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Title                 : Volcano of Evil
Author                : RocketBoy
E-mail                : tomw@earthlink.net
Web Page              : http://www.earthlink.net/~tomw


Author Greets & Thanks: 3DRealms of course!  Thanks for this awesome game
                        and build engine!  Also, special thanks to Hellknight
                        and Bitterboy, good friends of mine from TEN, for
                        helping me test the map and putting up with all the
                        negative frags caused by early bugs and my
                        inadvertant omissions of copious amounts of health :)


The Setting           : A huge active volcano inhabitted by an evil alien
                        devil-worshipping cult.  The battle starts outside
                        the volcano then progresses inside the volcano and
                        down deeper still, to the very depths of hell.


The Story             : You're part of an elite eight-man special covert
                        forces team.  You've been called to the scene of
                        a very large and very active volcano for this
                        mission.  There have been reports of monster
                        sightings, alien abductions, human sacrifice,
                        weird chanting, and all sorts of other weirdness
                        in this area since the volcano became active.

                        Intelligence reports indicate that the volcano has
                        become inhabitted by an alien devil-worshipping cult
                        and that this cult is responsible for all the recent
                        chaos in this area.  Your mission is to infiltrate
                        the core of the volcano and travel deep inside,
                        possibly to the very depths of hell, eliminating
                        all enemies along the way.  Not knowing the
                        meaning of the word "fear", you and your team of
                        bad asses are just itching to get down there and
                        kick the devil's ass.

                        As you and the team are going over the mission
                        plans, Williams suddenly comes running back to the
                        camp waving his arms saying "I've found it sir!".
                        You sent him out on recon twenty minutes ago to
                        try and find a way into the volcano.  By the looks
                        of that blue card in his hand it appears that he
                        has indeed completed his assignment.

                        "It's some kinda keycard I think, sir", says Williams
                        in a breathless voice, handing the blue card to you.
                        "It must fit this lock here."  You ready your
                        devastator weapon as you walk over to the lock.
                        Your men all cock and ready their weapons as well.
                        "Gentlemen, are you ready to meet satan and kick
                        his ass right on back down to hell?", you ask.  A
                        collective "YES SIR!" is heard behind you as you
                        swipe the keycard through the lock.

                        "Holy Shit!" escapes your mouth as the top of the
                        huge volcano suddenly explodes off in a violent
                        eruption.  Monsters start pouring out of the top
                        of the volcano, heading straight for you, guns
                        blazing.  You and your men head for cover and
                        start returning fire.

                        The battle has begun . . .
                        

Your Mission          : Infiltrate the volcano, kill everything
                        inside, find all secrets, and stay alive
                        to the end.  Piece of cake.

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* Play Information *

Episode and Level #   : E1L666
Single Player         : Yes
Co-Op Level           : Yes
DukeMatch Level       : Yes
Difficulty Settings   : Nope

* Construction *

Base                  : Brand spankin' new level from scratch my 2nd map!

Editor(s) used        : That one build thingy

Known Bugs            : There's some weirdness going on with certain
                        walls which will not let the player place
                        trip mines upon them.  I'm sorry but I have
                        yet to figure out how to fix this.  If you
                        figure it out please let me know!

Construction Notes    : This is technically my second map, but it is
                        the first one I have released.  My first map,
                        Teamforts, was a very ambitious project that
                        unfortunately ended up being plagued with a
                        few very persistent and inexpicable bugs and a
                        horrible framerate totally unsuitable for play
                        on my favorite internet Dukematch service, TEN.
                        I haven't totally scrapped it, I may go back
                        and redo it or fix it later when I get better
                        with build.  For the time being I started to
                        work on a different map, and this is it.

                        This map was inspired by a small volcano that
                        appeared in my first map, Teamforts.  In fact
                        the volcano was about the only cool thing in that
                        map so I decided to expand on it and make it into
                        a dukematch level.  I worked on this map off and
                        on for over a month.  It was never supposed to
                        be this big, but its seems that I got carried
                        away and just kept adding and adding to it.  It
                        started out as a dukematch only map then slowly but
                        surely evolved into more of a single-player and/or
                        co-op map.  The map took on a life of its own and
                        just got larger and larger.

                        I fear that this map may be a bit too big and framey
                        for dukematch on TEN.  The framerate is a bit
                        better than my first map but still drops to around
                        20 or less in some spots, which isn't good.
                        Obviously I still have a lot to learn about
                        maintaining a decent framerate in my maps.  If it
                        doesn't turn out to be a viable dukematch level I
                        hope it will at least serve as a pretty decent
                        single player level.  Once I realized the direction
                        towards single player action that the map was taking
                        I added monsters and keypads and such and worked
                        pretty hard on that aspect of it for a week or two
                        to try and make it good.  Hopefully you like the
                        results.  Beware it's no easy map to complete...
                        Should keep ya busy for awhile :)

* Where to get this MAP file *

FTP sites:

BBS numbers:

Other: You can get it on my web page and probably Ten's filefactory and
       maybe some other sites.  Dunno 'cuz I haven't sent it anywhere
       yet.  But if you're reading this then you already have it, so....
                                                                        
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