: Actually you don't have to get to the terminal, you just have to stand still.
: The terminal is mostly there to that people *will* stand still for a
: moment instead of running around like a chicken with its head cut off. But
: once you're upstairs, the [?Watcher] can see you and teleport you out.
: (I'm surprised that Marathon will bother to teleport a dead corpse to the
: next level, though).
I've actually had my dead corpse teleported to the next level a couple of times in the game. It happened at the end of Deep in the Grotto first time through, when I got nailed just as I reached the outside. It happened earlier as well, but I don't remember the level.