MAP23: Trinary Temple (Ancient Aliens)

MAP23: Trinary Temple is the twenty-third map of Ancient Aliens. It was designed by Pinchy and uses the music track "The Greater Good," composed by Stuart Rynn (stewboy). The par time is 20:00.

Secrets

 * 1) At the open-roof temple where the red key is, it is possible to shoot the northwestern switch near the temple entrance. This lowers a lift in the northwest corner of the red key chamber. Take this up to find a computer area map. (sector 476)
 * 2) Inside the temple, to get the blur artifact in the northwest corner, you need to press two switches. The first switch is in the garden south of the powerup, and the second is the switch in the center of the temple, accessible once you flip the switch on top of the fountain. Go up the stairs to claim the powerup, and the sector you teleport to counts as a secret. Fight zombiemen, lost souls, and shotgun guys to claim a megasphere and leave this area. (sector 1130)
 * 3) At the main entrance to the temple, look to the west and spot one of the wall tiles being wider than the rest. Use this tile to lower it, and follow the path of shotgun shells to a soul sphere. (sector 2236)

Bugs
Six chaingunners that are meant to teleport in after the raisable bridge is crossed may never do so, depending on the source port. They fail to teleport in Zandronum 3.1 and GZDoom versions older than v4.3.1 unless the option compat_pointonline is set to true.

Current records
The records for the map at the Doom Speed Demo Archive are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on December 27, 2022.

Player spawns
This level contains ten spawn points:
 * 1) facing north. (thing 4)
 * 2) facing north. (thing 1507)
 * 3) facing west. (thing 1508)
 * 4) facing north-west. (thing 1509)
 * 5) facing south-east. (thing 1511)
 * 6) facing west. (thing 1514)
 * 7) facing south-east. (thing 1515)
 * 8) facing west. (thing 1517)
 * 9) facing north-east. (thing 1520)
 * 10) facing south-east. (thing 1523)

Things
This level contains the following numbers of things per skill level:

Trivia

 * It is possible to skip the barrels at the start of the level. If you then do not attack, almost none of the monsters in the level will spawn, making for a very empty experience.