MAP26: Excoriation (Requiem)

MAP26: Excoriation is the twenty-sixth map of Requiem. It was designed by Adam Windsor, and uses the music track "The Rhythm of Carnage" by David Shaw. It is the smallest and shortest level in the megawad.

Description
According to both the text file and the Requiem info pack:


 * A nightmare of frantic combat. You remember violent flashes of naked fear ... the red-hot barrels of your shotgun burning your hands ... you remember laughing in the carnage.

Essentials
In this very small map, you just need to get the red skull key sitting in the northeast corner of the map, and then open the red door to the west to reach the exit. There are plenty of monsters present though.

Secrets

 * 1) In the room immediately following the first door, there is a lion face in the northwest corner.  Push it to find security armor. (sector 9)

Current Compet-n records
The Compet-n records for the map are:

The data was last verified in its entirety on July 6, 2020.

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

The data was last verified in its entirety on April 3, 2022.

Player spawns
This level contains seven spawn points:
 * 1) facing east. (thing 30)
 * 2) facing east. (thing 78)
 * 3) facing south-east. (thing 79)
 * 4) facing east. (thing 80)
 * 5) facing north-west. (thing 81)
 * 6) facing south-west. (thing 82)
 * 7) facing north-west. (thing 83)

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

Inspiration and development
This level was originally meant to be MAP27 of the sixth part of Demonfear, Demonfear 6: The Heart, which was intended to come out in 1996 but was never released. Windsor would eventually create an entirely different "Demonfear 6" in 1999, and he compiled the whole series into one megawad a year later.

This level was intended to be MAP25: Chaos Zone. However, the levels were switched around during compilation and the level titles were not swapped with them.