Dead of Night

How to unlock Dead of Night in Cheevos, browse the web between 3 and 4 AM local time when the whole network goes quiet. Worth 20 XP.

The story

Partner. 3 AM is different. You know it. Cache knows it too.

He is always awake, at every hour, watching the Stash the way he always does. But he will tell you, if you ask, that 3 AM has a texture the other hours do not. The network gets quiet. Fewer requests. Fewer people refreshing the same five sites out of habit. Whatever is happening on the internet at that hour is happening because someone specifically chose to be there, not because it was convenient.

You were one of those someones.

Cache does not know what you were looking for between three and four in the morning. He has theories. Insomnia. A question that would not let you sleep until you answered it. A time zone that put you awake while your corner of the world was asleep. He has seen all of these before, and he has learned not to ask which one applies to you.

He respects the privacy of it. He logged the visit anyway, because the Stash holds everything, including the hours nobody talks about.

The catalog entry

THE QUIET HOUR Acquired: Browsed the web between 3 and 4 in the morning. Condition: Quiet. Deliberate. Rarity: Uncommon. Most people are asleep by then. Cache's Notes: Cache is always awake. But 3 AM is different. The Stash is quieter. The network is quieter. The things that are interesting at 3 AM are different from the things that are interesting during the day. Cache does not know what you were looking for. He respects that. He logged it anyway. The Stash holds everything.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

This one just needs you awake at an unusual hour, on purpose or otherwise.

  1. Check that your device's clock matches your actual local time.
  2. Open your browser and load any page sometime between 3:00 AM and 3:59 AM.
  3. The achievement checks the hour at the moment of that page visit.

Cheevos reads your computer's local hour with Date().getHours() when a page finishes loading, the same mechanism behind Early Bird and the other time-of-day achievements. There is no special site required and no minimum duration, just a single page visit that happens to land inside the 3 AM hour. If you keep unusual hours regularly, this is one of the easier time-based achievements to pick up without even trying.

Where it fits in the Stash

The quiet-hour visits get their own shelf, tucked near the other overnight finds. Cache does not treat them as lesser just because fewer people show up. Rare hours make for rare records. To meet the raccoon keeping the lights on, read the story.