jtr7 on 28/11/2007 at 09:55
After I posted that, I watched you go from costume thread to costume thread. I wondered how I could signal you! But looking at the threads you called up, it served as a trip down memory lane, in a way. Cheers!
In the same minute you found the Dungeons & Dragons thread, bob_doe_nz clicked over there from here. Heh heh.
Aurora's Whole Forgotten Realms Catalogue, eh? Maybe there's something online?
Solabusca on 28/11/2007 at 10:05
Quote Posted by jtr7
After I posted that, I watched you go from costume thread to costume thread. I wondered how I could signal you! But looking at the threads you called up, it served as a trip down memory lane, in a way. Cheers!
In the same minute you found the Dungeons & Dragons thread, bob_doe_nz clicked over there from here. Heh heh.
Aurora's Whole Forgotten Realms Catalogue, eh? Maybe there's something online?
Well, I was refreshing myself with an old copy, and it's got the cutpurse blade, caltrops, garrotte and whatnot. Probably just stuff AD picked up from gaming. I don't think the coil we see in the images you've posted is a chokewire - there's nothing at either end. So I'll stand by my earlier assessment - it's either waxed thread (all the better to drip oil/acid along into the lock) or stiff wire.
.j.
jtr7 on 28/11/2007 at 10:10
Yeah, I agree. Thanks for all the positive responses, peeps!
The stains on the cloth in the first pic could be oil drippings. Heh heh heh.... :p
Solabusca on 28/11/2007 at 11:21
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Yeah, I agree. Thanks for all the positive responses, peeps!
The stains on the cloth in the first pic could be oil drippings. Heh heh heh.... :p
Most definitely, they do appear to be oil spatters.
.j.
jtr7 on 29/11/2007 at 05:46
Yeah. I seem to remember something about RPG players among the devs. It wouldn't surprise me at all.:sly:
Solabusca on 29/11/2007 at 05:52
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Yeah. I seem to remember something about RPG players among the devs. It wouldn't surprise me at all.:sly:
Well, given that (
http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=919) Warren Spector used to write for the industry, it shouldn't surprise.
I actually have a copy of the VERY Thief-like Citybook III: Deadly Nightside, in which Warren contributed a very interesting article on the nameless city's sewer system.
.j.
jtr7 on 29/11/2007 at 06:19
Good stuff. Precisely the kind of thing we need. I wasn't ready for this kind of information in previous years, but now I am.
And we now probably have an explanation for
Thief: Deadly Shadows title:
"
Deadly Nightside"?
And that "Mike Stackpole" is "(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Stackpole) Michael A. Stackpole"? Cool....
Beleg Cúthalion on 29/11/2007 at 09:04
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Just for fun (and probably the Encyclopaedia of the Thief Universe), can anybody speculate on the uses of the other items that are not obviously lockpicks?
The tools with little hooks are usually (i.e. today with modern lockpicks) used to get broken parts of other lockpicks back out of the lock. The locks in the game must be rather fantasy-like since they are neither really the warded locks of old times (in this case he would not have to change from triangled lockpick to the other or vice versa) and TDS reminds of modern pin tumbler locks (you need a tension wrench and the tools to press down the single pins), which would be...well...a little too modern I guess. Anyone familiar with picking chubb detector locks or things like that?
The spattle I guess is just for raking or scratching something, maybe to bare the lock in an old rotten wooden door. And the wire is for making booby traps. Wellidunno....
jtr7 on 29/11/2007 at 09:06
Thanks!
Schwaa2 on 29/11/2007 at 21:33
That coil could be leather or wire for tying up blackjacked guards, just in case they have tough heads and wake up early :D
