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Welcome to Blood, the 1997 PC shooter from Monolith Productions and 3D Realms. You play as Caleb, a gunslinger betrayed and resurrected by the dark lord Tchernobog. Armed with an arsenal of bizarre and brutal weapons, you’ll blast your way through cultists, demons, and undead horrors across four distinct episodes. It’s a fast-paced, atmospheric FPS that demands quick reflexes and a taste for the macabre.

This guide will help you conquer every episode and defeat the game's formidable bosses. We’ll cover strategies for navigating treacherous levels, finding every secret, and achieving those elusive Steam Achievements. Whether you’re facing the Cult of the Bloody Hand or the horrors of the Undercity, we’ve got the intel you need to become the ultimate dark lord.

1-1. Basic Information About the Game

Welcome to Blood! This is your very first mission, E1M1: Cradle to Grave, and it's a doozy. Think of it as your introduction to the dark, twisted world you're about to dive into. Don't worry, I'll walk you through it. This level is packed with secrets, so keep your eyes peeled. You'll be exploring a graveyard, a funeral home, and a crematorium. Along the way, you'll encounter some nasty critters like Bats, Rats, Axe Zombies, and Cultists. Make sure you grab all the weapons you can find – you'll definitely need them. Walkthrough Highlights: * Secrets Galore: There are 11 regular secrets and 1 Super Secret. Don't miss them! * Key Items: Keep an eye out for the Flare Gun, Dynamite Bundle, Sawed-Off Shotgun, and Napalm Launcher. * Enemies: Be ready for Bats, Rats, Axe Zombies, and Cultists. * Watch Out! When you see exploding barrels, do NOT stand next to them. They're a shortcut, but they'll blow you up too if you're not careful. Let's get started. From your starting point, you'll need to find Secret 1 and Secret 2. Then, head outside to find Secret 3. After that, push through the gate and grab the Flare Gun. You'll want to jump to Secret 4 soon after. Next, make your way towards the Morningside Cemetery funeral home. Inside, you'll find Secret 5, Secret 6, and Secret 7. Remember those exploding barrels I mentioned? Blow up the two near the entrance to the funeral home for a shortcut back to the start – just don't be too close! Once you're in the Crematorium, look for Secret 8 and Secret 9. You can find a Doctor's Bag by destroying medical waste drums. Outside the window, there's a Box of TNT. Jump into a wall coffin for Secret 10, and then find Secret 11. Before you finish the level, there's a Super Secret (Secret 12) waiting for you. Stand between two coffins on the ground, jump, and you'll find it. It's worth the effort! Secrets Breakdown: * Secret 1: Use the side of the coffin to your right after jumping out of the shallow grave. (Box of Flares) * Secret 2: In the same room, use the curved wall on the far left corner. (Case of TNT) * Secret 3: After leaving the mausoleum, blow up the two Axe Zombies. Before heading down the stairs, use the hedge wall that touches the mausoleum wall. (Body Armor) * Secret 4: In the graveyard, jump onto the roof of the smaller tomb opposite the funeral home entrance. (Guns Akimbo) * Secret 5: Inside the funeral home, stand on the middle bench in the main room to reveal a small alcove. (Box of Flares) * Secret 6: Use the church organ past the previous secret to open an alcove above it. (Beast Vision) * Secret 7: In the first part of the morgue hall, blow up a cracked wall coffin on your lower right. (Body Armor) * Secret 8: Inside the crematorium, crawl into the furnace. Don't stay too long! * Secret 9: In the crematorium, use the saw on the wall to open the shelf next to it. (Box of Flares x2) * Secret 10: In the second morgue section, blow up a cracked wall coffin on your upper left and jump inside. (Fire Armor) * Secret 11: After Secret 10, enter through the Dagger Key door and jump behind the coffin/sarcophagus lid. (Box of Flares) * Secret 12 (Super Secret): From Secret 11, look out the hole where the end-of-level switch is. Jump from the cracked wall up into a high section of the angled rock wall directly in front of you. (Napalm Launcher) Have fun out there, and try not to get too messy!

BLOOD?

Blood is a fundamental element within the game, acting as both a resource and a key component of the world's mechanics. Understanding its properties is crucial for progression and survival.

What is Blood?

Blood in this context refers to the vital fluid that sustains the characters and influences the game's systems. It is often sought after, utilized in various ways, and its scarcity or abundance can dictate the challenges faced by the player. Its nature is intrinsically tied to the lore of the world, explaining the motivations of characters and the state of the environment.

Gameplay Significance

Mechanically, Blood can be a consumable, a currency, or a power source. Players may need to collect it, manage its reserves, or use it to activate special abilities or equipment. The game's narrative often revolves around the pursuit or control of Blood, making it a central theme in quests and character interactions.

THE STORY

In an age and a region renowned for cruelty and violence, Caleb was legendary. Born in western Texas in 1847, he had sealed a reputation as a merciless gunfighter by the age of 17. But it was seven years later when he met Ophelia Price that his hunger for bloodshed took on a menacing new timbre.

She was already well beyond the bounds of sanity when he found her cowering in the charred ruins of the burned out homestead where her husband and child had perished only days before. It was neither her tattered beauty nor her plight that compelled Caleb to take her in, however-it was the words he picked out of her virtually incoherent mumblings.

He learned that her husband had attempted to rescind his membership of the dreaded Cult of Tchernobog and in return cultisis had set fire to the house in the night. Ophelia was filled with rage-not at the cult but at her husband, whose cowardice she blamed for the death of her young son.

Ophelia was Calbe's doorway to the Cult and its dark purpose. He could not have known that in time he would come to love her, not that their service to the Cult would find the two of them beloved among the Chosen, elite servants of the dreaming god Tchernobog, the One That Binds, Devourer of Souls.

In the Hall of the Epiphany, a temple that spans the chasm between the worlds, the four remaining Chosen stand that the forefront of a procession of worshippers. Tchernobog's presence is felt more than seen-the great, frigid weight of a hunger that spans millennia. He speaks in a cacophony of voices stolen from the dead, summoning the Chosen to the center of the sacrificial ring. They stand before the Dark God, united by a sudden, inexplicable sense of doom.

A wordless cry rises up from the seething shadows, one voice swallowed up by many until the hall resounds with them. The emembers of the procession behind the Chosen melt away in a gust of ethereal wind, extinguished like so many candle flames. There aren't even ashes to indicate they ever existed.

The Chosen look to one another in confusion and dread. They can already feel the ties that bind them to Tchernobog fraying. Why? How have we failed you?

But there is no answer other than the shattering scream that threatens to tear the universe to shreads. Darkness swells around them, swallows them. Their cold, abandoned souls fall through the abyss.

And they burn.

Caleb awakens in cold and damp in a body he no longer knows. It has long lain as a corpse that refused to rot, protected from putrefaction by some unearthly link to its master. The pain of protesting muscle and flesh invigorates and awakens him. He welcomes it. It distills his hate into the maelstrom raging in the center of his mind.

An agonizing cry breaks out of him, shattering the stone lid of the tomb in which he lies, knocking loose sediment, cobwebs, and the small, unnoticed creatures that have shared his grave with him. A single word rings out through the darkness, echoing Tchernobog's lingering howl: "Why?"