E1M9: Haunted Hospital (Strange Aeons)

Strange Aeons maps
The Shattered City E1M1: The Traveler E1M2: Resident Evil E1M3: Shooting Range E1M4: Cowboys and Indians E1M5: Highly Terminal E1M6: Island Hopping E1M7: Halls of Madness E1M8: Deathedral E1M9: Haunted Hospital
The Stagnant Fortress M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
The Land That Time Forgot M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
The Plateau of Leng M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
Out of the Aeons M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9

This level occupies the map slot E1M9. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E1M9.

E1M9: Haunted Hospital is the ninth and secret map in episode The Shattered City of Strange Aeons. It was designed by Mike MacDee (Impie) and uses a music track from System Shock 2. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 2:45.

Walkthrough

Map of Haunted Hospital

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

The three locked doors are accessible from the lobby (your starting point). Beyond the blue door to the far right is the exit slipgate.

North of the lobby is the patients' ward, where you will find the yellow keycard on a bed behind a drawn curtain. Resistance is surprisingly minimal in the hospital: a handful of gunmen with a few Devils outside the windows. Things take a turn for the hellish once you step through the yellow door to the front office, however.

The hospital has changed to a ghastly version of itself: everything is furnished with gore, and Nightmares and Death Incarnates now roam the halls. In this hellish dimension's patient ward you must find the red key and access the surgery room across the hall from the front office, where the blue key is hidden.

Once you step through the blue door, you are suddenly back in the normal hospital, but now the doors randomly open and close as if possessed. Loot the previously inaccessible areas and run to the exit.

Secrets

1. Episode 1's Yithian Lightning Gun can be acquired on this level. When you enter the hellish version of the hospital, turn around and examine the message board to open a wormhole in the opposite wall. Quickly jump through before it closes: you'll be teleported to an eerie alien cavern filled with Leng Spiders, which watch you ominously from the ledges above. The Yithian gun rests on a pile of rocks in the middle of the underground pond. (sector 386)
2. Examine the same message board in the normal hospital for a cache of hidden goodies. (sector 108)

Areas / screenshots

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  You may have to donate some blood...someone else's.

Speedrunning

Current records

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

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed
NM speed
UV max
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist

The (absence of) data was last verified in its entirety on June 29, 2022.

Statistics

Map data

Things	347
Vertices	1738
Linedefs	2133
Sidedefs	3305
Sectors	393

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Machine gun maniac	8	8	8	0	0	8	8	8
Man from Leng	10	10	10	21	21	21	21	21
Devil	1	1	5	5	5	5	5	5
Nightmare	19	19	21	26	26	26	26	26
Flayworm	0	0	0	1	1	1	1	1
Death incarnate	3	3	3	6	6	6	6	6
Demon wizard	2
Weapons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Yithian lightning gun	1
Ammunition	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Clip	5
Box of bullets	4
4 shotgun shells	4	4	4	6	6	6	6	6
Box of shotgun shells	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	1
Health & Armor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Stimpack	7
Medikit	4	4	4	3	3	4	4	4
Armor	1
Megaarmor	1
Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Armor bonus	21
Health bonus	31
Supercharge	3
Backpack	1
Berserk	1
Light amplification visor	1
Ammo sphere	1
Rage sphere	1
Keys	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Blue keycard	1
Red keycard	1
Yellow keycard	1
Miscellaneous	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Teleport landing	5