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		      The DOOM Honorific Titles
		Created by Frank Stajano on 1994 05 01

Phidias N. Bourlas conquers the title of Doom 2 Grand Master.

Exam file name		: d2gm-pnb.zip
Title conquered		: Doom 2 Grand Master
Author			: Phidias N. Bourlas
Completion date		: 1995 05 16
Game and version used	: Doom II v. 1.9

Log entry		:
CHAL: D2GM PNB Phidias N. Bourlas (DM)    01 14 06  FLR-RRR-FFF
    :          Phidias Bourlas <phib@danaos.dsclab.ece.ntua.gr>

Substitutions?		: NO
Additions to the base	: MAP28 (hard)
System used		: Am386DX40 processor, 4M RAM,
			  CL-GD5422 graphics card (ISA), SBPro sound card
Controls used		: Standard keyboard only
Free interpretation	: MAP32 uv-fast, shotgunning the Cyb. without hiding

Comments		:

lmp	 level skill kills secrets items health armor time  par
-------- ----- ----- ----- ------- ----- ------ ----- ----- ----
map01-uv MAP01 uv,f. 100%   100%   100%   108%	101%   5:03 0:30
map14-uv MAP14 uv,f. 102%     0%   100%    63%	  0%  15:37 2:30
map06-uv MAP06 uv,f. 100%   100%   100%   100%	107%  19:49 2:30

map28-uv MAP28 uv,f. 100%    85%   100%   172%    8%  23:50 7:00

free	 MAP32 uv,f. 100%    66%   100%   177%   177%  4:03 0:30

   MAP01 is not so easy as it seems. Killing fast imps with the pistol,
arrghhh... Face-to-face fight is death; hide behind the corner, if you want
to stay alive. I completed the level with the maximum possible health & armor.
   MAP14 was the hardest of my assigned levels. J. Makaiwi (D2GM JRM), who
added it to the base, says: "Level 14 (my out-of-base level) is a medium
difficulty. There is plenty of ammo and not a lot of places where you get into
hand-to-hand combat (which is what makes a -fast level hard -- for me)."
I disagree, it's rather hard. Fast makes it hard when you have to fight with
many monsters simultaneously, and that's the case here. Moreover, imps and
humans are hard when fast; big monsters are the same (arachnotrons, archvils,
etc.) Chaingunners are death. Took me about 50 tries; at last I found the right
strategy.
   MAP06 is medium, if not easy, but surely not hard. I completed the level
easily, without very good playing, to say the truth. I do the dance waiting
the spiderdemon to be crushed.
   MAP28 is my out-of-base level. I knew well this level from my D2M and D2I
exams, so I picked it up, though it's rather hard. There is plenty of ammo,
weapons and power-ups, but if you don't know what to do, you are dead (in hell,
of course). Took me about 50 tries. I left the NE room (5 columns, mancubi,
revenants, lost souls, 3 secret rooms) for the end, in order to have big
weapons and 200% health-armor when entering; but I almost got killed. I was so
terrified that I forgot to pick the 4 backpacks (after killing the revenant),
so I got only 85% secrets. At the end I heared something but I found anything
(it's a lost soul launched outside). By the way, I hate pain elementals; when
fast, they shoot skulls with the frequency of a chaingun shooting bullets.
(I exaggerate, but if I hadn't the plasma gun...)
   Since I have no good ideas for free lmps, here is MAP32 again, as in my D2M
and D2I exams. (The usual level for everyone who wants demonstrate his anti-
cyberdemon skills.) Of course I have something different here. J. Makaiwi gave
me the idea of cyberdemon shotgunning. As a keyboard-player, I cannot do circle-
shooting so well, but in my D2M free lmp I showed that I'm not afraid of
cyberdemon rockets. I fought him face-to-face, without hiding behind the corner
even once! I used shotgun, rocket launcher and chaingun (without having
invulnerability of course). And now I do the same thing on uv-fast! It's not
easy because the cyberdemon doesn't stop shooting when fast.

   D2GM is my 9th DHT4/5 title (D*M,D*SG,D*GM,D*I,D1T) and possibly the last
one. (I don't think there will be another D2T, except J. Hoof, and the only
other possible title is perhaps the Epic D2L - but rather J. Hoof is the one
going to conquer this too. :-) ) So, what remains on me after all this? The
pride of having conquered these titles, some nightmares with horrible, but
cute - after all - monsters, and, above all, the memories of so many exciting
doomish moments.
   Happy dooming to all! (Aaarrghhh, bam - boom, aaarrghhh!...)

P.S. I want a Pentium! (386-aarghhh...)

Author info		: Born on 27 Nov. 1970 in Athens, Greece.
			  Electrical & Computer Engineer.
			  (National Technical University of Athens)
			  Doom Master (DHT3 title)
			  Doom 1 Master
			  Doom 1 Speedy Gonzales
			  Doom 1 Grand Master
			  Doom 1 Incubus
			  Doom 1 Tyson
			  Doom 2 Master
			  Doom 2 Speedy Gonzales
			  Doom 2 Incubus
			  and now, Doom 2 Grand Master
			  Author of lmp_v19.zip (lmp collection of all 27
			  levels of Doom v. 1.9 (ultra-violent, 100% kills,
			  100% secrets, max health, max armor)).
			  e-mail: phib@danaos.ntua.gr, phib@theseas.ntua.gr
