Stuck in area at the bottom of huge waterfall

[flesk]

I've put many hours into Elliot Quest (much more than my Steam play time indicates), and I've really been enjoying it so far. Now I've been stuck at the same area for about an hour or so though, and it's quickly starting to kill my enjoyment with the game, so I'm wondering what I'm missing.

The area I'm talking about is the area you get to after you jump off a cliff after bringing a guy five turtle shells. There's a guy down there that looks like a reference to VVVVVV, a blue chest, a yellow muchroom and a pendant.

Problem is I'm not able to do anything with either, since the guy doesn't talk, I don't have a blue key and I don't have wall-jumps yet (which I assume I will get eventually).

The abilities I do have are shield, arrow, lighting lanterns (candle) and double-jump (wing). In the room to the far right I assume I need wall-jump to proceed. Or alternatively have the ability to light those huge torches, but I'm not able to do either.

Any help would be appreciated, but preferably without spoiling too much.

[flesk]

Oh, I just noticed that the green guy replenishes mana(?), so maybe I just need the tornado ability to proceed. Haven't figured out how yet though.

[staleevolution]

I had the same problem. I had to restart and make sure I had the fire magic before traveling down the waterfall. You'll figure out what to do with it once you have it.

[Ansimuz]

My apologies. You shouldnt be able to travel to the waterfalls without the fire. There was a un intentional path that allowed players to cross the river. I had removed that path in current version. but stuck players are stuck forever i am sorry for this.

[flesk]

Thanks for the reply. I understand that it's hard to avoid these kinds of unfortunate dead-ends with the complexity that comes from having so many abilities and an open world.

Is that a version that is not yet available for Linux? And there's no way to edit a save game to revert to an earlier check point or something?

[Enk]

Just got stuck here myself. Shoot. :-(

[Eduardolicious]

this is apparently still a problem. i have no 'fire' item whatever that is, so i guess i'm out five hours or so?

[blackmantaray]

Oh great! yikes, hours wasted here as well! Still not fixed. :(

[flesk]

I'm pretty sure it was fixed in April/May. It's working for me now at least. Had to start over from the beginning though. :/

[japan4]

I created a Python script to teleport you back to the first level.

https://gist.github.com/kdeloach/9b599dca87ee036f1c57

[Mormel]

Hey, thank you for the script. I probably would not have started from the beginning. If the script does not work for someone else right away, you might have to to use double backslashes in the path.

[PublikAgent]

I must say, the waterfall trick is still up, got stucked there today.