Galaer on 14/11/2021 at 14:57

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THE THIEVES QUARTER

Mission features red guards that are immune to KO and they can spawn continuously. Loot requirement is very tight as 400 loot is unavailable, 85 loot is in locked house opposite to prison and there is no key for it plus taking 2 bottles from tavern worth 100 together makes barkeeper attack you. In other words to complete this mission you need to get all other loot.

CATHEDRAL

Mission truly starts in Hammerite Cathedral. Rope up to left double door. This leads to room with floating books. Go to Treasury guarded by red stationary guard. You must nudge him into NW corner, which is slow and can take 20 min. Plus you will need to close door, because outside patroller keep opening them, but not closing. Then strafe run into Treasury, take all loot and strafe run outside.

On 1st floor you are forced to destroy statue near sleeping guard's room, because there is Chest key inside (ghost bust #1). This spawns new red guard patroller. In sleeping guard's room is valuable sword. Enter it and quickly hide in nearby room, because guard will wake up and start patrolling. Return for sword. Now in my run patrolling Ramirez stopped at the center of entrance room and patroller behind him started walking into him from different sides. Go to 2nd floor. Behind SE bookshelf is chest with Builder's Chisel. Go downstairs to dining room and douse 2 torches. Wait for guard to turn away and go to double door.

HAUNTED CHURCH

Lean left to douse torch. On the left is aggressive swarm of flies. To avoid him go to south wall, mantle on tree and on wall, go north, drop on tree and on ground. Go through wooden double door. You need to go upstairs. Right stairs aren't guarded, but stairs will collapse. Even if you don't touch stairs, but mantle on wooden ledge, stairs will fall and small spider will see you walking to 2nd floor. You must use left stairs, so you must time slow walking zombie with turning haunt. Upstairs walking into rooms may trigger haunt checking 2nd floor. It may look a bit like search mode, but it's not, it's scripted behavior. In this run he did that 3 times for me.

Go to Holy Hammer, it will vanish and appear on altar downstairs. Go to hole, rope down and leave rope arrow behind. On west wall behind lying zombie are loose bricks. Standing on sarcophagus and statue you must remove them and put them quietly on opposite sarcophagus. Jump to hole in wall, brick will fall from ceiling on it's own and alert small spider. Again it's not made by me, so it's not a ghost bust.

Now you must return downstairs. In my run ghost started walking into left side of altar, so I needed to walk along right side to Holy Hammer. Since you can only carry it, you must leave all doors leading to your rope arrow opened. Return to small spider room. You must put Holy Hammer on sarcophagus. It will open it, but also 2nd alert spider inside (ghost bust #2). No matter what I tried I couldn't avoid that. By the way, spider on floor isn't alerted. Return to hole in wall and drop hammer. It will teleport to altar. Take Golden Skull and sneak to the back of church on 1st floor.

CEMETERY

To get there you must to destroy 2 upper wooden planks (ghost bust #3). Don't destroy lower plank as it spawns haunt behind nearby door. Also planks destruction 2nd alerted everyone in church and spider at the cemetery. From here jump and mantle on wall. Jump on opposite wall. On the right is Talisman of Fire, but it's impossible to get out of this area and there is invisible enemy who will hurt you. You must go left. When haunts look away drop on tombstone, take golden hammer, return on tombstone and on wall. Drop to grave and take loose tombstone to destroy it (ghost bust #4). This will also alert haunts. Douse Talisman of Fire and take it. This spawns zombie. Since haunts are alerted I just run past zombie (ghost bust #5) to church.

Wait for church enemies to calm down and wait for zombie to walk along wall towards haunt. Then sneak to double wooden door. Swarm of flies destroyed newly spawned guard. Mantle on tree, then on wall, go south and drop on tree and on ground. Go to cathedral to 2nd floor and exit the same way you entered through room with floating books. Drop on street and sneak past new stationary red guard. Go to tavern to finish this mission.

STATS:

Time: 1:01:48; Loot: 1517/2102
Locks Picked: 4
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

klatremus on 16/11/2021 at 01:00

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Thanks for the reports, Galaer. Only 12 Thief 1 missions left to go! Of the remaining ones, I am planning on doing Whispers Below the Cobblestone and Recipe for Turmoil in not too long. I also realized I had forgotten to remove Station to Station from the unreported list, so that got rid of one more.

Also, I've gone ahead and updated my Guilded Rivalry report with the adjustments made in my Part 2 video posted earlier today. I really want to thank you for those strats, Galaer. I still think destroying the crystal is a bust, but I left it up to the viewers.

Oh and The Trickster's Return must've been hellish tough with 12 ghost busts. Not sure if that's a record, but it's gotta be up there.

Galaer on 21/11/2021 at 19:59

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WHEN STILL...

MISSION 1 - LORD ROBERT LELDER

In west Bar after turning off light and dousing torch you are forced to nudge barkeeper in order to get all loot. East from Entrance is statuette. Area is well visible and further away is guard who can spot you. To get statuette you must move slowly along east wall. You will be forced to mantle on sofa to do that. In Guest Annex is the biggest problem. After turning light you must nudge stationary guard west, but there is patroller. You are safe from him in dark corner east from stationary guard. Also it's a good idea to try to nudge guard only when patroller is going west, because he's walking there later. Then go close to door and unlock it. Be careful, you aren't safe there from patroller. Afterwards you must quickly enter room. This and leaving can take couple of tries.

STATS:

Time: 1:06:48; Loot: 5458/5598
Pockets Picked: 5/5; Locks Picked: 12
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Secrets: 7/7

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: POSSIBLE

MISSION 2 - THE WAY

In order to ghost this mission and get all loot you need to douse 4 torches and 1 fireplace. That's why you need to gather all water arrows on your path. At the end of mission you must use gate switch to open path to exit. It triggers alarm. So after disabling alarm using gate switch will not only open gate, but also busts gate switch (gas flies out of wire and switch becomes unfrobbable). This is damage property (ghost bust #1).

STATS:

Time: 0:33:11; Loot: 2135/2135
Pockets Picked: 8/8; Locks Picked: 5
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Secrets: 3/3

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

MISSION 3 - THE RITUAL

You must nudge Captain James left while avoiding getting spotted by patroller to get candlestick. To put Relic of All Sins on Hammers altar you must drop it from 2nd floor wooden beam, but before that moss the altar. After ringing bell all AIs will die automatically except one 2nd floor Hammerite. He and haunts will alert to the bodies. That's why I have Body Discovery stat.

STATS:

Time: 0:54:39; Loot: 7650/8175
Pockets Picked: 5/5; Locks Picked: 3
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Bodies Discovered by Enemies: 3
Secrets: 3/7

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE. Secret chest in Wine Cellar worth 100 must be skipped, because it's behind crate. Touching this crate will make it shatter, which is damage property.

MISSION 4 - THE MYSTERY

In Ruins there is spider near water. In water there are 4 pieces of loot. To get it you need to shoot 2 light mushrooms and douse brazier, then nudge green spider to stairs. It's not perfect darkness, so when you are close to his back, you must back off slowly. When spider is away you can jump into water safely.

In Orphanage is place with falling wooden planks. When you touch them, they will fall, clip through ground underwater and vanish. If you stay in front of wooden planks, save and reload, wooden planks will fall on their own. Since I wanted planks to not vanish I ran only on left plank and stayed on it. This way plank will stop just below surface of water. Then I saved and loaded, so other wooden planks started to fall. Quickly jump into water and try to block them with your body while being low underwater. 3 planks can easily block your path out of water, but if they are on different levels, it's possible to squeeze out by mantling on one of planks. This way I could go forward and leave all 3 wooden planks present in water.

STATS:

Time: 0:40:43; Loot: 5192/5192
Pockets Picked: 2/2; Locks Picked: 1
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Secrets: 4/6

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: SUCCESS

Galaer on 29/11/2021 at 22:02

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AMONG TWO STORMS

BEGINNING

Switch to Palmer, then use lever, open door and hide near lever. Go behind thief and hide under pipe, then douse all 5 torches in bar and grab Empty Jug. Loot other rooms and go to middle room. Switch to Garrett. From shadow on the right you can grab patroller's purse. He has a bit random patrol route. Crouch and go along right wall to thief. In basement go left and enter sewers. In my test run pair of thieves sticked together, in my ghost run they were walking away of each other. It was impossible to progress. I decided to return to the beginning, so maybe later thieves position will change allowing me to progress.

I switched to Palmer and returned to the beginning to leave Empty Jug for Garrett. You only need to dodge patrolling thief from left. Don't touch him as enemies can alert, so it's impossible to nudge them in this mission. Switch to Garrett and go to basement. Go right and fill jug with fuel from barrel. Pair of thieves changed their position a bit, but it's still impossible to progress. So return to starting point and leave Fuel for Palmer, then return with Palmer to middle room in bar.

SEWERS

With Garrett I returned to sewers. Thieves moved again and this time it was barely possible to run behind thief and climb on ladder without being spotted. Descend and go right to spiders. Go past light mushroom and wait for spider to walk right, then quickly go left. Along right wall go to dark tunnel and from shadow lean for book and purse. Return the same way, though now you must time green spider blindly.

Wait for female thief to turn around and go to her left. Dodge her when she turns. On the left is room with Palmer. I will go there later. Now you must time both stationary thieves and go right under portcullis. When thief will turn left go into passage. Run to left passage. You need to douse 2nd torch, but it will 2nd alert patroller. To avoid that go to stationary thief and steal his purse. He will 1st alert and this will allow you to douse torch. Go behind archer and dodge him from left. Douse torch in next area.

On opposite side is ledge with vent above it. You must strafe jump+mantle there and mantle into passage for some secret loot. Then drop into water. Here is body with purse and Safe key behind bricks. There is also 1 water arrow that spawns every 1 minute. I wait here to get 5 extra water arrows. Then I climbed on pipe. Instead of using it I doused torch near thief's post and strafe jumped+mantled on ledge with ladder.

THIEVES HIDEOUT - GARRETT'S ROUTE

Douse other torch and go to metal bridge. Activate lever and douse torch behind grate and another torch behind locked gate (here stationary thief may 2nd alert, so be careful) for Palmer. Go to bunkroom, douse plant and take Worm. Then jump into left corner on bed and read book. Go to next room. It's impossible to grab secret loot worth 285 behind banner without slashing it. You can also rope up to wooden beam for secret purple box. Grab also Candle.

Time to return to 2 stationary thieves in sewers. So first drop on ledge and into water. Here I replenish my water arrows and go to patrolling archer. He may be tricky to dodge - you need to crouch run behind him and dodge him from left without touching him. 2 stationary thieves may be troublesome, but it's possible to run to shadow despite female thief looking at gate. For Palmer shoot rope arrow into wooden beam and leave him Candle, Worm and Safe key, then return to thieves hideout. As Palmer take items and jump over gate. You could also mantle over gate without rope arrow, but it may be useful.

THIEVES HIDEOUT - PALMER'S ROUTE

Here is thief walking around right table, there are also 2 stationary thieves in passage. Ge behind thief to generator and use Fuel to refill it. Ride elevator down for Wrench. Ride up. Return to shadow. Now you need to time female thief and this patroller. You are safe on both stairs. Bunkroom is well visible. You can hide in bathroom or crouch on lower stepl leading to kitchen. Sleeping guards don't alert to your footsteps, but they alert to rope arrow and there is purse on wooden beam. To get it you must time patroller to go left and stationary thief on the right to look away, then jump on 1st bed, jump up, take purse and quickly hide in kitchen.

In kitchen take water arrow and Skillet, use it on oven, use Candle and douse it to grab Wax Impression. Go to vent through dining room and use Wrench on it. Enter it and go right. Sneak along right wall past thief. In last room open safe to read code and use Worm on bottle. Go back to vault and take Scepter from it and Master key.

ESCAPE

Open gate with metal bridge on the other side and go through it to place where Garrett found Candle. Use Wax Impression on key. Time to leave and I think Palmer's route is the best exit for both Garrett and Palmer. So bring Palmer back to his starting point and switch to Garrett. Go to bunkroom with locked chests. You must time patroller and right thief. Right chest is easy to open. Just unlock it and return to lower step near kitchen, then in next round take loot from it. Middle chest is harder as you can only picklock it for 1 second and then quickly run to lower step. So you will be forced to do it 4 times before you will get loot. Afterwards return to Palmer's starting point.

STATS:

Time: 1:12:40; Loot: 6389/7489
Pockets Picked: 4/5; Locks Picked: 3
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Secrets: 4/6

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE. You must skip loot worth 285 behind banner in Thieves Hideout.

Galaer on 29/11/2021 at 22:04

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THE BODY SNATCHERS

Ghost run starts after reaching castle. You must douse left torch and nudge haunt a bit to get to gate, then steal Yellow Crystal and use it to open gate. Then douse both torches near entrance and upper left torch to get to 3 water arrows and go along left wall to entrance. Castle is easy to ghost. Problem is with haunt in front of Tower. Even with doused torch I couldn't get close to him without getting spotted, so I was forced to KO him (ghost bust #1). In Tower I slash banner with 410 loot inside (ghost bust #2). Max loot is 2410 and loot requirement is 2000, so it's possible to skip this loot if you get every other piece of loot. I failed to find 100 loot. That's why I slash banner.

Then you need to go down to the basement. To enter just douse 3 torches and run along right wall inside. Here is acid, which you need to use on chest in Tower to open it (ghost bust #3). Read scroll to open wall in basement. Time to kill Largo. To spawn him you must kill his 2 clones (ghost bust #4-5). All 3 opponents has ability to track you, but they don't do that immediately. You have couple of seconds to KO them, then pick up their bodies and throw them, so your sword will not slash through them. Killing them will trigger cutscene in some ballroom - few nobles will fall unconscious while others will see that and that's the reason for body discovery stat to show up. Go to maid's room on 3rd floor to finish this mission.

STATS:

Time: 0:30:36; Loot: 2310/2410
Pockets Picked: 5/8; Locks Picked: 2
Back Stabs: 2; Knock Outs: 4
Damage Dealt: 82; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 3
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Bodies Discovered by Enemies: 3
Secrets: 0/0

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE