Normal solution
Hints are given below when you expand the boxes.
Note
As a warning, this level is difficult to give precise hints for because the Beards may get in the way. If you end up following instructions in these hints, you may have to adapt on the fly.
Hints
| Spoiler: Hint 1 (what to do)
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| Your goal is in the northwest corner of the map. Before you start, walk around the perimeter on the upper level and see what you need to do in the main level. Observe how the Beards move, too.
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| Spoiler: Hint 2
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| You'll be able to spot four NO stacks of blocks you need to destroy to open the gate to the exit. Some stacks are hard to spot, but you can see them all from the upper level. You should be able to figure out how you'll get to them, too.
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| Spoiler: Hint 3
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| Be prepared to die a lot in this level. Like Compassoreum, death resets will be necessary to progress.
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| Spoiler: Hint 4 (some observations about dropping down)
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| Where you drop down from the upper catwalk to the lower area in this level will be crucial. (You can use the red guide squares that appear when Emm is idle to look before you leap. Pause next to a gap in the railings and see where the red square appears on the level below you.)
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| Spoiler: Hint 5
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| When you fall down and land on ice, you don't slide until the next move.
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| Spoiler: Hint 6 (some observations about the Beards)
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| Have you noticed that the Beards slip on ice? But they don't try to avoid ice, either. You can use this to trick the Beards into slipping on ice into spikes if they're getting in the way.
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| Spoiler: Hint 7
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| In fact, the Beards don't seem very concerned about avoiding spikes either! You can lead a Beard right into the spikes if you need to. Just because Emm's a pacifist doesn't mean she's going to stop the Beards killing themselves.
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| Spoiler: Hint 8 (the northeastern stack)
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| One of the stacks you need to demolish is in the northeast. You can see a wiggly corridor of ice leading to it. Where do you enter it?
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| Spoiler: Hint 9
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| You can see the ice corridor starts north of that central tower. But have you tried entering that way?
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| Spoiler: Hint 10
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| The ice in front of the entrance to that corridor slides you right past it, and the little pillar of wall there stops you walking directly north into it. You will never be able to walk into that corridor.
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| Spoiler: Hint 11
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| There's another way into the corridor.
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| Spoiler: Hint 12
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| If you're on the lower level, you'll have to die and respawn to find the other way in.
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| Spoiler: Hint 13
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 Drop down from this spot to reach one of the NO stacks Walk around the upper level to the northeast corner above the ice corridor. A gap in the railings there will let you drop directly into the corridor. Then you can slide to the stack of blocks and destroy it.
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| Spoiler: Hint 14 (the northwestern stack)
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| One of the stacks you need to demolish is in plain sight in the northwest of the main area, behind a load of spikes and ice patches.
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| Spoiler: Hint 15
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| This is just a little maze. Trace backwards from the stack of blocks - where do you need to slide from to get there without dying? How do you get THERE?
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| Spoiler: Hint 16
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| Enter the spike field from the south.
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| Spoiler: Hint 17
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 Slide through the ice maze this way to reach one of the NO stacks The solution to getting to the northwest stack is hard to describe in text - try the diagram to the side. Basically, there's two bits of ice that jut out south from the maze. Stand south of the eastern one of those, step north three times (sliding over ice twice as you do so), then step west once to slide to where the stack of blocks is.
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| Spoiler: Hint 18 (the southwestern stack)
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| One of the stacks you need to demolish is tucked away in the southwest corner of the lower area, behind a long east-west streak of ice.
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| Spoiler: Hint 19
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| You can step south across the ice, but spikes stop you moving towards the stack. You'll have to stop on the ice to move west to the stack.
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| Spoiler: Hint 20
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| Spikes in the way? Looks like you'll need another way onto the ice here.
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| Spoiler: Hint 21
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| If you're on the lower level, you'll have to die and respawn to find the way onto the ice.
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| Spoiler: Hint 22
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 Drop down here and slide west to reach another NO stack From the starting point, follow the upper catwalk a little way west. You should come to a gap in the railing that will let you drop directly onto the ice near the southwest stack. Then you can slide west to the stack and smash it up.
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| Spoiler: Hint 23 (the southern stack)
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| One of the stacks you need to demolish is tucked away below the starting point on the lower level. This is the hardest stack to get to, probably - you'll need to scope out the route carefully.
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| Spoiler: Hint 24
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| The south stack is underneath the upper level and is almost entirely protected by spikes. You are forced to slide in over that north-south streak of ice. Trace that streak backwards.
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| Spoiler: Hint 25
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| The north-south streak comes out of an L-shaped corridor embedded in the level. How do you slide into THAT corridor?
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| Spoiler: Hint 26
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| To get to the south stack, you will have to start from the ice-and-spike maze in the northwest corner of the level.
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| Spoiler: Hint 27
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 Slide through the maze this way to reach the final NO stack There's two bits of ice that jut out south from the ice-and-spike maze in the northwest. Stand south of the western one of those, slide north once, then east twice to enter an L-shaped corridor. Then slide south to the south stack and destroy it.
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| Spoiler: Hint 28 (full solution)
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| (This walkthrough does not account for Beards, so you may need to adapt on the fly and lure Beards away as you follow these steps.)
From the starting point, follow the upper catwalk west. Drop north through the second gap in the railings that you come to, landing on a long west-east strip of ice. Slide west. Smash the blocks. Walk on spikes to respawn.
From the starting point, follow the upper catwalk east to the northeast corner above a long and winding ice corridor. Drop down west through the gap in the railings here. Follow the corridor south and smash the stack of blocks here.
Exit the ice corridor and head to the ice patches in the northwest. Find two bits of ice that jut out south from the maze. Stand south of the eastern one of those, step north three times (sliding over ice twice as you do so), then step west once to slide to where the stack of blocks is and smash them. (Refer to Hint 17's diagram if in doubt.)
Head back the way you came, and stand south of the western bit of ice (two tiles west of where Hint 17's diagram's route starts). Step north, east and east (sliding into an L-shaped corridor). Slide south and smash the NO stack here, then walk on spikes to respawn. Follow the upper catwalk until you come to a set of stairs that leads up and west, and follow the stairs to the exit.
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Present solution
| Spoiler: Hint 1 (present location)
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| It's a big level, but otherwise not tricky to find the present. It's just across an ON bridge near the exit (head up the stairs on the north side of the upper part of the level).
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| Spoiler: Hint 2
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| Look closely at the center tower.
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| Spoiler: Hint 3
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| There's another NO barrier on the north side of the center tower.
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| Spoiler: Hint 4
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 Fling south through the fence here to get in amongst the reborn NO blocks Once you've smashed all the NO words, fling south from near the north-middle side of the upper area, to the middle of the tower.
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| Spoiler: Hint 5
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| Push the blocks away from the center tower. Where can you make ON? Some blocks are easier to use than others.
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| Spoiler: Hint 6 (solution)
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 Once you've got an N into that corner, push the O around like this to make ON Smash all the NO words as described in the normal solution. Fling south from the fling south from near the north-middle side of the upper area, to the middle of the tower. Push an N east and an O south (push the other ones if you like). Push the N south into the corner. Push the O in a loop east, north, west, south, east to get it next to the N. Go to the exit (stairs up north side) and cross the ON bridge to the present.
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| Spoiler: Achievements
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| There are 0 achievements available for this level.
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| Spoiler: View squares
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There are 1 view squares on this level:
- In the Club Suite (up the stairs in the SW).
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| Spoiler: Hanging men
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| There are 0 hanging men on this level.
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