DBP51: Deadly Ritual

DBP51: Deadly Ritual
Authors	Doomer Boards community
Port	Limit-removing
IWAD	Doom II
Year	2022
Link	Doomworld/idgames

Deadly Ritual is a twelve-level episode WAD for Doom II designed for limit removing source ports created by various members of the Doomer Boards community, led by Jon Vail (40oz). It was released on the Doomer Boards forums and the Doomworld forums on September 1, 2022 and is the fifty-first entry in the ongoing Doomer Boards Projects. The mapset features a Mesoamerican theme.

Content

Levels

• MAP01: Coastal Conflict by Jon Vail (40oz)
• MAP02: Deep Dorado by Redead-ITA
• MAP03: Battle Rock by 40oz
• MAP04: Ash Wine by Sergey Burow (SilverMiner)
• MAP05: The Cacotomb by 40oz
• MAP06: Kukulkan's Wrath by shibainumaster
• MAP07: The Terrifying Tale of Thela Hun Ginjeet by Rancid Sam
• MAP08: Okutaua's Rising by 40oz
• MAP09: Inhuman Sacrifice by noisomedead
• MAP10: Legacy of Violence by Sonny666
• MAP11: The Offering by BiZ
• MAP12: Deadly Ritual by 40oz

Soundtrack

• MAP01: MAP06 from The Journey
• MAP02: D_INFINI from Sabbat Martyr Deathmatch
• MAP03: MIDI rendition of "Swerve" by Hiromi Shibano, from Klonoa 2
• MAP04: "Lordly Might" by Mark Klem, from Requiem
• MAP05: MAP16 from The Journey
• MAP06: "Excess Meat" by Sam Woodman (Metabolist), from Hell Revealed II
• MAP07: MIDI rendition of "Frame by Frame" by King Crimson
• MAP08: MIDI rendition of "Tallon Overworld 2" from Metroid Prime
• MAP09: MIDI rendition of "Cellar" from Super Castlevania IV
• MAP10: "51" by Sonny666
• MAP11: "Schala's Theme" (Deadly Ritual Mix) by Yasunori Mitsuda, from Chrono Trigger
• MAP12: MAP07 music from Hellfire 2

• Title screen: Briefing theme from Descent
• Intermission: "Stage Clear" from Streets of Rage
• Text screen: MIDI rendition of "The X-Files" by Mark Snow

Built-in demos

This WAD features three built-in demos. All require Doom II v1.9 to view them. The demo levels are:

Demo	Level	Skill	Tics	Length
DEMO1	MAP02: Deep Dorado	4	2032	0:58.06
DEMO2	MAP10: Legacy of Violence	4	2351	1:07.17
DEMO3	MAP08: Okutaua's Rising	4	1893	0:54.09

Speedrunning

Current records

The DSDA episode records for DBP51: Deadly Ritual are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV max run	53:52	Blake Collins (Rayziik)	2023-03-05	dbp51ALLm5352.zip

The data was last verified in its entirety on April 13, 2023.

Trivia

• The Mesoamerican design on the cover of Toxic Narcotic's 2002 album, We're All Doomed, was made into a texture in the WAD, at the suggestion of Kontra Kommando.

External links

• DBP51: Deadly Ritual at Doomworld/idgames
• Doomer Boards release thread
• Doomworld forums thread
• DBP51: Deadly Ritual at the Doom Speed Demo Archive