https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_poseidon.pk3
Author: b33f
BSP date: September 9, 2004
Poseidon is a public aquarium, created for MidgetKiller’s mapping contest. While the Wayback Machine hasn’t archived the contest results page, statistics in the UT Map Depot sidebar show that in October 2004 it was the most downloaded map on the server: https://web.archive.org/web/20041010045247/http://www.ut.map-depot.com/news.php/
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CTF, CaH and bomb are supported; the red flag is located in a gift shop selling a tiny handful of T-shirts. Posters on the walls mix science facts with humorous advice.
Nearly all the living creatures here are animated in one way or another: schools of tiny sprite fish stream round and round while larger models bob up and down serenely. A curiously flat sea turtle glides under the transparent floor sections in the glass tunnel.
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None of the tanks can be damaged with bullets or grenades, but a few of them are bombable. (Given that the explosion also destroys some sections of the floor, the broken tiles in the square tanks room seem to hint that at least one previous terror attack has taken place here.)
In addition to fish tanks there’s a cage holding a bright red ibis-like bird and a crocodile, both studiously ignoring each other. If you jump onto the roof of the cage, the crocodile starts growling.
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There are two outdoor areas, only used as CTF spawns and otherwise locked. Some details (attachment points for Mr. Sentries, signs in the last screenshot) are func_walls for some inexplicable reason and not loaded in most modes. I’m not sufficiently well versed in decades-old drama to know who Pyre and OtherBeing were or what they did.
This map has been repacked and works fine in 4.3: https://urt.li/q3ut4/ut_poseidon_fix.pk3
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JRandomNoob