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	Message: : : Chapter 3 (proper) I'm glad that I don't own this room : Last time on Tour of Duty, we recovered the blue crystal from They may be : Slow. Now we continue up the pyramid to the capstone. I will try to get : the pipes in this writeup and take the warp zone back down. Just a : heads-up, this writeup here is chapter 3; I accidently named the last one : chapter 3 when I meant 2. (Whoops) : : This is the whole map for the level. Normally you only get to see half of it : at a time as the two sections are separated from each other. We are taking : the right side with the warp zone in the bottom left beside the ladder : room. : : It may be harder to see it with the game paused but that dark thing that : looks a little like a S’pht is a Banshee. In other words, one of the : Phantasms Hans told us about downstairs. I had already equipped my Blue : crystal beforehand and freeze him with it. : : The following rooms mainly consist of skeletons accompanied by at least 1 : headless. In a small room near the centre of my path with two more : meatless zombies and a pair of ammo clips, I hear a very familiar sound : when I kill them. Yes, it’s the Marathon item pick-up noise! : : This means that I’ve just levelled up one of my guns, in this case the : Walther P4. Levelling up is different to XP as it only applies to weapons, : unlike in most other RPGs, and can be gained simply by using that weapon : more. : The result is better damage against monsters which is a good addition for : later levels before you get another gun and/or crystal. : The journey to the upstairs ladder is rather uneventful unless you count the : skeletons and headless along the way. My route takes me through the long, : niched hallway to the far north. : The body near the ladder says to watch out for spectres, which is fitting for : upstairs, not down here. : : : He doesn’t remember his name either, seems to be a bit of a trend here. This : German prefers the headless over the skeletons because at least they had : the courtesy to stop shooting when you hit them. He didn’t have a good : encounter with them though… : : And it tastes even worse. He isn’t much of a talker so I leave him and go on : my way. : * * * : Once again; I return to writing after a long break. It is now 2016 and I need : to make better progress on this. I tried continuing last night but the : Virtual Machine didn’t work due to the Authorisation service not running. : It appears to be running now so that’s good. : I climb up to Evil Undead Phantasms must Die and immediately get ambushed by : a bunch of headlesses and skeletons behind the pillars around the ladder. : No banshees yet so that’s good. I used the blue crystal on some of the : zombies to kill them quicker but I should be saving it for the shades. : : I’m about by the Northwest section of the map by the group of six cobblestone : pillars. I’m considering going for the body (Claude) near the other ladder : for ammo and exposition but I’m worried about the time. : I don’t like cheating in this game unless it’s Anywhere (only in certain : conditions) or Turbo for backtracking. If I run out of time somewhere : along the line and have screwed myself from getting one of the good : endings, I’d have to use the Reset cheat to show you guys the ending. : Anyway, no screenshots so far as it’s just a sea of columns and monsters. : (Banshees are among them) Soon after moving on, a slime ball from a : headless flies straight past my ear after I kill another headless and : skeleton. A bit farther on, I find a large pearl which brings me up to 8 : XP and 10 HP. : : Other than the pearl’s shininess and value that is. I wish you could use the : treasure items for something other than just the two rings and cloak later : on with passive effects either positive or negative. : Other than the pearl’s shininess and value that is. I wish you could use the : treasure items for something other than just the two rings and cloak later : on with passive effects either positive or negative. : Any suggestions for such treasure effects? Mine would be using the silver : bowl to eat the mushrooms in lower floors (mushroom soup) for a red potion : or violet potion effect (weaker than the potion itself) and making the : screen go all colorful and trippy, with the colors growing more vibrant : and pretty as the effect wears off. : I fight my way around Banshees and more of the other two monsters so far and : loot ammo from Claude. He says not to take his gun in case the banshees : come back, implying he can still see. He wishes death on Muller like the : rest of them and died from a spectre after three headless wounded him. : He does remember seeing the pyramid from outside, thinking it was abandoned : from the way it looked. : : He tells me to go away if I ask his name so I oblige. : I save my game and proceed up to the next floor by the ladder just west of : the save rune. : : I don’t know if 5D space was a conceived idea at Bungie HQ before Marathon 1 : but it may well have been since all levels before this one were around the : same size. The mapmakers could just not have been paying attention to the : pyramid’s shape. (D’oh!) : There are some red columns (red marble?) here and a nice chessboard pattern : in the floor. : : It looks a bit more like a checkers board though. Nasties start firing on me : before I even enter the hallway. I find only one banshee so far among the : many skeletons and headless. Joachim’s body is in the west corner. He hid : here when he was wounded while the other fought some skeletons. He died : when a headless found him. : Joachim also says that Muller left after the fight; it was the phantasms that : did it. : : He also says that Muller was looking for something to help the Nazi party in : the war, but he didn’t reveal his plan to the others. : : Hmmm, interesting. We will meet these skeletons deep below us our current : level. I follow a columned hallway through two doors to a save rune, : guarded by a spectre and some lesser monsters. : The door closes behind me when I leave, forcing me to push on through more : monster infested hallways in a spiral pattern through more closing stone : doors. : : I run into a big group of nasties in the centre of the spiral. The banshees : are harder to deal with as I have to dodge shots from the other monsters : while waiting for the crystal to recharge. They do hit each other in the : crossfire which helps me out a bunch. I finally reach the centre of the : pyramid’s capstone and retrieve the Jjaro flute. : : I think the book in question might have been the pied piper in reference to : the pipes resembling an alien set of bagpipes. Picking it up brings me to : 11 XP. I guess the Pfhor making pellet rifles out of these instruments is : a bit like the Jiralhanae repurposing Huragok built imitations of human : combine harvesters into weapons. : I’d just like to say, I noticed back in the save rune room that the : cobblestones up here look cleaner than the ones below us, if a little : mossy. The downstairs walls looked like they had blood on them too in : places where the moss is on this cobblestone, though it could have just : been red fungus. : I make my way back downstairs and save. Now, we all know Marathon and Doom : had secret doors disguised as walls. Wolfenstein 3D and ROTT: Dark War had : pushwalls that slid away in the floor to reveal secrets. They were used a : lot more often in several interesting ways in ROTT besides secret hiding, : Pathways into Darkness has fake walls like the one the blue crystal was : hidden behind. These also appeared a few times in Doom and a lot more in : Build engine games such as Duke Nukem 3D and Blood. : They are too rare in PID to hide many secrets but one thing they do hide is: : : As I said before after you let me know to go to But they’re Hungry first, I : will take the warp zone back downstairs to reach the Ground Floor. It : drops me just beside the ladder up on Lock&Load. I think the purple tears : in spacetime that make up PID’s teleporters are very much like the ones in : Bioshock Infinite, but that’s only because I played that game first. These : tears also let you see what was on the other side; these ones do not, and : they reset the automap for the level you go to. : I go through the teleporter and high-tail it to the downstairs ladder. I have : to deal with a couple of pesky headless on the way but I am able to outrun : the second one. I didn’t even think it was possible to outrun any monster : in this game. : I climb back down the ladder and save my game. : I will end off here and use the pipes in the next chapter. I’ll need a ground : floor map for the start of that one as we will be seeing more of the : ground floor. Thanks for reading and putting up with me. : I’ll continue with Chapter 4: the Unknown Depths below.
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