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	Message: : : : Tempus Irae 21 I Haven’t Killed Anyone Since 1485 & KMG-365 : Last time on Tour of Duty we watched an execution, climbed down a lot of : stairs, killed quite a few Pfhor, and smashed four circuit panels, while : our image cloned for an AI tried to fight its merge with Tycho. Now we’ve : come to find yet more circuits, to expose the Enforcers to vacuum and stop : them from repairing the damage we’ve been doing. : The level is small – our first impression is -too small-. The area we can : access obviously, is a loop around some goo pools, with a few terminals : and some telltale signs of other areas we just can’t quite get to. In fact : the lhowon.org map suggests we start randomly at one corner of the loop. : : : There are a lot of extra lines on the map for external views, but they : actually look pretty cool on the overhead map too! The contents of this : loop’s left and right sides are pretty similar, with a terminals on either : side of an inset structure in the middle, and not much else to speak of. : The right side does have an alcove room with a Pattern Buffer, however. : The terminal to the north on the right side of our loop has a message from : -us-, our image having repressed Tycho again briefly: : : : : Cleaned up a bit, and given some punctuation, I offer: I have repressed : Tycho for a moment. Can you imagine my pain when the Pfhor brought me out : of the Pattern Buffer and sewed my mind into Tycho’s? I curse myself. You : are my own image and I cannot escape it. Go on then, kill my body! Burn : me. It will be the death of you too. Tycho will see to that, you can : dest…. : I want to say “destiny”, but that makes no sense :). Perhaps more likely : “destroy” – destroy my something, but not something else? You can never : take our freeeeedom? : The other terminals are like the engineering ones from the previous level, : and really do make out that things are in a bad way now. : : : : : I guess that’s what happens when things are left up to us. : After circling for a bit, we realise there are ledges we could jump down to : past the goo from the top and bottom of our loop. They offer 2x shield : rechargers and oxygen rechargers, as this level is already in vacuum, even : though we haven’t effected that change yet … or are we somehow outside : looking in? Okay the spoiler guide, and I guess the terminals if I had : paid more attention, suggest we are in the “intrahull space”, so, inside : the hull? And we are to open the inside to space … or the outside, I’m : well confused by now *ahem*. The ledges also both have teleporters, but : they simply return us to our loop. : It takes a little more thought to realise we could swim around behind them, : and there, lo and behold, is a magical corridor holding the goo in place : in the form of walls! Now who’s inside and who’s outside? To the east it : looks like there should have been a lift down from above, but the switch : for it isn’t playing ball. We continue west through a door, another door, : and a third, and come to an area that really does look like we’re outside, : with the floor texture cleverly done in diagonal beams, and space visible : through the other parts! : We have to go around a structure up ahead, to the left or right. If we keep : tending right we come to a room with a Pattern Buffer we cannot access – : it is covered over with the blue electric fence texture we’ve come to : recognise, and we are thankful for the consistency. Due west from the : structure we went around is an oxygen canister and some Flechette ammo, : for whatever reason, and we also notice the two circuits we came for, in : front, slightly above our heads. And we have good views “outside” of the : Enforcers trying to fix things. When we bust the circuits, those Enforcers : do indeed explode in spectacular fashion, after a short delay. Job done! : And now what? Well opposite that Pattern Buffer we couldn’t access, there is : now an open room with a terminal also covered with fence texture. We can : actually access it if we’re quick, but getting close to it triggers our : being teleported away to escape this deadly situation, and take in some : much needed rest. : : How can something so PINK be hostile? I guess the in-game equivalent of their : art is: : Which VBB sent to me described as a DBZ rejuvenation tank – not a reference I : knew, but I get the idea, you know, from Google :). Anyway. : All we can do here is walk around and stock up. All of our weapons are AWOL : but there are also no enemies, so that’s a fair trade. : : : Interesting is that the map shows a 1x shield recharger. There is a canister : right about there, but curiously the round pinkish thing on the wall is : indeed also a recharger! I have the feeling we’ve seen its like before, : but here I wouldn’t have picked it, plus it seems redundant. : The single terminal brings us up to date. We took a dose of radiation and : have been recovering; the K’alima did indeed crash and burn in the Sun; : the Pfhor have set up camp in a volcano on the surface and still want to : mess with Earth’s past. Why does it always have to be a volcano? : : : :
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