Excelsior! Fear not, mon-brave, Brass has prevailed. It is always better to give than to receive advice, so the notion of explosive arrows never even entered into my head. Of course, there they were, waiting to be used. Oh, and by jingo, how they were used. Goodbye Pawns. See ya' Bishops. Do me a favour Queenie. Have a word with yourself King! (Although the strategy you guys suggested worked so well
, I couldn't tell you who the King was, though I suspect it's the chap with the extras on his corpse, he was dead and the game over before I knew it.
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So, having survived a fight that I couldn't run away from (which is why it gave me so much trouble I'm sure) I'm now messing about downstairs, where the only door that I can't get past is the one next to Islanne's ghost. I know it's there but I just can't access it. Advice?
P.S. I think that I've been to all of the secret areas in the slime zone. I've just got the Flametounge sword.
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Making running away an art form