MAP01: Pit of Sorrows (Hexen Upstart Mapping Project)

MAP01: Pit of Sorrows is the first map of Hexen Upstart Mapping Project. It was designed by Skeletonpatch and Tom Jensen (HexenMapper), and uses the music track "Deep" by Kevin Schilder.

Essentials
Head left or right to a stone door and open it, then open a pair of orange doors in the north wall to enter a circular room with ettins. Walk round the lava pit in this room and open the wooden doors in the north wall to reach a chapel, kill any afrits that burst through the overhead windows then walk behind the brick wall at the north end of the chapel - there is a star switch hidden behind this wall, but approach it with caution as two fireball launchers are hidden on either side of the chapel. Flip the switch to open a door in the south-east corner, then approach the chain wall behind it to reveal a winding staircase that leads underground - watch out for a dark bishop waiting in a cage near the bottom.

At the bottom of the stairs, go round the corner to kill a waiting ettin then open the door to enter a crypt with one or more reivers. Open the door at the west end of the crypt to enter a library with more ettins (and two bishops on medium and hard skill levels) - you can use the door as cover from their attacks - then go to the far end of the library to collect a Mystic Ambit Incant. Behind this item is a bookcase with a row of books that have red stripes; press use on the dark recessed books in this row to open another bookcase to your left, then step past it to find another ettin (and a bishop on hard skill levels) guarding the swamp key. With this key, backtrack to the circular room with the lava pit but enter it with caution as two blades are running around the edge of the room. Open the swamp key door in the west wall then pull either of the chain switches behind it to rotate the surrounding wall.

Walk forward until you step on a circular drain; you will silently teleport to a cross-shaped room with some ettins. Kill then then go through the open door in the north-east corner and kill another waiting ettin before pulling the chain switch here. Go back into the main room and step on the teleporter that has been revealed in the middle of the room; you will be returned to the circular room, where some glitter bridges have appeared allowing you to reach the teleporter in the center of the pit. Step on this teleporter to go to.

Other points of interest
On easy and medium skill levels, four Discs of Repulsion can be found in the starting area.

Secrets
There are no official secrets on this map.

Speedrunning
As this level does not contain official secrets, the NM 100S category is redundant.

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

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on February 19, 2022.

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