JULY 24, 1998
Menominee, MI


	                   Ahumado's Skull



TITLE:                Ahumado's Skull
FILENAME:             Ahumado.zip
AUTHOR:	              Jan M. Pear
E-MAIL:		      gus@portup.com
HOMEPAGE:	      http://www.portup.com/~gus
DESCRIPTION:	      This is a two level quest. The first is in a castle

type setting that eventually leads to the mountains. The second level
is done in an Egyptian motif. I was able to keep the framerates up by
making the maps smaller than my first release and utilizing proper
building techniques. In map1 I ran out of planes so was not able to do
everything I wanted but am very satisfied with the result. In map2 I 
was not able to add as many ambient sounds as I wished, something about
not being any more pre-cache room.




                               The Story

	Your on a Quest......something different, eh?  You have traveled
to battle Skull (so named because he is said to collect them)
so the coming generations will sing your praises at campfires. 
Defeat or Victory is less important than the songs that will make you
legend.

        Your arrival to Castle Skull was easy. You find though that Skull
is particular and won't battle just any adventurer. He sends you off to
bring him the skull of Ahumado. Ahumado camps in the Blue Mountains. 
His tortures are the stuff to frighten children with. He might hang a 
captive in a cage from a cliff to be vulture food. Perhaps he will have
their skin removed or maybe thrown into the PIT.

	A warm and fuzzy felling enters your soul. You know of 
Ahumado and the songs of your deed will be sung till the end of time.


A Note on Quests: So you think no one ever fell in a pit they couldn't
get out of? Be careful as the path to Ahumado's camp is fraught with
traps. Also, not all messages that you may encounter mean anything.


Assorted Notes:  I had a few testors but for the most part they all
wimped out on me without answering the questions I most needed to know.
It is impossible to make a good map without lots off input from various
players. This means there will most likely be some idiosyncrasies that 
I missed and I apologize for that. Some day I will make these maps
so the additional sounds work with PoP but right now I just want it done.

ADDITIONAL 
CREDITS..      tiglari...for doing a ton of work on the 
                         Hexen2 entities and answering all my e-mail
                         Also, he led me by the hand(so to speak) so I 
                         could incorporate new sounds. He guided and 
                         prodded me along.                        
               
               Rachel    She played it all the way thru so I could watch

               The makers of qED 

               Eric Biessman..rapid e-mail responder
      
                   
INFO ABOUT 
THE AUTHOR:    http://www.portup.com/~gus

OTHER LEVELS
BY ME:         http://www.mari.net/~agx/download.htm



                             PLAY INFO

Single Player             Yes
Co-op                     No
Deathmatch                No
Difficulty Settings       No
Base                      New 
Editor used               qED 2.0.118
                          I have included in the zip the qED file 
                          and the map file....
Build Time                Four months
Texture Wad used          castle.wad
                          roman.wad
                          egypt.wad
Compile machine           Pentium 166, 96mb RAM
QBSP Time                 
Light (-extra) Time 	  >Doesn't matter
VIS (-level 4) Time        
Known Bugs                Tell Me. Perhaps this fits here...the Egypt wad
                          at CDROM is screwy.
                         


                         HOW TO PLAY THIS PAK

Under your Hexen2 directory make a new directory called ahumado. 
Extract the contents of the zip file to it.  Start hexen from a 
commandline using the option -game ahumado.

eg.  glh2 -game ahumado(you do have 3D, doncha?)

The game will start up normal and when your in the game bring down 
the console and type 

map map1

I have included my own strings text file that must be placed
in the ahumado directory.

*********************** Copyright / Permissions ********************

Authors may not use this level as a base to build additional
levels, 

This BSP may be distributed over the Internet or BBS systems.
You are authorized to put this pak on a CD and 
distribute it as long as you tell me and send a check
for $100 American. 






     






