19/10/97

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Title                   : Harm's Way

Filename                : harmsway.bsp

Author                  : Brian Morgan (Duley)

Email Address           : bmorgan@ns.sympatico.ca

Description             : Quake Map made from the ground up. A base 

			  style level designed for single player. 



Additional Credits to   : Beta testers for helping me find the bugs.

			  Id for making Quake. Ben Morris for 

			  Worldcraft.

			                                        

                          

			  Duley's Home Page:

			  www3.ns.sympatico.ca/bmorgan/



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* Play Information *



Single Player           : Yes, that's what it was designed for.

Cooperative             : Yes, 3 starts, untested

Deathmatch              : Yes - 6 player starts, untested

Difficulty Settings     : Yes

New Sounds              : No

New Graphics            : Yes, a couple new textures

New Music               : No

Demos Replaced          : None



* Construction *



Base                    : New level from scratch

Editor(s) used          : WorldCraft

Known Bugs              : None that I'm aware of. Let me know.

			  Note, the map size may make it difficult

			  play on an 8mb machine. Untested.

			  

Build Time              : Lost track of hours, much of which went into

	    		  texture alignment. It didn't help that I 

			  totally redid some of the rooms.



Texture Wad used        : Base, plus a wad of some textures I created

			  from scratch, or modified from existing 

			  textures.



Compile machine         : P100 w/ 32MB RAM

QBSP Time               : 1192 sec

Light (-extra) Time     : 5760

VIS (-level 4) Time 	: 11259



Brushes                 : 1739

Entities                : 570

Models                  : 88



* Other Info *



I had the misfortune of releasing this map on

the same day Quake 2 test was released. My level

looks pretty anemic compared to The Q2 base :)



This was my first attempt at a base style level. 

Probably my last. The texture alignment is very

unforgiving as compared to other style levels

I have made. I probably could have completed

two other levels in the time it took me to make 

this level. Also, you are somewhat limited in the

monster selection, in order to keep to a believable

theme. It's hard to explain a vore in a military base.



Because of map size, you may have to run this map with

the -winmem 10 command if it chokes on your system.



THE STORY SO FAR...



	"Cant you fly this thing a little straighter?", 

I complained after having another storage container heave 

itself up against me for the third time.

	"Sure I can," Inok replied, "if you dont mind me 

taking one of those surface to air missiles up the tailpipe. 

You wanna take a turn trying to fly this thing?"

	Hey, I wasnt really complaining, just whining 

to take my mind off this fiasco. 6 of 10 planes lost in just 

5 minutes had me a little on edge.

	Harms Way, built as a top secret research facility, 

had been kept hush hush since its completion. No one knew 

what kind of garbage those snot nosed scientists were working 

on. Rumors you heard about the stuff they did came right out 

of Star Trek, so you had to take them with a grain of salt. 

Stories of cloning, gene manipulation and the like were fun 

to joke about over a few beer, but didnt make them true. But 

given the last two days' events, you never knew. 

	Central Command had lost contact with the Harms Way 

installation 2 days ago. Because of the high security surrounding 

the facility, it had been constructed with no landing facilities. 

The only way in or out was through a series of teleport jumps. 

However, when CC tried to send an investigator through the 

teleport yesterday, a small clump of congealed flesh and hair 

fell back out of the teleport a few seconds later. A second 

attempt had not been made.

	It had been decided to take the installation by force. 

The plan was to blast a hole in the roof of the facility, and 

have a team of men parachute in and retake the facility. That 

team of men was getting smaller by the second, with 6 ships 

already shot down. It would appear that those scientists had 

also been working on military research as well, as the accuracy 

of their surface to air missiles seemed to indicate. If only...

	The ship took a sudden dive as Inok avoided another missile. 

A loud explosion rocked the ship as one of the wingmens ships was 

impacted by the missile. Make that 7 ships gone.

	Well, Id be going in armed to the teeth, if that was any 

consolation. A rocket launcher and grenade launcher should take 

care of most resistance.

	The sweet sound of a missile detaching and sent merrily 

towards its target sounded in my ears as Inok let loose a missile 

toward the facility. This was the closest we had been able to get 

to the place. Inok really was the best pilot in the force.

	"Yeee-hawww!" Inok yelled as the explosion sounded. Our 

missile had made a direct hit, and debris and dust rose in the air 

from the roof of the facility. "You ready to go dude?" he asked me. 

As ready as Im ever gonna be, I thought as I moved toward the back 

of the ship to gather up my weapons. I had just laid my hands around 

my trusty shotgun, and was reaching for the grenade launcher, when 

the ship banked up sharply, setting me on my back. A ball of fire, 

and a ear shattering boom, and the next thing I knew I was staring 

at sky. The back of the ship had been blown away. The ship was 

shuttering violently. "I think I can keep it airborne long enough 

to get above the hole I blew in the roof," Inok yelled back. "You 

gotta do it now, we ain't gonna get a second chance." Why I hadnt 

been wearing my parachute from the start, Ill never know, but now 

it was gone with all my high powered weapons, wherever the tail end 

of the ship had been blasted too.

	"Get in as low as you can, Inok, I gotta make this jump 

without a chute."

	Inok actually turned in his seat to look at me. He smiled, 

"No problem man, shouldnt be too difficult to get right where you 

want, without a tail end, and trying to avoid missiles at the same 

time. Sheeeet man."

	I laughed to myself, if anyone could get me that close, Inok 

could. We approached the opening. I had to time this just right. 

"Been nice knowing you man," Inok called as I leaped out of the ship. 

Last thing I saw as I fell through the opening into Harms Way was 

Inok and his ship going up in a ball of flames as it smashed into 

the cliff face.

	"Nice knowing you too, pal."



The fun begins...





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