noma
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I just can't get past the entrance to the room on the left. I can only manage to smite one or two of the roachlings before they hatch and then must retreat back to the hallway.

Would someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Briareos
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noma wrote:
Would someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you.

np: Styrofoam - If I Believed You/Back Into Focus (I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing)

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noma
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Thanks Briareos. Room complete.

Briareos
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noma wrote:
Thanks Briareos. Room complete.

I'm glad you made it...


np: The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight (Give Up)

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key-smiter
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Briareos wrote:

noma wrote:
Would someone please point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Click here to view the secret text

×Standing north of the left part of the door, I managed to smite the last approaching roach one turn after the queens spawned by pointing my sworth NE.

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×That allowed me to smite the NE queen and one of her spawn before I had to retreat again.

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×Of course, with one queen gone I was able to kill the other one next to me shortly thereafter.

np: Styrofoam - If I Believed You/Back Into Focus (I'm What's There To Show That Something's Missing)

I've been doing this room over and over, both by myself and using these hints, and in my case there's no retreat. I've tried starting each spawn with the two possible sword directions, starting on the left, starting on the right . . . . and there's no hope. I've attached a demo of my typical experience - how can I get past this frustrating room?

Thanks -

Parse
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Yeah, this room is a doozy.
When I did this, I used this post as well.

Things that may (or may not) help you:
The cycle before I killed the first roach, because of existing roaches in spawning positions, only 26 roaches spawned - one position on each size was already occupied.
I made sure that on the cycle before I charged in to swing to the north on even turns (ie, on turn 30, there was a roach directly north of me).
If you don't kill a roach each move in the cycle before, you will get eaten if you try charging - you need four steps to get into the roach queen and get back to safety, and you have a total of thirty turns to act (each cycle). Burning a move with an unproductive turn or step will ruin that cycle for your effort.

Best of luck!

key-smiter
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Parse wrote:
Yeah, this room is a doozy.
When I did this, I used this post as well.

Things that may (or may not) help you:
The cycle before I killed the first roach, because of existing roaches in spawning positions, only 26 roaches spawned - one position on each size was already occupied.

Check.

I made sure that on the cycle before I charged in to swing to the north on even turns (ie, on turn 30, there was a roach directly north of me).

Check.

If you don't kill a roach each move in the cycle before, you will get eaten if you try charging - you need four steps to get into the roach queen and get back to safety, and you have a total of thirty turns to act (each cycle). Burning a move with an unproductive turn or step will ruin that cycle for your effort.

Best of luck!

And "check" on this too. Unless I'm misinterpreting completely, I'm doing exactly this . . . and I'm still one move short. (If I get the sword one swing out of phase, I'm two moves short.) I'm baffled . . .

[Edit: Made it, but by doing something other than what previous hints suggested. Go figure.]

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