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BONUS 06: PASTA PERSUASION {B1006}
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SUMMARY: Gather 100 stars while navigating a stage made of pasta dishes.
STAGE: Pasta Persuasion
POINTS: 1200

This stage begins immediately with some shaky footing.  Before you head 
forward and tackle that, though, look behind where you start.  There's a 
strainer making a trip up and down a path that contains several stars.  When 
the strainer is low enough, double jump out to it and let it carry you up to 
collect the stars.  Then when it comes back down, jump back onto the starting 
platform.

Now, head forward and you'll find a spaghetti strand you can jump onto by 
leaping into the air and pressing the 'Action' button.  Note that olives 
circle this and will knock you off if they come in contact with you.  From the 
end of this strand of pasta, you can leap to a ravioli shell.  However, it 
will start to shake as you stand on it.  You'll need to jump quickly to 
another bit of pasta and balance as you head along that toward a floating bit 
of pizza (while avoiding more olives on the way).

From the solid footing the pizza slice provides, you'll need to snake your way 
along a series of ravioli ledges, up to another pizza ledge.  Then from there, 
it's on to more of the spaghetti strands with olives circling.  There are also 
upturned spoons and plates of spaghetti, both of which you can safely land and 
stand upon while you catch your breath.  Near the opposite end of that little 
exercise, you'll find a fork that jabs across your path.  It has pasta wrapped 
around it, and will knock you into the abyss if you let it connect.  Wait for 
it to jab, then advance as it recedes, to safe ground on the other side.

You'll soon make your way to a slice of pizza, and here you'll see more 
ravioli shells leading along a path that takes you upward.  These lead up to a 
slice of pizza, after which there are more of the ravioli shells.  These will 
give you the chance to jump onto a moving ledge that consists of a strainer 
filled with spaghetti.  Jump onto it and let it carry you within range of more 
ravioli shells, then hop along those and to another strainer.  There are four 
strainers in this area, all told, with ravioli shells spaced periodically.

When you reach the top, you'll find yourself standing on a slice of pizza with 
a spaghetti strand leading forward.  Jump onto that and ahead you'll see a 
series of the forks wrapped in spaghetti, slashing across your path.  You can 
jump over these safely enough, but remember to press the 'Action' button in 
the air so that you'll land back on the spaghetti strand rather than tumbling 
through the air.

Once you have made it past the series of forks, you'll find yourself at the 
top of a slide.  You need to make your way down the slide at a pretty good 
clip, though you can start out slow to have an easier time collecting the 
stars.  Once you've slid for awhile, though, definitely build up some speed as 
you'll be needing to jump wider and wider gaps.  That happens after you pass 
the third or fourth ribbon.  Until then, you can move fairly slowly, dodging 
to either side of the forks and ribbons in your way, being careful not to miss 
any stars.

Another note: near the end of the track, you'll pass some forks and tomatoes 
in the background, and ahead you'll see a tunnel that has a roof overhead.  
You may also see a track off to the right.  If you get near the edge of the 
track a short bit before the tunnel and then press and hold the 'jump' button, 
you can jump over to that other track, which contains three stars.  The first 
is in the middle, the second is on the right side when the path branches, and 
the third is in the middle again before you drop off this side track and back 
onto the main one.

When you reach the end of the slide, you should have plenty of stars in your 
inventory.  In fact, the end of the slide is the end of the stage, so you 
should have all 100.  The problem is that there are some along the left branch 
when the path splits, and some along the right.  So you will probably want to 
play through twice, once to catch any left branch stars, once to catch the 
ones on the right.  When you're done with the stage, you'll receive 200 
points, and there are an extra 1000 points in it for you once you've gathered 
all 100 stars.  Upon completing the stage, you'll be returned to the 
marketplace.