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Chapter 6: Flies and Spiders (CHPTR6)
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()Find the Dwarves
()Rescue the Dwarves
()Escape the Spider Lair
()Burn Away the Thick Web
()-Find Oil
()-Use Oil on Campfire
[]Find Memento for Corwin


First things, save at the save station. As the title of this level suggests, 
there are going to be a lot of spiders in this level, again, the green ones 
will poison you, try to take these out first. If you get poisoned (your health 
bubbles turn green) then you'll want to use one of your antidotes. What's nice 
now though is you finally have the Ring! It will make you invisible for a 
period of time, to certain enemies. Keep and eye on the ring meter on the upper 
right of your screen, when it is depleted, you will cease to be invisible, and 
depending on where you are, this can be awful inconvenient!

Break open the three cacoons. I'll call them pods. Then climb up the vine.

In this little area you meed some new enemies! These plants will wind up (or 
take a deep "breath" if you can call it that) and then let loose a stream of 
missile seeds at you. Ouch, that hurts. They can sense you even with your ring 
on, but when you have it on you can tip-toe around and they won't shoot at you. 
Kill the three that are in this next little area. Make sure you get the red CP 
in one of the "normal" plant ;)

There's a chest here as well. After you've opened it, climb up on the log and 
hop on over to the other side, there's another plant as well as a spider web 
and some pods. Cut the web and climb up on the log. Hey! That's Dori's Helmet! 
I'll do a checkpoint here.

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Checkpoint!
16 Silver Pennies, 91 Courage Points, 1 Chests
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hop down and be prepared for some spiders to come and attack you. The best way 
to deal with most enemies is to jump attack them and then slash them a few 
times, run away, and repeat. The large spiders are no exception. The small ones 
can be dealt easily with if you only whack at them while they are coming 
towards you.

When you cut the large web spanning the path in front of you, you'll trigger 
three spiders to come at you, the dreaded green ones! If these touch you then 
they'll poison your health! If that happens, make sure you kill all the green 
ones to prevent getting re-poisoned and then use an antidote potion if the 
green hasn't stopped (it will cease after some time). 

The best way to deal with these small spiders is to cut the web, run away 
(jumping as you go) and switch to your stick. Then jump attack to kill lots of 
them at once, as long as the spiders are within a certain radius, they will be 
killed.

That water DOES indeed look foul doesn't it? Hop onto the vine hanging in the 
middle. There is another vine also, you'll want to hop quickly onto that and 
then off because it will break. There are certain fouler things than Orcs and 
goblins around here. Minions of the Necromancer! As you continue down to the 
river they will come at you, first one and then two at a time. They are easy to 
kill, jump attack them and then whack whack whack!
You can save at the save station right on the river side of that foul pond by 
the way.

What's this? A rotten log do I see? Throw a stone at it to make it fall, 
creating a convenient bridge for yourself! Aren't you clever!

On this side of the river is a chest, some pods and some flowers, do what you 
want first, but then go back to where that rotten log was hanging before. Don't 
go up the vine by where the flowers were yet though. Head to where the log was 
hanging. You'll be able to walk across and jump on a vine, from there you can 
jump onto another branch and collect the courage points there, then onto the 
next vine. This one will drop down, so if you fall you don't have to go all the 
way back across the river to get up again.

Jump to and on the other side of the next rotten vine. Collect the CP and then 
you'll see two little rotten vines hanging close to eachother, go along them to 
get to a little covey in the tree with a white CP in it, now go back and go on 
the green vine (to go across the branch hanging over the foul pond. You're 
trying to get to that branch. It has a mushroom on the tip of it.

It's hard though because Bilbo sort of "targets" that vine that is hanging from 
the branch, so your jump will be bad. I like to point Bilbo to the left until 
he stops reaching for the vine, and then jump, just holding right so I'll land 
on the branch. 

Now walk carefully along and then jump onto the next vine. It looks like it's 
far away but you should be able to just do a normal jump to it. Then go on over 
to the left and gather in that group with the Red CP. Walk to the end of this 
branch and you'll see what looks like a rotten vine, get on it and then jump to 
the left. Two red and one green CP await you right? Walk straight to the chest! 
Not a bad batch of Silver Pennies!

Take the only fork that is left and gather in the remaining CP in this area, 
drop down, go across the foul pond again, across the log in the river, and then 
over to where the flowers are/were. Up the vine to get over that huge log and 
you're in a camp. You can save here. Before you go forward any.....

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Checkpoint!
132 Silver Pennies, 550 Courage Points, 3 Chests
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Run towards the man you see. His name is Corwin and his story is sad. Doesn't 
that music make you want to cry? Go through the log and cut the web, we've got 
to get the oil!

Next is one of the most fun parts in this level I think, just slash and hack 
all the way! There is a huge group of flowers, you should be in the market 
about now for a health bubble upgrade so be alert for that. Slash the flowers! 
Down with the daisies! You may or may not need to use a health potion or two 
(or even a waters of vigour, you should have two by now) but try to stay alive, 
the dwarves need you! Collect the CP before going on over the log. 

There are some odd looking platforms in front of you, they start moving as soon 
as you jump on them. First off we want to go forward and to the right (across 
the platforms) If you fall of, try to get back on because apparently the ground 
has some sort of poisonous gas or something......

Did you get that white CP that was there? Good, now go across the rest of the 
platforms to get to the other side where the savepoint is. Save before dropping 
down.

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Checkpoint!
136 Silver Pennies, 1116 Courage Points, 3 Chests
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Now go down and get that chest over in that little covey. More money! The only 
thing left to do now is to walk out onto that very obvious hole covered with 
leaves. How do you suppose we get out of here? Well, first we collect all the 
Courage Points, then we move the block that is holding the water back! This 
causes the water to rise so get on that log as quick as possible or you'll be a 
drowned rat in no time!

Ride the log to the top but instead of jumping on over to the other side, why 
don't you hop onto that vine that is right next to you log? From there you can 
climb up a little and then jump onto that little ledge with all the goodies. 
Careful though! You don't want the vine to break before you make your leap! Be 
quick about it!

Now get back to your log and then go onto the other side with a pole jump. 
There are plenty of spiders in this area so be careful! A couple big spiders 
and several little ones will come at you if you go straight. If you cut the web 
to the right then three poisonous ones will come, if you go ANYwhere then 
you'll run into spiders. Yikes.

Oh well, just take them one at a time and soon you'll have them all beat. 

Get the chest (it has the oil) and then go to the left of the chest. There's a 
hole you can go down into, with a monster spider in it! It's really not hard to 
kill, all you do is jump attack it and then slash it while it's down, then when 
it gets back up, run around until your sword meter builds up again (if you need 
it to) and then jump attack it again. It should be dead after 10 or so attacks. 
Pull the block over so you can get up onto that ledge that has the spider web 
covering the opening.

Inside is two Gold Chests and a signet ring! How in the world did that spider 
get so much money? Oh well, now hop up around the rock outcroppings that are 
around this room. Make sure you jump across for those two Pink CP!

Ah! We're out of this dank dark hole at last! Ignore the stuff on the trees up 
above, we can't get to those just yet, just head up the steps (where the three 
poison spiders were) and get the chest up there, the hey! We're back in the 
camp! Talk to Corwin (who gives you a handsome reward for finding his family 
heirloom) and then why don't you save while you're in the camp.

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Checkpoint!
538 Silver Pennies, 1556 Courage Points, 8 Chests
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Walk over to the fire and press B on it to place the oil Don't get too close or 
you might singe the hair on your furry little toes!

Hop over that log and hey! It's Nori's cape! To your right behind a spider web 
is some mushrooms if you need them, but we're almost due for another health 
upgrade so it's not really important.

All of a sudden a bunch of spiders come at you! What will you do brave hero? 
You of course calmly whip out your sword and kill them all right? N-n-n-now 
wasn't that b-b-b-brave? Open the chest for a health potion, and then bust open 
the pods. Ah! More health bubbles!

How do we get across the river? You ask me. I reply matter-o-factly that you 
merely go to the tree. Which tree? You query further. Why, that tree by the 
waterfall of course! I exclaim. See. I continue. There are some vines on the 
river side of the tree that you'll be able clamber up and then leap to the 
hanging vine by! Simple as that!

Pole jump across the gap in the logs and cut the web, beware because instantly, 
three nasty, horrible poisonous spiders will try to attack you! Kill them. All 
of them.

Ah! A savepoint. You want this. See, I TOLD you we'd soon come to this area up 
above and here we are! I didn't lie! Once you hop onto that green vine, it will 
drop down so that if you fall, you can always get back up again! Pretty nifty 
eh?

You'd better make it drop and then head back, see that green CP? Get it and 
then you'll be able to jump across the gap to a chest and pink CP. Now go back 
the other way and jump across the top of those columns to the next save point. 
Get the three CP and the stack of Silver Pennies next to the save station. Save 
here.

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Checkpoint!
597 Silver Pennies, 1729 Courage Points, 10 Chests
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Now go on down the log. Hey! Well that was a long way to get around the river 
wasn't it? Anywho, drop down and start collectin'. Or not. There's a TON of 
those Necromancer minions here! Wow! What a fight! There are exploding rocks 
that you can gather to help yourself along, but for the main part just dodge 
and jump attack, slash and hack and for heaven's sake, keep out of their way! I 
had to use a health potion (or rather I wanted to) but you might not have to if 
you do it right.

Open the chest up and then go to that green vine. It carries you up to a little 
cave in the tree that has a stack of SP. Nice. Then go up the steps and drop 
down on the other side. Great. More minions. Oh well. One method is to stand 
like a chicken on the steps you just dropped down from and throw stones at the 
poor minions, or you can fight it out like a ma.....a hobbit. Excuse me. I 
would just say watch out especially for those guys who shoot the bows, they can 
cause REAL damage if they hit you with one of their explosions. Again, there 
are exploding rocks that may aid you. Open the chest. Luckily they give you 
plenty of health potions in this game! 

There are some SP and pods down by the water, then I suggest you save because 
you don't want to have to go through all that again do you? You DO! Fine, don't 
save, see if I care! :)

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Checkpoint!
610 Silver Pennies, 2294 Courage Points, 12 Chests
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There's lots of ways to do this area. Here's just one of them.

Hop onto that raft and when it comes around and past the save station again, 
jump onto that little bit of land with a vine going up (it's next to the save 
station). You'll know you're on the right one when you climb up and it looks 
like you're on a huge stump from an ancient tree. Pole jump across, then onto 
the vine, and then hey! It's the red pot! What's it for you ask? Well, just 
wait and find out. You can drop down now.

Now get onto the raft again and this time jump onto that little island that has 
the vine hanging down by it. Climb up and hop onto the branch that has a SP and 
red CP on it. Walk along the branch and you'll come to a green vine, if you 
jump on it it will drop so you can get up again if you fall. Convenient. Turn 
around towards the tree that you just came from and you'll see a rotting vine 
that leads to a brown chest. Go get the chest!

Now back, and through the hole in the tree ahead to the blue chest. Nice. See 
that tiny vine next to that tree that the blue chest is in? It's a rotting one. 
Yeah, that one. Pole jump to it and quickly go around and get the stack of SP 
in that little niche. Now go back to the blue chest. If you fall, don't sweat 
it, you can get back via that vine that dropped earlier.

Hanging from the tree with the tunnel in it there is another vine. This one's 
safe so get on it. Jump to the next branch and to your right, hey! It's the 
blue urn! You can pole jump from here to the last branch in this area with 
goodies on it, alternately, you could have gone to this branch when you got the 
red urn.....

Now go to the save station and save again.

Back on the raft and get that green CP on that island if you haven't. Then ride 
the raft over to those two vines, from here you can jump across to get the last 
urn, the yellow one. Now set the urns on the pedastal.

To place the Urns (apparently they are in alphabetical order) you need to 
select them in the right order. Of course, red is first, then blue, then 
yellow. Just press B on the pedastal and then scroll down using the d-pad to 
get the proper Urn. Simple as that.

Yikes! It's the Wight Lord! The mushrooms regenerate in this area so if you 
don't want to use health potions you can keep running around the room until 
they reappear. Three minions appear to help the Wight Lord, one just has a 
sword and two have those nasty bows. Take those two out and leave the sword 
weilding one, if you kill him then three more will appear and we don't want 
that do we? When you get the opportunity, jump attack the Necromancer and then 
whack him several times, jump to avoid his attacks when you retreat. It's a 
game of cat and mouse.

An alternate method, and one that I use myself is to rush the Wight Lord as 
soon as you can before he can summon his minions, just stick close to him and 
keep whacking him and jump attacking when you meter is full, you can get his 
health all the way down to the red before he even calls his minions and you 
don't lose much health!

Finally he is dead! Or banished, whatever, and you can easily take out that 
last knight minion. Then head out the opposite exit. Open the chest and then 
you should save. At this point you should have

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Checkpoint!
786 Silver Pennies, 2461 Courage Points, 15 Chests
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Now trudge forward. Hey! It's Ori's boot! To your left is some pods and 
spiders. Use your stick jump attack to take out a mass of them at once!

Now go the opposite direction and cut through several webs, I know you're 
expecting spiders to drop down every moment but just be patient, you'll get 
your fun! In this next large room they send the attack. Try to take out the 
small ones first with your stick jump attack, then switch to your sword and 
jump attack that large spider, he's much easier than his other relative and 
should die quickly. Hurrah! Now get the chest and cut through the next web. 

You can save here and there is a large mushroom group behind another web. Now 
up the vine and hop onto the first branch, along this one there are some red CP 
and wow! You get another health bubble. Nice.

Next branch up there is a pink CP. Now go to that green vine and ride it up to 
the next highest branch which has another pink CP. Walk over and jump across 
the vines to the other branch. Collect the red and blue CP on this level of 
branch. Then onto the next green vine. You'll want to jump off it though on the 
way up to grab those pink CP and the gold Chest. You got the Master Sword 
Tactics! You can chain three attacks, this will be handy. Now back to that 
green vine and ride it all the way to the top branch, don't miss the Pink CP 
and the silver pennies up here, then go into the cave in the tree.

Cimb up another vine. We're pretty high up now! Hey! Blue sky!

Don't be frightened like I was the first time I heard the intense music, I 
ducked inside a hole and fell down, ended up killing myself and having to climb 
all the way back up from the bottom of the trees again. Lol. Save here, you 
definitely want to save.

Get the chest on the end of the branch. Before you go down the log.....

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Checkpoint!
891 Silver Pennies, 2754 Courage Points, 18 Chests
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Let me tell you couple things about this log. Inside are a number of Courage 
Points that you can collect so try to get them all, if you miss some, then 
reload your game (if you're going for perfect that is). Usually I miss one of 
the green ones if I miss one. Check at the bottom if before you get anything, 
you should have 2912 CP. Now gather in the treasures (that chest behind you 
included) and save. Balin's belt! Hey! Are we playing the Hobbit or "Where's 
Waldo?"

Once you cut the webs here, a barage of spiders will come at you so deal with 
them as best you can. Sheesh! You think there's enough of those poison spiders? 
Go into that area with the chest and flowers, eliminating the flowers. Inside 
the chest is the last of the silver pennies! Cut through the next web to 
unleash even more of the little fiends. Then through the final web and open up 
the chest. Health and Antidote's! Congratulations! You just got the last chest 
as well! Wow! Save at the station. There are also mushrooms back there if you 
need to replenish your health.

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Checkpoint!
1023 Silver Pennies, 3319 Courage Points, 21 Chests
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And those numbers are for if you haven't been up on the log and gotten those 
three blue CP yet. If you did then of course you'll have 3321 Courage Points 
instead. 

Go into the cave and ahem. Well, something is unleashed. Kill all the spiders 
down below and then head up one of the large columns, it doesn't matter which 
because you'll have to go up all of them. At the top of a couple you can save, 
and at the top of a couple more, you'll be able to ride a rope (web rope) to 
another platform. Press B on the dwarves to free them. Once you do, more 
spiders will come out so wait until they come to you and then hack them. Watch 
out for Red Spiders, they poisoin you similar to the green ones, only these are 
harder to kill and take multiple hits.

Somewhere along here you should get another health bubble, this starts your 
second row of health. Congratulations! Just after you free each set of dwarves, 
get down to the ground (a fast way is to jump onto the walls, which are sloped 
and therefore you ride down) and kill the spiders down there. Make sure you 
collect all the CP on each of the columns around here!

Once they are all down you'll see a cutscene and a battle with the Huge Spiders 
will occur. Eliminate any remaining "little" spiders (all except for the huge 
Sister Spider) and you should have

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Checkpoint!
1023 Silver Pennies, 3900 Courage Points, 21 Chests
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Then kill the Boss Spider by jump attacking. She goes easily.

The next sister appears. Again, kill all of the little spiders first and then 
go to work on the boss. This boss is only subsceptible to Fire Rocks and 
conveniently they appear :)

The mushrooms in this room regenerate so you should have plenty of health. 
Throw a fire rock at the Spider and it damages her! Surprise! So just keep 
chucking rocks to kill her.

After she's gone the third and hardest spider sister drops down, again, kill 
all of the lesser spiders before concentrating on the boss spider. When they 
are all gone, grab the freezing rocks and throw one, it stops her in her 
tracks, which allows you to do a jump attack on her! I like to do a jump 
attack, whack a few times and then jump out as fast as I can, throw another 
rock, jump attack, etc. Over and over again. I keep targeted on her nearly all 
the time unless I need health. You win! Like the music?

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Checkpoint!
1023 Silver Pennies, 4400 Courage Points, 21 Chests
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Ah, don't by anything in the vendor, you can save your money now for those 
Special potions. It's about all you'll need to buy now.