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Didn't expect me, huh?
- The Tip of the Day.
HELL BATH NO FURY is the secret mission for the VIOLENCE layer, and can be accessed through the mission [ 7-3: NO SOUND, NO MEMORY ]. The mission takes place in the Library of Babel, and involves going through a seemingly standard level, before being required to "CLEAN UP YOUR MESS!" This is done using a power-washer (to clean up blood), and a vacuum (to clean up "Litter," which includes corpses and giblets), which are both variants of the same weapon unique to this level. The Level Exit will open once the player cleans all previously dirty areas.
Major Areas[]
Lobby[]
A massive room, two-stored room, with book shelves and benches around the area, with a large chandler in the middle of the room hanging above a rectangular bottomless pit. Music will not play during the main portion of the level, with only the ticking of the gigantic clock on the wall serving as ambience. A Red Pedestal sits in front of the door on the left, with a Blue Pedestal next to the front door.
After leaving the Lounge with the Red Skull, three Idols protecting two Sentries and a Mindflayer will spawn, as well as two Drones. Breaking all Idols will spawn a single Virtue in the middle, atop the chandler. Killing all enemies will open the door if the Red Skull is placed.
Side Room[]
A cubic room decorated with bookshelves, with stairs leading down to a lower floor. Entering this room will spawn two Mannequins, and a Swordsmachine. Killing both of them opens both the doors.
Lounge[]
Upon leaving the Side Room and climbing via the Blue Hookpoint, the path leads to a room that has a fireplace, and many chairs and bookshelves. A Checkpoint is placed on the ramp leading up to the room itself. Walking deeper into the room spawns three Filth on each side of the room for six in total, as well as two Cerberi and two Mannequins. Killing all enemies will open the door and reveal a Blue Hookpoint over a black pit. On the other end of the hall is the Red Skull, as well as a Checkpoint.
Courtyard[]
A walled-off outdoors area, featuring a large pool and a waterfall. Upon entering, two Guttermen will spawn on the left and right, as well as a Malicious Face on the right side of the pool, and a Hideous Mass on the platform in the center. Killing both the Guttermen or the Hideous Mass will wake up four of the Mannequins along the wall. Killing the Hideous Mass will cause the pond to turn a deep shade of blood red, which must be drained during the cleaning portion of the level.
After all enemies have been killed, the glass panel will open and allow access to the Blue Skull.
Fake Exit[]
After placing the Blue Skull on the pedestal in the Lobby, the player will be allowed access to a new room, made out of the same metal as the Level Exit. They are then faced with a Vacuum Cleaner and Pressure Washer, as well as a screen above both, saying:
CLEAN UP YOUR MESS!
The washer and vacuum go in slot 6.
Both tools have alternate fire modes.
Litter too big to be vacuumed needs to be manually thrown away.
Some corpses cannot be moved and need to be crushed.
The door will open when it's ALL clean.
The real Level Exit, to the left of this screen, will not open until the mess made in the level has been cleaned. After the level is thoroughly cleaned, the text on the screen changes to:
THANK YOU.
The exit is now open.
Have a G O O D day.
Cleaning[]
Picking up both tools will spawn a Checkpoint behind the Blue Pedestal and allow the player to start cleaning everywhere they have fought; mainly by washing the blood off of every surface. Pointing the crosshair at a specific surface of the area (floor, walls, decor, etc.) will display a percentage meter on the top of the HUD displaying how clean it is; at 99%, all blood textures will disappear from the section with a yellow flash and sparkle. On the left of the HUD is a to-do list for the area the player is currently in; whatever surfaces are clean will be marked with a green tick, and the amount of litter (corpse parts) will be counted and displayed. To dispose of most gibs such as limbs, the player must use the vacuum to take the respective part to a bin, dumpster, or bottomless pit in the area.
To clean the pond in the Courtyard, the player must use the Vacuum Cleaner to pull out a plug at the bottom of the pond, reverting the color of the water back to normal.
Once every part of the level is clean, the Level Exit will open with an audio cue.
Vacuum Cleaner[]
The Vacuum Cleaner has two default modes that do not change the appearance of the weapon.
- (Pull) - Sucks giblets towards the Vacuum Cleaner. Larger enemy gibs will get "grabbed" as long as they are continuously pulled in, allowing them to be carried around towards disposal areas.
- (Push) - Blows giblets away from the Vacuum Cleaner. Useful for gathering up gibs, before pushing the group into a pit for mass disposal.
Pressure Washer[]
The Pressure Washer has three modes to eliminate blood. To change modes, press Alternate Fire.
- (Horizontal Spray) - Sprays water with a horizontal spread, loses efficiency when further away. Indicated by a blue nozzle.
- (Vertical Spray) - Sprays water with a vertical spread, loses efficiency when further away. Indicated by a yellow nozzle.
- (Jet) - Sprays with a tight, powerful beam, great at longer distances. Indicated by a red nozzle.
Hard Mode[]
In "Advanced Options" of the main menu, there is a "Require High Accuracy" option. Enabling it adds two decimals to cleanup percentage bar and disables automatic cleanup at 99%, making cleaning significantly harder and more tedious.
Drone Haunting[]
Along the bookshelves on the upper floor to the right of the windows, a single green book stands out among the other monochrome books; using the Vacuum Cleaner's Pull mode on the book will cause that section of the bookshelf to rotate, allowing access to a secret passage behind it. The room contains a gate blocking off the rest of the path, with a set of coils that must be hit with either the JumpStart Nailgun or the Electric Railcannon to power it on.
Walking back out of the secret passage after powering the coils will cause the entirety of the Lobby's lights to be dimmed, and for the Lobby itself to be infested with ghostly versions of Drones. The Drones can be sucked up using the Vacuum Cleaner's Pull mode, unlocking Drone Haunting when all Drones are sucked up. This will also open the previously-closed gate, serving as an alternative way to the Courtyard without needing the Red Skull placed on its pedestal in the Lobby.
Testament V[]
The Secret Terminal at the end of this level contains Testament V.
I AM HOLLOW.
MY MISTAKES LEAVE NOTHING BUT HATE
IN THEIR WAKE, AND INFINITE PAIN TO
FOLLOW...I CAN'T TAKE ANY MORE OF THIS GUILT
AND REGRET, FOR ME THERE IS NO
TOMORROW...I AM HOLLOW.
...
I BEGAN TO SEEK THE END OF MY DAYS.
BUT WHEN I STARED INTO THE ABYSS...
THE ABYSS AVERTED ITS GAZE.
Trivia[]
- The name of the level is a pun on the quote "Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned", from the 1697 play The Mourning Bride by English playwright William Congreve.
- Usage of the word "Bath" in the mission's title might also be an unintended play on the word "But", since time is spent cleaning peacefully after facing enemies as usual.
- Currently, dying after having cleaned a part of the map causes the blood to remain washed while the gibs will reappear upon respawn.
- The "Enable Blood and Gore" setting does not work in this level, likely because there would be no second part of the level if there was no blood or gore.
- Playing with low gore, however, makes the level significantly easier, as the only litter that will remain will be the Cerberus and Filth gibs, and the Swordsmachine's corpse.
- This is the only secret mission with an entrance Terminal, hence the Tip of the Day for this level being "Didn't expect me, huh?"
- This level is one of the only two in the game to have no music during most major combat segments, the other being [ 5-2: WAVES OF THE STARLESS SEA ].
- The gameplay is very similar to PowerWash Simulator and Viscera Cleanup Detail, with the addition of a checklist and "selected object cleanliness" bar when picking up the cleaning tools.
- When switching to the Pressure Washer while holding onto a gib with the Vacuum Cleaner, the gib will teleport back to the player when switching back to the Vacuum.
- It is possible to do janky prop flying with the drain plug, though it seems to mostly move the player horizontally instead of vertically.
- Shooting the chandelier in the lobby with an Attractor Nailgun magnet breaks the chandelier, causing it to fly out of bounds.
- Luring an enemy into a bottomless pit grants the [+TRASHED] Style Bonus.
- While the library building seems to stretch out to infinity, it is merely just a really tall pyramid to make it seem like it goes on forever from a lower perspective.
- The secret involving sucking up Ghost Drones is most likely a reference to the Luigi's Mansion games, where ghosts are sucked up with vacuums.
- This could be further reinforced by the fact that, on the secret path to the Courtyard, the color of the book needed to activate it is green, Luigi's signature color.
- There's a secret behind the waterfall of the Courtyard, with a sign labeled 'Agnes Gorge Trail'. Down the (extremely long) winding path, there's a Red Pedestal required to move past the doors behind it. Behind the door is a small lake along with Hakita, a cocktail glass full of V2's blood, and Florp. The lake is said to contain Size 2 fish, but it is impossible to find or obtain. The lake resembles a segment in an ending in the Doom mod MyHouse.wad. [is this an intentional reference? does anyone know?]
- Agnes Gorge Trail is a real place in Washington. The significance of this nomenclative similarity is unknown.
- Neither the trail nor the fishing spot will appear if [ 5-S: I ONLY SAY MORNING ] has not been completed, and both will immediately despawn upon the activation of Cheats.
- On the shore, there is a note in a bottle containing the message "Sorry, gone fishin'! - Size 2".
- Rather poetically, breaking the glass makes the same sound as when V2 first jumped through the window in [ 1-4: CLAIR DE LUNE ].
- Inside the secret room of the waterfall, the moon is a 3D model. On the opposite side of it, there is another hidden Victoria plushie with the text "Dawg Side of the Moon" on top of it.
- The "Dawg Side of the Moon" may be a homage to the critically acclaimed Pink Floyd album The Dark Side of the Moon.
- It may also simply be a play on the term "Dark side of the moon", as Victoria is on the part of the moon that is not visible to the player.
- The clock in the Lobby shows the actual time on the player's computer, and is on beat with the music.
- As with [ 7-2: LIGHT UP THE NIGHT ], the existence of the clock is a reference to internet user Katie Tightpussy (@Juicysteak117) who drew a clock daily in Microsoft Paint for five months.[1]
- The clock skips roman numeral X, going straight from IX to XI, XII and XIII.
- The Lounge has a tiny version of the Developer Museum chessboard.
- The pieces can be picked up with the Vacuum Cleaner. They cannot be thrown away, however, making them a general nuisance when attempting to clean up other gibs.
- The reflections once a room is clean are unique to every room and all include a hidden plushie of Victoria, the 3-D Lead Artist who designed the level.
- The building the level takes place in appears to be the Library of Babel, a fictional library turned online project that contains every possible piece of literature with 410 pages. [2]
- This is further backed up by the fact that there is a literal photo of it with the text "THE LIBRARY OF BABEL" underneath in the Side Room.
- "The Library of Babel" was a book written by Jorge Luis Borges. This is the same author that wrote "The Garden of Forking Paths".
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ BLUESKY - @actiondawg (Victoria, 3D Lead Artist) /// "also we 100% made that a clocktower specifically bc i wanted a katie clock joke in the game but not something that would be confusing for players who werent in on the bit. so yea youre the reason that the 7-2 tower is a clocktower lol"
- ↑ The Library of Babel. (n.d.). sites.evergreen.edu. Retrieved April 21, 2024, from https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf