The Pirate Invasion is out!

[brell]

Hi Zipwin. The latest version of the game is 1.09. The latest version of TPI is the one in the custom mansions download.

[zipwin]

Thanks Brell. Unfortunately, I am really stuck. Have done the maze and gotten back to the party deck but cannot solve the mirror room or get to the rooms below the broken ladder down from the party deck. There is obviously a technique I haven't mastered...I badly need a hint as to how to get into rooms like DaFalcon and through the mirror. Perhaps you could send me a private message...I can get up the first room on the invisible blocks and cross over to the other side but cannot get down...have literally been jumping against walls for the last two days.....finally. Can you get down the ladder from the party deck or is that an exervise in futility??? :-?

[brell]

I'm beginning to think that the cabins below the twisted ladder are the best kept secret since the beginning of MM  8-)

First of all, why can't you get into daFalcon's cabin?

Second, Psychotronic's cabin is the KEY to the cabins below the twisted ladder.  Please note that everything is mirrored.

Hope this helps ..... for a while  [smiley=evil.gif]

[zipwin]

I get to the entrance in room 30697 and the grey door to the left is shut. I don't see any other way to get in and I can't find the switch to raise that door.

[brell]

Which means you haven't been everywhere in room 30697 or haven't looked in hidden places.

[zipwin]

Thanks! By the way, the old saying: sleep on it: worked really well for me last night. Woke up early and even before my cup of coffee I figured out how to get into the secret room and have been playing the previously inaccessable cabins! I LOVE how I can get back above the pole now....still have to solve the mirror room but am learning as I go. I feel almost like I am no longer a true newbie. Thanks again Brel. This is really an elegant puzzle. I loved the whole Myst series and this takes similar thinking out of the box.

[brell]

Thank you Zipwin for the nice words. Please note that, like in all mirrors, what you see is not a part of the real world, just a mirror of it.

[zipwin]

Thanks Brell, that was just being dumb and not looking around properly.

I've finally solved the mirror room-actually had done so before understanding the mirror effect. A slight criticism (very slight) is I am not sure how many rooms are involved with the mirror effect since it is not truly a reflection i.e. things that should disappear stay put in the mirror side....I know of at least two rooms but there could be another. FINALLY, I reached the end but missed a couple of rooms and wondered like those who wrote earlier if there is a way back other than the maze like from the pirate flag site on the top deck. It appears there should be.....great job designing this one.

[brell]

Yes, Zipwin, there is another way back in the newest update

[lizzie33]

Thank you Brell, have really enjoyed the pirate invasion. Finally finished it today! Well actually I finished it a while before but only discovered half the mansions. This time I got 93% of secrets. I love all the secret rooms and hidden keys you have to look for and all the messages on the way. I think this game and Catacombs have been my favourite so far of the custom games I have played (haven't played all of them yet). To me this game was hard, but I find the 'hard' games pretty much impossible! They just stress me out so much that it is no longer fun for me to play them anymore and I give up. There were moments when I just had to sleep on it or look at the forum for help or just get stuck for ages going round and round different rooms until I got the answer! But I think I need the challenge!