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Title: Once Upon A Time - DEMO
Created by: Greywolf
e-mail: greywolfdgl@libero.it
URL: http://greywolf.altervista.org/

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STORY
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Once upon a time there was a winter so cold that it seemed it would have never left Earth, even with the arrival of April.
In an icy, yet clear night, a young girl named Lara was standing on a balcony of her home, careless of the cold, gazing at the stars, which looked even brighter than usual.
Suddenly the stars of Cygnus looked more gleaming and vibrating, as if they were moving. Then Cygnus turned into a real swan and began to flap its wings and fly. Lara blinked her eyes twice, unable to believe what she was seeing.
The Swan performed an elegant turn, as it was as weightless as its own feathers.
Lara rubbed then opened wide her eyes, almost in disbelief.
The Swan nose–dived straight towards her.
Lara would have ran away, but her legs felt like two tree trunks set in the ground.
The Swan spread its wings and landed just in front of her, light as a shadow.
“Hi!”, it said. “you must be Lara, I suppose.”
“Oh, don’t be surprised if I know your name,” it went on, answering the question Lara hadn't been able to ask as she was breathless. “I know many thing: every night I watch onto the earth and I see what’s happening there… I think you’re the right person for a very important task: saving Easter, the Spring Fairy, who is held prisoner by the evil Winter Wizard.”
“Right, but what makes you think that I’ll be able to succeed?”, Lara asked.
“Because to succeed in this task you don’t need neither strength nor magic or noble lineage: you just need spirit of adventure and cleverness. Well, what do you think about? Are you ready to come with me?”

Lara mounted on the Swan’s back (which was as big as a pony) and it hovered in the starry nightsky; they overflew fields, woods, small and big towns, until night gave place to day and they reached the Season Valley and an enormous castle.

The Swan landed gently on a large balcony and finally Lara could get off and get into the castle.
After crossing many halls, she came into a room where a tall figure was waiting for her: he was wrapped in a long mantle and with a long white beard. “Well”, the Wizard sayd with a voice so cold that gave shivers, “there’s a new guest which wants to try to set Easter free. I've imprisoned her inside my Magic Gem: go into it and try to open her prison!”
And, at these words, the Gem seton the top of Wizard’s stick, became more and more gleaming and started pulsing of a strange light, while the room began to spin and whirl around Lara and she felt sucked inside the Gem.

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INSTALLATION DETAILS
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1. Unzip OnceUponATime.zip
2. Launch tomb4.exe and have fun! :-D
3. If your monitor is 3:4 use "Load.bmp" file in "Load 1024x768" folder.

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NOTES
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1. These levels contain any enemies and traps that colud hurt Lara, so they can't be played by young children.
2. In these levels you can choose many different paths(see "Inside The Magic Gem.jpg"): some longer, some shorter (and some comes to a dead end), some more difficult, some easier. Also the number of secrets differs in each path: the higher is 6, but in some path they are less; you can read the number of secrets at the beginning of each path.
3. Lara sometimes cuoldn't be able to hang on ledges or climbable wall any more: in this case exit the game, launch tomb4.exe again and load the last (or next to last) savegame.
4. When Lara's hanging on the edge of a cubby-hole, if she try to move sideways she could slip on another wall, where she can't move any more.
5. When Lara swims in the moat around the tower, sometimes she could be dragged to the surface, but she shouldn't be unable to move again.
6. Thes levels were not made and are not supported by Core Design Ltd. and Eidos interactive.
7. These levels must not be modified, sold, rented, leased or commercially exploited in any way.
8. If you distribute these levels this readme file must be included.If you put these levels for download on your website please let me know.

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First riddle
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Beyond each door you can find a dragon.
Well, that's not exact:
as time goes by some dragons died.
I put notices near each door,
but now there are older notes and newer notes
and so there is a very great mess.
Almost one dragon is still alive
and the dragons are only beyond doors
with true informations.

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CREDITS
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These levels were inspired by the surrealistic (i.e. Magritte), neosurrealistic art (expecially George Grie) and the artworks of Maurits Cornelis Escher. I found pictures of their work in the internet.
I found ideas to develope this project in many sources: books, comics, movies and other Tomb Raider levels too (either official or custom ones).

Many thanks to Nillc for the great help to traslate the story in english.

Many thanks to my testers (Siphon, Jessica86 and Aspidetr).


Textures by:

Horus (www.tinulin.de).
Tomb Raider Legend (extracted by Tombcool, MrXY and TombRaiderTim).
Tomb Raider Anniversary.
Tomb Raider Angel Of Darkness (ripped by Horus and Illyaine).
I also used some textures from Complex/Simplicity 2010 textures set.
All the other textures were made by me.

Objects:

Lara outfit by: TRANGEL (modified by me).
Crystals (save and load) by: Rainbow.
Medipacks by: teme9.
Can and cup Puzzle by: Karlo002.
Glass and Eyes of Dragon Puzzle by: Karlo002.
Jewel and crown Puzzle by: MissKroft.
Trees and plants by: teme9 and maikoon.
Flowers by: MissKroft; lathander; Dino and TifaNazah.
Columns and archs by: Trangel.
Street lamp by: White Tiger.
Café Tables by: Trinity.
Wolf by: Golden Dawn.
Dragon by: TombRaiderTim (I modified it a little).
"The Prison Of Easter" horizon by: Trinity
Couch by: Trinity
Chest of drawers plus lamp & books by: maax_87
Nightstand and blue lamp by: Trinity
Manor Pedest & vase by: Laras Boyfriend
Wake up animation (from TR5) by: God Horus.
I used some objects from Complex/Simplicity 2010 wad.
All the other objects were made by me.


Audio Tracks:

025.ogg = audio track from Complex/Simplicity 2010 package
078.ogg = Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
079.ogg = Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
080.ogg = Nick Kershaw - The Riddle
081.ogg = Iron Butterfly - In A Gadda Da Vida
082.ogg = Herb Alpert - Jerusalem
083.ogg = Led Zeppelin - No Quarter
084.ogg = Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
085.ogg = Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Picture At An Exhibition-The End
087.ogg = Rodrigo y Gabriela - Stairway To Heaven
095.ogg = HellOween - The Dark Ride
096.ogg = Herb Alpert - Fandango
098.ogg = Bermuda Acoustic Trio - Mediterranean Sundance
099.ogg = Billy Swan - I Can Help
104.ogg = Dream Theatre - A Change Of Season
111.ogg & 121.ogg = audio tracks from Complex/Simplicity 2010 package


I apologize if I forgot anyone

