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December 11th 2014, 05:05 AM
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CocoMonkey
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Please Cindy, say the whole name each time. 
Bill & Kill Challenge: Part Two

Attempt 67: I got back to this after 1 AM. Hey, I've got a lot of ground to cover, especially if I don't end up winning. I died on screen 8 this attempt, which is as bad as you can do from the save point.

Attempt 72: At last, I made it to screen 12 for the first time. I died right away. This is where the screen really starts to get filled with knights. Keep in mind, I have to beat screen 18 to save. I'm really not any closer to winning than I was after attempt 18.

Attempt 77: I made it to screen 13. You can guess how it went. I think you see the pattern by now.

There's three distinct parts to this odd thing I'm doing.


Figure 1: The Corral.

In step one, The Corral, Dink (excuse me, "Bill"), facing what seems to be a wall of enemies, must manage to make one complete loop around them without getting hit. The best strategy involves hugging the top of the screen and walking from one side to the other, then going straight down. This turns the wall into a cluster.


Figure 2: The Promenade.

In The Promenade, Bill circles around the cluster again and again, moving subtly toward and away from the crowd in the curves of his movements. Each time, the hive, inhuman and mindless, erupts rapturously in a spray of blood, a hail of axes, a cloud of numbers. They will not turn on each other; they do not even notice each other. In this stage, they are one being, with only one purpose. An occasional confused element will fly off in some random direction, but Bill does a miniature Corral to return them to the cluster, which gets smaller and smaller.


Figure 3: The Fandango.

By random chance, one of them is chosen to be elevated to this stage. Paradoxically, that one becomes a far greater foe than all of them had been together. The opponent is endowed with personhood. He is dangerous. Stages one and two are just chores; stage 3 is a battle. Most runs end here.

I lick the air in front of the opponent with my sword, hoping that he will walk into the end of my hitbox. I don't dare to go in for a strike - too dangerous. I can't tell if I'm hitting him or not, but I do it over and over.

Attempt 78: Reached level 5.

Attempt 88: The frustrating thing is that I only have to do something I've proven I can do. The issue is doing it a lot of times in a row.

Attempt 90: Hey ExDeath, are you really gonna do this? Are you sure you know what you're getting into?

If it's gonna be a video, I'll co-commentate.

Attempt 92: I didn't beat screen 13 this time, but I at least got to the last knight there for the first time.

Attempt 100: Not much progress, but I've gotten pretty good at the recovering from damage trick. I managed it twice against the same knight on screen 12 this attempt. Still didn't beat him, though.

Attempt 101: Reached level 6. I just noticed that the cluster of knights casts one black shadow. It looks rather strange.

Attempt 110: Holy crap, you guys. I did it. I mean, I didn't win quite yet, but I broke through screen 18 of 22 and reached the SECOND SAVEBOT.


YES YES YES I AM THE KING. THE KING.

It's crazy. I was actually starting to despair. I had never made it past screen 13, and there were five more screens after that one... I thought I'd never get them all in one go, but I did. It helped that I mastered the heart trick. It was just an occasional boost at first, but I got it down to the point where it was like having an extra health bar on each screen. Two, if I got lucky with heart drops.

Oh man, you guys, I was so nervous on screen 18. I was shaky and had a couple of close calls. My heart felt like it was trying to pound out of my chest. I mean, I could have lost all of that flawless play in one second.

All right. I wanted to show off something in this DMOD's source, so I edited the mod before I started this. Don't worry, I didn't edit the mod to make it one iota easier to win. It's just that you end up with a bad ending because Bill doesn't have the key to x6x's gold... but Skull scripted a good ending AND wrote a script that gives you the key. I just fixed a couple of bugs in the script and attached it to a chest sprite on a screen that previously had no purpose.


What's this?

I don't know what he means by a "chicken's foot key," but he's got it now.

I did try to just push straight through to the end on this attempt. I beat screens 19 and 20, but died on screen 21. My ultimate triumph will have to wait.

Attempt 112: I made it to screen 22 on this attempt. Next time I break my record, I'm done.

Attempt 113: It's 5 AM, and I don't think I've got the energy left to make it through. Total time at this point is something like 7 hours. I'll update again when I win (I am assuming I won't get so stuck on these last four screens that I'll take over 400 more attempts on them).