Jeff_Ray...
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 962
Registered: 05-16-2005
IP: Logged

I try to kill all roach queens but the Salyer kills me before!

____________________________
I make Let's Plays too!
Click here to find out my LPs' progress, and find out what I plan to tackle next!

Currently playing:


My Holds:
-Completed:

-Work in Progress:

pogon
Level: Roachling
Rank Points: 14
Registered: 11-15-2004
IP: Logged

secret]Maybe you can trap him some how !

Jeff_Ray...
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 962
Registered: 05-16-2005
IP: Logged

How then?

Jeff_ray===

____________________________
I make Let's Plays too!
Click here to find out my LPs' progress, and find out what I plan to tackle next!

Currently playing:


My Holds:
-Completed:

-Work in Progress:

bdcribbs
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 390
Registered: 04-08-2003
IP: Logged

dejavu....


to be more explicit:



[Edited by bdcribbs at Local Time:06-04-2005 at 09:51 PM]

Drgamer
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 113
Registered: 09-09-2006
IP: Logged

I wonder what would happen if...

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3718
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

Find out! Something does happen

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

Drgamer
Level: Master Delver
Rank Points: 113
Registered: 09-09-2006
IP: Logged

There should be something there if you

BSmartt
Level: Goblin
Rank Points: 19
Registered: 12-22-2008
IP: Logged

OK, I know there is a way to trap the slayer, but am wondering if someone could explain his typical movements so I can calculate how far to move before trapping him in the center with the gold button? I had him trapped before I got to this level, is he always able to escape? Any help would be much appreciated

CuriousShyRabbit
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3170
Registered: 10-14-2006
IP: Logged

A complete explanation of slayer movement rules is way too complicated to explain here.

When the slayer is far away from Beethro, and there is a path to Beethro, the slayer's hook sends out the wisp to find Beethro. When the wisp touches Beethro, the slayer starts to follow the wisp towards Beethro.

When the slayer is in a 4x4 square with Beethro, he stops following the wisp, and follows other complicated movement rules. You don't want that in this room. So make sure you lead the wisp over the trap from the west, and have Beethro wait for him on the east side of the orb.

zwetschenwasser
Level: Master Delver

Rank Points: 200
Registered: 05-22-2007
IP: Logged

BTW,

to the Forums!

____________________________
Currently working on GaTEB and KDD (never finished the silly thing).

Trafalgar
Level: Delver

Rank Points: 31
Registered: 07-03-2020
IP: Logged

Jeff_Ray... wrote:
I try to kill all roach queens but the Salyer kills me before!

____________________________
game9pjr

DCLeadboot
Level: Goblin

Rank Points: 28
Registered: 04-11-2008
IP: Logged

Okay, it's the obvious (and indeed only sensible) solution to

But that brain-dead challenge scroll expects experienced delvers to not strike the orb at all.
That is impossible to accomplish! Whatever I do, I can never reach that one roach queen in the far corner and get back again before the Slayer has entered the long corridor and trapped me!
And believe me, I've tried giving him the run around by extending his wisp to as long a path as I can manage, but it's never long enough!

(Seriously, this game would be so much easier without these silly challenges) 😓

____________________________
Never underestimate... the Leadboot!! O_o

Nuntar
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 5100
Registered: 02-20-2007
IP: Logged

Challenges are entirely optional, you know

But indeed, the way to accomplish this one is to make as long a wisp path as possible, by zigzagging up and down the main area. The wisp path can't step next to itself (or the Slayer would shortcut) so the best you can do is make each column 2 tiles away from the previous one.

____________________________
50th Skywatcher

DCLeadboot
Level: Goblin

Rank Points: 28
Registered: 04-11-2008
IP: Logged

I had tried weaving up and down to extend a long wisp, but the spawning roaches would leak out of the corridor and always seemed to approach in a way that I either get killed by it or I have to let the wisp catch up prematurely to avoid that.
Either way, I never was able to extend a long enough wisp path to distract the Slayer.

I had to give up the challenge for tonight because it wasn't worth the trouble. I wanted to actually progress the game before it got late.

____________________________
Never underestimate... the Leadboot!! O_o

Tuttle
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1559
Registered: 02-22-2003
IP: Logged

There's no brain in the room. This means a couple of things.

First:
But also, as an alternative approach:

---

[Last edited by Tuttle at 03-25-2025 06:58 AM]

DCLeadboot
Level: Goblin

Rank Points: 28
Registered: 04-11-2008
IP: Logged

Tuttle wrote:
But also, as an alternative approach:

Click here to view the secret text

×It's possible to just get the slayer caught in a tunnel entrance behind a roach (slayer at 1 in the image below) and force him to wait until you get back. (This assumes you don't leave the long corridor until last.)

Click here to view the secret text

×

Now THAT'S a good idea! But how to force the Slayer to back up in there?

____________________________
Never underestimate... the Leadboot!! O_o

Tuttle
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1559
Registered: 02-22-2003
IP: Logged

I'm not sure how to hint at Slayer manipulation so this will be a little bit spoilery. Hook orientation probably matters; these work from the very start of the room so with hook SE.

---

[Last edited by Tuttle at 03-25-2025 09:37 PM]