Level: End (Shub-Niggurath's Pit) (1 secret)

1. There are two pathways in the main cavern: the one you start out on, and one running below you for part of the way, at just above the level of the lava. If you fall down onto this lower pathway (don't just leap off the side: check there is a pathway there first!) you can walk round to a secret room with a quad damage powerup and a teleporter back to the top pathway.

• The upper teleporter apparently takes you to a random point in the level. In fact your destination point is marked by that floating spiked ball you can see moving about. Sometimes this will teleport you to the lower path, thus giving you an alternative way of collecting the Quad Damage. However you are just as likely to teleport into the lava.
• Although not an "official" secret, here is how to kill Shub-Niggurath. The key word here is telefrag. If you watch that floating spiked ball you'll notice it passes through Shub-Niggurath at regular intervals. What you have to do is step into the upper teleporter just as the ball passes through her.
• There is in fact another way to exit the level, but you need to enter a cheat code. When you emerge from the entrance corridor and catch sight of Shub-Niggurath for the first time, use the "fly" cheat code and fly up to the top of the corridor. Touching the side wall of the cavern near this point will exit the level, but you don't get the end-of-game animation. Instead a conventional end-of-level screen appears with kills/secrets displayed: pressing a key takes you back to the start level but with full weaponry. - Filip Skwarski
• Thanks to a bug in version 1.01 of Quake, you can kill Shub-Niggurath by using some of the cheat codes to get extra weaponry (and a quad damage powerup). It's a VERY slow process (between 84 and 100 rockets even with quad damage) and there is a risk that the game will misbehave when you finally succeed. This bug was fixed in version 1.05 of Quake.

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