E1M2: Luna

Drink in the Brutalist charms of a small shopping district in **Liberec**, cruising the streets on a spiffy **Jawa** to where giant Swans are waiting to greet you.

# Walkthrough

The Player enters Luna on the plaza in front of the **House of Culture** (**Kulturní dům**). To the left of the stairs there is a Grenade and a car, which the Player is advised not to play with unless you want to take damage. To the right there is a small outbuilding with a Rusted Key lock.

Outside the House of Culture there are some interesting things to read: a sign that says **Citizens! Keep calm and follow all instructions of the National Committee diligently** (**Občané! Zachovejte klid a dbejte svědomitě všech pokynů Národního výboru**), and a poster that says **Looking towards the Congress of the Communist Party** (**Vstříc Sjezdu KSČ**).

Proceed up the steps and grab the Tasty Canned Poultry waiting for you in an alcove around the corner to the left. Entering the House of Culture, there is a meeting room to the left with a Smaskou standing on the stage, and stairs to the right. Take the stairs to the balcony overlooking the meeting room to engage in a robust discussion of Socialism with a Kejdovec and get a new weapon, the Submachine Gun. Past Kejdovec there is another staircase down to the first floor where there is a second Smaskou waiting for you.

Turn right at the bottom of the stairs and take the stairs down to the ground level, where there is a storage room immediately at left. This room has a vomiting Smaskou and 5 Koruna. It also has another kissable portrait of Gustáv Husák, a sign that reads **The City of Kladno Greets the Soviet Army** (**Město Kladno zdraví slavnou Sovětskou armádu**), another that reads **All Honest Players of the Republic Elect the Candidates of the National Front** (**Všichni poctiví občané republiky volí kandidáty Národní fronty**), and a third which says **March 8th IWD**. (**8 Březen MDŽ**)

Exit the store room and continue around the corner to the end of the hall where there is an office, which contains some Tasty Canned Poultry, a security monitor, and a desk with a Consul typewriter, above which is a ventilation fan. There is also a switch that will grant access to the first secret. The Consul is interactive, and typing with it, the Player will produce a message that repeats the text of the Lenin book discovered in Kosmonautů Station: **Lenin, Comrade Lenin, eternal Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin is to live forever** (**Lenin, soudruh Lenin, věčný Lenin žil, žije a bude žít**).

Shoot the ventilation fan and proceed through the duct to a utility room with the Rusted Key, where you will be immediately confronted with two S.U.P.s who would like you for a little snack. Taking the Rusted Key will open a hidden panel with a Smaskou, who thinks you should put it back. There is a double grate at the opposite end of the room, through which can be seen a bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk and some Land Mines.

Take the stairs to the right out of the utility room and back to the porch of the House of Culture, where you will engage in a small arena battle with three Hazmat Suits and three Smaskous on the plaza. The Smaskous emerge from a previously closed area near to where the Player entered the map which has one Koruna.

Open the Rusted Key door and move inside, taking the clip of ammunition, then break open the ventilation duct to the building at left. There is another small plaza beyond it with a Soviet Shotgun, beyond which is a door leading back into the House of Culture. Inside is the bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk and the Land Mines first seen in the utility room.

Return to the outbuilding through the vent and down the ladder in the corner, where you will be in passage blocked by two bollards. Walk up to them, and a sliding panel will open behind you to reveal a Hazmat Suit and a valve.

Turn the valve to open the bollards and proceed down the hall, where there is a a water main and lots of flowing water. You will quickly meet a Smaskou and Kejdovec who don't think you are authorized to be here. Once they are dealt with, the second secret is available for discovery down the ledge to the left.

Take the stairs leading down to a pool of water where there is a Smaskou cursing his current assignment, and a Kejdovec with nothing better to do than fling grenades. Once dispatched, the Player is free to explore the area for the third secret.

Continue down the water course, turn left then right, and come to a main water tank, noting another watercourse that is blocked by two bollards. Jump in for a swim and turn an underwater valve located to the right. The Player will be confronted by three Becva, who think you have some Spirulina fish flakes and are holding out on them. The first will approach before the valve is turned, and the next two will come out of the secondary tank once the valve opens it.

Swim through the opening to the secondary tank where there is a clip of ammunition as well as spray painted graffiti that says **Vodnik** (**Vodník**). Climb the ladder out of the tank to reach a fenced ledge.

To the left, there is a switch at the end of the ledge. Flip it to open a sliding wall with a Smaskou and a Turret on the ledge opposite. Once they are dealt with turn the valve that opens the bollards in the water course where you came from. Immediately a Hazmat Suit will wander in from the previously blocked section of the water course. Of course you can have a nice gun battle, but unfortunately Hazmat Suit has not received training in aquatic environments, and will fall into the water main to drown without any trouble.

Jump back into the water main and follow the newly opened water course around the corner, where you will meet another Smaskou and Hazmat Suit. Climb the ladder to the entryway above. Get ready to act fast, because the utility tunnel you are now in has two Sewer Rats and a Miner coming at you quickly. Once past them, climb the latter at the end of the tunnel to reach the streets of **Luna**.

Once you reach **Luna**, look to the right to see a rideable motorcycle and witness a cosmonaut falling to earth, and it is not David Bowie or Vladimir Komorov. Walking forward, an annoucement is made, reminding the cizizens to keep calm and follow instructions. Beyond his jellied body is a sculpture of the Soviet star wrapped by a rocket's contrail and contrail with a legend **30 years of the Soviet space program** (**30 Let Sovětského kosmického programu**). Use your Sickle to break this apart to gain 5 Koruna. There is also a clip of ammunition just beyond.

Proceed down the street, past the **Meat — Charcuterie** (**Mazo — Uzeniny**) shop and the **Clothing** (**Oděvy**) store, around to a **Furniture** (**Nábytek**) store, passing two Smaskous and a Hazmat Suit who are patrolling the streets for troublemakers. The **Furniture** store has an elevator with a switch leading to the basement.

In the basement are stacks of boxes and two Kejdovecs who are anxious to show you the latest in modular furnishings. At the top of two boxes you will find a Hussite Hand Cannon and the Aluminum Key. Press the button at the back of the basement to raise a set of boxes so that you can jump to claim them. Seizing the Aluminum Key will trigger the first big arena fight of the level, filling the streets with plenty of Smaskous, Hazmat Suits, Kejdovecs, and the first Skapucí, a highly annoying enemy that can teleport randomly around the map.

Once things have quieted down, enter the **Meat — Charcuterie** shop which has an Aluminum Key lock and some Tasty Canned Poultry. Behind the door is the kitchen with a bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk, more Tasty Canned Poultry, a door at the top of some steps to the left, and a refrigerator to the right.

Inside the refrigerator are three Pedros, mutated gum wads come to life that will spit slime at the Player, and a button that will open the door in the kitchen. Whatever else can be said about these mutations, someone considers them food. Otherwise, why refrigerate them?

Return to the kitchen and pass through the door at the top of the steps to a utility room with three Smaskous and a box that is hiding some Tasty Canned Poultry. It also has the hidden entrance to the fourth secret.

A door at the back of the utility room opens onto a courtyard, which has a large rotating sculpture of swans with a large gorilla poised at the center, and sealed door at the back. You can also see the locations of the fifth and sixth secrets, just waiting for you to claim them, two of the most vexing platform jumps in the game. There is also a sign posted in one of the apartment windows that says **Don't Gawk** (**Nečumte nikdo**).

To open the door, you must first play with Fierce Gorilla, however he will not move until you attack him. Fierce Gorilla is a relatively weak miniboss in terms of the damage he can take, but he is quite mobile, and with rocket launchers for hands, easily capable of making the Player 's life difficult.

Once Fierce Gorilla has been dispatched, the courtyard will fill with Smaskous and another Skapucí for the second arena fight of the level, but the fun isn't over yet. Once they have been put down, a Miner will rush the Player through the now open door.

Once order is restored, enter the open door and proceed down the steps, leading you back to the water main. There is a lone Kejdovec wandering the hall that ends at a ledge with the Common Key.

Take it and drop to the ledge below and walk forward to unlock the Common Key door. Beyond this door is a room with a drain and a bag of Semi-Skimmed Milk, where two Hazmat Suits believe that you are in need of decontamination. Hit the AZ-5 button to end the level.

**Previous:** E1M1: Kosmonautu Station

**Next:** E1M3: Sewage Treatment Plant

# Secrets

### Secret 1

In the office on the ground floor there is a switch on the left side of the desk. Flip it and return to the first floor meeting room, where there is now an open panel on the left side of the stage. Enter it to find a Wifebeater.

### Secret 2

Once in the utility tunnels beneath the House of Culture, open the bollards and proceed along the top level of the water main. Follow the ledge to the left to discover a cracked wall. Blow it open to reveal three Grenades.

### Secret 3

From the top level of the water main, take the stairs to the right and follow them down to a pool area that leads to a water course, When facing the water course, there is an interactive panel in the back left corner. Open it to score some Tasty Canned Poultry.

### Secret 4

In the utility room of the **Meat — Charcuterie** shop is an interactive panel in the left corner which leads to a hidden duct. Enter the duct and jump down to claim a Soviet Shotgun. Another panel will open to drop the Player back in the tunnel where you met the Miner and Sewer Rats.

### Secret 5

In the courtyard with the rotating Swans there is an open window which contains a bottle of Red Wine. Climb up onto the carousel, and use the beams supporting the swans to run and leap into window. Doing this will also net you the easiest  achievements in the game.

### Secret 6

Similar to the fifth secret, you will need to use the support beams on the Swans carousel to jump to a ledge above the door. This is one of the trickiest jumps in the game, requiring persistence and patience. Aim at inset area at the far right of the ledge and you will make it. An easier way to do this is to position the motorcycle between the door and ledge, allowing you to use it as a platform to acces it. The reward is well worth the effort, giving you more Tasty Canned Poultry, and behind a ventilation duct, one Koruna a second Pistol, and earn you another  achievement.

# Speedrunning

Main article: Speedrunning
* After flipping the switch above the water main that reveals the Turret, do not follow the catwalk all the way around to the other side. Instead, jump across the gap between the two ledges before you reach the Common Key door.
* You can use a grenade jump to collect the **Aluminium Key** without activating the elevator.
* Stay away from the corner where the Skapuci spawns after Fierce Gorilla dies so that he doesn't teleport away before you can kill him in order to open the door.

# Lore

* Another one of the game's real-world locations, Luna is based on a shopping mall situated in Liberec, a city in North Czechia.

* The car at the start of the level is modelled on the Škoda 100, a rear-engined, rear-wheel drive compact car that was produced by Czechoslovak automaker AZNP in Mladá Boleslav from 1969 to 1977. They were the successors for the Škoda 1000 MB and Škoda 1100 MB. With a total of 1,079,798 units produced in their eight-year production run, the Škoda 100/110 series was the first Škoda car to exceed a million in production figures. Engine sizes were 1.0 litre (Škoda 100) and 1.1 litre (Škoda 110) respectively. The derived Škoda 110 R coupé (1970–1980), was styled similarly to the Porsche of the time, but with a much lower price and performance. The sporty 120 S and the 130 RS were Sport/Rallye cars, produced in small numbers.

* The **March 8th IWD** sign in the Storage room at the start of the level is a reference to International Women's Day, an official holiday proclaimed by Lenin following the October Revolution in 1917.

* The Consul typewriter was produced in Zbrojovka Brno, a factory in Brno, Czechoslovakia. It was established as an arms factory in 1918, and it eventually branched into other production lines, including telephones, instruments for railroad workshops and and other tools. Before World War II the company became one of the largest producers of rifles in the world, and the ZETA typewriter was introduced in 1949. In the 1980s the company produced office and computing equipment. The name was later changed to Consul.

* The **Vodník** graffiti in the secondary tank in the water main refers to a water goblin from Slavic mythology. In Czech mythology Vodník usually appears as a human-like creature with long green hair, green colored skin and webbed paws instead of hands. He drowns people and keeps their souls in mugs.

* The falling cosmonaut is a reference to **Aleksei Gubaren**, a Russian Cosmonaut who who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28. Soyuz 28 was the first Interkosmos flight, where he was accompanied by Vladimír Remek from Czechoslovakia. Aside from being a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union, Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, with two Orders of Lenin, he also was a Hero of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, and earned the Order of Klement Gottwald.

* Pedro Gum is a fruit flavored bubble gum manufactured in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic by the Velim company, with the figure of a boy in a sombrero on the packaging. It was known for its price, which was exactly one Koruna. It was the inspiration for the Pedro enemy, the model of which looks like a wad of chewed gum.

# Trivia

* The sculpture paying tribute to 30 years of the Soviet space program is not an actual work of art, but is an amalgamation of two other works created by the developer, Famózní Pes.

* The swans sculpture is an amalgamation of two different amusement park rides that were observed by the developer one of them with the gorilla center piece, and one with the swans.

# Gallery

JAWA MotorcycleButcher Shop CounterButcher Shop KitchenŠkoda 100Don't Gawk (Nečumte nikdo)House of CultureLunaElectrical Engineering High School, Class 1982-1986 - Measuring and control equipment (SPŠE 1982-1986 Měřící a řídíčí technika)Water MainRudé PrávoStage