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Chapter 3: Troll-Hole (CHPTR3)
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()Find the Troll Cave
()Find the Troll Key
()Retrieve the Healing Draught
()Return the Healing Draught

This one is pretty linear so it should be easier for ya. Save at the station 
and then go down the hill.

All right! Expert Stick Tactics! That'll make things a bit easier!
Just head straight down the hill, we've got a date with some wolves. Kill them 
and to the right is a small canyon with a chest in it, grab it. Ooooh. Now go 
up the steps on the hill.

Gloin (Gimli's father by the way) tells you about the Troll key you need to 
find. After hearing his speech (or skipping it, whatever) turn toward where he 
is facing and long jump out there. Do another long jump towards that white 
thing. This is a White Courage Point and is worth 50! Open the chest Bilbo. 
This is a trolls cave after all, so we should be finding lots of money eh? Go 
back up the hill past Gloin.

Okay, you've gotten all the courage points on your way right? You're standing 
at the entrance of a dark, scary cave right?

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Checkpoint!
75 Silver Pennies, 90 Courage Points
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Well, don't worry, we'll get more.

Watch out for these spikes in the wall! They'll take your health down real 
fast! Just go to the opposite side of the wall the spikes are on. Phew!

See that pool coming towards us? There are a couple of those froggy creatures 
around here so take them out. Don't you like that music?

Now go back to where you came into this room. There are these little pod 
looking things with a bright, pale blue circle on them. These often contain 
treasures. Bust 'em open!

There's a dark vine hanging from the ceiling, this usually means that the vine 
will break after a short while, so you'll want to line yourself up so that the 
vine is between you and the platform with the CP you're trying to reach, and 
then jump for it, jumping off the vine after climbing for a second or two, onto 
that platform.

Okay! Now we can head to the next vine. This one's stable, so you can take all 
the time you want. When Bilbo reaches out on a vine, it means he's reaching for 
another vine, just line him up and he'll do the jump for you. Jump to the next 
vine, then onto the platforms, and drop down on the other side of that wall.

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Checkpoint!
80 Silver Pennies, 161 Courage Points
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In this next area are more frogs. Destroy!

Now again, towards where you came into this place is a pink rock and behind it 
is a pod. Bust it baby!
Head along the wall and there are two more pods next to eachother, one contains 
a SP.

There's a chest at the far end, open it and then walk around the pillar next to 
it for a pink CP. Now you can make your ascent. Get the pod at the top, and of 
course the blue CP's on your way over this next little wall.

At the bottom of this wall are two green CP and some holes in the ground, stop 
for a moment.

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Checkpoint!
106 Silver Pennies, 268 Courage Points
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Hop over these "holes" in order not to get "stuck."There's a green CP in front 
of you and around this next corner is, what IS that? It's and elvish lady! A 
cutscene will take place when you get near her.

Let's take this monster! It's not really that tough, all you have to do is kill 
that little armadillo thing next to it and it gets mad and rears up, revealing 
its soft undersides, whack it as much as you can. Then two minions come out, 
kill them and whack the big one, then THREE! Once they are all gone, hit the 
monster one last time and it should be over. If only Bullroarer could see you 
now! 

There's lots of goodies in the cavern and it's a bit hard to walk you through 
it. Follow along the left wall (as you came into this place). There are pods 
that you see pretty quick but all you get are mushrooms. Open them anyway 
though. Pretty soon you'll see a sack up in a dark section of the wall, it 
leads into a cave so follow it. Destroy the armadillos (or whatever it is), 
collect your CP and chest, and head back out to the big room. Hey! Did you get 
another health bubble? Congrats!

See all those dragon things in the ground? They are very annoying, but easy to 
kill, just use rocks and whack them. If you've still been following the wall, 
follow the blue CP towards a stand by a cliff. We can't use it yet. However, 
you can head behind those rocks to your right and get a SP from that pod! Keep 
following the wall to a rock pile. Inside are three green CP, get them. Now 
there's only one thing left in this place, to climb up the platforms and get to 
the end of them (the platforms are in the center of this cavern by the way).

There are several ways to get up there, but once you are at the top, you'll see 
a healing draught sitting there, and a cave to your right. Inside the cave is a 
green CP, get both and drop down, now go back to the elf.

She rewards you with a Witch King Crystal! Now you can go back to that stand. 

Save if you wish.

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Checkpoint!
187 Silver Pennies, 664 Courage Points
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Go to the stand, place the crystal and either hop on really quick or wait for 
the platform to come back. It comes from below so watch for it!

Get on and ride it till it takes you down and to a little covey in the wall 
with an armadillo and a chest among other things. Get the pods and chest.

Now go back up and to the other side. Going up you'll meet another armadillo 
and if you look sharp, between two rocks to your left (before the tunnel) is a 
pod, break it open. Get the two pods in front of you and head left. Jump over 
the spikes, break the pods, kill the armadillo, get the chest and the CP in the 
little space behind the rocks, and back out. Simple as that. Now go!

Well, pretty fast, but it could be done faster. Now back out and go up the 
tunnel.

Sharp to your right is a green CP, before the spikes. If you wait for that 
creature to come at you, he'll impale himself very satisfactorily :) Just make 
sure you pick up the CP.

Keep going up, kill the armadillos, head to the right (NOT towards the sunlight 
yet) and by that red CP is a pod, break it open. Keep going toward the greenish 
area but don't get near the edge! You'll slide down! collect the CP as you go. 
There should be a nice Pink one at the end, and four pods, break them. Now 
carefully go back to the center of this slippery area and cautiously look over 
the edge, center yourself so that you'll slide down next to that chest and CP. 
Now go!

Whew! That was fun! Collect everything and jump on the vine, which will carry 
you up so you can jump on another vine and quickly (or it will break) jump to 
safety. If you fall all the way down, don't sweat, you'll just have to go the 
long way around again. 

NOW go out towards the sunlight. It looks beautiful doesn't it?!

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Checkpoint!
358 Silver Pennies, 859 Courage Points
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Climb up the vine with the Blue CP on it and....uh-oh. Back into those dark 
caves!

Watch out for those spikes! There are three sets this time.

After another turn, a cutscene will show you where the key is, when it ends, 
keep going. Take out all of the three enemies and then collet the CP next to 
the edge by the water, don't fall!

Two red and one green I believe. Get the blue ones at the far end next to the 
save station and save.

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Checkpoint!
358 Silver Pennies, 917 Courage Points
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Now hop onto that closest platform. Turn right and go across the vine to the 
next, then down to the left, onto another vine to the right (towards the 
waterfall) and then onto that small platform way down there with the green CP 
on it. Get onto the next vine and can you kind of see the cave behind the 
waterfall? Of course! Every kid knows that every waterfall has a cave behind it 
right? Or if it doesn't then it ought to. Get inside and prepare to fight a 
spider. It might be tough for you at first, but you should be able to get it. 
Ah! It's dead. Now you can collect at your leisure. There's that white CP next 
to the two Pink ones, a pod with a sack of coins in it, some more CP by a web 
(which you can't get through) and a chest. The chest contains money AND some 
Expert Throwing Tactics, now your stones deal more damage!

Go back out to the water pool.

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Checkpoint!
443 Silver Pennies, 1062 Courage Points
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The easiest way to get out there is to stay in the water and get to those small 
platforms near the edge of that chasm, then hop up (be careful not to keep 
going over the falls) and get the sack, then onto the vine. You'll get a ride 
up, then you'll want to hop onto the next vine (heading out toward the falls), 
then onto the platform with the green CP and then onto the last vine, which 
will drop you down near that Pink CP, which you'll be able to get easily. Now 
get back up and onto that platform. You can go back to the save station if you 
wish, or you can continue to the other save station across the pool from it. 
You're definitely saving here right?

Open the chest, get the CP and kill the Armadillos. To your right is a small 
cave where there's a chest and a crystal. Go back and towards that slimy hill 
that you'll have to go up. At the bottom of the hill.

Get up there and kill all those little enemies that run towards you, they are 
easy and only take one hit each. There are a number of CP around here, get 
them, open the chest near the save station, place the crystal, get the blue CP 
next to the vine.

Now onto the vine, and then the platform, then the moving platform. You can 
wait a little while for the next, lower platform to get in good timing, then 
hop onto it, to your right (you're on the second moving platform) there is a 
vine, jump on it and at the top is a platform with lots of goodies! Get them!

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Checkpoint!
539 Silver Pennies, 1290 Courage Points
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Go across the platforms again, this time going on all of them, there's the key! 
Once you have it, to your right is a platform with some CP on it. Get those 
too. Hop back, across the vine, and into the upper tunnel (you've already been 
in the lower one). 

Watch out for the spikes and get the chest behind the rock to the left before 
you go on the vine. Hop across the vine and out into sunlight again!

Long jumpt across the ravine, but if you fall down, it's not too far of a walk 
to get back, just go into the cave again, and up the new vine that is there. If 
you didn't fall, good lad! And go up to the right side, kill the wolves.

Whoopee! Get the three white CP, the chest, and you're done! How do you like 
that OTHER new health bubble?

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Checkpoint!
654 Silver Pennies, 1500 Courage Points
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Let me see, go ahead and get the rock bag upgrade now :)