Alneyan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 622
Registered: 07-06-2004
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My first thoughts on this room were: "Phew". My second thoughts are... well, going west wasn't such a bright idea.

I have little trouble putting snakes in five of all six spots, but a couple hours of attempts haven't given me the key to getting a snake in the sixth spot. Of course, this spot is the one on the middle of the bottom row.

It has only two trap doors, so I can only go in and out once; the serpent has to go in a corridor facing west; the exit faces west too; all serpents are three-tiles long. I cannot seem to be able to lure a three-tile serpent into going west with Beethro near the offending serpent. At best, I *can* fill that spot by using two serpents, one of them blocking the other, but I cannot then get the second serpent out of the area. At worst, I end up getting killed.

It looks like all six serpents are necessary, so I cannot just use two of them for one of the spots. I have also been unable of luring a serpent in that area without going into it myself: is *it* possible to do it, and was it simply a matter of bad luck? (More like bad planning, but hush!) I know the SEmost serpents get stuck pretty much on its own, but the same trick doesn't seem to work here.

Thanks in advance!

Oneiromancer
Level: Legendary Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2936
Registered: 03-29-2003
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Game on,

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Alneyan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 622
Registered: 07-06-2004
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Pst Oneiromancer, erase that thread... You know, hiding the evidence and all that.

I really feel silly: it wasn't *that* hard, if only had I stopped rushing in to the battlefield, like a knight charging right in the middle of a swamp. Well, thanks!