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My First Hold, also the first published!
Persistence, a mini-hold about returning to rooms.
The Spacetime Kerfluffle, a mini-hold I made once.
Variations, a collab hold I'm managing.
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×Welp, the area past the "main bridge" is an instant dead end. I mean, unless you brought the pickaxe from level 1. The east side of the the fork in 6S leads to a part of 6S1E that doesn't connect anywhere; the south side leads to a part of 7S that only connects west to a dead end in 7S1W; the west side of the fork goes to a little west-side loop that, nonetheless, does not connect to the south either.

×This could be partially fixed by a tunnel attaching the NE and south sides of 7S1W. Players who go east at the fork would still be stuck, though.

×MyScript Primer and Reference!

My First Hold, also the first published!
Persistence, a mini-hold about returning to rooms.
The Spacetime Kerfluffle, a mini-hold I made once.
Variations, a collab hold I'm managing.
Beethro's Awakening Preview, Zelda and DROD?!

Alphabet Stream info, about my stream thing I do sometimes.

×You have a choice to go East or West.

Going West it is possible to kill the tar mother to get full access to the level, but practically you need to spend an extra green key and a portable crate to kill all the brain-likes. Unsure if this is too tricky, it requires the crate from level 1.

Going East is now more straightforward, but requires you to use a portable crate to access the west side of the level. But you get given another portable crate.

So the question is, should the West side also be more directly traversable?

×-Mole-related script significantly simplified after the 2.0.4 fix. No helper entities, it just scans the room every turn. the characters whose name start with "MC" from previous version can be safely deleted. This fix should also improve clarity by removing inconsistent-length turn delays between cause and effect when it comes to the moles' stats.

-Added a hint scroll. Understanding exactly how the No.3 Moles work is intended as a slight puzzle, so hopefully this compromise of a nudge in the right direction will help.

×Antibrains have very low stats on purpose, to make them a proper analogue of the brain. Steel brains are much more of an actual threat all on their own, especially first starting the level, so I feel like there's room for them as a distinct Thing.

At the very least, replacing the antibrains in 7S1W would make it cost more than it was "supposed to" to reduce the monsters' defense in that room.

×MyScript Primer and Reference!

My First Hold, also the first published!
Persistence, a mini-hold about returning to rooms.
The Spacetime Kerfluffle, a mini-hold I made once.
Variations, a collab hold I'm managing.
Beethro's Awakening Preview, Zelda and DROD?!

Alphabet Stream info, about my stream thing I do sometimes.

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5285 HP
230 ATK, 235 DEF
2/6/1/1
64 shovels
5058 GR
13720 REP
Inventory: Goblin-bitter, Steel staff
Accessory: Invis potion, speed potion, wall walking, scroll of might

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1S 1E: Mole description confused me at first.
5S 2W: I Could get the greckle coin with the invis potion or kill the adder for about 2500 damage.
7S 1W: Spent too many life destroying the tar mother (around 7000 HP I think). It's a good choice for the speed potion honestly.
6S 1E: Not sure if intended. You can close red doors and use a greckle door to walk around the room and get the shield gem.

I placed both portable box in this level in the rooms

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I used the wall walking and two green keys to get two portable bridge/I used the portable crate to strike the orb at 14,1 and prevent spending any HP. Not sure which is best, two portable crates might be incredibly powerful, so I’ll come back to this choice depending on level 3.

I used the speed potion to reduce damage taken from the tar mother.

I used the pickaxe in 8S1W (my room) as I intended, getting 20 def.

I used 2 defenses fluxes from 6S1W and the scroll of protection for extra 50 def to get the 20 atk for free in 8S1W.

In 6S1E I took the 6 atk gem first, then I killed the gel baby at 7,8 last, so I went on top of the red door, allowing me to get the 20 def without spending a blue key (but getting hit once by the swordman).

×3066 HP
176 ATK
212 DEF
3755 GR
11363 REP
6/12/1/0/35
Wooden Blade/Steel Staff/Mistblade
Wooden Shield
Wall Walking/Invisibility Potion/Speed Potion/Scroll of Protection

×3427 health, (equipmentless) 69 atk, 62 def, 659 gr, 1953 REP
Swords: Wood sword, sting
Shields: Wood shield, scrap shield
accessories: 3 might scrolls, Portable crate

×6852 health, (equipmentless) 193 atk, 214 def, 5111 gr, 13036 rep;
Keys: 5 yellow, 11 green, 2 skeleton, 4 shovels
Weapons: steel staff, goblin-biter, sting, wood sword, mistblade
Shields: scrap shield, wooden shield
Accessories: 4 might scrolls, speed potion, portable crate, 1 extend-o-bridge, wall walking

×I took the attack from 8S1W (which was free by way of using the protection scroll, down from 2000+damage!); ignored the health behind key-locks. It would be possible to use PC+wall walking to fight the defender of defense for his stuff, but doesn't feel worth it.
I was able to get 7S1E's stuff -FREE- by using the invisibility potion! I only wish I'd thought to do it much sooner; that defense could've saved me a lot of damage I took.
I did not take the stuff on the blue door in 7S1E--also not worth it.
I've left behind green-for-2-yellows and a 2-yellows-for-1-green key trades, one of each.
I ignored the SW part of 8S1E--all the keys+shovels for keys+health stuff.
I did not even attempt to reach 5S2W.
And, obviously, I didn't donate any equipment except the "trash" that's in the same room as the donation station.

×-Echoing Red-XIII's comment about the inventory token. When the player enters onto the tile, waiting or bumping or turning their sword shouldn't warp them right back. A "wait while entity is player at [my location]" at the start of the script (after presumably a "restart script on entrance") would fix this.

-It's SO EASY to fail 4S1E, leave the room to lock yourself into said failstate, and come back way later only to realize it'll cost you some 6000 more health that it really needed to. Oof. Additionally, the room becomes increasingly hard to read the more mist covers it up, but I guess that's not the room's fault.

-However, once I got the goblin-biter, it was pretty fun swapping back and forth between that and the steel staff, seeing which one was better for various situations.

-On a similar note, the zero-sum stat trade items in 7S1W didn't seem too useful, until I noticed I could make the heat wings free by taking the defense temporarily. I do wish they were alternating though, like: def-atk, def-atk instead of def-def, atk-atk. Or just that you could choose the order you take them in in general.

-The adder has WAY WAY WAY too much defense for this level! The only way to get that lucky greckle it's guarding would be to use up the invisibility potion. Or maybe the speed potion and tons of your health. Totally not worth it, especially with how much trouble it is to even reach its room.

-I still think a tunnel should be added to 7S1W so a player who goes west at the fork isn't stuck spending a metric ton of health to chug through that tar mother, and so that a player going east at the fork is able to go west later without using up an extend-o-bridge or portable crate. Never mind the fact that a player who goes east will most definitely be forced to pay a 2000-health toll in 7S1E at some point.

×MyScript Primer and Reference!

My First Hold, also the first published!
Persistence, a mini-hold about returning to rooms.
The Spacetime Kerfluffle, a mini-hold I made once.
Variations, a collab hold I'm managing.
Beethro's Awakening Preview, Zelda and DROD?!

Alphabet Stream info, about my stream thing I do sometimes.

×5401 Health
230 ATK (200 + Weapon)
245 DEF
17786 Greckles
10/9/1/1 Keys
73 Shovels
Weapon: Goblin Biter
No Armor
Accessories: Lucky Greckle, 2 x Extend-O-Bridge, 2 x Scroll of Might + 3, Speed Potion, Wall Walking, Scroll of Protection, Portable Crate

×3419 Health
67 ATK
73 DEF
5 YK
0 GK
0 BK
1 SK
41 Shovels
183 Greckles

Inventory: Portable Crate, Pickaxe, 4x Scroll of Might, Scrap Shield, Sting.

Equipped: Wooden Blade, Wooden Shield.

×5576 Health
216 ATK
230 DEF
11 YK
9 GK
0 BK
0 SK
53 Shovels
6385 Greckles

Inventory: 2x Portable Crate, Pickaxe, Invisibility Potion, Speed Potion, Wall Walking, 2x Extend-O-Bridge, Scroll of Protection, Wooden Blade, Mistblade, Steel Staff.

Equipped: Goblin Biter, Wooden Shield.

×MyScript Primer and Reference!

My First Hold, also the first published!
Persistence, a mini-hold about returning to rooms.
The Spacetime Kerfluffle, a mini-hold I made once.
Variations, a collab hold I'm managing.
Beethro's Awakening Preview, Zelda and DROD?!

Alphabet Stream info, about my stream thing I do sometimes.