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	Message: : Oh, there they are, thanks! : : : Tempus Irae 3 Like A Well-Filled Day & Repository Two : Last time on Tour of Duty, we ran around an Italian convent, appreciating : works of art, architecture, writing, and the fact that there were plenty : of Pfhor to kill, because that makes us happy. We found a key in the : middle of a hedge maze, a manuscript behind a suspicious bookcase, and a : fireplace behind a rather angular armchair. Then we found our way out to : install the manuscript in the Repository room aboard the Sh’aptide, where : they are awaiting many more. Now it’s back to Italy for us, for another : search mission! : We start out looking at a water channel that runs the length of this room, : and beyond, with several curious pillars of water at different points. The : water is in quite a hurry. We turn to see an overly-decorative door frame, : and a switch ready to open it – again with the crazy design! There’s also : a door that doesn’t open at all. At least the one that does has a switch : on both sides, although it is hard to see why anyone would want to come : through all of those doors just to access this dead-end of a place. I mean : it’s not like they were teleporting people in in 15th Century Italy. : A corridor leads us to another door with a switch, one that is meshed over, : and what appears to be a boarded-up window. The door leads to a room where : some magnum ammo beams in, and a second magnum (for the scratchstarter). : Then the textures change from bricks to stone, and around another corner, : we find a new style pattern buffer – the kind we were just told about in : the Repository room. : The path carries on down some winding stairs, where we encounter a couple of : blue Fighters, and then further along, some pink ones hiding out in an : alcove, before more stairs downward. Then we come to an open room, with : windows to outside, from whence a few Drones come in to join the party. : There are also some Fighters off in a room we can’t get to at the moment, : so let’s just leave them. The outside areas are huge, and actually make up : most of the map of the level; so odd when we cannot access them at all – : or get them on the map, so here we really have to use that plugin to show : the whole map! : : : See, huge! And the only outside bits we go into are parts in the top-right : and bottom-left. It’s actually hard to figure out how the bits we -can- : get to all link up in the 3d render. : Back to progress, there is a little ammo nearby, and then some stairs going : -up- in a new direction. There’s a small landing, and a passage to the : left reveals another door with a switch. Through that door, quite a few : Drones come at us through a window. There is a little ammo, and another : door that doesn’t open, but not really enough to justify even going in : there. Later on we acquire an assault rifle, and then we can come back and : blast ourselves through the window. But there’s even less reason to do : that. All it allows us to do is explore the nearby room with Pfhor that we : couldn’t reach before, see that the very thin wall outside it causes : animation issues for them, get a close-up on the statue from our pattern : buffer, and find the way out, in the form of a wall that opens when we get : near it … rather than, say, using the door that is -right there-! No more : ammo or anything :(. : Back up at the landing, we can go around to the right as well, to find a blue : Fighter, and then we can see some of his friends on the ledge far above. : It is easier to shoot them from down here, and maybe coax more down, than : to fight them on the stairs, so I do. And then up the stairs we go. Finish : off the Fighters and watch more water running through channels. Then a : corridor to the left brings us some ammo, a terminal, a switch, a secret : door, and an ambush involving a Trooper. Annoying for the scratchstarter : for sure. : The terminal carries on our story, with ideas about the properties of flowing : water and flowing air. We are apparently inside a castle now, and there is : certainly a lot of flowing water about the place, so it’s all topical : stuff. And then there’s another vision with the shadowy follower, and that : results in the waters flooding the place – inventions turned to pointless : destruction. I think we could probably relate to that. : : : : : : Just to the right of the terminal, one of the wall panels opens up as a door. : This sort of secret reminds me of Wolfenstein 3d :). Beyond, there is a : normal door, with a switch, and a half-open one off to the left. When we : get near that one, an SMG with ammo and a 3x recharger canister beam in : beyond the door, but we can’t fit through it, and there don’t appear to be : any “drink me” potions handy :(. The other door leads to a consolation : prize, some ammo and a 1x recharge canister that we can get to. Then back : out by the terminal, there is still the switch. It doesn’t seem to do : anything within earshot. : Onward down the corridor, we get another look at an outside area, with a : Juggernaut taking potshots at us, so it’s best just to run past. And then : we find another door that opens on proximity and leads us back to much : earlier in the level, just around from the pattern buffer. And that switch : has opened up a staircase leading up from that room. It takes us past : another window to outside, with Drones waking up and heading towards us. : They seem almost too big for the window, so it can be quite freaky to find : them coming in! : Up the top there are two pink Fighters, and then another door with a switch. : The next corridor also affords us a view of yet another outdoor area, this : time with a moat going around the west side of the castle, and a Cyborg : patrolling its far side. The blue lake, green hills, blue sky landscape is : displayed out past them, and it is fun to see the two interpretations of : water juxtaposed so. This corridor is surprisingly devoid of ambushes, but : around the next corner we see a Trooper and Fighter in the distance. : Advancing, we also find an assault rifle and a 1x recharge canister : beaming in, but the latter is definitely best left until really needed. : What I really like about the earlier part of the level, is that you can just : ignore the Pfhor, and run all the way around from the pattern buffer to : the terminal, hit the switch, and get out alive – then, you might need the : 1x canister here :). And at the end of this corridor, we get to go outside : for real, through a switch door. It’s quite a large grassy courtyard, and : the wind is up. High up on the walls that surround us are decorative : arches, and as we continue, we find some Fighters trying to throw things : at us from up there … but they are easily ignored. As are other Pfhor from : behind windows in more places we can’t access. : We then come to an inside space again, with a loop around a central structure : hiding some ammo; an Enforcer and quite a few other Pfhor hiding a quick : death, and a staircase to a far door hiding our manuscript, and a 1x : recharge canister, which we almost certainly need by now! : Heading back the way we came, we eventually find a spot where a platform has : dropped in the wall. Falling down the hole also causes a door to open that : links us back up with our pattern buffer via a staircase. And we also find : the door to the last part of the level, outside again, via an airlock of : sorts. And this time there is no way back – no switches behind these : doors! : The final area is another maze-like one, but the walls are much less tall, to : the point that Drones happily fly over them, and other Pfhor can get : confused trying to shoot through them – there are also impassable : structures about the place, but the whole area shows as continuous on the : map. The fighting in here is quite intense, with lots of Drones and blue : Fighters, and a Trooper. There are a few dead-ends, although one, to the : southeast, rewards a 1x recharge canister, and there are a few pockets of : ammo about the place. As we keep exploring, we eventually find the : southwest point, where a tree drops down to reveal a pool of water, and : beyond that, our Vitruvian Man appears. : Back on the ship, : : we can see that same fail message again, but note that the alphanumeric code : on the login screen keeps incrementing. : : : : Once we install our second manuscript, we read that we are heading to a : church as the next destination – well, a place for human group : neural-network activity :). The humans have been scared away from the area : … well that answers one of my questions from last time, kind of. It : doesn’t seem to make sense that the presence of the Pfhor could -not- : change history under these conditions, though. : And the battle rages on in space, with damage inflicted upon the K’alima, but : they -might- still be able to transport Pfhor to Earth … yeah I think we : can be confident of that lol. And finally, how could we not love the : comment about our need for weapons? : : : :
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