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Mihail
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The City Beneath : Abyssian Fortress : 2 South (-1)

The tar and mud parts are easy.
But I can't remove all the gell from the lowest gel mother area.
Do I need to conenct it to another gel mother or not?
Also, in what order do I have to kill the gel mothers?

04-07-2007 at 01:06 PM

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04-07-2007 at 02:32 PM

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Doh, I was having the same troubles...

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04-07-2007 at 11:51 PM

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How am I supposed to even destroy the mud and tar?

05-03-2007 at 11:48 AM

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How am I supposed to even destroy the mud and tar?

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05-03-2007 at 12:01 PM

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Help! I still can't even get started. Help, anyone?

05-13-2007 at 07:14 PM

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To get started,

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05-14-2007 at 02:47 AM

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Wow, it must be

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Thanks!

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06-06-2007 at 11:16 PM

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Yes, it should be elementary gel maneuvering by now, but I'm baffled anwyay . . . I can get rid of the tar and mud with no problem, but no more than two of the three gel mothers. I'm always left with something uncuttable, no matter how I use the mimic to block growth . . . any hints on gel available?

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07-22-2007 at 06:57 PM

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07-22-2007 at 07:27 PM

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Thanks for the pointer . . . I coulda sworn I did this, but evidently not. Onward -

07-22-2007 at 10:06 PM

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Whew! This is a bugger! Just to clarify something,

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I can't imaging optimizing this one.

Now on to 2N, which also looks nasty.

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08-26-2007 at 10:48 PM

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CuriousShyRabbit wrote:
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×1. Send the mimic to drop the two trapdoors next to the left-hand bridge. This frees the left-hand platform and strands the mimic on the little 2x2 island.

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×2. Have Beethro ride the platform and pick up the mimic.

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×3. When they're both on the platform, you're in business.
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×Go for the tar or mud next.

I solved it using your method, but apparently there's a simpler way that doesn't even use the trapdoors.

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11-02-2007 at 05:59 AM

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I've been trying this alternative just for the fun of it and may be I am missing something but I don't see how it works.

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So is this alternative possible? It's neat if it is as it looks easier than the alternative.

02-25-2008 at 04:41 PM

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So is this alternative possible? It's neat if it is as it looks easier than the alternative.

It would appear so, I've managed to lose the mimic, and free the platform (demo attached)

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10-24-2008 at 05:37 AM

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eenywhite wrote:

kingpr wrote:
So is this alternative possible? It's neat if it is as it looks easier than the alternative.

I followed this suggestion, freed the second raft, travelled to the gel and found it all worked well until I tried to get rid of the gel. For the first time I made a demo to export and discover that I don't know how to do that either (I did try to export). Talk about frustrated!! Can someone please help me.

03-12-2009 at 01:54 AM

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For the first time I made a demo to export and discover that I don't know how to do that either (I did try to export). :blush

Why does it happen? I went back for one final time, managed to stand in the right place and finished the room. :blush

But if someone can tell me how to download/export a demo I would be very grateful. Thank you!

03-12-2009 at 02:43 AM

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F6 gets you to your demo management screen.

If you're creating a "here's where I am" demo, I believe that F4 is the key to start and end said demo. Either that or F5, I'm not certain.

To export, click the appropriate button on F6. Downloading can occur through CaravelNet once the room is solved. If you have not previously solved the room (or don't have CNet), you can get demos as attachments/files elsewhere, and "Import" them on the F6 screen.

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03-12-2009 at 02:47 AM

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zex20913 wrote:
To export, click the appropriate button on F6. Downloading can occur through CaravelNet once the room is solved. If you have not previously solved the room (or don't have CNet), you can get demos as attachments/files elsewhere, and "Import" them on the F6 screen.

Thank you very much. That's what I did—gave it a name and saved the demo at F5, went to F6, selected my new demo, clicked export and nothing happened. I must be missing a step somewhere. I didn't feel the name of my demo was sufficiently complete—perhaps I should have given it a fuller address at F5. any further help would be appreciated. thank you.

03-12-2009 at 03:22 AM

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There are 3 kinds of demos that get recorded.

F4: To create a demo of what you've done to a certain point, hit F4: this will record every move you've made from when you entered the room until the point you hit F4.

F5: To start a demo recording at a certain point, hit F5 to start it, make your moves and then F5 again when you want to stop recording.

Victory: If you just want to export a victory demo you can access that from the F6 screen. All other demos (F4 or F5) are also accessible from there.

Lately I've noticed that even a single demo takes a while to export (I just timed one and it took 21 seconds), so after you hit the export button wait until the pop-up window comes up saying that your demo was exported before you hit "return to game."

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03-12-2009 at 03:29 AM

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noma wrote:F4: To create a demo of what you've done to a certain point, hit F4: this will record every move you've made from when you entered the room until the point you hit F4.

Thank you very much for this comprehensive explanation. The answer to my problem was that I didn't read the instructions properly. I've trialled another one now and it worked. But it may be of interest to you to know that F4 on a Mac isn't available for demos—it does something outside of DROD. Thank you, thank you.

03-12-2009 at 05:48 AM

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Hmm. It works on my Mac. Have you assigned that function key to something else?

03-12-2009 at 11:40 AM

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noma wrote:
Hmm. It works on my Mac. Have you assigned that function key to something else?

Mine's a MacBook and F4 brings up the Dashboard. What a nuisance!!

03-12-2009 at 09:46 PM

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Mlizziec wrote:
Mine's a MacBook and F4 brings up the Dashboard. What a nuisance!!

You can change that by going into system preferences - keyboard and mouse section, and choose the keyboard tab. Then you can tick the box that says 'Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys'. This will change all of them though, which you might not want, personally I don't use any of them so it doesn't bother me.

Alternatively, I think you can go into the keyboard shortcuts tab to change individual keys, or even change them only for DROD (or any other application).

03-12-2009 at 11:55 PM

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pigletto wrote:
Alternatively, I think you can go into the keyboard shortcuts tab to change individual keys, or even change them only for DROD (or any other application).

This is fascinating—I've never changed any of those settings at all. Other than in DROD the only F keys I use are 10, 11 & 12 which are connected to sound. So I clicked 'Restore Defaults' only to find that what I am using are the defaults. It looks as though I'll have to do without F4 to save demos. Thank you very much for your interest.

03-14-2009 at 05:46 AM

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Mlizziec wrote:
So I clicked 'Restore Defaults' only to find that what I am using are the defaults. It looks as though I'll have to do without F4 to save demos. Thank you very much for your interest.

It might be worth to file this as a bug report on the bug reports board - if those settings are indeed the defaults then something has to be changed, at least for the Mac port.

But then again I find it outrageously stupid of Apple to use some of the (regular) function keys as global hotkeys - those (well, at least without modifier keys) were always meant to be application-specific hotkeys! :facepalm:

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03-14-2009 at 10:30 AM

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Help me, please. I can not kill green mum.
How correctly to put a platform?
Give, please, a demo with green mum.

08-04-2009 at 07:04 PM

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Here you go.

08-04-2009 at 07:19 PM

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Thank you very much ))

08-04-2009 at 09:24 PM

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Here you go.

*jaw drops to the desk*
Are you telling me that I can use the mimic to re-arm myself?!
Why was this never revealed to us by the in-game info?!

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