ultravioletu on 30/8/2025 at 00:25
Oh, I noticed that "Cold Hands" by
vegetables was still listed as unreported. Inofficially, I mentioned (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152801&p=2522703&viewfull=1#post2522703) something last year, and
lordhern topped that, two days later, with a (
https://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=152801&p=2522781&viewfull=1#post2522781) blind ironman ghost success. Anyhow, I just replayed it, and for the books:
Game:
Thief 1FM:
Cold Hands, Cold HeartGhost -
SuccessPerfect Thief -
SuccessSupreme Ghost -
SuccessPerfect Supreme -
SuccessTime - 0:23:09
Loot - 1900/1900
Pockets Picked - 1/1
Locks Picked - 2
Damage dealt - 0, Damage taken - 0 etc.
Consumables - none
Loot list (
https://1drv.ms/x/c/4757427096854658/EebLazTctYREl4qttmnk1G4Bsjxhn5K37BxgKeVpw9RzdA?e=z8VAEt) here.
Nice little JAM mission from vegetables, with quite a scary factor at my first playthrough. Could be easily ghosted, altough reaching again the master bedroom for completing the quest (and returning a key), with now
three active patrollers (one of them with random route), was quite a challenge for Supreme. Waiting game, that is...
Lord Morrison gives a scripted reaction after each "event", which for me does not count as bust. However, his reaction may alert other patrollers (on ground floor, and in display room), which I judge as bust, so I had to ensure that I complete the (partial) quests while the guards aren't nearby. His demise was a scripted reaction to us completing an explicitly stated objective (
"Find and destroy all 4 soul jars") so it should not be reckoned as breaking the 'no kill' rule. There is no damage, nor kill count, recorded on the stats screen.
With the snow as sole witness?
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/ZukUEtd.png'You will have to pry this from my cold dead hands!' Challenge accepted...
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https://i.imgur.com/5etCLTB.png Taking the Guest Room Key spawns His Ugliness.
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https://i.imgur.com/b0eYuzI.pngComing back here with the extra patrolling Lord was a royal PITA.
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https://i.imgur.com/NhO0VeN.pngThe Dark Lord without his horcruxes.
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https://i.imgur.com/dLWLBQl.pngultravioletu on 2/9/2025 at 22:13
Game:
Thief 2FM:
Hotel Claire-de-LuneGhost -
SuccessPerfect Thief -
SuccessSupreme Ghost -
SuccessPerfect Supreme -
SuccessTime - 0:34:48
Loot - 3100/3100
Pockets Picked - 6/6
Locks Picked - 0
Damage dealt - 0, Damage taken - 0 etc.
Consumables - none - but I picked (and used) the rope arrows
from the toolbox.
Pickpockets were: a key required to reach an objective, and five purses. Two of them (
front desk employee, and the swordsman in bar area) weren't easy to steal for supreme.
Another tiny but
very tight and tense mission for my summer vacation. Had to steal something from some hotel guests. A lot of enemies, my blind supreme ghost was at times very frustrating (I gave it up, only to return to it a few days later), since in the kitchen and in the area behind the bar counter I had to wait for opening in the short and tight patrols of three enemies. And, as usuall, my initial run wasn't optimal, so I had to traverse the kitchen five times (and the equally difficult storage room four times). This was due to the need to come back to the W end of the bar to return the key. Reduced it to two+one in the 'oficial run', but I had to grab first the rope arrows (professional supreme ghosters will probably refrain from taking the rope, since, after all, one
can take the detours).
The initial run, last week, ended with 350 gp short of max loot. I (mis)used the hard saves to 'travel back in time' and look more closely - and, not suprisingly, I had missed
almost all coins (10 of them, for 200gp), and the rest was stuff, which I had actually found, but forgot to take after reloads (d'oh...).
Hello, puny insects! (says Sheldon)
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/HxFZGyL.pngThat requires some cleaning...
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https://i.imgur.com/zP6AbYE.pngEew, this too!
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https://i.imgur.com/L23NyWH.pngI used this rope to go up, down, then up again, to spare me the ordeal of sneaking through the kitchen and storage room. Yes, I'm lazy and comfy.
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https://i.imgur.com/OPTnNnd.pngultravioletu on 3/9/2025 at 17:13
Game:
Thief 1FM:
Havenhold's RetirementAll Ghost modes -
Failed.
I had to abandon ghosting this one pretty early. To advance, one must enter a room in plain sight of a stationary guard, in an area patrolled by further two enemies (so pushing him is not an option). Dousing torches did not help.
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/7Ye8pbZ.pngUncharacteristically, I did some blackjack exploring, and I figured out that at least 450 gp can be reached only via slashing banners (which given the high loot requirement, 7000 out of 7750, is quite a 'waste' for ghost). A few other loot pieces seemed accessible only by BJ-ing opponents (had lost interest in trying to find our ghost-compatible ways). Some other loot was placed very ingeniously, I am sure that in my blind supreme run I would have missed much if it.
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And with this, I think I'm done this season.
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PS: as reply to klatremus' remark below (
did not want to cram the thread with too many posts, hence PS): yes, it is an interesting mission. From visual design perspective, it is very raw, to say it mildly – but the author seemed to have intended so: the intended challenge was centred around finding the loot, and thus the design goal was rather "creative loot placement" than anything else. Perhaps he overshoot it a bit, because it triggered in me the the "blindly frob everywhere" symptom. There is also another questionable ghost situation at the end – in my BJ run (ironman btw...) I triggered a fight, after which I could get 500 gp in purses from dead bodies -> perhaps it is a way to get those purses w/o triggering the fight, but since I was aiming ironman, I did not feel like restarting from the beginning. Sadly, I failed ironman too – right at the end, dying on lava. Since my window of opportunity just slammed shut, I haven't had any more time to restart and experiement more.
klatremus on 3/9/2025 at 17:52
Thanks for these reports, UV! That last one looks very interesting, despite the busts.
