| ================ 4. The BIG MAZE! ================ The little maze I just mapped, from the upper five rows of the fourth floor, is relatively easy. The big maze taking up the southern three rows of all four mazes is much harder. The basic pattern is like this: uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod- | | | | | | | | -uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod- | | | | | | | | -uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod-uod As if it weren't hard enough, with all those directions, going east from the rooms on the eastern edge of the maze wraps you around one row south and to the western edge. And going west from the rooms on the western edge wraps you around one row up and to the eastern edge. So you could go east 24 times from the northwest corner and end up at the southeast corner. Likewise, if you go down from the fourth floor, you end up on the first, and up from the first gets you to the fourth floor. However, you do not wrap around going north or south. So you always know if you are on the northern or the southern edge. The most annoying thing about the maze is that you are sometimes transported to a different part, and have no way of knowing unless you carefully keep track of where you are. The two easiest rooms to recognize are the northwest and southeast corner rooms, since they have fewer possible exits. If ever you are lost, head for one of these! The best way to explore the maze is to pick a floor, head to a corner, say the northwest, and go like this: S, S (at this point you should not be able to go further south), E, N, N (the furthest north you can go if you have not been transported), E, S, S, E, N, N, and so on, until you have gone east seven times and are therefore on the eastern edge. Now double check that the southeastern corner is where you expect, go down a floor, and do the same thing again in reverse. On the fourth floor of this maze, the southeast corner has an eastern exit. This exit will take you to the northwest corner of the little fourth-floor maze mapped above. Note that it is a one-way passage; there's no going back unless you type BACK quickly. This means two things. First, it is the best landmark you have in the big maze. If you need to get to the truthring on the second floor of the maze, go south and east until you get to any southeast corner, with no southern or eastern exit, then go down until there is an exit to the east. You are now on the fourth floor. (If suddenly you can't go up or down, you know you WERE on the fourth floor, type BACK to get back to the southeast corner.) Now go down twice, and voila! You're on the second floor, and well on your way to finding the item you remember seeing here long ago. Second, this gives you an easy route outside. If you just killed the Satyr and got the Crown, which is way too heavy to take up from room (1), or jump the pits in rooms (5) or (7) with, just take one of the many, many exits to the maze. Make your way to a southeast corner, go up or down until you can go east, and make your way to room (9) using my map above. ================== 5. Item locations ================== First floor: Food, bottle, dagger, shield Second floor: Urn, flute Third floor: Mushroom, ax, mace, basket, pendant Maze (either): Parchment, talisman, scepter, rope Can be anywhere: Vial, spellbook, sword, powerring, lightring, truthring |
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