Intercept

**Intercept** is a solo hard demon created, verified, and published by **AtomicC**. It was released on October 30, 2022 and was featured on November 6, 2022. The level has an industrial theme and is built in a nine circles style, featuring an orange, purple, and black color palette. It is AtomicC's most recent circles level and is the only circles level, currently, on his main account.

## Gameplay

**0-21%**

0-21 encompasses the predrop. the icon (0-9) has block designs with brick blocks and connector pieces, with a background of stacked, slowly rotating hexagons. The second half of the icon a short block maze, which has orbs and pads in and on some of the blocks. There is also a hidden coin at 4%, if you buffer hit an invisible blue orb inside of the blue pad and buffer hit the two yellow orbs above the level. The rest of the predrop (9-21) consists of a 2x speed ship part, with tight straight fly gaps, and gravity portals, and a 3x ball part, with noticeably less structures, and more of a focus on memory. These parts feature a mechanical block design using metal and connector blocks, and have a background of tile blocks that bounce up and down. the predrop ends with a short icon part, which serves to carry the player to the first wave.

**21-47%**

21-47 is the whole first wave part, using a unique orange and purple colour palette with connector style slopes. at 28%, the player goes through a mini portal, and the structuring changes to fit the mini waves movement. at 35%, the player enters a dual portal, and becomes normal size again. The real structures in the dual are somewhat hidden in a foreground effect using the same slope blocks. the fake slope blocks in the dual are made slightly darker than the real structures. the dual ends at 41% and the wave continues on, at first being upsidown, and returning to normal gravity and changing to 2x speed at 45%.

**47-59%**

47-59 is a buffer section, with the pulsing block design changing from connector blocks to a combination of brick block and metal blocks. The part starts with a 3x icon part, with similarly sloped gameplay. and a dual icon where the player has to hit a series of orbs to get through. the part continues with a short, robot and UFO part, followed by another icon part which goes into the 2nd wave part. There is a hidden coin that can be achieved by jumping over the green orb in the robot section to enter the UFO upsidown, and then spamming into a teleport portal below the spike columns, which dont have real spikes below the main UFO route.

**59-73%**

The second wave begins, using the block design from the previous part. the part begins with a 3x speed portal, and mostly easier gameplay than the first wave. the player enters a yellow gravity portal, and then a 2x speed portal at 65% as the player goes through a wave structure, which has been dubbed by the community as the "warcrime structure" the wave ends with a mini portal and 3x speed portal at 66%, and a corridor of saws. the drop ends with a ship portal and 2x speed portal, and a short corridor of spikes and a yellow gravity portal in the middle of it.

**73-100%**

The postdrop features a construction themed part, with silhouetted block design. it begins with a 3x speed icon, at 79% there is a short ball section, with similar timings, that lasts until 84%. The level continues with a short 2x speed icon part, and then enters an intense 3x speed swingcopter at 86%. The swingcopter is followed with a short 2x speed robot that goes from 92% to 96%, and the level ends with a triple spike and a free coin, featuring an endscreen with the levels name, in the same orange and purple colour scheme as the wave parts, and the Cycron logo.

## Trivia

* The level password is 090090.
* The level contains 24,060 objects.
* The level is exactly 1 minute long.
* On November 28th, 2022, it was placed at #40 on the Cycron Demonlist.
* NagromX coined the term "warcrime structure" for the wave structure at 66%.
* Intercept is the only one of AtomicC's modern circles levels to not use a 4x speed portal.