E3M4: Fortuna Bridge (No End In Sight)

E3M4: Fortuna Bridge is the fourth map of the Woe episode of No End In Sight. It was designed by Xaser.

This level includes a secret exit to E3M9: Lake of Fire. Note that accessing the secret level from here will cause you to skip E3M5: Forgotten Caverns and E3M6: Anomaly Retribution.

Essentials
As the level starts you will see a zombieman in front of you; do not shoot it right away as a demon on your left will start biting you. Head forward to collect a shotgun in a water pool then go through the door at the other end of the pool to confront two lost souls by a fenced window. Step through the doorway next to the window to drop to a white floor below, then head south-east past a wooden structure to a marble brick building with six doors; five of the doors are dead ends, but the right-hand door on the north wall will lead to the red skull key. You will be surrounded by imps and lost souls when you take the key.

Leave the building and head west past a water pool with many health bonuses and a megaarmor to an area with some demons and cacodemons. There is a gargoyle switch in this area between red skull markers; press it to reveal a skull switch that will lower some bars on your right which are blocking a staircase. Go up the stairs and collect an armor at the top, then turn right to find the titular bridge and start crossing it. Halfway across the bridge you will find some shotgun shells, but when you approach your route will be blocked and a number of imps, demons and spectres will teleport in; fight off the enemies then use the north lift to get back on to the bridge.

At the north end of the bridge you will see a curving walkway made of square wooden tiles; you need to run along this walkway to reach a tower at the north end of a lava pool, but you must move quickly as the floor will drop away beneath your feet (if you fall into the lava, use the staircase in the north-east corner of the pool to get back to the tower). The tower door will open as you leap towards it; go inside and take the stairs down to a platform that will carry you up to a switch, flip it then go back up the stairs to the very top and leap south to a second tower (you will land on an invisible platform). Go up the steps inside this second tower and push past some lost souls to reach the yellow skull key.

Backtrack across the bridge to the building where you found the red key. Head north up some stairs and open the red key door at the top then drop into the room below with some imps; you will see a ceiling open to reveal a platform with a rocket launcher. There are two skull switches on the east wall; press each switch five times to raise two metal pillars leading up to the platform (do not press the switches any more than this, or you can make the platform and the normal exit unreachable) then leave the room by the north-east door and go round to the staircase again. Climb up it, go through the red door and step across the pillars you just raised to reach the rocket launcher, then press the gargoyle switch to open part of the east wall. Run through this opening to land on a wooden platform (you will also trigger secret #5 in the process).

Turn right and step down to a ledge, then head up some stairs past imps and two barons of Hell to a door. Go through the door and follow the path north and west past various monsters and lots of barrels to a door requiring the red key, open it and continue following the path north-west (collecting a chaingun on the way) until you reach an area with vines and three red columns (which is secret #7). Press the skull switch on the middle column to open a wall behind you and reveal an exit door (secret #8), then press the gargoyle switch behind this door to move on to E3M5: Forgotten Caverns.

Secret exit
The secret exit in this level is easier to find than the normal exit, but will cause you to skip a couple of levels. After getting the yellow key, head back across the bridge and go through the yellow key door on the other side then follow a trail of candles to a white teleporter guarded by lost souls, barons and a cacodemon. Step on the teleporter to go to E3M9: Lake of Fire.

Other points of interest
North-east of the building containing the rocket launcher is a water pool containing a plasma gun under a pentagram-shaped light. When you step in the pool the walls around the weapon will rise; once they stop moving, press on them to lower the walls again and reveal several ledges with monsters. Do not stand on the rising walls for too long or you will be crushed against the ceiling.

The south-west tower on the bridge contains a partial invisibility, while the north-east tower contains a supercharge.

Secrets

 * 1) Just north-west of the pit with the health bonuses, press on the bloody rock wall guarded by a baron of Hell to reveal a passage of rockets leading to an invulnerability. This counts as three secrets. (sector 197)
 * 2) See secret #1. (sector 380)
 * 3) See secret #1. (sector 381)
 * 4) In the central building requiring the red key, there is an indented red wall to the south-west. Open it, then press the nearby gargoyle switch. Run back outside and to the west side through the open door. You will be in the lava, so press the switch here to lower the lift on either side. Go on the lift and look to the north, where you will see an opening leading to a teleporter. This takes you to the secret, but watch out when you press the switch as two barons and two imps attack you alongside a lot of barrels. There is a box of shotgun shells on this block as well. (sector 217)
 * 5) In the central building requiring the red key, the two skull switches on the east wall raise up two small beams slowly with each press. Raise the two beams so that the switch and the rocket launcher can be accessed. Be careful with the second beam, because while you can actually lower the first beam by pressing on it or the second beam, you cannot do the same with the second, so if you screw up raising the beams, you can permanently miss this secret. When you get to the rocket launcher, the switch here raises the ceiling and reveals an opening if you look east. Jump to the opening and jump across to the next building to reach the secret. (sector 219)
 * 6) From secret #5, get onto the wooden walkway and then get into the water near the steps. Go all the way north to find a berserk pack. (sector 382)
 * 7) From secret #5, get onto the wooden walkway and then up the steps. Open the next door, and keep going around the plasma gun area to where the red door is (make sure you have the red key). When you open the red door, the next door on the walkway also opens, so run to it before it closes to reach an area with energy cells and a switch. (sector 245)
 * 8) The switch in secret #7 opens the wall behind you, revealing a yellow door which leads to the normal exit (though due to the way this episode was constructed, this exit is actually a secret exit, while the actual secret exit is more of a normal exit). (sector 363)

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

Miscellaneous demos
This information was last verified in its entirety on August 13, 2021.

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