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	Message: : : Last time on tour of duty, just moments ago in fact, we ran the IIHARL : gauntlet, less one PB and plus some grey Troopers and MoaHs, and even one : I forgot to mention, just behind that last door. MoaHs, can’t stand ’em. : So it seems I missed a few polygons in my previous self-exploration of this : level for the map. : : The top middle ends in a point, and there is a series of inaccessible : platforms at the top? Why on Lh’owon? Other changes from last time: one PB : becomes a terminal, and another disappears completely. But this level : doesn’t need them quite as much. In fact we don’t have to kill anything at : all on this level. I never tried that line of … attack in the normal : version of the level, but I think the Rampancy video started me thinking, : and it is quite possible, although maybe not feasible on TC :). : We have the suspenseful descent to start with, and can pick off spectating : Fighters just as per. We still have our arsenal from IIHARL, and the lot : on offer in the arena seems much the same as before. This is definitely : the come down of this challenge. : The first door opens to a mix of grey and pink Fighters. The windows where : the uplink chips once went are now just white-lit, but otherwise : everything is as expected. The terminal actually addresses us as “mortal”, : so I guess that clears that up, at least as far as Double Aught saw the : matter. : : The line about steroids is a bit odd – compared to last time, I’d say the : Pfhor more so found out something about reproduction :D. The analogy with : the grain of salt and the blade is somehow reminiscent of the dream story : with which we have become so familiar. Whether intentional or not, it : serves its purpose :). The switch opens two doors around the place, with : more mixed Fighters, and some grey Troopers. Definitely a bit much hard : work to leave them all alive on TC – apart from anything else, when I just : tried briefly, the Troopers were desperately covering up the switch behind : them! : That switch reveals the grey Hunters, as usual, and then it turns out there : is also a MoaH in the long corridor, just for good measure. The first : terminal in the upper ring warns us about the Juggernaut. : : But I just wave at him and carry on. Definitely glad they didn’t put Sol into : this vidmaster lineup. When we get to the final terminal on the ring, a : bunch more pink Fighters teleport in, to the point that they can’t move! : Conveniently, there was a Tozt and canister in one of the alcoves down : below, and Fighters always love a bit of that :). : : The circuits are our friends … I guess it is talking about the uplink chips? : Perhaps this is something of a hint for the mainstream version of the : level? Mind you, one would probably sooner figure that one out than get to : the end of this challenge! Either way, clearly we’re off to see the MoaH, : the wonderful MoaH of Oz. : Amusingly, what was a PB where we arrive is now a terminal that really just : says well done, but go to the other terminal. : : Someone was clearly having a bit too much fun at this point. On the way over : to the other terminal, there is an awful lot of ammo, especially when : we’re all finished here, and then the MoaH I was talking about earlier. It : seems like this one might actually be a grandmother? Takes a bit more than : usual, while still not a bother on low difficulty. Similar to the case at : the end of M2, we can just ignore the enemy and speed through the : terminal, and here we would lose less in the way of important information! : : Really we just wouldn’t know exactly the criteria for defining vidmaster of : marathon! There’s no mention of difficulty level, but I guess they just : take it for granted that we’ve all taken that oath … uhh, yeah. I guess I : can’t claim the status in either category, as the only multiplayer I ever : did was rather unfair M1 against my brother, where I tended to have a : crazy low framerate (LCIII), and would either be dead several seconds : before I knew it, or would go out of sync altogether and be killing : something that wasn’t actually him. Ahh those heady days of lousy : networking and slow machines :). Geriatric circuits eh? And finally, what : I think to be a very nice finishing touch on this challenge … seeya:
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