: The one I hate most of all (note, not the one I find hardest) is that
: floating spider-thing in Marathon 1! THEY FREAK ME OUT!!! Maybe it's
: because I have a little spider phobia. I feel the same way about them that
: I feel about the lurkers above in Zelda: The Ocraina of Time. I know
: they're there, I know when they attack, and yet I get just as scared every
: time I see them fall down....eeeek!!!!
Those are the MADDs. The Marathon Automatic Defense Drones. The one that help you are a godsend, the ones that are virus-berserk freak everybody out. It's like a tiny, super-tough, floating Trooper tripping on an acid/steroid/puppy-upper cocktail. If you need some good old fashioned aversion therapy, Quartz made a decent MADD patch you can add to your maps. You will probably want to take a SPNKR with you into the room. And a bandaid.
Gary Simmons
the Battle Cat