Is there oxygen in Doom-hell?

[MetroidJunkie]

Oh wow, you remember that Moon game? Was pretty good, but not very popular.

Yeah, Renegade Kid's DS fpses were pretty under-appreciated.

[ultimategamerxtreme]

Maybe the health bonuses are made of the same thing as the vials on Moon for Nintendo DS.

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Extract of Human Organs

...Wouldn't that be cannibalism?...
Welp, thats enough nightmare fuel for one night.

[twinkieman93]

I read in this big ol' fan-made encyclopedia of all things Doom that health bonuses are made by just taking a soulsphere, sitting it in a pool of nice clean water, and letting the power of the soulsphere infuse the water with a little bit of its healing power. Bottle it up, and distribute it to demons for a quick little snack when you can't get a proper soul to eat.

It's got cool explanations for the various oddities in Doom, like why armor bonuses are glowing medieval helmets made of crappy looking metal, or why the chainsaw never runs out of gas, or why you have to point the plasma gun up every time you stop firing it. Encyclopedia Daemonica, I think it was called. None of it's official, of course, but it's all very interesting nonetheless. Sadly, I don't believe they ever say anything about the presence of oxygen in Hell, either to confirm or deny it.

Oh, and it actually explains another long-time mystery, why you find medkits and other man-made things lying around even in Episode 3 when logically everything there should be hellish in origin. The answer is simple: war trophies. Souvenirs taken back to Hell by the demons to commemorate their victories over humanity. Sort of like how soldiers in WWII sometimes brought home weapons and equipment taken off defeated enemy combatants.

[ultimategamerxtreme]

I read in this big ol' fan-made encyclopedia of all things Doom that health bonuses are made by just taking a soulsphere, sitting it in a pool of nice clean water, and letting the power of the soulsphere infuse the water with a little bit of its healing power. Bottle it up, and distribute it to demons for a quick little snack when you can't get a proper soul to eat.

It's got cool explanations for the various oddities in Doom, like why armor bonuses are glowing medieval helmets made of crappy looking metal, or why the chainsaw never runs out of gas, or why you have to point the plasma gun up every time you stop firing it. Encyclopedia Daemonica, I think it was called. None of it's official, of course, but it's all very interesting nonetheless. Sadly, I don't believe they ever say anything about the presence of oxygen in Hell, either to confirm or deny it.

Oh, and it actually explains another long-time mystery, why you find medkits and other man-made things lying around even in Episode 3 when logically everything there should be hellish in origin. The answer is simple: war trophies. Souvenirs taken back to Hell by the demons to commemorate their victories over humanity. Sort of like how soldiers in WWII sometimes brought home weapons and equipment taken off defeated enemy combatants.

Encyclopedia Daemonica, eh? where can i get this thing.

[twinkieman93]

Encyclopedia Daemonica, eh? where can i get this thing.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9622356/1/E ... -Daemonica You can read it here. There used to be a .PDF of it you could download but the link to it on the Doom Wiki is dead. The author's written three other Doom-related works on there, including a story where the Gatekeeper at the end of the Plutonia Experiment, in its last moments, tells Doomguy the story of his life. It ends up being a chronicle of the games as seen through the eyes of a demon, called The Gatekeeper's Chronicles.

[IMX]

There used to be a .PDF of it you could download but the link to it on the Doom Wiki is dead.

Fortunately I went looking for it at the Internet Archive, and I found it! (if the link doesn't work please let me know about it asap)

It comes with pictures too, so it promises to be a great read. I'll send it to my mobile phone to read it later

[twinkieman93]

Ah, one thing I forgot to mention: the fanfiction.net version lacks the pretty pictures, but has been updated with a section on the extra secret levels included with the recent console ports, No Rest For The Living, and the Master Levels. Also, some things have been changed around a bit, like the official designation of the Fear facility is a lot longer in the .pdf version. Other than that, the .pdf version is exactly the same, and has the advantage of being downloadable and stuff. But, the fanfiction.net version is the most recently updated one.

[MetroidJunkie]

Fortunately I went looking for it at the Internet Archive, and I found it! (if the link doesn't work please let me know about it asap)

It comes with pictures too, so it promises to be a great read. I'll send it to my mobile phone to read it later

This could come in handy for putting together content for my Doom Prime mod, thanks for finding it.

[ultimategamerxtreme]

as always, the community amazes me with how awesome it is. THX for showing me the Encyclopedia Daemonica, mate!

[twinkieman93]

as always, the community amazes me with how awesome it is. THX for showing me the Encyclopedia Daemonica, mate!

No problem. Again, while you're there, why not give his other works a read? They talk about some more interesting things, like the geography of Hell. In his fanon, Hell is composed of two big continents in an ocean of lava, with small islands scattered around and in between them. One of them is divided in half with a big impassable mountain range, and it's this continent that you visit in the games: the right half during Doom 1, and the left half during Doom 2. The left half was destroyed after you murdered Baphomet's face off, and the right half was destroyed following the events of The Plutonia Experiment when a pair of Void Spheres were detonated there. Nasty things, those Void Spheres.

[TheMightyHeracross]

This guy sounds like he has some good works.
Seems like a good reason for me to go on Fanfiction.net for once.
Besides visiting the Space Station Base of the UAC.