Catacombs Level 7 - Room 15510

[mactrix]

Hi everyone, I have been playing MM for a couple of years now and just love it - a big thanks to all those people who have submitted custom mansions - they're great.

Okie dokie - I am stuck on level 7 in room 15510 for the hundredth darn time.... grrrrrr.... and I know other people have also had problems with the secret puzzle behind the wall in this room - but they seem to sort it out and I can't - I end up in this room with only a few lives and just cannot work out what to do!. I use all my lives up very quickly and then have to go back to the very start of the level and start all over again.

I've started the moving block at the right, have gone up and down on it, jumped everywhere (and died), tried to pull levers, hoped I catch a vine or something - but nadda!!!!

Please, please help me get outta here so I can get on with it and enjoy all the new levels that keep getting added.

Many thanks in anticipation.

[josephine]

Yeah this room took me forever to get!

Here's a hint, just copy and paste it at rot13.com to decode:


Trg ba gur zbivat cyngsbez tbvat hc. Lbh'ir cebonoyl gevrq jnyxvat bss vg gb gur yrsg naq Wnpx snyyf gb uvf qrngu. Vs lbh gel jnyxvat gb gur evtug lbh pna whfg oneryl frr Wnpx chfuvat ntnvafg gur jnyy, naq jurer gur cyngsbez erirefrf ng gur gbc bs gur ebbz. Znlor gung cyngsbez tbrf hc gb gur prvyvat sbe n ernfba?

Wnpx pna bayl qb fb znal npgvbaf- jnyx, pyvzo hc be qbja, whzc naq chyy yriref. Fvapr ur pna'g jnyx bss gur zbivat cyngsbez, gurer nera'g nal yriref gb chyy, naq whzcvat hc qbrfa'g svaq n ivar, jung'f yrsg gb gel?

Vtaber gur fcvqref sbe abj, gurl pbzr vagb cynl nsgre lbh'ir fbyirq gur zbivat cyngsbez chmmyr.



If that doesn't help, I'll post the solution. Good luck, this was a hard room!

[rose]

Have you tried climbing????

[mactrix]

OMG!!! UH DUH!!!! I cannot believe out of the 150 damn times I visited 'that' room and stood on 'that' moving platform - that I didn't do

THAT

!!!! I could've sworn I had tried absolutely everything - over and over and yet over again. Isn't hindsight (and a wonderfully coded message) a glorious thing....

Also, after I got to the end of this level I realised that I was actually playing level 8 and not 7, which explains why when I was reading posts on this room that some said level 7 and others said level 8. I think the confusion arises because when you open your saved game it says Catacombs 7 and it's not until you get to the end (finally) and you do that precious save that you realise/remember you have actually been playing level 8. I hope that helps other poor confused souls (like me) when they also get stymied by this wee gem of a puzzle!

Many ta's for replies, very much appreciated and I am happy to announce that I have moved on and am now nearly at the end of the next level (9).

[josephine]

mactrix wrote: OMG!!! UH DUH!!!

We've all been there ;D

[brell]

josephine wrote: [quote author=mactrix link=1238912152/0#3 date=1238991326]OMG!!! UH DUH!!!

We've all been there  ;D
One further note on this as Freddy has pointed out so many times: The movements and actions Jack can take are in fact very few, so there are only six keys we need to try, sometimes with combinations of two (seldom three) keys and seldom press-and-hold.