key-smiter
Level: Master Delver
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{sigh} What's the orb order? Everything I've tried has gotten me nowhere -

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key-smiter
Level: Master Delver
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Well, I've tried doing this programmatically, I've tried just whalin' away at orbs for hundreds of moves, and neither one gets me to the exit. Can anyone provide even the tiniest of hints?

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starwed
Level: Delver
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If this is the level that has the very long sequence of gates under tar, with hints to the order scattered throughout the level, then:

If this is some other part of the hold (or even worse, part of some other hold)... sorry!

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[Last edited by starwed at 02-25-2007 12:41 AM]

key-smiter
Level: Master Delver
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No, this is this room.

And I'm still not able to get through.

Like I noted before, neither rigor nor random orb hammering has opened gates in the right sequence. Am I fated to be stuck forever? (Or, like the proverbial monkeys with typewriters, will my random orb activations yield Shakespearean success?)

jemann
Level: Master Delver

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I don't think there's any set of orbs you can hit that will open a complete path for you. That is, you need to open a path that will get you to one orb (within the grid), then a different path to get you to the next orb, and so on, until you can eventually get to the NW corner. If I had a demo I'd share it, but sadly I don't. You'll just have to keep plugging away.

Briareos
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Registered: 08-07-2005
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Wait - I'm pretty sure I recently posted a secret-ed step by step solution for this room because someone else was stuck here, but I totally can't find it anymore.

Did someone delete that post? And if so, could I at least have gotten a notification via PM?

EDIT: Apologies if I somehow managed to type a lenghty post on this room and then happened to not actually post it, but I don't think I was that clumsy...

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[Last edited by Briareos at 03-07-2007 08:23 AM]

key-smiter
Level: Master Delver
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{sigh} It's been more than a month and I finally got somewhere . . . the latest run got me back to the beginning after 396 moves. Is that elegant or what? Who needs to hit "R"?

Less sardonically, I am still stuck. I understand that demos can't be automatically recorded for monsterless rooms, but does anybody's memory contain how to get through this room?

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christine83
Level: Master Delver

Rank Points: 158
Registered: 08-14-2005
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In visual:




Orb puzzles are only fun the first 5 minutes..

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key-smiter
Level: Master Delver
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Thanks. And this time I recorded a demo, in the unlikely event somebody as ignorant as I comes through.

And - hahahahaha!! The next room to the north is the same kind of room. Makes me want to go into the Navy just to learn the right English.