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MISSION 18: SLIDING ESCAPE {W1018}
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SUMMARY: Slide down a long canal to the soft mattress at the bottom.
STAGE: Underground Fun
POINTS: 200

Now you'll be making your escape by sliding down a long tunnel.  You begin the 
stage in a store room.  There's nothing to do but drop down the vent, and from 
there collect some stars until you jump over the first little rise.  Now 
you're sliding, and your goal is the usual: collect 100 stars before reaching 
the end of the stage.

Once you start sliding, hold first to the middle and then be ready to make a 
series of jumps as you work to maintain a good high speed.  Things come at you 
pretty fast, so there's not much point in listing the order of your dangers 
here except for one key note.

When you reach the near-bottom of the passage, you'll note a place where the 
left side of the passage is blocked off by grating.  This signals that you'll 
be wanting speed more than ever, as well as to stay away from the center of 
the trail.  Ahead, the middle of the canal has rusted away.  You'll want to 
stay on either side, and remember that if you're nearing the edge but have 
good speed going, sometimes a nice jump can save you.

The only other point of interest is the occasional fan, which is easily enough 
avoided by swinging one direction, then quickly adjusting if it looks like the 
blade is going to hit you anyway.

When you reach the bottom of the trail, you'll land on a springy mattress and 
bounce upward, at which point the mission ends and you're awarded an extension 
to your life meter.