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[goodies]Indeed, even the room tiles are the wrong way round! Align the red doors correctly with the floor textures and you'll be as close to the picture as it's possible at the moment without image editing.[/goodies]

03-06-2006 at 10:59 PM

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[goodies] Try it now! [/goodies]

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03-06-2006 at 11:02 PM

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[goodies]Yeah, I thought we were discussing the reward image. Although of course it would still work for the other one.

Also, Ezlo, you missed a couple of orb asociations.[/goodies]

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03-06-2006 at 11:09 PM

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[goodies]Well, you may have changed it to be more like what Doom suggested, but it still doesn't look the same as the picture.

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03-06-2006 at 11:10 PM

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ARGHHH!!! [goodies] This has to be it this time. [/goodies]

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03-06-2006 at 11:11 PM

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[goodies]Honestly, I have no idea how the orb is supposed to help this room look like that one screenshot. It seems to me that you haven't studied the screenshot as closely as you should.[/goodies]

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03-06-2006 at 11:16 PM

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[goodies] Well I don't see what I can do to improve it without modifying the open gate tiles. Is there anything else I can do that wouldn't involve custom imaging? Or a DROD 3.0 engine? [/goodies]

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03-06-2006 at 11:35 PM

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[goodies]Not that I know of. Which is kind of the whole point. Still, I'm curious what Patrick will come up with.[/goodies]

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03-06-2006 at 11:38 PM

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[goodies]Look very very carefully at those doors. What seems strange about them? I think Chaco touched on this subject a while back in that Boogaloo thread or whatever you call it. Hey, Oneiro, if he was right, will the dropped red doors turn to wall when the trapdoors were gone? Cause if red doors just dropped into dropped red doors that would break a number of rooms because colored doors become floor and nothing more. It matters for roach queens.

Also, has anyone noticed that these last few pages of the topic could be ungoodied with no consequence?[/goodies]

03-07-2006 at 01:50 AM

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[goodies]Also, has anyone noticed that these last few pages of the topic could be ungoodied with no consequence?[/goodies]

[goodies]But think of the mystique that would be lost! Right now it looks like big important things are happening with such a flurry of posting![/goodies]

But then again, you do have a point.

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03-07-2006 at 01:56 AM

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[goodies] I wonder how many people have download my hold and wondered what it means? I'M GONNA MAKE ANOTHER ONE!!!!

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03-07-2006 at 01:59 AM

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[goodies]Sorry about the delay - I was at work for a while.

Anyways, I managed to make it, and comfirmed that it could easily be done with a little image editing. So, he is the "Patrick Creation":

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Caravel made it! Honest!

This was done by memory, as I didn't want to corrupt myself with trying to cheat. Still, I could see it done with simple editing. Therefore, I declare this myth busted![/goodies]We now return you to "Blissful Ignorance", already in progress.

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03-07-2006 at 04:58 AM

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[goodies] Nice work! I like! Now, what does it mean? [/goodies]

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03-07-2006 at 11:34 AM

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[goodies]Very simple. The Caravel Team, in their foolishness of using the same password for everything, left their TCB computer free for me to gain access to. It looks like they wanted to put this image up first, simply because it showed anti-red doors and anti-green doors, but they must have decided that was too much to give the forum, so settled for another one instead.

And, man, if someone from Caravel Games posted it, it must be true, after all.

No, I didn't hack the computer. I made it in response to the challenge posted above. I fear what would happen to me if I was to hack into their computers. My head still hurts from Schik whacking me on the head with a banana when I played around too much in the forum.[/goodies]

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03-07-2006 at 09:26 PM

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[goodies]Ow. Bananas to the head are NOT amused[/goodies]

03-07-2006 at 11:22 PM

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[goodies]
Here are some last words from the strange thing "beneath" (L25:3W):

Click here to view the secret text

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edit:added secret tags, my bad, sorry.

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03-08-2006 at 01:05 AM

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IGNORE! I'M IGNORING WHAT YOU JUST SAID! IGNORE! IGNORE!

[goodies] I hope you don't mind me leaving that out of the tag, it adds to the mystery, but please, I still haven't finished KDD or JTRH yet! (Stupid tar on trapdoors!) :weep

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03-08-2006 at 01:12 AM

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Secret tags, people. Secret tags. Never assume, always hide.

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03-08-2006 at 01:52 AM

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Looks like you're trapped. Beethro.
There is no way back. and the Empire's locked their doors.
And they have a lot of doors.

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[goodies]That was my favorite line of JtRH. That and

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By the way, was the room behind the blue door of the Dreamplane a TCB screenshot?
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03-08-2006 at 03:08 AM

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Pinnacle wrote:
[goodies]By the way, was the room behind the blue door of the Dreamplane a TCB screenshot?[/goodies]

[goodies]Mmm...kinda. Well, that room isn't slated to appear in TCB, so I guess not. But still![/goodies]

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03-08-2006 at 05:18 PM

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OK, solved the riddle ... but I was a little disappointed that [goodies]the solution wasn't "snore chest"

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03-13-2006 at 01:26 AM

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[goodies]Sad part: I was using Andy's Anagram Solver. The answer to the riddle of the bar was exactly 3 lower than the cutoff. If it had allowed me 404 entries, I'd have got it within minutes. ._. [/goodies]

03-13-2006 at 04:35 AM

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[goodies]I was using Wordweb. The answer wasn't even in the dictionary which confused me immensely (there are some VERY obscure words in that program). Finally I got it with an online solver which gave me the answer as two words. [/goodies]

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03-19-2006 at 08:02 AM

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[goodies]You know how, in Dreamplane, there are images that we humble DROD people can't get to? Well, perhaps this tool will allow characters that just the Caravel Team can use without infringement on the behalf of us mortals. *kowtows* [/goodies]

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03-20-2006 at 01:32 AM

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[goodies]I don't actually have anything interesting to say, except that I'm happy to have finally solved the Riddle! Does anyone know yet what the intermediate interesting arrangements were good for? Did they all form interesting words? It would be nice if we could go back and somehow form a list of all the interesting arrangements...umm, that is, without having a sysadmin strip us of our goodies and making us click the bar a lot more to get them back...[/goodies]

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04-10-2006 at 07:22 PM

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[goodies]the interesting combinations were all words. I think...[/goodies]

04-10-2006 at 08:32 PM

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[goodies]What, the answer wasn't "secret host"? I was imagining that all the bar-riddle solvers were being given access to a seperate server with special TCB content on it.

Of course, I needed two tar babies and only had one.[/goodies]

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04-14-2006 at 03:28 PM

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[goodies]my first try was "short scene," which I had expected to yield, well, a short scene of some action in the new game showing some new feature

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04-14-2006 at 03:33 PM

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[goodies]That was my first guess too, Silver. I thought the same thing too.

That may very well be because I work with TV. Yeah. So I had the right idea, but the wrong word.[/goodies]

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04-21-2006 at 09:45 PM

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[goodies] Even though i've solved the riddle of the bar i still click it. And was wondering if there really is another TCB screenshot. (see attachment)[/goodies]

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