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	Message: : TOUR OF DUTY : 08 - Nuke and Pave : Last time on Tour of Duty, Martin encountered F'lickta once more, handled : Troopers with dual Pistols, plugged a virus into the Pfhor computer net, : and set an Easy-chair outside a Cathedral. Busy days! : The name. Greg describes it thusly: "This level had a last minute name : change because I love this phrase and i was afraid to let anyone else hear : it. Of course, it's a quote from Nixon... He said something like, "we : can nuke that country and pave it over" referring to Vietnam." : However, PGBS ( pgbs@istar.ca ) says that the quote came not from Nixon, but : instead from Reagan before he became president: "We should declare : war on North : Vietnam.... We could pave the whole : country and put parking strips on it, and : still be home by Christmas." : Then again, Bungie did always have trouble with Latin. ;) : We start this level at the top of two stairways with two Pattern Buffers. : These Pattern Buffers both have breakable panels on either side of them; : destroying these will deactivate the Pattern Buffers, so don't destroy : them. Of course, Vidmasters might like to make a point of destroying them : just to prove they won't save their game, but not everyone's a Vidmaster, : right? : Heading down the stairs a little, you'll find that there's a Trooper at the : bottom. Firing at him will activate a group of Drones - but these aren't : ordinary Drones. Say 'Hello' to the Possessed Drone, the product of : plugging that virus from last level into the Garrison Computer Net. They : seem tougher and more powerful than any of the other Drones, and above : all, they're friendly to you and hostile to the Pfhor. A sort of inversion : of the mad MADDs from Beware of Low-Flying Defense Drones . : Remember in this room with the stairs that heading down on the left side is : easier than heading down on the right side: the right side has a gap in it : that drops into lava, and even though there's a lift just a polygon away : if you fall down, it's better to not have to deal with that in any case. : Of course, this is even more important when heading back up than when : heading down, but in any case, it's better to use the gap-less stairs. : Before continuing, let's orient ourselves: : What? I said orient , not orientalize! : : No! Stop! Give me the map, the map! : : STOP! The map guide! : : There, that's better. ;) : Heading out the door at the bottom of the stairs leads to a large room with a : river of lava in the middle. There's several Troopers on the other side, : along with one or two Cyborgs and another Trooper on this side and some : non-Possessed Drones coming out of the lava river. The other door on this : side is locked for now, so we have to jump across the river on the right : side to get anywhere. : There's three doors here. Taking the north or east ones both take you to the : same room, which contains some baddies, some Possessed Drones, and a 2x : Shield Charger. The ledges above are inaccessible from here, so we'll have : to take the South door. This leads us to a set of ledges overlooking : another part of the lava river, with Possessed Drones duking it out with : some Troopers and some ordinary Drones. A little further along, we come to : a ledge overlooking an area with a bunch more Possessed Drones, Troopers, : and Cyborgs. Did I mention the Possessed Drones? :) : There's another area similar to this before we come out on a ledge that leads : to a large platform, which leads to another, higher ledge. Following this : all the way around leads to point A on the map above, where there's a 2x : Shield Charger and what looks like a 1x Shield Charger. Now why put a 1x : next to a 2x? Wouldn't everyone use the 2x and ignore the 1x? Exactly. Be : experimentative - try the supposed 1x! Doing so will reveal that it's : actually a 3x Shield Charger, the first of the game. Time to start : tearing into those Pfhor with a vengeance, I'd say! : As of yet, we haven't seen even a single terminal. This is actually because : the entire goal of the level is just that: find a terminal. All of the : terminals on this level (the Marathon Story Page says there's three, but : my map says there's only one; probably the result of my trusting the : Spoiler Guide when I ought not to) will teleport you out, and they all : show the same message. : This level is too strange to understand in a write-up - you have to play it, : or it's just impossible to make head or tail of it. Call me lazy, but I'll : just focus on the secret and getting to the terminal. At point D on the : map above, there's a platform that only activates once you've destroyed a : breakable panel later in the level (though unfortunately I don't remember : where that is exactly). Returning to this platform will allow you to jump : across to a raised area with an Invincibility and an Invisibility powerup. : Interesting that Bungie would place two contradictory powerups so close to : each-other (Invincibilty overrides Invisibility, no matter what order you : pick the two up in). : To get to this platform and to the rest of the level, you have to drop down : from the high ledge to a lower central one. There's another platform (this : time official rather than secret) leading down just south of point D. I : can't be sure, but I think I remember that standing on the platform as it : heads up will actually crush you. In any case, you only need to ride it : down, which takes you to a room with stairs just a short jump across lava : away. This takes you to a room with four (!) doors. I believe there's : some breakable panels in here, which may include the one for the platform : at point D on the map. There's also a few enemies here and no Possessed : Drones, so be careful. : Heading a little further south will lead you to a ledge across from one of : the earlier ones overlooking the room that had all the Possessed Drones, : Cyborgs and Troopers in it. A few more enemies will teleport in as you : pass some right-triangle-like niches. This ends in a small ledge : overlooking the southern part of the lava river from the start and a door : leading to a room with some more Possessed Drones and a fair number of : Cyborgs. It may seem like you can't get anywhere from here, but at point B : there's a switch that you have to shoot. Somewhere on this level there has : to be a Fusion Pistol or Assault Rifle, but for some reason my memory is : failing me! As you can see, a write-up isn't any good: you have to play : the level yourself. : Anyways, the switch opens a door in some niches on the northern wall of this : room, leading to a platform. This takes you to the final room, which is : surprisingly empty of enemies. There's just a terminal here: : Another weird spelling of the name [?Bernard?Bernhard?Berhnard] - a bit : like the : [?Shade?Phantasm?Banshee?Specter] conspiracy, I'd say. This terminal also : hints a bit more at our being a Cyborg. After all, why would Bernard be : scared of us if we were just normal? : Had he only known that it carried also all of the destructive : knowledge of mankind. Ten cyborgs. : Hmm... : Vale, : Perseus : P.S. - Yes, I know I absolutely sucked on this write-up. You don't need to : reprimand me for it, but I would still understand if you did. I'm certain : I'll do better next time; it's just this level is so confusing and hard to : rememer that I'm powerless to avoid sucking. I don't even know if my : description of how to get to the final terminal is accurate - I somehow : remember having to go through that locked door near the start, but I can't : remember how that figured into this. Oh well. Feel free to give me a vote : of no confidence.
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