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The Enigmatic L

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The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« on: November 30, 2013, 11:19:10 pm »

So, I was wandering around in an underground cavern in Adventure mode for a couple of hours, randomly finding ways to get down to lower levels, even at the cost of breaking bones or nearly drowning. Every time I found another stairway or a magma pool, I felt that irresistible itch. I had to keep going. Deeper and deeper and deeper. I had always heard rumors and speculations that you could find a natural way down to the circus tent and actually *remove* the, uhhh... circus director's... baton? And wield it! This has been my dream! Of course, I had also heard that the odds of one finding a natural way through the caverns to do this was impossible. I believed this. As I went lower, I never expected for even a corn farthing's worth of a chance to find the circus tent.

BUT WOULDN'T YOU F*CKING KNOW IT I DID! I ACTUALLY FOUND IT! skJFEBoiuEFBfeOIavfeVaiVFA

What do I do? How do I get in??? I found the structure shortly after I found raw adamantine and jumped off a small cliff. I only have access to a small portion of the wall. Is there some sort of door leading inside of the circus tent? Has anyone else traveled down and found it like this as well?

Oh, and umm... how do I post a picture? I got excited and forgot to take a picture of the original message but it was recorded in the announcements, so I have a picture of that. If I had known I would make it all the way down to the tent, I might've taken a video or plotted a path so that I could actually get back to the surface again. I'm hopelessly lost ._.




EDIT: OH MY GOD, THERE IS A WAY IN. I'M SO EXCITED. AAHAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!


EDIT: I died gloriously. After I drew the sword, I journeyed down into the depths of the very world in order to challenge the fiends that lived there. Is there a more glorious way for an adventurer to die? I climbed and I climbed and eventually I found the bottom. It was a hellish world of slade with great fissures of eerie glowing pits carving through the ground like great rivers that lead to a world that even the demons are afraid of. I sidled my way along a narrow pathway between an eerie glowing pit and a wall and it was there I found my first enemy: a !!! SPOILER !!! of Shadow. He was a Warthog composed of ash. No syndromes? Super easy!

I missed a stab at his head and I managed to take a chunk out of his leg. Yes! First blood! He backed up and I was all like, "Yeah, bitch! You better run! I've got the motherfucking sword!"

Well, he leaped at me. One moment, he's backing up. The next, I'm dead. He jumped into me and knocked me over on the ground. As I lay doubled over, he donkey kicked me in the stomach and I tumbled across the ground towards the -- I bet you saw this coming -- eerily glowing pit. I broke my hand and then hit the far side of the pit before falling into the eternal chasm. All in all, this is probably the coolest way I've ever died. An ash pig just 300 kicked me into a freaking pit of death. Now that I've won adventure mode, I need to relearn how to live my life again.



« Last Edit: December 01, 2013, 12:01:11 am by The Enigmatic L »
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2013, 04:34:56 am »

Truly this is the most honorable way for an adventurer to die: in combat with the very forces of evil itself. Thus I congratulate you, but I must remind you of your terrible blunder, for whilst you were descending the passageway into the world of the demons, you left an opening to the outside world. With the the mighty hero and the only weapon capable of keeping the demons at bay lost in the eternal fires, nothing stands in the way of the monsters that wish for nothing more than to destroy all life in the world. Enjoy your temporary glory, for soon the sound of your name shall not bring to mind the image of a great warrior, but rather that of harbinger of doom!
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2013, 10:50:50 am »

I spent several hours once looking for a demon fortress. I finally found one, got inside, drew the sword and entered Hell. Now, this was the first time I had ever been to Hell, even in Fortress Mode, so I didn't really know what to expect. I found myself in a small cave with no discernible way out, and no demons inside to battle. Thinking, in my ignorance, that this might be some sort of "antechamber," I went over to a nearby glowing pit (which I didn't know was a bottomless chasm) and cast myself in, hoping to fall through the clouds into Hell proper.
It was one of those events so stupidly devastating that you just can't be angry about it.
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2013, 03:09:04 pm »

What does the game say when you jump in?
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2013, 05:57:16 pm »

You have fallen into a deep chasm.
You are deceased (esc.)

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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #5 on: December 03, 2013, 02:16:51 am »

You have fallen into a deep chasm. you have died fighting the forces of evil being forced into a dark pit falling forever.
You are deceased (esc)

fixed it :)
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2013, 12:29:49 am »

I always imagine that falling into the pit is a glorious way to go, that the Legends mode is incorrect... You don't die, you jut go deeper into hell and Slay more demons, or something.
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« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2013, 12:55:56 pm »

I think that would be super sweet, foamy. But I like to believe that you fall into a world far more terrible and horrifying than hell; a place where even demons tell stories that inspire shivers and cold sweats amongst themselves.
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2013, 02:53:51 pm »

So... You go to where Armok is, then? Awesome.
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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2013, 10:59:54 pm »

So... You go to where Armok is, then? Awesome.
THAT is the greatest glory! Meeting the big man himself!!!!!
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2013, 11:10:31 pm »

I got down there once in 31.25.
The guy's still down there, killing demons.
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #11 on: December 06, 2013, 05:29:51 pm »

If Hell is the circus, would that make the space below Armokland and we refer to it as a theme park?
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2013, 11:22:59 pm »

If Hell is the circus, would that make the space below Armokland and we refer to it as a theme park?

As I said, that is what I think! :O
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Re: The Greatest Glory!!! (Spoilers)
« Reply #13 on: December 07, 2013, 12:02:24 am »

I got down there once in 31.25.
The guy's still down there, killing demons.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)
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