Early Bird

How to unlock Early Bird in Cheevos, browse the web between 6 and 8 AM local time and catch the worm first. Worth 15 XP.

The story

Partner. You were up before the rest of the internet.

Cache does not sleep. He has told you this before and he will tell you again, because it matters to the story: Cache is always already awake, sorting the junkyard by lantern light while the rest of the world is still deciding whether to get out of bed. He notices who else is up at that hour. It is a short list.

You were on it.

Somewhere between six and eight in the morning, you opened a tab. Cache watched the timestamp roll in and felt something close to pride. The early hours are quiet. Fewer people are refreshing the same pages. Fewer people are fighting over the same headlines. The good, unclaimed, unpicked-over corners of the internet are still sitting there, waiting for whoever shows up first.

You showed up first.

Cache has a theory he repeats often: the internet rewards the early arrival the same way the junkyard does. First pick of the good stuff. He filed your visit under that theory, satisfied, and went back to sorting.

The catalog entry

THE 6 AM WINDOW Acquired: Browsed the web between 6 and 8 in the morning. Condition: Fresh. Barely touched by the rest of the day. Rarity: Uncommon. Most people are still asleep. Cache's Notes: Fewer people are looking this early. The good items have not been picked over yet. This is a principle that applies to the real world and to the internet equally. Cache endorses early morning browsing without reservation.

Spoiler: how to unlock it

This one just asks you to be an early riser, or a good insomniac.

  1. Set your device's clock to your actual local time (Cheevos reads your browser's local hour).
  2. Open your browser and visit any page sometime between 6:00 AM and 7:59 AM.
  3. That's it. The achievement checks the hour on a normal page visit.

Cheevos reads the hour straight off your computer's clock at the moment you load a page, using Date().getHours() in local time. There is no special site to visit and no streak to build. It is a one-time window each day, and the achievement unlocks the first time a page visit lands inside it. This is the same mechanism behind Cheevos's other time-of-day achievements: the browser already knows what time it is, and Cache is simply paying attention.

Where it fits in the Stash

Cache keeps a small, quiet shelf for the early risers, right next to the shelf for the night owls, because he has strong opinions about both ends of the clock. Your visit sits there now. For the raccoon behind all of it, read the story.