Hi Half - I just saw this message. Thanks for the note! I'll need to look for that western entrance the next time I make it to the throne room - sneaking past all those monsters en route to the throne is not good for my blood pressure. I'm currently trying to win with a pure-pacifist approach (zero kills) - it's very difficult, of course, but fun in a completely different way.

The game was a blast to play, and I had a lot of fun writing it up as well. Thanks for linking to my posts. Keep up the great work!

I just wanted to thank you for your excellent posts about Sil on your blog. It is great to hear from people who really click with it. Scatha and I did indeed put a lot of time into the things you observed and trying to get everything to work just right.

You are also spot on about the Grotesques being like Weeping Angels -- they were indeed based on the Angels! Also, there is a main entrance to that secret passage on the throne room level, but it is very far away to the west. The passage includes a Silent Watcher which would have been fine for you, but caused a lot of trouble for my recent melee character. You have probably already seen it, but I linked to your blog posts on the forums here:

http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthr...8688#post78688

Glad you got so much out of the game!