### ## # # ## ## # ### ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ## # ++ + ++++ + + + + + +++ + + + + + + + + + + # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### ## # # ## ## #### ### ## ## # # # v3.011 / blue THE school is a hell. Everyone knows it. But for you, things are just getting worse... Nobody really understands why you spend your time by the computer... Nobody understands you at all... Nobody even wants to understand you... You are being looked down... You are being mocked... You have no place in their society...You hate them, their selfishness and all... and you wish you'd have the courage to say it aloud.In your school card there is a mentioning : "ASOCIAL." You are really feeling down... depressed... You think about committing suicide, but then you realize it's not what you want to do. You should make the others suffer rather than yourself! That is the real point. Next day, you go to school as usual... As you open the door, many voices with nothing to say strike your ears. That is quite what you expected. Then you see HER. The one you were once interested in, the only one of those fools you wanted to be kind to, and who told all the school of your desperate actions. She just smiles at you with overlook. Then she says: "Hello, Dirty One! How are the fleas today? Why are you gasping? There should be a law against freaks like you that prohibits stinking at school." You hit her. You hit her again, again, again, again, again... Satisfaction... OOPS! You've really made a mistake now. Not considering her miserable life worth anything, but YOUR life... They'll never forgive you THIS... They'll surely get you, they surely will. The punishment will be terrible... But one thing is sure... They'll never get you alive! You will fight! You will kill them all! You will burn the schoolbuilding out of the map as if it never has existed... Who cares if you are right or wrong! It's your destiny... it's your hell... it's your SCHOOL-DOOM! ----Authors---- POCD Insiders: Gotara -Graph -Sound -Some music -E3M1 -Some ideas on E3M8 -Half of E3M9 Gigademon -Graph -Sound -E3M2 -Music Faidros -Some graph -Some sounds -Music -E3M8 -E3M7 -The other half of E3M9 Hangaround Members Jelly -scanning & looking for pictures -beta testing & comments Ostrowsky -Music (you recognize them when you hear! the best ones!) ----Thanks and Greetings---- -Mr. Hill for letting Ostrowsky and Faidros use his MIDI hardware -All the Doom Editor Programmers -ID Software -Matt Groenig (School REALLY is hell!) -Robert M. Pirsig -Teachers (see FAQ for more) ----Technical Information---- Episode and Level # : E3M1, E3M9, E3M7, E3M8, secret level E3M2 Yes, in that order! Single Player : Yes Cooperative 2-4 Player : Yes Deathmatch 2-4 Player : Yes (You might say it's too big but it really isn't.) Difficulty Settings : Yes New Sounds : Yes New Graphics : Yes New Music : Yes Demos Replaced : #2, #3 and #4 (for DOOM version 1.9) Description : E3M1: This level represents a real school- building, "Gymnasium Nilu". (No, it's not a gym, it means something like High School or 6th Form.) The building has four floors, with stairs replaced by teleporters which look like stairs. The point is to kill the teachers and students and drink their beer. Imagine yourself stuffing the teachers with lead, looking for the Blue Key through classrooms filled with hostile students, and attacking the Party Hall during a play. -E3M9: The park has trees, a hanged guy and lots of guys waiting to be hanged. If you have problems, watch the demo for some help. -E3M7: This level, "Gymnasium J-Norssi", is an another school. It's also one of the hugest levels ever made for DOOM (in fact, the largest one we have seen!) There are two floors, filled with classrooms. In addition to the stairs, there's an elevator. There is a lot of switches. Some of them do something, some of them don't. You have to pull two of them, but which two? -E3M8: The only possible end for this adventure: a wakeup in jail with skinheads. You can get out of there, but there are still some surprises waiting for you... -Secret E3M2: Sewer (yes, we have played both Dark Forces and Hexen :). Fully imaginary and dark maze without AutoMap but with lots of ammo: use flame thrower as a radar! Cheaters watch out! Base : New levels, graph, sound & music from scratch Editor(s) used : DOOMCAD 4.3 DMGRAPH, DeuTEX/SF, DMAUD, DMMUSIC, MIDI2MUS Paint Shop Pro 3, Windows Paintbrush, MicroLathe, FractInt 19.2, Cakewalk Apprentice, Midisoft Recording Session, Creative WaveStudio, Sound Impression, GoldWave, DEU 5.2, DEU32 5.2, (too big for normal DEU!), HexEd, RMB 2.4, EnDoomer 1.01 (I hope I mentioned everyone) Construction time : L - O - N - G! System Requirements : 486DX2 and 8MB RAM for smooth playing (this WAD is really BIG!) Known Bugs : HOM with Doom versions earlier than 1.666 May crash on 4MB machines Seems to crash when entering E3M7. Just wait, it will come in some (dozens of?) seconds... Important : Do not try to save your game during School-DOOM levels. The game will crash "Save game buffer overflow" ----Copyright / Permissions---- Authors may NOT use these levels as a base to build additional levels. However, the School-Doom sprites and graphs are in free use for the creation of YOUR new levels. If you want to get the complete list of the sprites and flats, please contact faidros@pcuf.fi and you'll get it. Also, if you have good ideas for sprites or graphs, they are welcome and if we accept them, you'll be credited. If you want to create NEW levels using School-Graph, please mail them to faidros@pcuf.fi so we can add them into the School Episode. If you really do that you'll be fully credited. You MAY distribute this WAD, provided you include this file, with no modifications. You may distribute this file in any electronic format (BBS, Diskette, CD, etc) as long as you include this file intact. ----School-Doom F.A.Q.---- Q: Why is the WAD so big? Faidros: It has many sprites and flats, lots of wall textures & other pictures, all sounds, two really big levels and some music inside. I tried to remove some unchanged graphics but it only caused crashes. GigaDemon : It has as much quality as quantity. Gotara : Big WAD, good WAD. Q: What are the differences between different versions? F: All the versions under 3.0 are betas, alphas and even worse. If you see them, delete them immediately. 3.0 is a quite good, but it has still some problems, the worst maybe the crashing Park level. 3.01 the almost final version. It has more graphics, music and sounds than 3.0 but for some reason is about 500K smaller. 3.011/red has two walls with changed texture, one wall with correct texture alignment and one note added to the victory music. Did you expect something more for a 1/1000th of a version number? Well, it runs also a bit (in some places a lot) faster because of better REJECT data. Also, it has a changed exit message. 3.011/blue has some graphic changes (including Headmaster's death and ending pictures), again changed exit message (that's why it's called blue), a more annoying cheater trap and a DeHackEd patch. For some unknown reason, it's again 500K bigger than 3.01. Version Number didn't change because I noticed it's still the same after it was released. 3.012 has a bit changed intro music and it has to be installed with DeuSF. The wad must be installed, because it's forbidden to distribute original Doom graphics and for some reason Doom crashes, if all the sprites / flats are not in same wad and... (well, we don't know!). Anyway, good that DeuSF is there! Q: Is the .DEH inportant? Can I play School-Doom without DeHackEd? A: It changes only texts, like the ending story and level names. Also, the UFO has been changed to puff instead of bleeding. Weapons, enemy strenghts etc have not been changed, so you can play as well without DeHackEd. Q: Why those ridiculous pseudonymes? F: We don't want any kind of fatwa on us only because we did this thing. Some people just don't have a sense of humour good enough... Go: I don't like publicity. I don't want my name to be known, I just want my work being known. GD : I hate my name. Q: The story is completely sick! Go: As the maker of the story, I can say that I'm not sick. But the original DOOM story sucks. Which one is better? And, if you consider the story obscene, don't think about it, just PLAY! F: How can you tell good from bad? Who has said that the school system isn't sick and it's a good thing to fight against it? OK, the main character of the story isn't an anarchist and doesn't think about anything other than killing but I hate the Good-Guy-Beats-The-Bad-Guys- style stories. Anyway, the story is just an excuse for killing. GD: The story is the BEST! I'm the Good Guy. I'm the Best Of All. You are completely sick! All clear? Q: Why is this game so violent? Go: This is a protest against American too-liberal handgun laws. If we all had guns with us and somebody went crazy, this would be reality! GD: Don't ask us, ask ID Software! They made the game, we just made the PWAD! F: Otherwise you wouldn't play it :( Q: Why is the crucified guy there? GD: I don't know. He just came from somewhere. Go: We're not worse satanists than the makers of DOOM. It's, originally, a DOOM graph. It is the mark of the Religion Classroom, just as the globe is the mark of the Geography Classroom. Nothing else. Q: What about the spirits? Do you think that drinking makes you healthy? Go: Well, in fact, we were going to replace "HEALTH" with "DRUNKNESS" but decided to censore it. F: Remember Prince of Persia? What about him? GD: We don't drink, but the majority does. And this game was made for the majority. Q: What have you done to the cute little monsters of DOOM? Go : We've modified or redrawn nearly all of them. Here's the list : Trooper => The Normal Dude, The Normal Fool Sargeant => The Member of the Nazi Gang Imp => La Fille Fatale (Cute but Dangerous) Demon => The Angry Teacher with Stick Baron of Hell => The Heavily Armed Headmaster Cyberdemon => The Hyperdemon (BIG!) Cacodemon => Secret! (try & see) Although the Spiderdemon and the Lost Soul are unmodified, they still appear on the levels of this PWAD. GD : Go on and try! You'll love them! F: Try to find out whose souls are lost and flying around the school! Q: Why did you do such a big work? Do you think you get something for doing this PWAD? F: I want to see our work to become known! Tell us you like it and we'll like you. Make your own school level and send it to us and we will like you even more! Go: This is my legacy to this poor little town. GD: There was nothing else to do. Q: This PWAD is now complete. What are you going to do then? F: I'll start studying to play the flute. Go: I'm going to get out and deathmatch someone. GD: Remember, after School's End, a very long HOLIDAY will come. But the PWAD's never complete. We will improve it. Q: Do you believe in GOD? F: I have no way to prove he's not there but it's sure he has done nothing for us. Go: Why do you ask such stupid questions? Do YOU, by the way, believe in God? GD: By the way, you have a big nose. Q: Is Windows 95 a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation? F: Yes, it is. Q: What is the Serpent Staff doing in the ending picture? GD: It's some kind of a technical device. F: What were you expecting? Wraithverge? Q: Is there someone you want to greet personally? Go: Yes, there is. Personal greetings to YOU. F: The school architects for some ideas (some?) and our hangaround members for doing all the things they did, especially comments. Sorry, Ostrowsky, I couldn't scale this to 6/5 because it would have taken months! GD: Everyone in MY school (I want to kill all of you!) Q: Excuse me, how do I run this PWAD? Go: You should've said that earlier! F: Copy everything in the ZIP to your Doom directory and run SCH-INST.BAT. Have a cup of coffee while it loads. After installation the game will run automatically. Installation batch expects, that you have DeHackEd in DOOM or DOOM\DEHACKED directory. To start the game again, just run SCHOOLDM.BAT. When Doom has started, select "Start New Game" from the main menu and notice that "Inferno" has been replaced by "School-Doom". This is where the fun begins... GD: And if you happen to speak Finnish, there is a file "PALIKKA.TXT" designed for novices like you. Q: DOOM is old-fashioned! Why didn't you do this for Duke3D? F: Duke version is coming, just wait! Nilu (E3M1) will be converted, the sewer, the park and the police station rebuilt, and Norssi (E3M7) will be thrown away. It's too big for Build. Trying to convert it just caused crashes, file and even FAT destruction and Spaghetti effect (load Nilu to normal DEU, save it, reload and you'll see what I mean!) The monsters are going to be re-scipted for some effects. Q: Do you have a WWW site? F: Yes, though it's now out-of-date. The address is now: http://norssiyalu.joensuu.fi/pocd/index.htm It will be changed to http://norssi.joensuu.fi/pocd/index.htm in the beginning of August 1996 and updated in the end of August. Q: What's your FINAL comment to the players? Go: May The Force Of The BFG9000 Be With You... GD: May The Force Be With ME... F: And when the REAL teacher arrives, May The Force Be With You then! Q : What's your FINAL FINAL comment to the players? Go : (I should've known...) F: May the farce be with you. GD : SHUT UP! :x ----End of File----