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OK, the tar version of this room was interesting, but didn't give me *too* much trouble. The gel version, on the other hand... well, I can't seem to work out how to carve it properly at all, in order to keep the roach where I want it. The best I ever seem to be able to do is reach the third corner, but by then, the roach always gets out of what little gel maze I can make for it, and it's not long after that before it triggers one of the pressure plates.

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01-11-2010 at 07:32 PM
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Hikari wrote:
OK, the tar version of this room was interesting, but didn't give me *too* much trouble. The gel version, on the other hand... well, I can't seem to work out how to carve it properly at all, in order to keep the roach where I want it. The best I ever seem to be able to do is reach the third corner, but by then, the roach always gets out of what little gel maze I can make for it, and it's not long after that before it triggers one of the pressure plates.

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01-11-2010 at 07:36 PM
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Mmph... That's only marginally helping. I don't seem to be able to control things quite as well as I'd like, just because of... well, controlling things inside the gelblob seems to be my biggest problem, really. Though I'm probably also not chopping things up properly. :/

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Mmph... That's only marginally helping. I don't seem to be able to control things quite as well as I'd like, just because of... well, controlling things inside the gelblob seems to be my biggest problem, really. Though I'm probably also not chopping things up properly. :/

Even knowing what you have to do, it takes a fair amount of trial and error to get the right shape.

I'm not sure what else I can offer to help, but if you're really stuck I can post a demo (if someone else doesn't beat me to it).

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01-11-2010 at 09:26 PM
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Am I on the right track in thinking I have to do something fiddley with the four doors in the middle of the room?

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01-11-2010 at 10:05 PM
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Yeah, the doors are important. They're not necessary in the tar version of the room, but I put them in the gel version of the room (and thus in the tar version) since I couldn't solve the room without their help.

The key bit to this room, I think, is understanding what kinds of shapes you can carve out of the gel, and which would be the most useful for the clockwise movement around the room you want. You don't need to do much carving... just make a chamber of the right shape and function.

(If it helps, in the previous room and this room, the number of rings around the chamber that Beethro could make without letting the roach out is essentially infinite, but I put the required number at one and a half to make the point well enough.)

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For heaven's sake, can someone post a demo for this horrible room. Please? Pretty pretty please?

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Here you go
09-26-2010 at 10:49 AM
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Thanks a lot! Once again you saved the day. Zdravstvuj! :yay

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