MAP21: Asmodeus' Circle (Plutonia: Revisited Community Project)

PRCP maps 21-30
MAP21: Asmodeus' Circle MAP22: Suicide Mission MAP23: Necrogenesis MAP24: Terra Incognita MAP25: Wicked Garden MAP26: Poison Ivy III MAP27: Planned Overload MAP28: Dance with the Devil MAP29: Atlatl MAP30: In the Eye of the Beholder
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 (21 - 30) Secret maps: 31 32

This level occupies the map slot MAP21. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP21.

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MAP21: Asmodeus' Circle is the twenty-first level of Plutonia: Revisited Community Project. It was designed by Keeper of Jericho and Przemysław Woda (Belial), and uses "Read Me While Listening to This" from Doom II, composed by Robert Prince, as its music track. The par time defined in MAPINFO is 4:00.

Walkthrough

Map of Asmodeus' Circle

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.

Secrets

1. As you leave the cage you start the map in, push the wall under the large unlit skull to your left to lower the pillar with the megasphere on it in front of you behind the fence. Drop down into the southwestern blood pool later to grab it. You have to step on the pillar's center (sector 51) to register the secret.
2. From the map's central circle, take the western route. Behind the bridge with the 16 armor bonuses, push the wall under the unlit skull on the western wall to open a niche with a BFG9000 in it. (sector 10)

Bugs

• In vanilla Doom, the visplane overflow can occur on this map.
• Opening the door (sector 108) on the eastern route to release the monster behind it (thing 140: mancubus on easy skill levels or thing 137: cyberdemon on medium and hard skills), not killing it and continuing the map may result in keeping some enemies trapped forever: Using the switches with the linedef tags 3, 4 and 5 let several enemies teleport to several locations. If the sector 15, 16 or 17 is occupied by the aforementioned monster at the moment when the enemy tries to teleport it, it will never be teleported since the corresponding linedef action is 125 W1 Teleport (Monsters only). The teleportation only works if the enemy crosses the linedef for the very first time and if no monster is on the target sector.

Because of the high probability that some of the arch-viles will resurrect some monsters, the kill count may exceed 100% anyway on most source ports, but after killing any enemy on the map and standing in front of the exit, one may hear several monsters grunting. Using the iddt cheat shows the remaining monsters moving around in their starting places, unable to teleport in.

To avoid this, try to kill any monster as soon as possible before using any switch.

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	8:32.37	Zahid	2012-05-14	pv21-832.zip
NM 100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson
UV pacifist
NoMo	0:46.91	Aleksey Kamenev (4shockblast)	2013-08-12	prcpnomo.zip

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

Deathmatch

Player spawns

This level contains four spawn points:

1. facing south. (thing 66)
2. facing north. (thing 338)
3. facing east. (thing 339)
4. facing west. (thing 340)

Statistics

Map data

Things	472
Vertices	1944*
Linedefs	2075
Sidedefs	2915
Sectors	153

* The vertex count without the effect of node building is 1783.

Things

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

Single-player
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	14	10	8
Heavy weapon dude	4	10	12
Imp	5	7	11
Spectre	12	24	36
Revenant	12	18	22
Cacodemon	11
Pain elemental	1	5	5
Hell knight	4
Baron of Hell	4	8	12
Arachnotron	2	3	4
Mancubus	8	7	6
Arch-vile	8
Cyberdemon	0	1	2
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	2
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	9
4 shotgun shells	2
Box of shotgun shells	13
Box of rockets	14
Energy cell pack	10
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	7
Medikit	4
Armor	2
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	16
Health bonus	9
Megasphere	2
Backpack	4
Radiation shielding suit	3
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Teleport landing	22

Multiplayer
Monsters	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun guy	14	10	8
Heavy weapon dude	4	10	12
Imp	5	7	11
Spectre	12	24	36
Revenant	22	28	32
Cacodemon	19
Pain elemental	3	15	15
Hell knight	4
Baron of Hell	4	8	12
Arachnotron	2	3	4
Mancubus	12	11	10
Arch-vile	8
Cyberdemon	0	1	2
Weapons	1-2	3	4-5
Shotgun	1
Super shotgun	2
Chaingun	1
Rocket launcher	1
Plasma gun	1
BFG9000	1
Ammunition	1-2	3	4-5
Box of bullets	14
4 shotgun shells	2
Box of shotgun shells	18
Box of rockets	21
Energy cell pack	15
Health & Armor	1-2	3	4-5
Stimpack	25
Medikit	18
Armor	6
Megaarmor	2
Items	1-2	3	4-5
Armor bonus	16
Health bonus	9
Supercharge	3
Megasphere	2
Backpack	4
Radiation shielding suit	31
Keys	1-2	3	4-5
Red skull key	1
Miscellaneous	1-2	3	4-5
Cooperative start	4
Deathmatch start	4
Teleport landing	22

Inspiration and development

This level was inspired by Slayer from Plutonia. It was constructed in a couple of weeks, using Doom Builder.

External links

• Plutonia: Revisited Community Project demos at the Doom Speed Demo Archive