Official Quakewiki Video - Quake - E1M8 - Ziggurat Vertigo

This isn't my day. Starting out fine, especially after finding the Rocket Launcher (one of my favorite weapons), I end up with no armor after using the Pentagram of Protection as I forgot that a side-effect of getting hit will be that your armor will run out. As I ran into a Yellow Armor after getting the Quad Damage, this means that by the time the first Pentagram ran out I already had zero armor and had to make my way through the rest of the mission. I was lucky as a second Yellow Armor exists near the end, though my desire to save the armor until I entered the portal (therefore having a perfect amount of armor for the next mission) meant that I nearly died after taking two hits from the grenades of the Ogres in the final room. Overall, nothing that could have been prevented with my lack of memory, yet it did mean I had to struggle more than I should have (even if I ended up on a pretty good note with nearly maximum ammo for all guns, perfect armor at this stage of the game, and maximum health).