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I've killed the bottom two snakes, but I can't seem to get the top one. A couple of hints please?

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zex20913 wrote:

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×I did the top one first.

Me too. Also, I entered the room with the sword facing

Ezlo
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Okay, now I can kill the top snake and nothing else.

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Josh

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I'm sorry to say that you hint didn't help, I was already doing that anyway, but I solved the room anyway.

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See, the problem is you keep asking for hints when you already know everything!

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deftriver wrote:
I also don't know what to do after killing all the snakes.

If you've managed to kill all of the snakes, presumably without causing your exit door to slam shut on you, then you have some fairly open areas to deal with the goblins in. You really have two choices: lure them into the open spaces (I believe that the place where the top snake was worked best) and kill them there, or make them follow you into the exit passageway where you can turn your sword, and then kill them when you get to where the yellow door opened for you.

Unfortunately, I no longer remember exactly how I did this part. But once you've dealt with the snakes, I'd say that you've managed the hardest part of the room.

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I can kill all three snakes, but end up stuck with one goblin right next to me and the other inaccessible, or I can reason with the goblins so they're killable later (but the snakes stay alive). Not a good choice.

I've attached a demo of my "kill three snakes" process. Since I'm now stuck, I clearly went wrong somewhere . . . any hints where?

Thanks -

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key-smiter wrote:
I can kill all three snakes, but end up stuck with one goblin right next to me and the other inaccessible, or I can reason with the goblins so they're killable later (but the snakes stay alive). Not a good choice.

I've attached a demo of my "kill three snakes" process. Since I'm now stuck, I clearly went wrong somewhere . . . any hints where?

Thanks -

Well, you do a couple of things wrong.




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Rheb wrote:
Well, you do a couple of things wrong.

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×You shouldn't wait until the goblin comes down to you (in the end of your demo).

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×Instead, when the goblin is at 20,1 you should move directly up to the checkpoint.

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×And wait there until the snake is dead.

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×Then move up to 22,5 and go back to the first snakes circle.

When I do this, the northernmost snake survives. I've stepped backwards. I'm baffled . . . and I'm even more stumped by this.
Maybe I should look on the bright side - I can, at least, kill two snakes.

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Once you've killed all the snakes, you want the goblins, to be able to get down to the door where you can kill the goblins, to line up like this:

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-B

There's many ways to do that. I actually just found a way that might be better that the way I mentioned in my previous hints.




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Rheb wrote:

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×In the end of your demo, when the goblin moves to 20,1, go up to the checkpoint at 20,3, and wait there for 5-7 turns, and the goblin will kill the snake.

Oh, that checkpoint. I assumed you meant the one at [21,5]. Duh.

And Rheb also wrote:

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×Leave the first snake alive, etc.

I'll give this a shot, although it will mean re-starting the room . . . I'd much rather figure how to get the easterly goblin to the north of Beethro, although it's pretty clearly impossible.

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Got it, finally . . . and I was eventually able to figure out how to line up the goblins after killing all the snakes.