E2M1: Beast Depot (Strange Aeons)

Strange Aeons maps
The Shattered City M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 M9
The Stagnant Fortress E2M1: Beast Depot E2M2: Power Station E2M3: Ore Devourer E2M4: The Marrow Engine E2M5: Juggernaut E2M6: Eldritch Research E2M7: Underworld Gate E2M8: Siege of Pnath E2M9: Petting Zoo
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 E2M1. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:E2M1.

E2M1: Beast Depot is the first map in episode The Stagnant Fortress of Strange Aeons. It was designed by Mike MacDee (Impie) and uses the music track "Hydro 2" from System Shock 2. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 1:30.

Walkthrough

Map of Beast Depot

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

Two aisles of monster containers lead to a set of large, metal doors that only open by switch; beyond the doors, an alarm blares endlessly. Making any noise will cause a flayworm to burst through the side door and attack. After clearing out all the gunmen in the base, follow the left wall from the entrance to the yellow keycard and use it to access the observation booth up the main hallway.

The booth has three switches. Flip the left and right switches first and release the ghoul and flayworms from their cages. Help the ghoul kill the monsters, then flip the middle switch to open the door to the arena; the ghoul should wipe out the men from Leng who come charging in. Go into the arena and grab the red keycard.

A pack of flayworms will ambush you on your way to the red door switch. Open the red door, kill the flayworms beyond, and grab the blue keycard. Beyond the blue door is the exit slipgate.

Other points of interest

Beware the chasm by the exit slipgate: falling in means instant death.

Secrets

1. Before leaving your house, open the bedroom door to your left and grab the blue armor. (sector 194)
2. When the flayworm opens the side door in the creature containment room (at the beginning of the map), walk through and enter the ventilation grate on the left: it hides another blue armor. (sector 77)

Areas / screenshots

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  The Traveler's first view of The Shattered City.

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	186
Vertices	864
Linedefs	1040
Sidedefs	1546
Sectors	196

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Man from Leng	4	4	7	15	15	15	15	15
Devil	0	0	0	4	4	4	4	4
Flayworm	6	6	8	16	16	17	17	17
Ghoul	1
Weapons	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Shotgun	1
AK47 assault rifle	1
Ammunition	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Clip	6
Box of bullets	1
4 shotgun shells	5
Health & Armor	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Stimpack	0	0	0	2	2	2	2	2
Medikit	3	3	2	1	1	3	3	3
Megaarmor	2
Items	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Armor bonus	12
Health bonus	13
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	7

Inspiration and development

The Beast Depot was another of the original map concepts from Impie's crude 1995 design document. The player would begin exploration of a new "mad science" environment featuring monsters kept in glass tubes.

The protagonist of The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath also allied himself with Underworld Ghouls during his journey.