Swimming Game Mechanics - Underwater Zombies & the Legends of Nan Madol

[PINNAZ]

In the Cell Below The Waves

Is Where Honor Suffers

 Chemical Element Atomic Number Cipher - "The Giant"

 

With the new movement mechanics in Black Ops 3 such as Wall Running in Shadows of Evil & the Low Gravity effect in Der Eisendrache, I'm sure we will see 1 other movement system implemented that has never been seen in a Treyarch Zombies Map = Swimming

Throughout the Campaign & Multiplayer modes, there are sections that incorporate swimming, but also during the first Nightmares mission - "Hypocenter" , you fight Zombies underwater.

Nightmares Mission - "Hypocenter"

 

Multiplayer

 

 

"Leviathan" - One of the most rated World at War Custom Zombies to date

World at War Custom Map - Leviathan

"Aquatic underwater excavations, deep-Sea experiments, swarms of undead Scientists. Submarine rides and other types of action with so much more."

 

 

 

After the success at the Rising Sun Facility, Division #9 is moving with phase #2.

The Island Facility is now operational and initial testing underway

Flag Semaphore Cipher - Der Eisendrache

 

Shadows of Evil Paper Scrap Picture

Co-ordinates - 158°10'50.31"E 6°53'12.07"N

 

 

Pohnpei

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pohnpei

Pohnpei "upon (pohn) a stone altar (pei)" (formerly known as Ponape) is the name of an island of the Senyavin Islands which are part of the larger Caroline Islands group.It belongs to Pohnpei State, one of the four states in the Federated States of Micronesia

• Native Period - Before 1825
• Pre-Spanish Period - 1825–1886
• Spanish Period - 1886–1899
• German Period - 1899–1914
• Japanese Period - 1914–1945
• US Period - 1945–1986
• Independence Period - Since 1986

 

Nan Madol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Madol

Nan Madol is a ruined city adjacent to the eastern shore of the island of Pohnpei that was the capital of the Saudeleur Dynasty until about 1628. It is in the present day Madolenihmw district of Pohnpei state, in the Federated States of Micronesia in the western Pacific Ocean. The city, constructed in a lagoon, consists of a series of small artificial islands linked by a network of canals. The site core with its stone walls encloses an area approximately 1.5 km long by 0.5 km wide and it contains nearly 100 artificial islets—stone and coral fill platforms—bordered by tidal canals.

The name Nan Madol means "spaces between" and is a reference to the canals that crisscross the ruins. The original name was Soun Nan-leng (Reef of Heaven), according to Gene Ashby in his book Pohnpei, An Island Argosy. It is often called the "Venice of the Pacific".

 

Magnetized Temples of Nan Madol

 

 

Nan Madol - Ancient Underwater City Ruins

 

 

Ancient Aliens : Aliens and Forbidden Islands

 

 

Nan Madol in Fiction ~

H. P. Lovecraft's - The Call of Cthulhu

Lovecraft claims R'lyeh is located at 47°9′S 126°43′W Coordinates: 47°9′S 126°43′W in the southern Pacific Ocean. Writer August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft and co-creator of the Cthulhu Mythos, placed R'lyeh at 49°51′S 128°34′W. The latter coordinates place the city approximately 5,100 nautical miles (9,400 km) from the actual island of Pohnpei (Ponape), the location of the fictional "Ponape Scripture". Both locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W), a point in the ocean farthest from any land mass.

R'lyeh is a fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu"

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The nightmare corpse-city of R'lyeh…was built in measureless eons behind history by the vast,

loathsome shapes that seeped down from the dark stars.

There lay great Cthulhu and his hordes, hidden in green slimy vaults.

 

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"In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"

 

The Moon Pool

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt (1884–1943). It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in 1919. The protagonist, Dr. Goodwin, would later appear in Merritt's second novel The Metal Monster (1920).

Although Merritt did not invent the "lost world" novel—he followed in the footsteps of Bulwer-Lytton, Conan Doyle, Burroughs, and others—this work extended the tradition.

The Moon Pool is sometimes cited as an influence on "The Call of Cthulhu" by H.P. Lovecraft, which may in turn have itself influenced Merritt's later story Dwellers in the Mirage (especially the monster Khalk'ru). In particular, The Moon Pool is partly set on Nan Madol, a location which would, some claim, later inspire Lovecraft's R'lyeh.

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The plot concerns an advanced race which has developed within the Earth's core. Eventually their most intelligent members create an offspring. This created entity encompasses both great good and great evil, but it slowly turns away from its creators and towards evil. The entity is called either the Dweller or the Shining One.

On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force of monstrous terror and radiant beauty that stalks the South Pacific, claiming all in its path. An international expedition led by American Walter Goodwin races to save those who have fallen victim to the Dweller. The dark mystery behind the malevolent force is Muria, a forgotten, mythic world deep within the earth that is home to a legendary people intent on reclaiming what was theirs long ago.

 

 

Legends of Nan Madol ~

"House of the Dead"

Herbert Rittlinger

Herbert Rittlinger was a German writer, photographer, explorer and pioneer of canoeing. Herbert Rittlinger wrote travelogues, novels and nonfiction.

He spent two years as a sailor, Koprapflanzer and prospectors traveling in Japan, the South Pacific, New Guinea and Australia. "South Seas journey" is the title of his book from this period.

Erich von Däniken's - The Gold of The Gods

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This well is not a well, but the way down to the beginning or end of a tunnel. The fact that today the opening is full of water to barely six feet below the edge proves nothing, for the buildings of Nan Madol continue over the edge of the island and can be followed with the naked eye below sea level until they disappear in the depths. But what was a tunnel doing on a tiny island? Where did it-lead? I first read about this remarkable feature in Herbert Rittlinger's book The Measureless Ocean. Rittlinger, who traveled round the South Seas on a voyage of research, learnt on Ponape that the brilliant and splendid center of a celebrated kingdom had existed there untold millennia ago.

The reports of fabulous wealth had enticed pearl divers and Chinese merchants to investigate the seabed secretly and the divers had all risen from the depths with incredible tales. They had been able to walk on the bottom on well-preserved streets overgrown with mussels and coral. "Down below," there were countless stone vaults, pillars and monoliths. Carved stone tablets hung on the remains of clearly recognizable houses.

What the pearl divers did not find was discovered by Japanese divers with modern equipment. They confirmed with their finds what the traditional legends of Ponape reported: the vast wealth in precious metals, pearls and bars of silver. The legend says that the corpses rest in the "House of the Dead"
 
The Japanese divers reported that the dead were buried in watertight platinum coffins.
 
And the divers actually brought bits of platinum to the surface day after day!
 
In fact, the main exports of the island-copra, vanilla, sago and mother of pearl- were supplanted by platinum! Rittlinger says that the Japanese carried on exploiting this platinum until one day two divers did not surface, in spite of their modern equipment.
 
Then the war broke out and the Japanese had to withdraw.

 

 

Interesting Myth Reads ~

Herbert Rittlinger's - The Measureless Ocean (Never Published)

Erich von Däniken's - The Gold of The Gods or full book HERE

Frank Joseph - The Lost Civilization of Lemuria: 

Are There Ancient Platinum Coffins off Nan Madol?

 

 

TLDC; I think that the swimming mechanic will only be a small part of "The Island" map, a means to get from land to an underwater cavern, much like how it is used in the "Hypocenter" mission from Nightmares.

 

(Sorry for the length but I decided to combine 2 topics which I'd been reading up on over the last few weeks & finally got a chance to post it.)

[anonymous]

Very interesting. I wonder how the cthulhu stuff from the SoE universe reaches this universe. Will we see the margwa (swimming) back?

[Stop Mocking Me0]

Gotta love Pinnaz threads! (And him too). 

 

Watch us go to the russian site though... XD

[Matuzz]

What I think will happen with the Nan Madol map:

It's an ancient stone city and it has these ponds that have tunnels that take you to underwater basalt chambers. The map is also filled with blue 115 element that is embedded on the basalt. In one of these basalt chambers you can find Takeo who is  in a cell of sorts. You need to slay a beast that lives on the island and retrieve Takeo his weapons as part of the EE (he will be an actual NPC model that talks to you when you go to him). After you get his weapons back he will commit seppuku to honor the emperor and as such give his soul to our characters.

[Lenne]

On 17.3.2016 at 2:23 AM, Stop Mocking Me0 said:

Gotta love Pinnaz threads! (And him too). 

Yep.

Pinnaz is the man. 

Props to you for posting this. Just like your other threads this is an insane knowledge bomb. haha