The Normal City

The Normal City is an Adventure game by NowDoTheHarlemShake and takes place before The Normal Elevator. The Normal City is, by far, crazier and weirder than The Normal Elevator and explains the origin story of a mysterious character known as Gavin through it's many secrets. It was created on July 14, 2014 as one of the first games made by the creator.

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The Normal City contains secrets and Easter Eggs which can be triggered in various ways:

Shrek
Left to the spawn is a playground. Climb up the ladder and click the button on the roof and a soundclip of Shrek will play, saying "WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY SWAMP!", then "All-Star" by Smash Mouth will begin to play (which has now been removed due to Roblox's new Copyright changes) as Shreks spawn from a distant lake in a small forest to the top right. The Shreks will chase the player, saying various puns and references, such as "It's all ogre now" (a pun), "Onions have layers" (a quote from the movie), "Shrektastic" (a poorly-made pun), "This is my swamp" (another quote from the movie) and "Shrek is love, Shrek is life" which references a infamous 4chan post, that became popular after being narrated and posted to YouTube. The Shreks will kill the player upon contact, and the event will end after several minutes.

Gavin's Code
Right to the player is a long stretch of road - once the player reaches the end of the road, either through walking or using one of the vehicles provided at spawn, they will be able to see a billboard stating "Hello! Nothing here is interesting yet, sorry for making you walk this far for nothing. I hope this picture of a duck makes it all better, enjoy!" with a picture of a plush duck underneath. Clicking the duck will produce a "quack" sound effect. Clicking the picture 11 times will produce a blood trail, leading to a clump of dirt placed to the right of Luke's House. Clicking the dirt will reveal the floor underneath, with text stating "I may be dead, but I'm not gone." with "3792" written underneath. This is implied to be Gavin speaking, and the code used to enter the Gavin door in The Normal Elevator. The dirt can be clicked without activating the blood trail.

Alien Invasion
Inside Will's House is a TV - clicking "Play" will cause grey fog to spawn and aliens begin to spawn near the large forest. They will chase after the player and various NPCs and will kill them upon contact. The event will end after several minutes.

Meteor Every House
In Will's House, clicking the grey arrow in the corner on the TV will lead to a overhead view of the houses and on-fire text saying "Meteor Every House". Clicking "Play" will cause a meteor to drop on Will's house which will cause it to shatter to pieces.

The Well
Clicking on the grey arrow again will lead you to a picture of a well and "The Well" written above it. Clicking "Play" will lead to a short animation on the TV of a ghost girl crawling out of the well frame-by-frame towards the screen. Then, the screen will turn to static and black fog will surround the player. The girl will spawn in front of the TV and begin to chase after the player. The event will end after several minutes.

Kill Will
In Harlem's House, there is a TV with a picture of Spongebob and Patrick from the Season 5 Episode 15 "Roller Cowards" from "Spongebob SquarePants". Clicking the arrow on the bottom left corner will show an explosion behind DubstepManiac69 (the username of Will) with the text "KILL WILL". Clicking Will will teleport the player into a room with a poorly-built statue of Will that the player can blow up with their rocket launcher.

Who Let the Dogs Out?
In Will's Garden there is a black button placed in the corner. Clicking the button will play a barking sound effect, then "Who Let The Dogs Out" by "Baha Men" will play, as hounds will spawn out of a medium-sized box at the right side of the map. The hounds will chase any NPC and player within range and kill them upon contact. The event ends after several minutes.

The Rock
In front of the forest to the right, there is a rock. Clicking the rock will trigger a sound effect, where Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will say "DO YOU SMELL, WHAT THE ROCK IS COOKING?" (his wrestling catchphrase) as his wrestling theme plays and an image of Dwayne will appear behind the player and begin to chase them, tilting left to right as it moves. The image will kill the player upon contact, and the event will end after several minutes.

Lamp Knockout
The TV in Duffy's house shows a screen saying "Lamp Knockout" with a play button. Clicking the button will teleport the player into a room with 32 lamps, a 30 second timer and a counter saying "0 / 32 lamps knocked over". The counter does not increase after hitting the lamps, and the timer ending will teleport the player to spawn and kill them.

The Purge
To the left of Luke's House is a small, grey building. Entering the back room of the building through a dark-grey door will show an 8-button from The Stanley Parable. Clicking the button will activate black fog, and the town's NPCs (Geoff and Micheal) will begin to wear masks and chase the player, and the player will be killed upon contact.

It also has a headless girl who also chases the player and does the same thing - but it is unknown who this girl is (most likely xXDuffy despite having no resemblance).

The event will end after several minutes, and Edgar II is not affected.

Duffy's Love
At the top floor of Duffy's house is a lightly-coloured wood in the wall. Walking through the wood will show the player a picture of NowDoTheHarlemShake and the text "Send some 'love' to NowDoTheHarlemShake <3".

Clicking the picture of Harlem will change the text to "Sent love to NowDoTheHarlemShake! He'll love it <3" and a giant pink heart will fall through Harlem's house, destroying it.

Slenderman
To the very far front of spawn is an office building. A rocket launcher is required to destroy the front door, and upon doing so the player can enter the building. Climbing up the stairs and to the top floor, a computer room with a button attached to a monitor can be seen. Clicking the button will make it nighttime, play a slowed-down oof sound, trigger black fog, and a song about Slenderman will begin to play.

Secrets/Updates That Never Happened
When a player spawns, they must turn left and follow the road. Eventually, they'll get to where there are trees on the right and what looks like a clear pit with the NPC Edgar inside. There's also a rusty piece of wood with the words, "CLOSED FOR REPAIRMENTS" on it.

If you shift your screen to where the rusty piece of wood would be in the top right corner of the pit, you'd have to walk into what would be the back wall of the pit. Here, you can walk through the pit into a white hallway.

Through the hallway, there will be two staircases, both leading up to a higher floor. In the middle, there will be a dark hallway where the exit is located. (Going through the exit will teleport you back to the spawn.) If you walk up the staircases, there will be a room with pictures of users' profiles, titled, "NowDoTheHarlemShake's wall of amazing people". The list of these users include himself, DuffyXx, Will, Kyle, Luke, Chad, and Alex. The creator also gives reasons why these people are amazing underneath their avatars.

To the right of this room is an empty door frame, in which a player can walk through. Here, the wall is titled, "The Normal City: Secrets/Updates that never happened". The events are titled Geoff's House, Harlem's Nightmare, Work Building, Tunnel of Glove, and The Normal City: Secrets/Updates that never happened boards.

Geoff's House
"Geoff's House was the only one out of all the houses in the Normal City that had no attractions. So I begun to build a downstairs for it... I was making progress, and but when I clicked a button on a plugin... the house got all weird, and I had to erase the progress."

Harlem's Nightmare
"This was going to be a scary update. When you click on my bed, you go into my nightmare. Long hallway, and Duffy is standing at the end of it. Sadly, I did not make it that far as I did not think through how I would script it. Maybe someday, I will retry making this."

Work Building
"This was going to be a place of work for Michael and Geoff (along with some new others). But soon enough, I lost motivation for it. It was to be a game full of offices which have games on them. It'll still be there, just probably never finished."

Tunnel of Glove
"After coming back from Disneyland, I was inspired to make a creepy ride. Also inspired from Spongebob, I decided to make my own "Tunnel of Glove". The progress on this was shortly lived."

The Normal City: Secrets/Updates that never happened boards
"There are more secrets/updates that never happened but I got too lazy to even put them on the secrets/updates that never happened wall."

Gavin's Story
To access Gavin's Story being told, a player must walk into the forest of trees located on the opposite side of the houses to the spawn. It's easier to get there if you use a car. After going into the forest, stay directly in the middle of the trees, as if there were a path to follow. You'd have to zoom out when you're about 2/3 of the way to the wall. If you turn right, there's a campfire surrounded by logs. (Sometimes, a player will catch on fire and lose about 95% of their health. Over time, however, their health will slowly come back.)

Click the fire for it to start telling Gavin's story. The sky and surroundings will also become dark, as if it were nighttime. Unfortunately, Roblox chat has cut off some of the speech in the speech bubbles. Along the left side of the speech bubble will be a blue line, located at the edge.

After the campfire talks for about 30 seconds, a different speech bubble will say "Goodnight.". Unlike the other one, this speech bubble has a red line on its left side, presumably there to imply that a different person is speaking. This could possibly be said by Gavin himself.

Once the word "Goodnight." disappears, the player is teleported back to the spawn.

Eventually, it will become daytime again. However, if a player goes over to Gavin's grave near the forest, there will now be words written on it what weren't there before. "NEAR THE PINK HOUSE." Is now scrawled across his tombstone. This is unconfirmed, but likely referring to, Gavin's code in the ground.