Frozen Cave

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Author Name:	rogu3
Submitted By:	da rogu3
Hold Name:	Frozen Cave
Theme:	elegant puzzles
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Number of Levels:	1
Number of Rooms:	15
Number of Monsters:	102
Version:	DROD: Gunthro and the Epic Blunder (4.0)
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Hold Karma:	2 (+2 / -0)

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Frozen Cave

Here is my attempt to create a hold which isn't as insanely difficult as my previous offerings - and unlike my other holds, no knowledge of serpent timing is required. It is based on level 6 of KDD.

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07-01-2013 at 11:56 PM

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Chaco
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Re: Frozen Cave (+2)

This is a somewhat tricky hold - it's basically a set of 3 Constant Room Templates, each of which develops on a particular theme. The early rooms aren't too hard, but you'll need a good handle on monster manipulation skills in order to beat the later rooms.

You can probably complete this da rogu3 hold in only a day or two, instead of a month or two.

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07-01-2013 at 11:58 PM

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Re: Frozen Cave (+2)

This is a wonderful little hold.

Just a few monsters in every room and a tricky solution.
Once you discovered the idea the solution is not very difficult.

Unfortunately, the idea is never obvious - except for mxvladi

2W drove me crazy - very elegant and very surprising - at least for me.

I really love these minimalistic holds.

What a pity it does not have more rooms

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07-07-2013 at 07:01 PM

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Re: Frozen Cave (+1)

Very nice hold.

These rooms kicked my butt, in a nice way.

Elegant solutions for rooms that are not jam-packed w/ elements.

07-10-2013 at 10:54 PM

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Re: Frozen Cave (+1)

Finally conquered this toughie

The puzzles were well designed and mostly fun. Some of them drove me crazy, but after all there's nothing too cruel.

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I rated it 7 difficulty / 8 fun

07-12-2013 at 11:08 PM

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Lucky Luc wrote:

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×I think I did something not quite intended in 2W, though, as my solution did depend on snake timing.

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×What do you mean?

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07-12-2013 at 11:30 PM

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Gruß zurück aus Mainz

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07-13-2013 at 11:14 PM

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Lucky Luc wrote:

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×I think I did something not quite intended in 2W, though, as my solution did depend on snake timing.

Lucky Luc wrote:

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×I killed two golems on the two western pressure plates and one at (26,21). Then I released the snake at the right time to open the first door. However, I had to be careful not to let it die at (25,19), even though the architect stated that no knowledge of serpent timing was required. So I'm guessing that's unintended.

It is indeed unintended. I put the warning in the initial post so that people will automatically rule out solutions involving careful timing (which I think are much more difficult to pull off, so well done for finding that). If you're interested, the intended solution for 2W is to

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07-14-2013 at 11:26 AM

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