E2M9: Nebulous Origins (Doom the Way id Did)

E2M9: Nebulous Origins is the secret map of The Shores of Hell in Doom the Way id Did. It was designed by Trevor Primmett (iori) in the style of Sandy Petersen and can be accessed from E2M5: Deimos Command. Finishing this map takes the player to E2M6: Foundry.

Essentials
Open the door. In the next room take a sharp right heading southwest into a curvy hall. You will find a switch at the very end, press it. Now go back to the room and you will find a few extra passages to take. You will find an armor in the room slightly east so take it. Now enter the door to the north. You will see a blue door to the north, and a hall slightly east of that. Take this hall and when you can go right, do so. You will see two switches, press the one that is not lit to lower the other platform as a lift. Take this down to the water and find the switch at the end here. Now go back to the room and there should be a third path open. Follow this path to the blue keycard. Now you can backtrack and get to the blue door. A quick way to do that is to drop into the nukage. You will find a secret here and a teleporter. Taking this teleporter warps you back to the room after the starting point, now with a cacodemon in front of you. Open the northern door and open the blue door now. You will find a lot of monsters and a megaarmor, but you will realize you cannot progress further in this area. Go back to the hallway east of the blue door and go all the way to the end of the hall to find a second blue door.

Take this one and follow the linear path to a switch. Now backtrack and you will see a new area with a structure containing an inverted cross. Behind this structure is the yellow skull key. Enter the northern door here, and you will find a place with nukage. Before stepping in it, head left to find a switch which opens the big area with monsters that you have been in before. Now go east through the nukage behind the wall to find a radiation suit. Now look to the southeast wall in the nukage and you will see a slightly opened wall. Open this wall up, and proceed through the nukage tunnel. When you reach the room with the column get out of the nukage and follow the path to a switch. When you press it, a shack with a baron of hell opens, but also a passageway south of where he is at will also open. Now backtrack to where you saw the first radiation suit (you may need to grab another one along the way), and take the tunnel to the north to a yellow door. Enter this door, and climb up the stairs here to a room with a switch on the wall. Press it, then head south. The shack with the baron will be open along with a passage to the south.

Go through this passage and you will see the exit door across the blood. You cannot reach it yet because you do not have the red key. Also, do not fall in the blood as you cannot escape if you do. Instead, head southwest and press the switch to reveal the cargo area. Here, if you pressed the switch before, the southern portion of this place will be revealed. Go all the way south here, and turn west and go up the stairs to a teleporter. Then take the lift up to a switch. Go back in the teleporter to appear in the middle of a star-shaped floor, with the red skull key directly in front of you. Grab it and return to the red door. Open and follow the path to the exit, making sure to watch out for the blood as you cannot return.

Current records
The records for this map at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive are:

Last updated on June 19, 2013.

Multiplayer records
Last updated on June 19, 2013.

Miscellaneous demos
Last updated on June 19, 2013.

Map data
* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 1514.