Thief: The Dark Project Gold (v1.37)
FAQ v7.5 by Taffer (taffer@sprint.ca)
Dec 14, 1999
"Ye shall not rob from the house I have built, or commit any theft or
unrighteousness, lest ye be struck down and driven into the earth forthwith, and
the land of the heathen consume you."
-- The Book of the Stone
"The paths of thief and god are worn as one in the earth."
"Thief wanted for the theft of the gems of Sarnoth."
"Woe be to him that defies the tree, for he shall be cast out into the world
through the veils of pain and fire."
Table of Contents
=================
Section 1: Version History
Section 2: Opening Notes Regarding This FAQ
2.1: Thief: The Dark Project Gold
2.2: Best Times
2.3: Contacting the Author
2.3.1: Contact Through Email
2.3.2: Contact Through ICQ
2.3.3: Mailing List
2.4: Experimentation
2.5: Mission Objectives
2.5.1: Changing Objectives
2.6: Recommended Purchases
2.7: Just What The Heck Is A Taffer Anyway?
2.8: Victoria vs. Viktoria
2.9: Personal Note Regarding The Next Release
2.10: Thief II: The Metal Age FAQ
Section 3: Game Notes
3.1: Patrols
3.2: Bloodstains and Bodies
3.3: Doors
3.4: Water
3.5: Hard Surfaces
3.6: Compass
3.7: Jumping
3.8: Enemies
3.8.1: Human Guards
3.8.2: Spiders
3.8.3: Zombies
3.8.4: Burricks
3.8.5: Fly Swarms
3.8.6: Flaming Spirits
3.8.7: Hammer Spirits
3.8.8: Restless Dead
3.8.9: Craymen
3.8.10: Sleepers
3.8.11: Non-Combatants
3.9: Weapons
3.9.1: Sword
3.9.2: Blackjack
3.9.3: Broadhead Arrows
3.9.4: Water Arrows
3.9.5: Fire Arrows
3.9.6: Moss Arrows
3.9.7: Gas Arrows
3.9.8: Rope Arrows
3.9.9: Noisemaker Arrows
3.9.10: Flash Bombs
3.9.11: Explosive Mines
3.9.12: Gas Mines
3.10: Cheats
Section 4: A Keeper's Training (Training Mission)
4.1: Introduction
4.2: Objectives
4.3: Before The Mission
4.4: Walkthrough
Section 5: Lord Bafford's Manor (Mission 1)
5.1: Introduction
5.2: Objectives on Normal level
5.3: Objectives on Hard level
5.4: Objectives on Expert level
5.5: Simplified Objectives
5.6: Before The Mission
5.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
5.8: Walkthrough
Section 6: Break From Cragscleft Prison (Mission 2)
6.1: Introduction
6.2: Objectives on Normal level
6.3: Objectives on Hard level
6.4: Objectives on Expert level
6.5: Simplified Objectives
6.6: Before The Mission
6.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
6.8: Walkthrough
Section 7: Down In The Bonehoard (Mission 3)
7.1: Introduction
7.2: Objectives on Normal level
7.3: Objectives on Hard level
7.4: Objectives on Expert level
7.5: Simplified Objectives
7.6: Before The Mission
7.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
7.8: Walkthrough
Section 8: Assassins (Mission 4)
8.1: Introduction
8.2: Objectives on Normal and Hard levels
8.3: Objectives on Expert level
8.4: Simplified Objectives
8.5: Before The Mission
8.6: Notes Regarding This Mission
8.7: Walkthrough
Section 9: Thieves' Guild (Mission 5)
9.1: Introduction
9.2: Objectives on Normal level
9.3: Objectives on Hard level
9.4: Objectives on Expert level
9.5: Simplified Objectives
9.6: Before The Mission
9.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
9.8: Walkthrough
Section 10: The Sword (Mission 6)
10.1: Introduction
10.2: Objectives on Normal and Hard levels
10.3: Objectives on Expert level
10.4: Simplified Objectives
10.5: Before The Mission
10.6: Notes Regarding This Mission
10.7: Walkthrough
Section 11: Cutscene - Victoria
Section 12: The Haunted Cathedral (Mission 7)
12.1: Introduction
12.2: Objectives on Normal level
12.3: Objectives on Hard level
12.4: Objectives on Expert level
12.5: Simplified Objectives
12.6: Before The Mission
12.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
12.8: Walkthrough
Section 13: Input From Other Thieves
Section 14: Thief Sites on the Internet
Section 15: Thief 2 News
Section 16: Thief FAQ Mailing List
Section 17: Endnotes and Copyright Notice
Section 1: Version History
==========================
0.1 -- First release of this FAQ. Included only the first mission
(Lord Bafford's Manor).
0.2 -- Fixed a few spelling and grammatical errors.
0.7 -- Added "Input From Other Thieves" section.
-- Included "Before the Mission" and "Introduction" sections, as
well as others.
-- Some not-quite-minor-but-not-very-major cosmetic changes made
(ie: version history, section numbers, etc.).
1.0 -- Added walkthrough for the Training Mission (A Keeper's
Training).
1.1 -- Added walkthrough for Mission 2 (Break From Cragscleft Prison).
1.11 -- Fixed some spelling, grammar, and formatting mistakes.
1.2 -- Added Cheats section.
1.4 -- Put in monster descriptions & strategies.
1.6 -- Put in weapon descriptions and strategies.
2.0 -- Added walkthrough for Mission 3 (Down in the Bonehoard).
2.2 -- Fixed some grammar and spelling mistakes, fixed up the
walkthroughs for the training mission, the first three missions
(minor changes only), and expanded some entries in the Weapons
section.
2.6 -- Added walkthrough for Mission 4 (Assassins).
2.8 -- Added "Thief Sites on the Internet" section.
-- Expanded the FAQ slightly in a few areas, including a "Notes
Regarding" section on some missions, and added Fly Swarms to
the Enemies section.
-- Fixed some spelling, grammer, formatting, and continuity
errors.
3.0 -- Added "Thief 2 News" section.
3.4 -- Added walkthrough for Mission 5 (The Sword).
3.6 -- Added entry for the first cutscene (Victoria).
3.7 -- Minor adjustments, including a "First Appearance" section for
each monster.
4.0 -- Included information on Flash Bombs and Mines, and new
monsters, as well as updated information on several weapons and
monsters.
4.3 -- Did some tweaking here and there, revising and improving
entries. "Input From Other Thieves" section revised, and a
"Recommended Purchases" and "What You'll Encounter" section was
added for each mission; also added the Mailing List section at
the end; new cheat added to cheats section; added "What The
Heck Is A Taffer Anyway?" section.
*** NEW EMAIL/CREDITTING POLICY!!!!! ***
4.7 -- Added walkthrough for Mission 6 (The Haunted Cathedral).
4.8 -- Slight ammendment to weapons section introduction, some
spelling mistakes corrected, added "Taffer" information.
4.9 -- Expanded the "Contact" section to include ICQ information.
5.0 -- First version of the FAQ using Thief: The Dark Project Gold.
Included a section regarding the changeover (section 2.1).
5.1 -- Reworked the walkthrough for "Lord Bafford's Manor" (very minor
changes).
5.3 -- Reworked the walkthrough for "Break From Cragscleft Prison".
5.5 -- Reworked the walkthrough for "Down In The Bonehoard".
5.6 -- Reworked the walkthrough for "Assassins" (minor changes only).
6.0 -- Added walkthrough for Thief Gold Mission 5 (Thieves' Guild).
6.1 -- Changed name and email address! (Was formerly "The Brigdadier",
am now "Taffer"); ICQ contact information included.
*** PLEASE NOTE NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!!!!! ***
6.4 -- Reworked the walkthrough for "The Sword" (major rewrite!)
6.5 -- Reworked the walkthrough for "The Haunted Cathedral" (minor
changes only).
7.5 -- Nearly evey section of the walkthrough tweaked, expanded,
corrected, and/or improved...some slightly, and some in great
detail; Mailing List section changed to section 2.3.3; added
new "cheats" to the cheats section; added "Compass" section
(section 3.6); added "Changing Objectives" section (section
2.5.1); added "Victoria" section (section 2.8); added
"Jumping" section (section 3.7); added Flaming Spirits,
Sleepers, and Non-Combatants to the Monster list.
Not all versions of this FAQ have been made available to the public. The only
versions to have ever been released are: 0.1, 1.1, 2.0, 3.6, 4.7 and 7.5.
Section 2: Opening Notes Regarding This FAQ
===========================================
Well, after several gruelling exams (both in the summer and just recently),
several hard drive crashes, a motherboard failure, a CDRom failure, a memory
leak that took a while to track down, and a brief custody battle, I am finally
back! My sincerest apologies to everyone who has been waiting for the release of
this version of the FAQ. With luck, there will be no more delays of that length.
This is my first FAQ/Walkthrough. All input is appreciated, especially regarding
what you liked, and how I can improve it. Please send comments, suggestions,
etc., to taffer@sprint.ca
This FAQ does NOT cover the entire game at the moment. I do intend to continue
this FAQ so that it does. HOWEVER, I am a University student, and have
personally only finished the first seven missions completely. So you may have a
bit of a wait ahead of you. :(
This FAQ, unlike others I have seen for this game, is geared towards having you
complete each mission with the maximum amount of treasure possible, on top of
completing all of your quests. Each mission is done at the EXPERT level, and all
statistics are given for that difficulty setting (ie: what you find, where, how
much, etc.). I have not tried playing these on the lower levels, but I have
heard there ARE differences. (For example, on Mission 2, "Break From Cragscleft
Prison", you find a Holy Water Font on the lower level of the mines on the
Normal level, and it is gone on Expert, as well as there being different
treasures found in different areas.)
This FAQ/Walkthrough is based on the PC version of the game. Does another
version exist? I don't know.
2.1: Thief: The Dark Project Gold
=================================
On November 3rd, 1999, my local computer store finally got their shipment of
Thief: The Dark Project Gold (from here on referred to only as Thief Gold).
Needless to say, I purchased the first one out on the shelf! I sold them my
original Thief game (at a substantial loss, but I didn't need the original
anymore, and I got some money to help pay for the new one!), and as a result, a
word regarding this FAQ needs to be said.
Those who have been following this FAQ will have received the original first six
missions (Lord Bafford's Manor, Break from Cragscleft Prison, Down in the
Bonehoard, Assassins, The Sword, and The Haunted Cathedral) while I was still
playing my original copy. Now that I no longer have the original, all missions
which come after "The Haunted Cathedral" will be done solely from the Thief Gold
game. I have replayed all the previous missions, and noted any differences I
spotted between the two games in the appropriate sections. However, once you hit
Mission Eight ("The Mage Towers"), there will be no further notes on
differences...everything will be pure Thief Gold.
From this point on, any references to "Thief Gold" refer specifically to that
game. References simply to "Thief" will most likely be a generic reference which
can apply to either the original or the Gold release. Any references that are
specific to the original will be so noted, probably with "Original Thief".
NOTE: Thief Gold does have higher system requirements than the original game.
There has been a few points while playing where I have noticed some "slowdown".
Fortunately, I am upgrading my computer late January/early February, so the game
will fly then. :) (Does anyone know anywhere online where I can get new, good,
cheap parts?)
2.2: Best Times
===============
For those missions that have been included, I have also included my best time in
completing that mission. This is for various reasons, but mostly to do with ego.
:) (Note that my best time for a mission does NOT necessarily reflect this
walkthrough. For example, my best time for Lord Bafford's Manor was done with
mostly running, no body hiding, no door closing, etc. Each one was finished,
however, with ALL possible treasure, unless otherwise noted.)
All best times recorded are for Thief Gold. In every case, I was able to beat my
best times from the original game whilst playing the new one. (The exception to
this was for the Training Mission, which has a note explaining the best time
there.)
2.3: Contacting the Author
==========================
You can contact me either through email, or through ICQ.
2.3.1 Contact Through Email
===========================
My email address is: taffer@sprint.ca
Please note the new email address. It was changed early afternoon on November
23rd. My apologies to anyone who has attempted to email me at the previous
address since then.
I have received several emails since posting this FAQ...thank you for your kind
words and your input, everyone!
Some of the emails are asking for help on missions beyond the ones I have
included here, or asking if I intend to do the FAQ to include later missions. If
you've managed to read this far, you know that the answers to these questions
are already printed in the FAQ. Any questions sent to me that are already
answered in this FAQ will be ignored.
2.3.2 Contact Through ICQ
=========================
This is probably a big mistake...but what the heck. If you want to contact me
through ICQ (all ladies welcome! <g>), my ICQ number is: 19232955. My handle is
currently "Taffer".
Note that the same rules for email apply to ICQ as well. Also, if you have a
lengthy amount of information to send me, I would appreciate it if you would do
so using email.
Please Note: I do not use the "Chat" mode on ICQ. I only use the messaging
feature. My ICQ settings are currently set up to automatically decline any chat
requests.
Section 2.3.3: Thief FAQ Mailing List
=====================================
I've decided to start a mailing list. If you want to receive (via a zipped email
attachment) the latest version of this FAQ... AS IT COMES OUT ... send me an
email stating so. When the new FAQ is produced, I will email everyone on the
mailing list a copy FIRST, and then upload it to the regular carrier(s). This is
so my faithful readers will not be in dark when help is already available. :)
Likewise, if you want to be removed from the mailing list, you'll need to send
me an email stating so.
2.4: Experimentation
====================
Occasionally, I will note an area where some more experimentation could be done.
In some cases, circumstances did not permit further experimentation (for one
reason or another), and some experiments were thought of in hindsight, long
after I was past the point of no return for that area. If anyone cares to
experiment in the noted areas, I would be interested in hearing the results.
EXAMPLE: In Lord Bafford's Manor, I used to take out a certain guard as a
precaution against a future endeavor. However, I was not sure that this was
actually necessary, and had not tried to complete the mission without doing so.
Upon replaying the mission, I left that guard alone, and found it was
unnecesarry to take him out, and was able to make the walkthrough for that
mission that much better (and improve my best time for that mission by about a
minute or more!).
2.5: Mission Objectives
=======================
Although each mission shows the objectives for Normal, Hard, and Expert levels,
the walkthrough itself covers ONLY the Expert level.
The Simplified Objectives contain the mission objectives as viewed from within
the mission. They are less verbose, and more to the point than the wordy
objectives given before the mission begins. Although the only ones shown are
from the Expert level, you should be able to pick out which ones apply to your
game if you are playing on Normal or Hard instead.
2.5.1: Changing Objectives
==========================
During some missions which you will undertake, your mission objectives will
deviate from thse which you started with as you progress through the mission.
This can be due to changing situations, the gaining of further information,
receiving new instructions, and perhaps other reasons as well. You are informed
in the game when your mission objectives change, and this walkthrough also
reflects this. When your objectives change, this walkthrough will give you a
list of your changed objectives.
Note that when your objectives list is displayed inside a mission's walkthrough,
it will also indicate which ones you have completed so far. If your list differs
from the one given within, it means that you have not followed the walkthrough
as it is laid out. For example, if you need 1500 in treasure to complete a
mission objective, and the walkthrough says you have done so but your mission
objectives do not, then you have not picked up all the treasures I have
indicated up to that point.
2.6: Recommended Purchases
==========================
At the end of each "Before The Mission" section, I've listed the equipment that
I personally use and/or recommend to complete that mission. In most cases, these
purchases will NOT eat up all of your funds. Use whatever you have left over as
you see fit.
Note that my recommended purchases are not always what is NECESSARY to complete
the mission. In some cases, it will make the mission easier for you, in others
it may simply be that there is NOTHING to buy to help you, but what I've
recommended is (in my opinion) the best you can do.
2.7: Just What The Heck Is A Taffer Anyway?
===========================================
This is a question I am sure many Thief fans have asked countless times. I
received a few emails regarding this, and here is what I've derived from them:
There is a Mother Goose nursery rhyme that contains the line(s), "Taffy was a
Welshman, Taffy was a thief". "Taffy" is a slang name for a Welshman.
At least one other person has suggested to me that "Taffer" is a dilution of
"Trickster", much like in modern English "Darn" is a dilution of "Damn", and
"Heck" is a dilution of "Hell".
If anyone can clarify, expand, or suggest another meaning, please contact me! I
seem to recall having once seen a definition online (on a message board
somewhere) that made much more sense.
2.8: Victoria vs. Viktoria
==========================
This is only a very minor point, but I thought it deserved mention here.
The character known as "Victoria" in the game has had some (albeit minor) debate
on the spelling of her name. Most often, I have seen people spelling it with a
"k", and less commonly I see it spelled with a "c".
In your first mission (Lord Bafford's Manor), there is a scroll in the library
where someone has reported to Lord Bafford that he has been unable to find any
information regarding a woman named "Victoria". They spell it with a "c".
I was just fine with this, up until playing the new Mission Five in Thief Gold,
"Thieves' Guild". In there you find a ledger belonging to one of the thieves,
and there it is spelled with a "k".
So now we have conflict in the game. Damn. I was so sure it was "Victoria,"
thanks to Lord Bafford. Now it seems some upstart taffer has messed with my
reasoning! However, to the best of my knowledge "Lord Bafford's Manor" predates
"Thieves' Guild", so unless and until I get something more difinitive, I am
going to stick with spelling it with a "c" throughout this walkthrough.
2.9: Personal Notes Regarding The Next Release
==============================================
To those waiting for more of this FAQ. I am currently playing Mission 8, "The
Mage Towers". While I AM currently on my Christmas break (did you all forget I
was in University?), I do have certain studies to keep up with (such as my
Greek) so the work may be slow...but I intend to pick away at it as best I can
when I can. I've also finally gotten custody of my son <insert cheers here>, and
so some time must be set aside for him as well. :)
2.10: Thief II: The Metal Age FAQ
=================================
I have had a couple of emails asking if I plan to do a FAQ on Thief II when it
is released. I've thought about this. Writing this FAQ for Thief (as far as it
has gotten) has taken a lot of time, but I have thoroughly enjoyed the process.
One of the reasons I started writing this FAQ, apart from the fact that I could
not find anything else out there at the time, was that the game so thoroughly
GRABBED me. Just sorta reached through the monitor and sucked me into it. I
don't want to make any promises here, but if Thief II is anything at all like
Thief, then I think it's safe to say that Yes, I fully intend to write a FAQ for
Thief II as well.
Before you get all excited, a word of caution. I play games in a sort of funny
way. If a sequel to a game comes out that I like, I will buy it. However, I
won't actually play it until I've finished the previous game(s) first. This is
why Tomb Raider III and IV are sitting on the shelf gathering dust while I play
Tomb Raider II, and Might and Magic VII waits patiently for me to finish Might
and Magic VI, and Lands of Lore II and III pine for attention while I merrily
play the first game, and Zork Grand Inquisitor....well, you get the idea.
So if Thief II is released before I've finished Thief...well, there will be a
wait before I start playing the game. Bottom line is this: even if the FAQ is
coming...don't hold your breath. :(
Section 3: Game Notes
=====================
3.1: Patrols
============
Some areas have guards (of one sort or another) moving around in them, and
sometimes moving from one area to another. This makes it difficult to say for
sure when a certain task you may be told to perform should be done, as it is
unlikely that you will arrive at the area at the exact same time during the
mission that I did. In these areas, it's a good idea to save your game. (This
will be noted at the proper areas.)
3.2: Bloodstains and Bodies
===========================
According to the manual, leaving bodies out in the open where they can be seen,
or not cleaning up telltale bloodstains (by shooting a Water Arrow at them) is
inviting discovery. While there are certain points in the game where just
leaving your victims where they fall may be all right (and, in some cases,
unavoidable), for the most part, you should tidy up after yourself. After
telling you to take out someone, this FAQ is going to assume that you have the
prudence to hide your handiwork.
3.3: Doors
==========
This FAQ also assumes that you will know enough to try to open doors before
walking through them, and to close them behind you. (An open door can also be a
telltale sign to patrols that something is amiss...namely, you.)
Note that in this walkthrough, most of the time when I refer to a door, there is
an actual, physical door. If there is not, the opening is generally referred to
as a doorway, or an archway.
3.4: Water
==========
Water is loud when you splash around in it. This occurs when you try to swim
quickly, or jump into the water. Try not to do it too often. Swim slowly (using
your WALK key). Also note that, while you can swim carrying someone you have to
rescue (ie: Basso in Mission Two), on the missions where you are told not to
kill anyone, you cannot dump bodies in the water to "hide" them. They drown, and
that counts as you killing them.
An important note regarding your weapons and water: if the water is deep enough,
even if you are simply wading (ie: walking, not swimming), you will still be
unable to use most of your weapons.
3.5: Hard Surfaces
==================
Hard surfaces include any sort of surface that makes a very loud or noticeable
noise when you're walking on it. Things like tile, metal, and even wood can fall
into this category. While Moss Arrows will allow you to walk over the covered
area silently, you never really have enough of them to go wantonly shooting them
everywhere you want to walk.
SNEAKING is the key. You have three movements available to you...walking,
running, and sneaking. The sneak key defaults to the SHIFT key, and makes you
move slower, though quieter. In some areas, I have noted that when you move
normally in the shadows, you are slightly more visible, but sneaking keeps you
hidden.
There is another way to sneak...CROUCH SNEAKING. This is is walking when you are
CROUCHED, either with the sneak key pressed or not. You make less noise
(although it is sometimes still very audible). You can minimize this even
further, however, by using the stop-and-go method. Move forward a SHORT
distance, and stop. You will probably have made no noise whatsoever. Now, move
forward another short distance, and stop. Keep this up until you get to quieter
ground, and you should be able to get through just about any terrain silently.
3.6: Compass
============
You have a compass in your inventory. Most of the time in this FAQ, I will
attempt to give you instructions without needing to resort to referring to the
compass. For example, I will say something like "On your left, as you face the
idol," or "Turn so the door is to your back." From time to time, however, it may
be necessary for me to refer to compass directions.
Your compass is in the shape of an eight-pointed star. The larger points
indicate the major compass directions (North, East, South, and West), whereas
the smaller points refer to the in-between directions (Northeast, Southeast,
Southwest, Northwest). One of the larger points is red in colour. This point is
your reference point. It will always be pointing towards the north. The
direction which you are currently facing will be indicated by the point which is
directed in (more or less) the direction you're facing. So if I tell you to face
east, look at your compass, and orient it so that the red arrow is pointing
(more or less) towards the left side of the screen.
An interesting note regarding your compass...if you spin around while it is open
in your inventory, you can watch the star spin with you. However, if you change
your vertical facing (ie: looking up and down), the star will also rotate on
that axis with you!
3.7 Jumping
===========
While jumping should be pretty self-explanatory, there IS an additional feature
to the game which bears mentioning.
Garrett's fastest mode of travel is not running...it's continuous jumping. Find
a long stretch of ground, start running, and jump. As soon as Garrett hits the
ground, jump again, so that the game doesn't register him walking. Continue this
process, and you'll soon see a noticeable improvement in his speed. It takes a
bit of timing to get right, and it only works in a relatively straight line, but
if you get it right, Garrett can go VERY fast. Unfortunately, once you stop
jumping, you're back to your regular speed.
After the sixth or seventh consecutive jump, assuming the timing is right for
jumping, you can apparently kill Garrett by hitting a wall at that speed!
3.8: Enemies
============
You face off against a number of different types of enemies. Here's some basic
information on the ones I've encountered so far. Note that the names I've given
to some of them are NOT necessarily official. They are just what I've called
them when I've had no official name to give them.
3.8.1: Human Guards
===================
First Appearance: Training Mission or Mission One (Lord Bafford's Manor)
This includes your standard Guard (such as in Lord Bafford's Manor), Captains,
Hammerites, etc. These guys fall easily to your blackjack attacks, so long as 1)
you hit their head area, and 2) they aren't expecting it. If they are looking
around searching for you, you can sometimes manage to club them, but it doesn't
always work. In these circumstances, aim is the most important factor (go for
the head!), and light plays a close second. The more of you that can be seen
(ie: check your light-indicator!), the harder it is to successfully put the
guards to sleep.
Most of the time, these guys are armed with some sort of hand-to-hand weapon (a
sword or hammer). Occasionally, one will have a bow instead (and don't think
that they can only fire Broadheads at you!). The guys in red, however, are
Priests and spell casters. Also, there is one type that doesn't seem to fight at
all, he just calls for help. He is the one in gray.
Occasionally, these guys will have a key, purse, or other item on their belt
that you can either lift off (ie: pick their pocket), or grab after you've
knocked them out. I prefer the pickpocket method.
NOTE: One time, I knocked out a guard, and because another was coming, picked up
the body and ran BEFORE getting the purse off him. After dropping the body,
however, the purse was gone. :( This, however, was while playing the original
Thief game. In Thief Gold, I have picked up bodies, then dropped them and been
able to get the loot from their waistband.
3.8.2: Spiders
==============
First Appearance: Mission One (Lord Bafford's Manor)
Spiders are small and annoying, and that's about it. They can bite you for a bit
of damage, but not much. They die easily too...a single Broadhead Arrow usually
does the trick. These things are VERY difficult to kill using your sword. I
suggest using Broadhead Arrows whenever possible. (It's not that they are
particularly resistant to the sword...it's just that they are so small and move
so fast that you usually can't HIT them!)
There are at least two sizes of spiders. There are the small ones that are very
difficult to hit when they start moving, and the much larger version. The larger
version seems to take two Broadheads to kill, but I've only encountered one that
I killed in that manner, so it may be my first shot was a bad one. Anyone have
any comments on this?
3.8.3: Zombies
==============
First Appearance: Mission Two (Break from Cragscleft Prison)
I hate Zombies. Don't ask why, I don't really have a rational explanation. But
when I'm playing the game, and Zombies start getting involved, my interest level
tends to drop dramatically. (I also can't play the game after dark when playing
a Zombie level. Yeah, I know...I'm a wimp.)
"Sleeping" Zombies are pretty much indistinguishable from corpses, until you get
close enough to one to awaken it. When you do, it makes a noise, and you have a
brief amount of time (variable, sometimes maybe as much as 2 seconds) to react
before it stands up and moves to attack. (Throughout this FAQ, a corpse that can
"become" a Zombie is referred to as a Corpse-Zombie.)
Once awake, you can't kill them by conventional means. Hacking them with your
sword will make them drop, only to stand right back up again. Arrows are a
little better, as when you cause them to drop with arrows, the don't always
stand up again unless you are close enough to "awaken" them. However, Zombies
are very SLOW. You can run circles around them. If you run away from them, they
will pursue, but not for long. (This will become evident when you do Mission 3,
"Down in the Bonehoard".)
Note that ANY human corpse can be a Zombie, not just the gray, decaying ones. I
believe that mission 3 ("Down in the Bonehoard") even has a headless Zombie, so
don't ever assume that a corpse is just a corpse!
Weapons that are useful against Zombies include Fire Arrows, Holy Water Arrows
(your Water Arrows dipped in Holy Water), Flash Bombs, and Explosive Mines. With
regards to the Fire Arrows, I've noted that, if you shoot the Zombie from
behind, it takes only one Fire Arrow to destroy it. If they see it coming
though, it usually takes two...although I am told that a Fire Arrow to the "gut"
will take them out whether they are aware of you or not.
3.8.4: Burricks
===============
First Appearance: Mission Three (Down in the Bonehoard)
These are big lizards with VERY bad morning breath. Best to avoid them if
possible. Engaging in melee with them is NOT a good idea, especially if there is
more than one around...while you cut into one, the other ones back off and
breathe at you. If you want/need to take them out, your arrows are your best
bet. How quickly they die seems to depend on where your arrows hit. The average
seems to be about 5 or so arrows to fell one of these beasts, although I have
managed to bring one down with only two arrows (once).
Melee CAN be done successfully with Burricks. First of all, it's best if there
is only one around. Then you can get close enough so that the beast cannot
breathe on you, and you can hack merrily away at it. (Although they do tend to
run away once the damage starts to get serious. They whimper too. <g>) The BEST
way to deal with a lone Burrick is to take it by surprise...run right up behind
it and slice downwards with your sword. If you do it right, you've just done a
backstab, and killed the critter with one blow!
Note that Burricks HATE Zombies, and will attack them in preference to you. If
you can get Zombies and Burricks engaged in combat together, you can sit back
and watch as half your problems are taken care of. Since the Zombies cannot be
killed by the Burricks though, you always know which side will come out the
victor. (NOTE: A friend of mine told me about this hint...I have not tested it
myself, so don't hold me to it!)
If you try to use Explosive Mines against Burricks, you should be aware that one
is NOT enough to kill one!
Another interesting thing about Burricks...apparently, you can use your
blackjack on them and knock them out!
3.8.5: Fly Swarms
=================
First Appearance: Mission Two (Break from Cragscleft Prison)
These are not really dangerous, just annoying. Fly swarms find a corpse (or
sometimes a Corpse-Zombie) and hover over it. They don't move, they just swarm
around the body. Occasionally, you may find a swarm where there is no body, but
they still don't move. Moving through a swarm subjects yourself to their bites,
which do not always strike. You take minimal damage from a swarm bite. (Note:
When you find a Zombie with a Fly Swarm surrounding it, the swarm DOES move, but
it sticks with the Zombie.)
To disperse a Fly Swarm, shoot a Fire Arrow into it (although personally I feel
this is a waste of a good Fire Arrow). Note also that you can disperse a Swarm
from around a Zombie simply by hitting it with a Water Arrow.
3.8.6: Flaming Spirits
======================
First Appearance: Mission Three (Down in the Bonehoard)
This creature is (as far as I know) new to Thief Gold. Undead spirits whose
bodies are afire. They appear like Hammerite Priests, except that they are
burning. My encounters with them so far indicate that they must close to melee
with you...they don't appear to have a missile attack.
Fire Arrows are useless against these creatures, and it appears that Explosive
Mines are equally useless, as is your sword (unless I just didn't hit it enough
times). Water Arrows damage them...it seems that four Water Arrows will kill it.
If you use Holy Water Arrows, then two seem to suffice (although one time it
took three). Broadhead Arrows appear to damage and eventually "kill" them,
although it took a lot of Arrows when I tried. (Under the circumstances though,
I am not sure that all of my arrows struck home.) I have not tried Flash Bombs
or any other weapon against them as of yet.
Once this creature is sufficiently damaged, it will run away, leaving behind a
Fire Arrow. It runs and disappears, sometimes through a solid wall. However, he
reappears again shortly to resume his patrol.
Point of Interest: One time, while experimenting against one of these creatures,
I "killed" the same one three times. After waiting for a long time, he didn't
return. I was all set to write in this entry "Must be killed three times" when
the damned thing popped up again. If anyone has any information regarding these
recurring nightmares, I would appreciate it if you would share it with me.
3.8.7: Hammer Spirits
=====================
First Appearance: Mission Seven (The Haunted Cathedral)
These creatures are the undead spirits of Hammerite spellcasters. They, too,
look like the Hammerite Priests, except that they are semi-transparent. They
hurl ghostly skulls at you, sometimes as many as three at a time. If you can
catch one by surprise, I've found the quickest way to dispatch one is to sneak
up behind them and deliver a downswing swordstroke. After that, a single
sidestroke with your sword causes them to disappear in a puff of smoke. If you
can't take them by surprise, however, they are difficult to kill. In one battle,
I hit one with three downswings, and it still took a couple of sideswings to
finish the job. In melee, constant side-to-side slashing seems to keep them from
casting their spells at you.
Flash Bombs and Explosive Mines are also useful against them. While I have not
tried the Flash Bombs myself, I have seen a Hammer Spirit live through TWO Mine
explosions. Using Fire Arrows, I have not been able to kill one with less than
three Arrows. I have not killed one with Holy Water Arrows yet, but they survive
at least two shots of them. An interesting note is that they do NOT appear to be
very good shots when they are not at close range.
3.8.8: Restless Dead
====================
First Appearance: Mission Three (Down in the Bonehoard)
These undead are the animated remains of Hammerite Guards, and they retain their
swordsmanship skills beyond the grave. They are VERY good swordsmen, and they
are also extremely fast runners...impossible to outrun. As with Hammer Spirits,
Flash Bombs and Explosive Mines work well with them (two Flash Bombs take one
out, and one Mine will do the same). I have not yet tried the Holy Water Arrows
or Fire Arrows against them.
3.8.9: Craymen
==============
First Appearance: Mission Seven (The Haunted Cathedral)
Picture a humanoid Crayfish, and that's pretty much what a Crayman looks like.
If you catch them by surprise, a single Broadhead will fell one of these
crustacean monstrosities. Otherwise, it takes about five Broadheads. Two Fire
Arrows also seem to do the trick against these guys.
Melee with a Crayman can be interesting. They can survive at least two
downswings, and their claws can be used to parry your attacks just like you use
your sword to block. Note that Flash Bombs will blind them, and that you can
knock them out with your Blackjack.
3.8.10: Sleepers
================
First Appearance: Mission One (Lord Bafford's Manor)
Sleepers are what I call the people who are asleep when you find them. They are
not dangerous while asleep, and if killing is allowed on the level, a single
Broadhead Arrow deals with them. Don't get too close to one of them, however, or
else they will wake up and either attack you (if the are capable of doing so),
or run away screaming (if they are non-combatants). In the latter case, there is
a chance that the alarm will be raised. Unless there is a good reason to get
near them (such as a chest at the foot of their bed), I suggest you just steer
clear of them altogether.
3.8.11: Non-Combatants
======================
First Appearance: Mission One (Lord Bafford's Manor)
This category includes anyone that doesn't fight against you in the game:
Servants, Civilians, Prisoners, etc. They are weak, falling easily to just about
any attack.
3.9: Weapons
============
While your chosen lifestyle usually involves you hiding from foes rather than
fighting, it is sometimes necessary to make use of some of your weapons...and
some have more uses than the obvious.
Note that you are more easily seen if you have a weapon drawn than if you are
empty-handed (except for the blackjack and, after mission six, your sword).
Also, having a weapon out (except the blackjack) can slow you down. So if you
are in a hurry, put your weapons away!
3.9.1: Sword
============
Your basic hack-n-slash weapon. Your sword does either a left cut, a right cut,
or an overhead smashing blow. To get the smashing blow, you need to hold your
attack button without releasing it for a short time. While it takes longer to
deliver, it does more damage than the simple cuts. Also, if your enemy is not
expecting an attack (ie: he doesn't know you're there), the sword delivers more
damage than standard (usually killing with one blow).
Your sword is also good for cutting down banners that may hide secret areas
behind them.
If you are trying to hide in the shadows, having your sword drawn will make you
easier to spot. However, if you put your weapon in the Block position, it seems
to lessen your visibility somewhat.
NOTE: After Mission 6 (The Sword), your regular sword is replaced with
Constantine's Sword. I've noticed that you can have this weapon drawn and still
remain fully hidden in darkness, without needed to "block".
3.9.2: Blackjack
================
There's not much about the blackjack that isn't obvious. It's got a short reach,
so you have to be pretty close to use it effectively. Also, hitting a creature
anywhere but the head with this weapon just tends to draw attention to yourself.
Interestingly enough, when you knock out your victims, if you examine their
faces, their eyes are wide open. Curious that...
While most other weapons make you more visible, having this one at the ready
does not affect your visibility.
Two things worth noting about this weapon. First, it IS possible to kill someone
with it. If they know you're there and are attacking you, a few solid clouts
with this does send them to The Builder. Also, sometimes non-guards (ie:
Servants, Prisoners, etc.) are so weak that a single blow from this weapon kills
them, even if you were just going for a knock-out.
Another interesting thing. If you knock someone out while you are in the middle
of a jump, when you look at your stats screen later, you will have an additional
entry for the number of "airborne" knockouts. :)
One final word, which should be obvious: Don't try to knock out the undead.
3.9.3: Broadhead Arrows
=======================
Their use as a weapon is obvious. These weapons, like the sword, do much more
damage to your enemies when they are not expecting your attack (usually killing
human enemies with one shot).
You may think these arrows are useless on missions where you can't kill anyone,
but that's not entirely true. They are great "distractions". Fire one off
against a nearby wall, and you attract the attention of nearby enemies. And if
you're hiding in shadows, instead of raising the alarm, they (usually) look
around for you. Lead your enemies into an ambush, and blackjack them. :)
Note that if you fire your Broadhead Arrows into soft surfaces, you can
sometimes retrieve them!
3.9.4: Water Arrows
===================
Very useful for putting out unwanted torches, and also for cleaning up any
bloodstains you leave behind. If you find a Holy Water font, or use a vial of
Holy Water, you turn your mundane Water Arrows into Holy Water Arrows...very
useful against Zombies and other undead monsters. When trying to kill Zombies
with these, it takes a minimum of two arrows to kill one. In groups however,
nearby Zombies take "splash damage". Note that it only takes one Holy Water
Arrow to dispatch a Corpse-Zombie (while it's still "feigning death").
As an interesting side note, Water Arrows are ignored by human enemies when
fired at them. I've fired a water arrow right in the face of a Hammerite, and he
didn't even flinch!
NOTE: When extinguishing torches, it is not necessary to hit the torch dead-
on...or in some cases, even to hit it! A close hit will still put the torch out.
I am assuming this is some sort of "splash damage".
3.9.5: Fire Arrows
==================
These little beauties are devastating. They can kill a Zombie with a single shot
(and he DOESN'T come back to life), although sometimes it takes two. Some human
guards which normally take several arrows to bring down will sometimes fall with
a single Fire Arrow. They can also be shot into a cloud of flies, dispersing
them (burning them?). They are also useful for relighting torches, should you
decide you need a little more light in your life.
A word about trajectory: When you fire most arrows, you need to take into
account gravity. That is, once the arrow leaves your bow, it starts to fall,
losing altitude. You need to aim high if you're aiming at a target that's a long
way off. This is NOT true with the Fire Arrows. It's like a mini-rocket. Aim,
fire, and it keeps going IN A STRAIGHT LINE, until it strikes something. Keep
this in mind when using them.
It is interesting to note that, while a Fire Arrow will continue on in a
straight line until it hits something, how far back you pull the bowstring will
determine how fast it flies. Try it out for yourself...it's like watching its
flight in slow motion.
3.9.6: Moss Arrows
==================
You fire a Moss Arrow at some loud sound-generating ground (tile, grating,etc.),
and it gets covered with moss. When you walk on it, you no longer make any noise
at all. So far, that's the only use I've found for them.
Firing Moss Arrows at items, people, or even the walls or ceiling, will cause
the initial clump of moss to fall to the ground at that point, and then the
remaining moss will shoot out.
3.9.7: Gas Arrows
=================
No information as of yet. (I haven't found any so far.)
3.9.8: Rope Arrows
==================
Very handy items, if you happen to have no way into or out of an area, and there
is a wooden (or similarly "soft") surface overhead somewhere. Fire one of these,
and you have instant access.
A word of caution: While these arrows are very useful to you in many situations,
it should be pointed out that there is a maximum length to the rope. You could
shoot a Rope Arrow at a ceiling very high up, and watch with dismay as the rope
tumbles down to stop several feet higher than your highest jump.
Note that these arrows are re-usable. Once you've finished with the rope,
retrieve the arrow.
3.9.9: Noisemaker Arrows
========================
An arrow that makes a noise as it flies. When it strikes a surface, it emits a
"cricket" sound for a short while. In most cases, I've found this completely
useless, although I have made use of it successfully in "Thieves' Guild". I'm
sure there are other instances that I am just not seeing where these devices
would prove useful.
These weapons are also retrieveable, like the Rope Arrows.
3.9.10: Flash Bombs
===================
Yes, Flash Bombs. These devices are quite useful against undead monsters. A
Zombie takes about two of these to take him out permanently. They are useful
against other types of undead as well. Note that they work best against
groups...one Flash Bomb damages all nearby undead!
A word of caution: If you use these against Zombies, sometimes they explode, and
sometimes they just fall to the ground. If one falls, it is not out of action,
it's just a Corpse-Zombie now. Approaching it will wake it up again. (In cases
like this, another Flash Bomb usually dismembers the fiend...although you are
free to use other methods to permanently disable these guys.)
3.9.11: Explosive Mines
=======================
These mines are small, and sometimes hard to see when they are lying around
waiting to be picked up (or set off). These items are also useful against undead
creatures.
A note about setting mines: You set a mine just like you "use" most items in
Thief...you call it up in your inventory, and right click. Unfortunately, when
you set the mine, you tend to "throw" it a distance from yourself, and it
bounces and slides around for a short time before finally stopping and arming
itself. Unless you are VERY good at predicting where it will land, your best bet
for setting a mine precisely is this: Look down until you are looking STRAIGHT
down, as far as you can, then right click. The mine falls at your feet, and
stays there. A word of caution: Once you've set a mine, you CAN trigger it
yourself. BE CAREFUL!
Another interesting point about these items. If there is one set, you can
trigger them without going near. I've fired Broadhead Arrows at them and had
them go off, although you have to actually HIT the mine...the motion of the
arrow flying by is not sufficient to alert the Mine's motion detectors.
3.9.12: Gas Mines
=================
No information as of yet. (I haven't found any so far.)
3.10: Cheats
===========
What? You want to CHEAT?? You want to deprive yourself of the experience of
playing and winning this game on your own??? WHY?!?!?!
The following cheats are known (note that I have only tried two of them
personally):
To skip the current mission and move on to the next one, press CTRL-ALT-SHIFT-
END. (I have tried this one, and it works.)
To start a new game at a mission other than Lord Bafford's Manor, put the line
"starting_mission X" in your dark.cfg file, where X is the mission number you
wish to start at.
For extra money, add the line "cash_bonus" to your dark.cfg file. If set to an
integer, that value will be added to your loot total for loadout purposes (the
before-mission screen where you buy equipment is the loadout screen).
This next one isn't really a cheat, per se. In your dark.cfg file, you'll see
the following lines:
vismeter_zoom 110 ; zoom vis meter in
hpbar_zoom 110 ; zoom hp bar in
Changing the 110 to a 90 shrinks the size of the gem and health shields and
gives you more visible area on the screen.
NOTE: Regarding the last one (vismeter_zoom and hpbar_zoom). When I went to
experiment with this in Thief Gold, the values for these two variables were not
110, they were 60. I do not know why. Perhaps this is affected by the resolution
you are playing the game at, or perhaps they made a change in the conversion to
Thief Gold. However, when I changed the 60 to a 30, the size of my shield's and
gem INCREASED. Changing these values to 110 DECREASED their size.
Thief Gold Secret Missions: Please note that I have not tried either of these
ones myself yet, and have not confirmed that they work.
1st Secret Mission: Install DROMED from the first Thief Gold CD. Start it, and
open mission 18. After it loads, press ALT+G to enter the game.
2nd Secret Mission: Use a text editor to edit the game's user.cfg file, found in
the Thief Gold root directory. Add the lines:
play
starting_mission 16
With that done, run Thief Gold and start a new mission. This will launch the
secret bloopers mission.
Section 4: A Keeper's Training (Training Mission)
=================================================
My best time on Expert: 2 minutes, 46 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 50
Note: I have played this particular "mission" on all three difficulties, and the
only difference I know of is the Secret Area: It is only available on the Expert
setting. Also, my best time here is actually the same best time for the original
Thief game. I managed a tie, but haven't beaten it yet. :(
4.1: Introduction
=================
"The essence of balance is detachment. To embrace a cause, to grow fond or
spiteful, is to lose one's balance, after which, no action can be trusted. Our
burden is not for the dependent of spirit."
-- Mayar, Third Keeper
I was a kid. No parents, no home. Running messages and picking pockets to keep
my ribs from meeting my spine. One night I saw a man...folks just passed him by
like he wasn't there. I thought he must have something valuable, so I snuck up
on him and made a grab.
"Ugh!"
"That's not for you."
"Please, sir, I'm hungry. Don't tell the Hammers, I promise..."
"What is your name, boy?"
"Garrett."
"You have talent, lad."
"Let go of me, old man!"
"To see a Keeper is not an easy thing. Especially one who does not wish to be
seen. We have a need for those as gifted as yourself. If you've grown tired of
how you live, then follow me, and we will show you a different way."
"Leave me alone!"
"As you wish."
I caught up with him just before he vanished into the crowd. It was the
beginning of a very long education....
4.2: Objectives
===============
Your objectives for this mission do not change based on your difficulty level.
1. Follow the directions of your instructor in order to pass the
training tests.
NOTE: The in-mission objectives appear identical to the pre-mission objectives.
There is no simplified version.
4.3: Before The Mission
=======================
What You'll Encounter: Human Guard (Swordsman).
You start this mission with nothing but your shadowy clothing, and no
opportunity to purchase anything.
4.4: Walkthrough
================
A walkthrough is not really necessary for this mission. Instead, I will point
out a few things of interest.
1: Dark Room - This is the room where you have to make it to the other side
without being seen. It is not actually necessary to wait for your instructor to
stop speaking before beginning this section. If you stand on the bottom step,
you can successfully jump over the short wall keeping you from entering the
room. Jump off to the right, where it is darkest.
2: Quiet Room - This is the room where you have to make it to the other side
without being heard. Again, it is not necessary to wait for your instructor.
Jump over the barrier, but this time jump to the left (while not actually
necessary, jumping to the left will keep you from having to turn and backtrack,
thus allowing you to shave some time off your final clock score). Note that it
is much more difficult to successfully jump here then in the Dark Room.
When you get near the end of the room, instead of turning right to avoid the
metal grating, try jumping over it and landing on the stairs. They are carpeted,
and you can manage this without attracting your trainer's attention.
3: Sparring Room - This is the room with the targets, the dummy, and the
sparring area. Try to pick up your sword first, then your bow, so that the bow
is readied automatically. Move down to the targets, and shoot off an arrow.
Then, turn 180 degrees, draw your sword, and attack the dummy. You will have to
keep attacking it until you have successfully connected with a left swing, a
right swing, and an overhead swing. (If you're interested in taking another
second or two off of your final clock score, try approaching the dummy with an
overhead swing at the ready.) Once this is done, you will spar with a guard.
(Note that in this combat, you cannot kill the guard, nor can he injure you.)
Once you've sparred a bit, you can leave the circle, and pick up the items off
the table. (Note that, even though your instructor tells you to pick up ALL the
items, it is not required...you can simply pick up the key alone and proceed
from there.)
This part was a bit tricky for me, when I was trying to get through with the
shortest time possible. I would spar for a bit, then go to the table, but the
items were not there. Go back and spar, check the table again. I suspect this
was a problem because the instructor was still talking to me about shooting the
bow or attacking the dummy. I am not entirely sure what criteria need to be met
before the items appear on the table, but it seems like you have to keep hitting
the guard until you get his attention (ie: he starts fighting back).
NOTE: Although unnecessary, you CAN get into the target range area. Simply walk
along the wall which parallels the stairscase, aim yourself at the target area,
run and jump. You should land in the grassy area with no trouble. In here, you
can pick up your arrows that you've shot.
Another unnecessary-to-get-to-but-fun-nonetheless area is the balcony. Using a
running jump, jump onto the window ledge to the right of the table where you
find your sword and bow. Once there, do another running jump towards the ledge
you can see out a distance. Hold down your mantle key, and you will pull
yourself up onto this ledge. Sometimes, you will land on the tree instead of
completing your jump. Simply jump again from there, and you should have no
trouble.
4: The Basketball Court - This is a secret area. Once you have finished sparring
with the guard, go to the table and pick up the key. Then, follow the guard out
(or run past him) before the exit is blocked off. You may need to fire an arrow
at the guard to slow him down in order to do this. Keep going until you come to
a door. Unlock it with your key, and you will find the basketball court. Try
shooting the ball through a basket. As far as I know, you don't get anything for
doing so, but it's a fun diversion. :)
Also, in the far corner is a bedroll. Pick it up and examine it, and you will
get to read some of the quotations overheard while the game was being programmed
("Quotes from the Dark Team during the development of Thief: The Dark Project").
Some of it is quite amusing. :)
Note that it is not necessary to get to this area. There are no bonuses that
affect the game whatsoever, as far as I can tell.
5: Mantle Room - This "room" is outdoors. Once you've done your running jump
across the gap over the river, you have to pull yourself up (mantle) onto a
block. In this room, you can manage to get yourself onto the roof. At the end of
the path you are walking on, instead of falling, jump forward and LAND on the
red beam which the rope descends from. From here, take a running jump, and
you'll land on the roof. The only problem is, you can't stay there...you fall
off in a few seconds.
There is no reason to do this, other than for your own personal edification. It
contributes nothing to your game that I know of. Note that the same method can
be used in the other rope-room (the jump-across-the-gap room) to get on the roof
there.
6: Final Room - This is the room beyond the red door. After entering, you will
hear yourself (Garrett) thinking about his (your) plans. Run down to the end of
the hall, and you will find a table with a golden vase on it. Pick it up. It
will give you another 50 gold pieces with which to purchase items for the next
(first) mission.
Game Bug: You are supposed to start the next (first) mission with 300 gold, or
350 if you picked up the vase. HOWEVER, if you do this little trick, you can
start with more. Save your game just before the end of the training mission.
Now, finish the mission, but instead of continuing, reload and finish again.
Each time you do this, the game apparently adds 300 (or 350, if you grabbed the
vase) to the total amount you had PREVIOUSLY. So, go in, grab the vase, and you
start with 350. Reload, go in, grab the vase, and instead of starting with 350,
you get 350 ADDED to the previous 350...700. Reload again, you start with 1,050.
Keep doing this as much as you feel like it. (Note that once you have 1,200 or
more, you can buy everything available for the next mission.)
Section 5: Lord Bafford's Manor (Mission 1)
===========================================
My best time on expert: 13 minutes, 25 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 1429
5.1: Introduction
=================
"The most promising acolyte left us, not out of the lesser folly of sentiment,
but the greater folly of anger. His heart was clouded, and his balance was lost,
but his abilities were unmatched. Even then, we knew to watch him most
carefully."
-- Keeper Annals
I have a simple job planned for this evening. Break into a guarded mansion,
steal another fat nobleman's priceless trinket, and leave quietly. Lord Bafford
is out of town, and rumour has it that the captain of his house guard went with
him, as a bodyguard. The time is ripe for a bit of burglary.
The front gate of Lord Bafford's manor is always guarded, and the main street is
far too exposed. But Cutty tells me there's a better way in....around to the
side, more out of the way. One guard, and likely no witnesses to...complicate
matters.
The piece Cutty wants is a scepter...silver, jewels, the usual adornments. It
should command a high price. Bafford, like most of his kind, probably keeps his
treasures on the top floor of the place. Close to his heart...and far from his
servants.
No point in waiting. I have Cutty's old sketches of the place, and everyone
who's going to be asleep inside already is. It's time to begin....
5.2: Objectives: Normal
=======================
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor and case the place. The well house
in back is your best bet, if you can get the key from the guard --
blackjacking or pickpocketing him would be quietest.
2. Find Lord Bafford's prized jeweled scepter, and redistribute it...to
yourself. Try to do it without causing too much commotion.
5.3: Objectives: Hard
=====================
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor and case the place. The well house
in back is your best bet, if you can get the key from the guard --
blackjacking or pickpocketing him would be quietest.
2. Find Lord Bafford's prized jeweled scepter, and redistribute it...to
yourself. Try to do it without causing too much commotion.
3. In addition to pinching the scepter, steal 350 worth of valuables
while you're in the manor.
4. Don't kill any of the servants; they're harmless.
5. Once you've achieved your other objectives, get out of the manor
house and back to the city streets.
5.4: Objectives: Expert
=======================
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor and case the place. The well house
in back is your best bet, if you can get the key from the guard --
blackjacking or pickpocketing him would be quietest.
2. Find Lord Bafford's prized jeweled scepter, and redistribute it...to
yourself. Try to do it without causing too much commotion.
3. In addition to pinching the scepter, steal 700 worth of valuables
while you're in the manor.
4. Don't kill anyone while you do the job. No servants, no guards, no
pets...no one.
5. Once you've achieved your other objectives, get out of the manor
house and back to the city streets.
5.5: Simplified Objectives
==========================
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor, ideally by blackjacking or
pickpocketing the well house guard, for his key and case the place.
2. Steal the jewelled scepter with as little notice as possible.
3. Grab 700 in loot while you're in the manor.
4. Don't kill anyone.
5. Return to the city streets.
5.6: Before The Mission
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What You'll Encounter: Human Guards (Swordsmen and Archers), Spiders.
Starting Funds: 300, or 350 if you grabbed the vase at the end of the training
mission. (Also, see the note at the end of Section 4.3.) If you did not do the
training mission, your starting funds are 300.
Starting Gear:
1 Sword
1 Blackjack
36 Broadhead Arrows
8 Water Arrows
1 Healing Potion
Items for Sale:
20 Broadhead Arrows (Cost: 25 each)
4 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
2 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
Since it is entirely possible to finish this mission using nothing but your
blackjack and a Flash Bomb (or your blackjack and four or five Water Arrows),
you can get away with buying NOTHING. You start with everything you need (except
Flash Bombs, which you find inside the Manor). Since you can't kill anyone, you
will not be getting into any fights, so buying Healing Potions is useless,
unless you plan to submerge yourself for too long under water, or stick around
when the Spiders are biting you. (Also, you find one almost immediately after
entering the Manor.) However, if you wish to spend your money (remember, it
doesn't carry over to the next mission), you may want to spend it on Water
Arrows, to maximize your chances of hiding in certain areas.
Recommended Purchases: 4 Water Arrows. Total Cost: 200
5.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
=================================
While this mission is pretty straightforward, there are some things worth
mentioning. Most notably, in the beginning section, unless you have a weapon
bared, everyone seems to ignore you. You can run all the way to where you want
to go, and not worry about hiding in shadows. This includes the drunk guard
outside the wellhouse. You can run right up behind him and no one seems to care.
At the top level of the Manor, there are two entrances into a garden area, with
stairs up to some stone walkways. On this upper level, there are banners hanging
in the corners. If you follow this walkthrough, then you want to enter the
garden from the entrance on the OPPOSITE side from where you come into this
level (ie: you climb the stairs after clubbing a guard, enter the hallway, and
turn left...on your right is a garden entrance...you want the other one). Climb
the stairs, and there should be a banner facing you. Ignore it, turn right
around, and move to the banner at the far end. Whip out your sword and cut this
banner down to reveal a secret passage. Follow it to the end, and you will find
yourself in the room just outside the throne room, with the lone guard standing
there. From here, you can jump down and club him with your blackjack (a
difficult procedure). I do NOT recommend this method however, as doing so can
attract the patrolling guards outside this room, unless you've dealt with them
already. And without Rope Arrows, you will have to leave the room into the
hallway where the guards patrol, with them still moving about!
When playing Thief Gold, I discovered that using the secret entrance mentioned
above, I could take out all the torches in the room below, then fall down onto
the carpet and not be noticed. I do not know if this also works in the original
Thief game or not.
5.8: Walkthrough
================
You start off facing the house you plan to burgle. However, this entrance is
guarded too well for you to attempt entry. Turn to your right, until you are
facing down the street, and move ahead. Ignore your first turning to the
left...continue on ahead. Follow this path for a while. Pass by the clock...now,
just past the lamppost, the street starts to rise. Once you are on the rise,
turn to your left, and you'll see a little alcove. Hidden inside this alcove are
some arrows: 12 Broadheads and 4 Water Arrows (you will have to look down or
back up to see the Water Arrows). [NOTE: You can probably ignore these
arrows...I find that I get through the entire mission with only using at most 5
Water Arrows, and none of the Broadheads.]
[NOTE: At some point around here, a servant will come walking down the street.
Hide from him, or don't, or blackjack him if you like. I have never found that
doing ANYTHING with this particular individual changes the game.]
Continue up the street. Shortly you will find a sewer entrance. Climb down the
ladder into the sewer. Move forward, and take the first right. When you reach
the four-way junction, continue straight ahead. There will be a left-hand turn.
Once you've taken that turn, stop before reaching the next intersection (which
is just ahead). Turn right, and you'll see a door. Go through it, turn to the
right. There is a lever in the wall here. Go up to it and pull it. Turn around,
but before you leave, look down and search the floor. Someone dropped some
treasure here for you. Pick it up, it's worth 200 to you (Treasure Count: 200).
Now, leave the way you came.
Once out in the sewer again, turn right and proceed ahead. Now, turn right, and
follow this tunnel. Climb up this ladder, and exit the sewers.
Turn left once you're out. This is the way you want to go, but be
careful....there is a patrolling guard in the area as well as the drunken lout
attempting to sing. (You'll want to start walking here, if you've been running
up until now.) Sneak behind Sinatra, and filch the key from his belt. Turn
around, and use the key on this door to unlock it. Go through, and you're in the
wellhouse. Jump up onto the edge, and then dive in.
Once you surface, turn to face the direction that the water flow is moving you
in. Move forward (you can still run), until you enter a circular room with water
dripping down. Turn to your left, nearly 180 degrees, and swim down to the
opening below. Swim through the tunnel, then surface. You're in a small pool
with some floating barrels. Turn until you see a chest guarded by some spiders.
Now, turn again, and climb out of the pool on a side with no spiders on it. Look
down, then run over to the chest. Open it, get the ring out of it (100, Treasure
Count: 300), and then get back in the water fast before the spiders start
attacking. Once in the pool, swim back out the way you came.
[Note: You can kill these spiders without penalty. Broadheads work best,
although after killing some of them, the others start coming after you, and you
pretty much have to rely on your sword, which is hard to use against them.
Alternatively, I've been told that by standing on the sloping side of the area,
and jumping up and down, you can lure the spiders into drowning themselves. All
in all, if you're after the best possible time, the run-through-them method is
fastest.]
Back in the circular room with dripping water, continue following the flow until
you see a climbable area on your right (quite a ways down the tunnel). It will
be better lit than the other areas down here. Climb into the room with the
barrels, and you've entered Lord Bafford's basement. Go through the door. (I'd
start walking now if I were you.)
Once you open the door, there is a chest partway across the room, almost
directly ahead. It contains a healing potion. Once you have that, turn left, and
head towards the exit. Uh oh! Voices! Hug the wall, and listen until the guards
move away.
After about two seconds, ease yourself out of the exit by moving sideways, and
sneak forward after the guard ahead (the other guard will not be able to see
your cross the lighted area). Once you're close enough, use your blackjack
against his skull. [Note: Since this area is pretty dark, you SHOULD be able to
leave the body here without anyone noticing it.] Now, move forward, turn right
up ahead, and follow this passage into the Manor proper.
You should now be walking on carpet. Turn left, and walk forward, towards a
lighted archway you can see up ahead. You will hear your footsteps become quite
loud as you walk over some metal grating, but it appears that no one can hear
you when you do so.
[If you find that someone DOES hear you (although it has not happened to me),
try the following instead: Instead of turning left upon entering this room, head
towards the doorway that has a lit torch in it. Once you go through it, turn to
your left, and move through the exit you see ahead.]
Just inside this corridor is a chest. Inside you'll find two Flash Bombs. Now,
turn left, and head down this corridor to the stairs, and take the stairs all
the way to the top.
At the top, you should see an exit. However, in this room, directly across from
the exit, are two more chests for you. One is flat on the floor, the other
propped against the wall. Open the propped one to find a stack of coins (5,
Treasure Count: 305). Ignore the other one, it contains a vase that makes a LOUD
noise when you drop it. Turn around and exit the room. Then turn right, and move
forward, past the first hallway on your right, past the room with sleeping
beauty, and turn at the next right. At the end of this hallway, you can turn
either left or right. Take the right, and enter the dead end.
Turn to your left, and there's a door to the kitchen here. Enter, and you should
see some shelves in front of you. On the top one is a golden vase (100, Treasure
Count: 405). Be careful in here! There is a servant preparing a meal. Leave the
way you came.
Once you're back out through the door, turn right and follow the corridor all
the way, and turn right. As before, this should end at a darkened area with a
door.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is a patrol area. There is a guard SOMEWHERE behind this
door, walking his rounds. We want to give to him the gift of slumber.
Open the door. With luck, your timing will be such that he is just ahead of you,
walking away. (If he's walking towards you, he may just see you and attack....I
hope you saved your game!) If he's not there, then wait for him. You'll see him
before he sees you. Once you see him coming around the corner ahead, wait for
him to approach and turn around. As long as you are hidden in the shadows, you
will not need to shut the door while you wait. Once he's turned, sneak up behind
him and send him to dreamland. Now, go forward into the next room, turn left,
and take the SECOND left you see...it should lead into a carpeted area. Head
down to the end of this area just BEFORE the doorway. This is where we wait for
the next guard. (You may want to save here, too.)
If you're feeling daring, you can peer around the corner and watch for him. Note
that it is possible to position yourself so that when the guard makes his turn,
you catch just a glimpse of him. (Be careful here...there's a servant that
sometimes walks through this area.) The guard you're waiting for will be coming
through the door directly across from you. When it opens, jump back, and wait.
Listen to his footsteps. Once they start receding, you can sneak out, and bruise
this guard's ego with your blackjack. (Alternatively, instead of relying on your
ears, which I find is not always accurate, turn around and head back so you're
looking out of the room from the entrance you came in from. This way, you'll see
the guard walking away from you, and you can sneak up on him then.)
Okay, I'm a bit turned around here now, and you might be too. So use your
compass. You want to be in the room where you KO'd the last guard, and you want
to head west. At the end of this room you should find a set of stairs leading up
into a small, circular room. Take them. In this room on a bookshelf is another
gold vase (100, Treasure Count: 505).
Ignore the other set of stairs. Turn around and go out the way you came. Once
you're back in the other room, you should see two metal doors: one across from
you, and one in the wall to your left. Go through the left one. In this room,
turn to your right, and at the end there will be a bench, with a goblet sitting
on it. Take the goblet. (15, Treasure Count: 520). Leave the room the way you
came, and now head through the other metal door you noted previously. (You may
wish to save your game again, to avoid the roaming servant.)
Head to the other exit of this room, but before you reach it, turn to the right
and examine the items on the shelf...there are two you are interested in. A gold
plate (50, Treasure Count: 570) and a gold carafe (50, Treasure Count: 620).
Now, leave through the new exit, and you will find yourself in another large
room like the patrolled one before.
There is a door in the wall to your left. Go through it, and head down to the
end. On a table to your left, you will find a stack of coins (12, Treasure
Count: 632).
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is another patrol area, and it could get interesting here.
Leave this room the way you came in. In large room your in now, you should see
an exit on your left with some stairs. Take this. Before getting to the top of
these stairs though, stop. Pull out your bow and extinguish the torch with a
water arrow. Now, enter the room, hugging the right wall, until you come to the
opening with the stairs leading up. Wait here. (Be sure you are waiting on the
RIGHT hand side (as you're facing the staircase)....while I've successfully done
this on the left hand side, it only worked once.) Eventually, a guard will come
down the stairs. Consider him blackjack practice.
Once the guard is unconscious, head to the opposite end of the room, between two
tables, where you'll find a chest. Inside is a bottle of wine (50, Treasure
Count: 682).
Note: If you're fast enough, you MIGHT be able to knock the guard above out
without extinguishing the torch first. (I have done so once.)
SAVE YOUR GAME! You may want to start saving your game at regular intervals now,
if you haven't already. The uppermost floor here is patrolled, in several areas.
Go up the staircase, then turn right and go down the smaller stairs into a
hallway. Turn left, and go through door at the end into the library.
In here there are a few items of interest, but most can be ignored. The one that
you are interested in is on a table against the wall, the furthest one from
where you entered (200, Treasure Count: 882). Now, go through the door opposite
the one you entered, and be ready for some fancy legerdemain.
[NOTE: In the library, you can find a scroll which is a report to Lord Bafford
from one of his underlings. It mentions that the person was unable to find any
information regarding someone named Victoria. You will meet her later in the
game.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! In this hallway, there are two Captains patrolling. If you see
one approaching, just wait...he can't see you. As he gets closer, he'll turn and
go down another corrider. Watch him...when he turns again, that's about the time
the next guard enters this hallway at the far end. NOW is when you want to move.
Move forward, towards the lighted doorway, and hide in the shadows to one side.
Now wait. When this Captain comes through, remove the key from his belt. Now
wait. The second one will be coming along shortly. Remove the key from HIS belt.
Wait again. When the next one (actually the first Captain who's key you lifted)
comes around, club him. After you've hidden the body (be quick about it!) return
to your hiding spot, and take out the second returning Captain when he returns.
[NOTE: If you want to speed things up a bit, and don't care about picking
pockets, you can simply club these two the first time through, then get their
keys while they're unconscious. But I like to be thorough. :) ]
Okay, time for some more pilfering. Turn back the way you came...you may have
noted a door in the wall as you came down here. Open it, and step inside.
Against the left hand wall is a table, upon which sits a bracelet (125, Treasure
Count: 1007), and four stacks of coins (12, 12, 12, 12, Treasure Count: 1019,
1031, 1043, 1055). Now, leave this room.
Remember when you watched the first guard approach, then turn? Well, you want to
go down that corridor now. When you reach the end, turn left, and stop when you
come to two doorways, one on either side of you. Take the one on the right. This
is a fairly long trip with a few turns, but no choices. So just continue on down
until you come to a doorway through which you can see a tile floor. Move into
that room. Turn to your right, and you should see a key on the wall. Grab it.
Now look down, and open the chest at your feet. You should find a bottle of wine
(50, Treasure Count: 1105). There's also a book on the table if you'd like to
peruse it, but it's not necessary. Leave the way you came, taking that long
journey back.
At the top, enter the corridor again, but go through the next door into the
bathing room. Move around the bath (either side, it doesn't matter), and exit
the room through the door opposite the one you entered. Across from you, you
should see a small, circular area at the bottom of a few steps, with two doors.
Enter that area.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Open one of the doors (you will need one of the keys you picked
from the wandering guards). It doesn't matter which door you open. Sneak inside,
and look into the next room. There is a lone Captain on guard in there. From
your position here, use water arrows to take out two of the torches. Now, leave
the way you came, and go through the other door you DIDN'T go through the first
time. Take out the remaining two torches with two more water arrows. Now that
the room is in darkness, sneak up behind the Captain. The floor is alternatively
carpet and tile, so he may hear you a couple of times. Just wait until he stops
looking for you before continuing. Once you're close enough to him, lift the key
from his belt. You should also be close enough, or just about, to use your
blackjack on him. Do so. [NOTE: One time, for some reason, I could not get close
enough to blackjack him. He always heard me and called for help. If that happens
to you, wait until he's facing off to the side, and throw a flashbomb there.
Then you can send him off to sleep with your blackjack. Alternatively, leaning
may also bring you within range to club him.]
[NOTE: An alternative method to the above is, instead of using water arrows to
douse the flames, just throw a flashbomb into the room. Be sure he's looking
toward you when you do it. While he's disoriented, run up and club him. While
faster, and uses fewer arrows, you don't get the "honourable mention" of picking
his pocket.]
With the Captain properly dispatched, go through the door he was guarding. To
the left, on a shelf, is the object of your quest: Lord Bafford's prized jeweled
scepter. Liberate it.
Go back to the circular room with the two doors, and climb up the steps back
into the corridor. Turn left, and move forward until you find a door on your
left. Go through it. Inside, to your right, is a table against the wall. In the
centre of this table you should find two bottles of wine (50, 50, Treasure
Count: 1155, 1205). Now leave the room, turn left, and go forward until you find
the door on your right. Go through it.
In this room, there is a door directly opposite the one you entered. To your
left, against the wall that contains that door, is a shelving unit with a candle
on top. Go there, and you will find what is probably the hardest treasure to
find on this mission: a ring (100, Treasure Count: 1305).
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another patrol area. Sometimes when you open this door, there is
a guard right outside.
Open the door, and if you don't see the guard, wait until you do. If he is
moving away from you, sneak up behnd him and club him. If he starts moving
towards you, close the door. Save your game at that point, and try opening the
door periodically to see if he's turned around yet. When he does, put him to
sleep.
Once the guard is taken care of, move down this hallway. Take the first left
(stairs flanked by statues). On the table in this room you will find another
gold vase (100, Treasure Count: 1405). Turn around, and go back down the stairs
you entered by. Turn left, follow the corridor to the end, then turn right. Walk
forward until you find the first opening on the left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a guard past this opening that patrols between two
rooms. Once he's out of sight, enter the room, turn left, and take the stairs
up. Work your way around the debris to a chest at the far side. Inside you'll
find a stack of coins (12, Treasure Count: 1417). Go down the stairs, watching
out for the guard, and exit the way you came in.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Turn left, head down the hallway. Ignore the first opening on
your left. Go instead to the second one. This is like the previous room, with a
guard patrolling. When he's out of sight, enter the room, and climb the stairs
on the right. Up here are some bunkbeds, with a chest for each. You want the far
chest on your right hand side. It holds another stack of coins (12, Treasure
Count: 1429). Go down the stairs, watching out for the guard, and exit the way
you entered.
In the hallway you've just entered, turn left. Move forward, and take the right
turn. Continue forward until you can turn left, and then do so. Up these stairs,
turn left, and go down the flight of stairs here. (These are the ones you
entered the upper level by.) In the room at the bottom, turn left, go down the
stairs into the large room below, and turn left again.
Enter the first room on your left here. There are two paths to take here...one
goes back into the manor again, the other leads out. If you can see it, you want
to head towards a lever in the wall, right next to a torch. Pull the lever, then
continue on in the same direction. The lever has opened an exit to the street.
Once you're on the street, you've completed all your tasks. Congratulations!
Section 6: Break from Cragscleft Prison (Mission 2)
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My best time on expert: 45 minutes, 44 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 1688
6.1: Introduction
=================
"Before death came, the liars were made to feast upon the hands of the thieves,
and the thieves were made to ingest the tongues of their liar brothers, and we
praised the Master Builder for his judgements."
-- The Hammer Book of Tenets
I went to Cutty's place to deliver the scepter, but Cutty wasn't there. He'd
been arrested by the Hammerites. Apparently they didn't approve of his
occupation, and I doubt they approve of mine. So hopefully they'll never catch
sight of me when I break him out of their prison. Which is what I'm going to do.
Their holding Cutty in a mining complex carved out of a quarry. The quarry's
flooded, but the Hammers still work the top level mines, and have converted part
of the complex into a penitentiary for those who..."violate" their tenets.
An associate of mine was confined there, and has provided me with a map. It
would be difficult to get in by way of the main gate, but there is another
option. The mines break the surface of a hill south of the quarry. I'll drop
into the mines and head for the prison, which will be found somewhere uphill and
to the north. The Hammers don't venture into these lower mine levels because
they're reputed to be haunted.
I'd rather not have to do this job, but Cutty's a reliable fence, and I don't
appreciate the Hammerites abducting him. And he owes me money for the Bafford
job....
6.2: Objectives: Normal
=======================
1. Your map doesn't show the way through the mines, so you're going to
have to scout around to make your way to where they hold the
prisoners.
2. Cutty still owes you for the Bafford job. Break him out, and you'll
get your cash.
6.3: Objectives: Hard
=====================
1. Your map doesn't show the way through the mines, so you're going to
have to scout around to make your way to where they hold the
prisoners.
2. Cutty still owes you for the Bafford job. Break him out, and you'll
get your cash.
3. Issyt the Beggar borrowed your lucky hand of glory and, knowing him,
probably hid it from the Hammers' body search in ways you'd rather
not think about. Get it back!
4. There's bound to be some pricy religious icons in any Hammer
complex. Try to come out with at least 500 worth of their stuff.
5. Escape from the prison with Cutty.
6.4: Objectives: Expert
=======================
1. Your map doesn't show the way through the mines, so you're going to
have to scout around to make your way to where they hold the
prisoners.
2. Cutty still owes you for the Bafford job. Break him out, and you'll
get your cash.
3. You've had your eye on Basso the Boxman's sister for a while now. If
you break him out of Cragscleft, she'll probably be VERY grateful.
4. Issyt the Beggar borrowed your lucky hand of glory and, knowing him,
probably hid it from the Hammers' body search in ways you'd rather
not think about. Get it back!
5. There's bound to be some pricy religious icons in any Hammer
complex. Try to come out with at least 1000 worth of their stuff.
6. Escape from the prison with Cutty and Basso the Boxman.
7. A true professional doesn't leave a mess. Don't kill anyone!
6.5: Simplified Objectives
==========================
1. Sneak through the mines and factory to the Hammer prison.
2. Locate and release Cutty.
3. Locate and release Basso the Boxman.
4. Locate Issyt the Beggar and get your lucky hand of glory back.
5. Loot the complex for valuables. Need 1,000 total loot.
6. Escape from the prison with Cutty and Basso the Boxman.
7. Don't kill anyone!
NOTE: The objective of "Don't Kill Anyone" only seems to apply to humans (ie:
Hammerites, Prisoners, etc.). It does NOT apply to Spiders or Zombies.
6.6: Before The Mission
=======================
What You'll Encounter: Zombies, Fly Swarms, Spiders, Hammerite Guards (including
Swordsmen, Hammer-Wielders, and Priests).
Starting Funds: Whatever you managed to steal from Lord Bafford's Manor.
(Maximum possible: 1429.)
Starting Gear:
20 Broadhead Arrows
5 Water Arrows
1 Noisemaker Arrow
Items for Sale:
20 Broadhead Arrows (Cost: 25 each)
15 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
2 Moss Arrows (Cost: 125 each)
2 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
2 Speed Potions (Cost: 500 each)
1 Tip (Cost: 100)
1 Hot Tip (Cost: 300)
NOTE: I do not know why your sword and blackjack are not shown under the
"Starting Gear" for this mission. Fear not, you DO have them both.
The Hot Tip is useless...it gives you information that you will eventually find
on your own during the mission. The Tip, while nice to know, is also useless to
you, because I'm going to tell you what BOTH of them say anyways! :)
Tip: Word on the street is that the Hammers are eager to take back the top level
of the haunted mines, because there's a specially-blessed holy water font there.
Hot Tip: According to Dikket, a "heretic" who was recently let out of
Cragscleft, Cutty's being held in cell block four.
For this mission, you will almost certainly want at least one Moss Arrow
(although you can find some in the mines). Depending on how you handle the
Zombies on this mission, you may also want to buy more Water Arrows. If, instead
of destroying the Zombies, you plan to run past them, perhaps a Speed Potion or
two would be in order.
Recommended Purchases: 2 Moss Arrows, 15 Water Arrows. Total Cost: 1000
6.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
=================================
The walkthrough for this mission has been redone, for two reasons: 1) The
original walkthrough contained some areas which were rather difficult to do, and
were taken out and replaced with easier methods; 2) There were a few changes
made to this mission in Thief Gold.
I have been unable to find the the 12th pocket to pick. I know eleven of them.
In the original Thief game, the 12th pocket was the guard you club by the
stained-glass window, but in Thief Gold, he no longer carries an item to filch.
If anyone can tell me where the 12th pocket to pick is in Thief Gold, please let
me know!
A note regarding your stats at the end of the mission: When I completed the
mission, I had the following confusing stats shown:
"Innocents Killed: None, and Others Killed: 1"
After some experimentation, I concluded that the one enemy it says I "killed"
was the rotating sensor in one of the guardrooms!
6.8: Walkthrough
================
You start facing an entrance into the mines that is below the waterline. Enter
the water, and head for the tunnel. Once you are completely submerged, stop,
look down, and move towards the floor. You will find a diamond there (35,
Treasure Count: 35). Fix your view so you are looking forward again, and push on
ahead. The tunnel turns to the right, and you will need to look down again to
continue on your way. From here on, follow the tunnel until you emerge from the
water into a dark mine area. Ahead of you, you should see a small swarm of flies
in a dimly lit area. Move forward, towards the flies (which you will now see are
circling over a corpse).
There are two ways that you can proceed here. The first way is suggested to you
only if you're interested in obtaining a few more Moss Arrows. If you are not
interested in that, then skip down to the paragraph that starts "Head towards
the corpse...".
Get on the track to the left of the corpse, and move forward. Take the first
left you come to. Follow this path all the way, until you can go either left or
right. Turn right, and you should be facing a large hole with some sort of an
elevator platform in it. Move forward...you want to get to the edge of the hole,
but not fall the entire way. Standing on this semi-ledge, looking down, you
should see a spider. From up here, you can take aim with your bow and skewer him
with a single shot. (Save your game if you like to preserve your arrows, just in
case your first shot miss...I usually need three or so before I get the aim
right.) Once the spider is dead, fix your view ahead again. Hop onto the
platform. There is a box with buttons on it right in front of you. Push the
bottom button, and the lift will take you down to where the spider was. Turn
until you are facing a tunnel that goes downwards. Follow it to the end, where
you will find 2 Moss Arrows. Turn around, go back to the platform, get on, and
push the second button from the bottom. This will take you back up to the
previous level.
Once the lift has stopped, turn so that the box is directly behind you. Facing
the track, move forward, and jump so you are back on solid ground again. Now,
move forward and take the left turn. Follow this tunnel until you can turn
either left or right. Turn right, and move forward. You should now be back in
the entrance area with the flies and corpse.
Head towards the corpse, but take the tunnel to the right of it. Move past the
crate, and underneath the next lamp, look down. On the ground you should find a
silver nugget (50, Treasure Count: 85) and a gold nugget (100, Treasure Count:
185). Now, continue moving forward, and you will come to a rise. Continue until
you top the rise. You should find yourself on some tracks, at a crossroads. Turn
to your right, and move forward into the next room.
SAVE YOUR GAME! That's a Corpse-Zombie on the floor, but will not awaken if you
don't get too close. To your right is an opening in the wall. Hug the wall until
you can get into the opening. Once in, follow the tunnel, and you will come to a
room with three corpses in it. Again, be careful...one of them is a Corpse-
Zombie. To your left you should see a lighted area above. This is where you want
to go. Hug the wall, moving forward (the funny-looking corpse dead ahead is NOT
the Corpse-Zombie). Once you're at the end, hold down the spacebar to climb up
onto the ledge. Now, ahead, you will see an area straight ahead, and one to your
left. It is to the left that you want to go. Jump up, move forward, until you
are in this area.
Long way down, isn't it? But you need to get across, and the bridge is out. Turn
to the left, and you should see a room of sorts, and a ledge. You want to jump
onto this ledge. Once you've done that, move carefully into the room. There's a
big hole here, so be careful.
Looking across the hole, you should see a silver nugget. Leap across the hole to
get it (you may want to slide over to an area where the whole is not quite so
wide). (50, Treasure Count: 235.) Then, turn around, facing the direction you
just came. There is a large square hole in the wall, next to the entrance you
used to get here. Jump across to his opening, and pull yourself up into it. Turn
to the right, and move forward, so that you are standing on another portion of
the bridge.
SAVE YOUR GAME! I've taken the plunge here on more than one occassion. You want
to jump up onto one of the rails. As you face across to the other side of what
was once a bridge, it is the left rail you want. (NOTE: You want the rail on the
section you are currently on, NOT the one across from you!) Face the rail you
want, then back up until the other rail blocks your progress. Then, move
forward, and jump onto the rail. Now, turn to your left, and climb up onto the
outcropping. Move forward, and the ground will start to rise up.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is a patrol area of Zombies! There are at least four
Zombies roaming this area. You can do this area a number of ways:
1: You can sneak through the area, hiding when you need to. While this will
probably take less time, it is not recommended, as you will have to come back
this way later, and you will not be in much of a condition to run, hide, jump,
etc. while being chased by Zombies.
2: From the position where you are, run forward, past the hole (we'll come back
to the hole), and take the first left. This area is an old church, and there is
a Holy Water Font here.
3: If you can lure the Zombies into the water area, and can get the Zombies to
follow you INTO the water, about halfway across the distance, they collapse and
die. I don't know why this is. (When I did this, I was playing version 1.14.
Apparently, it was a bug, and has been fixed in the upgraded versions.) If you
want to try this method, to get to the water area from the church, do the
following: head down the hall leaving the church, then turn right. In the
elevator room, turn left, and follow this passage until you can turn left. Take
this left turn, and follow the tunnel, and take the first right. This passage
will end in a small underground lake.
My method of choice is #2, and that is the one I am describing here.
[Note: In the tunnel directly opposite the hole in the floor, there is a corpse
lying on the ground. It is NOT a Corpse-Zombie.]
Run forward, past the hole in the floor (we'll get to the hole again later), and
take the first left. If you attract the attention of a Zombie along the way, so
much the better, let him follow you. (And if you take the left and find a Zombie
in the corridor ahead, just run past him.) You will find yourself in a church.
In the left hand side of the room, in the furthest corner area, is a holy water
font. Use it, and it will turn all of your Water Arrows into Holy Water Arrows,
but only for 30 seconds. You can use these to kill off the Zombies (each Zombie
requires 2 Holy Water Arrows to kill it). Once you have lured all of the Zombies
in and dealt with them, you should be free to explore the area more completely.
Directly underneath the Holy Water Font is a bottle of Holy Water. Pick it up.
Now, on the same side of the room as the font, but in the other corner area, you
can find a single Water Arrow (this is in front of the fallen font). Also in
this room, directly across from the entrance, you will find a candlestick (50,
Treasure Count: 285) and a golden hammer (75, Treasure Count: 360). Turn around
now, and leave the church. At the end of the hall, turn right, back into the
room with the hole in the floor (where you entered the Zombie area from).
This hole in the floor is the elevator shaft. Go over to the box that you should
be able to see, and press the top button to call up the elevator. (You will have
to get close to the box, and then lean over to hit the button without falling
down the shaft.) While the elevator comes up, turn to the left, and walk down
this hall to the end (where there is a cart underneath a lamp). Turn left here.
Walk down this hall, but hug the wall...when you get close enough, the skeleton
there will shoot his skull at you. Follow this track to the end, then turn left,
and walk forward. You should see a latter up ahead. Climb up the ladder, and
then jump off to the area on the right. Move through the opening you see ahead,
and look down. Take the gold nugget (100, Treasure Count: 460) and the silver
nugget (50, Treasure Count: 510). Turn around, and leave the way you came in.
You will have to drop down to the ground from here.
[Note: Apparently, I am incredibly inept in the art of ladder climbing. I've
been told that simply jumping towards the ladder will allow you to use it to
climb down again. For some reason, I just can't seem to do it.]
Once you're back on the floor level, turn right and move into this area. Turn
left, and you now have two choices. You can either enter the factory from one of
two ways. If you take the left path, you will have to deal with two guards
before climbing the stairs into the factory. This also puts you in a more
difficult position (I think) with one of the other guards. Instead, I suggest
the right hand path.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You may need to reload after this point. Turn right. Use your
holy water to make Holy Water Arrows, and shoot the Corpse-Zombie while it's
still lying there. Turn right, and walk forward until you find a door on the
lefthand wall. Turn to face it.
[NOTE: Destroying the Corpse-Zombie like this draws the attention of some
Hammerites in another nearby section and, if he's close enough, may also draw
the attention of the Hammerite patrolling behind this door.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is a patrol area. There is a Hammerite behind this door,
and he can be annoying. Open the door, and move inside, keeping in the shadows.
If he is in this room already, then he's most likely spotted you. Reload, and
wait for him to leave.
It is very difficult to sneak up and blackjack this Hammerite while he's in the
same room with you. Instead, wait until he's left, then move over near the exit
he took, and wait. He will come back shortly, and when he pokes his ugly hammer
through into the room, club him.
Once he's down, continue on, following the path until it ends at a ladder. Climb
up it, then jump off to the right. There should be an elevator box in here. Push
the lower button, wait for the elevator, then climb on and push the top button.
The elevator will take you up to the factory level.
Get off the elevator and go through the door up ahead. Turn left, down the
stairs, and you're in a room where you can keep going straight, or turn left.
Take the left turn, but be careful. Although you are walking above the
Hammerites working below, if you make too much noise or leave the shadows, they
can spot you! Walk forward, and continue straight on until you can go straight
no further. Turn right here, and again walk forward until you cannot anymore.
Turn right again. Walk forward, staying in the shadows, to the end of the
walkway. You should now be at a dead-end on the catwalk, the only way to go
being a stairway down to your right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part can be very tricky. You should still be facing forward
(the direction you were moving), so the staircase should be on your right. Move
forward and jump up onto the railing in front of you. Once there, look straight
down to the floor far beneath you, and shoot a Moss Arrow there. Once the time
is appropriate (ie: no guards looking in your direction, no one directly beneath
you, etc.), FALL down onto the moss (FALL, do not JUMP!). If you did not change
your facing at all, you should be facing the direction you want to go. Move
forward, turn left, and follow the path to the top of some stairs.
EXPERIMENT AREA: Although I have yet to try it, it seems that perhaps using your
Noisemaker Arrow here to clear the Hammerites out of the room below you might be
an excellent way to accomplish your goal.
Hide in the shadows, and sneak over to the exit ACROSS from the two Hammerites,
and listen to their conversation! AHA! Cutty is in cell block four! Once they
are done chatting, one of them will turn, and head out the exit you are near. As
he passes, lift the key from his belt (you may need to follow him for a little
in order to get close enough). Once you have the key, club him. Now, return to
the other room. While the second Hammerite's back is turned, sneak up to him.
Lift the key from his belt, then use your blackjack on him. Even though he's in
the next room, your blackjack will reach him. Now that the Hammer's are all
asleep, turn around and move through the exit directly opposite from you. (This
will be the exit where you were hiding, listening to the Hammers' conversation.)
EXPERIMENT! If you stick to the shadows, it may be possible to do this mission
without taking out the second Hammerite.
[Note: James Sterrett had this to say regarding the experiment:
You can do this without knocking either of these guys out. (Lifting the
key is helpful. The one outside the guard room will patrol back and forth, on a
long patrol. I saw him in the entrance to cell blocks 3 & 4, and when I was
moving back out, he was yapping with his buddy again.]
Follow the hallway you're in, up some stairs, and you will come to a sign. Cell
blocks 3 and 4 to the left, 1 and 2 to the right. Well, we know that Cutty's in
cell block four, so turn left. Follow this hall, and you will come to an opening
in the right hand wall, across from which it a torch. Douse the torch with a
Water Arrow.
SAVE YOUR GAME! While this part is relatively easy, if it goes wrong you don't
have to start again from too far back.
You may have noticed some sort of a rotating light on the ceiling in this room.
It is some sort of sensor. It seems that, as long as you are hidden (ie: in the
shadows), you can move freely about with no penalty. However, once you move into
the light, the sensor spots you, and the alarm sounds. Best to avoid that if at
all possible. Fortunately, these sensors have a weakness. Shoot it with a
Broadhead, and you disable it! Do so now.
Uh-oh...the sensor may be disabled, but that guard isn't! He'll come out of the
small room and start hunting for you. Once his back is turned, sneak up on him,
lift the key off his belt, and then wish him a good-night's sleep with your
blackjack.
Across from the opening you used to enter this room is an exit. Move forward,
climb the stairs, and follow the sign towards cell block four. Follow this
hallway, and you will come to an area with an opening in the wall to your right,
and a closed door across from you.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is a Patrol Area! There are at least three guards that
patrol around the prison level, moving between cell blocks and between the upper
and lower levels. When you get an opportunity to remove one of these guards from
their patrol routes, do so. Note that one of these patrolling Hammerites has a
key you can pickpocket. [As far as I can tell, these patrolling guards are
unique to Thief Gold.]
Sneak into the opening on your right...this is cell block four. Across from you
and up on the next level, you can see a Hammerite that occasionally is looking
in your direction. So sneak through this room by sticking to the shadows. As you
sneak through, you may want to note the cell numbers. Cutty is in cell six. But
you can't get to him just yet.
Once you're through the room, follow the hallway and stairs up to level two. At
the top of the stairs, turn left, and then stop just before the next left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You are going to need to sneak through here. Take the left, but
go slowly. Watch the Hammerite at the far end. When his back is turned, move
forward, and stop in the next shadowy area. He may hear you, so once you're
safe, wait for him to stop looking for you again. He will eventually turn around
again, and you'll be able to move forward. Keep moving until you are safely out
of his view.
Now, press yourself against the wall, FACING the wall, so that you can lean to
the right, and lift the key off of the Hammerite's belt. Once you have it, turn
to your left, and move forward. You should only go a few steps before you hit
the wall. Now turn to your right, not quite 180 degrees. You should see a
locking mechanism on the wall light up. You will need to use one of your keys to
unlock (and open automatically) the door on your left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Sometimes when you open this door, the Hammerite is looking in
your direction. You need him to be looking away.
Open the door, then rush in behind the Hammerite and club him. Once that is
done, turn to face the wall opposite the door. Hmmm...a bunch of levers.
Highlight the lever at the bottom of the leftmost column, and use it. This will
open Cutty's cell door. Now turn around and leave this room (the door has
probably closed again...use your key to open it). Make your way back down to the
first floor, and as soon as you enter the cell area, turn to your left, and go
into Cutty's cell.
Cutty's not doing so well, is he? Not only can he not pay you, but it looks like
he's not going to make it out of here alive. Just before he dies though, he will
impart some information to you which will lead to your next mission.
[NOTE: At this point, your mission objectives change to the following:
1. Sneak through the mines and factory to the Hammer prison. (This one
should be checked).
2. Locate and release Cutty. (This one will have a mark in the box,
indicating its irrelevance.)
3. Locate and release Basso the Boxman.
4. Locate Issyt the Beggar and get your lucky hand of glory back.
5. Find the evidence locker and retrieve Felix's map.
6. Loot the complex for valuables. Need 1,000 total loot.
7. Escape from the prison with Basso the Boxman.
8. Don't kill anyone! ]
Leave Cutty's cell, turn left, and move out of the cell block. Turn left, and
follow this passage, and continue straight on past the sign (Cell Block 3, Cell
Block 4). Keep going until you reach an area like before, with an opening into
the cell block (this time on your left), and a door directly across from you.
Welcome to cell block three.
Enter the cell block. Once again, move through the room, keeping to the shadows,
and make your way up to the second level. (If you are interested, look at the
cell numbers...Basso in is cell four.) At the top of the stairs, turn to your
right, and move forward, stopping before you reach the next right.
NOTE: The following section (enclosed between square brackets) is for players of
the original Thief. While playing Thief Gold, I did not have two Hammerites to
deal with here, only the only in the guardroom.
[ SAVE YOUR GAME! There's a bit of a problem here. Two Hammerites to deal with
instead of one. The first is in an alcove up ahead, to the left. Fortunately,
with patience, he can be dealth with.
If you are fortunate, he will be facing away from you, in which case you can
deal with him normally. Usually, however, he is facing in your direction, and
does NOT turn around. (I have only ever found him facing away once.) In order to
take care of him, you will need to move PAST him. See that sliver of shadow on
the ground in front of him. You have to sneak THROUGH that, into the deep
shadows beyond, before you can club him with your blackjack. Be sure to crouch
down while you move through, to maximize your chances. Once you've taken care of
laughing boy, you can work on freeing Basso. ]
SAVE YOUR GAME! To free Basso, do this part just like you did to free
Cutty...sneak, wait, sneak, get the key, open the door, and club the Hammerite.
Note: The prisoner at the end of the hall (closest to the guard) will panic when
he sees you, and start calling for help. Ignore him...the Hammerites seem to.
Point of Interest: If you look in the book in this cell block, not only will you
see that Basso is in cell four, but Dikket WAS in cell one, released when he
recanted and informed. (Dikket was the man mentioned in the Hot Tip above.)
Kudo's to the Thief team for this little bit of continuity! :)
To open the door to Basso's cell, activate the middle lever in the centre row.
Then work your way back down to the first level. Basso's cell is number
four...the second one on your left as you re-enter the cell block.
Oh dear...here is Basso, but he's unconscious. You're going to have to carry him
out. Pick him, leave the cell, and turn left. Move forward, out of the room, and
turn left again. You should be facing a door. Drop Basso here (he'll be fine,
don't worry), and unlock this door with one of your keys (the locking mechanism
in on the wall on your right). Enter the room, and move through the door
directly across from you. (Again, the locking mechanism is on the wall to your
right.) Welcome to cell block one.
[ NOTE: Once again, we have a difference between Thief and Thief Gold. The
original Thief had a stationary guard in this room. If you're playing the
original, then move up behind the Hammerite, and lift the key from his belt,
then club him. Once that is done, move through the door mentioned above and
continue with the walkthrough. ]
The first turn on your left leads into the cell block. Once again, you will need
to sneak through, hiding in shadows. Unlike the other cell blocks, this one has
a second exit, leading to the barracks. Ignore that for now. Once you've moved
past the cells, take the first left, and make your way up to the second level.
At the top of the stairs, turn left, and move forward. The first left is the way
you want to go.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is another of those move forward, hide, steal the key, open
the door areas. Do this part exactly like before. Once you have the Hammerite
unconscious, turn to the levers on the wall. Issyt is in cell nine. The lever to
open this cell is the second one from the bottom, on the right hand side. Once
activated, leave the room, turn left, and enter the second cell on the right.
Poor Issyt. Looks like the Hammerites were too much for him. Look down at the
body. One of the hands attached to the skeleton is your Lucky Hand of Glory.
Grab it, and then work your way back down to the first level. Stop when you come
to the sign pointing the way you came, saying "Level Two".
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part CAN be tricky, depending on how you want to do it.
Move forward, and turn left, and you should see the sign pointing to the
Barracks. Follow the sign, but stop before entering the room. There is a
Hammerite Priest in this room. Pull out your bow, and douse the torch at the far
end of the room. Once the room is in darkness, you have two options. 1) Sneak up
on the Hammerite and blackjack him. This is DIFFICULT. You have to move close to
him, but not within blackjack range (once you're close enough to blackjack him,
he sees you). Once you are close, LEAN OVER and strike him down. 2) Arm a
Broadhead Arrow, and shoot it towards the far end of the room. The noise
distracts the Hammerite, and he moves TOWARDS THE NOISE. While he's poking
around for you over there, now you can sneak up on him and blackjack him. Once
he's taken care of, take the stairs ahead all the way to the top.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This next area is a patrol area. There are two Hammerites
wandering about up here. At the top of the stairs, turn left, and then take the
next left.You should now be in a semi-opulent room, and Garrett is making a
comment about how they spend their money. Directly across from you is a stained
glass window. There is a passageway on either wall, ahead of you, and this is
where the first patrolling Hammerite will come through. He doesn't turn towards
you, he just keeps walking straight, so it's pretty easy to knock him out. Once
he's asleep, turn back to the entrance you came in, and move to the left side as
you face it (staying in the room!), and wait.
[ NOTE: In the original Thief game, the guard you just knocked out was carrying
a Healing Potion which you could pick off his belt. In Thief Gold, this has
apparently been removed.]
Another Hammerite will be patrolling the hallway you came in from. Wait for him,
and when he passes...well, I'm sure you know by now what to do. :)
Once he's out, move into that hallway, turn left, and follow the corridor until
you come to a door on the right. Enter, and open the chest. You'll find a small
pouch of gold (100, Treasure Count: 610). Now, leave, and return to the semi-
opulent room.
[NOTE: For those who are interested. Instead of returning right away, turn
right, and keep going to the next door. Inside you'll find another chest, with
10 Broadhead Arrows inside. Leave that room, turn right, then take the next left
into the dining room. Across the room is the door to the kitchen. Inside, you
will find a Water Arrow on the righthand counter. Once you've done that, work
your way back to the semi-opulent room.]
Standing in the entrance to this room, facing the stained-glass window, you
should see ahead some sort of table on either side of you. On top of each one is
a golden hammer. Take them (75, 75, Treasure Count: 685, 760). On the ledge just
beneath the stained-glass window is a pair of candlesticks. Take both of them as
well (50, 50, Treasure Count: 810, 860). Turn to your right, and move out of the
room. At the end of this short hall, on your right, is a stairway going up. Take
it. Take it all the way up, and continue on ahead until you come to a left-right
turning, with a Hammer insignia on the wall in front of you.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a Hammerite patrolling nearby, and you don't want him
to hear you! Turn left, and go through the door ahead on your right. You should
now be in some sort of a study, with a large hammer on the desk in front of you.
As soon as you enter the room, go through the door on your right. Follow the
passage until you come to a door on the right. Go through it. Now, turn left,
and move forward, but do not go around the corner. Instead, try to position
yourself so that, without leaning, you are looking partway around the corner.
Wait here, until you see the Hammerite turn around. Once he does, you can sneak
up behind him, get the key from his belt, and blackjack him.
Now, return to the study (the room with the hammer on the desk). Once you've
entered the room, move forward, and turn left. At the end of this small area, on
the wall to your left, is a safe. The key you just got from the guard outside
will open it. Inside you will find a diamond and a crown (100, 125, Treasure
Count: 960, 1085). Now, leave this room through the other door.
[Note: In one bookcase in this room, you can pick up a scroll and read the story
about a man named Nammon who made off with some items from the evidence box.
This explains WHY you didn't find what you were looking for there, but other
than that, there's nothing special about it. It is also interesting to note that
in Cell Block 2, the only one you don't need to enter, the book lists Nammon as
one of the prisoners, and that he died under questioning.]
Back in the hall now, move to the other end, and go through the door on your
left. Upon entering, turn to your right. You should see ahead of you a banner to
your left, and another safe to your right. Open the safe using the same key you
used for the previous one, and you will find another diamond and a tiara (100,
200, Treasure Count: 1185, 1385). Now, go over to the banner that you saw beside
the safe. Take out your sword, and cut it down. Beyond is a secret drinking
room. Move into it. On a table to your left you will find three bottles of wine
(50, 50, 50, Treasure Count: 1435, 1485, 1535). That's everything from up here,
so leave the room, and make your way back down to the bottom of the stairs. Once
there, continue straight ahead, turn right, and enter the large room ahead, but
stay in the shadows.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You should be on the other side of the stained-glass window.
Across from it are some stairs leading up to another room. Inside, you should be
able to overhear two men speaking. (NOTE: If you moved close enough to the
stained-glass window when you picked up the candlesticks, you may have triggered
their conversation already, and won't hear it now.)
Hide in the shadows. There is a treasure inside the room with the two men, but
you can't get in without at least one of them spotting you. Stand near the
staircase leading into that room, and jump. When you land, the noise will
attract their attention, and they will come looking. When one of them is close
enough, you can blackjack him. Then you can work more freely on the other one.
Note that one of them has a key that you can pickpocket from him. If they stop
looking for you, simply jump again to remind them of their duty.
[NOTE: The above can get very tedious, as it can take a long time to finish. The
treasure inside is not worth all that much, and if you don't mind having a
slightly less-than-perfect score, you can ignore this entire area.]
[Another NOTE: One time, I was very fortunate...jumping brought them out, and I
was able to club the Priest almost immediately. The gray Hammerite went back
inside, and had his back turned. I was able to sneak up behind him inside the
room and blackjack him.]
Once the two Hammerites have been disposed of, go up the stairs and on the table
you'll find another golden hammer (75, Treasure Count: 1610). You're now
finished on this level, so it's time to return for Basso. Go back downstairs the
way you came up, through the cell block, and turn right. Go through this door
(unlock it with your key), and then go through the door directly ahead of you in
the next room (again, use your key). You should now be just outside of cell
block three, where you dropped Basso. Look around on the ground until you find
him, and pick him up. Then, continue on forward. When you reach the sign showing
which way to go for cell blocks three and four, turn to the left and go down the
stairs. Remember to watch out for the sensor!
In the room at the bottom of the stairs, drop Basso near the closed door, then
continue through the room, but don't exit it. At the end of the room, turn left,
and move forward. There is a hole in the wall in front of you. To get through,
crouch and then move forward. Once through, go down the stairs to the water
level.
Move forward, wading through the water, until you have to turn to the left.
Turn, and move forward to the end, and up onto the dry area. This is a small
shelter of some sort, and there is a dead thief here. There are a number of
items to take here (you may need to move the body out of the way first),
including Felix's note. Apparently this is Nammon, the guy who stole from the
evidence locker. Also, you'll find a stack of copper coins (5, 1615), a stack of
gold coins (25, 1640), and four stacks of silver coins (12, 12, 12, 12, Treasure
Count: 1652, 1664, 1676, 1688). There are also 3 Water Arrows and 4 Moss Arrows.
Time to get Basso again. Go back through the water and up the stairs, and crouch
to go through the hole again. Now, go to the closed door, and open it (you
should not need to use your key). Then pick up Basso, go through the door, and
jump into the water. Follow the current until the flow drops you into a pool of
water. (While following the current, try to keep your facing in the direction
you're going.) Once you've landed in the pool, head through the tunnel directly
ahead (assuming you've kept your facing as suggested). You'll be in another pool
area. Directly across from where you entered is a tunnel to another cave, but
this one is underwater. Dive, and follow the tunnel. When you emerge, come up
for some air. Again, directly across from where you enter is another underwater
tunnel. Once you've got your air supply full, dive and follow the new tunnel.
This time, you'll exit into a pool with a ledge at the far end.
Climbing onto the ledge can be tricky here, since you've got Basso with you. On
the right hand side of the ledge, you should be able to find a sort of "crease"
in the rock, where two edges meet. Aim yourself for this, and press forward.
Once you're on the ledge, enter the tunnel and follow it back into the mines.
Take the first left you come to, and then the next right. Ahead, you should be
able to see the lift which you called up earlier. Move forward, and get on the
lift. Drop Basso (make sure he's on the lift with you!), turn to face the call
button box, and push the second button from the top. The lift will take you
down.
Once you stop moving, pick up Basso again, and look around. Once you find a
direction you can move in, do so (you may need to jump off the lift first). Keep
following this tunnel all the way...there are no choices to make (you can even
climb down the ladder you find while carrying Basso). Once you emerge into the
daylight, you will be overlooking the area where you first started the mission.
Congratulations! You've rescued Basso from the Hammerite prison!
Section 7: Down in the Bonehoard (Mission 3)
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My best time on expert: 22 minutes, 44 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 2450
7.1: Introduction
=================
"...And the manfools piled rocks on rocks and raised a treesie roof, hammers
saws tear the skin of goodsie wood... ...and laughs at the Woodsie Lord. ...And
when learns the Lord of this, He sends His beastesses to the manfools... ...who
attacks and hammers saws their useless fleshes, and build him a house of they
rotting skins."
-- Unattributed Trickster song
I was pissed at Cutty for a good while after the...prison debacle. But hey, you
can't blame him for what the Hammers did to him. So I decided to go after that
horn Felix talked about. Not like I had a whole lot of choice, really...the rent
is due...and my landlord's even tougher than the Hammers.
The map's pretty specific about where the entrance is. Too bad it's not as clear
about where the HORN is. Felix did some scrounging before he left, and his notes
say the horn is in the tomb of some nobles...the Quintus family. Guess I'll just
have to explore.
Felix, always helpful, also said that the catacombs are supposed to be haunted.
Think I'll go make some inquiries about where a "heretic" like me can get some
holy water. Always go prepared....
7.2: Objectives: Normal
=======================
1. Search through the ancient bonehoard and procure the legendary Horn
of Quintus.
7.3: Objectives: Hard
=====================
1. Search through the ancient Bonehoard and procure the legendary Horn
of Quintus.
2. What use do the dead have for their treasures, anyhow? Relieve them
of at least 1000 worth of valuables.
3. In addition to garnering the Horn of Quintus, find and steal the
fabled gemstone, "The Mystic's Soul."
4. Once you have what you came for, get back to the surface.
7.4: Objectives: Expert
=======================
1. Search through the ancient Bonehoard and procure the legendary Horn
of Quintus.
2. In addition to garnering the Horn of Quintus, find and steal the
fabled gemstone, "The Mystic's Soul."
3. What use do the dead have for their treasures, anyhow? Relieve them
of at least 2000 worth of valuables.
4. The Mystic's Soul had a sister stone, called "The Mystic's Heart,"
also thought to be in the Bonehoard. Find it. Make it yours.
5. Once you have what you came for, get back to the surface.
7.5: Simplified Objectives
==========================
1. Find the Horn of Quintus.
2. Steal the gemstone "The Mystic's Soul."
3. Rob the dead. Need 2000 total loot.
4. Steal the gemstone "The Mystic's Heart."
5. Once you have what you came for, get back to the surface.
While the objective of 2000 in loot may seem a bit daunting, what you HAVEN'T
been told is that both the Mystic's Soul and the Mystic's Heart contribute to
your final Treasure Count (a total of 1500).
7.6: Before The Mission
=======================
What You'll Encounter: Zombies, Burricks, Flaming Spirit, Restless Dead.
Starting Funds: Whatever you managed to steal from Cragscleft Prison. (Maximum:
1688.)
Starting Gear:
1 Sword
1 Blackjack
50 Broadhead Arrows
12 Water Arrows
8 Rope Arrows
3 Healing Potions
3 Holy Water
Items for Sale:
12 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
6 Rope Arrows (Cost: 200 each)
6 Noisemaker Arrows (Cost: 250 each)
3 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
3 Holy Waters (Cost: 200 each)
It is unnecessary to purchase any Rope Arrows, as your eight will be more than
enough to finish this mission. (Likewise, I didn't need to use any Noisemaker
Arrows either.) If you plan on destroying the undead that you come across (as
opposed to running around them), then buy up the Holy Waters and the Water
Arrows. Although you start with three already, an extra Healing Potion or two
may not be a bad idea either.
Recommended Purchases: 12 Water Arrows, 3 Holy Waters. Total Cost: 1200
7.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
=================================
This mission introduces you to a new aspect of Thief: Traps.
While most of the "puzzles" on this mission are no real problem, there is one
that is VERY unforgiving. To obtain the Mystic's Soul, you need to have at least
FIVE Fire Arrows. If you have less than five, then you've either missed some
along the way, or expended too many already. You'll have to reload at an earlier
(usually a MUCH earlier) part of the mission. If you are playing Thief Gold, you
will also need a few Water Arrows and/or some Holy Water. Note that in Thief
Gold, defeating the Guardian for this puzzle gives you another Fire Arrow, so
you can come here with only four and acquire the fifth that you need.
There are a few areas of this mission where you can find the remains of the
members of Felix's doomed expedition. Beside each is a notebook which you can
read. These are interesting, but most of the time you will not find them if you
follow this walkthrough...they are scattered about in other areas. If you want
to find them, you'll have to do some exploring on your own.
There is a secondary objective in this mission that you can perform, if you
choose to. Scattered throughout the Halls of Echoing Repose will be some golden
bones you can find. While they don't count towards treasure, if you find them
all and place them all in a specific coffin, you are rewarded with more Holy
Water, Fire Arrows, etc. While this walkthrough will not attempt to complete
this (as it is unnecessary to complete the mission), it will be noted where
these bones can be found and where to bury them. [NOTE: I have not tried this
objective in Thief Gold yet...I do not know if the effect is different or not.]
Once I completed this mission, my stats screen showed: "Innocents Killed: None,
and Others Killed: 1". I presume that the one it thinks I killed was the Flaming
Spirit, as the only other things I "killed" were Zombies.
7.8: Walkthrough
================
You start facing the entrance into the Bonehoard. There is a Corpse-Zombie lying
on the ground in front of the entrance. Above it and to the left, you should see
a faint light (not the light from the lantern...above and to the left of that).
You want to get up there. Turn left to face the hill, and RUN (walking won't
work) to climb the hill, and make your way over to the dimly lit area. It's a
crypt. On the floor to the right of the bier is a goblet (15, Treasure Count:
15). Now turn, leave this room, and make your way onto the stone "roof" you can
see ahead. Once you're on top, turn right (facing the Corpse-Zombie), and let
yourself drop down, turn 180 degrees, and move forward into the Bonehoard.
Directly across from you, across a large hole with some planks across it, you
should see a rope hanging down into the room below you, and beyond that, another
room through a hole in the wall. Ignore the rope, and move into the next room.
Yes, it's a long way down. However, the ceiling just above you is made of wood.
Shoot a Rope Arrow into the ceiling, then use the rope to descend into the room
below. The rope does not reach the floor, but don't worry, the fall is not far
enough to damage you.
Once you've landed, turn so that your back is to the wall with the ugly faces on
it. You now have a choice. The apparent exit to the far right is nothing more
than a dark alcove. The exit to the room is to the far left. However, going
straight ahead between to two pillars will take you quite quickly into a dead-
end room, but on the floor at the far end (in the rubble area, behind the
"ALARUS" sign) is a healing potion. Considering the problems you'll be facing, I
recommend grabbing it. Now, go back to the room you just left, and turn right,
and then take the right-hand turn ahead. You should now be facing a stairway up.
[For those of you who want to get a few more water arrows for this mission (and
that's probably not a bad idea), this next part is for you. If you'd rather just
press on, skip the next paragraph.]
Turn left, and follow this dark passage up some stairs, until you are on a ledge
overlooking the first room, with the three ledges, the rope, and the Zombie.
Turn right, facing the south wall, and crouch. See that hole in the wall? Beyond
it is a chest. Open it, and you'll get 8 Water Arrows. Now, turn around, and
take the same passage back down to the other set of stairs.
Take these stairs up, and follow the passage. Ignore the first turning on your
left...while it leads to a holy water font, you really don't need it. Once you
enter the next room, with a set of stairs and some coffins set into the wall
ahead, turn right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There's a trap here that you'll want to avoid. Look over at the
far end of the room, near the coffins. A section of the floor is slightly
recessed. It's a pressure plate. Stepping on it will set off the trap, and
you'll be riddled with arrows. Unfortunately, there is a golden vase guarded by
that trap. There are two ways to avoid this trap. Either walk onto it when
you're crouched down, stand after the arrows have fired, look up and grab the
vase, and then move off. Alternatively, walk AROUND the pressure plate, and when
you're close enough, jump up, and grab the vase before you come down again (100,
Treasure Count: 115).
Once you've got the vase, take the stairs out of the room. (Note: if you used
the crouch method to avoid the trap, be sure you move OFF the plate before
heading towards the stairs...otherwise, you may set the trap off again and turn
yourself into swiss cheese.)
In the next room, stop as soon as you've entered. That corpse ahead is another
Corpse-Zombie. Turn to your left, and you'll see a rope descending from the
ceiling. Grab it, and climb down. At the bottom, turn left, and move into the
next room.
SAVE YOUR GAME! That's another Corpse-Zombie you can see. Ahead of you, to the
left of the Corpse-Zombie (past the passage to your left) is a hole in the wall.
Inside it is a chest, containing a treasure. You can either use your holy water
to make some Holy Water Arrows to take out the Zombie (a waste, in my opinion),
or you can run up, grab the treasure, and run out of the room with the Zombie
following you (I have not been able to do this without waking him up). Pick your
method, and grab the small diamond from the chest (100, Treasure Count: 215).
Leave this room from the same entrance you used, and push forward into the room
with the pool. Dive into the pool, and swim forward (ignore the turning to the
right), and when you surface, turn 180 degrees and pull yourself out of the
water.
Hmm...those two chests look tempting don't they? And unguarded, too. That should
be your first clue there's more here than meets the eye. Each one of these
chests in trapped. Once opened, an arrow shoots out from just beneath the chest,
directly ahead of it. So, when you open these chests, be sure you're not
standing directly in front. The left chest holds a Speed potion, and the right
one contains 6 Fire Arrows.
Turn around, move past the pool, and turn right. Yes, that is a long drop down,
but someone has kindly provided you with a ladder to climb safely. Once you've
reached the bottom of the ladder, MOVE forward quickly...you've stepped on a
pressure plate, releasing a boulder from above. If you're still standing there
when it hits...well, you get the idea.
Ahead of you is a tunnel leading to the right. Take it. When you reach the red
tunnel area, turn right, and then left. Ahead you should see an opening back
into gray tunnels.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a Burrick patrolling in the tunnel ahead. You can do
this one of two ways...the fast way and the safe way. The safe way involves you
staying here, and firing Arrows at the Burrick as he passes by, until you've
killed him. As you do this though, he will be breathing his deadly gas at you,
so you may have to crouch in the low area with the boulders from time to time.
The fast method is to watch, and when he's moved out of your sight to your
RIGHT, jump down into the tunnel.
Whichever method you use, after you're in the tunnel, turn left, and go through
the hole in the wall ahead. Once you're down in the next tunnel, turn right,
move forward, and let yourself fall down into the water below. (This part can be
tricky, as once you fall into the next tunnel, it gets a little disorienting.
Just fall, turn right until you see a way to go forward, and do so. If you wind
up in a gray cavern with roaming Burricks, you went the wrong way.)
Once you've come back to the surface of the water, turn right slightly, and you
should see an opening in the cave wall. Move towards it, and climb out of the
water when you reach it. Head up the stairs.
SAVE YOUR GAME! See all those recessed floor panels? Each one is a pressure
plate that shoots an arrow out towards whomever happens to be standing on the
plate. In this case, that's you. To avoid an untimely demise, crouch as you walk
through this room, and the arrows will fly over your head instead of through
your heart. Move towards the lighted area with the corpse on the floor. Don't
worry, he's not a Corpse-Zombie this time. [Note: One time while doing this
room, I somehow got hit by an arrow while still crouched. This was a one time
occurrance that I have not been able to repeat.]
In this small room, there is another trap. Right in front of the ledge with the
Fire Arrows on it is another pressure plate. You can get close enough to the
ledge to grab the Arrows without setting off the trap (there are six Fire Arrows
in all). [If you want to do it the hard way, crouch, and WALK (don't run)
forward onto the plate. The arrow will fly past you. Then you can stand up and
take the Arrows from the ledge. Note that, in order for this to work properly,
you have to crouch and walk DIRECTLY towards the ledge, ie: not on an angle. To
play it safe, you may want to inch forward until you hear the trap spring, then
wait for the arrow to fly before proceeding.]
On the floor next to the body is a small purse (100, Treasure Count: 315). There
is also a papyrus which, if you read, will give you a clue regarding how to
obtain the Mystic's Soul.
Turn around, and leave the way you came (don't forget to crouch). Back in the
water room, at the far end across from you, you should see another tunnel. Swim
over there, and pull yourself up. Follow these tunnels (you can run safely here)
until you reach the end, where you are overlooking a gray cavern filled with
roaming Burricks. [Note: In the tunnels leading up to this point, there is never
any choice of which direction to go, although in one point you need to pull
yourself up into the next tunnel.] Take a look around. Note that when you enter
the cavern, you can go left, or you can go right slightly, where the tunnel then
turns to head in the direction you are (currently) facing. That is the area you
will want.
SAVE YOUR GAME! These Burricks do not like trespassers. Drop down into the
cavern, turn right, then left. Just after making this turn, turn to your right
and there will be a hole in the wall. Enter it, turn left, and follow the tunnel
to the crossroads. Turn left, and follow this tunnel as far as you can. (Note:
At one point, you may think you're at a dead end. Look up and to your left, and
you should see the passage continuing.)
This is a spot where Thief differs from Thief Gold. If you're playing Thief, you
should come to a T-Section, with the two other tunnels being somewhat dark. Turn
to your right, but don't go forward. Instead, look down, and inch forward
somewhat, until you find the uncut diamond (50, Treasure Count: 365). If you are
playing Thief Gold, then the tunnel will eventually dead-end, near the remains
of another unfortunate adventurer. Near his skull you'll find the uncut diamond
(50, Treasure Count: 365).
Now, make your way back to those crossroads (there should be no problem, as
there were no other turns you could take on your way here), and turn right.
Follow the tunnel until you've returned to the opening which leads back into the
Burrick caves.
SAVE YOUR GAME! While you should have no trouble bypassing the Burricks here,
it's best to be safe. Exit the tunnel you are currently in. While you could
probably take any of the three possible passages here, for the sake of this
walkthrough, take the left passage...it's darker, and you can possibly hide if
you need to. Follow this passage as far as you can, hugging the left wall. When
you cannot move forward anymore, turn to the right. See that lighted tunnel up
near the ceiling? That's where you want to go. Press forward, hugging the left
wall again, and you should climb the wall at the same time. Soon, you'll get the
mouth of the tunnel. Pull yourself up into it. [Note: Alternatively, there is a
rope hanging from the ceiling that you can grab and climb up, then jump into the
tunnel mouth. Whichever method you prefer, use it.]
Move forward, following the tunnel until it opens into another white-gray
underground cavern, with a rope hanging down at the mouth of your tunnel. Hop
down onto the ledge below, turn left, and follow the ledge all the way over to
the red tunnel you can see. Climb into that tunnel, and follow it up.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You are about to enter what is referred to on your map as the
"Halls of Echoing Repose". This area is heavily populated with Zombies, and they
patrol the area. You may want to take a few of them out to make this area a
little more bearable. [Note that, if you are doing this part of the mission
simply by avoiding the Zombies, then you may have to move very fast. This is a
good way to get yourself turned around and disoriented. Whenever you find a
chance to stop for a moment, if you've made any progress whatsoever, I suggest
saving your game.]
When you climb out of the tunnel into the Halls of Echoing Repose, Garrett will
make a comment about "tombs with piped-in music". That's the Horn of Quintus
you're hearing. Move straight ahead, so that the large pillar in the centre of
the room passes by on your left. Ahead, you should see a stack of alcoves
flanked by an exit on either side. Take the right hand one. Move forward,
ignoring the hallway to your right, and instead enter the room ahead on your
right. There should be a few Corpse-Zombies lying on the floor, in front of a
small ramp with a jewelled urn at the top. Grab it (100, Treasure Count: 465),
and leave. [Deal with the Corpse-Zombies as you see fit. I usually kill two as
they lie there, using Holy Water Arrows. Note that this room contains one of the
golden bones mentioned previously.]
[NOTE: The above room is an ideal ambush point. When I played the last time
(using Thief Gold), I sat in here and just pumped Zombies full of Holy Water
Arrows as they came in the door. Took out about ten or so.]
Exit the room, and turn right. Hug the right wall, until you find a shadowy
alcove on the left side of the hall. Go into that area, and you'll find a door.
Open it, and go in. The two corpses on the floor are Corpse-Zombies. Directly
across from the door is an alcove which contains a gold vase (100, Treasure
Count: 565). (You'll have to move at least one boulder, and crouch to get into
the alcove.)
Leave the room the way you came in, and turn right. Head down this corridor,
until you can see (ahead and to the right slightly) a white stonework "wall".
Head towards that area. Once you're there, turn left and move forward (the white
"wall" should be on your right). Note that at just about this point is another
of those golden bones. Once you've passed the "wall", turn right and move
forward (again, the "wall" should be on your right). On the wall on your left,
up above your head-level, you should see some sort of engraving. There's a ledge
there with another uncut diamond (50, Treasure Count: 615). Keep moving ahead,
and go through the passage on the leftmost side of the wall ahead. [Note: The
white "wall" is a sort of guard rail for a staircase leading down. At the bottom
is a hole leading into a flooded area. If you go down here, and follow the water
into the next chamber, you'll find another golden bone floating in the water.]
Keep following this passage until you find a turn in the right hand wall. Go in.
You should be looking at a room with no floor, and a walkway across. Go across
the walkway, but be careful...it's trapped in the centre. Jump across the
depression in the centre to avoid setting off the trap. Behold, a ladder! Take
the ladder all the way to the top, and turn to your right. Grab the vase (50,
Treasure Count: 665).
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part is a bit tricky. While still on the ladder (make sure
you're as far up as you can get), turn to face the bier opposite the one which
had the treasure on it. Hop onto it (jump while holding the WALK button, not the
RUN button). Now, ahead and down somewhat you should see an opening in the wall,
that you could never reach if you were beneath it. Now that you are above it
though, run and jump towards it, and you should land safely in the opening.
[This is really tricky. The secret is to not run right to the edge and jump. Try
jumping from about the centre of the coffin you're standing on.]
[NOTE: At least one person has said that the jump I just described is very
difficult to accomplish, and suggested re-writing the walkthrough for this level
to include a different way to get there. I tested this jump, and except for one
or two fumbles, I was able to make the jump time and time again with no
difficulty, so I've decided to leave it as is. Comments?]
Directly ahead of you is a passageway. Move down there, and when you come near
the end you'll see a chamber with a hammer-shaped light on the floor. DO NOT
ENTER THE LIGHT! The lighted floor sections are pressure plates, which cause
some sort of acid to rain down on you. Instead, move off to either the right or
the left side of the light. On either side, is a recessed coffin, with a skull
sitting on top. Behind each skull is a golden goblet (15, 15, Treasure Count:
680, 695). Also, at the end of the room is another small chamber. Inside is
another goblet (15, Treasure Count: 710).
[NOTE: At the far end of this room, flanking the entrance to the far chamber,
are two ladders descending into the room below. Down in that room you will find
the last two golden bones, plus a holy water font. Also in this room is the
coffin where you "bury" the bones. Drop each one into the coffin (they will
disappear), and when all five are put in, six areas around the coffin light up,
highlighting your rewards for putting this poor soul to rest.] Leave the way you
came in, and turn right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Thief Gold has made this portion more difficult with a new
monster! (If you are playing the original Thief, ignore everything regarding the
Flaming Spirit. The rest of the puzzle is the same.)
Follow this passage until you can turn right again, and do so. Inside the room
ahead, far off, you should see what appears to be someone on fire moving around.
This is a Flaming Spirit. Take him out (using either Water or Holy Water
Arrows), then move forward (pick up the Fire Arrow he leaves behind, if you are
so inclined). Ignore the heavy breathing you hear from some nearby
Zombies...they are trapped at the moment and cannot reach you. In the centre of
the room ahead, on the floor, is some sort of locking mechanism. Try though you
might, you cannot unlock it. Also in the room, are five doors, which you cannot
open. There are also five unlit torches on the walls.
Move forward, very close to the locking mechanism. Now, pull out your Fire
Arrows, and light each torch above the doors. This will open the locking
mechanism, revealing a well of water. It also unlocks the five doors, releasing
five Zombies into the room. Dive into the well, and swim to the other end. When
you surface, climb out of the water.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This room is heavily trapped. Arrows will be shooting out of the
stairs, and purple energy out of other holes around the room, so this must be
done carefully. Move forward, until you are between the first two opposite
pillars. Move either left or right, so you are lined up with the EDGE of the
stairs (not the stairs themselves...the "banisters", if you like). Now, run
forward, jump and land on the banister. You might hear some activity behind you
as the traps are going off, although sometimes you can manage this without
hitting the pressure plate. Move to the top of the banister, towards the
pedestal. Before you get any bright ideas though, look down. Hmmm...a skull.
Remember "Raiders of the Lost Ark"? Pick up the skull. Now, place it on the
pedestal, in the recessed area with the gem. Once it's there, you can pick up
The Mystic's Soul (500, Treasure Count: 1210). When you pick it up, there should
be no activity whatsoever...the skull is weighing down the trap trigger.
Congratulations, Indiana! If you misplaced the skull, well...aren't you glad you
saved your game? (It can be a little tricky to place the skull properly.)
[NOTE: For those playing the original Thief game, it has been suggested to me
that balancing the skull on the pedestal is not exactly necessary. You should be
able to just grab the gem while standing on the left side of the stairs (NOT on
the stairs proper, but the "railing" area. (I am assuming that this is the left
side of the stairs as you face the pedestal.) This doesn't appear to be possible
anymore in Thief Gold, however. They've redesigned the staircase so you can't
reach the gem while on the railing.]
Those traps are still active, so if you want to get out with your prize, work
your way back down the same way you got up. Head back to the hole in the ground
that you used to enter this room. See that ladder above the waterhole? Get on
that, climb up, and move forward in the resulting tunnel until you find another
ladder.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Thief Gold players have an additional problem to deal with here.
If you're playing the original Thief, skip down to the next paragraph. That
Flaming Spirit that you dealt with earlier is back, and on patrol. I have only
done this part once myself, and as soon as I got off the ladder I RAN for the
exit...he never caught me. However, it MAY be possible for him to do so. If so,
keep watch while you're on the ladder as he moves around down there, and when
you think he is sufficiently far enough away to give you your chance at escape,
take it. We now return you to our regularly scheduled walkthrough....
Grab onto that ladder, and move down. Before jumping off the ladder, make sure
you are facing the wall that the ladder is attached to. Jump off, and you'll
fall back down into the entryway before the "well room". Those Zombies are still
roaming, but fortunately, you are facing the way out, so as soon as your feet
hit the ground, move forward and out of the room. Turn left when you exit, and
keep going straight, ignoring any turns, until you find a long wooden ramp. Turn
right onto the ramp, and move forward through the tunnel it connects to. At the
end, be sure you're still running and jump across that abyss. Turn left, climb
the stairs, go through that doorway, and climb to the top of the ramp.
SAVE YOUR GAME! I don't know WHAT those purple balls of energy are, but they can
kill. Turn to your left, and follow this ledge (being wary of the purple
energy). About halfway across, stop and turn to your right. Aha! Once it's safe
to cross the path of the shooting energy, move into this room. Take the first
right, move forward, and then turn right into a natural cavern.
You've just entered an area with quite a few Burricks in it. However, the sound
of the Horn of Quintus has lulled them into peace, and you can move through here
without worry (unless you attack one). So, move forward, then turn left. At the
bottom of this tunnel is a chamber. Through the one exit you can see some
Burricks. Through the other, nothing. Take the second one (it's on your right).
Move through that opening, then turn left when the opportunity presents itself.
Move forward from there into a dark cavern, and turn right. You should see two
Burricks guarding the passage there. Move between and behind them. You should
now see, to your right, a passage that does NOT look natural. Move through
there, and you'll be in a room with statues and coffins.
Move ahead, and turn left. Once you've entered the next room, Garrett will make
a comment like, "Good thing I'm not afraid of heights." As his comment suggests,
you have to climb here. From the entrace, you should be able to see, to your
left, a ladder. Go there, climb up, and get off at the next level. Now, move
around the walkway to the opposite end of the chamber, and you should soon find
another ladder going up. Climb up and get off at the next level. While facing
AWAY from the ladder you just got off of, turn to your right, and move around
the walkway to not quite the opposite end. Again, you'll find another ladder.
This one is rather difficult to see, so look carefully. Climb up.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This ladder is a little tricky to disembark correctly. You want
to face towards the right (as you're looking at the centre of the room). Jump
off, then move around until you come to an opening in the pillar in the centre
of the room. Move inside, jump across and grab the ladder. Climb up to the top.
Once you climb off the ladder, move forward. Garrett will remark that you've
found the Horn. Grab it.
Oh dear. That haunting music stopped. I wonder why? Turn around, move forward,
and work your way around the pillar until you are at the opposite end from the
one you climbed up. Jump forward off the pillar and land on the ledge below.
Turn around, and walk of the ledge to another below on the left (if your back is
against the wall). Once more, walk off, and land on the walkway below. You
should be near the ladder that brought you up here. Get on it, and work your way
down back to the ground floor the same way you got up. Once down there, take the
tunnel back out, and through the room with the coffins, which opens onto the
Burrick caverns.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Uh-oh...something seems to have agitated them. Since you've
grabbed the Horn, it is no longer playing its soothing song, and the Burricks
are just a wee bit upset about this. Get out the same way you came in...run
through the two Burricks, turn left, then right, then climb the tunnel to your
left, turn right, then turn left, then left again. That should take you back to
the room with the shooting purple energy.
Don't hang around sightseeing...those Burricks just may be following you. Work
your way back to the top of the ramp, then down it. In the next room, follow the
stairwell all the way around, and go through the exit. Move forward until you
can't anymore, and turn left. Move out onto the catwalk, stopping where it joins
another walkway. Turn so you are exactly facing the ledge you see across from
you.
SAVE YOUR GAME! If this doesn't work, you're one dead Thief. You have to time
this just right. Run and jump across to the ledge. You won't land on it, so
you'll have to pull yourself up onto it.
[NOTE: If you are having difficulty making this jump, try drinking the Speed
potion that you picked up earlier in the mission. It will make your jump easier
to accomplish.]
Once you're on solid ground again, move forward into the burial chamber, move
past the first set of alcoves. At the second set, turn to your left, and in this
burial alcove you will find another goblet (15, Treasure Count: 1225). That's
all that's in here, so turn around, climb up, and head back out onto the ledge.
Turn right, and move as far forward as you can. Then, turn left, line yourself
up with the walkway below and move forward, falling onto it (RUN, don't walk).
Turn right, and move down this corridor. Be careful, as there is a trap that you
will want to avoid. Keep moving until you find an opening to your left. From out
of this opening, you should see small fireballs hitting the wall opposite the
entrance. Well, you need to go in there, so wait until a fireball smacks the
wall, then push forward into the room, keeping to the right of the fireball
stream once you're in. Move towards the wall opposite the entrance, and you'll
see a hold in the floor, with a ladder sticking out.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part isn't really dangerous, just annoying if you do it at
the wrong time. You want to climb down the ladder into the room below. There is
a Corpse-Zombie in the centre of the room. Once you are down, turn around so
that the ladder you just descended is to your back. You want to head for the
ladder that leads up the wall on your left. At the top of this ladder, turn
left, and grab the golden cup (25, Treasure Count: 1250). Climb back down, and
back up the ladder you originally used to get down here. Turn left, and jump
onto the bier at the top of the ladder. Then, turn to face the interior of the
room, and pull yourself up.
Once again, you have to get past that fireball trap. Wait for the right moment,
then move through the doorway, and turn left. When you get to the ramp that
leads down, turn left (AWAY from the ramp, facing the wall). Be careful, as
there is a Corpse-Zombie nearby. There is a ladder here. Climb it all the way to
the top. Once there, turn all the way around, and jump into the next room. Move
around the hole in the floor to the opposite end, where you'll find an exit.
Move through here, and follow this hall to the next chamber.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a Burrick on guard in the next room, and you have to
either get past it, or kill it. To get past, take either the left or the right
path, it doesn't matter which, and move up the ramp, and down the next one into
the next room. At the far end (directly across from the Burrick) is another
doorway. Move through it, to the end.
[NOTE: While moving around the ramps to get past Mr. Morning Breath, you don't
need to sneak...I was able to run the entire way without attracting attention.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part is very tricky, and a wrong step could be your last.
You may want to save your game a couple of times through this. You have to work
your way down to the room below, without falling, and without getting killed by
those purple energy streams. Move across the top beam to the centre, then step
off on your left side (be careful, there are purple streams shooting along its
length). Move to the end of that beam, and hop off the side (to your left) onto
the ledge below. Turn so your back is to the wall...you want to jump over to the
beam on your right now. Once you've done that, move to its centre, and hop down
onto the beam below (again, be careful of the purple streams!). Move to the
centre, hop down to the next beam, and move off of it and onto the floor. You
should be close enough now to do so with no damage, or minimal damage. Turn to
the exit, and leave the room.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a warning plaque on the ground before entering this
next room: "He upon whom the gaze of the Guardians falls, he shall be
destroyed." This room is filled with statues and pillars. The statues are the
Guardians. If your path crosses the gaze of one of these statues, you're fried.
Move into the room, and turn right. Go past the first statue, and pass the first
pillar with it being on your right. Move across to the next pillar you see,
walking around it with it being on your left. You should now be in a slightly
darker area, with two statues nearby, and directly ahead and to your left
another pillar. Walk forward, and hug that next pillar, keeping it on your
right. Hug the next one as well, this time keeping it on your left. Hug this
last pillar, keeping it on your right. Now that you're past all the Guardians,
move forward to the door to the next room.
SAVE YOUR GAME! As soon as you set foot in the next room, a bright light appears
in the centre, and another guardian appears (a Restless Dead). At the opposite
end of the room, past the guardian, is a chest containing the Mystic's Heart,
beyond which is a teleporter.
You can handle this section in one of four ways. I find that the first way is
the fastest and simplest:
1) Run into the room. When the guardian appears, just ignore him. Run right past
him, and as you pass the chest (DON'T stop!), grab the Mystic's Heart. Keep
running into the teleporter. The guardian will not follow you. (This method
takes me about 10 seconds.)
2) The long way. As soon as the light comes on, rush over to one of the dark
sides of the room, crouch, and wait for him to stop looking for you. Sneak
quietly around to the other side of the room, pausing occasionally to wait while
he looks around for you. (This method takes me about 4 minutes.)
3) The intermediate way. Before stepping into the room, arm your sword. Prepare
for a smashing blow as you step into the room, then run forward and deliver it.
After that, it should only take two sideswings to deal with this guardian
permanently. (This method takes me about 20 seconds.)
4) If you can trigger the Guardian WITHOUT alerting him a single Fire Arrow shot
will kill him. (This method also takes me about 20 seconds.)
After using your method of choice, move to the box at the end of the room, and
open it to get the Mystic's Heart (1000, Treasure Count: 2250). Move into the
teleporter behind the chest, and you'll be teleported back to the start of this
area, up at the top with the shooting purple streams.
Turn so you are facing away from the room with the streams. Move to the end of
the hall. In the next chamber, you need to sneak by the Burrick again. Do so in
the same way as you did before. Once you reach the other exit, use it, and find
the ladder that brought you up here. You need to climb back down again. Once
you're at the bottom of the ladder, turn left (if you're facing the ladder), and
head down this passage again. You'll need to time yourself to avoid the fireball
again. Once you are past it, follow the path into the next room, then cross to
the opposite end of the chamber. Climb the ramp up, and turn right. Follow this
path to the foot of another ramp. Climb this ramp up, and enter the room at the
top.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part can be tricky and deadly. You need to get into the pit
at the bottom. You can either fall in, or use a Rope Arrow to create a more
subtle entrance. However, if you use a Rope Arrow, make sure you do NOT make it
too close to the north end of the pit.
Once you are in the pit, turn to face the... okay, turn to face the face. Move
to either the left or the right side of it, and then move forward. The eyes in
the face are diamonds. Once you are close enough, you can grab one of the eyes
(you may need to LEAN over to do so) (100, Treasure Count: 2350). Then, move
AWAY from the face, and once the fireworks have stopped, move to the other side,
and repeat (100, Treasure Count: 2450). [For those of you who like completeness,
behind the pillar directly across from the face is a chest containing 4 more
Rope Arrows.] Once you have the eyes, climb back out of the pit (use your Rope
Arrow now if you didn't use it to climb down). [Once more, for those who like
completeness, remember that your Rope Arrows are retrievable.]
Once you are out of the pit, leave the room the way you came in. Climb down the
ramp. At the foot of the ramp is a passageway. Go through it. Follow it as far
as you can. When you get to the point where you can either go right or move
forward a few more feet and THEN turn right, take the first right. (I hope that
made sense!) At the end of that hall (you should be facing a barrel in front of
an opening in the wall), turn left. See that hold near the floor in the left
wall? Crouch down and go in there. Follow this passage all the way to the end.
Exit out onto the top of the Bonehoard. Congratulations! You're a successful
grave robber!
Section 8: Assassins (Mission 4)
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My best time on expert: 15 minutes, 20 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 2705
8.1: Introduction
=================
"The ancient corruption was again contained. To do more would have upset the
balance, but we knew to remain ever vigilant lest it resurface. Neither the
Hammers nor the pagans could be trusted not to meddle."
-- Keeper Annals
I had some money to spare after disposing of the Horn, so it seemed time to
invest in some new..."tools". Farkus is one of the few merchants willing to risk
selling to an idependent like me, and his prices are steep...but the other
choice is to let one of the so-called "City Wardens" give me orders...AND take a
cut of my profits. They'd been after me for years to join one of their stables,
but I'm not interested. Maybe they'll get the idea and give up. More likely
they'll just ramp up the threats. Nothing I can't handle if I'm careful. AND
lucky. And my luck seems to have finally turned for the better....
8.2: Objectives: Normal and Hard
================================
1. Now that you've got the finest in lockpicks, you can go after more
challenging -- and lucrative -- targets. How about the local Hammer
Temple? Get at least 1,000 loot.
8.3: Objectives: Expert
=======================
1. Now that you've got the finest in lockpicks, you can go after more
challenging -- and lucrative -- targets. How about the local Hammer
Temple? Get at least 1,000 loot.
2. A true professional doesn't leave a mess. Don't kill anyone!
8.4: Simplified Objectives
==========================
1. Loot the Hammer Temple for at least 1,000.
2. Don't kill anyone.
NOTE: Your mission objectives will be changing VERY fast once you start the
mission.
8.5: Before The Mission
=======================
What You'll Encounter: Human Guards (including Archers and Swordsmen), Burricks.
Starting Funds: Whatever you managed to acquire in the Bonehoard. (Maximum:
2450.)
Starting Gear:
40 Broadhead Arrows
4 Water Arrows
2 Moss Arrows
1 Set of Lock Picks
1 Lockpicking Instructions
Items for Sale:
20 Broadhead Arrows (Cost: 25 each)
11 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
2 Fire Arrows (Cost: 300 each)
8 Moss Arrows (Cost: 125 each)
3 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
NOTE: Once again, your sword and blackjack are not shown under the "Starting
Gear" for this mission. However, you DO have them both.
Fire Arrows and Broadhead Arrows are pretty much useless in this mission, since
you can't kill anyone. Since your supply of Water Arrows starts so small, you
should buy a few more, to take care of any torches that will reveal your
presence inside. Also, at the start of your mission you will have an opportunity
to pick up a few items (see below)...so check what you will be getting and
decide what you'll need then.
REMEMBER: Despite what your mission objectives tell you at the start of the
mission, you will NOT be entering the Hammer Temple, but home of a man named
Ramirez. Prepare for THAT.
Recommended Purchases: 11 Water Arrows. Total Cost: 550
8.6: Notes Regarding This Mission
=================================
This is another mission that introduces a new aspect to Thief, and this time
it's one that I enjoy far more than the traps: Lockpicking. [Note: A few times
in this walkthrough I will tell you to pick a lock. You are carrying a set of
lockpicking instructions. Read them.]
The beginning of this mission is a follow-the-leader type of mission.
Unfortunately, the ones you are following sometimes take a different route back.
I have only personally witnessed one, which is the one detailed below. If anyone
knows of any additional features that should be noted on other routes, I would
appreciate knowing about them.
While you are working through this mission, there are a lot of guards you may
encounter. While the walkthrough does not specify when to take any out, feel
free to do so at your discretion. In some cases (such as leaping onto the roof),
you may want to make sure no nearby patrols can hear you by removing the patrol.
Inside, many of the guards (and at least one servant) have keys you can
pickpocket.
If the guards become aware of you during your mission, then you get another
mission objective: Get back to your own area of the city. I have seen this once,
and when you leave the mansion area, the streets are crawling with Ramirez' men.
Basically, all you need to do is retrace your steps back to the area where you
started, Farkus' shop (I think...I haven't actually made it back successfully
yet, but this is what I've been told). Anyone who cares to clarify this, I would
appreciate it.
The first time I went through this mission, it took me over an hour. Why?
Because I like to be thorough the first time through...I took out every guard I
could outside the house, so I could have free run if I needed to. But when I
came back OUT of the house, there were new guards posted (they looked something
like thieves), in slightly different areas. Since no alarm was raised, I can
only assume that at some point in the game there is a "changing of the guard".
Also, one of these new guards was positioned in a spot as to make the exit from
the manor that I propose very difficult. As noted above, my best time is under
half an hour...I assume that this "changing of the guard" takes place at a
specified time like half an hour or one hour into the mission. (As an
interesting tidbit, while exploring the grounds with the new guards in position,
I noted that one of them was practically standing on the body of a guard I had
hidden in shadows!) (All of this was noted while playing the original Thief
game.)
There seem to be several differences between the original Thief and Thief Gold
with this mission's guards...both in number, location, and where and when they
patrol. For this reason, most references in this walkthrough to such things are
either left out, or refer to Thief Gold if they are mentioned.
8.7: Walkthrough
================
You start off in Farkus' store, having just purchased your new lock picks. As
soon as you take a step though, and arrow comes slicing through the window and
puts an end to Farkus's mercantile days. If you stop and listen, you'll hear the
two assassins discussing the murder. That arrow was meant for you! How rude!
[NOTE: At this point, your mission objectives change to the following:
1. Loot the Hammer Temple for at least 1,000. (This one will have a
mark in the box, indicating its irrelevance.)
2. Trail the thugs who just tried to assassinate you, without being
detected.
3. Don't kill anyone. ]
Move around the store, and pick up the following items:
2 Water Arrows (beneath the shelf holding the Fire Arrows)
3 Fire Arrows (one on the counter, two more on a shelf near the window)
2 Moss Arrows (on the same shelf with the Water Arrows)
3 Rope Arrows (underneath the counter)
2 Noisemaker Arrows (underneath the counter)
3 Flash Bombs (one on the counter, two more underneath the counter)
[NOTE: Be VERY CAREFUL when picking up the items in the store. The first few
times I did it, I was in such a rush I accidentally set off one of the flash
bombs, alerting the assassins to my presence and prematurely ending the
mission.]
You have to do this quickly, so the assassins don't get too far ahead and you
lose their trail! [Note: I suggest that you do this WHILE they are discussing
their sloppy handiwork. It saves time. Alternatively, if you are not that
concerned with getting the best possible time, you can come back here and pick
up the items AFTER you have followed the Assassins to their lair.]
Exit the shop, and turn right. Try to stick to the shadows as you move. Move
forward, past the first turning on your left, and take the next left. Keep
going, until you come to a point where You can move on or through a lighted
archway. Continue forward.
At this point, if not before, you should have the assassins in sight. Since you
have to follow them, I'm not going to walk you through their route back.
Instead, I'll point out some highlights [Note that it would be wise to save your
game a few times as you follow them]:
1: The lighted archway (mentioned above). At this point, no matter how careful
you've been, the assassins stop for a moment to make sure no one is following
them.
2: The metal bridge. You have two choices here. Use a Moss Arrow to cover the
sound you make crossing, or wait until they are too far ahead to hear you.
[Note: After crossing the bridge, the assassins turn left. ONCE, I saw them turn
right. I didn't get a chance to follow them, as they heard me cross the bridge.]
Once past the bridge and out of sight, they appear to pause and check to see if
anyone is following again.
3: Stone ramp. For some reason, they can hear you at this point. Hang back, and
wait for them to turn.
4: The wooden bridge. Sometimes, they hear you here, either on the bridge
itself, or on the metal steps leading up to it. Tread softly. Also, their path
at this point puts them in a position to see you if you're following far enough
behind. Either stay close, or hang back.
5: Streetlamps. Just up past the wooden bridge is a street with lit streetlamps.
Wait in the shadows here. At the far end of the road, they assassins turn to
once again check to see if they're being followed. [Note: I have, on occassion,
seen them skip checking here. I have no idea why.]
6: Ramp with three overhead lights (not streetlamps). Sometimes (again, I don't
know why they do or don't) the assassins stop at the top to check behind them.
7: The Ramirez Mansion. This is where your journey ends. As Garrett is talking
to himself about what to do, one of the assassins turns to take a last look
behind.
[NOTE: At this point, your mission objectives change to the following:
1. Trail the thugs who just tried to assassinate you, without being
detected. (This one should be checked).
2. Time to show Ramirez who the real criminal mastermind is. Break into
his mansion and take what he values most -- his wealth. The purse
from his belt should make the point.
3. Loot the mansion for valuables. You need at least 2,000 worth.
4. Locate his prized silver fire-poker. It's worth quite a bit.
5. Get out of the mansion.
6. Don't kill anyone.]
ADDITIONAL FEATURES: On other routes that the Assassins can take, you may note
the following:
8: Long metal ramp. If the Assassins move down a long metal ramp, DO NOT FOLLOW
THEM DOWN IT! Instead, walk along the left and fire a Moss Arrow down at the
base of the ramp. Then drop onto the moss, and continue.
Once the last assassin as gone inside, move up to the entrance, and listen to
the conversation the guards are having. Hmm...I wonder if that has anything to
do with you?
SAVE YOUR GAME! It would be a shame to go through that whole follow-the-leader
routine again. Once you hear the guards start to move off, move almost
immediately forward. However, don't go too far. Stay in the shadows.
In the original game, one of the guards comes back very quickly, and you'll be
able to club him with your blackjack. [Note: There is a dark area across and to
the left of the mansion (as you face away from it), which you can hide bodies
in.] In Thief Gold however, it takes the guard about two minutes to return.
You can either go forward into the mansion through the main entrance (careful,
there's a guard right inside that might be facing your way!), or down one of the
gravel paths, left or right, onto the mansion grounds. While any of these
directions will get you inside, my preferred way is going left. So, go left,
being sure to walk carefully on the gravel path (use a Moss Arrow if you need
to...there's a guard on a walkway right above you!).
[NOTE: A third route into the grounds is available. If you go around the mansion
on the outside, you will eventually find a sewer/waterway system. You can push
against the flow under the wall and pull yourself up onto the grounds inside.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! The entire outer grounds area is a Patrol Area. Move forward
onto the grass, and turn left. Stay in the shadows. Move all the way to the end,
and turn right. You should see a guard walking away from you, and a very large
shadowy area. Move into that area, and stay there. There should be a guard
walking towards this area very soon, if he's not already. (If you've seen him
before this point, you weren't moving fast enough, and were probably seen by
him.) Knock him out, grab his body, and move forward. There's a narrow space
between the outer wall and the mansion up ahead, with a door in the outer wall.
You'll need to pick the lock to get in, but don't worry, you have time. Once you
get the door open, go inside. It's safe to hide the body in here. There is also
a flash bomb and two mines on the floor near the ladder. Climb up the ladder.
Once at the top, turn right. You should be looking out a "window" at a low roof
portion of the mansion.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You might be heard when you try this. Jump out the window and
land on the roof portion. Turn left, and mantle up onto the balcony. Go inside.
Congratulations, you've made it into the mansion proper!
Immediately upon entering, turn to your right, and go through the door there.
Nice bathroom, isn't it? Plenty of stuff for a taffer like you. Unfortunately,
to get everything in here you're going to have to mantle up onto the edge. (When
you're finished on one side, you can do a balancing act on the edge of the
bathtub to get to the other side.) Start collecting treasures. You will get the
following: four Golden Candlesticks (50, 50, 50, 50, Treasure Count: 50, 100,
150, 200), two fancy goblets (15, 15, Treasure Count: 215, 230), a bottle of
fine wine (50, Treasure Count: 280), and a jewelled bracelet (125, Treasure
Count: 405). Hop out of the tub, and go back into the main bedroom.
Okay, time to pick up some more loot. In front of the fireplace, pick up two
more bottles of wine (50, 50, Treasure Count: 455, 505), two gold goblets (25,
25, Treasure Count: 530, 555), and a golden dinner plate (50, Treasure Count:
605). Now, see the bed? Go over to the far side, and there will be a chest
against the wall. If you like, go ahead and pick the lock on the chest. All that
is inside is a key to the basement, which you won't need (you can pick that
lock, too). However, look straight down onto the carpet. It may be difficult to
see, but there is a ring on the floor here (100, Treasure Count: 705). Now, turn
back and go to the fireplace again. Look up on the mantle, and grab the vase
(100, Treasure Count: 805). Put out the fire with a Water Arrow, crouch down,
and move into the fireplace. First, turn right, and look down. Someone
carelessly dropped a diamond in here (100, Treasure Count: 905). Turn around 180
degrees, and look up (if you're still crouched). Pull the lever, and a secret
door to your right will open. Move through (you need to be crouched to fit
through), and almost immediately to your right, on the wall, is Ramirez' prized
silver fire-poker (200, Treasure Count: 1105). Move forward, and turn left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! It's possible for you to be overheard in here. Walk forward, and
open the chest to get a small sack of gold (100, Treasure Count: 1205). Now work
your way back through the fireplace into Ramirez' bedroom again, turn to the
right, and move over to the door.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This door opens into a small, dark hallway, and there is a guard
out there patrolling the main hallway. If the guard is nearby and sees or hears
you, you'll be glad you saved. If you get the chance, take care of him. [Note:
He has a key on his belt you can pickpocket, if you like.] Also tread slowly up
hear, as there are windows that open into a courtyard outside, where two guards
can hear you.
Move to the end of this small dark hallway, and turn right. Go into the first
door on your right (you'll need to pick the lock). Take the vase off of the
fireplace mantle (50, Treasure Count: 1255), and leave the room. Turn right in
the hallway, and enter the next room on your right (again, pick the lock). Take
the ring off of the table in the far corner (100, Treasure Count: 1355), and the
golden vase off of the fireplace mantle (100, Treasure Count: 1455). Leave the
room, turn right, and take the next LEFT turn.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're walking through an area now where there is a guard below
you. That large opening to your right opens down onto the main entrance. Hug the
left wall (if you want to feel safer, crouch, but it's not necessary), and walk
all the way down to the end of this hall. Stop before entering the next hallway
though. Move forward slightly until you can open the door across the hall from
you. Open it, and rush into the next room. There are two servants down the hall
a ways, and they may see you if you dally in the hallway.
Turn left in this room, and go over to the other door. Open it. Now turn left,
and lean out into the hallway. You should see the two servants. Shoot a Water
Arrow at the torch behind them. Once the coast is clear, open the door across
the hall from you, and move in.
[Note: For those of you that like completeness, when you turn left after opening
the second door in the room above, you'll see a chest on the ground. Pick the
lock, and you'll get a speed potion.]
Time to add to your collection of Ramirez Originals. Turn to your right, and
grab everything in sight: two bottles of wine (50, 50, Treasure Count: 1505,
1555), two golden goblets (25, 25, Treasure Count: 1580, 1605), a golden dinner
plate (50, Treasure Count: 1655), and five more fancy goblets (15, 15, 15, 15,
15, Treasure Count: 1670, 1685, 1700, 1715, 1730).
While you are helping yourself to Ramirez' best, listen to the conversation that
the servants in the hall are having...hmmm, so Ramirez is in the basement, is
he?
[Note: On more than one occassion (in the original Thief game), the door to the
room where you just picked up all that treasure just disappeared. I couldn't see
it, and there was no way to close it. I don't know why this happened.]
Once the servants have ended their conversation and you can hear the their
footsteps, enter the hall again and turn left. Go through the door directly
ahead.
You may wish to move carefully through this room...the floor makes your
footsteps particularly loud. As soon as you've entered, turn left, then take the
first right, then left again. Turn left and climb the stairs. Once upstairs,
move all the way down to the desk at the end, and take the two golden
candlesticks (50, 50, Treasure Count: 1780, 1830). Then turn left (as you're
facing the desk), and move into the shadowy alcove ahead. Turn right, look down,
and pick the lock on this chest to get another ring (100, Treasure Count: 1930).
Make your way back down the stairs, turn right, then left, then left again.
Move forward a step or two. You should now be in the library, facing a pair of
double doors, with a roaring fireplace to your right. Turn to your right, and to
the right of the fireplace you should see a dark area surrounded on three sides
by bookshelves. Enter that area, and face the wall of books on the same wall as
the fireplace (if I've confused you, use your compass...it's the southern
bookcase). Look around until one of the books is highlighted...it will be on the
third shelf from the top, second shelf over, first book. Pull on the book, and
you'll open another secret door. Turn right, and move forward...go through the
secret door you've opened, and move to the end of the passage, where you'll find
a ladder leading down.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are a few guards at the bottom of this ladder. Sit here
and listen for a bit...they're talking about the men who tried to assassinate
you tonight. (You may need to jump onto the ladder in front of you before they
start their conversation.) Once they leave (listen until you hear the door close
behind them), climb down the ladder. With the ladder at your back, move ahead
into the next room. If you want to open the chest, go ahead. It contains two
flash bombs, which you won't need. The gold on the table, however, is a
different story. Take all six stacks of coins (25, 25, 25, 25, 25, 25, Treasure
Count: 1955, 1980, 2005, 2030, 2055, 2080). Turn left, move forward, and turn
left again. Open the chest in front of you to get another stack of gold coins
(25, Treasure Count: 2105). Turn left. You should be able to see two doors, one
in the wall opposite you, and one in the wall to your right. Head for the one
opposite you. (Just for information's sake, the two guards you heard talking
left through the other door.)
[NOTE: Apparently, it is possible to get into the room below with the guards
still in it, without them noticing you. Someone wrote to me saying they
accidentally fell off the ladder into the room, and the guards never noticed at
all! I myself fell halfway down the ladder before stopping, and had a clear view
of the two, and one of them could not fail to see me...but did!]
SAVE YOUR GAME! The hallway you are about to enter is a patrol area. If
necessary, deal with any guards you come across appropriately. [Note that some
of them have keys you can lift off their belts.]
Go through the door, step out into the hall, and turn right. Step into the next
hall, and turn right again. Go through the first door on your left. On the table
on the right side of the room you'll find a necklace (200, Treasure Count 2305).
Beside the table is another door. Go through it, and turn right. Ahead of you is
another door. Head for it, but before going through it, turn right, and pick up
the bottle of wine (50, Treasure Count: 2355) and the golden goblet (25,
Treasure Count: 2380).
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're going back into the hallway, which is still a patrol
area.
Go through the door, turn left, and go through the door directly ahead of you
(pick the lock). Turn right, and then left. Follow this hall to the end, where
you'll find a door on the left. Pick it, and go through it into the basement.
In the room at the bottom of the stairs, turn right, and follow the hall until
you can turn left. Do so, and then take the very first left, directly in front
of you. Follow this corridor all the way to the end, ignoring the turning to the
right, and you'll be stopped by a door.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Pick this lock, go through, and turn left. You want to go into
the first left turn, but be careful about it. Crouch, hide in shadows, edge
forward slightly.
This is Ramirez himself. You can either knock him out and take the purse off his
belt, or lift it off and then knock him out. Either way the result is the same
(250, Treasure Count: 2630).
[Note: If Ramirez pulled the bell-pull, wait around in the shadows. A servant is
coming to leave a tray for him. Either take him out when you get the chance, or
simply let him go through...he will put the tray down and leave. Also, I've been
told that if the alarm has been sounded, there will be a guard in this room with
Ramirez. Apparently, you can blackjack him and pick up the body before Ramirez
turns around to see.]
On the table in the dark area, there are 6 Water Arrows and 4 Moss Arrows. On a
shelf opposite from the bellpull you'll find two stacks of gold coins (25, 25,
Treasure Count: 2655, 2680). On the shelf at the back of the room is a speed
potion, a flash bomb, and a key. The key is needed to open the two chests in
this room...their locks cannot be picked. You can ignore the chest on the
floor...it only contains some documents of Ramirez'. The chest on the back
counter, however, holds another stack of gold coins (25, Treasure Count: 2705).
Okay Garrett, time for you to leave! Exit the room the way you came in, turn
right, and go through the first door on your right. Follow this hallway all the
way to the end, and turn right, and immediately turn right again. Move forward
into the next room, turn left, and climb the stairs.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're entering the ground floor again, and the halls are still
patrol areas. Go through the door, turn right, and at the end of the hall turn
right again. Go through the door on your left, and then go through the next door
on your left. You should now be back in the guard room with the ladder. Take the
ladder up, and follow the passage back to the library. Once there turn left,
move forward until you have a set of double doors on your right. Turn and face
them.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You might accidentally attract some attention outside. You need
to pick the lock on one of these doors (either one, your choice). Once that is
done, go through it.
From here, you can end the mission one of two ways:
1) The safe way. Turn left, and hop onto the roofing you see ahead of you. Turn
right, so you're facing a door across a gap. Look down, and you'll see a ladder
beneath the door. Line yourself up with the ladder, move forward until you fall,
and catch the ladder. Climb the ladder down to the water level (once you reach
it, you won't be able to go any down any further), then jump off the ladder into
the water (don't worry...you're so close, you won't make a big splash). Swim
under the water, following the current. Turn left up ahead, and let the current
flush you out the rest of the way.
2) The fast way. Turn slightly to the right, then run and jump OVER the balcony.
You should land (with quite a splash) in the water below. Follow the current,
turning left up ahead, and let it flush you out the rest of the way. (This
method runs the risk of attracting the guards' attention.)
[NOTE: One time while using method two, as I was falling through the air towards
the water, I saw a guard just turning the corner. Somehow, he failed to notice
me at all! The splash didn't attract his attention, nor did my body flying
through the air!]
Congratulations! You've shown Ramirez who's the REAL criminal mastermind!
Section 9: Thieves' Guild (Mission 5)
=====================================
My best time on expert: 36 minutes, 35 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 2716
9.1: Introduction
=================
"In the beginning we lived as thieves, Stealing fur and fang of beasts for
survival. Then came the Builder who brought us the Hammer, And with it we forged
a new way of life. To reject the Hammer is to denounce the Builder."
-- The Hammer Book of Tenets
I was going to pay Lord Randall and his vase collection a visit, but the
Downwind Thieves' Guild beat me to the score. Word is that they haven't divvied
the booty yet. Apparently their leaders...Donal and Rueben...are arguing over
the prized sapphire vase. Sounds like they could use a third party to settle
their disagreement. Since I'm no mediator, I'll just steal the vase from them.
They'll be so busy blaming each other no one will suspect an outsider.
The Downwinders run a gambling den called the "Overlord's Fancy," which operates
under a nearby restaurant. The guild's hideout is beneath the casino. I have a
rough map of the complex I got from..."sources" from the inside. Once I'm in the
"Overlord's Fancy" I'll have to search for the secret entrance to the hideout.
Have to be careful...the Downwinder's know me all too well. If they catch sight
of me they'll KNOW who took the vase. Assuming they don't just kill me for
trespassing.
Finding the vase may prove difficult, since I have no idea where it is. Should
be a hot topic of conversation among the Downwinders. Maybe I'll be lucky enough
to overhear where they're stashing it. Time to make a living....
9.2: Objectives on Normal level
===============================
1. Break into the Downwind Thieves' Guild by breaking into the gambling
den the Overlord's Fancy.
2. Retrieve Lord Randall's sapphire vase.
3. The Guild made stealing the vase more difficult -- make them pay.
Don't leave with less than 1000 in loot.
4. Get out of the Guild and back to the streets when you are done.
9.3: Objectives on Hard level
=============================
1. Break into the Downwind Thieves' Guild by breaking into the gambling
den the Overlord's Fancy.
2. Retrieve Lord Randall's sapphire vase.
3. The Guild made stealing the vase more difficult -- make them pay.
Don't leave with less than 1500 in loot.
4. They also stole Lord Randall's prized bracelet. It'll fetch a good
price on the market.
5. Violence is the mark of the amateur. Don't kill anyone who is
unarmed.
6. Get out of the Guild and back to the streets when you are done.
9.4: Objectives on Expert level
===============================
1. Break into the Downwind Thieves' Guild by breaking into the gambling
den the Overlord's Fancy.
2. Retrieve Lord Randall's sapphire vase.
3. The Guild made stealing the vase more difficult -- make them pay.
Don't leave with less than 2000 in loot.
4. They also stole Lord Randall's prized bracelet. It'll fetch a good
price on the market.
5. Violence is the mark of the amateur. Don't kill anyone.
6. Get out of the Guild and back to the streets when you are done.
9.5: Simplified Objectives
==========================
1. Get into the Downwind Thieves' Guild.
2. Steal Lord Randall's sapphire vase.
3. Steal at least 2000 loot.
4. Retrieve Lord Randall's bracelet.
5. Don't kill anyone.
6. Get back to the streets when you are done.
Once again, this is another mission where some of your mission objectives (in
particular, the vase and the bracelet) contribute to your loot total. The vase
adds 500, and the bracelet adds
9.6: Before The Mission
=======================
What You'll Encounter: Thieves (Archers and Swordsmen), Spiders
Starting Funds: Whatever you managed to acquire from Ramirez. (Maximum: 2705.)
Starting Gear:
1 Sword
1 Blackjack
30 Broadhead Arrows
7 Water Arrows
2 Moss Arrows
3 Rope Arrows
1 Set of Lockpicks
Items for Sale:
30 Broadhead Arrows (Cost: 25 each)
20 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
5 Fire Arrows (Cost: 300 each)
8 Moss Arrows (Cost: 125 each)
5 Rope Arrows (Cost: 200 each)
10 Noisemaker Arrows (Cost: 250 each)
3 Flash Bombs (Cost: 200 each)
6 Mines (Cost: 350 each)
4 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
3 Speed Potions (Cost: 500 each)
Once again, this mission requires that you kill no one, so Broadhead and Fire
Arrows are useless to you on this level, as are Mines. You also start with
enough Rope Arrows to complete the mission successfully (I can only recall using
a single one!), so purchasing more are unnecessary. And with Healing Potions
scattered about all over the place, your money is best spent elsewhere. You will
be dousing a LOT of torches, so buy up all the Water Arrows. A Flash Bomb or two
might also prove useful. A Noisemaker Arrow will definitely come in handy later.
Speed Potions...I've yet to find a real use for them. A couple of extra Moss
Arrows may prove useful to you, but I found I didn't require any.
Recommended Purchases: 20 Water Arrows, 1 Noisemaker Arrow, 3 Flash Bombs. Total
Cost: 1850
9.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
=================================
One of my favourite pieces of science fiction humour is a masterpiece called
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," by Douglas Adams. In one portion of the
radio series, the following quotation is given about just how large space is:
"Space is BIG. I mean, REALLY BIG! You just won't believe how vastly, hugely,
mind-bogglingly big it is! I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street
to the chemist, but that's just PEANUTS to space!"
That's how I feel about this mission. Big. Huge. Sometimes confusing, and
sometimes DEFINITELY frustrating. And a LOT of FUN!
The treasures on this level are, for the most part, very small in value, so
there are a LOT of them, and sometimes hidden quite well. (I suppose that that
can be said for ANY mission in Thief, but for some reason I particularly noticed
it here.) Be aware that a few of the treasures you find are purses which you
have to take off of someone's belt.
There are a LOT of people in this level which you need to knock out. (My first
time through, when I finished I had a total of 69 knockouts!) In some areas, I
have found people stationed close together, nearly side by side, but which you
are able to knock out one by one without alerting the others. I do not know why
this works, but it does. It shocked the heck out of me at first. Other areas are
patrolled with such frequency that you sometimes have very little time to do
much with the guards. You have to time it so that you can take one out and have
enough time to hide the evidence before the next one approaches. I've been
spotted on more than one occassion. Thank the Builder for saved games! There are
so many people moving between areas that you can pretty much consider this
entire level a Patrol Area, so save your game often. There are also a lot of
pockets to pick...18 in total.
There are machines scattered about the sewer/waterway areas, with level
attachments. Some of these open portals and doorways that I've been able to
find. Some, I have not found the correspondingly numbered panels that they
(presumably) operate. #48 has me especially baffled...if it exists, I want to
find that portal! :)
The most difficult part of this mission I had was finding Lord Randall's
bracelet. I eventually had to contact Looking Glass themselves and ask them
where they had put it! :(
9.8: Walkthrough
================
You'll start the mission around the corner from the front entrance of the
restaraunt. You should also see someone standing there. Move into the shadows to
avoid being seen, and listen to their conversation. You can lean over if you
would like to see them as well as hear them, but be careful...if you're spotted,
they come after you.
After their amusing conversation (they really are breeding them from the shallow
end of the gene pool, aren't they?), one of two things will happen: either all
three of them will go inside, or two of them will go inside, and the third will
patrol around outside. In either case, once you are no longer in danger of being
spotted, move forward to the spot where they were chatting, and turn left. Move
down this street, and continue following it until you have the choice of either
continuing forward (you should see a blue sign beyong a barrel ahead), or
turning right. Turn right, and move forward. Once you hit the wall, turn right.
You want to go through this door, but you'll have to pick the lock.
[NOTE: At some point, you may notice a guard (of the regular type you found in
Lord Bafford's) wandering around outside. Unless you threaten him, he pretty
much leaves you alone.]
Once you're inside, move over to the only other exit from this room. If you look
inside, you'll see a servant preparing food. You may also see a guard patrolling
between this room and the next. You'll want to knock out both of them. Take out
the servant first.
See that fireplace directly across from where you entered? To the left of it (as
you face it) is a nice dark patch, ideal for hiding bodies, and for waiting for
that guard to come back on his rounds.
On the other side of the fireplace is an exit leading into the next room.
There's another patrolling guard moving between the next room and the one after
that. If you're lucky, you'll get to him so you can see him with his back
turned...run up and club him. If you can't see him though, that means he's in
the next room, but will be coming in soon. Move into the room, and sidestep to
your left. You will find yourself in a darkened corner beside the fireplace,
safe from being seen. Then you can watch for the guard to turn, and club him at
your leisure.
Now that this level is clear of guards, move into the next room, across from the
fireplace in this room. Upon entering, turn right. Aha! Your first bit of loot!
Not much granted, but it's something. Pick up the two stacks of copper coins (5,
5, Treasure Count: 5, 10), and open the box to get some silver coins (15,
Treasure Count: 25). Also grab the key on the table.
Turn right around, and move through the exit across the room from you. Turn
right, and unlock the door you find using the key you just picked up. Go up
these stairs, but wait until you enter the next room. There is someone moving
around up here between rooms, and this is one of them. If you don't hear any
nearby footsteps, then it is probably safe to move into the next room. Once you
do, hide in one of the shadowy areas and wait. Once he comes into your area,
make sure he doesn't leave again.
Now, turn to face the two doors on the opposite wall. You want to the one on the
left. Go through it. This next room has two chests you can open. The first one
holds only a Rope Arrow. The other one though (the one closest to the Sleeper)
holds some gold coins (25, Treasure Count: 50). Gather your findings, and move
through the door at the other end of the room (be careful not to wake up the
Sleeper!)
In the next room, there are two Broadhead Arrows lying on the ground immediately
to your right upon entering (you will have to move around the door, or close it,
to get to them). If you want them, take them. Across from the door you just came
through you will see a what looks like a well in near the wall. This is your
access to the casino below. Shoot a Rope Arrow into the ceiling above it, then
grab on and climb down!
Move out and to the right. Near the fireplace, you should see two exits...one
ahead, and one to the left. You want to be over there. Move ahead, and go
through the opening, but do not go into the hallway! There is a patrolling guard
you want to take out. Stay here near the entrance to the hall, and wait for him.
You may need to crouch to make sure he avoids seeing you. If you've got the
time, you may want to lean out and shoot a Water Arrow at the torch you'll be
able to see.
Once you've clubbed the guard, turn around and head back the way you came. Go
all the way down to the end of the hall, and move through the door you'll find
on the right. Ignore the opening on your right for now, just keep moving until
you reach the first door on your right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! The guard in here is sometimes facing your direction, and when
you open the door he blows the whistle on you. Open the door, and move in behind
the guard. Take the key from his belt, then knock him out. Once he's
unconscious, you can move forward to the window ahead (opposite the door). On
the table on the other side, you can pick up two stacks of copper coins (5, 5,
Treasure Count: 55, 60). This might also be a good time to use a Water Arrow on
that torch far ahead and to your right. Now turn around and leave the way you
came in. Turn left, and move into the room through the opening on your left.
Immediately to your right you should find a stack of silver coins on the table
(12, Treasure Count: 72).
Turn again so that that table is again on your right. Move ahead, and you should
soon come to a sort of guardrail. Turn left, and move forward towards the next
room. Before going in there though, shoot a Water Arrow at that torch down the
hall.
SAVE YOUR GAME! If this part doesn't work the way you want it to, things might
get messy. With the torches out, the next room is in relative darkness. There
are four people to deal with. We'll take care of two now, and the other two
later.
Move forward until you are standing behind the man at the table. Knock him out.
Leave his body where it falls...instead, turn and run back the way you came in,
but stop at the intersection between this room and the previous one. The woman
who was at the table with the man should have discovered his body, and started
running. But, she's running THIS way, and you've just blocked her escape. Turn
around, and when she's close enough, give her a whack with your blackjack. (Okay
all you dirty-minded people...that is NOT what I meant!)
[NOTE: Sometimes it is easier to finish the other two guards off now, instead of
waiting until later. If you'd rather take the remaining two out now, skip the
next seven paragraphs to find how to take them out now, then come back up here.]
Once the two non-combatants are taken care of, you can move into the room and
take the four stacks of coins off the table: three copper and one gold (5, 5, 5,
25, Treasure Count: 77, 83, 87, 112). Then turn right. See that light that keeps
flickering off and on? Well, you want to go through that area. Wait until the
light is out, then RUN through it, and turn right. Keep moving until you are out
of the light's radius, but stop before entering the next area. Shoot a Water
Arrow at the torch ahead of you.
SAVE YOUR GAME! It's possible you may be seen here. Move into the next room, but
don't go too far. Once you're in a bit, turn around...there's a torch behind you
to your right. Shoot a Water Arrow at it.
Once all the light's are out in this area, you've got other problems...there are
four more people to deal with in this room, but they aren't as easy to handle as
the last two were! Before we tackle them though, turn around again, so your back
is to the entrance you came in from. There's a roulette table up ahead, with a
stack of silver coins on it (12, Treasure Count: 124).
SAVE YOUR GAME! You may need to do this part several times before you get things
the way you want them. While you're standing at the far end of this room, shoot
a Noisemaker Arrow down the hall towards the crowd. Everyone will start
searching for you. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, knock someone out.
Note that the two guards that search for you have keys you can lift. Eventually,
everyone may stop looking for you before you can knock everyone out. If so, just
get their attention again and continue as before until everyone's taken care of.
(Remember, your Noisemaker Arrow's are retrievable!)
Once you've got this section all to yourself, move to the table in front of the
"window", and take the two stacks of copper coins off it (5, 5, Treasure Count:
129, 134). Then open the door to the guardroom with your Casino Key. Inside, you
will find shelves on either side. To the left, you'll find a Healing Potion on
the top shelf, and two Water Arrows on the bottom shelf. To the right is a purse
on the top shelf (50, Treasure Count: 184).
Exit this guardroom, and turn left. Go through the archway ahead, then stop. On
the shelf to your right you will find two Water Arrows. Now continue ahead, turn
right and move forward. Once you reach a doorway on your right (across from a
fireplace), turn right through the doorway, and continue forward through this
first room, stopping at the intersection leading into the next one.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This next part is described under IDEAL CONDITIONS. If the two
guards from this area were attracted by your activities on the other side of the
room though, things may not be ideal. If the guards have left their customary
posts, you may need to improvise this part a bit.
Move forward into this room, staying in the shadows. The flickering light at the
far end is still flickering, so wait until it's dark, then move through that
area quickly, turning left. You should be in front of a metal door. Crouch down,
making sure you're in shadows. Use your Casino Key on the door to open in. Move
in very carefully. You will be in full light, but the guards won't see you. Move
behind the first one, lift the key from his belt, then stand up and knock him
out. Crouch again, and repeat this process on the second guard.
Once these two are asleep, turn around. You should now be facing a door with
iron bars protecting it. Use your Casino Key to raise the bars, and then use it
again to open the door. Move through the door carefully...you might be heard.
Congratulations! You've made it into the Downwind Thieves' Guild!
[NOTE: There is another way down, this is just my preferred method. Back in the
casino, if you spin the roulette wheel on the table where you found the coins, a
secret door will open up, leading down to an area further along this
walkthrough. I will note the area when we come to it.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! This doesn't always work. At the end of the tunnel, stop and
listen to the conversation the two thieves are having. You can (sometimes) douse
that torch as they are talking, then move forward slowly (while crouched), and
get the purse from the one guy's (the non-guard) belt (25, Treasure Count: 209).
Once the two are finished, they will go their separate ways. Follow the guard to
the left. He's got a key on his belt you can lift. Knock him out (preferably in
the dark tunnel you move through). After he's sleeping, move ahead out of this
tunnel and into the next room, but stay in the shadows. There's another guard
patrolling. Once he's got his back turned to you, move in behind him, grab the
Healing Potion from his belt, then knock him out.
If you want to put the fire out in the fireplace to do this, go ahead, but it's
not necessary. Behind the fire is a secret panel (you may need to crouch to do
this). Open it, and grab the golden goblet you find inside (50, Treasure Count:
259). Then turn so that the fireplace is on your left, and move into the next
room, but stop almost immediately inside. Turn left. Sneak behind that guy, lift
his purse (100, Treasure Count: 359), and knock him out. Then grab the stack of
silver coins on the table (15, Treasure Count: 374), and the jeweled vase and
the fancy goblet from the bookcase shelf near the table (20, 15, Treasure Count:
394, 409). Also in this room, on the other bookshelf, is a scroll you can read.
It tells you of a way between the two feuding guild halves: the number 47 is
your clue. Doesn't mean much yet, but it will later. I recommend you also grab
the two Water Arrows in the chest.
Exit this room the way you came in. Once out, turn left, move forward, turn left
again, move forward, then turn right. Move ahead until you come out of the
tunnel. Then turn right and move forward a little. Once you've got the opening
to your right, turn, move in, and look down near the fireplace. Grab that silver
nugget (25, Treasure Count: 434).
Turn right around. Move forward, directly across the room towards a small
shelving unit, upon which sits a Speed Potion. Grab it if you like. Turn left,
and move ahead through the opening in the wall. Walk forward carefully, across
the room. Shortly, you'll reach a doorway in the wall on your righthand side.
Move up to it, but stay on this side of it. Crouch, and wait for a guard to come
through. (Watch your light monitor...to close to the doorway and you're visible
to him!) He'll turn around real quick and head back again, so grab his purse as
soon as you can (25, Treasure Count: 459). If you feel more comfortable leaving
no witnesses, knock him out. In either case, once the coast is clear, turn right
around and head for the door you came in through.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are two men that patrol through this next area, so you'll
need to be careful! Now, move through the door ahead of you, and immediately
turn left. Move ahead into the next room, hugging the wall to your left, and
move all the way forward until you are standing beneath that lamp. Now, turn
right, but don't move forward. Now we wait. Eventually, there will be two men
who come through. Keep waiting after the first man comes through, until the
second one appears. Once he comes in, make sure that first man can't see you,
then move in behind him (the second man) and knock him out. Then go after the
first man, and club him. [Note: When you first entered this area from the
casino, if you did not pick the purse from the man's belt, it will be on one of
these two gentlemen...the one who is not a guard.]
Okay, now that both men are sleeping peacefully, turn your attention to the
banner in this room. (If you had to leave the room to club either of these men,
return there now.) Pull out your sword, and cut down the banner. Behind it
you'll find a Healing Potion and a diamond (25, Treasure Count: 484). [Note:
It's important to take out those two patrollers before cutting down the banner.
Otherwise, they notice it.] Also, if you are interested, behind you you'll find
a single Broadhead Arrow on the rug.
SAVE YOUR GAME! While unlikely, you could be noticed here. Now, remember the
doorway that those two men came into this room from when you were hiding under
that lamp? You want to go through that doorway and immediately turn to your
left. Walk forward, hugging the left wall. Do not go into the next room though.
Once you're near the doorway, turn to your right, and crouch. You should see
some treasure highlighted in a hole in the wall. If you don't, move your view
around a little until you do. There are two stacks of copper coins in there (5,
5, Treasure Count: 489, 494). Also, if you are interested, you can lean into the
next room and open the chest. Inside it you'll find three Moss Arrows. Turn
around so you're facing the way you came, and move forward, staying in the
shadows. Stop before you go to far. Then turn left, but don't move forward. Lean
over to the right, so that you can see down into the next room. (If you can't do
it, you didn't move forward enough...or you're still crouched.)
Soon, a woman will come into the next room, head in your direction, then turn
around. Once she turns, you run down there and put her to sleep. Now that you
are in this room, continue ahead, keeping the pit to your right. Once you are
able to turn right, do so (do not go through the archway ahead just yet...we'll
get there soon enough). Ahead you should see a small ramp leading into a well-
lit room. Go into that room.
Directly ahead you should see some sort of stone shelves. Move forward, and on
the bottom shelf you'll be able to grab a fancy goblet (15, Treasure Count:
509). Now turn left, and move through the archway you see on your right.
Immediately upon moving through it, turn right again. The bottom shelf on this
side contains a Broadhead Arrow and two Water Arrows, plus a scroll of no
importance. The top shelf contains a Noisemaker Arrow and a Fire Arrow. Take any
of these you wish, although you'll probably only need the Water Arrows. At the
far end of the room (the opposite side from which you came in), look down in the
shadows near the wall with the shelves, and you'll find another fancy goblet
lying on the floor (15, Treasure Count: 524). Now move through the archway next
to the goblet you just found. In the next room (the one you just left actually),
leave through the door in the wall you're facing. (This would be the one you
originally came through.) Keep moving forward in the next room, and turn right
when you can. Turn right again, and head down this ramp. When you're at the
bottom, get into the shadows, and turn left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another area where you could be found out, albeit not likely, if
you're careful. Move cautiously into the next room. There's a guard at the far
end, but like the idiot he tries to be, he's facing the wrong way. (Who guards a
room like this???) Sneak up behind him. You can club him or not, as you see fit,
but I recommend it. On the floor next to him is a purse (20, Treasure Count:
544). Once you've got that, turn around and leave this room the way you came in.
Keep walking forward. In the next room, keep going past the hallway up that
small ramp on your left, and move through the shadowy opening ahead. Go through
this small, narrow hallway into the shadowy room ahead.
Loud in here, isn't it? Move ahead to the far side of the room, and you'll find
a large machine with six levers on it. Written above these levers are the
numbers 37 and 38, and each one has three corresponding levers. Operate the
leftmost lever under number 38. You should hear a loud CLANG! behind you. Ignore
it, and operate the leftmost lever under number 37. You should hear the sound of
a door sliding open. Now turn around, and move forward. Don't leave the room,
but turn left, and you should see a small ramp leading down and to the left.
Follow the ramp into the next room. You'll find another Fire Arrow on the floor,
and next to it two stacks of silver coins (10, 10, Treasure Count: 554, 564).
Leave this room the way you came in. Once you're at the top of the ramp, turn
until you see the exit you originally used to enter this room, and go through
it.
Ahead, you should see a large iron door which was once closed is now open.
Ignore it...it's for much later. Instead turn right so you're facing down the
long hallway, where you can see a guard at the end, and possibly (if you're far
enough to the one side) a lit torch.
[Incidentally, I was able to take that torch out from in this room, with the
floor grating about even with me on the left. It was a fantastic shot, if I do
say so myself. :) ]
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are two guards at the end of this hall, and sometimes they
spot you if you aren't careful enough. Move forward down this corridor, hugging
the right wall. Keep going until you can move right. Sidestep to the right, and
douse the torch with a Water Arrow. Then, sticking to the shadows, move in
behind the two thieves as they talk about Donal and Rueben. Their conversation
should give you some more information about where the vase is, as well as some
interesting bits about the turmoil the guild is currently undergoing. Lift the
purse off the one thief's belt while they're chatting (10, Treasure Count: 574).
Then head back into the shadows, and wait for them to finish their conversation.
When they do, one will head into your dark area. Knock him out. The other one
will be heading into a room beside this one, but emerge again quite soon, and
then move down a corridor which you can look down from this room. If you were
fast enough with the first thief, you should be able to run down there and knock
the other guy out before he turns around. If not, just wait for him here...he'll
move back into the room next door, then come out and move down the corridor
again. Club him then if you have to wait.
If you want to go into the room down the hall from here, you'll find an
Explosive Mine and a Flash Bomb on the floor near the wagon. There's also a
parchment on the floor near the back, a letter to another thief about paying
tribute to the heads of the Guild. You shouldn't need to go in this room,
however.
If you go into the room beside the one where the two thieves were talking (where
the second thief made part of his patrol), you'll find two Moss Arrows on a
shelf, and a ramp leading up to a door. Pulling the lever opens the door, and
leads back into the casino. (This is the door that opens when you spin the
roulette wheel in the casino.) Again, you should not need to go into this room,
it is merely mentioned for the sake of completeness.
So, now that those two thieves are sleeping peacefully, time to move on.
Directly across from the door leading into the room where the second thief did
part of his patrol is a ramp leading up. Take it to the top, but don't move out
just yet.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You don't want to be spotted. Peek out, and see if there's a
guard coming in your direction. If there is, just wait for him to turn...if he's
far enough away, he'll turn down a side corridor partway down the hall. If he's
closer, he'll turn to your right quite close to you. Note that this guard has a
Healing Potion you can lift from his belt.
If you saw the guard and he turned while close to you, then now you can just
emerge and club him. If this is not the case however, then slip into the room,
and immediately turn left. You should be facing a corner. Get into that corner,
and hide in the shadows there, and wait. Eventually, the guard mentioned above
will make his appearance. When he does, take him out.
While all this is going on, you should have heard and/or seen another guard
patrolling. This one, you want to get far at the other end. Facing down the
corridor where the guard was approaching you from, once the second guard turns
so he can't see you, race down the corridor, and take the same turn he did. Then
move up behind him and say nighty-night.
[Alternatively, if you are feeling daring, you can try this: when he turns the
corner so that he is walking away from you on the level below, drop down behind
him and club him. While I've tried this several times, I was only ever
successful once.]
That taken care of, continue down this hall, and you'll come to a door in the
left-hand wall. Go through it, turn right, and open the door at the end of this
short hall. But don't go through it yet.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Once again, someone's roaming around that might see you. Move
through the door (don't close this one). There will be a room on your left,
which you can ignore...there are two chests in it, but one is empty, and the
other contains only two Moss Arrows. The room on your immediate right is the one
you have to be careful of. There is a patrolling servant that sometimes moves
into that room. You can watch from behind the open door. If he does go into that
room, then wait until he turns around, then run up behind him and knock him out.
If the servant does not go into that room (I have no idea why he sometimes does
and sometimes doesn't, it just is that way), you may have to go into the room
BEYOND that one, and knock him out. From the first room (not the one with the
door, the one with the rug) you can knock out the fire in the fireplace and the
torch on the wall in the next room in order to improve your chances of remaining
undetected.
Once the servant is taken care of, the room with the rug contains an Explosive
Mine at the foot of the bed, if you want it. From this room, move into the room
with the fireplace mentioned above. Move towards the fireplace, and then go
through the opening you'll see ahead on your right. Another bedroom, but see
that shelf on the wall to your left? If you jump up, you'll be able to see (and
grab) another golden goblet (25, Treasure Count: 599).
Turn around and leave the room. In the next room, you should be able to see two
separate exits on your left. Move to the far one, but do not go through the
archway!
SAVE YOUR GAME! This has to be done a certain way in order for it to work
properly. Inch your way through the archway very slowly, but don't actually go
through. You are trying to trigger the conversation between two thieve's at the
other end of this hallway. Once they start talking, back up a bit. Then turn so
you are facing in the direction that the thieves are in, lean out, and shoot a
Water Arrow at the torch. Once it's out, whip out your blackjack and move up
closer to the two men.
While they are still talking, knock out the one closest to you. For some reason,
the other thief does not find this odd...he just acts as if the conversation is
over. Move in behind him and knock him out as well.
[NOTE: If you want to listen to the conversation, it's about the Bafford job you
pulled earlier on in your career. :) ]
Now that the coast is clear, move across the room towards the door on the wall
opposite the entrance you came in from. Open the door, and move into the next
room, turning left immediately, and moving down to the end of the room. Turn
right, and move forward to the end of the shelves. Look down, and on the bottom
shelf you'll find a golden candlestick (50, Treasure Count: 649). Turn and face
the way you came, and move forward to the end, and turn left. Move forward
through the archway ahead of you, and move past the first shelving unit on your
left. Turn left, and move forward to the door ahead of you. Don't open the door.
Instead, turn right, and look at the top shelf to find a necklace (50, Treasure
Count: 699). Turn so your back is to the door, and move forward. Turn right,
move through the archway ahead, and up to the door ahead on the left wall, and
move through it. Immediately turn right, move through the archway then turn left
and move through the door ahead of you. Turn right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This area can be tricky, and there are a couple of guards to
worry about. Move through the doorway you can see ahead, and turn left. Move
forward and get into the corner, and turn right. Use your Water Arrows on the
two torches you can see in this hallway. Now move forward, hugging the left
wall, until a door in that wall lights up. Open it, and lean over to see when
the guard walks by. Once he does, move in behind him and knock him out.
Move into the room and turn right. A little ways down, there is a chest against
the left-hand wall. Pick the lock to get silver nugget (50, Treasure Count:
749). You can pick the lock on the other chest if you want, but it only contains
an Explosive Mine.
Continue down to the end of the room. There is a door in the right hand wall. Be
sure you are not standing in view when you open it. There is a guard in here
with a very short patrol. You will need to knock him out. Edge over a bit so you
can see the end of his patrol. Watch it for a while to time your shot, then run
up behind him and knock him out. You may want to lean over and take out the two
torches in the next room to maximize your odds.
Crouch down, and open the door ahead of you. Sneak your way into the room,
pausing any time the woman thinks she hears you. Despite the way things look,
you can sneak right up behind her and pick her pocket (30, Treasure Count: 779).
There are also two chests in the room, which you can ignore. The one on the left
(as you face them) has a Healing Potion. The other has a Flash Bomb.
Leave the way you came in. In the next room, near the far wall there is a
sliding half-door on the wall to your left. Open it, then move forward and turn
left. Move into the hallway ahead, and go to the end. When you enter the next
room, turn right and move through the dark doorway you see. Move into the
lighted area, and turn right again. Go down that ramp you see. At the bottom,
look at the left of the wall opposite the ramp, and you should see a small metal
covering. Move over to it, and open it. Crouch, move through it, and go down the
ramp into the sewers. Turn right, and move forward. Ignore all turnings, just
keep going forward until you have reached a large metal portal.
SAVE YOUR GAME! While I've never alerted the guards with this, best to play it
safe. Open the portal, and move through it. Turn right, and move forward, up the
ramp ahead. Stop when you reach the top, and try to stay in the shadows. Turn
left so you can see a door. There is a guard that patrols in this area, and he
moves through that door. Wait for him, and when he shows up (either coming out
of the door or moving to it), get him.
Move forward. If the guard opened the door and it is still open, close it. Now
turn right. Move down to the end of the hall, and open the door on your left.
Move carefully into this room, and knock out the big guy standing by the
firepit. Once that is done, turn your attention to the table. The document on it
is just a threat to Rueben's number one man, and the box is empty. But
underneath the table you'll find a stack of gold coins (25, Treasure Count:
804). You need to be quiet in here, as there is another guard just outside the
other door in here. Walk around the firepit (keeping it on your left) and move
to the bookshelves. Just below the centre of the bookshelf, there is a hollow
between the books. Look there, and you'll find a key.
Now turn around and examine the firepit. Move around it so that, as you face it,
the bookshelves are on your left. A metal grate should highlight. Open it, and
inside you'll find Lord Randall's bracelet (75, Treasure Count: 879).
SAVE YOUR GAME! This next part is a little bit tricky. Leave this room from the
door you came in through. Once in the hall, turn right and move forward a bit,
then turn left and walk up the ramp, but don't enter the hall. Stay here in the
shadows. There is a patrolling guard out there. If he's near, you may hear his
footsteps rather loudly. Lean around and see if you can spot him...he patrols
the whole area outside this hall, so he may not be near.
You probably noticed the guard standing on a small porch, with two torches lit
up for him. Well, you're going to need to take those torches out. However, if
that patrolling guard is near them when you do, he will be alerted to your
presence and start looking for you. So if the guard is nowhere near the torches,
its safe to extinguish them. If he is, wait.
You need to take out the patrolling guard, and the torches. Do them in whichever
order is most expedient to you. The best way to take out the patrol is to wait
for him to walk by, then move in behind him. The other guard may see you, so you
may need to pause while he decides it was nothing. Try to knock the guard out
when he is behind the wall, so the other guard can't see him.
SAVE YOUR GAME! It would be a shame to fumble now. Once the guard and the
torches are taken care of, head towards the porch. You should be on the walkway
to the left of the porch, as you face it, hugging the left wall, for maximum
cover. When you are able to turn right and move onto the porch, do so
cautiously, and once you're close enough to club the guard, do so. Then turn to
the door, and unlock it with the House Key you just found. Move inside.
SAVE YOUR GAME! A couple of servants are sometimes on patrol in the next room.
The wall that you're facing has a door on the right. Open it, and from in here
you will be able to knock out the torch on the inner wall to your right. This
will put most of the next room in shadows, enough for you to walk in. You can
then put out the torch on the opposite wall from the previous one, if you wish,
although it is probably unnecessary.
The two servants will wander around in this room, the hallway beyond, and
another room (which we won't get to, as there is nothing worthwhile in there).
When you get the chance, knock them both out. Assuming you are still in the
large room where you extinguished the torches, then go forward into the hallway
(the entrance is directly opposite the way you entered this room), turn left,
and move down this hall to the end. Turn right and move to the end of this room.
This is a cell area. In the far cell on the left (as you face with your back to
the entrance you used) is a large spider. You don't have to worry about it, as
it can't get to you. There is an opening in the wall opposite the entrance you
used, but it is also useless to you. That room only contains an Explosive Mine
(which, if you are feeling violent, will do wonders to that trapped spider).
What you want is the door directly opposite the spider's cell. Go through the
door and up the stairs. Enter the next room cautiously, and stay in the shadows.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are two guards who will patrol into this room. Take out
the fire in the fireplace to give you more shadows to work with. (You can lean
over and just hit the inside of the fireplace with a Water Arrow...the splash
will do the rest.) There is a secret panel inside the fireplace. If you open it,
you will find another fire burning in the opposite fireplace. Opening the panel
while the other fire is lit does NOT increase the illumination in this room, but
putting out the other fire will improve your cover in this room.
Now wait for the guards. I have seen them come in nearly together, so that you
cannot blackjack them immediately. But most of the time, just wait and one will
come in. Take him out, wait for the other, and knock him out as well.
There are three exits in this room (not counting the portal in the fireplace).
Turn so that the exits are all in sight...one on your left, another ahead, the
last to your right. Move forward and go through the exit on the left. Turn right
once you're inside, and move to the end of the room. On the floor near the
makeshift bed you'll find a stack of copper coins (5, Treasure Count: 884). Now
leave this room the way you came in, and turn left into the next room. Near the
makeshift bed in here you'll find another golden goblet (25, Treasure Count:
909). Leave the way you came in. Keep walking forward, and turn left when you
can. In the next room, turn right and move ahead, turning left again through the
doorway there. Ahead of you is a fireplace, beside which is an entrance to a
kitchen area. Don't go forward just yet...we'll come back here later. Instead,
turn right again, and move over to the bookcase in the corner. Look at the top
shelf, and a book should highlight. This is a switch to activate a secret door.
Do so, then turn right again and go up the stairs that have now been revealed to
you.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Things can get very tricky up here. At the top of the stairs,
move through the doorway. To your right will be two sleeping guards. If you want
to, you can ignore the two chests in the room. The closest one contains a Flash
Bomb, and the other a Healing Potion. Turn your attention to the two doors in
the room. There's one directly across from you, and another in the wall to your
left. The latter is the one we want.
Move to the door, and open it carefully. There is a guard who's patrol takes him
very close to this door. Move out into the hall, and stay in the shadows. Wait
for the guard to come around, then club him. (Lift the Healing Potion from his
belt if you can.)
From this point, you should be able to see a large gap in the floor. Directly
across from you, across that gap, is a hallway. In the far corner of the room is
another door. There are two more guards you want to take care of, and they have
the same patrol. Unfortunately, they also usually patrol close together, so you
have to generally wait for the first one to pass and take out the second one
first. They will come out that door I mentioned, and then move towards the
hallway across from you, head down it, and disappear through a door. Also, each
one carries a key you can lift. Another cautionary note...there are two guards
on the level below who patrol around, and they may hear you up here, or even see
you through the gap in the floor. Exercise caution!
Once these two guards are taken care of, turn your attention to the door they
both came through to get in here. Move through it, and inside on a table you'll
find a gilded vase (25, Treasure Count: 934).
There are two exits from this room. Go through the one opposite the door you
entered by. In this new room, you'll find another fancy goblet on a table (15,
Treasure Count: 949). Leave through the only other exit in this room. Across the
hall you'll see a pair of double doors. Move through them.
Across from the door you entered by are two other doors. This room also contains
a few tables. On the table on the far right side of the room (as you face the
two other exits) are two golden goblets (25, 25, Treasure Count: 974, 999). Now
turn to the exit directly opposite from the way you came in. Use one of the keys
that you lifted from the guards up here, and go inside. Directly across from the
entrance in a small table, underneath which is another key. (You can ignore
this, you don't need it.) The far corner of the room contains a ledger you can
read, and another Healing Potion.
The real treasure in this room is behind a secret panel. Beside the door you
used to enter this room is a small picture. Face it. Two panels over to the
right is the secret compartment, inside which is a gold nugget (60, Treasure
Count: 1059), a silver nugget (25, Treasure Count: 1084), and a box containing a
safe key. This is what you will need to get to Lord Randall's vase.
There is another exit from this room. Open the door and move inside. Careful,
the floor is tile in here! Immediately turn left, and on one of the tiers to the
bathtub is a bottle of wine (50, Treasure Count: 1134).
You can either leave the way you came, or turn right and unlock the door ahead
(use the same key as you used to get into the room with the secret panel). Once
you are in the large room with four tables again, leave it via the double doors.
In the hallway beyond, turn right, and continue forward until you enter the room
with the large gap in the floor again. Turn left, move forward as far as you
can, then turn right and move forward. You will see some double-doors ahead. Go
through them into the library, and continue forward. At the end turn right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Once again, this can be tricky. There are two guards patrolling
the area you're about to enter. If you can see or hear either of them, then you
may want to wait until they are gone before doing this bit.
Go down the ramp ahead, and at the bottom turn right. On a long table in this
room are three candlesticks. The one in the centre is a golden candlestick (50,
Treasure Count: 1184).
There is a door in this room. Turn to face it. Now, sidestep over to the left
side of the room, and wait for the guards. If you position yourself right,
you'll be able to see a doorway far off through the archway you entered, in the
direction you're facing. This is the door the guards will come through. Watch
for them there, then get ready.
These guards, like the ones above, sometimes travel together. If this is the
case here, you will need to let the first one go by, and deal with the second
one first.
The guard will enter this room using the same archway you did. If you are
hugging the left wall (as you face the door ahead), you can actually be quite
close to the archway and not be seen. When you get the opportunity, club him.
(You may need to follow him into the next room to do so.) Note that one of these
guards has a Healing Potion you can filch.
Once the two roaming guards are taken care of, you should have free reign to
move about, at least for a while. Now, from the position where you were waiting
for the two guards to come in, you want to turn left through the archway that
you originally entered here from, then turn right immediately. Go through the
door you see at the far end. In the next room is a door in the left hand wall.
Open it, and go through it. Again, you may want to be careful...it's another
tile floor.
Upon entering, make a half-turn (about 45 degrees) to the left, and head for the
table in the centre of the left hand wall. There is another golden candlestick
on it (50, Treasure Count: 1234). Then turn around so you are facing a door
directly opposite this table. Go through it. Directly across from the door you
just entered by is a torch. To the right of the torch is a table, containing two
fancy goblets (10, 10, Treasure Count: 1244, 1254) and a bottle wine (50,
Treasure Count: 1304). Directly opposite the table is another, containing a
gilded vase (25, Treasure Count: 1329).
To the left of this table (as you face it) is another door. Go through it, turn
left, and go through the door ahead. This new room contains nothing but two
mines...one underneath the table closest the door you entered, and one on the
shelving unit opposite your entrance. Beside that shelving unit is another door.
Go through it, into the night air.
See that large banner on the wall to your left? Well, almost directly opposite
it is a door that you want to go through. In the next room, turn about 45
degrees right, angling for the opposite corner of the room, and go through the
door there. Once through, you should see light spilling in through an archway on
the opposite wall. Go through that archway. Then turn right, and go through the
door ahead into a bathroom.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Although it's never happened to me, you just may be noticed
here. Turn left, and open the door. The room beyond is part of another guard's
patrol. If he's not in here, then there are two torches near the other door
which you may want to douse before he arrives. When he comes, knock him out.
From the point which you entered the room, turn either left or right. In both
cases, you'll find a stack of copper coins (5, 5, Treasure Count: 1334, 1339)
Then at the far end of the room, directly opposite the door you entered by, is a
chest. Pick the lock and you'll find some silver coins (12, Treasure Count:
1351).
Now turn to the door which the guard used to enter this room, and go through it.
Continue straight ahead until there is a door on your right. Go through it, turn
right, and go through the door ahead. Inside, turn left, and open the box
underneath the desk to get a jewelled bracelet (60, Treasure Count: 1411). Turn
around, go forward, turn right, go forward, turn left, and move back into the
hallway. Turn right. Take out the two torches in the next hallway with your
Water Arrows, and move ahead. If you like, you can pick the lock on the next
door, but there are only two Water Arrows in that room, on a shelf. Personally,
I ignore that room, and continue ahead. Hug the right wall as you move forward.
Pick the lock on the next door.
SAVE YOUR GAME! It's possible that the servant in the kitchen will see you as
you enter this room. Once the lock is picked, move into the room, and turn
right. On the shelf ahead is a small diamond (80, Treasure Count: 1491). If you
like, on the opposite shelf is a Fire Arrow.
Leave the room the way you came in, turn left, and head down the corridor.
Ignore the first right turn (which leads into the kitchen), and try to be quick
about it to avoid being seen. Take the next right, and move forward. In the next
room, head for the exit in the wall opposite you. (If you left the secret door
open earlier, you will see two exits...take the one on the right.) Turn right,
move forward, turn left, and move into the next room. At the far end there is an
exit on the left wall. Take it, and go down the stairs. At the bottom, go out
the door and immediately turn left. Go through the exit in the wall you are
facing, turn left, and move forward. Ignore the first opening on your right, and
go through the second one. Move forward through the exit ahead, and in the next
room go through the exit you can see. You should now be back outside of the
house.
Turn right, and move off the porch. Then turn left, move forward, and take the
first right. Move down this small ramp, and at the foot, turn left. Turn left
again, then right, and move down this long ramp. At the bottom you should see a
large grating...if you didn't close it when you were here before, it should
still be open. If it's not, open it and move into it...you're back in the
sewers.
Turn right, and move straight ahead. Ignore the first right. Keep moving
forward. When you can either go forward or turn left, take the turn. Keep
following the tunnel, and you'll come to a small ramp leading out of the water.
At the top, turn right and open the sewer grating. Open it, and move
forward...you'll splash down into a small pool of water. Turn right, and mantle
up onto dry land again. Move forward, turn left, and move up the ramp. At the
top, go through the door to your right. Keep moving forward until you have to
turn, and turn right. Move forward again, moving through the archway on your
left. When you come across a door (either open or closed, depending on what you
did earlier), turn left and move through it.
Once in the next room, turn about 45 degrees to the left, and move forward. When
you find the hallway, enter it and move down it. At the end, turn right, move
into the next hallway, turn left, and move through the door (either open or
closed again) you see at the end of the hall. Turn left, and move through the
door (open or closed). Keep moving forward in the new room, until you reach the
end, and turn right. Again, move forward to the end, then turn left. Move
forward, turn left, and move down the ramp. At the bottom, turn right. Move
forward, turn left, then turn right, and move forward down this long hallway,
until you enter the room with a large open sewer grate in it.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You will encounter at least one nasty in here. Move into the
room past the grate. Then move to the opposite corner of this room, and go
through the opening you find there. In this new room, again move through the
exit in the opposite corner of the room. (Note: There is a grate in the ceiling
in this room. Just beneath it you will find another Explosive Mine.)
When you can choose to turn either left or right, turn right. It is about now
that you will start having to worry about the nasties. There are two spiders
down here (not big ones like the one in Rueben's, but small ones...but still
nasty). If you are lucky, then at some point before you arrive the two spiders
down here will have had a bit of a scuffle, and there will be only one left.
(You'll find the corpse of the other one.) This scenario is the most common I
have found. I suggest you catch this last one when it is moving away from you
down the corridor. Shoot it with a Broadhead Arrow. Alternatively, if you've
picked up a Mine, you might want to launch it into the critter's path. This,
however, might alert others to your presence in the sewers.
Move down this tunnel, until you have to make a turn. Turn left. On the floor in
this small chamber you'll find a Water Arrow and a small diamond (50, Treasure
Count: 1541). Now turn around, and move down the tunnel. Turn left at the
junction. At the next turn (you won't have a choice, the tunnel will just turn)
you will find another Water Arrow and a Moss Arrow on the ground...grab them if
you want. Then continue down this tunnel until it ends.
SAVE YOUR GAME! If you do this just right, you will have no problems. Open the
hatchway on your right, and move through it. Move forward through the opening
ahead, and then immediately turn left. It may be difficult to see, but there's a
ladder there. Take the ladder up. By now you have probably triggered the
conversation between two nearby guards. We want to finish this part before they
finish talking, if possible. When you get off the ladder, fall into the water.
Turn right, and move forward until you can turn right again. Once you have,
dive, and swim for the pipehole you will now see. Swimm through the tunnels down
here until you can go no further and must surface (don't worry...you'll have
plenty of air to do this in one swim). Climb out of the water, and you will see
two machines in front of you, one for #47 and another for #48. Operate #47, then
turn around, dive back into the water, and swim through the tunnels again until
you are back in the large pool you started in. Surface, and turn left so you are
facing a brick wall you can mantle up on. Do so, then turn right. Walk forward,
and get on the wood plankings that form a makeshift bridge. Now, see the window
to your right? You need to jump through it. Do so.
[NOTE: Across from this window, if you look, you'll see two more windows, close
together, lit up. This is where there is a patrolling guard, one of the talkers
mentioned above. The windowsill on the right (as you face it from this window)
contains a Fire Arrow, a Water Arrow, and a Moss Arrow.]
Turn left, and follow this short, curving corridor until you can turn left
again, and do so. Move forward a little, then turn right. You should be facing a
pool of water, with a tunnel almost directly ahead of you. Jump into the water,
and follow the tunnel. At the top turn left (your only choice). Garrett will
talk about finding a "back door". Look on the right hand wall for an opening,
with a barred door protecting it. Open the door (as you would any other door).
SAVE YOUR GAME! Due to the proximity of the guards in this area, you may goof up
the first time trying this. Move through the door you just opened, and stop.
You'll be at the bottom of a small ramp, and you should hear voices. Instead of
climbing up the ramp, turn left, and mantle up into the darkness. You've just
entered the lower level of Donal's home. Now arrange yourself in the darkness so
you'll be close enough to whack someone when he walks by. Wait for the two
thieves to finish their amusing conversation. One of them will come walking by
you soon. Unfortunately, you aren't close enough to whack him in the darkness,
so you'll have to move out into the open slightly to do so when he passes.
You'll have to be quick though. There's a guard down the hall that can see down
the hallway (somewhat). Once you've taken care of this guy, turn so you are
facing the ramp you decided not to climb, and move forward into the room where
the two were chatting. Hug the left wall as you do so...the guard down the hall
can't really see you that well then.
In this room, turn left. Ah, another corridor! Instead of moving down it though,
move over to the right and wait. The other thief that was doing the chatting
will be coming back shortly. When he does, club him. Then move into the corridor
he came down, and go through a door you'll find on the right. In this room is a
chest at the foot of the bed, which only contains an Explosive Mine. However, if
you hop onto the bed, and look between the wall and its long side, you'll find
another golden nugget (50, Treasure Count: 1591). Leave the way you came in,
turn right, and take the left turn ahead. Move forward, and at the top of the
ramp, turn right. Move ahead and take the left turn right in front of you. Move
ahead, and when you reach the end go through the door on your left. Move through
this dark room and go through the door at the opposite end. Turn right, and pick
the lock on this door. Inside, you'll find two chests. The first one (to the
left of the door) is empty. The second one contains a necklace (50, Treasure
Count: 1641). Leave the room, turn right and move back into the room you used to
get here. Move through the door at the end, and continue ahead until you have to
turn right. Take the ramp up and stop at the top.
[NOTE: Before you entered the dark room, there was another door at the end of
the corridor. Inside, if you would like, are three chests. Two are empty, but
the one closest to the door contains a Speed Potion.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another patrolling guard is around here somewhere. If you can't
hear him walking around inside, then you may have enough time to rush in and
knock out that serving girl. If you're caught while doing so however...well,
aren't you glad you just saved?
Once the serving girl is taken care of, return to the point just outside the
room and wait. Once the guard comes around, sneak up behind him and put him to
sleep.
Across from the entrance you used is a sink containing two golden goblets (25,
25, Treasure Count: 1666, 1691). Now, move over to the door which the guard used
to enter this room, and go through it. Move down this small hallway, turn right,
and move through the door you see across the hall (be careful...the floor in the
hall is tile!). On a table across from you is a gilded vase (50, Treasure Count:
1741). Once you have that, turn left, and move through the door ahead.
SAVE YOUR GAME! It is very possible to get caught doing this next part. In the
next room, open the double doors across from you. Inside is a guard standing in
the middle of a tile floor. You have to sneak up on him. Before you knock him
out, be sure to pick his pocket (50, Treasure Count: 1791). Once he's sleeping
peacefully, move over to the table opposite the doors you entered by, and grab
the golden vase (100, Treasure Count: 1891). Leave the room the way you came,
and turn right. Across the tiled hallway you will see another carpeted area.
Move over to it (jump over the tile if you don't want to make any noise), and
turn left. Move over to the stairs you see and climb up them, but stop before
moving out into the hallway above.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are two guards who patrol up here. Wait here in the
shadows, and watch. Knock them out as they come by. Sometimes, they patrol very
close to each other. If it sounds like there are more than one set of footsteps
approaching, wait for the first one to go by, knock out the second one, then go
get the first one.
You should now have the upper level all to yourself. From the top of the stairs
(if you're not there now, go back and orient yourself so they are to your back),
move forward and go through the door on your left. You are in Donal's "Banner
Room". Whip out your sword, and chop down the large blue banner you can see from
the doorway. You've exposed Donal's safe. Use the Safe Key which you purloined
from Rueben's to open it, and grab Lord Randall's Sapphire Vase (500, Treasure
Count: 2391).
To the right of the safe is a red banner. Cut it down and get the golden goblet
from within (200, Treasure Count: 2591). Turn around, and move forward to the
far end of the room. Turn right, and move through the door ahead on your left.
In this room, there is a small shelving unit to your left, upon which sits a
golden nugget. Take it (100, 2691), then turn around and move through the door
directly opposite the shelves. Grab the Front Door Key from the table (the book
is simply a ledger detailing the thieves' activities of late), and continue
forward. Go through the door on your right, and turn left immediately. Move down
this hall, and go through the door on your left. Just inside, on your immediate
left, is a gilded vase (25, Treasure Count: 2716).
Leave the room the way you entered. In the hall, turn right, and move forward,
taking the left turn at the end. Move forward, and turn left at the end. Move
down these stairs. At the bottom, turn left, and move towards the door ahead.
Unlock it with the Front Door Key you grabbed upstairs, and move outside.
Congratulations! You've pulled off a caper against the Downwind Thieves' Guild!
Section 10: The Sword (Mission 6)
=================================
My best time on expert: 22 minutes, 29 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 2656 or 2636
Note: In the original game, the Maximum Possible Treasure on this level was only
2636. Treasures which are unique to Thief Gold are indicated as such.
10.1: Introduction
==================
"Builds your roofs of dead wood. Builds your walls of dead stone. Builds your
dreams of dead thoughts. Comes crying laughing singing back to life, takes what
you steal, and pulls the skins from your dead bones shrieking."
-- Clay tablet in an abandoned Trickster temple
I was contacted by a woman named Victoria. She claims to represent a client who
was impressed by the way I took care of Ramirez, and now wants me to steal
something for him. The target is a magical sword, owned by a nobleman and
collector named Constantine. Little is known about Constantine except that he is
an eccentric new face in this city, and mostly keeps to himself. Victoria says
the sword will probably be on display, but it will be well protected by guards
and security systems. She also mentioned that the guards are tough and
organized, and the mansion is confusing to navigate in.
The house was constructed recently, so I've had to piece together my own map,
from observation and hearsay. Sounds like the place is a bit of a maze. I guess
if you're rich enough you can build any sort of madhouse to live in.
This is going to be a challenging job, but it will pay better than the last few
I've taken. As usual, the front entrance is heavily guarded, but I've managed to
find another way in. 'Course once I've picked up the sword I'll still have to
worry about getting back out....
10.2: Objectives: Normal and Hard
=================================
1. Find and obtain the sword. It's probably on an upper level of the
mansion.
2. Take the opportunity to steal other valuables.
3. Leave the mansion with the sword.
10.3: Objectives: Expert
========================
1. Find and obtain the sword. It's probably on an upper level of the
mansion.
2. Take the opportunity to steal other valuables.
3. Pull off the job without having to kill anyone.
4. While you're in the mansion, see if you can dig up any valuable
informatin about Constantine.
5. Leave the mansion with the sword.
10.4: Simplified Objectives
===========================
1. Find and obtain the sword by searching upstairs.
2. Pick up 1,500 in additional loot while you're in here.
3. Don't kill any of the guards.
4. Find some incriminating information on Constantine.
5. Get out of the mansion.
10.5: Before The Mission
========================
What You'll Encounter: Human Guards (Swordsmen), Fly Swarms.
Starting Funds: Whatever you managed to acquire from the Downwinders. (Maximum:
2716.)
Starting Gear:
25 Broadhead Arrows
4 Water Arrows
4 Fire Arrows
2 Moss Arrows
3 Rope Arrows
3 Noisemaker Arrows
2 Flash Bombs
1 Set of Lockpicks
Items for Sale:
30 Broadhead Arrows (Cost: 25 each)
20 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
8 Fire Arrows (Cost: 300 each)
8 Moss Arrows (Cost: 125 each)
5 Rope Arrows (Cost: 200 each)
8 Noisemaker Arrows (Cost: 250 each)
5 Flash Bombs (Cost: 200 each)
7 Mines (Cost: 350 each)
3 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
NOTE: I do not know why your sword and blackjack are not shown under the
"Starting Gear" for this mission, but you DO start with them.
Ignore the Broadheads, the Fire Arrows, and the Mines...you can't kill anyone,
so they are all but useless. On the other hand, you will find plenty of torches
to douse, and you'll need to, so stock up on Water Arrows. Likewise, Moss Arrows
will be a great asset in this mission. Recall that your Rope Arrows are RE-
USABLE! One you've finished using one, collect it so you can use it again. There
are no areas where you will NOT be able to collect your spent arrow, so you
don't need to waste your money there. Flash Bombs are noisy, and unnecessary in
this mission. Finally, healing potions won't be needed unless you fall prey to
some of the traps in Constantine's mansion...and this walkthrough is to help you
AVOID those traps! However, there is nothing else to spend your money on, and
you never know what might happen, so go ahead and buy one or two.
Recommended Purchases: 20 Water Arrows, 8 Moss Arrows. Total Cost: 2000
10.6: Notes Regarding This Mission
==================================
This is a VERY difficult mission. It is nearly impossible to move around on the
first level of the mansion due to the heavy traffic of guards and the tile
flooring. Consider the entire first level a patrol area. Take out ANY guard, ANY
chance you get. (Note that, on tile flooring, you are the most quiet when you
walk while crouching.)
Be aware that some of the treasures you find are purses on guards belts. There
are four in total...three worth 100 each, and a fourth worth 50.
Also, the place can be somewhat disorienting...some areas of the house look like
a cross between Alice in Wonderland and Winchester Mansion. (For those
unfamiliar with Winchester Mansion, check out http://www.ghosts.org/faq/3-8.html
and http://www.ghosts.org/haunted/haunted.html)
Take note that there are some strange, mystical traps on this level. You may
notice some sort of protrusion coming out of a wall with a strange symbol on it.
If you examine it too closely, the symbol will "fly out at you", and the trap
will be set off.
Also note that the locations of the guards as noted in this walkthrough may very
well be dependent on timing. For example, in one instance, I opened a door and
there was a guard RIGHT THERE. I was able to pick his pocket and club him
immediately, and it was just luck I was in the right place at the right time. If
something doesn't work for you, and you find an alternate method, I would very
much appreciate hearing about it.
This mission is the first time you really have to deal with a lot of unavoidable
hard surfaces. For help on getting through those areas, look at Section 3.5
above.
10.7: Walkthrough
=================
You start this mission over the wall, inside the grounds of Constantine's
mansion. Before going into the mansion itself, however, turn right, and move
forward. The spot you want to hide in is in the shadow of the balcony above,
where you can see the gate and a stone walkway. Wait in these shadows, and
listen to the guards' conversation for a moment. Shortly after that, one of them
will come into your view. Watch him, he'll walk towards your area, though not
too close at first. When he turns around to head back, he'll be close enough.
He's got a purse on his belt (100, Treasure Count: 100). Once you've lifted it,
knock him out QUICK...he's good at spotting you. Even if he starts to give some
sort of shout, you should be able to take him out with your blackjack. [Note:
For those of you who are uninterested in the honourable mention of picking
pockets, you can try to knock him out BEFORE getting the purse...it may be less
risky.]
[An alternative is to wait in the shadows ACROSS from the balcony instead of
beneath. You'll have to watch the guard's turns though, as he doesn't come near
you...you'll need to watch to know when to move in on him.]
Once you've got this guard safely tucked away, return to where you started, and
go in the other direction (the one you started facing in). Move forward until
you are in the next shadowy area. Now, turn to face the mansion, and look up.
See that small wooden area up above? Shoot a Rope Arrow at it (try to get it as
close to the outer edge [i.e.: edge furthest from the house] as you can). Then
climb up. Jump off onto the balcony to your left. [Note: You may find it easier
to jump off on the ledge beside the balcony, and then turn left and
jumping/mantling up onto the balcony itself.]
[A note regarding this entry into the mansion. For some reason, once the Rope
Arrow is lodged in the beams above, I sometimes have great difficulty in getting
myself on the rope to climb up if I'm facing the house. I assume this has
something to do with the slope you run up. Instead, try moving up to the top of
the slope, and THEN turning and jumping onto the rope. I find this much easier.]
[To retrieve your Rope Arrow, climb up onto the balcony's ledge, look up so
you're facing the arrow, and jump straight up (NOT forward!). The arrow should
highlight, at which point you can grab it. However, you will also be exiting the
house from this point later. If you wish to leave the Rope Arrow in place to
make an easier egress, then do so.]
Move over to the balcony doors, open, and enter. Immediately to your left will
be some bunk beds. Beside the closest one, on the ground, are three stacks of
silver coins (12, 12, 12, Treasure Count: 112, 124, 136). The door immediately
across from the one you entered by is locked, and cannot be picked. Move to the
right (as you are facing said door), into the next small area. There's a hole in
the floor, with a ladder. Make your way down to the next level. Once down, turn
left (as you're facing the ladder), and go through the opening ahead. Turn
right, and you should be facing a door. [Note: There are some wooden alcoves
along the left side of this room, as you face down it with the door to your
right. In the furthest one is a Flash Bomb, and the one beside it has an
Explosive Mine on the floor.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is where things start to get interesting and dangerous. The
door in front of you opens onto a hallway with some patrolling guards. The
hallway's floors are hard tile (very loud), and are carpetted at intervals, but
not enough to make your job easy. Also, the guards like to go in and out of the
rooms. [Note: This room you are currently in is not part of any guard's patrol,
so it is a good place to hide bodies.]
Open the door in front of you, and if it is safe to do so, move through the door
across the hall. (If it's not safe, wait for it to be safe.) Move to the second
pillar in this room, and look down. Pick the lock on the safe and inside you'll
find a Healing Potion and a gold plate (50, Treasure Count: 186). Turn, and move
to the other exit from this room (the one you didn't use.)
SAVE YOUR GAME! You might be seen here. Open the door, and wait for the guard to
walk by. You may want to stand a bit back to minimize the chance of him seeing
you. Once he walks by, in either direction, move out, lift the key from his
belt, and knock him out. [Note: A Moss Arrow on the tile floor just near the
door might prove helpful.]
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another risky bit here. In the hall where you sent that guard to
sleep, turn so you are facing west. Move to the end of the hall, and turn right.
Watch down this hall (try staying out of sight and leaning into it for maximum
protection against being seen). You should soon see a guard come out of one of
the doors down the hall, come towards you, then exit the hall through a
different door. Once he has left the hall, move onto the carpet, then run down
this hall, jumping over the tile sections so that you land on the carpet. When
you reach the fourth door on your right, move through it.
You have very little time at this point, as that patrolling guard will be coming
in here through the doorway on the right side of the room. You may have time to
douse a torch if you wish. When the guard approaches, keep the column in this
room between the two of you, so that he can't see you. Once he's in a position
for you to knock him out, sneak up behind him, lift his purse (50, Treasure
Count: 236) and put him to sleep. Also in this room, on the wall opposite the
doorway, you will find a gold-gilded vase on one of the counters (50, Treasure
Count: 286).
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another tricky part here. Move into the doorway which the guard
entered this room through. In the next room, there will be a torch burning on
the right-hand wall. Douse it. (Note that you will have to walk on some tile to
do this part, so tread carefully.)
At the far end of the room (from where you are), a patrolling guard will walk
into the room, up to the door on his end, turn around, and walk back out. When
it is safe to do so, move over to the end of the room. On your way there, note
the candlesticks on the table. The one in the centre is a golden candlestick
(50, Treasure Count: 336). When you reach door where the guard makes his turn,
crouch and wait for him. Make sure that you are crouching on carpet. When he
comes close enough, lift the key off his belt, and after he's turned, move
forward and then club him. (Note that if you are waiting for the guard while
crouching on tile, when you move forward to club him, he will most likely hear
you...the tiniest move seems to alert him to your presence.)
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part can be dangerous for you, if there is a guard in the
wrong position. Move over to the table where you grabbed the candlestick, and
jump up onto it. At about the centre of the table, look up. A door in the
ceiling? Why not? Open it, and shoot a Rope Arrow into the ceiling above. Climb
up the rope into the next room.
There is a single guard on this level, and he patrols through this room. If he's
in here and didn't notice your activities, then keep yourself low on the rope
until he's past seeing, then disengage from the rope, run up behind him, and
knock him out.
If the guard is NOT in here however, he's on patrol, which will bring him
through here eventually. You may want to douse the torches in here. There are
five total exits from this room...the door in the floor you came through, a
secret door in the ceiling, two doorways, and one regualr door. With your back
to the regular door, the two doorways are ahead of you and to your right. The
guard's patrol brings him into this room through the door ahead, and he exits
from the one on your right. When you get the opportunity, take this guard out,
and you'll have (more or less) free reign on the second level.
Once you're ready to proceed, take your Rope Arrow out of the ceiling. On the
table in this room is a gilded vase (50, Treasure Count: 386). Once you've taken
that, look over to the left side of the ceiling (with the table to your back). A
secret door in the ceiling? Why not? Open it, and shoot another Rope Arrow up
into the next room.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part presents some risk again. Climb up into the next room.
Be careful where you hop off the rope, as several of the tiles on the floor here
are pressure plates, which set off a shooting face (although it appears that
only the one face takes offense...the one on the right, as you face them). The
chest on the left (with the face to your back) contains a diamond (100, Treasure
Count: 486), and the one on the right holds a ring (100, Treasure Count: 586).
There is also a Land Mine at on the floor between the two chests.
Turn around, grab your Rope Arrow (you may need to jump up to do so), and let
yourself fall back down to the next level. In the room below, move over to the
only normal door. Open it, but do not move through it yet. It's trapped. When
the trap is sprung, a purple energy ball will shoot over to the doorway. Once it
dissipates, move into the room, and look to your left. Beneath that face carving
is a gold nugget (100, Treasure Count: 686). Once you've grabbed it, turn around
and leave through the door you came in. In the next room, leave through the
doorway on the right side of the room. Across a large expanse of tile floor, you
will see a greenish room with a torch burning in it. That's where we want to go.
So head over there.
Inside the room, turn to your left. Another face carving, set into a sloping
wall. There is a treasure sitting on top of the carving. Climb up the wall (you
will need to run up it to do this), and grab the silver nugget (50, Treasure
Count: 736).
SAVE YOUR GAME! Some more danger here. Move towards the door opposite the face,
but do NOT stand in front of it. Open the door. The face behind you will shoot
out a single purple energy ball, and you'll also be able to see three blasting
past you in the hallway beyond the door. Once those three have gone by, move
into the hall and turn left. Once you hit the tiled floor, turn right, move up
the ramp and into the next room. A couple of repeating energy traps should be
going off.
SAVE YOUR GAME! These energy blasts hurt! Move towards the chest in the
corner...upon entry, turn left, and time it so you can move past the energy
blasts. Then turn towards the chest, and move as close as you can. You can open
it without getting hit by the blasts, but you'll have to pick the lock. Inside
is a diamond (100, Treasure Count: 836). Now, leave the room (timing the energy
blasts again), go down then ramp, and turn left back into the hallway.
[Note: While you are performing the above procedure, you may hear a guard
calling out to you. This is one of the ones on the lower level, and you
shouldn't worry about it.]
Back in the hallway, move forward past two sets of double-doors on your left.
(If you hear the sound of energy balls shooting, move over to the side of the
hallway and wait for three of them to pass by...you've managed to trigger the
trap again.) Stop at the next door on your right (it will be the last door in
this hall on that side). Turn, pick the lock, and go inside.
You should see a bed at the other end of the room. On the wall to the right of
it is another face on the wall. Move towards it, but stay on the right side of
the face (as you face it), and not to close. Then, inch your way forward until
you can grab the two rough diamonds (50, 50, Treasure Count: 886, 936). (The
trap should go off when you've got the diamonds within reach, ie: one of them is
highlighted).
At this point, the game differs slightly between the Original Thief and Thief
Gold. If you are playing the original game, then turn around, and move past the
bed (keeping it on your right). Then turn right, and move up onto the dais that
the bed rests upon. Look at the ground here, carefully. Hidden in the pattern
on the carpet is a key. Once you've got the key, leave this room the way you
came in, returning to the hallway.
If you're playing Thief Gold however, they've moved the key on you. There is
another door in this room. From the face on the wall, turn 180 degrees, and it
will be in the far wall on the left side. Go through it, turn right, and the key
will be on the table. (There is a papyrus on the floor beneath the table, which
you can ignore.) Once you have it, leave this room the way you came in, move
forwards through the next room, and turn right, leaving the room and returning
to the hallway.
The game is now the same for both versions. Back in the hallway, turn right.
Move forward, and go through the next door on your left. Ignore the door in the
room across from you, it just opens onto a wall section with a face carved into
it. Turn right. There are two tables in front of you. On the left table you'll
find two goblets (15, 15, Treasure Count: 951, 966). One is slightly hidden
behind the potted plant, so move far back into the room to get to it. On the
right table is another papyrus, which you can also ignore.
Leave the room, turning left in the hallway. Move forward and enter the next
room on your left (this will be the last room in this hallway). It should be
fairly dark with a roaring fireplace. This next part can be done with the fire
still roaring, but a Water Arrow would not be remiss. Face the fireplace,
crouch, and move into the fireplace (stick to the left side). Once you're in the
back of the fireplace, turn left, and pull yourself up onto the ledge back
there. Grab the gold nugget (100, Treasure Count: 1066). Now, make your way back
out of the fireplace.
In the corner to your left, you should now see a chest. This chest is
trapped...when you open it, the faces in the walls shoot purple energy balls out
of their mouths at you. So, face the chest at an angle, stay back, and open it.
You should avoid the traps, and get another gold nuggest (100, Treasure Count:
1166). Go back out into the hall, and turn right.
[Note: While unnecessary to do this, you may feel you need another Healing
Potion. If so, when you are out in the hall, turn left instead of right, then
turn right at the corner. Go down this hall and take the first left, into a dark
guardroom. There are two chests in here, both locked. The one on the left
contains a Healing Potion, the one on the right contains a deer's leg. Be
careful moving down the hallway, as there is an opening down to the first level,
and a guard can hear you moving about up here in this area. When you're done,
make your way back to just outside the fireplace room.]
Move down the hall again, stopping at the first set of double doors. Open them.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're about to re-enter the first level, which still has a
couple of guards here and there.
Move down the stairs in the next room, but stop before the first turn. You want
to move so you're in a position to see down the stairs and through the archway
at the bottom into a tiled hallway with a rug. There is a spot just near the
torch in the wall where you are completely hidden. While you wait, you might
want to shoot a Moss Arrow at the tile floor between the wooden one and the rug.
It may be necessary to move across that section.
Eventually, a guard will walk past. He will either come through the room with
the wooden floor beneath and turn into the hallway, or he will be in the
hallway, moving either to the left or the right. If he's moving towards the
right, he'll turn and enter the room with the wooden flooring, then make a turn
moving away from you. No matter which way he's moving, once you can move without
him spotting you, move in, pick his pocket (a key), and knock him out.
With that guard taken care of, this section of the mansion is clear, except for
one other. He's not too close, so for now, you don't need to worry about the
tile. Across the hall from the stairs is a door. Open it, and step into a bar.
Move behind the bar itself. On the far shelf (at the end of the bar, as you move
down it), you'll find two bottles of wine (50, 50, Treasure Count: 1216, 1266).
Now, turn around, so you are facing the bar, and look down...you'll find a
secret panel in the bar. Open it, and collect the three golden goblets (25, 25,
25, Treasure Count: 1291, 1316, 1341). You may have to do a bit of hunting for
them, but they're there. Once you've got them, move back to the door you used
before, and go into the hallway. Turn right, and go through the first door you
come to on your left. Once inside, turn right, and go pick up the vase off the
table (100, Treasure Count: 1441). Go back into the hall, turn left, and go
through the first door on your right. Pick up the two goblets from the coffin-
shaped table (15, 15, Treasure Count: 1456, 1471).
[There is one more guard in the mansion proper on this level, and he's close.
While unnecessary, if you wish to do this part, here's how: SAVE YOUR GAME! Now,
there is another door in this room besides the one you entered through. Open it,
and move carefully into the hall. See the doorway across from you, leading into
a room with cavern-like walls? You want to go in there. Before you do though,
you may want to use a Water Arrow to put out the torch. Once you've done that,
you can enter the short hall, and take the turn on your right. Don't be too
anxious...that guard is VERY close. It's also possible to douse the one in the
room with the guard, but the torch is in a difficult spot. As you face the small
stairway down, it is on the same wall as the staircase, on the left. You have to
angle yourself and lean so you can just see the bottom of the torch, then shoot
a Water Arrow near it. Splash damage does the rest. Now, see the guard walking
his patrol down there? It's not a very large patrol, so you'll have to time your
move just right. When you've got it, go down there and send him to bed. The
chest holds another Healing Potion. Then turn around, go up the stairs and turn
left, moving into the hallway. If you want another Fire Arrow, turn left, and
move forward until you have the fire-fountain on your right. There's a Fire
Arrow in the fire. Now head back the way you came, and return to the room with
the coffin-shaped table.]
Leave this room the way you came in (if you did the extra bit above, then leave
this room from the other door.) Once you're back in the hallway, turn left, and
follow the corridor. Keep moving forward until you come to an opening on your
right with wooden flooring (this is the room across from the bar). Turn into
there, and then turn left almost immediately. Move forward to the tile floor,
and stop.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Hard tile will give you away every time. Sneak into the hallway,
turn right, and move forward, turning left at the corner. (Before you do take
that left turn, you may want to consider using a Water Arrow on that torch in
the corner, and perhaps a couple of Moss Arrows on the tile.) You should see a
grassy area ahead. There is a guard patrolling through there, so tread
carefully.
NOTE: This next part is described under ideal conditions. However, that may not
be the case. Read a bit ahead if you normally do not, to find out what to do in
other situations.
As soon as you hit grass, turn slightly to the left and move into the dark patch
ahead, just to the left of the canal. This is a very good place to hide, both
for yourself and anybody you put to sleep. Turn around so that you are facing
the opening you came through, and wait. Soon, you'll see a guard approaching
from an area to the left. Wait until he's turned around, then run up behind him,
lift the purse off his belt (100, Treasure Count: 1571), and knock him out. (If
you needed to put out the torch because a guard was noticing you, this will be
the same guard.)
If, however, after waiting for a while, no guard shows, then you have the "less-
than-ideal" condition. Remember when you were upstairs, and you could hear a
guard downstairs searching for you? Well, it was the guy you're waiting for now.
If he hasn't shown, it means that you managed to stop his patrol. He's standing
motionless in another room. Go and find him. When you do, I'm afraid you'll have
to move in behind him and take him out, probably adding a good minute or more to
your time. I tried making him move again with Noisemaker Arrows and other means,
but then I was unable to knock him out...he just kept coming.
[Note: In any of the rooms with water, if you look into it, you may spot a Water
Arrow at the bottom. If you like, once all the guards are taken care of you can
swim around these waterways collecting them.]
Once the guard is taken care of, this section of the garden will be clear of
guards. Move to the entrance you used to come into the garden, and move past it
(keeping it on your right). Turn right at the next opening, and move across
through the next room, into an odd looking room with water floating near the
ceiling. Move to the end of the room, and turn left. Hidden in a small patch of
dark here are two stacks of gold coins (25, 25, Treasure Count: 1596, 1621).
Now, move to stand beneath the water.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This next part can be a little bit tricky. Look up, through the
water. Shoot a Rope Arrow up and through the water, grabbing a hold of the
wooden area above. Climb up into the next room. On a table in this room is a
golden-gilded vase (50, Treasure Count: 1671).
[Note: If you look up, you'll see the wooden beams in this room all meet in the
centre. If you use a Rope Arrow to get up there, in the centre you'll find a
Moss Arrow, a Fire Arrow, and a Water Arrow.]
Once you've grabbed everything you intend to get, go back to the water and grab
the rope dangling down into it. While holding the rope, retrieve the Rope Arrow
attached to it. You should fall into the water, which will slow your descent
slightly, and you'll land again in the room below.
Once down there, exit the room. In the next room, take the first path on the
right. Take it until you can see the gilded vase, and grab it (50, Treasure
Count: 1721). Now, turn left, move forward, and take the exit on the right. Move
through the next room, into a nursery of sorts (a plant nursery). Move to the
end of the room opposite from the doorway, and turn left. Take the stairs down.
This door is locked, and cannot be picked. However, the key you picked up
upstairs will unlock it. Move through the door, and follow the path. At the
first T-junction, turn right (left is a dead end). At the next T-junction, turn
either left or right, it doesn't matter. Move until you come to an opening (on
your right or left, depending on which side you followed), and move in. There
should be a chair and a couple of tables in this room. Pick up the bottle of
wine (50, Treasure Count: 1771) and the goblet (15, Treasure Count: 1786) off of
the one table. Look underneath that table, and you'll find a papyrus. Get it,
and read it. This is the incriminating evidence against Constantine you've been
looking for. (If you'd like, you can read throught the book of magic on the next
table as well.) That's all you need down here, so leave this area the way you
came in. Once you're back at the top of the stairway, turn right, and leave the
nursery.
In the next room, turn right, and you should see a door. It's locked. You can
pick this lock if you like, or use one of the keys you pilfered from the guards
earlier. Inside, on the floor on the right, you'll find two golden vases (100,
100, Treasure Count: 1886, 1986). Exit this room, turn left, and move into the
grassy area.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are still three guards on patrol down here, and this next
manouevre will put you in a position to be sighted by two of them. If you are,
just reload your game, and wait a little before trying it.
Turn left, and move forward. Move past the large pool/canal in the next room,
and continue into the room beyond, where there is a well. Turn right, and move
forward, keeping to the right. Take the next right down a small slope, into an
indoor garden style room.
In this room, you may want to move quietly and crouched, as you need to move
into position to whack a guard. Turn left, and move over the bridge ahead. Then
turn right, and move into the archway ahead, but don't go all the way through.
In this archway, you can position yourself so you are completely hidden. Now,
wait for the guard to walk past you, then sneak out, grab his purse (100,
Treasure Count: 2086), and whack him.
Facing the waterway in this room, there should be an exit in the wall on your
left. Go through it.
[Note: In this room, the overhang has a Moss Arrow on top of it. To get it, move
to the opposite end of the room {directly opposite from the door you entered),
turn around, jump, and mantle up onto the overhang. Grab the Moss Arrow, then
fall back down to floor level.]
There is another in this room, to your left. Go through it, turn right, and at
the T-junction, turn right again. Follow this passage until you can turn left.
Do so, and move forward, stopping in front of the flower on the ground in front
of you.
This is the most insidiously hidden treasure I've encountered (with the ring on
the carpet in "Assassins" a close second). Look down at the plant. The stamen is
a gold nugget (100, Treasure Count: 2186).
EXPERIMENT AREA: If you move just a little further from this point and turn
left, you'll find a tunnel with a glowing mushroom at the end. If you try to
pick this mushroom up, it disappears from the ground, and the lights go out in
here, but it does not appear in your inventory. Does anyone know what this is
all about?
[If you want to get another Moss Arrow, then from this plant, move forward and
take the very first left. Continue down this tunnel until you can't move forward
anymore. Turn right, then turn left, and then take the next right. At the end of
this darkened tunnel you'll find a Moss Arrow on the ground. In Thief Gold, it
is partially hidden beneath a plant. I cannot remember if it was also hidden
like that in the original game. Work your way back to the intersection plant you
de-flowered.]
Turn right around, and move forward. Turn right, push forward, and take the next
left. Move forward and take the next left again. You will be facing the room
with the overhang. Enter it, and the leave it through the other exit. In this
room (the one where you whacked the guard), make a half turn to the right, and
move past the stump in the centre. Ahead you should see an exit (the one you
originally used to come in here). Move through it into the next room. From the
entrance, move straight across to the other side of the room, past the bridge.
Turn left and look down. See that canal? Dive in, then turn right. Push forward
(you'll be swimming against the current), and surface for air when you can. When
you do, you should still be in a dark enclosed area, so no one can see you, with
another room up ahead.
SAVE YOUR GAME! It's quite easy for you to be caught here, if you time this
wrong. Swim forward into the next room. On the right you will see a wooden
staircase. (At this point, if you look down, you should be able to get another
Water Arrow.) Turn right to face the staircase, and pull yourself up. Climb up
the stairs, and push forward, following the corridor until you come to a set of
doors. Use the key you found upstairs on this door to unlock it. Then move into
the room, and go all the way down to the other end. Pick up the four golden
goblets on the altar (25, 25, 25, 25, Treasure Count: 2211, 2236, 2261, 2286).
(Ignore the door on the right side of the room...it's lock cannot be picked, and
there is no key for it.) Leave the room the way you came in, follow the tunnel
back to the stairs.
[NOTE: This walkthrough is leaving out a small area on the ground floor. It
contains a few items that you might like, but nothing that you need. If you wish
to explore, there are a total of two guards left, one with a key on his belt.
The items you can find are a Flash Bomb (on a shelf in a large room with grass),
an Explosive Mine (same room, opposite shelf), a Moss Arrow (atop a strange
ramp-like structure that leads nowhere), a Water Arrow (in the room with a tile
well), and a Fire Arrow (in a torch-like niche in a hallway). You can get to
these areas by jumping from the stairs over the canal, and going down the
passage immediately ahead. You'll need to take out one of those two guards in
that hall, however.]
NOTE: THE LARGE SECTION AFTER THE NEXT PARAGRAPH IS FOR THIEF GOLD ONLY! IT DOES
NOT EXIST IN THE ORIGINAL GAME! Original Thief players should do the following
instead:
[Stay hidden in the shadows up here. Look around the corner, and take out that
torch you see. Then wait for the guard to come by. Once he leaves again, move
down the stairs, jump over the canal, and move into the corridor. Turn left,
move up behind the guard, and whack him. Then move forward again. Turn right,
and move forward slight. Don't leave this little alcove, and stay in the
shadows. Wait for the next guard to come by, and when his patrol takes him past
you, move in, lift the key from his belt, and knock him out. In the wall
directly across from the alcove you waited in are two exits. Take the one on the
right (as you face it), move forward, turn right again, and move down to the
end. Turn right, and move into the room you see ahead, with a door in the
ceiling. Open the door. Now, move to the wall which has the torch on it, and
turn so your back is to it. Now look up. There is a stained glass window on the
ceiling in the room above. You want to shoot a Rope Arrow in the red area just
beneath it. When you do, grab the rope, climb up, and jump off in the new room.
Turn around and look for an exit. When you find it, crouch and move through it.
At the far end of the room, you'll find a golden candlestick (50, Treasure
Count: 2336). NOW SKIP DOWN TO THE SECTION WHICH SAYS "ORIGINAL THIEF USERS
START AGAIN HERE!"]
SAVE YOUR GAME! Once again, if you time it wrong, you're caught. Move down the
stairs and jump across the canal. Move just past the pillars, and turn right.
Look at the side of the pillar that faces away from the water, and you will find
a switch hidden in the carven face. Operate the switch. Then turn so you're
facing the canal, and dive in again. Turn left, and move through into the
tunnel, stopping before the sloping passage downwards that you can see.
SAVE YOUR GAME! If you're low on health at this point, you might want to
consider taking a Healing Potion. You've got some swimming to do, against a
strong current. While it is possible to make the trip without running out of
air, you cut it very close.
Turn so you're facing the downwards passage mentioned above, take a deep breath,
and dive. Follow the passage as best you can, turn right inside the red passage,
and move forward. Follow this passage, and you'll come to a spot where you have
to go straight down. Do so.
It's a bit hard to orient down here. While you are travelling downwards, check
your compass. You want it to show north pointing to the left side of the screen.
When it does, orient your view so you can swim forwards again, and swim
underneath the wall ahead. As soon as you have done so, surface for some more
air.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Phew! Okay, turn so you are facing in the only direction you can
go in (while still breathing, that is), and push forward. Follow this tunnel to
a waterfall, and drop down. There is a guard that will be patrolling in this
section, but its unlikely he'll be in a position to see or hear you at this
point. Keep your eyes peeled for him, and when you find him, lift the Healing
Potion off his belt, and knock him out.
A note about this guard: This is not your average, everyday guard. This guard
was apparently bitten by the same radioactive spider that turned Peter Parker
into Spider-Man. One time this guard caught me, and I tried running for him. He
climbed the bloody walls! But I digress....
[Although unnecessary, there is a Breath Potion in this room. Find a little
circle of stones, and look inside for it, if you want to get it.]
With the waterfall to your back, move forward, down the pathway into a very
small town setting. Feel like Gulliver yet? In here, turn left, and head for the
stone wall you see. Mantle up, and dive into the water. Ahead, you should see
what looks like a sewer drain. Enter it. Follow the tunnel into a room where you
have to dive, and do so. Once you're down, swim into the underwater tunnel, and
move down it. When it ends, turn yourself upwards and swim up into the air.
(Don't ask me what that golden ring is, I haven't the faintest idea.)
What's this? First Gulliver, now Alice? You're currently swimming around in a
giant sink. Position yourself so that you're facing west. Now swim over to the
edge, and pull yourself up.
NOTE: This bizarre area has three guards in it, two of which patrol in this
area. However, they patrol a very large area here. If there's one nearby (you
can see movement on the carpetted area below), you may want to wait before
leaving the sink area. If not...then proceed.
This room is a veritable stockpile of weaponry. I'm not going to give specific
directions on how to get all the items in here, but here is an inventory of what
I've been able to find:
1 Rope Arrow - Stuck upright in the rug near the tub of water.
3 Rope Arrows - Stuck into a giant pincushion, top left shelf
4 Fire Arrows - Matchheads in giant matchbox, top right shelf
3 Water Arrows - In the tub of water (NOT the sink!)
2 Moss Arrows - Disguised as mould on the cheese
2 Water Arrows - Inkwell on the desk
1 Speed Potion - Mousetrap
3 Noisemaker Arrows - In the chest
2 Rope Arrows - In the chest
2 Moss Arrows - On the bed
SAVE YOUR GAME! This manouevre can be difficult, and if you don't do it
correctly it will cost you your life. Turn left, and move to the corner of the
sink. Look down, and shoot a Rope Arrow into the leg of the table. Don't shoot
it too high, aim low. Then, run off of the edge you're standing on. Don't jump,
just fall. If you positioned the Rope Arrow correctly, it will break your fall
for you, and you won't take any damage. And if you aimed low enough, you'll be
able to retrieve it as well. :)
Now turn right. Move towards the table sitting in front of the couch. When you
get close, shoot a Rope Arrow into the table, near the left leg. Climb up, and
mantle onto the coffee table. Turn left, and jump across the gap to the couch.
Move forward to the back end of the couch, and drop down (if you do it properly,
you won't take any damage...but if you do take damage, it's only a single
point). Turn right, move forward, and grab the two coins (10, 10, Treasure
Count: 2296, 2306). Now turn around, and move forward to the die that someone
lost down here. Hop onto it, turn left, and mantle up. Mantle up again to get
back on top of the couch. Move forward until you're at the front edge of the
couch.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Doing this wrong will hurt! Look down, and you should see your
Rope Arrow. Run off the edge of the couch towards the rope, just like last time.
The rope will slow your fall enough for you to land safely (and possibly
retrieve your arrow as well).
Now, turn so your back is to the table, and move forward. When the couch has
passed by on your right, turn right and move to the end of the couch. Turn right
again, and move down near to the end of the couch again.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Patrol area again. Same two guards. If they are on the other
side of the couch from you, that's great. If not, and you can see them, then
wait for them to pass. If you can't see them, then you may have a LOOOOONG wait.
You can try chancing it though. If you happen to cross their path in the dark
shadowy area you will pass through, they shouldn't see you.
Turn left, and move forward until you are able to turn left again. After doing
so, move forward a little, and turn left again. Move forward to the end of this
dark area, and turn right. Move forward all the way to the end, and turn right.
Move forward to the end, and you'll find an exit in the wall that looks like a
mousehole. Go inside.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Doing this wrong could mean a nasty fall. Look up. You will need
to shoot your Rope Arrows into the ledges one by one. Shoot a Rope Arrow into
the ledge, climb up, then turn around, shoot another into the next ledge, etc.
It will take a total of three Rope Arrows (but you can retrieve each one once
you're no longer using the rope).
When you've reached the top, turn so the wall is on your left, and move forward.
To your left will be an opening. Move into it, and follow this tunnel until you
reach a tiled area. You will see a red button on the wall. Push it to open the
exit. Move onto the tile, and turn so your back is to the button. Move forward
towards the exit. Before jumping out though, look down, and grab the golden
candlestick (50, Treasure Count: 2356). Now move into the next room, falling
into it.
ORIGINAL THIEF USERS START BACK HERE!
[Note: From this point on, there will be a slight discrepency in the Treasure
Count between Thief Gold and the original game. This FAQ is keeping track of
treasure using Thief Gold. Original Thief players will have a treasure count of
20 less from this point on.]
Now look up at the hole in the ceiling. Although it is hard to see, there is a
table on its side up in the next room. You want to shoot a Rope Arrow into the
table (its a narrow target, but quite easy to hit). Once you've done that, climb
up into that room, and hop off the rope.
My goodness...the whole ROOM is on its side! Retrieve your arrow if you'd like,
then look around for the only other exit in the room. Move over to the pillar
beneath it, and mantle onto it (jumping onto it causes problems). Then mantle up
through the window, and move forward through this room and into the next. You
should see a door ahead and on your left, where you can see red through it. Move
over there, and go through it. In this small area, you will be able to see tile
floor ahead. Move up to it, but don't step on it. Now look slightly to your
left. There's a sort of cave-like opening. You can do a running jump across the
tile and land on the grass. Do so.
SAVE YOUR GAME! The guards get very numerous hereabouts. Follow this grassy
tunnel up, and you'll soon find a vine dangling down. From here, you should be
able to see up into a hallway, with some torches burning. Position yourself so
that you can take out the torches from down here. As you're facing the hole, you
want to take out two to the left, and one to the right. Now climb up through the
hole. Don't use the vine to do so, just scramble up the incline. Careful, you're
back on tile floor again!
If you've been saving up your Moss Arrows, this would be a good place to start
using them. If you made the recommended purchases at the start of this mission,
that should give you about 10 Moss Arrows, which should be enough for here.
Whether you use them or not though, start creeping forward. A guard will come
through eventually. Knock him out. Move past the first opening on your right,
and take out the next torch ahead. A little further along, the passage forks.
Take out both torches brightening the halls, one down each fork.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a guard which patrols down each fork. The one down the
left-hand fork moves into this intersection. What you want to do is move in
behind that guard after he turns, and club him. However, you don't want the
guard down the other fork to see you do it. Your best bet is to wait a second or
two after this guard has moved back down his fork before rushing in and putting
him to sleep.
Move forward a little. See that vine dangling down? Grab onto it, and climb up a
ways. From here, you have two holes you can jump to. If you're still facing the
direction you were when moving down the hall, the hole you want is on your
right. Jump into it, and follow this tunnel until it ends, emptying onto a tiled
hallway. Enter the hallway, turn right, and move forward. Ahead, you'll see a
small ramp. Climb up the ramp into the next room, and turn left.
You should be looking down a tunnel that looks like it comes right out of a
funhouse. Follow that tunnel to the end. Step onto the grass, and move forward.
Ignore the turning on your right, and take the left turn ahead. You should be
standing on a stone walkway in outer space. Move to the the end of it, and look
down at the walkway. There is a diamond there (100, Treasure Count: 2456). Now,
turn left, and across a gap, you should see another stone walkway. Run and jump
the gap to land on it. On the first step is a gold nugget (100, Treasure Count:
2556). Now run forward into the grassy area. At the end of the tunnel, turn
left, crouch, and move into the tiled hallway. Immediately, turn right, and
follow this tunnel up as far as you can. It will take you back to the hanging
vine. Jump onto the vine, and drop back down into the corridor below. Turn left,
and move down to the intersection ahead, but don't enter it.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another guard to take out now. Make sure you're hidden well, and
lean out to watch when the guard patrolling the other fork is coming and going.
Moss Arrows will really help you here, so take the opportunity to use one or two
on the tile ahead. When the guard comes up the ramp, he will almost immediately
turn around and head back down. Move in behind him now and knock him out.
At the top of the ramp in question, turn right (as you face down it). Take out
the torch ahead, and move into this small hallway. Turn left, and take out the
torch down the hall. Move forward, but don't actually enter the next hallway.
There are two guards down there.
SAVE YOUR GAME! These two guards, while stationary now, will start a patrol once
you sneak almost out into their corridor. When they start talking, sneak back
into your dark hallway. You want to be positioned near the hall where the two
guards are chatting. Once they start their patrol, the first guard will come
around the corner. Blackjack him (you may need to wait for him to actually start
walking down your corridor). Just leave him where he falls, and wait...the
second guard is close behind. Give him the same treatment.
Now, move forward into the corridor they came from, and turn right. Move ahead,
and take the first right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part can be dangerous if you screw it up. If you have any
Healing Potions and your health is low, you may want to take one now.
Once you are just inside this room, move over to the left. Stay in the shadows.
Look up. Ah, the object of your quest!
This part is a little hard to describe, but I'll do my best. The sword is
suspended above, and the construct which it hangs over is in something of a
circular "room". At the base of this (the part which is closest to this room) is
what appears to be a band of metal running around the circle. But above it, the
material is soft enough for you to shoot a Rope Arrow into. That's what the plan
is. Also, note the pattern the lights make on the floor around the construct.
Move forward, but stick to the left of the room. Turn about 45 degrees to the
right. You want to be in a position so that when you're facing this direction,
your view is exactly across the second shaft of light. Now look up at the area
you want to shoot into. Basically, if you don't change your facing, you will
just have to look up and shoot your Rope Arrow into the area just above the
metal band.
[I hope that was not too confusing for anyone. If anyone can provide a better
description for this, by all means, please let me know!]
Keeping to the shadows, make your way over to the rope. Get on it, and climb up.
Note that a lot of the time, you will be in shadows.
At this point, it doesn't really matter if the guards see you or not. However,
you should know that there are three of them patrolling around the room you're
in, and at least one has a bow. [Also, at least one of them has a Healing Potion
you can lift off his belt.]
Move high up onto the rope, and turn around. You will now need to jump off the
rope and land on one of those thin rails around the sword. However, if you jump
and fail to land, try to grab the sword anyways...sometimes you will succeed,
and the fall may not kill you.
Once you're on the rail, turn and grab the sword, then fall down into the
circular construct. After you've landed, crouch, turn to face north, and walk
off the platform you landed on. Move out the doorway ahead, and turn left. Move
down this hall, and fall through the hole ahead. From here there will be about
three passages you can follow. Head down the one where you can see tile floor
beyond. At the bottom of the slope (at the edge of the tile), turn slightly
left, and move forward through the doorway onto wooden flooring. (You may want
to jump across the tile.) Push forward into the next room, turn left, move
forward a bit and take the next right, move forward, and then turn left. Move
into the green area. Follow this pathway as far as you can (there aren't any
real deviations), and you'll come to a long slope downwards, covered in tile.
Move down to the bottom, staying on the left side of the slope.
Once you're at the bottom, turn left. Move ahead until you reach a four-way
junction. Turn right, and move into that open doorway you see ahead.
[Note: If you're interested, follow this hall instead until it ends at a door.
Go through it and in the next room, in a dark corner to the right of the bed
you'll find a Water Arrow. Read the book on the table if you like, then go
through the door opposite the one you entered. Look down into the bathtub, grab
the Water Arrow at the bottom, and then work your way back to the open doorway
mentioned above, and move inside the next room.]
Inside this upside-down room are two Fly Swarms. Attached to the ceiling between
them is a chest.
Move to the right side of the room, and walk forward, until you can angle
yourself so you are facing the chest BETWEEN the two swarms. Look up towards the
chest, and edge yourself forward until you can open it. Doing so drops a diamond
on the floor. Grab it (you may need to edge forward a bit more to do so, and/or
crouch, but you can still do it without getting bitten by the Swarms) (100,
Treasure Count: 2656). Now, turn so you're facing away from the door you entered
by. Open this new door. Run through the Swarm and into the hall beyond.
There are now two ways you can do this. See that hole in the floor ahead?
1) You can leap across it, unlock the first door on your right, and move through
the open door ahead in the next room, then leap off the balcony and onto the
grounds below. This will HURT though, and you may not survive it.
2) Fall through the hole in the floor, and continue down the corridor. Follow
it, taking the left at the end, and continue moving forward, until you have a
large opening on your right. Turn into that opening, and run out onto the
grounds.
No matter how you do this final part, congratulations! You've proven yourself an
exemplary Thief!
Section 11: Cutscene - Victoria
===============================
[Note: Anything placed between square brackets is my addition.]
[Scene: Garrett's apartment. Soft knocking on the door. When no reply comes,
knocking repeats.]
"Garrett? It's Victoria. I trust you made it back alive? You've done well,
Garrett. Come with me, and bring the sword. There is someone you have to meet.
It's time for the payment you've been promised."
[Garrett opens the door.]
"Yes."
[Scene changes. Garrett, lounging in a chair before a fireplace, Victoria and
another man standing in front of him.]
"A refreshment, Mister Garrett? I'm in the possession of a superior brandy, that
has the most...restorative...effect."
"I prefer my payment in CASH...not liquor, Mister...ahh..."
"My apologies. I've been watching you, Mister Garrett. So closely, in fact, that
I'm afraid I'd forgotten we haven't actually met yet. I am...Constantine."
"All this time I thought you were going to pay me. You've brought me here to
kill me?"
"But you have it all wrong, Mister Garrett. Would it surprise you to know that
it was I who hired you to steal my own sword. Yes. You see, Victoria and I
are..."
[Victoria interrupts.]
"Old associates."
"Yes. You were being tested. Do you understand? And I must say, you more than
live up to your reputation. You are quite an extraordinary Thief."
"Testing me? What is it you want from me, Constantine?"
"I am a collector, Mister Garrett. But there are some...items, that are not
available for purchase. They must be acquired using other means. In this case
the item in question would be best acquired by thieving. Not simple
thieving...no. I need an artist. Like yourself."
"What exactly IS this...item?"
"It is the gemstone called The Eye, for it's unusual..."
[Victoria interrupts again.]
"Appearance."
"Yes. Kept hidden in the sealed cathedral deep inside the halls of the scum
Hammerites. Oh, but forgive me. You are, possibly...friendly...with the Order of
the Hammer?"
"No. Fanatics make unreliable friends."
"Excellent. I am prepared to offer you quite a sum. A hundred thousand, upon
receipt of The Eye."
"I don't see how I can refuse such an offer."
"Marvelous. Victoria can fill you in on all the particulars. And Mister
Garrett...the sword. Keep it. You have earned it. But also...I believe you'll
find it useful in your quest...."
Section 12: The Haunted Cathedral (Mission 7)
=============================================
My best time on expert: 36 minutes, 10 seconds
Maximum Possible Treasure: 2635
12.1: Introduction
==================
"Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet
'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did
doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph,
and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum."
-- Collected letters of the smith-in-exile
The Eye that Constantine wants is in the abandoned cathedral of the Hammerites.
The cathedral is located in the section of the city that was deserted years ago,
after some kind of catastrophe. I've heard stories of the incident...most are
wild rumours about hordes of zombies and raging fires. Now that part of the city
is walled off...no one's allowed to go in. Not that many people would dare to in
the first place.
Maps of the area are easy to find...in attics, and old trunks...but, like all of
them, the one I've got is over fifty years old. I'll make my way through the
ruins to the Hammerite cathedral, and find a way inside. Once I get inside the
cathedral, I'll have to locate The Eye.
Something tells me that this is not going to be easy. But for the amount I'm
getting paid...I'm willing to take some serious risks....
12.2: Objectives: Normal
========================
1. Find the Cathedral.
2. Find a way to get inside the Cathedral, and steal the Eye.
3. Take the opportunity to steal other valuables.
4. Exit the ruins.
12.3: Objectives: Hard
======================
1. Find the Cathedral.
2. Find a way to get inside the Cathedral, and steal the Eye.
3. Take the opportunity to steal other valuables.
4. A valuable item called the Serpentyle Torc is reputed to be
somewhere in these ruins. Find it.
5. Exit the ruins.
12.4: Objectives: Expert
========================
1. Find the Cathedral.
2. Find a way to get inside the Cathedral, and steal the Eye.
3. Take the opportunity to steal other valuables.
4. A valuable item called the Serpentyle Torc is reputed to be
somewhere in these ruins. Find it.
5. There used to be a monument in this part of town called the
Watchman's Grave that thieves would leave coins on for good luck.
You have brough some coins, just in case.
6. Exit the ruins.
12.5: Simplified Objectives
===========================
1. Find the Cathedral.
2. Find a way to get inside the Cathedral, and steal the Eye.
3. Grab 2000 in loot.
4. Locate and steal the Serpentyle Torc.
5. Leave some coins on the Watchman's Grave for good luck.
6. Exit the ruins.
12.6: Before The Mission
========================
What You'll Encounter: Zombies, Burricks, Restless Dead, Hammer Spirits,
Craymen, Spiders, Flaming Spirit.
Starting Funds: Whatever you managed to acquire from Constantine's. (Maximum:
2656 or 2636...see the note at the start of Section 10 for the explanation.)
Starting Gear:
1 Constantine's Sword
50 Broadhead Arrows
5 Water Arrows
4 Fire Arrows
5 Rope Arrows
5 Noisemaker Arrows
3 Flash Bombs
2 Holy Waters
1 Set of Lock Picks
1 Pair of Coins
Items for Sale:
6 Water Arrows (Cost: 50 each)
4 Fire Arrows (Cost: 300 each)
5 Moss Arrows (Cost: 125 each)
5 Rope Arrows (Cost: 200 each)
5 Noisemaker Arrows (Cost: 250 each)
6 Flash Bombs (Cost: 200 each)
8 Explosive Mines (Cost: 350 each)
2 Healing Potions (Cost: 250 each)
2 Holy Waters (Cost: 200 each)
1 Tip (Cost: 200)
NOTE: Once again, your blackjack is not shown under the "Starting Gear" for this
mission. However, you DO have it in your possession.
Save your money...don't buy the tip. Here is what it says:
"Those who fight undead fall into two groups -- the resourceful, and the slain.
The well-prepared knight will arm himself well with holy water. However, a more
convenient tactic, as well as one much less taxing on the purse, is to take
advantage of the zombie's antipathy for all living creatures, and look for other
convenient targets to divert a pursuer.
-- excerpt from the Journals of Morgan, declared anathema by the
Smith-in-Exile."
You start with 5 Rope Arrows, and there is no place on this level you will be
using one where you cannot retrieve it, so don't bother buying anymore. Moss
Arrows and Noisemaker Arrows are likewise (in my opinion) a waste of money here.
Concentrate on buying undead-harming equipment: Water Arrows, Fire Arrows, Flash
Bombs, Mines, and Holy Water. Flash Bombs are scattered about on this level, as
are a few Holy Waters and Explosive Mines. While Fire Arrows are also plentiful,
they are also very NICE! Try to buy all you can. Also, be sure to pick up a few
more Water Arrows...you ARE going against Zombies, and the five you start with
won't go far.
Recommended Purchases: 6 Water Arrows, 4 Fire Arrows, 3 Flash Bombs, 1 Holy
Water. Total Cost: 2300
12.7: Notes Regarding This Mission
==================================
Instead of introducing a new element to the game, this mission brings you new
monsters to fight: the Hammer Spirits and the Restless Dead. Although you have
already met a Restless Dead in the Bonehoard, he was a wimp compared to the ones
you'll meet here!
While the undead can be annoying, they are fortunately few and far between
(except for one area, noted in the walkthrough). Basically, any time you come
across one, kill him. (Aren't they dead already? Apparently not....) While this
is a must when dealing with Restless Dead and Hammer Spirits, with Zombies it
just makes your travels a little easier when you don't have to watch out for
these shuffling creatures. When you do take them out though, try not to use your
Flash Bombs unless there's a group of them...they are wonderful little multi-
target weapons! This walkthrough ignores (for the most part) patrolling monsters
that will get in your way, assuming you will take care of them as you see fit.
It should be noted that this walkthrough is done in a manner so that you can get
as much ammunition to use against your undead adversaries as possible. Whereas
in other missions I have stated something like: "For those who like
completeness, if you go this way you'll find these things...", this mission's
walkthrough does not do it that way. If you are doing this mission without
killing every Zombie that crosses your path (ie: running from them), then many
of these areas could be bypassed. Read ahead a bit to find these areas that you
might want to skip. However, do be sure to pick up at least two Explosive Mines
on your travels.
This mission reinforces a very important lesson for any thief...LOOK EVERYWHERE!
And that doesn't mean open every chest and check the floor wherever you go...it
means that if there is a way...ANY WAY...to get to an area, then do so! This
level puts items in obscure, unlikely, and in a few cases insidious places!
Due to the nature of the undead on this level, until you've cleaned an area out,
consider EVERY area a patrol area! Aside from Zombies, there are also at least
two Hammer Spirits that are walking around the level and, in some areas,
Burricks, so be careful! I suggest saving your game whenever you've made some
progress.
Near the end of the mission, there are two Hammer Spirits you'll need to deal
with. I find the easiest way is with Fire Arrows. Try to save about six for
this.
NOTE: This mission contains a lot of areas in darkness. This can be alleviated
by operating the various generators scattered on the level. When you are in a
darkened area, this walkthrough will take you to the generator as soon as
possible, to make the area easier to deal with. (For example, in one area, you
need to shoot a Rope Arrow into some beams overhead, which are nearly impossible
to see with the lights off.)
12.8: Walkthrough
=================
You will start off just over the wall inside the ruins. Immediately in front of
you is a scroll. You can ignore it...it is simply giving you information on how
to turn the lights on in the darkened areas. We'll take care of this section
right away. Move through the opening on your left, and turn right. Directly
ahead is a generator. Operate it, and the lights in this part of the ruins will
turn on. Move back outside, and turn left.
Move forward, over the pile of leaves. Once over, turn right, and you'll see
another pile (actually an extension of the same one). Move forward and go over
it as well. Turn right, and move over THIS pile as well. Then, crouch and look
under the fallen tower, and you will see a golden plate hidden there (50,
Treasure Count: 50). Now, turn around, and go back over the last two leaf piles
you climbed.
Turn right, and move forward, until you can see a door to your right. Pick the
lock on this door, then go through. Immediately on the floor in front of you
there will be 12 Broadhead Arrows (which you can take or leave, as you see fit).
Turn left, move forward, and climb partway up this area, then turn around so
you're looking both down into the room you were just in, and in the room above
that one. Jump foward, and mantle up into the new room. There are two chests in
here. The first one contains two Flash Bombs. The second one is locked, and
contains two Explosive Mines. Once you've gotten the goodies, work your way back
down and out the door you came in.
Once you're back outside, move forward, past the street lamp you can see ahead.
When you come to the intersection, turn left. Turn right at the first
opportunity, and move forward until you have to turn either left or right. Turn
right, and follow this path to an upwards-sloping ramp. Take the ramp up, and
continue forward (you'll move past another upwards-sloping ramp to your left)
until you cannot move forward anymore. Turn right.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Not only are you currently in a Zombie patrol area, but there's
a Burrick nearby as well. (If you're lucky, you'll get to see the Burrick scrap
it out with a Zombie. <g>)
Move forward, and you should see a small pillar ahead after a short while. On
the right side of this pillar should be a light, and a fallen street sign for
"de Perrin" street. Move forward to the LEFT of that pillar. (You're now
entering the area with the Burrick.)
Straight ahead and slightly to your left, you should now be able to see the
generator for this area. Move over to it and shed some light on your situation.
Now turn left (facing down a somewhat long walkway) and move forward. You'll
hear running water soon, and see a couple of holes in the wall you're moving
towards. Now, turn right when you're able to, and move towards that machine you
see. Jump onto it, then turn left, and jump onto the ledge on the wall (you'll
have to mantle up). Once you're on the ledge, turn left, and walk along it until
you reach the lever. Pull it down, then turn right around. If you're fast
enough, you should be able to watch the door up above finish opening.
Walk over to the end of the ledge, just underneath that door. AHA! A ladder!
Climb the ladder up into the room you've just opened. Inside, you'll find two
Fire Arrows, two Water arrows, and a Breath Potion. Now, climb back down the
ladder, and hop back to the ground. Head back the way you came, turning right to
go back to the area with the two ramps. Once there, turn right and go up the
ramp. At the top, turn right and move forward. Turn left, and move forward. To
your left should be an entranceway into what's left of a house. Go into it, and
ahead you will see a door. Pick the lock.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a live mine waiting on the other side of this door! Go
carefully into the room. On the floor by the bed you will find 3 Noisemaker
Arrows and 3 Flash Bombs. The chest closest to the bed holds 3 Explosive Mines
and the other chest has 3 Rope Arrows.
[NOTE: One time, I tried an experiment. I led a Zombie into this room so that
the live Mine on the floor would take him out. Apparently, this particular mine
is tuned to ignore undead...the Zombie walked right over it without triggering
it!]
Leave this room the way you came in, and keep walking forward through an
archway, and you should see a small incline ahead, leading up to a door. Pick
the lock on that door, and go inside this building. At the far end is a chest
containing another Breath Potion. Standing in front of the chest (with your back
to the entrance to this building), turn left and move towards a niche in the
wall. It contains 3 Fire Arrows. Now, leave the building the way you came in.
As you exit, you should see ahead of you two large piles of leaves. They meet at
the back of the wall in the centre, in a sort of "dip". Move up to the dip, and
look down at the leaves. Hidden here is a tiara (125, Treasure Count: 175). Once
you've got that, go back to the ramp that brought you up here, and take it down.
Across from the foot of this ramp is an old, upturned wagon. Move towards it,
and to your left you should find an entranceway into a dark room. Go inside,
look up, and shoot a Rope Arrow at the beams overhead. Climb up and hop off at
the next level.
Up here, take the only exit down a small hallway. At the end, you'll find a
golden vase (100, Treasure Count: 275). On the floor in the same room you'll
also find a Noisemaker Arrow. There's nothing else up here, so, go back to the
hole you climbed up, and go back down.
Back at ground level, leave this room, and go down the ramp ahead. Move straight
ahead, to the left of the building. Past the building, you'll have to turn
right. Move forward, and almost immediately turn left again. Move forward until
you can do so no longer, and turn left. Move forward until you come to a door.
Pick the lock, and go through.
In this room, climb the fallen beam up to the platform (you'll probably have to
run and jump over the lip at the top). Up on this platform, turn right, and look
down to get a ornate vase which has fallen on its side (50, Treasure Count:
325). Turn back so you are facing away from the beam you climbed, and move
forward to the end of the platform. Look down and to your right, and you will
find a Healing Potion. Go back to the fallen beam and climb down to the room
below. There is an exit to your right. Go through it into the next room, which
has a large hole in the ground.
Ignore the hole for now. Cross the room and go through the doorway across from
the one you entered. Turn left, move forward, turn left again, and enter this
enclosed room. Move all the way to the back, on top of that small pile of
leaves. Now, look up at the beam above, and you'll find a goblet resting there
(15, Treasure Count: 340).
Work your way back to the room with the hold in the floor. Move across to the
exit you originally entered this room from, but don't go through. Instead, turn
right, and move forward into the corner. Turn right again (so you have a wall to
your back and your left), and look up. See that broken beam? Shoot a Rope Arrow
into it. Climb up as high as you can. Once you've done that, fix your view so
you're looking straight again, then turn so you're back is to the beam your
arrow is in. Jump towards that very small beam (actually another part of this
broken one) and mantle up onto it.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Beam-hopping can be monotonous if you have to do it over and
over again. Turn right around, and jump over to the beam your arrow is in. Then
turn left, look down, and you'll find a golden goblet on a window ledge (25,
Treasure Count: 365).
Turn around. You should now see two more long beams up here. The furthest one
(the one that looks like it's on an angle) holds another treasure, but we have
to hop over there to find it. So, hop onto the beam next to yours, and then hop
onto the final beam. Turn left, and work your way down the beam to the end. Look
down, and you'll find a diamond (100, Treasure Count: 465).
From up here on the beam, you can look down into the hole. There's a Crayman
down there, and this is an ideal vantage to shoot some Broadheads into him.
After four hits, he'll take off down the tunnel. (If you're fast enough, you can
get a fifth arrow into him and kill him right here.)
[NOTE: In Thief Gold, it seemed to take about six arrows to kill the Crayman.
Did they make these guys more powerful in Thief Gold, or was I just sloppy with
my arrows?]
Drop down to the floor, and from there drop into the hole. Move down the tunnel
from here, turn right when you get the chance, and move forward into an old
storage room filled with barrels. Move to the end of this room, and turn left.
On the floor here are two more Water Arrows. Move back to the front of this
room, and take the exit on the right. Turn right when you can, and move into an
underground pool area.
There are a couple of items scattered in this room. Across the pool from you,
you should be able to see the remains of some poor guy. If you think of the pool
as a clock, with the remains at 12 o'clock, then you can find a Moss Arrow at 3
o'clock, and another one at 9 o'clock. Amongst the fellow's remains you will a
small golden hammer (75, Treasure Count: 540). Also, in the centre of the pool
are two more Water Arrows. Leave this grotto the way you entered, move through
the old storage room, and down the tunnel you followed to get here. When you
come to the decision point (left takes you back to where you shot at the
Crayman), turn right, and follow this tunnel. When you see a light coming from
an exit ahead, stop.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Move into the room. If you didn't kill the Crayman with your
arrows, he's fled into this room. If you got four of your Broadheads into him,
then a single downward stroke with your sword will do him in. [Thief Gold users,
see the note above about the Crayman and arrows, about 3 paragraphs up.]
EXPERIMENT AREA! Will a sidestroke do as well?
On the floor in this room you will find another golden goblet (25, Treasure
Count: 565). Move through the room and out the next exit, into a long tunnel.
Turn right and follow this tunnel straight ahead until you enter a large cavern.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There are Burricks nearby. I've never seen them this far from
the sewer, but that doesn't mean they don't come here. There are a total of
three.
There are four treasures scattered about this room. Basically, there is one in
each "corner" of the room. From where you enter, in the left corner you'll find
another golden goblet (25, Treasure Count: 590), and in the right corner is a
purse (100, Treasure Count: 690). (The purse is difficult to see, but it's
there.)
On the floor in between the two large stone columns in the "centre" of the room,
you'll also find a Noisemaker Arrow, a Rope Arrow, and a key.
At the opposite end of the cave from where you entered, you'll find the entrance
to another tunnel. Right beside it on the floor to the left is a goblet (15,
Treasure Count: 705). Directly across from this opening on the far side of the
cave is a golden vase (100, Treasure Count: 805).
Gather all the items from this cave, then move to the new exit (with the goblet
beside the entrance).
SAVE YOUR GAME! If you didn't find the Burrick's there, you may find them here.
Move forward into the tunnel. There are a few holes in the side of the tunnel,
but they are nothing more than deep recesses. While they don't lead anywhere,
they are useful for hiding in if there are any Burricks to avoid. Keep following
the tunnel until it opens into a long cavern. If there are no Burricks present,
then move in. This cavern also has two of the hiding holes. At the far end of
the cavern, there's a hole that goes into the sewer system.
SAVE YOUR GAME! If you meet the Burricks in the deeper sewers, it can be a
problem...you can't use your weapons! Move into the sewers, and go to the wall
opposite and just to the right of the entrance (if you look up a touch, you'll
see an inoperative light on the wall). Look down. In the water by a grating, you
will find another goblet (15, Treasure Count: 820). Now, turn around, and follow
the water down the tunnel. Soon, you'll come to an incline with water spilling
down it. Climb up here, and at the top, turn right. The water ends at another
upwards incline. Climb up.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Any Burricks you haven't dealt with will be dealt with here!
Move forward, then turn right. Ahead, turn left down this dark tunnel. Once you
enter a sort of chamber, move to the centre of the chamber and stop. Turn right.
See that lamp in the wall? It may be difficult to see, but if you've turned
about 90 degrees, you should be facing it directly. Move over to it. Now, jump
straight up, and grab the gold plate on the ledge (50, Treasure Count: 870).
(This procedure is easier if you look down before you jump.)
Time to leave. Head back down the tunnel you came in from, and then turn right.
Move into the next chamber, and directly opposite you you should be able to see
a ladder. Hop on, climb up, and turn to the right. Activate the generator. Hop
off the ladder onto the steel platform (if you have any Moss Arrows, you may
want to quiet your landing). Now turn, and you should see a short hallway ending
at a small portcullis. Jump across the gap into that hallway.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're going back into Zombie patrol areas! There's a lever on
the wall which opens the portcullis. Operate it, and go through. Turn right, and
move forward into the street. Turn left, move forward. At the next left, note
the street sign saying you're on "Cathedral" street. Take the left, and continue
down this street until you come to a large hole in the wall to your left. Go
through, turn right, look down, and pick up the gilded vase (100, Treasure
Count: 970). Go back through the hole, turn right, and work your way back to the
street sign.
Move forward, back onto the street, and turn left. Move forward, to the door
that you will see in the wall to your left. Pick the lock and go inside. Climb
the fallen timber up to the next level. Once you're at the top, there is a
window to your right holding another gilded vase (100, Treasure Count: 1070).
For those of you who like completeness, turn around so your back is to the
window. On the far beam rests two Water Arrows that you can get by jumping and
mantling. Once you've retreived them, return to the window.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're about to make a tricky jump. Move yourself into the
window where you picked up the vase. Face the building across the street, then
do a quick run and jump across. DON'T LET GO OF THE JUMP BUTTON! The jump is too
big for you, but by holding the jump button, you'll grab the edge and mantle up
onto the top of the wall. Also, when you do the run, don't hold it until the
last moment and then jump...you want to press run and then jump almost at the
same time.
Look down. There's a gold plate resting in the rafters beneath. Aim yourself so
you can fall safely onto one of them, and grab the plate (50, Treasure Count:
1120). Then move across the rafters to the safer wooden floor ahead.
Ahead to your right is an exit from this room. Go through it. At the end of this
hall, drop down into the next room. Turn right, move forward, and fall to the
street below. Turn left, move forward, turn left again. Move forward, through
that tiny crack ahead. Once through, turn left. You should be in an area with a
lamp up on the wall, and some wooden beams. Move under the first beam, so you
hit the second. Now, turn right and look up. On a ledge you should now be able
to see a jewelled vase (50, Treasure Count: 1170).
Now turn right a little more, so you're facing into a fairly well-lit area with
a pile of leaves. Move forward. As you do, you should see a doorway just beyond
and to the left of the leaves. Go through that doorway. Almost immediately
inside, there will be a door on the left. Pick the lock and go inside. On the
right wall will be two niches. The one farthest from the door contains a diamond
(100, Treasure Count: 1270). Now exit the room, and move through the doorway in
the wall directly opposite this room. Once through, turn left, and you should
see a raised drawbridge, in front of which is a flow of water. Dive in the
water.
Follow the flow of the water. When you reach the corner ahead, turn left. At the
next corner, however, stop. Turn to your left (facing the wall), and dive under.
Go into this tunnel here, move to the end, turn right, push forward just a
little, and immediately surface for air.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This next part can cause you a bit of damage if not done
correctly, and if you've taken any so far, that might kill you. Dive again, and
move forward. Take the left turn ahead, continue on, and take the next left as
well. Push forward to the dead end, and look down. Someone else tried to swim
here, and wasn't as smart as you. Pick up his purse (100, Treasure Count: 1370).
You're probably running short on air by this point, so take a Breath Potion.
Now, turn 180 degrees, and press forward. (Note: On your way down this tunnel,
suspended in the water is a Moss Arrow, if you'd like to grab it.) Near the end
of this tunnel, turn left into another one, and surface. Try to surface quietly
and as far back as you can.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Not only do you not want to go through the Olympic Freestyle
again, but there's another Crayman nearby. Swim slowly into the next area. In
the middle of the pool there will be a stone "island" you can mantle up onto.
[NOTE: While playing the original Thief game, when I arrived here, the Crayman
was stationary. In Thief Gold, however, it has a small patrol area in this
room.]
There are a number of ways to deal with this situation. First, you can deal with
the Crayman from here. You could kill him using any method you prefer. He can't
reach you while you're on the island, so take your time and enjoy yourself. :)
Or, you could simply leave him alone. The next part can be done without the
Crayman ever being a danger to you.
You can jump to the edge of the pool to get to a larger space of land, but it's
not really necessary. Look up, and shoot a Rope Arrow into the beam above.
(Note: You have to shoot the arrow at the SIDE of a beam, NOT directly beneath
it!) Climb up, and mantle yourself up onto the beam. (You may need to jump from
this beam to another in order to do this.) Once you're standing safely on the
beam, look around you for a larger wooden platform and a doorway. Head for it,
and go through the doorway. Turn left, move forward, turn right, and move into a
small room. Turn right, and you'll see a door.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Once you pick the lock on this door, you are going to be facing
a horde of Zombies (at least seven, if I recall correctly)! They may not all be
out there at the same time, but they are there. (The first time I did this, as I
opened the door, FIVE were waiting for me!) This is the perfect time to use your
Flash Bombs. NOTE: There is a bridge over some water to your left that you
cannot see right when you step out. There may be more Zombies hiding over that
way that you're not aware of, so be careful!
Pick the lock on the door, and deal with the Zombies as you see fit. Once
they're all scattered in pieces, move forward (your back should be to the door
you entered this area from) and turn left. Cross the bridge, and when you can
turn left again do so. Move down the hill until you come to a wall that you can
jump onto. Once you've done that, turn left, walk along the wall until you're
pressed up against the larger one, and mantle up. Turn right, and go across this
wall (you'll actually be walking on the lip of the drawbridge in the middle!)
towards the hole in the wall across from you. When you're able, jump across into
the hole. In here there is a locked door.
NOTE: At this point in both the original Thief game and in Thief Gold, the sound
on my game acted up here. Trying the door makes no noise, nor does trying the
wrong lockpick. Picking the lock is rather silent as well. If your game is
similar, don't panic when you don't hear sounds you're used to. Everything's
fine, you haven't done anything wrong.
Pick the lock. Move into and across the room, to an opening ahead. Drop down,
and drop down again, and again to the ground level. Move ahead, and you should
see some lights far down a long path. Go on up to the lights. They are outside a
large home.
Face the home, walk up the steps, and look down. Move the welcome mat to reveal
a small hole in the porch containing the key to the front door. (You may have to
crouch to get the key).
SAVE YOUR GAME! This part is tricky, dangerous, and needs to be timed right.
There are two Restless Dead inside, but they are easy to take care of with a
couple of Explosive Mines. Unfortunately, they are patrolling, so you need to
get this done when they're away from you and can't see you.
Open the door. Directly inside there will be a door on your left, and a doorway
on your right. Move into the doorway, and plant a mine there. Quickly move back
to the front door, and plant a mine there as well. Now, move outside.
The first explosion will kill the first Restless Dead, and bring the other one
looking. Be sure you're in his line of sight, so he'll see you and come after
you outside. Once he blows up, you'll have free reign of the house.
[NOTE: The above procedure was done before I realized how easy these creatures
are to kill using Flash Bombs. If you've got enough of them to spare, then by
all means use them. (The procedure above was left in because I rather like using
it, even when I have enough Flash Bombs.)]
Move inside the house, and go through the door on your left (the key you found
under the mat works here too). Turn left. In the chest you'll find 2 Moss
Arrows. While you're in here, grab that vase on the table as well (50, Treasure
Count: 1420). Now exit this room through the door you entered, and head through
the doorway across from it (where you planted the first Mine). Once through,
turn left. Go over to the stairs (ramps, really), and climb the stairs all the
way to the top. At the top, turn left, and go into a very large bedroom.
Immediately to your left is a locked chest which contains a vial of Holy Water.
At the opposite end of the room, next to the bed, is another locked chest, which
contains the Serpentyle Torc (350, Treasure Count: 1770). That's all you want
from this house (all the levers you see in here just operate the lights), so
exit this room the way you came in, go down the stairs (ramps), turn left,
forward, turn right through the doorway, then turn left and go out the front
door.
Back on leafy ground, turn right and head back the way you entered this area.
When you come to the wall, mantle up a couple of times (the first time you'll
have to do a running jump) and move through the hole in the wall. Walk through
this room and out the door at the far end.
SAVE YOUR GAME! To get down safely, you have to jump over to the thin wall that
contains the drawbridge. One small miscalculation and you'll either be in a
world of hurt, or swimming back the hard way.
Jump onto the wall with the drawbridge. Once you're safely on, move forward some
until you can jump safely from the wall onto the hill. Move forward, and turn
right. You should now be facing the bridge and the area where you met the Zombie
Horde. Cross the bridge, and move towards the doorway with the shining light
above it. The key you found in the Burrick cavern will open this portcullis.
Once it is raised, go inside, and operate the generator. Turn around and exit
the way you came in.
Once you're in the street again, turn left, move forward a bit, and then turn
left again. There's a doorway here. Move through it. Once inside, immediately
turn left, and look down. Open the chest to get another purse (100, Treasure
Count: 1870). Turn right again, facing the hole in the wall. Crouch and move
through that passage. You'll emerge in a room with two other passages leading
out (you've just entered through a fireplace!). Move into the room a bit, and
turn right. You should see a niche with an Explosive Mine in it. Take it, then
turn about 180 degrees and take the left passage. Inside, you'll find flights of
stairs. Take them all the way to the top. Once there, look up and shoot a Rope
Arrow into the ceiling. Climb up and hop off on the next level.
In the corner opposite the hole you just came up through is a Fire Arrow on the
floor. Once you've grabbed that, turn around to face the windows in here. You
want the one on the left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! If you make a mistake here, you fall down to the street. Do a
running jump out the window to land on the ledge across the street with the door
on it. Pick the lock on the door, and go inside. Follow the hall to another
door. Go through it. Balance yourself on the beam up here. Down below there are
two Spiders. Use your Broadheads from here to safely deal with them. Once they
are pincushions, jump across to the next beam, and then fall down onto the
sloping beam beyond that. Your fall should carry you off the beam onto the
ground, but if it doesn't, move forward so you fall to the ground.
The large structure in here is the Watchman's Grave. (If you don't believe me,
there's a tiny plaque at the base you can read that will confirm it.) Take your
coins and put them in the dish on the Grave.
Now to leave. The fastest way out of this area is to shoot a Rope Arrow at the
beams above, climb up, mantle onto the beam, and go through the door. Keep
moving down the hall, and stop at the ledge outside.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another death-defying jump here. Look across the street at the
building to your right. There are two wooden rafters you can see. Aim a Rope
Arrow at the left one. Now, do a running jump across, and grab the rope on your
way down. Climb up, and turn to face the flat, dark, brink area to your left.
Jump onto that area. Here, turn to your right, and move forward. Look down to
get the gilded vase (100, Treasure Count: 1970). Now turn right around, and move
to the other end to pick up another 12 Broadhead Arrows.
Turn back so you are facing the rope, and jump onto it. We're going to abandon
this Rope Arrow. Climb all the way down to street level. Now, turn so you are
facing the doorway in the greenish wall. Go through it, turn left, and open the
chest to get a ring (100, Treasure Count: 2070).
Turn around, and move forward, taking the left turn ahead. Step into the next
room, and take the first right (almost immediately upon entering). Walk down the
passage to a hole in the floor.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're about the enter a Spider Lair. While there's only one
Spider, and I've always found it in the same place, I'm not 100% sure it will
always be that way.
Drop down into the hole. Move through the opening in front of you, down to the
end. Turn left and hop onto the ladder there. Climb ALL the way up, then turn
right around, jump off the ladder, pull out your Broadhead Arrows, and wait.
Eventually, you should see a Spider crawling around ahead. When you do, deal
with it accordingly. Once that's done, move ahead through the hole ahead. Once
through, turn left and move to the end. Look down on the floor to find a Healing
Potion and a goblet (15, Treasure Count: 2085). Now turn around and head back
the way you came, past the hole you climbed in through, and search the floor in
the darker areas for another vase (50, Treasure Count: 2135). Now turn around
180 degrees.
NOTE: At this point, if you go through the hole on your right, you will need to
pull yourself up onto street level again. Unfortunately, this is a patrol area
of Burricks (I've seen up to four at once!) and a Spider. This hole is, however,
ideal for throwing Mines and Flash Bombs in their area without endangering
yourself. Just remember that it takes more than one Mine to kill a Burrick. (It
might also be a good idea to attract the Burricks' attention, and lead them to
the Zombies instead of fighting them yourself...then the Zombies can kill the
Burricks for you!) Deal with the Burricks as you see fit.
NOTE: This next bit is, once more, a touch more difficult for Thief Gold players
than for those with the original game. The room mentioned below that has the
Rope Arrow and the ladder in it also has an occupant: a Flaming Spirit.
Otherwise, it is the same. Deal with him as you see fit.
Move through the hole on your left (you may need to jump), and move forward,
dropping down the hole ahead (you may catch on the ladder, and have to climb the
rest of the way down). Once at the bottom, turn and move into the next room, and
go across the room through the next doorway. Follow the tunnel to a large room.
On the floor in the far corner is a Rope Arrow. Now, turn to face the ladder,
and climb up into the next room, jumping off the ladder once you reach the top.
Turn to face the closed door in this room, and go through it. Turn left, move
forward, turn right, move forward. Move past (probably OVER) the large pile of
leaves/grass/straw/whatever on your left, and go forward through a small crack.
You should now have a bridge on your left. Turn to face it, and walk about
halfway across it. Then turn to the right, and do a running jump into the
generator building ahead. Turn to the right, and operate the generator. Turn
right again, and do another running jump out of here, landing on the bridge
again.
This next section is only if you're short on Fire Arrows or if you like to find
everything. On the bridge, turn left, and move forward. Ahead you should see a
small crate. Pick it up. Now, turn right and move back through the crack, and
over the refuse pile again. Turn left, and move forward, following the left wall
to its end. There, you want to place the crate you're carrying against the wall.
Jump up onto it, then mantle yourself up onto the wall. Now, turn to face the
building across from the wall, and jump over to the roof. Turn left again, and
mantle yourself up into the enclosed area. Turn left, move forward, and pick up
three Fire Arrows on the floor. (Read the book too, if you're interested.) Make
you're way back down to the ground level, then turn to face away from the
direction you entered this area in. You should see another door. Pick the lock,
and inside you'll find another Breath Potion. Now, exit this tiny room the way
you entered, and make your way back to the bridge.
On the bridge, make sure you are facing so that the generator room is on your
right. Move forward towards the lighted area ahead and to the left. Once inside,
move through the shallow pool and turn right. Go forward, and you'll find a box.
Pick the lock on it to find another ring (100, Treasure Count: 2235). Turn
around and head back towards the shallow pool. On your way, turn right and move
through the opening in the wall. Directly ahead should be another opening in a
fallen building.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is usually at least one Burrick in this area, and one time
I saw two. Go through that opening (you will have to crouch). Turn left, and in
the far corner you will find another diamond (100, Treasure Count: 2335). Turn
so you are facing up the slope, and climb it, all the way. Once you're on
natural ground again, move forward, go through the door ahead, and turn left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You're near the end, but there are still two Hammer Spirits to
deal with. I'm going to describe the method how I deal with them. If you have a
different method that works well for you, then by all means, use it.
Move forward through the hole ahead, and turn right. Walk up the street, keeping
to shadows when you can. As you walk, there will be a total of two alcoves you
can hide in on the right side. When the patrolling Hammer Spirit gives you the
opportunity, move into the second one (the one closest to him). Hide in the
darkest corner (this will be the one closest to the patrol). Ready your Fire
Arrows, and LEAN out, and wait. When the patrol comes back, wait until he's
stopped, then let loose with your Arrows. Three should take care of the patrol.
Once he's taken care of, you can shoot at the one above the entranceway. Again,
three will take care of it. Note that since you're leaning, it's very easy to
dodge in and out of hiding, which can be very useful here.
Once those two guards are taken care of, you should be able to move freely about
here. Exit your hiding place, and turn right. Move forward into the large area,
and turn right again. Move to the fallen streetlamp at the end, and behind it
you'll find another diamond (100, Treasure Count: 2435). Now, turn around to
face the Cathedral.
Move forward, into the Cathedral, and climb the stairs. Continue forward, until
you can go either left or right. Trying the Cathedral doors won't help. They're
sealed. There's a plaque above the door whiche reads:
"Warning: Great evil resides in this place, and it is no longer fit for men. The
doors are sealed, to protect us from that which lies within. Do not remain
here."
Turn right, and move forward. Circle your way all the way around the Cathedral,
until you come to an area where you can mantle up onto a ledge. (Along the way,
study the ground...you'll find two Fire Arrows.)
Mantle up onto the ledge. Mantle up to the next ledge. Move over to the opening
here, and listen to what The Eye says:
"Comes a man to rescue me...poor man, the Keepers have sealed the door, and only
they know how to open them. Cross you the bridge to the grotto of the Keeper
Sentinel. Stand you on the pedestal...and illuminate the statue with fire. Then
can you discover...the secret of the Talisman."
Cryptic instructions, but we can decipher them. Incidentally, your mission
objectives have changed now:
1. Find the Cathedral. (Checked)
2. Follow the Eye's directions in order to learn how to get inside the
Cathedral.
3. Grab 2000 in loot. (Checked)
4. Locate and steal the Serpentyle Torc. (Checked)
5. Leave some coins on the Watchman's Grave for good luck. (Checked)
6. Exit the ruins.
EXPERIMENT AREA: Inside the Cathedral you can see some undead wandering around.
If you kill any of them now, are they still dead when you return here in "Return
to the Cathedral"? [Answer: No!]
NOTE: You do not have to hang around watching the spinning crown while The Eye
tells you what to do. You can start heading towards where it's telling you to go
AS it tells you, without penalty. :)
Okay, climb back down to ground level, and circle all the way back to the
entrance. Leave the Cathedral, climb down the stairs, and at the bottom, turn
right. Move down the street, and at the end turn left and move through the hole
ahead. Go through the door ahead and to the right, and move forward to the
starting edge of the fallen building. Turn left, move forward, turn right, move
forward, and turn left and go through the hole in the wall. Turn right, move
forward, turn left, and move forward through the shallow pool of water and out
into the street. Turn right, and move forward, stopping at the foot of the
bridge. Look up, and shoot a Rope Arrow into the wooden structure above. Climb
the rope up, and jump in. Turn right, move to the end, and look down. Get the
necklace someone lost here (200, Treasure Count: 2635). Turn around and drop
back down to the bridge.
Move forward off the bridge, and turn right. You should see a stone bridge
leading into another area. Go in there, using a running jump to get across the
water (you'll have to mantle up onto the island). Stand on the metal structure
shaped like a keyhole, then turn to face the statue in the alcove on almost the
opposite side of the grotto from where you entered. Shoot a Fire Arrow AT THE
STATUE. The resulting explosion will light both torches on either side of it.
Now turn left, and you'll see a panel opening. Jump across (you shouldn't have
to mantle this time), and climb into the new opening.
[Incidentally, if you're interested...the locked chest here contains a vial of
Holy Water. There's also a Healing Potion on the ground between the metal
protrusion and the chest.]
Turn left, and follow this tunnel into a new, open area. On the right side (as
you face the building), is a shattered statue. Pick up the two heaviest pieces
(ie: not the head), one at a time, and place them on the pedestal on the right.
This will open the door into the building. Then, jump onto the pedestal on the
left. This will open the portcullis into the new place. Face the opening, and
run into it. The portcullis will close behind you.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This room is trapped. Look at the floor, and notice the oddly
outlined floor panels. They are weight-sensitive triggers. Stepping on them
releases arrows. There is a safe path, right down the middle between them. Go
that way, and down the stairs at the end. Turn right, and move forward to the
door ahead, being careful not to step on the weight-trigger in front of the door
(again, it's a large, conspicuous-looking tile).
Pick the lock on the door. Once it is opened, move into the room beyond. You can
step on the trigger at this point, as there is no danger to you. The trigger
causes the far wall (behind you) to move closer, eventually crushing you if you
haven't gotten into the next room yet.
In this room, turn left, climb the stairs, and go through the door ahead.
Inside, climb down the stair, get the key lying on the table, and get the oddly-
shaped device as well. (Read the books if you'd like...it's not important to the
game, but it does reveal more about the game's story.)
Now turn around, and go back through the door. Move straight across the room, to
another door, and unlock it with the key you found in the previous room. Go
through the door.
On the table in this room is a book. First, look at the table. Then, read the
book. After you do, your mission objectives change again:
1. Find the Cathedral. (Checked)
2. Find a way to get inside the Cathedral, and steal the Eye. (This one
will have a mark in the box, indicating its irrelevance.)
3. Grab 2000 in loot. (Checked)
4. Locate and steal the Serpentyle Torc. (Checked)
5. Leave some coins on the Watchman's Grave for good luck. (Checked)
6. Exit the ruins. (This one will have a mark in the box, indicating
its irrelevance.)
7. Get the Portal Key out of the Keeper's Library. (Checked)
You may notice that everything that you need to do has been done.
Congratulations! You've discovered what you need to proceed to the next mission!
Section 13: Input from Other Thieves
====================================
Since the first posting, I have received some emails from readers of this FAQ.
Some offering encouragement for continuation, others with questions, and the
occassional one with advice or further information. This is the spot where I
will be acknowledging their input (sort of a "Contributors" section).
Anyone who has seen previous versions of this FAQ will note that this section
has undergone a change. Previously, I was listing each individual's advice
seperately here, and giving them the credit immediately following. There have
been many who have contributed so much, however, that it would be impossible to
continue maintaining this section in that manner.
Instead, each person's information is incorporated directly into the FAQ, in the
relevant position. That person will be credited here, and a BRIEF note (as
opposed to the entire email) on what they contributed will be listed.
If you send me any information that you feel might be included in this FAQ, to
save time please include the following information with your tidbit of
knowledge:
1) If you want to be credited or not,
2) What name you would like me to use to credit you,
3) If it's okay to include your email address in the credit.
Due to the great number of emails I receive with suggestions/help/etc., I am
instituting a new policy regarding this: any email that contains something which
obviously has a good chance of being incorporated into the FAQ which does NOT
have the above information will be assumed to have answered "No" to question #1.
(Due to this new policy, the FIRST person I receive an email from with new
information will receive the credit...this is in cases of more than one person
sending me the same information.)
Hades (DVancomerb@aol.com)
- Ability to run in the beginning of "Lord Bafford's Manor"
Hellion (blb3904@garnet.acns.fsu.edu)
- Disabling sensors in Cragscleft Prison
James Sterrett
- Provide an opening phrase I had missed for the FAQ's intro
- Secret Area in Training Mission only available at Expert level
- Answered "Healing Potion" experiment in the Training Mission
- Ability to kill Spiders in Lord Bafford's Manor
- Drowning Zombies in Cragscleft won't work in the upgrade
- Climbing-down-the-ladder experiment in Cragscleft
- How to blackjack the Hammerite Priest in the area past the
Barracks sign (Cragscleft)
- Information about the scroll in the study in Cragscleft
- Jumping in the Bonehoard without a Speed Potion
- Killing the Guardian with a Fire Arrow in the Bonehoard
- Return to Farkus' shop after trailing the Assassins (Assassins)
- Alternate route via waterway into Ramirez' (Assassins)
- Prompted me to re-write several mission walkthroughs
Psonyk (psonyk@vl.videotron.ca)
- Revealed that Flash Bombs are weapons against undead
- Revealed you can blackjack Burricks
- Provided information on Hammer Spirits and Restless Dead
- Provided information on Mines
Corny
- Provided information on getting on the balcony and roof in the
Training Mission
Taxa
- Revealed the secret passage in Lord Bafford's Manor
- Hint about drowning Spiders in Lord Bafford's Manor
- Using a skull unnecessary to get gem in the Bonehoard
- Run PAST the Guardian in the Bonehoard
- Showed Assassins take alternate routes (Assassins)
- How to bypass the long metal ramp in Assassins
- Falling off ladder doesn't alert the guards in Assassins
- Alert causes a guard to be with Ramirez in Assassins
Bastage (nitticjs@aol.com)
- Improved information on blackjacking humans
- Improved information on meleeing with Burricks
- Showed how to blackjack the first guard inside Lord Bafford's
Manor more expeditiously
Conskill (conskill@mindspring.com)
- Dispersing Fly Swarms from around Zombies with Water Arrows
Alex Powell
- Revealed that a guard in Cragscleft had a potion to pickpocket
Section 14: Thief Sites on the Internet
=======================================
The following sites are what I have found on the Internet for Thief: The Dark
Project. All sites are included with permission. If you would like your Thief
site mentioned here, please email me (at taffer@sprint.ca) with the pertinent
information.
NOTE: This information is sorely out of date and needs adding to. I have not had
the time to search the net for more sites, so if anyone out there can send me
any addresses they have, it would be greatly appreciated.
Looking Glass Studios' Home Page: One of the companies to bring us this amazing
piece of software. (Note: They have asked me to make it clear that they do NOT
do tech support for Thief...that is being handled by EIDOS. Unfortunately, EIDOS
has not gotten back to me about putting their web address in my FAQ.)
http://www.lglass.com/
Thief-DarkProject.com: This is THE place to go for anything Thief related. News,
desktop themes, wallpaper, fanworks, and more!
http://www.thief-darkproject.com/
The Mission Log: This is the place I go to when I'm having trouble. It's got a
very nice format for what treasures you need to find, and where they are
located. VERY useful!
http://www.sundial.net/~ghostboy/walkthru.html
Game Forum: Contains several message boards regarding Thief, and a very large
one for Thief 2 as well! (Follow the links to get to the message board you
want.)
http://www.gameforum.com
Thief 2 Facts and Rumours Page: Need I say more? :)
http://www.thief-darkproject.com/thief2/index.html
Section 15: Thief 2 News
========================
Yes, there WILL be a Thief 2! Whenever I hear some news about it, I will share
it with you in this section. Note that most of the time, these rumours are just
that: rumours. Do NOT take anything I say here as canon!
Aside from the fact that there is a Thief 2 on the way, the happiest news I've
heard is that there will be few, if any, Zombies or Zombie-type creatures in the
game. Apparently, I am not the only one that dislikes our anti-social, asthmatic
friends. :)
For more, try the Thief 2 Facts and Rumours page!
http://www.thief-darkproject.com/thief2/index.html
Note that I am sorely out of touch with things regarding Thief II lately. Any
information that you can provide me with would be greatly
appreciated...especially a proposed release date. :)
Section 16: Endnotes and Copyright Notice
=========================================
Please send all comments, suggestions, praise, love letters, job offers
(ESPECIALLY the job offers! <g>), etc. to: taffer@sprint.ca
Feedback is greatly appreciated. In particular, what you liked, disliked, what
could have been done better, alternate ways around problems, spelling errors you
spotted that I didn't, the correct names for items/treasures I may have not
recognized properly, etc. Anything that you feel will make the next version of
the FAQ/Walkthrough better and/or more complete and accurate.
This document is copyright December 1999 Adam Gilchrist. Permission is granted
to reproduce and distribute it freely, in whole or in part, provided that the
reprocuded portion(s) remain(s) unmodified, that the original author (that's me)
is credited, and that this copyright notice is included.