26 Game of Death

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	Message: : : Last time on Tour of Duty, we found a lot of exposition confirming that : Leo's shadowy visitor is S'Bbhuth, who had shown him several paths to : destruction... hmm... smells like Infinity... and begged Leo to assist : him in designing an engine "through which time flows like : water." We found the ninth manuscript, which must mean the s'pht : found us and got us back on track and out of Tycho's derailing clutches. : If we chose to be a lion and took Cosimo's secret exit, we ended up on : this map, Game of Death. : Game of Death : We arrive in front of every weapon in the game (minus the enforcer weapon and : TOZ-T) and I get back the SPNKR I lost back on Never Satisfied! This place : appears to be an arena of sorts, so we shouldn’t dilly-dally. Let’s whip : out the map. : : : Indeed a small place… surrounded by lava? The spoiler guide is not much help. : I’ll quote the entirety of it here: 26 Game of Death : Tips and Secrets : No secrets, just a fiery ammo stash. : Map Making Notes : (Level name taken from the Bruce Lee movie, where difficulty increases as the : player progresses from room to room) : Someone remind me to get into Bruce Lee. I have a feeling that spongebob : episode “karate island” may have been a parody of this (how are there : islands under the sea? Spongebob has a problem of forgetting its setting : sometimes). : We take the lift in front of us and find a terminal. It would seem we : shouldn’t be reading this now with pfhor teleporting in, but they’re : uninterested in bothering us as we read Cosimo’s message. : : : : Postscript? Is that what P.S. stands for? (Yes, P erseus S partacus, we : know you're back, too) At least it’s short, unlike Durandal’s terminals in : Acme Station. The message is not to jump into the lava, but is it a ruse? : Maybe Cosimo’s hiding more ammo in the fire. There are… yeeesh, TWO : Juggernauts outside this ring-like path, but hey, there’s a 1x charger we : can come back to if aliens aren’t chasing us =p : If we run across to the stairs on the other side, black fighters will try to : get us stuck between them and juggernaut fire! Some SSM missiles and quick : feet aughta take care of them! Except these guys are really, really : fast. It feels like I’m playing PID on turbo now. Running around the ring : and firing off missiles and flechettes will slay them all eventually… you : just gotta be careful to not use the SPNKR when they get too close. We ran : around a pattern buffer on the other side of the ring, and that 1x charger : I mentioned earlier is actually a 3x; let’s use those! I think there’s : actually 4 juggs out there; too many to waste ammo on. : If we climb up the stairs, another black fighter will teleport behind us, and : another plus a trooper are waiting at the top. Thankfully it’s not a YTYBT : trooper on steroids and periwinkle armor. Just regular old violet. At the : end of this hall is a hunter and fighter waiting by a switch. Pulling it : opens a window revealing an L switch to shoot, and a creaking-plank : platform sound is heard after shooting it. : : I obviously did… something, but it’s hard to find what it is. With some : investigation of the ground arena, we find another L button that will get : the center platform rising and falling, but to what? : : More fighters and troopers begin swarming us and there seems to be nothing up : there, but the choir ambient noise can be heard from within the pillar, so : the exit must be in there. The nice thing about this map is the ammo by : the terminal and pattern buffer respawns, so let’s pile up on that stuff : while we’re here and blow those fighters away! Gahh, I fell in the lava : from my own careless recoil, and Cosimo was quite right about there being : nothing there for us. Oh, what’s this? A new staircase, and an ammo stash! : (just look out for the trooper behind us) : : Up the stairs we find a gold trooper and hunter, and this weird platform. : : What is this? Walking on it does nothing, but there’s another switch that : opens another window with a shootable L switch, same as the first. Another : switch opens up in the arena, and that gets another platform in the : central pillar going. So this map is wash, rinse, repeat until we climb to : the top. When we get back up to the ring, fighters and enforcers and : cyborgs, oh my! A new staircase opened up on the other side of the second : one, with more pfhor and a new stash. : : : Hey, did that first staircase have a stash I missed? Remind me to check. This : stash room has a switch in it. Pushing it opens a shortcut to the other : side. Make sure to press it again to keep it open. : : : At the top of the stairs is –– you guessed it –– the same switches as before. : By now we know to press another button in the arena and expect another : ambush, but wait, there’s something I gotta check first. Hmm, well I’ll be : a s’pht’kr, there really is no ammo stash up that first staircase =( : The last staircase is angled a bit differently, and there’s a lot of : opposition up there, including a MoaH and a MoaC! They really don’t want : us to leave, do they? Just one more of the same switch puzzle and we can : get out of here. Apparently that last shootble switch was the last one, : period, and we already got all the ones on the floor. There’s nowhere to : go but up the pillar. Be sure to re-check the ammo stashes before leaving, : it’s sure to have respawned! : Those juggernauts are annoying… I’m not sure I can get out of here without : taking them down. The timing on those buttons was apparently Colony : Ship-ish as we may be stuck waiting to lift up multiple times until the : heights are aligned while open to plenty of juggernaut fire. We can sort : of avoid them by wiglling around a bit. When we climb to the top (with : just a sliver of red shield), the exit opens and we’re out of here! : Repository Nine : First things first, the 1x charger. *gulp*, that’s better. Too bad I could’t : manage to keep a 3x from the last map. : Let's see the next mission the s'pht have for us. : : : : Oh, right. The manuscript from Hang to Dry. *insert* : : : : : : : : So you don’t want to inquire about Cosimo, Tycho, or anything? : Is this Infinity time travel where going back to 16th century Italy created : a new timeline in which the pfhor will be written down as part of human : history if we decide to not blow up the k'alima, or is this Eternal : time travel where all of this already happened before we started and we : made history what it is in some looping time paradox that we have no : control to change? (a reality in which we might have to accept that the : third eye chakra and the illuminati symbol may have had pfhor influence) I : guess one of the terminals on Hang to Dry tells us this has multiple : timelines like Infinity. Or is it that there's only one true path and all : the doomed paths are just a bunch of stuff that didn't actually happen : until we got it right, so Infinity and Eternal both operate on the same : logic, and in our own reality we are living in a doomed timeline? ='( : Too hazardous? That’s the same reason Dr. Light can’t teleport megaman : directly into the robot master lairs. But it's not a bad trope, because : then we'd be playing a shorter scenario. There's a lot of instructions : here, and they describe pretty much what we see in the next two or three : levels, it's just hard to remember what they said here when you've been : playing in them for a while. Ha'rar is interesting, as it introduces a : concept that a pfhor can willingly join our side, and up to now we've been : either fighting against all of them or being forced into one of their : factions by Tycho in Infinity. : Join us next time as Martin attempts to rescue Ha'rar and destroy the core!
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