Oneiromancer
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Re: Tar in a bottle (0)
Hmmm...
The way I envision it, if you can't place the entire section of tar, then you can't place it at all, so that would limit the placement severely. However, since tar is currently a different layer than the walls or other special items, there is probably no reason why it cannot cover them up, except that it might make it even more difficult to figure out where the best place to put it is. Checkpoints required near a tar in a bottle in this case!
In the original scenario, if you placed tar near other tar it would just be assimilated. But another option could be that the tar in a bottle, while it will still grow at the direction of a tar mother, is actually deadly to "normal" tar when it first comes out. So you could place it directly on tar to destroy it (thus removing two square wide passages...yay!), but after that it will mix with existing tar (since the tar mother assimilates it or something like that).
More suggestions welcome!
Game on,
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