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Shadowgate Hints
Directions for Movement
1 of 15: This file is here to keep people from getting lost if they don't know what I mean when I talk about a certain room.
2 of 15: The room through the door from the mirror room is the "hellhole"
3 of 15: The room north of there is the "troll bridge" or "trollgate".
4 of 15: The room north of there is the "courtyard".
5 of 15: The room north of there is the hallway (I had no better name for it)
6 of 15: The room through the first door west in the hallway is the library.
7 of 15: The room through the second door west in the hallway is the "laboratory".
8 of 15: The room north of the laboratory is the "fountain room".
9 of 15: The room north of the hallway is the "hall of locked doors".
10 of 15: The area east of the hall of locked doors is the "right tower". To the west is the "left tower".
11 of 15: The first room in the left tower is the "hellhound room".
12 of 15: The second room in there is the roof of the left tower, or the "wyvern room".
13 of 15: The first room in the right tower is the "sphinx room".
14 of 15: The second room here is the "Astronomer's lab".
15 of 15: The third room here is the "spike room", or just the third room in the west tower, or the room with the lady.
