Vault Crystal

Hi, I'm Dampé?. Have we met?

No? Okay. Well, I've got some chambers here, if you want to make some dungeons. You can put them together however you want, but if you wanna "solve the puzzle" you gotta follow the guidelines. A dungeon needs:

• Just one entrance (the first row of chambers).
• Just one boss monster (the second row of chambers).
• To be self-contained (so it needs matching keys for all its doors, plus whatever item will take down its boss monster).
• No loose ends (so every exit better be connected to another exit—except the entrance).

No, you can't rotate the chambers—And you can't put a locked door on top of another locked door. Locked doors work... exactly the way you expect, probably. You might end up making some pretty linear dungeons, but that's fine.

Oh, I should probably tell you what items will take down what boss monsters, huh?

• The metallic Kopr can only be defeated with the Magnetic Boots.
• The handsy Manos is vulnerable to the Bracelet of Inaccessibility.
• The rocky Stolim is weak against the Bomb Star.
• The evil witch Xaracys fears only the Totem Wand.
• The enigmatic Murstach will be felled by the Barber's Sword.

You can download the picture below and mess around with it in an image editor, or you can download this ZIP file where each chamber is its own PNG file. Or you can do it with pencil and paper. You can do whatever you want!

One other thing—not part of the puzzle: These chambers and monsters and stuff are adapted from sprites from the Zelda games Link's Awakening DX, Oracle of Ages, and Oracle of Seasons, but the guys who ripped 'em from the game, Bruce Juice and Mister Mike, say I gotta give THEM credit if I use their sprite sheets. Well, how about some credit for the folks who actually made the sprites and the games in the first place?! I don't know their names, though. But, still: Credit all around. Credit to everyone.

Hints: Ugh I really hope there's only one solution for this. Take note of how many rooms are in each dungeon. Then take note of where, in terms of the sequence of rooms, you acquire each dungeon item.

Solution/Explanation

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