Marcus Harvey
2016-07-02 22:34:42 UTC
I'm once again re-playing Level 9's Snowball and I have a question that's really bothering me.
There's a section in the game with a bunch of rooms that are obviously holograms and I remembered there was a way to dismiss them with a wand. I couldn't find the wand for the life of me and getting impatient I decided to consult the official clue sheet now at http://ifarchive.jmac.org/if-archive/level9/hints/clue-sheets/Snowball.clues.
Here's the relevant clue sheet entries:
57. Holo-wand: where it is (243), details (273)
243. On the Silver Tray.
But this is not correct. The electro-flute is on the silver tray (dropped by a robot that you release earlier). Indeed looking at the clue sheet again we see:
43. Flute: where it is (243), details (312).
As you can see, 243 is the answer given for both the wand and the flute!
Despairing I turned to the (bare bones) walkthrough available at http://solutionarchive.com/file/id,702/ and other places. Here's what it says (I added room names):
DOWN (the Forest Glade is really a hologram!!)
E (grey room, lit by flickering candles)
E (solid black room filled with a glaring white light)
IN
TAKE WAND
Bather's the thing. There is NO "IN" direction given in the room description, which reads:
You are in a solid black room filled with a glaring white light. Despite the intensity of
the illumination, you know it does not show everything clearly. Yet increasing the
brightness would only dazzle. The only visible exit is west.
So my question is. How am I supposed to know to go IN (or DOWN also works) in that room to find the wand? Is there some way to suppress the glare? The dark glasses don't work for sure.
Anyone know?
There's a section in the game with a bunch of rooms that are obviously holograms and I remembered there was a way to dismiss them with a wand. I couldn't find the wand for the life of me and getting impatient I decided to consult the official clue sheet now at http://ifarchive.jmac.org/if-archive/level9/hints/clue-sheets/Snowball.clues.
Here's the relevant clue sheet entries:
57. Holo-wand: where it is (243), details (273)
243. On the Silver Tray.
But this is not correct. The electro-flute is on the silver tray (dropped by a robot that you release earlier). Indeed looking at the clue sheet again we see:
43. Flute: where it is (243), details (312).
As you can see, 243 is the answer given for both the wand and the flute!
Despairing I turned to the (bare bones) walkthrough available at http://solutionarchive.com/file/id,702/ and other places. Here's what it says (I added room names):
DOWN (the Forest Glade is really a hologram!!)
E (grey room, lit by flickering candles)
E (solid black room filled with a glaring white light)
IN
TAKE WAND
Bather's the thing. There is NO "IN" direction given in the room description, which reads:
You are in a solid black room filled with a glaring white light. Despite the intensity of
the illumination, you know it does not show everything clearly. Yet increasing the
brightness would only dazzle. The only visible exit is west.
So my question is. How am I supposed to know to go IN (or DOWN also works) in that room to find the wand? Is there some way to suppress the glare? The dark glasses don't work for sure.
Anyone know?