Leelas Return

Leelas Return is Moritz Grund's three-level fan scenario for Bungie's Marathon Infinity, a single-player campaign that pulls the dismantled AI Leela back into the story. Version 1.05 - the version archived on Info-Mac - added a cutscene movie to the previously released build and is otherwise a pure level pack.

Story and setting

Within Marathon canon, Leela is one of the three Marathon AIs and is captured and dismantled by the Pfhor; this scenario imagines her return to the player's side and uses the Marathon Infinity engine to stage three connected single-player maps around that premise. A cutscene movie was added in 1.05 to give the storyline a more cinematic on-ramp.

Language note

The author warns explicitly in the readme that all terminal text - the in-mission story exposition that Marathon delivers through computer terminals - is written in German rather than English. Players who do not read German will still be able to fight through the maps, but most of the narrative beats will be inaccessible without translation.

Engine and requirements

The pack is a Marathon Infinity scenario, so it requires a working install of Bungie's Marathon Infinity (or an Aleph One build that loads its data) to run. It ships as a single BinHex archive under info-mac/game/com/mthn (the mthn subdirectory being Info-Mac's Marathon-scenario corner).

Distribution

Distributed through Info-Mac as leelas-return-105.hqx with contact info pointing at the author's home.pages.de/~moritz.grund homepage and moritz.grund@mannheim-netz.de email. Macintosh Garden has no entry for it, so the BinHex header is the canonical preserved description.