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Quite easy, but yet can be fun if you enjoy an adventure...

agaricus5
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Umm...

In 1E, the passage leading north appears blocked by force arrows, and I can't find any crumbly walls to pass them. Am I missing something?

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J.O.
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STAIR BUG ON THE LAST STAGE
Did you read the note, beethro can't go home before he finds the dungeon...
Now where is that secret cave...


[Edited by J.O. at Local Time:02-03-2005 at 08:13 PM]

agaricus5
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J.O. wrote:
Did you read the note, beethro can't go home before he finds the dungeon...
Now where is that secret cave...

What note?

Oh, but I did find the caves, thanks to your hint. Sorry about that.

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J.O.
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I beleive I left a scroll there...

rowrow
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Is This
room possible? You must hit the orb at 1 but that will trap the roaches at 2 since it closes 3.

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B'hakhgra Du S'tra Moth'ness Ti!

TripleM
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rowrow
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I am dead. Really I am. That is the first thing you would do. I totally did not think of that.
Beethro conquers on.
Big thanx.

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J.O.
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Hehe, that's one of the best tricks on my hold...
Also, I forgot. I a big thanks to the creator of Beethro's First Job since i used his green door maze concept.
And a Big Thanks to The Killing Jar's creator for the idea repeated on a puzzle in Tartarus
I playtested all the rooms, they are solvable if supposed to (explore and read the scrolls!) and take care on the tar pits, a room there is evil...
Also, feedback is welcome!


[Edited by J.O. at Local Time:02-01-2005 at 05:15 PM]

Dylmts
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You're going to have to give some kind of clue here, I'm on level two and I went west and followed that round until I couldn't get past the green door. Afetr getting stuck 1W I started again and went east so now I'm stuck 1N 1E. Is it just me?

Tom

p.s. I know this should be in hints but I thought since it's so new I'd ask the creator!

J.O.
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Sorry but I'm a bit confused, do you mean the second level or the second floor
The levels are named:
Entrance Caves
First Floor
Second Floor
Third Floor
(not thelling the rest)
SPOILER


[Edited by J.O. at Local Time:02-03-2005 at 03:35 PM]

patmo98
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I am stuck between the green door here and the red door here. Am I missing something, or do I just reload DROD back sevral rooms to fix this?

J.O.
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Super Spolier, it is the same trick on all the "normal" floors!



[Edited by J.O. at Local Time:02-03-2005 at 03:35 PM]

Doom
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In This room:
The leftmost chamber of roaches can be accessed after hitting the orb because the crumby wall isn't in the right place.

And the last level stairs lead back to the last level.
The hold was fun to play but too easy

Not bad at all for your first hold.

J.O.
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Oh no! not the stair bug again!
(Some spoilers on this part, read at your own discretion)


[Edited by J.O. at Local Time:02-03-2005 at 08:10 PM]

bandit1200
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patmo98 wrote:
I am stuck between the green door here and the red door here. Am I missing something, or do I just reload DROD back sevral rooms to fix this?

The orbs for the vertical corridor are badly placed, allowing you to access the corridor when the intent is to force you to go straight ahead.

J.O.
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Thanks for the point... Yet skipping those corridors isn't really an advantage. You may enter the room below using another route, but the red door nearby (still) will block you, and so will the green door. Plus even if you clean out the room, you still have to go to the lower part to clean up the level (I'm not 100% sure if I added a blue door in this level, but the main purpose of the whole hold is an "adventure" and not a "clean this up" job...)

Dylmts
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Righty it was the first floor until I got on here this morning and realised what was going on! I like this hold!

Tom

bandit1200
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Ice Caves - 2n1e. Some help/advice, or even a demo would be great for this one. I must have died a couple of hundred times over the last few days in this one.

Edit: Never mind, as usually happens, I went back to it and got it second go.

[Edited by bandit1200 at Local Time:02-11-2005 at 08:53 AM]

HopelessAmateur
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bandit1200 wrote: I went back to it and got it second go.

Asking for help after ONE attempt?

Nice first hold but mainly hack'n'slash. I can't talk though - I hack'n'slash a lot to get my scores down.

Personally I do not like holds where you can go 'the wrong way' and end up having to restart. why

[Edited by HopelessAmateur at Local Time:05-05-2005 at 11:04 PM]

bandit1200
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HopelessAmateur wrote:

bandit1200 wrote: I went back to it and got it second go.

Asking for help after ONE attempt?

Nope, read my post again. All of it, not just the edit.

Chris
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Is this a problem with the hold?

It seems to me that on "The First Floor", if I complete 1W and exit to the west before completing 2N1W then the level becomes impossible to complete, due to the green door on 2N1W blocking my way to 1N1W and the yellow door on 1W blocking my way back to 2N1W to finish the job.

Or am I just missing something?

Chris.

TripleM
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Yeah, unfortunately you are right. You'll have to restore to get back to 1W or earlier. Maybe one day JO will be able to edit this (and it seems from the above posts, it may happen in other levels as well? I can't remember from when I played it).

cbemom
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Finished! Had some enjoyable puzzles, and so some-so-enjoyable puzzles. I'm not a big fan of having to restore back after playing through when I find I cannot backtrack. Nor do I care for crumbly walls that lead nowhere.
Tartarus was my favorite level - 2S1E looked like a room I've seen in another hold - don't remember which at the moment. The First floor my least, having to restore and than run all the way around was tedious.

I will look for your other holds to play. Four brains, and a six (lost a point for the above things) for fun.

woo hoo! Thanks for the mod point - from a goblin to a delver!

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