Message Forum: Re: Pitch black cave FQ2 (spoilers, kinda)

Re: Pitch black cave FQ2 (spoilers, kinda)

Posted By: gremlinn, on host 24.25.220.173
Date: Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 16:17:51
In Reply To: Re: Pitch black cave FQ2 (spoilers, kinda) posted by mandichaos on Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 15:58:40:

> > > > How on earth do I ever get here? I have read the other hints so I think it is near the giraffe but I can't do a thing with it.
> > >
> > > Actually, that's critical to dealing with the giraffe. When you first enter the valley, before getting the giraffe's attention, go north to the cavern instead of heading west.
> > >
> > > (If the giraffe is there as soon as you enter the valley, get away from him and go away from the valley for several moves - 6 or 7 will do it - and come back. He'll eventually get bored and head west again.)
> > >
> > > The cavern consists of 6 rooms and two exits - map it out when you first enter. Whenever you bonk into a wall, you can't go that way. When you don't, you've successfully moved to another room. The second exit will dump you out on the other side of the mountains. Try looking for another way up again and you'll be able to go through the caverns from there.
> > >
> > > The point of this? You're gonna have to enter and exit the valley a few times from different directions. Ideally, when you head west into the valley, you want that giraffe's attention fixated on the cavern to the north so you can make a break for it.
> > >
> > > -Mandi
> > >
> > > (P.S. When you do have it figured out and are ready to try, make SURE you have sap in your bucket first. You'll need it, and it's a pain having to do all that over again.)
> >
> > Actually, it's easier to just find the giraffe at first by trying to go west in the valley, then running away, then going around and finding the caverns for the first time from the east. You only need to enter the caverns once.
>
> Funny, I tried doing it that way when I played it the second time around, and the game would NOT permit me to find the way in from the mountains til I went in there from the valley first....
>
> -Mandi

I believe that you can't find it the very first time you climb the mountains, but that you can go back and find it as soon as you've seen the giraffe. The first time I played, I didn't even discover you could reach the caverns directly from the valley.

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Message:	> > > > > How on earth do I ever get here? I have read the other hints so I think it is near the giraffe but I can't do a thing with it. > > > > > > > > Actually, that's critical to dealing with the giraffe. When you first enter the valley, before getting the giraffe's attention, go north to the cavern instead of heading west. > > > > > > > > (If the giraffe is there as soon as you enter the valley, get away from him and go away from the valley for several moves - 6 or 7 will do it - and come back. He'll eventually get bored and head west again.) > > > > > > > > The cavern consists of 6 rooms and two exits - map it out when you first enter. Whenever you bonk into a wall, you can't go that way. When you don't, you've successfully moved to another room. The second exit will dump you out on the other side of the mountains. Try looking for another way up again and you'll be able to go through the caverns from there. > > > > > > > > The point of this? You're gonna have to enter and exit the valley a few times from different directions. Ideally, when you head west into the valley, you want that giraffe's attention fixated on the cavern to the north so you can make a break for it. > > > > > > > > -Mandi > > > > > > > > (P.S. When you do have it figured out and are ready to try, make SURE you have sap in your bucket first. You'll need it, and it's a pain having to do all that over again.) > > > > > > Actually, it's easier to just find the giraffe at first by trying to go west in the valley, then running away, then going around and finding the caverns for the first time from the east. You only need to enter the caverns once. > > > > Funny, I tried doing it that way when I played it the second time around, and the game would NOT permit me to find the way in from the mountains til I went in there from the valley first.... > > > > -Mandi > > I believe that you can't find it the very first time you climb the mountains, but that you can go back and find it as soon as you've seen the giraffe. The first time I played, I didn't even discover you could reach the caverns directly from the valley.
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