"So cold is it, when I see the beast, the Chimeara of the snow. It beckons me as I try to flee, but my legs are numbed by the frost. It makes a sound now, a sound that shall haunt my soul forever...."

"......And I cannot stop screaming......"

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Map name: DM-Chimeara
Author: Will-"Mr.Prophet"-Drekker
Gametype:Deathmatch
Playerload: 4-8
ConstructionTime: Total of 17 hours spread throughout 1 month
NewFiles: 1 music file (mindtrap), 1 texture file(AbsoluteTex)

Recomended: Best played WITHOUT translocater enabled, with maximum playerload of 10.

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Uses SG-tech and Factory texture packages, you must have the Epic Bonus Pack 4 to run this map.

Installation: Put music file (MindTrap) in music folder, texture file (absolutetex) in texture folder.

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Special Thanx

Hourences   : For beta testing and all his great suggestions. He also sent me the Rune textures used in the map. Your neato dude!

David M  :For beta testing and trying to make me use the richrig pack. He also told me the gameplay sucked and the textures I used are ugly, gotta love this guy.

Goat   : Also Beta Testing and being the first person ever to shoot down one of the flying ships in the skybox, your insane.

Balton   : Also beta tested, thanx alot man.

Teque   : A very talented music artist who composed the music track I used, MindTrap. Check out Traxinspace.com for more of his stuff.

Halo14   : For hacking into my yahoo account and sending ghey spam mail to all my friends using my name, thanx alot Joe.

Frank Shoelton "Die Harder"  : For being the only person in the UT community to E-mail me after the WTC center attack asking if I was ok. Much thanx man, and shame on all the rest of you tards for thinking so little of brother Prophet when his hometown was under attack by ragheads. Ouch baby, very ouch.

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New Files:

Absolute Tex:  This set is composed mainly of textures from ShockSystems maps like ColdSteel, which I converted a little, adding ice detail to each one and placing all my favorite textures into one package. I did this so I wouldn't have to use multiple packs and because I wanted the "ice" detail for each texture. Much thanks to the talents of the shocksytems team.

Additional textures: Additional textures which are included in the MyLevel package are Rune textures given to me Hourences and  a Smiley face glass texture used in Ictus Bruck's "Aberrance Facility". The frost covered barrel texture and frost covered crane textures were taken from the UT game and converted by myself specificly for the map. The Chimeara Painting I got at a Greek Mythology website. 

MindTrap music track: Composed by Teque, who also composed "Domatron", which I used in DM-TimeCrash. For all you guys who e-mailed me about that music track, thank Teque, not me.

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The Making of DM-Chimeara:

                   Right after i released my best looking map to date, DM-TimeCrash, I found that Most people liked the my style of visual construction, but not as many people found the map fun due to lacking gameplay and playablity issues.
                   I started working on Chimeara almost by mistake, I wanted to create a small map after spending so much time on TC and recieving average results. I took one of the larger indoor rooms from TimeCrash and began toying with it, then decided to use it as a base for a smaller map. 
                   Chimeara first began as a 1 on 1, artic themed map using the richrig textures. After15 percent into building, I realized that I did not want to make yet another generic RichRig using map, and sought out textures which I thought could suit the map in a more original way. Of course, I remembered the 'cold' assault maps like ColdSteel and ColdSteel 2, and took several textures from several ShockSystems packs and placed them into one singular file which I named "AbsoluteTex". To finish the textures off, I gave each one a detailed texture addition, making each wall you look at have the appearance of frozen metal when looked close.
                   With textures taken care of, I sought out a music track and turned to the composer Teque, whose other works such as "Domatron" I used in my previous map, TimeCrash. After recieving alot of e-mail praising the track used in that map, I knew I had to make use of another Teque track, and decided on using the song, "Mindtrap". In my opinion, it is much colder and harsher than "Domatron", which is exactly what I wanted for this map.
                   My main goal with Chimeara was to deliver what I couldn't with TimeCrash, a map that was as good with visuals as it was with playability. Of course, this meant that the visuals could not be as advanced as they were in TC, but still brilliant enough to keep the player intrested.

So this is the end result, I'm sure most people will play this and forget about it, hopefully people who liked my earlier maps will be pleased with this. I'm sure there is more i could add to this, but I think I acheived all I wanted to get done with this release. It may not have the visual impressivness of TimeCrash, but at least it can actually be played online. 

ta-ta

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Other maps by author:

DM-UrbanDistortion
DM-AbsoluteZero
DM-Beholder
DM-Splinter of the Mind's Eye
DM-TimeCrash

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"The snow around me turns red, like the bud of a rose. I can feel myself slipping away as I  slowly stagger through the blizzard. I don't know where I'm heading, all i see is the white fog, my face burned by the stinging frost. I cannot feel my feet, for they have long since rotted in the cold. Yet I continue, as the dark fluid continues to flow from my wound. I will outrun the Beast as long as I can, until I can run nomore. I will not let the Chimeara claim his prize alive, like a serpent rejoicing at it's fallen prey, prey which has given up the chase after a single bite. No, the beast will not claim his prize. I am dead already, I have accepted this, I have accepted the fact that I will no longer live to see all that I left behind. But I won't give up, I refuse to die a coward."

"...In this cold lies my fate, the Chimeara gives chase behind me, it's serpent tail thrashing like fire, a single flame within a blizzard, the powerful maw of the lion waiting to strike, and the head of the horned beast......laughing as he gets ever so much closer to me."

"In this cold death, we shall embrace."

"Let us dance."



















































































































-Chimeara-

 

