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This level occupies the map slot MAP06. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP06.

MAP06: Baron's Lair is the sixth map of The Plutonia Experiment. It was designed by Dario Casali and uses the music track "Sign of Evil" from Doom.

Walkthrough

Map of Baron's Lair

Letters in italics refer to marked spots on the map. Sector, thing, and linedef numbers in boldface are secrets which count toward the end-of-level tally.

Essentials

First go to the western door (black flagged), open it and kill the teleporting revenants, there is good stuff at left or right if you want it. Go down through the stairs to the small arena, press the metal switch, it will open two doors at your left and right with arachnotrons. At the northern trap there is a door, at the opposite direction of the door is a switch, clicking it will open the door. Go up through the stairs and take the red key, step over one of the teleporters and get back to the lair.

Go to the north-east door (red flagged) and open it, you are forced to fire the barrels creating a sound for hidden monsters which will teleport. Shoot the barrels around the blue key and take it, go back to the lair.

Go to the south-east door (blue flagged), and press the switch, revealing demons and revenants. After dealing with or ignoring them, go to the edge of the room, and press the two switches, one opens the door you came from, and another opens the last door.

Go to the eastern door of the lair and go up through the stairs, on the left there is a computer switch, clicking it will reveal revenants. Where they came from there is another switch, clicking it will reveal the other side with a cyberdemon.

To kill the cyberdemon, go up the stairs and to the side; its rockets hit the walls. To open the exit, flip the switch where the cyberdemon started, then the two platforms in the middle of the room lower. You have to flip both to open both exit doors. After flipping go to the stairs and finish the first part of the game!

Other points of interest

If you walk under the skull cube at the start of the level, a super shotgun, chaingun, rocket launcher, and plasma gun will appear in your inventory. In a cooperative multiplayer game, an extra plasma gun will be underneath the cube, and the weapons will be given to all four players if one player goes under it (unless in altdeath mode).

Secrets

Behind the black-flagged door, drop into the brown slime pit and flip the switch. This lowers the wall on either side. There is a switch on the northern side that opens a nearby door. Don't go through it just yet; instead, cross over to the south side where a second door will have unlocked. It leads to a soul sphere. (sector 144)
After getting the red skull key, return to the starting platform (under the floating skull cube). One of the nearby pillars will have lowered, revealing a switch. Flip it to lower a secret room in the northwest corner of the lower tier. (sector 198)
Behind the red-flagged door is a room with many barrels. In the southeast corner of the room is a bank of computers in the wall. Shoot it to reveal some rockets in this secret area. (sector 70)
Exactly the same as secret #3, but in the southwest corner of the room. (sector 75)
Like secret #2, retrieving the blue skull key opens a pillar on the starting platform. This second switch lowers another secret area in the southeast corner of the lower tier. (sector 174)
Behind the blue-flagged door is a fountain with a berserk pack resting atop it. Lower the waterfall part like a lift to reach the powerup. (sector 160)

Areas / screenshots

Start of the map.
Got the red key.
Before the Cyberdemon.

Speedrunning

Routes and tricks

Current records

The Compet-n records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File
UV speed	01:04	Jim Leonard (Xit Vono)	2002-09-25	pl06-104.zip
NM speed	01:05	Jim Leonard (Xit Vono)	2006-01-28	pn06-105.zip
UV max	02:43	Drew DeVore (stx-Vile)	2002-05-10	pl06-243.zip
NM100S	01:28	Jim Leonard (Xit Vono)	2006-01-27	ps06-128.zip
UV -fast	03:42	Kai-Uwe Humpert	1997-01-03	plt06-gm.zip
UV -respawn	03:41	Jim Leonard (Xit Vono)	2002-05-07	pr06-341.zip
UV Tyson	25:48	Jim Leonard (Xit Vono)	2002-04-04	pt062548.zip
UV pacifist	01:08	Jim Leonard (Xit Vono)	2008-02-20	pp06-108.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on December 31, 2012.

Statistics

Map data

Things	344
Vertices	1228*
Linedefs	1402
Sidedefs	846
Sectors	225

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 1101.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	2
Heavy weapon dude	8
Imp	7	7	1
Demon	8
Spectre	4
Revenant	8	13	17
Cacodemon	2	2	3
Pain elemental	1	3	3
Hell knight	4	0	6
Arachnotron	0	3	5
Mancubus	1	2	2
Cyberdemon	1
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Super shotgun	1
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	2
4 shotgun shells	3
Box of shotgun shells	10
Rocket	26
Box of rockets	16
Energy cell	6
Energy cell pack	3
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Medikit	17
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Supercharge	1
Megasphere	1
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue skull key	1
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Exploding barrel	57
Teleport landing	4
Voodoo doll	4

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	2
Heavy weapon dude	8
Imp	10	10	1
Demon	8
Spectre	4
Revenant	13	18	22
Cacodemon	3	3	4
Pain elemental	2	4	4
Hell knight	6	0	9
Arachnotron	0	4	6
Mancubus	1	2	2
Cyberdemon	1
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	3
Chaingun	2
Rocket launcher	2
Plasma gun	2
BFG9000	2
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	2
4 shotgun shells	3
Box of shotgun shells	15
Rocket	34
Box of rockets	27
Energy cell	14
Energy cell pack	4
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	1
Medikit	17
Megaarmor	1
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Supercharge	1
Megasphere	1
Backpack	2
Berserk	1
Computer area map	1
Invulnerability	1	0	0
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Blue skull key	1
Red skull key	2
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Deathmatch start	9
Exploding barrel	57
Teleport landing	4
Voodoo doll	4

Technical information

This level uses a voodoo doll effect to make several weapons magically appear in the player(s)' inventory at the start of the level. When a player walks under the skull cube, the cube's linedefs (277-280) activate an off-screen elevator (sector 59) which drops vooodoo dolls of all four players, standing right on the edge of the platform, onto a pile of weapons exactly 20 units (4 units more than the items' hitbox height) underneath them. This causes the dolls to collect the weapons, which are then given to the real players as if they had picked them up themselves.

Trivia

Despite its name suggesting otherwise, this level contains no barons.

External links

MAP06 demos from the Compet-n database: UV speed • NM speed • UV max • NM100S • UV -fast • UV -respawn • UV Tyson • UV pacifist
MAP06 demos (archived 🏛) at the Doomed Speed Demos Archive

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 ===Other points of interest===
-If you walk under the skull cube at the start of the level to obtain the [[plasma gun]], a [[super shotgun]], [[chaingun]], [[rocket launcher]], and extra plasma gun will appear in your inventory. In a cooperative multiplayer game, these weapons will be given to all four players if one player does this (unless in [[altdeath]] mode).
+If you walk under the skull cube at the start of the level, a [[super shotgun]], [[chaingun]], [[rocket launcher]], and [[plasma gun]] will appear in your inventory. In a cooperative multiplayer game, an extra plasma gun will be underneath the cube, and the weapons will be given to all four players if one player goes under it (unless in [[altdeath]] mode).
 ===Secrets===