Beef Row
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 471
Registered: 12-28-2005
IP: Logged

C h a l l e n g e !

Journey to Rooted Hold 8th level: 4S, 2E

The challenge is to kill all the serpents while using ONLY ctrl key moves. No movement, waiting or sword swinging without the control key pressed is allowed. Neither is the undo move feature as it would defeat the purpose of this challenge by allowing normal movement.

Extra: is it also possible to leave the room afterward? What other rooms can be cleared, passed through or solved this way?

If you've never tried using the ctrl key shortcuts (I only heard of them today myself), holding the control key while moving does the following:

ctrl + move = the move followed by its opposite: N then S, or NE then SW, for example.

ctrl + sword = clockwise then counter clockwise, or vice versa.

And ctrl + wait = wait until the beginning of the next spawn cycle.

Of course all these moves tend to leave you in exactly the same place you started.....



____________________________
"Now I will repeatedly apply the happy-face rule"

TripleM
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1377
Registered: 02-05-2003
IP: Logged

File: JtRH Eighth Level 4S2E Victory.demo (2.5 KB)
Downloaded 112 times.
License: Public Domain

Wow, that was awesome. Indeed, its possible to complete the room and leave while holding down the ctrl key. And it was a lot of fun doing so.

Demo attached.

Beef Row
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 471
Registered: 12-28-2005
IP: Logged

File: Ctrl Challenge 2.demo (2.5 KB)
Downloaded 78 times.
License: Public Domain

Sweet! Now that the exit bit is confirmed I'm gonna play around with that some more before I check out your demo

I made the kills ok, but kept getting stuck on the way out, so I posted with just the kills as the basic goal. Alright, off to solve part 2 of my own challenge.

EDIT: got it! Demo attached

____________________________
"Now I will repeatedly apply the happy-face rule"

---

[Last edited by Beef Row at 01-03-2006 05:28 AM]

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3648
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

Seeing as I can't see the room image, am I correct in assuming the room has trapdoors?

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

Doom
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 3303
Registered: 07-05-2004
IP: Logged

Chaco wrote:
Seeing as I can't see the room image, am I correct in assuming the room has trapdoors?

Well, 2.

There's however...

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3648
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

Ah.

In other news, seeing as I sent my registration in two days ago, hopefully I'll soon be able to see this room

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

Tim
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1979
Registered: 08-07-2004
IP: Logged

Chaco wrote:
In other news, seeing as I sent my registration in two days ago, hopefully I'll soon be able to see this room

I'm not too sure what you are saying. You mean CaravelNet? I don't want to disappoint you, but you'll still need to have visited the room before you can see the picture (or something like that).

____________________________
The best way to lose customers is to let little kids running loose on a forum with too many mod points.

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3648
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

Do you honestly think I'm going to buy JtRH and then NOT play it for 35 hours straight?

Besides, it's only level 8

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

Tim
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1979
Registered: 08-07-2004
IP: Logged

You're right. I just gave you a mod point for that.

But seriously, please try not to play for 35 hours straight. It's not good for your health.

-- Tim

____________________________
The best way to lose customers is to let little kids running loose on a forum with too many mod points.

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3648
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

Tim wrote:
But seriously, please try not to play for 35 hours straight. It's not good for your health.

-- Tim

*gasp*

Somebody being serious on the DROD forum?

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

trick
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Rank Points: 2580
Registered: 04-12-2003
IP: Logged

I believe what he meant is that it's not good for your health to play for anything less than 72 hours straight. Thugs might be deployed, otherwise.

- Gerry

---

[Last edited by trick at 01-04-2006 06:53 PM]

Chaco
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 3648
Registered: 10-06-2005
IP: Logged

I actually picked that number (35) very carefully: if it was a multiple of 24, I'd look rather uninformed. I also wanted a high number, for impact, but not something so ridicolus that nobody would buy it.

____________________________
Quick links to my stuff (in case you forgot where it was):

trick
Level: Legendary Smitemaster
Rank Points: 2580
Registered: 04-12-2003
IP: Logged

That's me in a nutshell; ridiculous and uninformed.

- Gerry

Alneyan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 622
Registered: 07-06-2004
IP: Logged

trick wrote:
That's me in a nutshell; ridiculous and uninformed.

- Gerry

Well, at least you know what your qualities are: realism and truthfulness.

That's me in a nutshell; mean and a nuclear slegdehammer for subtlety. That's also me with Post Exams Disorder. Don't worry, I should step down to my usual level of silliness in a short while.

---

[Last edited by Alneyan at 01-05-2006 01:21 PM]

rowrow
Level: Smiter
Rank Points: 432
Registered: 08-17-2004
IP: Logged

If your in a nutshell, then how do you get around and go out?
Talk about serious health problems.

____________________________
B'hakhgra Du S'tra Moth'ness Ti!

Alneyan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 622
Registered: 07-06-2004
IP: Logged

There are some things Man was not meant to know, Rowrow: this is one of them. That, and I bought during the apartment bubble, so my nut is quite a bit bigger than you would expect, more like a coconut actually.

stigant
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 1182
Registered: 08-19-2004
IP: Logged

But the coconut is a tropical fruit.

____________________________
Progress Quest Progress

Alneyan
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 622
Registered: 07-06-2004
IP: Logged

We are in a forum, so it makes sense to have a topical fruit, right? And that R you've added... you don't pronounce proper Rs in English, so it's irrelevant. Really.

Or perhaps it's the new, world-shattering, break-through in computer programming: the R programming language, combining the novelty and ease-of-maintaining of Fortran, the complexity of Basic, the cleanliness of Java, and the all-purposes character of HTML.

Stefan
Level: Smitemaster

Rank Points: 2119
Registered: 05-25-2004
IP: Logged

Arr!

____________________________
0.099³

agaricus5
Level: Smitemaster
Rank Points: 1838
Registered: 02-04-2003
IP: Logged

Stefan wrote:
Arr!

Note: Ctrl+[Arr] allows you to be both a happy/normal pirate (Arr) and then a rather angry one straight after (Rra), using up two moves. When used in the correct places, this may have unusual effects, especially on mariners, sea creatures and sea monsters.

____________________________
Resident Medic/Mycologist