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...okay wtf is happening with spoiler tags now? What happened to stuff just being in a greyed-out box that kept the flor of the sentence? :O

So, "Part One" of each of the Ways starts at the Junction of the Ways and meets up at the DDD. From the DDD, which is like a larger, more convoluted puzzle of a junction, there are four doors, each one leading into "Part Two" of its respective Way and needing a key to unlock it, obtained in "Part ...

Dragon's Den is in "Part Two" of Ku*, yes. You can't miss it as you need to go through it to progress.



*Through the door unlocked with the Solid Key in the DDD area.

Sounds like things are going pretty well. Neither the Sapphire nor the Topaz Keys are essential for progression, but the Ruby is. Plenty of random stuff all over the place for you to poke around in and get some possibly-helpful loot .

Oh sorry, I was reading too fast and must've misread that message the other day (I was trying to be quick checking all my daily stuff as I was gonna be going out not long after to go away for Christmas, but I'm back now ). Yeah the forum is fine, then, no weird messages for me .

Yeah same, I was definitely nowhere near being a teenager when I first played (born in '84), and of course no Internet at all at that point. We had the Atari up till around late '94/early'95 I think, when we got our first PC (went on the Internet for the first time in late '96, having started ...

I don't go on there much, but I don't recall seeing that issue. Just had a look on there now and it was fine, though admittedly I did only go to the homepage (going away for Christmas shortly so don't have much time to poke around extensively).

Oh yeah, that's how I play now , but back then (if keyboard was possible on Atari) I don't think I ever thought of it. I would've been five when CSB first came out (and three for DM, which I think came out actually on my birthday?), so rather more inexperienced with this sort of thing at the time ...

I've only done it since using CSBWin - back in the day we used the mouse for everything so would've been a bit slower to do stuff. Since playing on CSBWin (and RTC before that) I use the keyboard to move, so it's much faster. Which means lobbing a Fireball at something and immediately charging ...

Haha yeah I've run into the back of one of my own Fireballs on more than one occasion :D.
Also I dunno if that was a typo, but the little spellcasting robed dudes are "Vexirks", not "Vexeriks" :D. I've always assumed their name is just the words "vex" and "irk" put together (two words that mean "to ...

As far as I can tell, spells just explode over the whole square and therefore hit everyone in it (as evidenced when you get hit in the face with a Fireball or something).

Presumably when you say "Hardcleave", you mean "Executioner" - no Hardcleave in CSB ;).
CSB came out in '89 (DM in '87). And yeah, no Internet back then :D. When me and my dad played the games back in the day (when I was like, six or so), we had a guide for DM but nothing for CSB. Well, presumably ...

There have already been plenty of more "modern" games like DM - Legend of Grimrock was explicitly a homage to it, for example, even if it wasn't exactly identical in terms of mechanics and stuff. You can think of later first-person party-based Fantasy games (like Stonekeep or the Might and Magic ...

I don't think I ever thought anything was immune to anything (except non-materials being untouchable except by certain attacks, of course), but based on how slowly some stuff died to certain effects I figured they were at least highly resistant. Makes sense, though - if you're entirely made out of ...

Yeah I would consider it more fiddly to click, more expensive to cast, and not really worth it compared to good old lazy Fireball :D. If Fireball doesn't really work on something (not counting non-material creatures, of course) then I'll just hack it to death physically with some help from any ...

I just step-dance the Dragon to death. It's fun, and there's no risk of being unexpectedly attacked by something else because there's nothing else down there to attack you :D. I never use any of the freeze items at all, that's just junk to me that I don't bother picking up.
I think the whole ...

Haha yeah I use Fireball all the time as well. It's the only offensive spell I use except Harm Non-Material Being. Vorpal Blades also give Wizzy exp so those count as well.

I've only been on the new version of the Encyclopaedia a couple of times but it did seem more difficult to find anything, as the categories/sections didn't seem quite so obviously-labelled any more, from what I can remember.

Oh, I didn't know Fireballs would heal them - I know they're non-material so I know not to bother using Fireballs on them at all, though, so maybe that's never come up (and I'm not sure it would be obvious they'd been healed anyway - it's not like they have any hitpoint indicators ).

On the subject of creature generators, I've often wondered what it is that triggers Fire Elementals to respawn - sometimes a new one pops up as soon as you kill the previous one, but sometimes they stay dead for ages. Maybe they slowly regenerate over time and "queue up", respawning instantly when ...

I hav noticed one thing about the new dark theme - it doesn't seem to know how to mark that there are new posts in a sub-forum. I saw there was a marker for new posts in "Custom Dungeons", for example, which has a line of links directly to each of its sections, but none of them were in a different ...

Oh you can certainly skip a whole bunch of sections, yeah - basically all of Level Five (there's nothing there that you need, just some treasure items like the Staff of Claws) and at least one big chunk of Level Twelve (the whole section with the Darc armour set, also the Spider Room near the end of ...

Trying out the new theme - the dark grey is reminiscent of the old skin we used to have (with the DM artwork at the top), so I'll keep it for now .

Yeah CSB had the Gor coin and a "map" - I still have both.

I mean, I've been playing computer games for multiple hours a day on literally every day that I've been able to since I was like, four or five or something. More so since I got my first proper job in 2007 and had money to buy my own computer instead of using my dad's .

Oh I missed that you were using RTC. Okay yeah, RTC was made from scratch to try and get as close as possible to the originals, but there are certainly some differences so maybe that's it. CSBWin is more accurate as it's ported from the Atari version. I'm not sure about the fullscreen thing - CSBWin ...

If it's the bit I'm thinking of (having recently seen it in a YouTube playthrough which makes it somewhat easier to remember than thinking back several years to whenever I last played it myself ;)), the pressure plates are right next to the doors, and doors take a second to start closing once you ...

I didn't see it when loading the forum today, and in fact had forgotten about it until I was reading the new posts in this thread. Maybe it just came up too quickly this time.

When I loaded the forum just now, there was very briefly a kind of beigey-yellow screen with a large cogwheel on it. I don't know what that was all about and it was only there for about half a second so I didn't have time to see anything else, but the forum seemed to load fine right after that. Wasn ...

Hi :). I feel like I've seen your username somewhere before. Maybe it was on YouTube or something...and there's every chance that it just happened to be a completely different person with the same username :D.
Always nice to have a new person here, anyway, especially one who did actually read the ...