Narsham
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Long time reader, first-time poster.

I'm having terrible trouble with this room--specifically, with the red serpent. The roaches keep me from shutting the doors for longer than a single step, and I'm not sure how to use that tiny window of opportunity to manipulate the blue serpent into blocking the red's path to me. Is there an easy solution I'm overlooking?

Narsham

CuriousShyRabbit
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Welcome!

Hint: Try killing the red serpent with something else...

Spoiler:

philb
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I'm having a lot of trouble with this room. The roaches and the blue snake get stuck behind the arrows. Am I missing something obvious ?

NoahT
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-Noah

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philb
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Thanks very much. I hadn't realised that the brain only worked through open doors.

Oneiromancer
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It's not that the brain "only works through open doors", but if there is no direct path for the monsters to get to Beethro, they will act as if there were no brain at all. All the brain changes is the path that monsters take to get to Beethro, so if there is no path that connects, then the brain does nothing.

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mncrafty
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CuriousShyRabbit wrote:
Welcome!

Hint: Try killing the red serpent with something else...

Spoiler:

Click here to view the secret text

×... get it stuck between the two yellow doors that have just one square between them.

I've been working on this room for a long time now and I just can't find the right sequence to trap the serpent and keep the rattler and roaches from sneaking past the force arrows. Can someone walk me through the beginning part or post a demo, please?

CuriousShyRabbit
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Brains consider force arrows to be obstacles. As long as there is a direct path from monster to Beethro, a brain will not direct any monster onto a force arrow.

Tips on fighting brained monsters:

mncrafty
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I have no problem killing the roaches and rattlesnake. However, I can't get the timing right to trap the serpent in the NW corner at the beginning. The gates need to be closed to trap him. I'm always one move too late before another group of roaches steps on the plate and opens the gate, thus letting the serpent escape.
Am I on the wrong track here? Please give me some specific moves at the start to trap the serpent. I can get it from there. Thanks so much.

Tuttle
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mncrafty
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Tuttle, thanks for clearing that up for me. I had the wrong gates, no wonder I couldn't solve it.
On to the next challenge.

digger
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Could you please post a demo?

mxvladi
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File: TCB Pirate Hideout 2N1W Victory.demo (6.1 KB)
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License: Public Domain

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