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Danzig
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A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

If someone can give me a clue as to the start of this room... I can't seem to figure out how to survive the bugs... arghh those bugs.

10-21-2004 at 08:04 PM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (+2)

There's two ways this can work. They're both pretty tight squeezes, but for different reasons.

One way:

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alternately....

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Ask again if you need specific moves for either of these.

[Edited by jdyer at Local Time:10-21-2004 at 08:51 PM]

10-21-2004 at 08:50 PM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

That was great... I don't understand how I couldn't figure out how to leave one extra move to keep ahead of the last four buggies... but, sigh, I guess it was just too much Dungeoneering for that day. I've progresses about 1/2 way through this lovely 4-room treat.

Thanks tons
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10-25-2004 at 02:11 PM

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on the final time through this room (ie coming in from the NW corner), is there a way to (warning, detailed walkthrough)

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11-08-2004 at 03:36 AM

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There sure is.

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11-08-2004 at 03:58 AM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

How do you get through this room first time? I can get by the goblins and eyes, and it seems to me that I need to go south east after that, but I can't get through the tar.

12-27-2005 at 06:06 PM

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bandit1200 wrote:
How do you get through this room first time? I can get by the goblins and eyes, and it seems to me that I need to go south east after that, but I can't get through the tar.

Have you read jdyer's post up the top?

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If you need more detail about either of those two methods, let me know.
(Although, the annoying thing about rooms like these is that I can't go back and watch my demo, since its not a victory demo..)

12-27-2005 at 08:20 PM

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TripleM wrote:Have you read jdyer's post up the top?
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×You need to get to the invisibility potion before the tar spawns.

Yeah, that was no problem, but I just this minute spotted what to do next. I guess I couldn't see the wood for the trees.

Edit: And second time round, I've already forgotten how I got through the roaches at the start of the room. My attention span gets shorter by... where was I?

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12-27-2005 at 09:27 PM

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bandit1200 wrote:
Edit: And second time round, I've already forgotten how I got through the roaches at the start of the room. My attention span gets shorter by... where was I?

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Another thing: I've posted a challenge for this room: It is possible to complete the room without a Tar spawn, and without droping all trapfloors, starting from NW. I'll post a demo later to show how I did.

12-29-2005 at 08:38 AM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

Thanks Dali, but if you read a bit closer, you'll see I was going through for the second time, so I'd already done all that.

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What I *really* need tips for now are the two trapdoor puzzles and the orb puzzle at the NE of the hold. But as no one has previously asked about the trapdoor ones, I suspect they are easier than they first appear. Still, watch out for a request for tips.

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12-29-2005 at 09:34 AM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

I've gone one time around through this room, plus 2S1W, 2S2W, and 1S2W. I'm re-entering through the center west entrance, the way those four rooms force me to go . . . and it looks like all I can do is this same circle over, and over, and over.

What's the way off this merry-go-round?

Thanks -

08-28-2006 at 01:17 PM

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key-smiter wrote:
I've gone one time around through this room, plus 2S1W, 2S2W, and 1S2W. I'm re-entering through the center west entrance, the way those four rooms force me to go . . . and it looks like all I can do is this same circle over, and over, and over.

If you're just trying to get out, the only exit from this group of rooms is at the NE of this room... but I don't think you can get back there without conquering this room. There's always Restore.

If you're trying to beat the rooms and/or get further, it would help to know which if any rooms you have conquered and which parts of each room you can get to. Or you know, maybe while you're making that list you'll spot something.

08-31-2006 at 12:36 AM

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OK, here goes . . . I did get through the first part of 1S1W. Since then I've been around twice like this -

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If I had two mimics in 2S1W, I could go a different direction. Alas, 'tis not so.

So - where does my elegant logical structure fall down?

08-31-2006 at 01:02 AM

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key-smiter wrote:
So - where does my elegant logical structure fall down?

Somewhere in #3, I think.

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08-31-2006 at 01:12 AM

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Yeah, I tried the conquering thing. When I've taken this approach, arriving from the upper left, there's always one snake left over in the upper right. It certainly looks like I need to reason with that digital reptile differently. Somehow.

08-31-2006 at 05:09 PM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

Just let the snakes die. They're trapped already. Did you kill the brain too early or something?

09-01-2006 at 02:41 PM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

Ok, How do you get passed the blob of tar in the SE of this room?

I can

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now what?

10-07-2006 at 03:49 AM

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10-07-2006 at 04:51 AM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

Well, I found a way.
Dreadfully obvious when I thought about it some more.

10-11-2006 at 01:35 AM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

Well. I've tried this room off and on for the past five months. Maybe that's long enough?

I'm on the last trip through, entering from the northwest.

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Never mind that one of the mimics really needs to go down somewhere near the bottom tar mother . . . I've got five places where mimics are required and only three mimics.

Any help is most welcome. Thanks -

01-16-2007 at 01:46 AM

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Re: A Quiet Place : Fifth Level : 1 South, 1 West (0)

Been a while since I played this room, but off the top of my head: You don't need to destroy the tar, just any tar babies that form.

01-16-2007 at 02:34 AM

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01-16-2007 at 12:07 PM

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Tuttle wrote:

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×Why are the blobs at 1, 2 and 5 growing at all?
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×Because you're visible. Don't be.

I did find this option attractive, but since there's an even number of invisibility potions along any path, it's not obviously available to me. (Or, if I had two more mimics, I could use one of them after going diagonal.)

How did you pull off the stay-invisible trick?

01-16-2007 at 12:32 PM

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key-smiter wrote:

How did you pull off the stay-invisible trick?

There is one place in the path where you can dodge a potion. Is that what you are looking for?

Steve.

01-16-2007 at 12:46 PM

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Stephen4Louise wrote:
There is one place in the path where you can dodge a potion.

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01-16-2007 at 01:02 PM

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Ah. Got it.

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Thanks for your help.

01-17-2007 at 03:15 PM

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I've been stuck here for awhile... I just entered for the first time. A couple months ago I remember repeatedly killing the roaches and ending up one move behind in running for the potion, but now I'm having trouble even coming that close. I could use a more specific version of the strategies mentioned near the top of this thread - obviously, the one I've been working on would be the one involving killing the roaches first. Any hints?

Thanks!

04-22-2008 at 01:25 AM

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I'd say the approach you've chosen - killing all the roaches first - is by far the harder choice and involves the most trial and error. I'd recommend the other approach.

But, if you must keep trying to kill the roaches:

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Hope that helps.

04-22-2008 at 04:04 AM

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I'm coming in from the NW entrance. To leave the chamber with the trapdoors, I have to let the tar expand at least once. But, if the tar expands once, the SE blobs spawn a tar baby that can't be reached, except by placing a mimic. And there isn't a spare mimic. How do I get out of this?

09-05-2009 at 09:29 AM

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Michael Brazier wrote:
I'm coming in from the NW entrance. To leave the chamber with the trapdoors, I have to let the tar expand at least once. But, if the tar expands once, the SE blobs spawn a tar baby that can't be reached, except by placing a mimic. And there isn't a spare mimic. How do I get out of this?

Well, there is one mimic at the entrance, three on the trapdoors and one just below the red door.

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09-05-2009 at 09:51 AM

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