I assume I have to kill all four before crossing the force arrows out of that area, but how do you get a serpent (in a rectangular room) to go where you need it? Even if I ignore the mimic trapdoor problem, I can't get the population below two before leaving the area.
I think that its probably easiest if you kill all but one of the snakes before leaving their area. (This was my solution).
You ARE going to have to use the "
death niche"
(nice term, btw) to kill the last snake. But there's this little quirk to snake movement that makes it impossible (or very very difficult) to lure a snake into a death niche on the west wall of a room or area. North/South/East walls - piece of cake. West walls are hard.
With all that said, my solution came after a great deal of thought and understanding of snake movements. This room is near impossible if you don't understand snakes very very well. I don't remember the exact combination, but its a one-off shot. You have to be ready to execute it before you move into the roach area and you only get one shot. I'll look at my demo when I get home and see if I can post more concrete hints.
Basically, you need to get the snake set up near the top right of his area, and take advantage of the 5-move cycle that snakes go through to make sure that he has time to move horizontally and vertically before hitting the wall.
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[Last edited by stigant at 09-29-2005 03:09 PM]
. I left the serpent room with two beasties alive and following me, then when I wasn't looking one of them trapped the other in the top left corner (killing it) and went back south along the wall. That way it was one step further south than on the ordinary circuit and only turned back into the horizontal when the niche was an option. Since I was at its west at the time, the problem took care of itself. <shrug>
