Just as in key-smiter's semi-spoiler:
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×You can hack the crowd down to 3-4 goblins before even leaving the entrance to the room
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×Standing at (0,29) with your sword pointing east, swing 2x CCW, 2x CW and repeat until satisfied
then to ditch the remaining goblins:
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×Point your sword NE, and with your back to the west wall, move six steps north, then seven steps NE
having trouble smiting those creeps?
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×By stepping NE and SE (with an occasional single step E), manuver them around the "
central"
cross and towards the NE cross.
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×Squeeze the group of 2, 3 or 4 goblins through the 2-wide passage between the NE cross and the north wall. At this point you should be able to kill them one at a time without being surrounded.
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