Marathon 2: Durandal Demo

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• 1. Waterloo Waterpark
• 2. What About Bob?
• 3. Eat It, Vid Boi!

Waterloo Waterpark (Terminal 1: 1st message)

<CMND PRAMA &49c2>

Welcome back.

I've awakened you from stasis and teleported
you down to a planet where I need some work
done.  You are on Lh'owon, the homeworld of
the S'pht.

I'm sure you're wondering where you are, why
you were in stasis, what happened to the
Marathon and Tau Ceti and most of all where
your rocket launcher and fusion gun are. 
There'll be plenty of time for explanations
later.  Right now I need you to repair some
damaged network connections for me.  Be
careful, you're about to meet some old
friends.

Your mission is to place two uplink chips at
two different locations in this complex.
This will give me access to the Pfhor
garrison's net.

I've marked the two places for you to
install the chips. They were designed to
work specifically in this kind of terminal
station. When you approach, I will transport
the necessary parts to you.

My S'pht modified your suit to recharge
using Pfhor power stations. I marked a
recharge location on the map.

Similarly, you will find satellite uplink
stations where you can upload yourself into
a pattern buffer on my ship. There are two
in this area, marked on the map.

You should encounter little organized
resistance because the Pfhor are
preoccupied. I've been introducing them to
the magic of orbital bombardment.


<CMND PRAMA &49c2>

Waterloo Waterpark (Terminal 1: 2nd message)

<CMND PRAMA &49c2>

Seventeen years have passed since the human
colony on Tau Ceti was attacked and you
helped me capture the Pfhor scoutship.
During these seventeen years, the S'pht
which I liberated from slavery and I have
been searching the galactic core for the
S'pht homeworld, Lh'owon. Lh'owon was all
but destroyed over a thousand years ago
during the battle in which the Pfhor
enslaved the S'pht.

Immediately before we left the colony on Tau
Ceti, I teleported you directly into one of
the stasis chambers on the scoutship and you
remained there for our entire journey
through the core. One instant you're
looking forward to retiring from combat as
the hero of the defense of Tau Ceti and the
next you're on an alien world seventeen
years later and half a million light years
away.


<CMND PRAMA &49c2>

Waterloo Waterpark (Terminal 2)

<CMND PRAMA &41c2>

*Translation System Active*

Water system breakdown at sector 6:

Directive from Garrison Command:
To: Leader Station 6-d
Planetary bombardment by hostile orbiting in
our (??captured) ship has caused a major
disfunction (??malfunction) in the water
purification (sterilization) systems.

Send drones:  94126 95239 29581 to make
emergency repairs. 


<CMND PRAMA &41c2>

What About Bob? (Terminal 1: 1st message)

<CMND OVERRIDE &@1494>

There were many humans in stasis on the
Pfhor ship which the S'pht and I captured at
Tau Ceti, destined for slavery in the Pfhor
Empire. As I saw the colony was about to be
destroyed, I did not restore them before we
left. I also realized they might become
useful, and that time has come.
I have begun reviving these colonists
and asking for volunteers on the following
terms: assist us and control your own
destiny, refuse and face indefinite return
to the unreliable Pfhor stasis chambers.
Few are refusing.

My first ground attack against the Pfhor
garrison occured a few hours ago, but was
largely unsuccessful. Basically the attack
failed because Bobs aren't fireproof and the
Pfhor flooded the area with lava.

This angered me, so I located their
underground geothermal pumping station and
have a plan.

The first part of the plan has already been
executed: I smashed a hole in the roof of
this complex by bombing it with a small
asteroid. Then, I dropped you and some
humans into the hole where you await the
second part of the plan.

Up the stairs from your current location is
a ventilation shaft that leads to the
underground geothermal station. Because only
you would survive the fall, you're going
this mission solo.

Once you get into the basement, look for a
terminal where I can give you further
instructions.


<CMND OVERRIDE &@1494>

What About Bob? (Terminal 1: 2nd message)

<CMND OVERRIDE &@1494>

Poor Leela. Tycho tells me she was dismantled
and shipped to the Pfhor home world for study,
along with most of the other computer systems
aboard the Marathon. Leela was so loyal and tried
so hard; she deserved better.

As for Tycho, he must have remained on the
Marathon. Since the fool is hiding from me the
fate and location of the Marathon, he must be up
to something. I would surmise that the Pfhor have
some plans for old Deimos; they bought the colony
ship for sale.


<CMND OVERRIDE &@1494>

What About Bob? (Terminal 2 : 1st message)

<CMND THRESHOLD 92%>

The switch to your right activates gangways
to two sets of control panels isolated in
the center of the lava pools.  You can access
the panels simply by opening them.

Behind the panels is vital circuitry.  One
maintains the power to the lava pumps, and
the other powers various safety
mechanisms.

Destroy both panels, but be sure to destroy
the one closer to this terminal first, or
else you'll be trapped.

If you've wasted all of your grenades then
you can do it the old fashion way-with
your fist.

After you destroy the circuitry, return to
the surface by way of the stairs and help
the colonists with the attack.  When the area
is clear of aliens, find a terminal for
further instructions.

Also, there are likely to be Pfhor on the
stairwell leading out.  Eradicate them before
you deactivate the pumps or else you will
have difficulty outrunning the lava flooding
down the safety drains.

Oh, did I leave that part out?  When the
safeties disengage, the lava on the surface
will descend through drains into this area,
burying the main Pfhor power station.

We will cripple them.

Good luck.


<CMND THRESHOLD 92%>

What About Bob? (Terminal 2 : 2nd message)

Note: you cannot read this message unless you cheat. Hence the message.

<CMND THRESHOLD 92%>

You cheater! Quit cheating and play for real!


<CMND THRESHOLD 92%>

What About Bob? (Terminal 3: 'Unfinished' message)

<CMND OVERRIDE &@85f2>

Ths area is not secure, and humans are still in combat.

Return when the area is secure.


<CMND OVERRIDE &@85f2>

What About Bob? (Terminal 3: 'Success' message)

<CMND OVERRIDE &@85f2>

Sorry about the lava bath.  There was no other way.

Prepare for Teleportation.


<CMND OVERRIDE &@85f2>

Eat It, Vid Boi! (Terminal 1: 1st message)

<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

The humans are good fighters, and they can
handle any remnant Pfhor.

I have transported you to the S'pht Citadel
of Antiquity.  The primary tower is
inaccessible by direct teleportation,
evidently because some of the Citadel's
defenses are still functional.

This ancient Citadel was the site of the
conclusive battle in the short war between
the S'pht and the Pfhor. From my
understanding, the Pfhor were losing, until
they decided to use radiation weapons to
kill all of the S'pht inside. Again what was
another's demise is our luck. When the S'pht
realized what was happening, they opened
their defenses and made one last effort to
escape.

Those who escaped were hunted and decimated.

Finding a way into the primary tower will be
difficult, the ground floor entrance is
locked and blocked by a moat. You will have
to overcome both of these obstacles to gain
entrance.

Once you get inside, I should be able to use
your location signal to overcome the ancient
teleportation defenses.


<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

Eat It, Vid Boi! (Terminal 1: 2nd message)

<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

If you insist on stumbling around when our
time here is limited, I may just decide that
you're not all that special after all and
teleport you out into space.

GET INTO THE TOWER!

Still Rampant,
Durandal


<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

Eat It, Vid Boi! (Terminal 2: 1st message)

           <Mnr *@1cz: 9cm2>

--<Translator Engaged>--
When once S'pht fought in brutal combat,
when hatred burned the tissues of one's
enemy, one clan, the S'pht'Kr, reclusive and
solitary, abandoned Lh'owon.

The clan went forth and up, stopping on
K'lia the third sister of Lh'owon, to build
a new home, free from their warring
brothers.

For a thousand and one orbits, the clan was
forgotten, lost upon the battlefield smoke,
until the all powerful Y'rr sent K'lia out
to the stars.


           <Mnr *@1cz: 9cm2>

Eat It, Vid Boi! (Terminal 2: 2nd message)

          <Mnr *@1cz: 9cm2>

Fires burned, and the marshes of the western
hamlets turned to ash, scorching the black
water.

The attacks were ruthless and cruel, not a
S'pht was left alive.

Thus began the first war between the
S'pht'Mnr and the S'pht'Lhar.

After the marsh wars between S'pht'Lhar and
S'pht'Mnr left the battlefields choked with
dead, the marsh graves full.

High above-
K'lia refused to see the carnage upon
Lh'owon.
She fled-
To the farthest reaches of nothing,
Leaving-
the sacred marsh dry from the falling tides.

As the water receded,
the red sand of the dead,
spread across Ll'owon.


          <Mnr *@1cz: 9cm2>

Eat It, Vid Boi! (Terminal 3: 1st message)

Note: you cannot read this message unless you cheat.

<Trn 36 ap&1cz:: 9cm2>

Cheaters don't really win and winners don't
really cheat,
Uhh, i think.

Eat It, Vid Boi! (Terminal 3: 2nd message)

<Trn 36 ap&1cz:: 9cm2>

I am going to teleport you to the higher
levels of the Citadel. Hopefully, we can
find some useful information at the top.
We must determine what happened to the
eleventh S'pht clan.

Eat It, Vid Boi! (The Non-Existent Terminal: 1st Message)

Note: this terminal message does not appear when you play the Demo but it exits in the Map file.

<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

We're going to have some problems soon.
I've determined that the Western Arm of
Pfhor Battle Group Seven is en-route and
should be here within a few days. This
fleet represents over ten percent of their
front line force. Needless to say, I am
skeptical about our chances in a fair fight
against them.

So hurry up. Finish exploring and let's
move on


<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

Eat It, Vid Boi! (The Non-Existent Terminal: 2nd Message)

Note: this terminal message does not appear when you play the Demo but it exits in the Map file.

<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>

Stop messing around. Didn't I tell you that
a significant portion of the strongest
nearby galactic power is headed this
direction?

Get back to the Citadel Tower.


<Pragma Junction ^7921 Engaged>