Ninth Colossus - Dry Lake Sleeper
Getting to the dry lakebed can be fairly tough. It's in square D3, to the eastnortheast of the Shrine. You'll know you're headed in the right direction when you see the huge cloud of black smoke on the horizon. To reach the lakebed itself, approach from the east and follow the cliff near the prayer shrine south until you find a ramp leading down. This path should take you from E3 to D3; if you get near C3, then you've missed your exit. There's a large cave on the lakebed that, when entered, will reveal the Sleeper.
Attacks
As was the case with the last colossus, the Sleeper has a projectile attack which emanates from its mouth. Unforunately for you, these move too quickly to dodge if you're on foot - you'll need to stay on your horse for much of the start of this fight. It will also try to pound you with its two front feet if you get too close, a la the Seaside Cave colossus. Stay away from the beast and you should be all right.
Killing It
You don't need to use this colossus' attacks against it; you need to use the environment. Note the geysers in the plains near the cave.
To attack the Sleeper's weak spots, you of course need to find a way to get atop it. Doing so will be rather complicated, though; you need to goad the Sleeper atop one of the geysers on the lakebed, then hope that the geyser goes off underneath the Sleeper. If it does, the colossus will awkwardly bend a couple of its feet inward, allowing you to charge underneath it and fire arrows at the weak spots on the soles of its feet. Only two of the feet will be hittable, but that's all you need to hit; if you pierce both weak spots that are available to you, the beast will buckle over and fall on its side.
Unfortunately, the fur section of the beast is going to be on its back, which will usually roll away from you. If you're quick, you can run around the length of the Sleeper and reach its fur, but if your horse is around, climb on and go for the quicker ride to the fur.
When you're firmly attached to the beast's belly, you need to climb up to the "top" of the beast (which is actually one side of it, since it's already laying on its side), then move towards its back while waiting for it to stand up. Shifting from the side to the back while the beast moves will be difficult; you can either hold onto something and hope that you can reach the back when the beast is upright, or just stand up and hope that you get flipped up onto the back while it performs its standing animation.
If you can actually manage to get onto the back of the beast while it's upright, then killing it is a relatively simple matter. It only has one vital point, on its head, so run up there and start getting stabby. If you need to recharge your grip meter, return to the chitinous portion of the back. It'll try and shake you off, but you have plenty of land mass to roll with.
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