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Started to explore the dream palace. After the 12 door riddle, I found a RA lock.
As I stated in a previous post, I had saved one of the RA keys from the sleepy hollow. The key could open the lock, and so I am now in a place called the secret library. Am I on the right track?

Leslie, where are you now? I did not find a way to solve the "some creatures are attracted by light" puzzle in the amber hall. I lit the lantern hanging from the ceiling and tried to lure several creatures to that place, but nothing happened. Also I noticed a reveal symbol on a wall in th...

Hi Saumun, regarding Furion use the proper spell on him. You should have learned that spell in the amber tower. regarding the closed door you can open it from another room inside the tower. Try to build a stack of amber walls in the shaft thet reaches from the top to the bottom of the tower. Then us...

Hi there, just need a small push to the right direction. I finished some parts of the Amber hall near to the top of the big tree. I found three cages, one with a sprite in it. In the same room was another tree-like thing that needed to be ZOed. The obvious door opened, but I got a message that two d...

So maybe it is the combination of sight range 2, detect range 1 and Spell casting range 3?
If I understand correctly, this makes the Swamp slime very bad at noticing the party. And if it does, it will rather cast a spell instead of advancing the party?

Is there a worthwhile effect from magic shields or the flamebain suit ? The flamebain can be helpful in the battle against Lord Chaos. Just have one living champion with the Firestaff, the Flamebain and the Jewel Symal. Half of his spells miss the party because you just have one champions. The othe...

I noticed that in original DM my party could get hit by FUL IR spells cast by demons without taking damage while a MON FUL BRO NETA was active. The same seems to apply on spell shields. In CSB on the NETA path there's a section where the party gets hit by poison spells - you can get the flame bane h...

I just played good old DM again (the Amiga version) and remembered something which already confused me during the old times when DM was new. Unlike other monsters, the swamp slimes act somehow... cowardly. You as the player can "lure" almost any monster to any place you want. If you allow ...

It is actually possible to "save" one of the three RA keys from the sleepy hollow, the last one to be exact. There is that sleepyness room which has to left by opening another door with a lantern. In the room behind the door, there is an unbrakable barrel. You can place the barrel under th...

And what happens if you don't have the boots? Will the wall then open without you dropping any items?

Actually such barriers are on many levels. Some in places where I do not see a reason. Remember the three puzzle rooms on the first skeleton level where you can get three Iron keys? One of the rooms has a pit and a portcullis. Outside of the room there's a barrier preventing monsters from entering t...

Damned, seems this thread is really to old... I would really like to finish this dungeon, but am still stuck at the same places. In addition I read about climbing a mansion tower with the rope... I have a rope, and I found the mansion... and tried to use the rope outside of the mansion everywhere, b...

Hi guys,
might I ask for some directions in the Sleepy Hollow?
I found three RA keys, but actually have no idea where to go next. I appear to need some lanterns in the hollow, and also in the room above the hollow as well. I never found any locks for the keys...

Does anyone know the mechanism of the Surrender your possensions trap?
How many items do you have to drop to get free, and what happens if you have less items? Are you then trapped?

I am not sure if we had such a topic before... I'd like to know, do you have a personal "arsenal" of spells which you use through the entire dungeon of DM, or maybe in custom dungeons as well? On the other hand, are there spells which you never use? I actually use only a small subset of th...

About the riddle PYRO I read VIGOR riddle in the ToC topic, if well anderstand VIGOR is a VI potion + a GORe coin .... But PYRO, there is no rune name starting by PY or RO, there is Ros but it's on 3rd position .... Is it really a riddle, or is it just a, ...pyro? That pyro item known from DM2...

Currently I am exploring the sleepy hollow. When entering for the first time, I got rushed by a Harpy, which I fireballed to death. There's also a sleeping ogre. Since there're two pads in there, I guess both have to be supplied with sleeping monsters, so I would have needed the harpy, right? Do I h...

I have explored further :) Found the meditation circle in the Amber tower (thanks Igor Poulpupov :) ), cured the son of Helga and visited the Fairy village. I am not sure if there's anything to do inside the village beside picking up the bow and the wand. It seems that the houses of the village cann...

I used the Christmas time to start again with ver1.2 and now managed to kill the gargoyle. The battle actually was not that hard, I just emptied my Mana supply in the form of FUL IR spells right into it's face... it died quickly. I noticed Goro becomes a valuable wizard quickly. By just doing the og...

@Hi Leslie, I know what you are going through. I believe you have to kill him and not fall down the pits. I used health potions and took him on directly, no running. It's tough. I would like to give that tactic a try, but, as I said, the gargoyle does not show up again. After failing at the first t...

I am facing strange behavior on the top of the amber tower. I went to the figure which turned into a gargoyle after I cast some fireballs on it. I gueess, this is the boss fight, right? Then during the battle I fell into one of the pits, because I did not realize that some creature below was destroy...

Hi everyone, a merry Christmas to all of you!
Might I ask for a small clue for the shy stairs please?

I see... I managed to open another door and get an axe. Opened the hex within a team door as well and found a chained pit.
So I guess the item needed from the sundries is the grapple, but I cannot open the pit.
On the way, I found the fourth part of the mixture, but still lacking the second.

I have to tell this from memory, as I am not at home at the moment... I have a scroll giving part one of the mixture, along with one of the keys. Unlocked the quarters and the stores. In one of the quarters there was a ladder leading to some items, here I found the third part of the mixture, along w...

I am now on the ship... anything else to do here, or do I just have to wait until the one or two days mentioned in the scrolls have passed.... :) Okay, serious again, I found the first and the third part of the recipe along with the keys, but it seems I missed the second. And it seems I am running o...

Yeah, I should look for PMs... and choose the right party leader *bangHeadAgainstWall*
I really should go to bed now

You mean the garden with the stone table and the scroll?
After reading it, I tried chopping things, but this obviously was not the right thing.
I will look again later, or maybe try the battle again with a Vorpal blade, I'm already quite tired today evening.

So finally... I demonized the old man's ghost. The battle itself doesn not seem that hard, but I get killed by the randomly launched lightning bolts.

I guess you are pretty much at the same room as I am.
As I learned from Saumon, they cannot be killed. You have to teleport out of the room. See posts above.

I know the spell from the PM and also from the scroll in the keep, but I did not yet find anything in the caves besides an Onxy gem and a steak. Seems I have not yet been at the right place. In this case, since the door does not open again, I guess the only way leaving the room is the teleport rune ...