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                        ** THE DEADLY CURSE & MYSTERY OF THE NEARLY FORGOTTEN ARMAGEDDON'S TEMPLE **
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                                                         BY eTux
						   Released: 15/02/2004

  e-mail - eTux_lv@yahoo.com 
  Current Homepage - http://www.geocities.com/eTux_lv

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Contents:
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1.Author's notes & General level info................................................................ (if you're interested)

2.Installation.................................................................................... (how to get this running)

3.Known Bugs ........................................................................ (!!!EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, MUST READ!!!)

4.Story.............................................................................................. (if you're interested)

5.Credits....................................(a "thank you" to all who helped me and who deserve some credit for their work)

6.The BONUS zip..................................................................................(see the mystery behind it)

7.My Other Levels...................................................................(older levels or collaborations of mine)

8.Disclaimer...............................................................................................................

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1. Author's notes & General level info
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  Thank you for downloading my levels, I hope you will not regret doing so and have fun, when playing them! To fully
understand the storyline and enjoy the level, I recommend to play "Armageddon's Temple" before these levels. But that's
optional.

  The game takes approximately 2-3 hours to finish. The only extra weapon you get is the shotgun. At the end, depending on 
which of the gates you enter you can get to a good and a bad ending - no matter to which ending you get the game still counts
as finished.

  I made the first room in August 2002 and finished the whole thing in January 2004, do the maths yourself to find out how long
it took me to build these levels the way they are now ;)

SUMMARY OF THE PROJECT

	Rooms: 737
	Triggers: 1089
	Objects: 975
	Secrets: 16 (Outer Temple - 6, The Source - 6, Dark Side of the Source - 4)

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2. Installation
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# Before the installation please backup the original Script.dat & English.dat files, sound FX files and the audio files. 
# Also make sure you start the installation with an "untouched" audio and samples folders too!!

  Unzip the files from the zip file. What to do with them? Hmm, let's see:

------The Obvious bits:--------

UPDATE 22.05.2007

script.DAT, english.DAT, load.BMP must go to => "trle" folder
uklogo.pak and all tr4-Files (data folder) must go to => "trle/data" folder
The files in audio folder must got to => "trle/audio" folder ** (see below for details)
The files in sounds/samples folder must go to => "trle/sounds/samples" folder

------The not-so-obvious bits:-------

* - Run start_me.exe to convert the mp3's to wav format and then move them to your trle/audio folder - nothing will be 
overwritten, unless you have tracks that are named the same as mine.
!!!MAC users - change the extension of the audio files by simply renaming them from *.MP3 to *.WAV 
(for example: 001.mp3 -> 001.wav)

------What now?-------

Now simply run the graphics setup - *DISABLE* (yes, disable!) the Volumetric FX (to see the beautiful distance fog) and amend 
the other settings as you wish - run the game - play and most importantly - enjoy :-)


PS. The 3 pictures are for your viewing pleasure only - they have no other use.

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3.Known Bugs & other things you have to know !!! MUST READ !!! EXTREMELY IMPORTANT !!! MUST READ !!! EXTREMELY IMPORTANT !!!
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# First of all and as always - SAVE IN MANY SLOTS! You just never know when a bug or anything else that halts the gameplay
	will strike, so be prepared. Especially important for MAC players, since, even if I could provide a PC gamer with a
	savegame in an emergency, PC savegames don't work on MAC and vice versa.... so be prepared.

# As you will see, a room in the levels will have a lot of torches. This doesn't mean you'll need them all - they are placed 
	there just in-case the torch bug strikes. This way you should always have a spare torch.

# Please keep in mind that readable objects disappear on level jumps and so are lost for good - so read them as soon as you get
	them and keep the information there on mind if the object mentions that it might be essential for you later.

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4.Story
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	When Lara enters the door it closes behind her, and she goes into the mysterious temple to save the world again.
	Meanwhile the rest of the world is concerned about a huge UFO coming closer and closer to the Earth. Scientists can't 
examine it thoroughly because they think it's shifting its shapes all the time. Members of sects are doing massive suicides, 
thinking, that the UFO will take their souls and bring them to their planet. After a few hours Lara places the Armageddon’s 
scroll and reads the inscriptions on it. The power of the 2 spells releases a huge energy wave, which blasts Lara down and 
stuns her, and goes outwards the temple. Just before the UFO enters the Earth's atmosphere, the energy wave shatters it to 
pieces. The scientists tell the people of the world that it just was a strangely shaped meteorite that burned in the Earth's
atmosphere (but we all know the truth ;)).
	All positive energy of the temple is spent to save the world, so now the dark forces of it are awakened. The temple
now has a mind of its own and realises that the one who awakened the evil in it can also stop it, so plans out how to trap
or even kill Lara.
	Lara is lying on the floor in the temple and shivering from the cold and her nightmares. In one of her nightmares 
she sees the knight that saved the world a thousand years ago, and he talks to Lara:

	"Listen what I have to say,
	 You didn't only save the day,
 	 But bound yourself here to stay -
	 The temple now unleashed its curse,
	 The beasts guarding it will sooth their blood thirst.
	 The only escape from your misery
	 Is to set my tortured soul free,
	 Collect 3 power symbols of the temple,
	 But, believe me, it won’t be that simple!
	 Help me out and I'll help you,
	 Up and down this nightmare through,
	 Cast the darkest of the spells,
	 Ban this temple to the hell,
	 You'll get cut and beaten on the way
	 But, hey! Freedom has its price to pay!"

	After this wicked nightmare Lara wakes up, puts on her bomber jacket, tries not to fall again from yet another one 
of those shakings, and is ready for her quest to break the curse put on her, destroy the temple and escape from what'll be 
left of it...

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5.Credits
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-- Note to level builders: if you use any of the custom objects from my levels - give credit to the author(s) of the objects --

# First of all I have to thank LYN, who played & enjoyed my first level and "wanted to know what happens next". Basically not
a SINGLE room of this adventure would exist without her talents in persuasion. So a big THANK YOU to you, Lyn, I hope you'll 
enjoy these levels if you attempt to play them.

# A big thank you to the beta-testers of the level:

  Bex, Cher, Kris, UziGuy & Magnus - PC testers. 
  CC - the Mac tester.
  Geckokid - builder-tester (also the creator of the wonderful title screen and load.bmp)

I know you guys (and gals) had better things to do than to test the levels but did it anyway, and did a splendid job, so thank
you - your help and feedback was much appreciated :-)

# Also would like to thank these people:

	Jliboy for the vehicle at both 'endings' of the game and the skulls on sticks in "The Source".
	Tomo for the enemy on which I based my 'bat-birds' in "The Source" and "Dark Side of the Source".
	Baddy for the enemy on which I based my 'snow ape' in "Outer Temple".
	Justin for the alien in "Dark Side of the Source".
	Silent Viper for the Shotgun and its animation you can use in the level.
	Tomo, LarzBritish & Idealist for various parts of the outfit I modified for my liking.
	
	To all the creators of the fantastic tools out there - this wouldn't be the same level without them! Thank you!
	
	Thanks to all the members of the Eidos TRLE forums for helping me, whenever they could!

	Also the reviews from www.trle.net and www.laraslevelbase.org were helpful to me, so thanks to the reviewers!

# Most audio files are from original TR games (some modified, some not), the 010.wav and 011.wav tracks I first heard in
another custom level(s) - COTW and TR-A Rhatech by Psiko and have used with the knowldege of the author of those levels
(the tracks are from another game "Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter").

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6.The BONUS zip
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# First of all - what do you have to do to access the bonus zip?
Find the 3 special secrets - thistles - in the game and use them in the last secret area of the game to unlock a different 
route, that leads to the good ending of the game. Along this route you'll find the password that allows you to unzip the BONUS
zip file. 

# So, what's the bonus? - you might ask.
Well, you get access to a short dialogue cut scene, where Lara literally meats the creator of 'this' world ;) The creator
chats with Lara a little bit and also reveals the password that unlocks the BONUS zip file.

# What's in the bonus zip?
In the password-protected zip file is a slightly modified SCRIPT.DAT file - which allows you to select the levels as you 
wish and use DOZY.

Hope you'll find all the hassle worthy the bonus :)

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7.My Other Levels
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To date, without counting the levels you just downloaded, I have only made Armageddon's Temple, and have took part in
creating some rooms in Eidos Community level 1. 

# For information on Armageddon's Temple, T.D.C.& M.O.T.N.F.A.T, and my further projects go to my current homepage 
  http://www.geocities.com/eTux_lv/

# For information on Eidos Community Level 1 go to 
  http://treeble.larashome.co.uk/uno/ 

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8.Disclaimer
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This level was not made and is not supported by Core Design Ltd. and Eidos Interactive.

The level must be distributed free of charge. Neither you nor anyone else
may sell, rent, lease or commercially exploit this level in any way. You
may only exchange them at no charge to licensed users of Tomb Raider
Chronicles.

If you distribute this level this readme file must be included.
If you put this level for download on your website please let me know.
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