[Special:Createpage?Prophet%20of%20Truth|Prophet of Truth]] is planning on lighting all seven rings. Once you reach the bridge, battle your way across with the Arbiter and Flood, neutralize all Covenant, watch the cinematic, and kill all the flood. Once the bridge is devoid of enemies, you will have to literally jump through the 7 rings in a complex order. Once you have completed this, the IWHBYD skull will appear on Truth's podium.
+==Origins==
+The name of the skull is based on a statement, occasionally uttered by both [[Sergeant Johnson]] and [[Stacker|Sergeant Stacker]] in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'': "I would have been your daddy, but a dog beat me over the fence!" The quote was originally spoken by [[Pete Stacker]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjKkKHShyp8 '''YouTube''': ''Halo Fest: Halo Universe'']</ref>
-[[Image:Skull.jpg|left|thumb|200px|MC Spartan 117 with IWHBYD Skull.]]
+It is also the name of the first chapter of the campaign level ''[[Assault on the Control Room]]'' in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''. Not only is the skull's name a reference to this line, but the skull's description reads "But a dog beat me over the fence" The exception of this is in ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' and ''[[Halo 4]]'', where the description reads, "Rare dialog is common and vice versa".
-There are two sequences that both work. One contains 18 jumps, while the other has only 7. Both will produce the IWHBYD skull, the difference between them is that one take longer. The purpose of the longer code is to provide a "backup" in case you might make a mistake or perhaps the shorter simply doesn't work.
+== Walkthrough ==
+The IWHBYD skull is located on the level The Covenant''. To obtain the skull, the player ''must'' start the level from the very beginning, and not from a Rally Point, and on [[Normal]], [[Heroic]], or [[Legendary]].
+When you reach the final scene, where the [[Prophet of Truth]] is planning on lighting the [[seven]] [[Halo Array|rings]], proceed as you would normally: kill the [[Covenant]], kill Truth, and kill the [[Flood]], but do ''not'' jump down the elevator shaft once you have finished that.
-Note: Each number corresponds to the ring you must jump through. The ring at the elevator is 1. The ring next to Truth is 7.
+Once the bridge is devoid of enemies, you will have to jump through the seven holograms of the Halos in a specific order.
-Sequence order:<br>
+You should jump through the rings after Truth dies. The skull will still appear if you are playing in co-op (2-4 players).
->Shorter order: 4,6,5,4,5,3,4<br>
->Longer order: 1,3,4,6,7,5,4,6,5,4,5,3,4,5,4,5,3,4<br>
-Once you have completed either sequence, the skull will appear at the start at the bridge at the end. The Halo theme will play as you get the skull.
+''Note: you can restart jumping through the rings without restarting the level over as long as you start from the beginning.''
+The [[Seven|7]]-ring sequence is as follows. Each number corresponds to the ring you must jump through; the ring at the elevator is 1, and the ring next to Truth is 7. The ring with red on it is [[Installation 08|4]].
-The IWHBYD Skull unlocks the extra dialog in the game, which usually comes from the UNSC Marines and Elites, but some ridiculous dialogue does come from enemy forces with this skull on. For example if in a group of two Brutes one is killed, the remaining [[Brute]] has a chance to say "You killed my lover!" or such as the [[Flipyap]] quote in which one [[Grunt]] is killed and another screams "You killed Flipyap! Or Yapflip, was he... It was Yapflip... No, Flipyap was his brother. Don't tell me I don't know Flipyap! Flipyap and I went to Nipple Academy together, and, eh, now he's dead...". Other notable quotes from enemy infrantry and brutes include "I like chicked neggets!", and "Sorry, we don't take master card".
+Sequence order:
+* 4 6 5 4 5 3 4
+Once you have completed the sequence, the skull will appear at the beginning of the light bridge leading to Truth's podium. If you are not sure you got it, then look at the rings when you complete the sequence; they will be blinking in sequence. The Halo theme will play as you get the skull. You must then finish the level, or the skull will not be saved to your profile and you will have to do it all over again.
-Notable IWHBYD effects from ally's and other AI/NPC's include "That one called you fat chief!" (exclaimed by sergeant johnson), "chief, can we be friends!!!" (from marines and occasionally elites), and if one trys to shoot the moniter with the IWHBYD skull activated, he will exclaim remarks such as:
+== Effect ==
-"That hurts my feelings, oh my God I have feelings! I'm a real boy!"
+The IWHBYD skull causes rare dialogue in the game to become commonplace, and normally frequent dialogue to become rare. These lines are can be heard spoken by all talking non-player characters; both enemies and allies.
-"You're really pissing me off, oh my!, I did not realise I had a cussing function programmed"
-"Are you always a pain in the ass?"
+For example, if a [[Jiralhanae]] is killed, one of the surviving Brutes might say, "He was my lover!" or "Every pack-brother for himself!" These lines can be heard without the skull on, but it becomes much more likely to be spoken with it on.
-The name of the skull is based on a statement uttered by [[Sergeant Johnson]] in the first Halo: "I would have been your daddy, but that dog beat me over the fence!". It is also seen in one of the brief cinematics that happen during Halo: CE, in which two bold black lines draw in to the screen from the top and bottom to make a 'letterbox' effect. The player still has control over the game, but the HUD is lost when the black lines appear. In the bottom right hand corner of the screen, inside the black line, it says I Would Have Been Your Daddy. These are suspected to be Master Chief's thoughts
+== Trivia ==
-[[Category:Halo 3]]
+{{Linkbox|quote=yes}}
+* The skull was intended to be the hardest skull to find, and was in fact the last one to be discovered. However, it was discovered very quickly after the game's release when hackers looked in the game's scripts.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.org/news.html?item=20282 '''halo.bungie.org:''' ''Phooey.'']</ref>
+* The further the skull is carried from the control panel, the brighter the rings will glow until the lights become blinding. It is assumed that the holograms would have also behaved in this manner if they were all activated.
+*Each of the holographic rings sound a different tone of the E Dorian mode when the player stand near it. The sequence, if one pays attention, plays the final 7 notes of the Halo theme song.
+*Once the player grabs the skull and the new music begins, the eerie Flood music fades, and when the player finishes the level, there will be no music while Master Chief is following Cortana, although the Halo theme will play as scripted as the [[Installation 08|ring]] rises out of the Ark.
+*The task to complete this skull was most likely intended to be a humorously literal allusion to the phrase "jumping through hoops". This phrase refers to the process of completing seemingly meaningless, but nonetheless required, tasks to achieve a desirable end result.
+==Sources==
+{{Ref/Sources}}
+[[Category:Halo 3 Easter eggs]]