Let's Play Halo SPV3 Special Stage 2


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Let's Play Halo SPV3 Special Stage 2

Posted By: Lion O Cyborg Date: 6/8/20 7:03 a.m.

Special Stage 2: The Commander
The Commander of the Covenant turns his attention to the Flood as he investigates the Silent Cartographer
Welcome back to Halo SPV3. Into this update, we tackle the next of the 2 SPV3 exclusive levels. Last time around I returned to the butte with Alpha Base where I tried -and mostly failed, save for the marines at the end- to evacuate it. Plenty others made it out and attempt are attempting to capture the Truth and Reconciliation to use as an escape vehicle, after purging it from the Flood. However, it’s worth saying now that they don’t make it: Major Silva and his jealously of John Carver and the Spartan IIs leads him to leave some specimens of the Flood on the ship alive, for the sake of capturing them and taking them back to Earth for study, like Ash in Alien.
This is an incredibly stupid move and it leads to Melissa McKay to allow the infected Jenkins (managing to fight off the Flood’s control long enough) to sever an essential conduit and destroy the ship, killing everyone on board.
Now for the actual level: we take control of an Elite Zealot, namely the Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice: Thel Vadumee, soon to be known as the Arbiter in a call forward to Halo 2, where he was a second playable character, not unlike the Tom Tom Gang in Blinx 2: Battle for Time & Space or Kurtis Trent in Tomb Raider 6 (except the latter was never a villain).
Act 1: The Will of the Prophets - Iron Gate
An Elite from Halo 3’s four player co-op called Usze briefs us as Thel’s phantom touches down at the Silent Cartographer the same night John is still attempting to evacuate the Lair. “Commander,” he says to Thel. “We last seeked words with the brutes stationed here and the flood that will cost us a certain victory, if not stopped on this island.” The dropship’s engine drowns him out however, making him hard to hear. Thel’s friend and fellow Commander Rtus Vandumee (the Elite Ultra shipmaster from Halo 2+3) uses lines from his 2 games as we land. “Let us find their ship. Make short work of this abomination! We shall cut into the heart of this infestation and burn any Flood that stand in our way!”

That health and shield symbol on the right look familiar? However, it’s a bit of a plothole since, as explained in Circle 2 of the primer, the Covenant misread the Marathon/Reclaimer glyph as Reclamation simply by reading it upside down. That is not reflected here. Also, the ring ahead is either approaching dawn, or it’s all blighted by the Flood, going by the orange bits.

When we get around to Halo 2 (Viking Boy Billy will be covering that), you’ll come to like this guy. He’s a good leader for the Elites next to the Arbiter and like Sgt Johnson in that game, he’s invincible. The first terminal is on the back of the skybridge thing behind the starting point.

The next terminal is on top of the boulder where the jackals snipers were, now crawling with Flood. There’s no motion tracker when playing as the Arbiter (until Halo 2) and no medipacks, so instead health regenerates fully once your shields go back up.
Thel’s shield is also stronger than John’s as he’s a zealot, who have stronger shields anyway.

I like how they have translator errors substituting colloquial terms like when we read the Pfhor and S’pht terminals in Marathon. I’m not sure what the “black armoured lance” is, nor if the military officer was Keyes or someone else, but the military world is Reach and the “infidels unworthy name for us” is the elites, as their actual species name is Sangheli. (but we already know that)
Other differences are that you can’t pick up human weapons (also until Halo 2) so to compensate, you now have needle grenades replacing frags (think spike grenades from Halo 3 except not sticky) and the white button lets you use an energy sword! Once its battery runs out, it automatically recharges unlike the main games. Sentinels win a fight against Flood outside the Cartographer building so I take a sentinel major’s extended range incineration beam (Forerunner weapons are still usable) and recharge my plasma rifle at a charging column on the landing pad.
More combat forms including honour guards, elite & jackal carriers and flugs await around the corner where the path to the vent shaft plug is.

Yuck, I’m not going that way. I loop around the rest of the island to the mesa where Bravo 22 crashed, below the starship Enterprise shaped structure where the security station is. The next terminal is on top of the mesa. There’s brutes up there and they quickly turn on us. Usze deduces fear of the Flood has driven them mad. Soon after killing them, the Flood do arrive and I can test out my sword. Unlike the main games, you need to press melee as attempting the uppercut/lunge attack just makes you draw your main gun instead.

Rtus and Usze can be knocked out if they take enough damage but they don’t actually die. You can revive them when that happens but due to engine limits, they can’t do the same for you.

I smell a boss fight. Apparently you need to read this terminal in order to progress. However, the fleshy blob of rankness still blocks the way. I need a wraith to destroy it. Thankfully, there’s plenty back at the start but the Flood have anticipated this and are waiting for us. I then have to defend Usze as he fixes one of the wrecked tanks on the original beachhead.
It’s tricky, as Flood and sentinels attack every time he tries to fix a wraith, and every sentinel group has at least 1 enforcer. The last tank takes a while to fix but Usze gets it going. It only has half health however, so try to avoid getting it destroyed, else it’s game over.
So naturally after Usze gives me that warning, of course I get hounded by more enforcers all the way back. I use the plasma turrets and only use the mortar when I’m confident it will actually hit them. Remember that enforcers can destroy vehicles in 1 hit if they grab them. The nest poos out a bunch of combat forms and gasbags when I burst it, clearing the way to the vent shaft plug. Rtus and Usze stay behind while I forge on ahead.
It’s a flug fest on the plug next. The brutes up here all get infected and there’s gasbags and elite carriers, leaving a flood of flugs when they pop. Good thing there’s an overshield and plenty of brute plasma rifles. The next terminal is here too.

It’s not long before I run into more Flood in the valley to the USS Enterprise building. I swear I heard the combat forms talk, which is weird as they shouldn’t be able to do that yet: they need a Gravemind for it and they only have a Proto Gravemind.
The next terminal is on the platform below the aforementioned Star Trek thing, by the next overshield.

So Stephen must still be inside? What he says implies that the Flood have turned this place into a hive.

Thought so. Elite carriers and combat forms with active camo are the main guys here. Regular combat forms are in the pods plus there’s one or two grunt carriers. One of the pods blocks the way to the security station itself. The next terminal is by a giant abscess next to where the holopanel used to be.

That explains the hell lighting and the dark areas. It also means that so long as there’s 1 human combat form, the Flood can come and go as they please despite the lockdown in infested areas. I pop the bulging boil, whereupon Uzse warns that they’ve breached the map room but it’s guarded by the Flood. He hopes my tank is still in one piece.
Act 2: Please, Make Yourself at Home – Death Chamber
This chapter shares its name with a late game Halo 2 one, also within a Flood level. ”Commander, we will meet you at the Cartographer and Scout ahead” Usze informs me. I return to the tank, haunted by the growls and screams of the Flood and head to the main facility without incident. The two cowards remain outside like last time while I go inside alone. The door is locked again, but an honour guard form with a live plasma grenade bursts through.

“You deserve a better death than this.”
Another of those bulging incubators blocks the door to the next room and the second door is locked, so I have to go over the walkway. It’s very dark in here and the energy sword is the only light source I have. However, it’s best saved for when I actually need it. I drop down the hole I went through before since the ramp door is broken.

Hello! Wasn’t expecting to see you guys here! The Flood probably managed to reach this island simply by climbing the inside of the vent shaft. There’s the last human terminal on a ledge in the hunter room, now what appears to be a brute feasting hall. It’s on a ledge covered with grunt blood.

I just guessed that too! I can’t see his body, so maybe he did kill himself by diving down the vent shaft. It’s a better death than being infected, I tell you that much. This chapter may as well have been called “Revenge of the Tier Drops” as the way down is blocked again, forcing me to drop down to where a Forerunner terminal used to be. Now there’s a covenant one here.

Ah shit. I guess we’re not getting that boss fight, huh? Wouldn’t be the first time! There’s not a lot of honour guards here, but there are a lot of elite carriers. There’s a charging column in the vent shaft at the corner edge of the platform. Another giant abscess disables the Cartographer so I pop the pulsing pustule.
Suddenly, damaging explosions rock the building. It looks like John has already destroyed the autumn! The ring is shaking itself apart so we have to leave now! Rtus says to return to the landing zone and he’s sending a phantom to pick us up. Cue escape music.

The final Forerunner terminal of the game is between the 2 box things at the top of the first ramp. Yes, all the explosions from Halo being destroyed can hurt you.

Guilty Spark has egg on his face now, as such a way is in progress right now. All the remaining ramps are open so I flee back the way I came before.

Cloaked suicide combat forms ambush me just as the ring begins tearing itself apart. Once I make it through, Thel hops aboard the phantom and all three Sangheli leave Halo for good.
It’s time. Captain Keyes is dead but his death is not in vain, we have the Index still, Johnson has escaped and it’s time to return to the Pillar of Autumn. It’s now a ghost ship in more ways than one and it’s now about to become a mini Trih Xeem, thanks to the self-destruct code provided by Jacob’s implants. Everyone except the marines is out to play and what lies ahead is one of the best final levels yet, right up there with Meteorite Cavern, Nihilanth, Momentopolis and End of the World. Next time on Halo SPV3, Stage 10: The Maw. Now the Adventure evolves.

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: : Special Stage 2: The Commander : The Commander of the Covenant turns his attention to the Flood as he : investigates the Silent Cartographer : Welcome back to Halo SPV3. Into this update, we tackle the next of the 2 SPV3 : exclusive levels. Last time around I returned to the butte with Alpha Base : where I tried -and mostly failed, save for the marines at the end- to : evacuate it. Plenty others made it out and attempt are attempting to : capture the Truth and Reconciliation to use as an escape vehicle, after : purging it from the Flood. However, it’s worth saying now that they don’t : make it: Major Silva and his jealously of John Carver and the Spartan IIs : leads him to leave some specimens of the Flood on the ship alive, for the : sake of capturing them and taking them back to Earth for study, like Ash : in Alien. : This is an incredibly stupid move and it leads to Melissa McKay to allow the : infected Jenkins (managing to fight off the Flood’s control long enough) : to sever an essential conduit and destroy the ship, killing everyone on : board. : Now for the actual level: we take control of an Elite Zealot, namely the : Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice: Thel Vadumee, soon : to be known as the Arbiter in a call forward to Halo 2, where he was a : second playable character, not unlike the Tom Tom Gang in Blinx 2: Battle : for Time & Space or Kurtis Trent in Tomb Raider 6 (except the latter : was never a villain). : Act 1: The Will of the Prophets - Iron Gate : An Elite from Halo 3’s four player co-op called Usze briefs us as Thel’s : phantom touches down at the Silent Cartographer the same night John is : still attempting to evacuate the Lair. “Commander,” he says to Thel. : “We last seeked words with the brutes stationed here and the flood that : will cost us a certain victory, if not stopped on this island.” The : dropship’s engine drowns him out however, making him hard to hear. Thel’s : friend and fellow Commander Rtus Vandumee (the Elite Ultra shipmaster from : Halo 2+3) uses lines from his 2 games as we land. “Let us find their : ship. Make short work of this abomination! We shall cut into the heart of : this infestation and burn any Flood that stand in our way!” : : That health and shield symbol on the right look familiar? However, it’s a bit : of a plothole since, as explained in Circle 2 of the primer, the Covenant : misread the Marathon/Reclaimer glyph as Reclamation simply by reading it : upside down. That is not reflected here. Also, the ring ahead is either : approaching dawn, or it’s all blighted by the Flood, going by the orange : bits. : : When we get around to Halo 2 (Viking Boy Billy will be covering that), you’ll : come to like this guy. He’s a good leader for the Elites next to the : Arbiter and like Sgt Johnson in that game, he’s invincible. The first : terminal is on the back of the skybridge thing behind the starting point. : : The next terminal is on top of the boulder where the jackals snipers were, : now crawling with Flood. There’s no motion tracker when playing as the : Arbiter (until Halo 2) and no medipacks, so instead health regenerates : fully once your shields go back up. : Thel’s shield is also stronger than John’s as he’s a zealot, who have : stronger shields anyway. : : I like how they have translator errors substituting colloquial terms like : when we read the Pfhor and S’pht terminals in Marathon. I’m not sure what : the “black armoured lance” is, nor if the military officer was Keyes or : someone else, but the military world is Reach and the “infidels unworthy : name for us” is the elites, as their actual species name is Sangheli. (but : we already know that) : Other differences are that you can’t pick up human weapons (also until Halo : 2) so to compensate, you now have needle grenades replacing frags (think : spike grenades from Halo 3 except not sticky) and the white button lets : you use an energy sword! Once its battery runs out, it automatically : recharges unlike the main games. Sentinels win a fight against Flood : outside the Cartographer building so I take a sentinel major’s extended : range incineration beam (Forerunner weapons are still usable) and recharge : my plasma rifle at a charging column on the landing pad. : More combat forms including honour guards, elite & jackal carriers and : flugs await around the corner where the path to the vent shaft plug is. : : Yuck, I’m not going that way. I loop around the rest of the island to the : mesa where Bravo 22 crashed, below the starship Enterprise shaped : structure where the security station is. The next terminal is on top of : the mesa. There’s brutes up there and they quickly turn on us. Usze : deduces fear of the Flood has driven them mad. Soon after killing them, : the Flood do arrive and I can test out my sword. Unlike the main games, : you need to press melee as attempting the uppercut/lunge attack just makes : you draw your main gun instead. : : Rtus and Usze can be knocked out if they take enough damage but they don’t : actually die. You can revive them when that happens but due to engine : limits, they can’t do the same for you. : : I smell a boss fight. Apparently you need to read this terminal in order to : progress. However, the fleshy blob of rankness still blocks the way. I : need a wraith to destroy it. Thankfully, there’s plenty back at the start : but the Flood have anticipated this and are waiting for us. I then have to : defend Usze as he fixes one of the wrecked tanks on the original : beachhead. : It’s tricky, as Flood and sentinels attack every time he tries to fix a : wraith, and every sentinel group has at least 1 enforcer. The last tank : takes a while to fix but Usze gets it going. It only has half health : however, so try to avoid getting it destroyed, else it’s game over. : So naturally after Usze gives me that warning, of course I get hounded by : more enforcers all the way back. I use the plasma turrets and only use the : mortar when I’m confident it will actually hit them. Remember that : enforcers can destroy vehicles in 1 hit if they grab them. The nest poos : out a bunch of combat forms and gasbags when I burst it, clearing the way : to the vent shaft plug. Rtus and Usze stay behind while I forge on ahead. : It’s a flug fest on the plug next. The brutes up here all get infected and : there’s gasbags and elite carriers, leaving a flood of flugs when they : pop. Good thing there’s an overshield and plenty of brute plasma rifles. : The next terminal is here too. : : It’s not long before I run into more Flood in the valley to the USS : Enterprise building. I swear I heard the combat forms talk, which is weird : as they shouldn’t be able to do that yet: they need a Gravemind for it and : they only have a Proto Gravemind. : The next terminal is on the platform below the aforementioned Star Trek : thing, by the next overshield. : : So Stephen must still be inside? What he says implies that the Flood have : turned this place into a hive. : : Thought so. Elite carriers and combat forms with active camo are the main : guys here. Regular combat forms are in the pods plus there’s one or two : grunt carriers. One of the pods blocks the way to the security station : itself. The next terminal is by a giant abscess next to where the : holopanel used to be. : : : That explains the hell lighting and the dark areas. It also means that so : long as there’s 1 human combat form, the Flood can come and go as they : please despite the lockdown in infested areas. I pop the bulging boil, : whereupon Uzse warns that they’ve breached the map room but it’s guarded : by the Flood. He hopes my tank is still in one piece. : Act 2: Please, Make Yourself at Home – Death Chamber : This chapter shares its name with a late game Halo 2 one, also within a Flood : level. ”Commander, we will meet you at the Cartographer and Scout ahead” : Usze informs me. I return to the tank, haunted by the growls and screams : of the Flood and head to the main facility without incident. The two : cowards remain outside like last time while I go inside alone. The door is : locked again, but an honour guard form with a live plasma grenade bursts : through. : : : “You deserve a better death than this.” : Another of those bulging incubators blocks the door to the next room and the : second door is locked, so I have to go over the walkway. It’s very dark in : here and the energy sword is the only light source I have. However, it’s : best saved for when I actually need it. I drop down the hole I went : through before since the ramp door is broken. : : Hello! Wasn’t expecting to see you guys here! The Flood probably managed to : reach this island simply by climbing the inside of the vent shaft. There’s : the last human terminal on a ledge in the hunter room, now what appears to : be a brute feasting hall. It’s on a ledge covered with grunt blood. : : I just guessed that too! I can’t see his body, so maybe he did kill himself : by diving down the vent shaft. It’s a better death than being infected, I : tell you that much. This chapter may as well have been called “Revenge of : the Tier Drops” as the way down is blocked again, forcing me to drop down : to where a Forerunner terminal used to be. Now there’s a covenant one : here. : : Ah shit. I guess we’re not getting that boss fight, huh? Wouldn’t be the : first time! There’s not a lot of honour guards here, but there are a lot : of elite carriers. There’s a charging column in the vent shaft at the : corner edge of the platform. Another giant abscess disables the : Cartographer so I pop the pulsing pustule. : Suddenly, damaging explosions rock the building. It looks like John has : already destroyed the autumn! The ring is shaking itself apart so we have : to leave now! Rtus says to return to the landing zone and he’s sending a : phantom to pick us up. Cue escape music. : : The final Forerunner terminal of the game is between the 2 box things at the : top of the first ramp. Yes, all the explosions from Halo being destroyed : can hurt you. : : Guilty Spark has egg on his face now, as such a way is in progress right now. : All the remaining ramps are open so I flee back the way I came before. : : Cloaked suicide combat forms ambush me just as the ring begins tearing itself : apart. Once I make it through, Thel hops aboard the phantom and all three : Sangheli leave Halo for good. : It’s time. Captain Keyes is dead but his death is not in vain, we have the : Index still, Johnson has escaped and it’s time to return to the Pillar of : Autumn. It’s now a ghost ship in more ways than one and it’s now about to : become a mini Trih Xeem, thanks to the self-destruct code provided by : Jacob’s implants. Everyone except the marines is out to play and what lies : ahead is one of the best final levels yet, right up there with Meteorite : Cavern, Nihilanth, Momentopolis and End of the World. Next time on Halo : SPV3, Stage 10: The Maw. Now the Adventure evolves.

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	Message: : : Special Stage 2: The Commander : The Commander of the Covenant turns his attention to the Flood as he : investigates the Silent Cartographer : Welcome back to Halo SPV3. Into this update, we tackle the next of the 2 SPV3 : exclusive levels. Last time around I returned to the butte with Alpha Base : where I tried -and mostly failed, save for the marines at the end- to : evacuate it. Plenty others made it out and attempt are attempting to : capture the Truth and Reconciliation to use as an escape vehicle, after : purging it from the Flood. However, it’s worth saying now that they don’t : make it: Major Silva and his jealously of John Carver and the Spartan IIs : leads him to leave some specimens of the Flood on the ship alive, for the : sake of capturing them and taking them back to Earth for study, like Ash : in Alien. : This is an incredibly stupid move and it leads to Melissa McKay to allow the : infected Jenkins (managing to fight off the Flood’s control long enough) : to sever an essential conduit and destroy the ship, killing everyone on : board. : Now for the actual level: we take control of an Elite Zealot, namely the : Supreme Commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice: Thel Vadumee, soon : to be known as the Arbiter in a call forward to Halo 2, where he was a : second playable character, not unlike the Tom Tom Gang in Blinx 2: Battle : for Time & Space or Kurtis Trent in Tomb Raider 6 (except the latter : was never a villain). : Act 1: The Will of the Prophets - Iron Gate : An Elite from Halo 3’s four player co-op called Usze briefs us as Thel’s : phantom touches down at the Silent Cartographer the same night John is : still attempting to evacuate the Lair. “Commander,” he says to Thel. : “We last seeked words with the brutes stationed here and the flood that : will cost us a certain victory, if not stopped on this island.” The : dropship’s engine drowns him out however, making him hard to hear. Thel’s : friend and fellow Commander Rtus Vandumee (the Elite Ultra shipmaster from : Halo 2+3) uses lines from his 2 games as we land. “Let us find their : ship. Make short work of this abomination! We shall cut into the heart of : this infestation and burn any Flood that stand in our way!” : : That health and shield symbol on the right look familiar? However, it’s a bit : of a plothole since, as explained in Circle 2 of the primer, the Covenant : misread the Marathon/Reclaimer glyph as Reclamation simply by reading it : upside down. That is not reflected here. Also, the ring ahead is either : approaching dawn, or it’s all blighted by the Flood, going by the orange : bits. : : When we get around to Halo 2 (Viking Boy Billy will be covering that), you’ll : come to like this guy. He’s a good leader for the Elites next to the : Arbiter and like Sgt Johnson in that game, he’s invincible. The first : terminal is on the back of the skybridge thing behind the starting point. : : The next terminal is on top of the boulder where the jackals snipers were, : now crawling with Flood. There’s no motion tracker when playing as the : Arbiter (until Halo 2) and no medipacks, so instead health regenerates : fully once your shields go back up. : Thel’s shield is also stronger than John’s as he’s a zealot, who have : stronger shields anyway. : : I like how they have translator errors substituting colloquial terms like : when we read the Pfhor and S’pht terminals in Marathon. I’m not sure what : the “black armoured lance” is, nor if the military officer was Keyes or : someone else, but the military world is Reach and the “infidels unworthy : name for us” is the elites, as their actual species name is Sangheli. (but : we already know that) : Other differences are that you can’t pick up human weapons (also until Halo : 2) so to compensate, you now have needle grenades replacing frags (think : spike grenades from Halo 3 except not sticky) and the white button lets : you use an energy sword! Once its battery runs out, it automatically : recharges unlike the main games. Sentinels win a fight against Flood : outside the Cartographer building so I take a sentinel major’s extended : range incineration beam (Forerunner weapons are still usable) and recharge : my plasma rifle at a charging column on the landing pad. : More combat forms including honour guards, elite & jackal carriers and : flugs await around the corner where the path to the vent shaft plug is. : : Yuck, I’m not going that way. I loop around the rest of the island to the : mesa where Bravo 22 crashed, below the starship Enterprise shaped : structure where the security station is. The next terminal is on top of : the mesa. There’s brutes up there and they quickly turn on us. Usze : deduces fear of the Flood has driven them mad. Soon after killing them, : the Flood do arrive and I can test out my sword. Unlike the main games, : you need to press melee as attempting the uppercut/lunge attack just makes : you draw your main gun instead. : : Rtus and Usze can be knocked out if they take enough damage but they don’t : actually die. You can revive them when that happens but due to engine : limits, they can’t do the same for you. : : I smell a boss fight. Apparently you need to read this terminal in order to : progress. However, the fleshy blob of rankness still blocks the way. I : need a wraith to destroy it. Thankfully, there’s plenty back at the start : but the Flood have anticipated this and are waiting for us. I then have to : defend Usze as he fixes one of the wrecked tanks on the original : beachhead. : It’s tricky, as Flood and sentinels attack every time he tries to fix a : wraith, and every sentinel group has at least 1 enforcer. The last tank : takes a while to fix but Usze gets it going. It only has half health : however, so try to avoid getting it destroyed, else it’s game over. : So naturally after Usze gives me that warning, of course I get hounded by : more enforcers all the way back. I use the plasma turrets and only use the : mortar when I’m confident it will actually hit them. Remember that : enforcers can destroy vehicles in 1 hit if they grab them. The nest poos : out a bunch of combat forms and gasbags when I burst it, clearing the way : to the vent shaft plug. Rtus and Usze stay behind while I forge on ahead. : It’s a flug fest on the plug next. The brutes up here all get infected and : there’s gasbags and elite carriers, leaving a flood of flugs when they : pop. Good thing there’s an overshield and plenty of brute plasma rifles. : The next terminal is here too. : : It’s not long before I run into more Flood in the valley to the USS : Enterprise building. I swear I heard the combat forms talk, which is weird : as they shouldn’t be able to do that yet: they need a Gravemind for it and : they only have a Proto Gravemind. : The next terminal is on the platform below the aforementioned Star Trek : thing, by the next overshield. : : So Stephen must still be inside? What he says implies that the Flood have : turned this place into a hive. : : Thought so. Elite carriers and combat forms with active camo are the main : guys here. Regular combat forms are in the pods plus there’s one or two : grunt carriers. One of the pods blocks the way to the security station : itself. The next terminal is by a giant abscess next to where the : holopanel used to be. : : : That explains the hell lighting and the dark areas. It also means that so : long as there’s 1 human combat form, the Flood can come and go as they : please despite the lockdown in infested areas. I pop the bulging boil, : whereupon Uzse warns that they’ve breached the map room but it’s guarded : by the Flood. He hopes my tank is still in one piece. : Act 2: Please, Make Yourself at Home – Death Chamber : This chapter shares its name with a late game Halo 2 one, also within a Flood : level. ”Commander, we will meet you at the Cartographer and Scout ahead” : Usze informs me. I return to the tank, haunted by the growls and screams : of the Flood and head to the main facility without incident. The two : cowards remain outside like last time while I go inside alone. The door is : locked again, but an honour guard form with a live plasma grenade bursts : through. : : : “You deserve a better death than this.” : Another of those bulging incubators blocks the door to the next room and the : second door is locked, so I have to go over the walkway. It’s very dark in : here and the energy sword is the only light source I have. However, it’s : best saved for when I actually need it. I drop down the hole I went : through before since the ramp door is broken. : : Hello! Wasn’t expecting to see you guys here! The Flood probably managed to : reach this island simply by climbing the inside of the vent shaft. There’s : the last human terminal on a ledge in the hunter room, now what appears to : be a brute feasting hall. It’s on a ledge covered with grunt blood. : : I just guessed that too! I can’t see his body, so maybe he did kill himself : by diving down the vent shaft. It’s a better death than being infected, I : tell you that much. This chapter may as well have been called “Revenge of : the Tier Drops” as the way down is blocked again, forcing me to drop down : to where a Forerunner terminal used to be. Now there’s a covenant one : here. : : Ah shit. I guess we’re not getting that boss fight, huh? Wouldn’t be the : first time! There’s not a lot of honour guards here, but there are a lot : of elite carriers. There’s a charging column in the vent shaft at the : corner edge of the platform. Another giant abscess disables the : Cartographer so I pop the pulsing pustule. : Suddenly, damaging explosions rock the building. It looks like John has : already destroyed the autumn! The ring is shaking itself apart so we have : to leave now! Rtus says to return to the landing zone and he’s sending a : phantom to pick us up. Cue escape music. : : The final Forerunner terminal of the game is between the 2 box things at the : top of the first ramp. Yes, all the explosions from Halo being destroyed : can hurt you. : : Guilty Spark has egg on his face now, as such a way is in progress right now. : All the remaining ramps are open so I flee back the way I came before. : : Cloaked suicide combat forms ambush me just as the ring begins tearing itself : apart. Once I make it through, Thel hops aboard the phantom and all three : Sangheli leave Halo for good. : It’s time. Captain Keyes is dead but his death is not in vain, we have the : Index still, Johnson has escaped and it’s time to return to the Pillar of : Autumn. It’s now a ghost ship in more ways than one and it’s now about to : become a mini Trih Xeem, thanks to the self-destruct code provided by : Jacob’s implants. Everyone except the marines is out to play and what lies : ahead is one of the best final levels yet, right up there with Meteorite : Cavern, Nihilanth, Momentopolis and End of the World. Next time on Halo : SPV3, Stage 10: The Maw. Now the Adventure evolves.
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