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If you're having trouble figuring out what to do in this room, it may help to realize that two sections of floor at number 1
are connected diagonally, allowing you to reach the power token. It took me forever to realize this, and I've been fooled before by this type of thing.

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11-19-2007 at 11:30 PM
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I sympathize. :( The diagonal land across water thing gets me every time also. It's a very deceptive graphic.
11-20-2007 at 12:50 AM
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Could I get a hint as to what I'm supposed to do here? I can get to the power token and blow up all the bombs except for the one near the water controls. I have no idea what else I'm supposed to do, or what the pressure plate actually does.

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12-16-2007 at 09:59 PM
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Bonnie wrote:
Could I get a hint as to what I'm supposed to do here? I can get to the power token and blow up all the bombs except for the one near the water controls. I have no idea what else I'm supposed to do, or what the pressure plate actually does.

Your goal is to make it to the completion token.

The only way you can get there is through the crumbly wall at the top. So you need to figure out how to get a bomb to break that wall for you.

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12-16-2007 at 10:23 PM
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The only bomb I can see that's safe to trigger is the one with the size 2 northern fuse. After that goes off the ony safe one seems to be the one southeast of it, with a newly formed yellow wall to hide behind. Between the two of them they will destoy all the other bombs except for the one at the top. How do I stop that?

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12-16-2007 at 10:40 PM
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You don't need to stop the explosions... Instead, you need to make your way to the goal in sync with explosions.

Try to think backwards: As Josh said, the goal is to touch the completion token. How can you get there?
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12-16-2007 at 11:16 PM
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igusarov wrote:
You don't need to stop the explosions... Instead, you need to make your way to the goal in sync with explosions.

Try to think backwards: As Josh said, the goal is to touch the completion token. How can you get there?

Thanks for the hint. Didn't help me any though. Here's my logic so far, I wonder if you could point out what's wrong?

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12-16-2007 at 11:53 PM
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Sorry for being not very explicit in my previous post... You've correctly figured first steps:
1. You should blow the crumby wall by the conquer token with the top right bomb.
2. That bomb is only useful while the yellow door SW is down.
3. Once the chain explosion starts, there's no way to stop it. The last explosion would hit the orb which brings that door up.
4. Thus, you have to set off that bomb before the end of explosion chain.
5. However, that most important bomb has a short fuse, and you don't have enough time to run out of explosion range.
6. Unless another yellow door east to the bomb is up and you can hide behind it.
7. That safety door is activated by the orb east to the mimic potion (mouse-clicking on each orb show what it does).
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12-17-2007 at 12:32 AM
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Thanks very much.
12-17-2007 at 12:46 AM
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igusarov wrote:
Sorry for being not very explicit in my previous post... You've correctly figured first steps:
1. You should blow the crumby wall by the conquer token with the top right bomb.
2. That bomb is only useful while the yellow door SW is down.
3. Once the chain explosion starts, there's no way to stop it. The last explosion would hit the orb which brings that door up.
4. Thus, you have to set off that bomb before the end of explosion chain.
5. However, that most important bomb has a short fuse, and you don't have enough time to run out of explosion range.
6. Unless another yellow door east to the bomb is up and you can hide behind it.
7. That safety door is activated by the orb east to the mimic potion (mouse-clicking on each orb show what it does).
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Steps 6-8 aren't strictly necessary. :)

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Steps 6-8 aren't strictly necessary. :)

<glances at move count, does some quick testing on certain suspicions, and amends:>

...in 3.1.1.55/56. Thank you for the bug report ^_^;
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TFMurphy wrote:
disoriented wrote:
Steps 6-8 aren't strictly necessary. :)

<glances at move count, does some quick testing on certain suspicions, and amends:>

...in 3.1.1.55/56. Thank you for the bug report ^_^;

Sure thing. This is a bug with the room, right? Not a bug with Drod itself?

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disoriented wrote:
TFMurphy wrote:
...in 3.1.1.55/56. Thank you for the bug report ^_^;
Sure thing. This is a bug with the room, right? Not a bug with Drod itself?
Well, if it only happens in builds 55 and 56 of DROD it can hardly be a bug of the room itself... so yeah, it's a bug in the engine code.

np: Sraunus - 853 (CMYK)

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Can someone tell me what happens in these new versions? I don't have caravelnet any more so can't download demos.

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02-14-2008 at 11:32 PM
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Jacob wrote:
Can someone tell me what happens in these new versions? I don't have caravelnet any more so can't download demos.

I don't really understand the engine bug (TFMurphy could probably speak to it) but I can tell you what I did.

Attached is a demo showing my #1 high score (89 moves before touching conquer token).

Note that I never hit the orb at (20,12).

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