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Penthouse (+1)

Moved to Holds, with a very small change.
My sincere thanks to you all for your help.

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Hi.

Well, here's another hold I'm making for about two months now.
It is made in AE, so it is AE compatible.
But, for optimal effect, try to use JtRH.

Rooms: >5
Difficulty: 3-7 (although the harder ones are optional)

I'm not going to say anything more, you'll have to play it yourself...

Any good or bad comments appreciated.

Have Fun!

-- Tim

I want to thank larrymurk for some pre public beta testing, and wackhead for that strange trick.

[Edited by Tim at Local Time:05-29-2005 at 12:53 AM]

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Great, it was clear you'd been sitting on a new hold for a while. Look forward to playing it and passing on some comments.

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Hmm.. I'm currently baffled. Half because you've said theres a strange trick, and half because after the Fools Errand I'm scared about holds where I can't solve many rooms

I'll keep thinking. (Don't want any hints, just felt like posting this)

05-29-2005 at 01:49 AM

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Well, an update.

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05-29-2005 at 09:15 AM

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TripleM,

I've just sent you two PMs. Please check them

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I was going to complain that I'm stuck but I'm not now.

TripleM wrote:

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2N1W: Seems impossible to me. All snakes have the same length, I can get to the orb and let the snake pass but hitting it seems to have no benefit.

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My comments of the rooms:

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By the way, ending stairs go back to the entrance

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Argh.... There's still unintended solutions left???

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1N2W: This was a little too easy... I just dropped all trapdoors and tricked serpents into dead ends after returning to the center area.
2N2W: I was sure that it would be possible to do it with every serpent but so far I succeeded only with 2 longest.

I guess I need demos for these rooms then...

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Oh, I found an unintended solution... Grrrr...

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×4N1W: This one has to be impossible. I'm still certain that the hold is beatable

What do you mean? The orbs works exactly like Snake Run, only that my other version doesn't work anymore because of the brain-arrow thing. You should know that.

-- Tim

[Edited by Tim at Local Time:05-29-2005 at 10:11 AM]

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Alright. 2 Rooms that I've not completed yet in the hold.

2W: I can't reach 2 of the serpents in with the mimic and they won't go into the dead ends either.

4N1W: I can kill every serpent on the bottom area of the level but I can go up only on either right or left side. I can't get the mimic to kill the other side serpents in so small space.

I zipped my demos of 1N2W and 2N2W. Note that in 1N2W I could've simply struck the orb to end the room faster but I decided to do the max-trivial version without hitting the orb at all

05-29-2005 at 10:20 AM

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Doom wrote:
Alright. 2 Rooms that I've not completed yet in the hold.

2W+4N1W

These are the hardest rooms in the hold

I know how to finish them. But to make sure, I need to finish them first

They should bothe be possible though...

Thanks for the demos, by the way.

PS. If anyone finished 1N1W (the trapdoor room) from the north or south, please send me a demo as well...

-- Tim

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2W is possible too.

I am liking this hold. Haven't quite finished yet, but I will say that knowing how the serpent mind works makes things a lot easier.

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4N1W is possible.

Only 2W left now...

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1S1W: I felt myself a little bit stupid after this room... How did I miss that?!

I feel the same. I can't believe I couldn't see something that obvious.. interesting.

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Have quite finished now.

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Rabscuttle wrote:
Have quite finished now.

Thanks! I'm giving away way too many points now

But I don't mind at all...

First of all, this hold is meant to teach serpent tricks. So some of these rooms are quite strange and sometimes too easy. (I have removed some really hard rooms for this hold, just in case. I guess I can always use them later...)

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Re: Penthouse (+1)

I just played your december contest hold. boy do you like to make serpent puzzles

. I should play this hold, too, at some point.

Tim wrote:
First of all, this hold is meant to teach serpent tricks. So some of these rooms are quite strange and sometimes too easy. (I have removed some really hard rooms for this hold, just in case. I guess I can always use them later...)

you could always make them into s3kr3t rooms

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silver wrote:
I just played your december contest hold. boy do you like to make serpent puzzles . I should play this hold, too, at some point.

Tim wrote:
First of all, this hold is meant to teach serpent tricks. So some of these rooms are quite strange and sometimes too easy. (I have removed some really hard rooms for this hold, just in case. I guess I can always use them later...)

you could always make them into s3kr3t rooms

Not if he wants to keep compatibility with DROD:AE

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1E: Anyone visited this room???

I have. I don't know what compelled me to go and find it, though.

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Hi.

New (and probably last) version posted at top of this thread.

Changed:
- Minor textual changes in start screen, the entrance, 1E.
- 1S1W
- 1N2W

If nothing unintended solution is showing up, I will put this in Holds in a few days.

-- Tim

PS. Thanks for Stefan finding a shorter solution at 2N1E, but I'm not going to shorten the serpent any more...
And Doom for solving 2N2W with the other serpent... I though that was ingenious as well, so I will leave that solution

[Edited by Tim at Local Time:05-30-2005 at 12:31 AM]

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I found 1E too but

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Moved to Holds.

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