Insoluble
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I've been poking around at this one for quite a while now and have gotten a bit of tunnel vision. I'd greatly appreciate a subtle hint to help me change my approach.

I can kill all the snakes, but not without getting stuck beyond the arrows. I've tried the approach of trying to figure out why each part of the room is there. For the life of me I can't figure out a single use for the potion under the adder's head. The way the arrows are set up the only place you could possibly put it if you got to it would be on one of the arrow rotator tokens. But I can always access the token at (6,16) so it couldn't be just for that could it? It also allows me to get over as far east as (17,6) but I'm just not seeing the utility of that in any of the setups I've tried.

I have no doubt that there's some obscure mechanic or edge case that I'm missing and I'd like to try to suss that out out on my own, but a gentle hint to redirect my thought process would be very welcome.

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Dragon Fogel
Level: Smitemaster
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Registered: 06-21-2014
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I'll start with a simple observation that may narrow things down:



One consequence of the above is



That should make it clearer what end-state you're looking for.