MAP31: DejaVu (Memento Mori II)

This level occupies the map slot MAP31. For other maps which occupy this slot, see Category:MAP31.

MAP31: DejaVu is the secret level of Memento Mori II. It was designed by Orin Flaharty and uses the music track "Bavor The Mad" by Mark Klem. The title name comes from the French expression "deja vu", the psychological sensation that you are repeating a situation already seen or witnessed in life. Deja Vu is designed in a techbase style reminiscent of Doom's Knee-Deep in the Dead, hence its title, which comes from the French expression "deja vu", the psychological sensation that you are repeating a situation already seen or witnessed in life.

Walkthrough

Map of MAP31

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

Secrets

1. At the beginning of the level, a section of the eastern wall is misaligned. Open it to find a stairway leading to a room (sector 57) with eight health bonuses, a stimpack, a shotgun, a clip and a blue armor.
2. In the eastern hallways accessed by the first switch, press upon the wall west of the northern light in the southern hallway to find a secret room (sector 55) with nine health bonuses and a berserk pack.
3. After going through the blue keycard door, open the wall in the northern inset to find a secret hallway (sector 144). Use the elevator to reach a room with a trooper, two (one on easy skills) sergeants, (a demon on hard skills,) four rockets and two stimpacks.
4. Open the northern wall of the secret hallway from secret #3 to access the outdoors area to the north. Go to the southernmost window (eastsoutheast of secret #1). There is a misaligned texture on the eastern wall. Open it to find a soul sphere (sector 170).
5. In the red keycard room, there is an arrow made of armor bonuses pointing at a computer panel. Press on it, and the mainframes to the east will lower to reveal secret compartments. The north and south compartments both contain a few monsters and each a stimpack; the central one (sector 224) contains two rockets and a rocket launcher and counts as secret.
6. Once you enter the southern computer room with the glowing lights (north of the yellow keycard), head into the inset to the northeast and you will find a lone barrel in front of a computer panel to the east. Destroy it and open the panel behind to find a computer map (sector 222).
7. From secret #6 backtrack your way to a room with four holes in the ceiling. Go west, upon entering another room with similar holes in the ceiling, run northwards to the elevator's east to find that a door has opened to reveal a nukage pool. Cross the pool and you will find a stimpack and a platform (sector 169) with eight armor bonuses, a backpack, a light amplification visor and a door. Enter this door to find another door that requires a yellow keycard. After grabbing the yellow keycard, return to this area and open the door to find a hallway leading to an exit switch that takes you to the super secret level, MAP32: Dances with Demons.

Bugs

• On hard skills it is only possible to obtain 99% kills in this level, as one imp (thing 349) contained in one of the inaccessible monster storages (sector 252) (which store monsters for teleportation into the level) is glued to a barrel (thing 383) occupying the same space. Whether this was intentional or not is unknown.

Speedrunning

Current records

The Compet-N records for the map are:

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
UV speed	00:53	Radek Pecka	2002-11-27	m231s053.zip
NM speed	01:44	Radek Pecka	2002-11-29	m231n144.zip
UV max	04:45	Anthony Soto	2003-06-03	m231-445.zip
NM100S
UV -fast
UV -respawn
UV Tyson	08:33	Anthony Soto	2003-02-24	m231t833.zip
UV pacifist	01:03	Radek Pecka	2002-11-28	m231p103.zip

Miscellaneous demos

Run	Time	Player	Date	File	Notes
				.zip

Statistics

Map data

Things	551
Vertexes	1296
Linedefs	1583
Sidedefs	2088
Sectors	278

Things

Monsters	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Barons of Hell	1	1	1
Demons	18	24	35
Imps	39	68	86
Sergeants	31	54	79
Spectres	3	4	6
Troopers	17	23	27
Powerups	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Armor bonuses	35	35	35
Backpacks	1	1	1
Berserk packs	1	1	1
Blue armors	1	1	1
Computer maps	1	1	1
Green armors	2	2	2
Health bonuses	55	55	55
Invisibilities	1	1	1
Invulnerabilities	1	1	1
Light goggles	1	1	1
Medikits	4	4	5
Radiation suits	1	1	1
Soul Spheres	1	1	1
Stimpacks	24	24	26
Weapons	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Chainsaws	1	1	1
Shotguns	2	2	2
Chainguns	1	1	1
Rocket launchers	2	2	2
Plasma rifles	1	1	1
Ammunition	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Ammo clips	1	1	1
Bullet boxes	7	8	8
Shells	9	11	11
Shell boxes	4	4	6
Rockets	7	7	7
Keys	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Blue cards	1	1	1
Red cards	1	1	1
Yellow cards	1	1	1
Barrels	ITYTD and HNTR	HMP	UV and NM
Exploding barrels	15	15	15

Trivia

Unlike another level from Memento Mori II designed in Knee-Deep in the Dead style, MAP24: Io Lab, this level features only Doom monsters. In fact, in DejaVu there is even more restraint than in MAP08: And the Dead Shall Rise from Memento Mori, also designed by Orin Flaharty, as lost souls and cacodemons are also missing. This means that in this secret level the player can only encounter monsters from Knee-Deep in the Dead. Regarding weapons and equipment, the design is slightly less consistent: megaspheres or super shotguns (from Doom II) are absent, but the player can collect a plasma rifle or an invulnerability sphere (present in Doom, but not in its first episode).

External links

• Memento Mori II demos from the Compet-N database