Kafka
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I'd almost cleared this room, with three parts cleared and progress on the eyes and wraithwrings, when I made an ill-advised step onto the checkpoint and had to start again. Now I can't for the life of me (literally) remember how I cleared the tar room; I'm always caught by the babies before I make the exit.

I've obviously forgotten something I used to know; can anyone give me a steer?

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Kafka
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Never mind, I eventually worked it out, and the eyes and wraithwings. It's simply (!) a matter of counting carefully, and keeping one step ahead.

Now to evade the roaches and get out of limbo. . .

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Tuttle
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Can someone please give me a hint about how to handle the five goblins? I can't just charge for the orb they're protecting, because nothing closes behind me and I'm stuck with five goblins behind me. The best I've done is to stuff three of them in the box with the eyes and wraithwings, but that takes so long I can't deal with the other two and get to the orb in time.

Stephen4Louise
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Tuttle wrote:
Can someone please give me a hint about how to handle the five goblins? I can't just charge for the orb they're protecting, because nothing closes behind me and I'm stuck with five goblins behind me. The best I've done is to stuff three of them in the box with the eyes and wraithwings, but that takes so long I can't deal with the other two and get to the orb in time.

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Tuttle
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Thanks. I couldn't work out how to do that and get to the orb before a spawn either, but moving around did give me one useful trick:

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File: AQP Limbo 2N1E.demo (1.9 KB)
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Stephen4Louise wrote:

Click here to view the secret text

×There are a few passages in the room that are two wide. If you can back into one of those with your sword between you and the goblins you should be able to dispose of three of them.

This certainly sounds reasonable. Unfortunately, all the useful locations are so far away that I'm at least ten moves short of getting back to the goblin orb. I've attached a short demo of my best effort, which is woefully short of useful . . . what must I do different?

(Also, I can already tell I'm going to have problems in the eyeball section. An earlier series of forays convinced me that there's no combination of sword directions and movement directions that will keep me alive. Bah.)

Thanks -

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key-smiter
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Thanks . . . got that to work.

(I'm not cut out for this room. I'm guessing that the tar roomlet can only be completed by reaching the orb after the perimeter tar grows, and the eyeball roomlet has so far proven impossible with any sword direction and any movement direction.)

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I'm guessing that the tar roomlet can only be completed by reaching the orb after the perimeter tar grows

The eyeball roomlet has so far proven impossible with any sword direction and any movement direction.

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That worked. Thanks!