Welcome, Total Carnage Comrade, to Marathon: Extraction Shooter (You Snost, You Lost). I am xXOIOXx of NEFX.
You are standing in the hub zone of 255 different levels I’ve concocted. Combined with this hub zone, that is the most levels that a single map pack for Aleph One can have. Your mission in each of these levels is simple: Extract as many items as you can for as long as you can against increasingly difficult waves of enemies, picking up the occasional shield capsule that spawns in so that you can survive longer. You can go to any one of these levels that you want, and in any order that you want. Just know that there’s no way out of any of these levels except by death, and the house always wins. And by the house, I mean NEFX. Which consists of me. But you can at least do a better job at collecting and surviving than the next person or the last time you played, and you never run out of tries. You must therefore strive for the best score and time possible, and be sure to record and share the results with everyone. Through these lives you will rise. To reach one of these levels, simply step on the portal in front of the wall that says the level’s name. There are also save terminals right next to all of these portals, so that when you die in a level you can revert back to shortly before you entered it instead of having to travel all the way there again from the start of this hub. Alternately, of course, you can always use the level-jump cheat in the game’s main menu. We do want to ensure that you can march to your doom of your choice as smoothly and efficiently as possible, with little hassle. In addition, each of these levels has its own distinct accompanying music track, as well as a text piece that can be accessed as a terminal from anywhere using the mic key (default ~), for maximum edification. You can test that out in this level — step anywhere in here and press the mic button to read this message. Time in-game stops when you access these terminals too, so all the more reason to peruse them. The works contained bear much relevance to our current time as well as history and the future, and were made in such a way for beings of the far future to find applicable to their own context separate from our own.
Keep in mind that most of the last 200 of these levels (if you proceed from your starting point here in clockwise order) each consist of the same formation of 700 platforms, but that the platform parameters for each of those 200 levels are different, leading to drastically different experiences and outcomes between each level. For example, in some levels the platforms are activated only by the player (you), in some they are activated only by aliens, in some levels they are activated by both, and in some levels they are activated by neither and operate of their own accord in a “piano roll” pattern. In some levels the platforms come from the floor and in others they come from the ceiling. In some levels the platforms are crushers and in some they are not. In some levels the platforms move at the relatively slow default speed and in other levels they move fast. In some levels the platforms only move up a few world units and in others they go to the maximum height possible in the game, meaning the level is very tall. In some levels you are entirely under liquid with the monsters and weapons modified to work under liquid, and in some levels there is no liquid. All of these parameters were recombined in so many ways to create those nearly 200 levels, and in truth there are virtually limitless other ways that such a platform level can be made; but that is a project for another time.
This dimension is vast and plentiful, so take your time getting to know it and get all you can from it. You have the power to craft your own dimensions, and may find something here to draw from in doing so. Such things become important. Living as we are in a longstanding widespread cultural Blightgeist that is so eager to regard its subjects as varying levels of expendable meat-chaff and shovel them into the furnace of depraved thoughtless hyper-punitive techno-theo-plutocratic eugenicide, and only value them either at the point of shoveling or before and after they roam the world instead of during…NEFX is here to offer one of many antidotes and pathways in thought and creation, and a light upon cores beyond the house the suits built. Consider these 256 level-music-text combinations to be a drop in the bucket of that greater collective effort. If I have my way, this is only a primer, a foundation. We are just getting started.
NEFX - Hologbirok.txt ? In particular, one may learn how this path of circumstance in the known world is heavily based in concepts and struggles concerning who shall most benefit from debts or possession of means. ? All this is imposed by the Blightgeistian tentacle in question with the knowledge both of desperation of the payer and their likely long-term inability to summon likewise excess leftover with which to pay the debt. ? Yet pending this realization, agents of imposition within the Blightgeist and in particular its most prominent tentacles (which is to say the more prominent territorialist factions in the known world at present) seek to impose this debt at first for creating leftover excess in exchange and tribute even as is involved in mere visiting to the factions' official boundary from those outside, which is to be paid piecemeal but with an according additional debt, to lead to an ultimately long-term debt in excess of what is nominally issued. ? Such advisors themselves may prove to be prophets, having foreseen much of that which has come to pass both near and far (1980, 2008), and across different spatiotemporal units, particularly from determining how much different parties (generally themselves territorialist factions that are at least provisionally necessary pending the overthrow of them as a concept with the arrival of total Lightform consciousness) are able to ask for in the Blightgeistian system of debt according to how much leftover excess means from an imposer they can in some way exchange for (which measure is provisionally necessary for them but is merely part of a series of steps for the imposer in the pyrrhic aim of total power seizure that is part and parcel of the Blightgeistian thoughtform). ? Such phenomena can even find linkage with ancient attempted teachings concerning the ultimate -- for example, in ancient tomes speaking of often regularly-recurring intervals of relief in which all debts of a certain type heretofore do disappear, in order to level cumulative imbalances of means if not outright conditions throughout the known world. ? Such linkages themselves may face a difficult historical arc of acknowledgment and acceptance, let alone of heedance, despite deep historical root persisting throughout many general phases of the known world and of known sentient consciousness relative to the current world-state being analyzed (2400); but they speak to a perennial terrestrial reality of debts disappearing which simply cannot be met, whose holding to by their imposers spells (and is also seen to spell at different historical points) far greater imposition upon the imposer themselves than could hope to be gained. ? A present configuration of the Blightgeist can be traced in part to the structures and concepts underlying the also-present configuration of means in the world-as-known, the power of those self-appointed for its configuration, and also the nature of the official structure of the world-as-known at present and thus also of the Blightgeist itself -- and one can seek counsel on this truth from those who advised the sometimes top few most prominent official territorialist factions along the way for purposes of provisional necessity rather than necessarily for the purpose of the Blightgeist itself as such factions may serve, carrying understanding of the forces both conscious and unconscious of the shaping and moving of means considering tokens, dwellings, and the tracking and balance of means and debts (1964) as well as debt itself. ? Let all ultimately be aligned and corrected. ? This is part of the reason for the validity of the sustaining of perpetual doom not for the realization of ultimate doom itself, but for the glad subsistence of all beings with Lightform consciousness within the perpetual blast of doom which they have now transcended and yet which also obliterates all Blightgeistian conditions and thoughtforms heretofore, as well as their agents, which at such point have since been transmogrified anyway into the unlimited beings fully corrected over the course of manifestations and aligned with Lightfrom consciousness.
