For the record, this is puzzle number 9 (I think) out of 12 puzzles in the map js_build_puzzle_sixteen_v2. Which has a space theme. It seems that all the js_build_puzzle_* maps were made by this map-junkie who goes by the name dazole. We know this because his name is usually displayed in huge fiery letters by the spawn point of each of his maps we've visited so far. Anyway, he makes the best maps. Nuff said.

This is the first snapshot. We were already pretty far ahead. You can see the starting point at the bottom of the pic, so far away! How far would that be in metres? At least 200!

Here you are placing the next 'board' (which looks suspiciously like the doors in the interrogation rooms by the train station in city 17 at the beginning of HL2). You make it look easy, dude. I learned quite a bit from watching you. This enabled me to build my own personal stairway to oblivion in my own time :P

About to pass you another door. Looks a bit far for you grab from where you're standing though.

We're so close! My hands were getting a little sweaty from the tension. Just one mis-step and over an hour of back-breaking, door-lifting work would be down the drain. Well, my wife would say that it was down the drain either way. Remember that time when you got stuck? Pins and needles man!

Now we're getting seriously close. A wrong step here would have required some serious banging of head against monitor.

Finally the exit portal is in sight. At the beginning of the puzzle I didn't even realise we were supposed to head upwards.

This was the only posed pic. I wanted to capture a manly pose with the portal looming above. Unfortunately I couldn't get closer to you without losing sight of the portal, and so you came out smaller than I would have liked. If I look closely at the starfield textures I can just make out the corner of the huge room that enclosed the whole level. Its just to the left of the crosshairs, see?

Ocassionally I got a bit blinded by the supernova thingy. Great atmosphere. Although I must add that it was odd that were was full gravity when we were supposed to be in outer space.

One last look back. Can you imagine how many doors it would take to create a complete continuous path all the way from the start? 1000? Would the server be able to cope? Last night lying in bed at 4am, I was thinking about the crazy idea of getting a team of 32 players and setting up a fireman's line, passing the doors along all the way to the guy in front (i.e. you) and not recycling the doors. This way if anyone fell off they could just come back and keep working. Hey, I was just passing time, waiting to fall asleep. It beats counting sheep.

Our final staircase was a really nice tight spiral. Excellent handiwork. Next time, how about building a staircase in the shape of our names?

Finally! I carried a door with me through the portal, but it disappeared.

Jus' fooling around in map eleven.

Nice handiwork, eh? I call it the Descent of Man.

One small and fatal step for this man, one pointless waste of time for me and mankind.