Here is my problem. I can't find the old guy with his hint of if I do I get squirted and die. If I kill a certain charactor with a key I go right to the queen and cant use the hint as I never get to the old guy. Also, I don't speak spider.
Walker
C-Star Mon Oct 22 16:53:28 2012
Man if you're this badly stuck now, Contractual Obligation will be like hell for you! (Seriously, why does everyone complain about Hypertrout and never about CO? I'm stuck on CO right now, and I already completed it once before!)
And as for your multiple problems
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Don't kill anyone except for the queen at the end. Have a salad sandwich left when you get to the old guy. Say 'slurkik' when asked to speak spider (you hear a spider say this in the job interview)
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And as for the bookmark problem, I use Google Chrome so I can't speak from experience, but I found this page on Google which might help. I'll copy and paste what it said in the next post.
Creating a bookmark in Microsoft Internet Explorer can be done several different ways. Below is each of the different methods for creating a bookmark.
Right-click on a blank portion of the page and click Add to Favorites.
or
1. Move to the page you wish to add to your Favorites. 2. At the top of the browser window click Favorites. 3. Click Add to Favorites.
Once one of the above steps has been completed an Add Favorite window will appear and allow you to add a favorite to your favorites list.
ed Mon Jan 21 16:13:34 2013
Hi guys, Im playing "planet of the spiders", I manage to get to the end a
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nd kill the queen, however after I do it I always get the nuke message. How to prevent the plants from blowing the planet up?
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THANKS
C-Star Wed Jan 23 15:58:19 2013
@ed
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In order to get the plant to help you, you have to get yourself arrested in the beginning of the game. When in court, choose to invoke your immunity as a foreign diplomat, and you will meet a plant. You need to find out AND REMEMBER his name, and also make him help you.
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bcyy Sat Jan 26 03:27:00 2013
@ed
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It's "Richard", by the way, if I remember correctly.
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pi4t Thu Oct 17 08:22:43 2013
I beat this book when I first played it, but more by accident than anything. I've now lost the link to that game, and am having to replay from the beginning, but can't get through this book. As far as I can tell,
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I need training in the energy whip, or a blaster, to get through the job interview. However, the only way I can have a blaster at the time of the interview is to not get myself arrested, removing the possibility of talking to the plant. I can get energy whip training from the VR machines, but need the datastick from visiting the ward before anywhere else. That means I can't get the uniform, which means that if I try to go into the palace using the key, I die. However, to get through without using the key, I need to know a word in the spiders' language (as well as being able to pronounce it). From an attempt using the blaster, I know that I need to get through the job interview to learn that word, but that means I need the energy whip training, which means I need to know the word...I can see from other comments on the book that I can get help by saving the salad sandwich to last, but I didn't do that last time so it's not crucial. What am I missing?
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Ulysses Thu Oct 17 08:46:16 2013
@pi4t:
To get through the job interview
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you don't need any weapon, so to speak. You just need a particular item of clothing that can be turned to lethal effect against the tarantula-man.
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pi4t Thu Oct 17 08:52:52 2013
That was quick! Thanks for the hint, I hadn't bothered with that, I'd thought it was a waste of time and money.
THEZOO Sat Dec 7 13:29:46 2013
Finally finished!!
ayrton Wed Jun 4 20:50:33 2014
cool
Hod Fri Jun 6 01:15:14 2014
I've been searching for that stat-boosting drink, but I can't seem to find it. Anyone knows where it is?
Ness Mon Sep 8 19:20:29 2014
What's the password for the nozzle after the sandwich trade
Jeff Fri Aug 28 04:42:48 2015
I liked your game.
nag Wed Sep 23 18:44:21 2015
oh, poor angus...
important note:
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when asked if the player knows any arachnonnan word, i kept inserting "slurkok" because of what was said on the job interview but it kept being the wrong word. then, after trying everything and curious about what i was doing wrong, i came to the guestbook and searched for help in the matter, happens to be that i should have inserted another word. i believe this is some kind of error, since the interview had such an important role. if not, i just cheated my way to victory u.u shame on me
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You were on the right lines, but it's not an error.
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Depending on how the interview goes, you either hear 'slurkok' or 'slurkik'. The context suggests that 'slurkik', unlike 'slurkok', is a word of agreement. Clearly the voice is asking a question that you need to respond positively to.
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rchou Tue Nov 24 06:57:47 2015
just wondering, did anyone else notice and find it funny how in the beginning of this game there's actually a hidden skill buff you can get?
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the main problem is its on the wrong path... so if you get it you're gonna die lol
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Ulysses Wed Nov 25 10:57:40 2015
@ rchou
You actually can get the bonus and complete the adventure successfully :)
rchou Sun Nov 29 17:35:39 2015
wait, seriously? but then how do you
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find out richard's name to deactivate the explosives?
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rchou Sun Nov 29 19:41:11 2015
never mind... lol I just figured it out
rchou Mon Nov 30 06:54:45 2015
although having said that
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you kinda have to hope you get lucky with the time you get teleported to, otherwise you'll be stuck in a giant loop... or just use a bookmark :P
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Phillip Mon May 2 14:46:04 2016
Good writing but insanely hard.
I think i lost interest in ff book as a kid because some were also too damn hard.
BOB Sat Nov 26 07:36:58 2016
How do you complete it?
MadRol420 Sat Mar 11 12:28:56 2017
HOLLY S***. That was hard... I finnaly made it, looking at almost all the spoilers but hell i would never finish it without checking them. It was an awsome experience.
Migo Tue May 16 02:40:01 2017
That was a lot of fun and better than the previous ones in this series.
The sandwich thing is my only complaint. There were no clues as to which is the correct sandwich.
Thumbs up!
RogueOne Tue Dec 12 19:11:45 2017
Done!
AA Thu Jan 4 06:14:35 2018
The chess game luck roll is impossible. Failed 10 times consecutively.
Bob Fri May 18 14:01:25 2018
The adventure continues.
oh man i love that stats really don't matter all that much and its decisions that make it. and the writing means you don't mind getting your options wrong as it is funny!!!
Johnathon Wise Thu Sep 27 09:39:20 2018
Poor ending
Spider of the Planet Thu Sep 27 09:43:36 2018
I got rekt by a palace guard
paul Wed Mar 13 20:40:21 2019
should have learned some arachnonese :( this is a verygood one!
bluejuice915 Mon Jul 1 20:11:24 2019
That took far longer than I was expecting. Took a while to get the right ending because I kept finding things that worked but were ultimately wrong. Namely
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Killing the warrior on the balcony for the key
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and
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never going to the ward first and thus never getting the blue data stick
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. Overall though a very good challenge, though certainly not one I could beat without the help of previous comments. I liked this.
Grade: 96
RelaxedOrange Sun Oct 11 17:48:03 2020
This was a step in the right direction from the prequel, but not much of one.
The writing continues to be very humorous and original, and this time there is a lot more content to the story as well. All of this was a welcome addition and I did end up enjoying it overall.
Having said that, the “game” part remains virtually unbeatable. The biggest problem is that it requires repeated trial-and-error in order to awkwardly stumble your way across the finish line. There is no way that you could make your way through this using only logic, skill, planning, or even just by being lucky! The only way to win is by losing over and over again, and even then you probably won’t figure it out.
I did actually enjoy the story in the end, but my advice is once again to just cheat and read the comments after you run out ideas.
YARD Sun Sep 24 08:23:48 2023
..........................
All I have to say is: how is this rated "medium" in difficulty, again? Yes, it's not as arbitrary as the first one, where you have something like a 16% chance of failing midway through REGARDLESS of your stats (with an additional chance of failing due to poor skill alone) and THEN an additional, completely unavoidable 33% chance of failing that's due to completely arbitrary limitations alone
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Why can't we try attaching power packs to the Screwdriver BEFORE we step away from the locker? (Just like here, YOU CAN'T ACTIVATE THE WHIP YOURSELF - only the spider handmaiden can.) Or indeed, why can't we place our things INTO the locker to free up pocket space? Of course, the whole series is absurdist BS aiming for Hitchhiker yet landing somewhere closer to Rick and Morty, so unlike the other stories, there's not much point in asking these questions.
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Yet, it ultimately has an extremely narrow path to victory all the same, where only a couple of deviations are TECHNICALLY allowed, yet in practice leave you with negligible chances of winning fairly, and you have to make incredibly arbitrary guesses to find out the true path.
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Literally the only thing which even remotely counts as a hint that the "right" sandwich at the end is salad is getting that one VERY UNLUCKY roll on the false path, I suppose. Otherwise, it is in fact basically Rick & Morty prank: "Starving guy who wants solid food really likes salad the most! Didn't expect that, did you! Gottem!" I also semi-hoped you would have the option to give him those 5 credit crisps but haha, no.
And once you already know that you need a minimum of 100 credits to get any chance of winning, it's asking for a lot to guess that spending 10 to be able to beat the arachnid without a blaster (once you even figure out that's how it works, that is) will end up giving you 50. For a while, I was convinced the whole thing with the music was a trap option as much as being able to use the blaster at any point was.
The spirit guide reroll also seems to be next to useless. It doesn't work when you REALLY need it, which is either if you lose the final fight, or turn out not to know the answer to the last question. When it does get triggered, it seems that you'll most often end up thrown to the lift, with the whip but WITHOUT the ability to visit the barbican (presumably, to stop you from constantly inputting the code?), which ALSO means you cannot get to the vending machine, and so you are not only thrown into another reroll, but get your stats drained as well.
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I decided to check the other works' ratings here again, and altogether, they feel less explicable than ever. Completely trivial Curse Of The Yeti and Any Port In A Storm are rated with the same difficulty as this one? HOW?! So are A Saint Beckons, Beggars Of Blacksand, Below Zero Point, Bloodsworth Bayou and Garden of Bones, which do have some trap paths, but it's way, way easier to spot them and you spend much, much less time on them before getting to the right path, which is trivial. Hunger Of The Wolf and Shrine Of The Salamander are a bit harder than those, but still much easier than this one: you are much less likely to find yourself guessing "what am I doing wrong now?"
I am also REALLY unsure about A Knight's Trial, A Princess Of Zamarra, Midnight Deep and Rebels Of The Dark Chasms rated harder than this one. I feel that they are at most the same. Maybe it's hindsight speaking, but the House of Horror felt much easier: once you get to the wrong path which gives you meta-knowledge (which I don't THINK requires anything much more than to stumble upon the right room), then winning becomes a matter of passing a LUCK check and not getting mauled too badly in an even-skill fight early on (plus making the right choice close to the end, obviously) with the rest largely sorted by then. And the only thing which makes Bodies in the Docks even close to "fairly hard" is the balancing of the final fights, so you at most need to throw a few runs against the wall doing the same things until the dice fall in your favour.
YARD Mon Sep 25 18:02:06 2023
Did I forget to post the proofreading entry after it failed to fit the word count as usual, or did it just get caught up in the filter again? Either way...
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1, 5, 11, 20, 27, 45, 63, 76, 81, 83, 93, 112, 115 - extra spaces before question marks.
26, 100 – no question marks at all
2 - a tree growing out of the ground!" you say.
46 which you failed to see previous + "Let me do the talking!" your lawyer-bot hisses at you,
57 An arachnaphobic!
62 But all means + lack of
63 - Such people have been sent of for fluid extraction
65 a satisfied 'Ahhh!' Soon you are feeling great! + by a regal looking spider queen.
71 she is saying : 'It's your life.'
72 you eat it , stealing glances
76 the official sudden calls out your number
80
as you pull it tight as you can.
88 a levitation red orb than ducks and weaves randomly. + You flop over the spiders head + right down in from
100 then take and experimental sip
102 looking gup and down
112 "You?" the Arachnonan looks at you sceptically. + wrapped in the cacoons of death that they perished in.
118 reaches your ears "Make way for your masters, or be crushed!"
134 Nice Suit is priced in just Roubles, not Galactic Roubles (The implications inherent in the word Galactic Rouble make me experience so many feelings.)