Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!umich!sharkey!ionic!gm From: gm@ionic.UUCP (Greg Miller) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games Subject: Re: CSB !Help! (Spoiler) Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 03:12:45 GMT References: <16431@venera.isi.edu> <512.279ab620@vger.nsu.edu> Lines: 104 >In article <512.279ab620@vger.nsu.edu> cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu writes: > > I congratulate you guys on getting this far. I've reached a point where >I am making NO progress of any sort. > >I have been down all the paths from the junction of the four ways, although >I'm pretty sure I haven't discovered everything there is to know about each >of them. But I get stymied at the end of each one. > >Right now, I am on the KU path. There are two places that confound me. One: >a staircase that ends in a blank wall. I cannot find a single way to open it, >get through it, etc. Very likely, this is one of a LOT of places in CSB that you must enter from the other side to use. Once you've walked through (from the other side) the wall disappears, and never again poses a problem. It's primarily to allow shortcuts - but keep you from running through the game "out of order". > >Secondly, There is a place where a staircase goes up. At the top are hordes of >golden spiders. NOrmally, these are not a problem for me, but in this >location, anything I try to do to them disappears into thin air. It doesn't >matter whether I try a magic spell or physical attack. However, they can and >do harm me. Any hints?? I honestly don't remember this place, but I'm pretty confident that I've been everywhere in the lower levels. It's possible that I walked in from another entrance, and didn't have the problem. It sounds terribly, though, like your fireballs (or whatever) are getting turned by a spinner. If you can tell me how you got to this location (what path - roughly what level), I'll search through my scribblings and see if I can find anything. > >I have yet to find the first piece of corbum. I found the DDD once, but >promptly lost it again and can't find my way back. CSB is laid out such that you complete the lower levels first, and then travel to the DDD. From there, you complete each of four paths - each ending in a corbum. So, unless you get through the DDD, you won't get a corbum. > >Oh, one other question. You know the room with all the water fountains and the >stairs between two blue mists and two pressure plates? Once I get up those >stairs and turn left, how do I get past that pit in the corner? The only place I remember that's even similar to this is the room that you fall into when you wait too long in the room labelled "Supplies For the Quick". However, I only remember one (maybe two) fountains in this room. If this is the right place, then going up the stairs and left _would_ lead you to a pit. However, getting across is requires that you be on the path that you can see to the right (when facing the pit). That path leads you into the room where the game starts. Getting across the pit will only gain you a flask, and you can get to the other side by walking there from the other side of the "Supplies" room. > >In quiet desperation..... >Jean >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ >+ + + >+ werjun@large + Don't undertake vast projects + >+ cs170703644@vger.nsu.edu + with half vast ideas. + >+ + + >+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Now, for my own plea for help: Personally, I've managed to get through the DAIN, NETA, and KU paths of the DDD. After the first piece of corbum, I returned to the DDD. (I did NOT destroy it. I assumed that I'd do that to all four at once.) On a whim, I returned to the Fulya pit and destroyed the corbum. I then made my way to the KU path, slaughtered some more knights (that corridor is littered with armor), and suddenly, the wall that had been barring my way disappeared. Apparently, you need to destroy each corbum in sequence to convince the game that you've "finished" a path. I got through the DAIN path as well - simply by re-searching each of the lower levels. Apparently, I'd missed the Ruby key before (it was in a chest on the level with the flying serpents) - and that alone got me into the DAIN path. The NETA path I'd already mastered. However, I still cannot figure out how to get into ROS. There's a pit barring my entrance, and I haven't the foggiest how to close it. Near the entrance to the NETA path, there's an eye that the Hint Oracle says "Ninjas show any object to the eye, to close the pit upstairs to the left". My greatest wizard is also my best ninja, and I've had him show all sorts of objects to the eye - and the pit remained closed. What's wrong? Are they talking about a different pit? I caught a message here by someone who said that it's non-functional unless you enter the DDD from a certain path. I've tried that, and received no success. Does anyone have any more detailed information? Thanks! - Greg +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | A sign of mismanagement, over- | Greg Miller | | complication and overall idiocy: | ..ames!sharkey!ionic!gm | | | gm@ionic.uucp | | "Designed By Committee" | | +----------------------------------------------------------------+