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	Re: Volunteers: Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks
	Posted By: Steve Campbell	Date: 11/3/01 7:00 a.m.
	In Response To: Volunteers: Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks (Mark Levin) Although I love this game..and enjoyed every poly of it, I never understood the timing of the name of this level, this game and the incident that took place here where I live. To date, I still wonder Bungie's idea behind the name of this level. I work a mere 1.5 blocks from the memorial of that solemn place and I would always hope that this level was an identifier of just a great level in a great game. AND What a great game it was! --Steve : This level is... strange. It's completely flooded with green slime, it has : architecture with no clear purpose, it has strange caverns and stairs and : two towers at the far end. The plot indicates that it's some sort of : important S'pht machine, a transmitter that will recall the eleventh clan : in times of need. : The start of the level presents you with a neat home base: A pattern buffer, : a 2x recharger, and several terminals, all with the same mysterious : message: Your humans are safe but what are you? : The Enforcers on this level hate the Flick'ta nearly as much as you, so : bezerk them at every opportunity. Beware of teleporting cyborgs when going : around the main square area. At the north end, head into the deepest : (extending furthest south) corner and look for one of the oddest secrets : in the game, a huge room full of floating ammo. I'm not going to actually : take this stuff, because it throws off the balance horribly, you can : usually get a full load for every weapon by the time you get out. : In the northwest corner is your first objective: A platform leads up to an : underground tunnel system filled with monsters. There are several platoons : that teleport in in different areas, so be careful not to trigger them : while fighting. In here is a switch that opens another door on the level. : At the south side of the level is a strange cave with nothing but a spiral : staircase and a ton of Flick'ta (and Enforcers). : The southwest corner holds the key to the end of the level. In here, past : some tough monsters, are a pair of towers with switches at the top. Push : both of these and report back to any terminal for beamout. Be careful when : climbing around the south tower; it's possible to jump out of the : second-floor window and into the courtyard below, dropping you into one of : the very few suicide traps in the game. : There's another secret on this level, but one that doesn't appear in the game : (any more). In one Marathon 2 screenshot, taken on this level, a Cyborg is : observed to be bleeding red blood. This ties into a possible explanation : for the Cyborgs discussed in the Scrapbook: They would be captured Bobs : attached to machines, a crude Pfhor imitation of mechanically-enhanced : human soldiers such as yourself.

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Replies:

	Volunteers: Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks	Mark Levin	11/1/01 9:44 p.m.
	Re: Volunteers: Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks	Steve Campbell	11/3/01 7:00 a.m.
	Re: Volunteers: Beware of Abandoned Rental Trucks	Hamish Sinclair	11/3/01 10:05 a.m.

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