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	Message: : : WARNING: CORE OS (AF44+2DEB) MOD DATE LATER THAN CURRENT : DATE/TIME : : : : : : ***MESSAGE RECEIVED*** : Eddings, and his parents lived alone in a small town on a hill. Eddings kept : to himself; drawing pictures, watching subbed anime and playing his video : games while his parents worked their separate jobs to support the family. : Life was simple, and they were all happy. That was, until Mirai came XX : amount of time ahead of 20XX, and Eddings was subjected to the horrors of : the Nazi remnant, 1.20.15.19. : Eddings was already cast a sinner in the eyes of his lion goddess through an : unfortunate misunderstanding. : Both his higher functioning mental disability (which served as an enhancement : to him) and his ability to hide his inner turmoil, made him easy prey for : 1.20.15.19, who were stalking the families of their victims online, trying : phish their pocket money, remove their support and send them to labour : sites rigged to injure or even kill them in their vulnerable states as a : secret, illegal “ethnic cleansing” campaign against the disabled. : Over time, over the course of Mirai, Eddings was hunted by the 1.20.15.19 : secret police, his bridges between his current dimension and the many : others being more of their targets. : One day, he found one of their victims dying in the street, carrying a : mysterious knife whose hilt was as chilly as Antarctic water. It was then : the 1.20.15.19 death squads revealed themselves, while the Time Sweepers : and Sailor Soldiers fought back, giving him the time he needed to take the : knife and escape. : Instead of the subway which they were expecting, he fled into the woods on : the road to Wave Ocean. Running through the darkness of forest in the : September morning trying to find a hiding place, he found an abandoned : temple ruin near a swamp. He pushed open the door and ran inside just as : the black suited 1.20.15.19 men started firing shots. The door closed : behind Eddings, locking him inside. : He spent the next several hours climbing to the apex of the building to find : an alien flute, which he took back down to the doors leading to the : basement. On a symbol in the floor, he played a sound code to open the : hatches just as 1.20.15.19 started to break through. Without waiting a : moment longer, he ran into the open cellar door and threw himself down the : ladder into the unknown depths below. : END MESSAGE : Chapter 4: The Unknown Depths Below : Last time on Tour of Duty, we finally reached the top of the pyramid and : retrieved the Alien Pipes before taking the warp zone back down to Lock : and Load, and then returning to the Ground Floor. It is now time to : descend into the catacombs of the pyramid and find the bomb to continue : the mission. : Loading my savegame on the Ground Floor where we left off months ago and with : a cold to boot, I return to the blue rune in the middle of the floor with : the pipes. : And on the subject, here is the entire Ground Floor. : : Now to open the doors: Double click on the Jjaro Flute i.e. the Alien Pipes : and press Forward Cursor, Left Cursor, Forward Cursor, Left Cursor, Space, : Right Cursor, Space. : : Isn’t that Addicus from Thundercats? (the good one that is) While it isn’t a : hairy Drinniol, it is a Ghoul. : Ghouls are supposed to be zombies under control of the vampire that bites : them who have had sex at some point in their lives, and/or are the : opposite sex to said vampire. If they are the opposite sex but are : virgins, they instead become a vampire themselves. : The ghouls in PID look more like tall skinny apes that behave like the : skeletons. Unlike skeletons, they throw rocks instead of bones which do as : you’d expect but are particularly vulnerable to the knife. I took a couple : of hits trying to deal with them and the skeletons that were there though : as they can get shots in before the knife animation cycles again. : You can alleviate this by quickly drawing your pistol and shooting them to : cancel out their throwing sprite. I like to think that they drop their : rocks on their toes when I do this. : Anyway, I can’t remember which path leads where so I’ll take this one : opposite Mr Amnesiac’s body. : : Agghhhh! Peee eww! What is that nasty stink? The walls are dripping semi : liquid brown slime out of those weird crystalline shapes and the floor is : a soggy mire. : Hang on; what’s that thing behind the left corner? : : Oh god no! I WENT THE WRONG WAY! : : : : : : Well, I guess that way smelled like shit for a reason. They are the oozes : referenced waaay back in Chapter 1 when I made a toilet flusher joke about : the two chains on Never Stop Firing. : In other words, monsters made entirely of wet crap with gaping mouths in : their chests and who throw pieces of themselves as projectiles. After : reloading, I take the other path instead, killing the ghouls and : thankfully no cosmic anvils descend from on-high. : The Marathon pick-up noise tells me I just become an expert at the Walther P4 : when shooting a ghoul to stop him throwing his rock. Eat your heart out : William J Blazkowicz, except you didn’t have to wear lead ice skates when : you killed Hitler, and all the Nazis here are already dead. : After several reloads without actually dying, I finally manage to kill the : ghouls and skeleton at the bottom of the ladder without getting hit. (it’s : a timekeeping thing) : The level name tells us we’re going the wrong way but I already saw through : their shit after I got my face plastered with it on Feel the Power. The : walls and floor here seem waterlogged and crystals shine murkily on the : walls. Maybe there is a lake above us seeping down through the rock and : the gunk from the nearby swamp is flooding the other path. : The German here got his skull crushed by a ghoul after seeing Muller knifing : a couple when he used his SMG on three others. Hmmm, sounds interesting. : Unfortunately, the rest of the group took his when they left so we can’t : use it. No grenades either as they wasted them all on headless, tut tut. : Turns out he is Behrens. Like the others, amnesia is a common trait of dead : people. : : Just like Flynn Taggart until you hit Space and Marcus Jones, Vincent : Callaghan etc. until you press E. (Tab for others) Makes you think if that : is what it is like in real life. Maybe that’s why some people and cultures : prefer cremation over burial, cryogenic storage or embalming; their brains : slowly lose data over time as they rot or otherwise get any damage from : ice or the chemicals used to preserve the body. : Fire would prevent them from being salvaged for when we finally invent : pattern buffers and cure death by old age as well unless they merely copy : and paste people and their minds rather than restart the old copy, but at : least they would suffer long after death. : Maybe our minds get extracted to another dimension by the gods (the alien : species who may have guided humanity’s evolution) upon death by composers : and placed into invulnerable cyborg bodies in the duat. That or we get : turned into beings of radiation and become free to roam the cosmos and : time like David Bowman, HAL 9000 and Heywood Floyd. : Really bad people like Hitler, terrorists and 4kids and Atos employees would : either go to hell like all those religions say, only being given cyborg : bodies that are designed to feel strong pain and having their hardware : wiped at the end of their sentence, or in this and the latter scenario, : just not saved from death at all. : Anyway, the ladders down are made of blue crystal while the one up is a : normal wooden one. Taking the crystal ladder beside Behrans, I end up in a : collection of damp hallways leading off in several directions. : : : I came to this hall just south of the ladder. More ghouls hide in the alcoves : to the sides of the passageway along with some clips. More ghouls and a : zombie or two ambush me from behind as I walk up the hall. I’d eat the : tasty looking mushrooms on the floor if the game let me, but I don’t want : to end up with my head through the ceiling like that mealworm and other : nasties conveyor belt room in Fort Boyard and there are no sponge cakes. : The only other path out leads northwest to another set of ghoul and skeleton : infested alcoves to another ladder back up. I take a quick nap beforehand : to heal from the recent concussion. : Back on Wrong Way, I follow the passage south, fighting more Ghouls, stopping : to save in the southwest corner. Our goal is the other ladder at the : diagonal opposite to where we re-enter the floor. I forgot to mention that : the centre square is connected to the outer halls by two sets of thick : silver doors at each wall. They don’t open yet because we need a key, in : true FPS and RPG fashion. : : I’ll spare you the journey to the ladder as it’s pretty much more of the : same. Good thing I find some repetitive tasks cathartic due to my AS. : One floor back down, we take the north path from the ladder through more : alcoves and a couple of antechambers with lovely blue crystal pillars. : : : I wasn’t expecting to find this guy in the key room, though I knew he was on : this floor somewhere. : Behind him is the silver key we need to open the doors upstairs. While they : are called nightmares, they don’t actually look that scary; more like a : flying obese koi fish that spits ball lightning and explodes when it you : kill it due to its gasses escaping. : The key gives me some XP bringing me up to 12 XP and 12 health points. : I backtrack to the ladder in order to take the other path. Now, I’ve recently : been giving you the gist of the conversations like the early Tour of : Duty’s for the Marathon trilogy in order to save space but you need to see : this, even if you already have several times. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Did anyone else notice that there were 7 dialog lines here? : This guy appears to have gone native and now worships the dreaming god. Maybe : he always did but there is no indication of the Wrk’s approval. His : skeleton doesn’t shed its clothes and start hurling pieces of fibula at us : when we leave so we now head on down the passage. : This next section I write up at My Own Private Lh’owon which is now open : again. :). : There is a side passage with some monsters and ammo in It where I take a : quick rest before coming to a columned room with a ghoul in it. The way : out is to the right and it leads to a save rune guarded by more ghouls and : at least one zombie. : More delicious looking mushrooms line the wet floor and there is a silver : door in the corner. : : Like other games such as Doom or Rise of the Triad: Dark War, the metal our : key is made from matches that of the doors it opens, so we’ll use the : silver key on this one first. Please be the Sunset city please be the : Sunset city please be the Sunset city… : : >:( : Going through takes us back to the central save rune and ladders to Wrong : Way. Climbing back up, I explore each of the silver door rooms in the : level. : The east door contains two nightmares, a puddle and some mushrooms which make : me hunger for some good soup. : The north door contains two more nightmares and a Walther clip. Going west : gives us another two electric koi and a clear blue potion in a golden : bottle. : : : : Game Theory has taught me that this is colloidal silver, which was a real : placebo. I’ve always wanted to try it but it isn’t sold anymore here. :( I : like to think there is cinnamon in this particular type of silver, like in : Goldschlager which is one of my favourite spirits. : We will save this for when we really need it because silver bottles are rare. : The south room doesn’t open onto the centre square, but there is a corner : room by the south wall outside the centre with your daily two nightmares : and a couple of pistol clips. : : This nightmare is one of four or five in the south room with a ghoul and : skeleton. : We also find a most welcome treat. : : : : It looks more red than orange if I do say so myself. It gives us 2XP when : picking it up. I’ll stick with blue for now but I’ll draw it when I need : it. The remaining corner rooms just contain 2 to 3 nightmares at once and : some ammo. : Back on Welcome Tasty Primate, I take the other path away from the outer save : rune leading westward to another ladder. : : I’ll take a lunch break here as my watch reads 1153 so I’ll see you in a bit. : *** : : : : I’m back. Continuing down the ladder, I find myself on a floor called “We can : see in the dark, can you?”. Now, I know what is coming here but let’s try : and scurry along. : : : Can’t sleep in here; if the smell of this musty bedroll doesn’t make you : sick, then the sound of the rats chewing inside the walls will keep you : up. You’ll wake up from your dreams to their little chomping. Sometimes I : think that they are chewing me… : : : That is what they say I said when they found me in the blackness over the : plump, half eaten body of Rei-san with Luna leaping and tearing at my : throat. : Now they have blown up the pyramid and taken my Usagi-sama away from me and : shut me in this barred room with fearful whispers about my sanity and : experiences. Ami’s voice comes from this room but I don’t see anyone. They : are trying too, to suppress most of the facts concerning the pyramid. : When I speak of poor Hino Rei, they accuse me of a hideous thing (whether she : somewhat deserved it after her treatment of Usagi-sama or otherwise) but : they know it was not me. : They must know it was the rats; the slithering, scurrying rats whose : scampering will never let me sleep; the demon rats that race behind the : concrete in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have : ever known; the rats they can never hear: the rats, the rats in the walls. : : : : After reloading, I switch off my torch like I’m meant to and the draw : distance becomes worse to simulate darkness. : : I return to the German soldier who warned me about the rats. Since he didn’t : mention they’re attracted to light, (I couldn’t ask him at the time due to : rodents scraping at the eyes) I call him a stupid poopy pants. : : Didn’t even ask him about his name dialog answer but we more or less know the : story. : He has death amnesia too but does remember his dad was a Nazi too and he : joined the expedition thinking they were going to invade North America : from Central. That may well have been a cover up for coming here. : The rats killed him before he could turn his flashlight off and it’s a good : thing we’ve done the same. : In a room in the south east of the map, there is another canvas bag guarded : by a nightmare. It has some more pistol clips in it which I empty out and : refill with my Colt 45 and the Nazi items like Mein Kampf. : : Not you again. : : I take my revenge quickly by giving him two pistol rounds at close range and : then use the red crystal. : After some more slogging across wet ground in the dark fending off nightmares : and the weird pale guys throwing rocks, I finally get a nice drink that : makes everything slow down to the point of bullet time and gives me a : right buzz. : It sounds exactly like the time I had pizza and several glasses of coke at : the Italian restaurant near the Outsider festival in 2007. : : Any ideas what this potion could be? I assumed Red Bull or a Yeager bomb : because everything else happens in slow motion when you drink it. : I save my game on the save rune in the northeast corner and continue past the : pile of poo that used to be an ooze before finding the ladder down to the : next floor. : : This is far too dark to see anything. Oh hang on. : : That’s better. We are now on Happy, Happy Carnage, Carnage where the German : Nazi group finally died off. The ladder in front of us leads to the : infamous Labyrinth but we aren’t going there just yet; there’s still a : whole branch of the Catacombs left to go. : Here is the end of our current path: : There is a German body near a save rune and an irritable ghoul. He doesn’t : know who he is either but tells us that Muller and his group never came : back from the tunnel ahead of us. None of them wanted to continue with the : mission but A. Muller forced them to stay and B. the exit was locked and : they had no gemstone spoiler alert. : He does say that the others had MP-41s with them and he used his to kill a : nightmare but he was standing too close. All I have to do now is find : their bodies and take their weapons like the trigger happy kleptomaniac I : am. : There are mostly Nightmares and Ghouls here in several square rooms off the : intersection. : This floor has green crystals in the walls and emerald columns. The floor and : ceiling also appears to be made of green beryl. But why is some of the : supporting stone stuck in the wall like an MC Escher painting in the south : west room? : : Yes. There is another Warp zone on this floor but I’m not taking it. You can : easily screw yourself if you do as you won’t yet have the items needed to : escape let alone the ammo required to defend yourself. : However, given I’m writing this in my Easter holiday and my brother is coming : back tomorrow at time of writing this sentence to join us for a belated : Easter, I think I’ll go see what is down here. Heh heh… : There is a cheeky ghoul hiding round a corner in the warp zone and I pass : three alcoves with tears in them. I do not remember what floors they lead : to but I’m sure they all contain skitters and maybe a ghast or two. : At the end, I find a delicious looking pudding for dinner this week: : This Easter egg is made of elemental gold and chocolate, both milk and white. : As a bonus, it give me 2XP when I pick it up, giving me 16XP total and : 10HP! : Unlike the let’s player of a video walkthrough of PID I saw, I’m taking this : with me because you seriously need the HP to stand a chance on the lower : floors. I’m not sure if I should eat it later on or carry it to the end as : it’s very tasty with a bottle of silver and goldschlager and that second : gemstone is very tempting… : : Why isn’t this in someone’s top 10 best game Easter egg lists? It gives you : bonus XP and teleports you the final boss when you eat it but you need to : fight your own greed so you can fight your own greed on Need a light and : take any other items and ammo as well as open the escape door on I’d : Rather be Surfing. : Exploiting a glitch with it will gives you an even higher end score from : Treasure and monster kills so I think this should be added. I hope Ross : Scott includes this in a game dungeon episode on PID and Marathon. : Wolfenstein has Arrdwolf : Doom has John Romero’s head : Marathon has all sorts of things in secret terminals : Halo has Marathon references up the arse : Quake 1 has the Dopefish : ROTT 2013 has classic ROTT themed special stages : Shadow Warrior 2013 has hidden zones themed on the classic game : System Shock 2 has its traditional basketball court from Thief and later Deus : Ex : Sonic Adventure 2 has a 3D Green Hill Zone act 1 : Tomb Raider 3 has a cut campaign level as a reward for completionists : Tomb Raider 2: Golden Mask does something similar by letting the player play : around in a fancy hotel : Super Meat Boy has special stages and a glitch special zone in honour of : Sonic and Mario respectively before it : The Binding of Isaac has the return of I AM ERROR along with several other : Zelda and Devil’s Castle references (What a horrible night to have a : curse) : Pathways into Darkness is a sponsor of Willy Wonka’s holiday brands. : Can you guys think of any more I’m missing from this list? An example of this : being Halo’s Siege of Madrigal secrets and Halo Reach’s Covenant Disco. : Leaving the Easter Egg warp zone, I come to an open bronze door guarded by an : ooze and a couple of ghouls and nightmares, the latter of which I take a : hit from as I kill a ghoul but can’t dodge in time. : The door closes behind me and I continue on to a rectangular room at the : north end of the map with an ooze in it. : : What a mess. Muller really didn’t know to ask them to tidy up in time for : guests arriving did they? I loot all the bodies for their SMGs, ammo and : the resulting XP. : The guy by the entrance is scared meatless by the monsters behind the three : bronze doors. Freidrich has a canvas bag of SMG clips I pilfer. He tells : me that Muller came down here looking for a “small glass vial of immense : power” which is meant to “contain the essence of an improsioned demon”. : An imprisoned demon? You don’t mean the W’rkncacnter we came here to stun? : Well, it sort of is but I’ll reiterate that previous forum post when we : find it. : What’s all this about gold? Turns out Walter was given a gold key by Muller : to find a treasure trove of gold and a small cedar box used to duplicate : anything put inside it but we aren’t told that yet. : The guy across from Muller in the corner just spouts more of the same and : only has a pistol plus 1 extra clip. : The man himself has another Jjaro flute and an SMG on him. Muller says that : they already killed the monsters behind the rune doors so it’s safe to go : in. : Liar. : He also says that he was sent by a Munich university to recover some lost : Mayan artifacts from the pyramid catacombs. Oh, so you mean a certain : Other God in a glass bottle? : : ,img : src="http://68.media.tumblr.com/7e2bef44cd826d59e0e9fdba7bade315/tumblr_o5w0ofQxjH1t7bqfso5_540.jpg" : height="200" width="400"/> : He then lies about the gold and the box so I call him a Yellow Ringed Poop : Chute(tm). : : What crystals? I didn’t mention any. Oh you mean these ones I have with me? : Too bad you didn’t find them. : Now to open the doors and rack up some kills; the treasure inside is mine. : *glug glug glug* : : : LEERROY JENKINSSS! : : Now is a good time to mention that this isn’t any Marathon or Strife; : lighting monsters on fire with the red crystal only colors their sprites : red and deals more damage than the blue crystal without stunning them as : long because of the Torch engine’s technical limitations. : Maybe also because it would take too long to make flaming copies of the death : sprites for every monster in the game considering the time Bungie had here : and for Marathon. : Uuuuhhhh a red cloak and 1XP from iiiit raaddiicall maannn…. : Sorry. The potion made me feel a little tipsy there. I’m lucky to have never : been drunk once in real life; at most I have a small buzz but I ain’t : gonna push it. : In the other corner past the yellow arrows that open the exit (I think) there : are two silver bottles and one brown potion. : : I’m just going to come out and say this potion is thick poo. It can’t be : human waste due to the bitumen smell unless Muller had a seriously fucked : up eating habit and the monsters bottled it after he expired. : I’ll converse my MP-41 clips just now unless they are required until I can : make good use of the cedar box. : : Ammunition may be scarce for a while so be prepared to fall back to your : pistol. : : As I kill the monsters on the exit path, I listen happily to the sound of : pistol fire slowed down by the red potion. I love that sound, it’s so : cathartic. The potion wears off by the time I reach the southeast room on : the map. : After saving, I catch some well-deserved sleep until 20 to 1 and climb back : up all the ladders to the Ground Floor again to the other path. : Thank you again to Perseus Spartacus for providing the maps. : I will tackle Feel the Power onward next time, so I leave you just now and : will continue my journey underground in Chapter 5: the Dark Bowers.
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