Lord Ashton Series FM 6: The Secret of Sir Stefan (Dec 14, 2002)

Christine on 16/12/2002 at 13:09

Thank you, I'm glad that you liked the mission. :)
And now to the harp:[SPOILER]go to the house of Lady Irmgard, go up the stairs and go into the room of Sir Andre (the room with the Teddybear). Look at the table for a secret lever, it will make the painting move, behind the painting you will find the harp[/SPOILER] I hope it helpes you :thumb:

mol on 16/12/2002 at 13:34

Thanks, Christine! Now on to "A Winter's Night".

So, it turned out that I am as blind as a bat. :eww:

- Mika L

jericho on 16/12/2002 at 18:14

Thank you, Christine! Another great mission by great Christine! I hurry to download and play, play, play... I will tell me girlfriend, she will be happy. Great Christmas present! :thumb: :D

deadman on 17/12/2002 at 06:06

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Originally posted by mol
Another great Fan Mission, Christine! :thumb: Many thanks!

I love the architecture and the overall look of the village. It's very much the kind of a place that I enjoy taffing around! Very, very good work, indeed!

I'm sure there are reasons for why many of the houses are not accessible, but this is such a great little village/town that you've constructed that it almost cries out for places to rope arrow up to, and more houses that can be entered! It wouldn't matter if they weren't important in terms of the story -- it'd be still so much fun just to see the places. It would really, really top this mission, which already now is a real treat!

I'm almost finished playing it through on Expert -- the only thing I'm missing is the harp! I must be blind or something, but I just haven't been able to find it. :o

My only suggestion is that you might want to consider making the missions perhaps just a bit harder overall. Give us just that bit of extra challenge! ;) Many guards or other "opponents" in this mission tend to stand with their backs towards the door, making it way too easy to knock them on the noggin :) Maybe a few guards who can't be knocked out, alternative entrances to well guarded buildings.. I don't think I had any trouble with any of the guards in this mission. You're way too nice giving us taffers so many dark corners to hide in ;)

Please don't get me wrong -- I think that this mission is great as it is, and the whole series has been just fantastic! Your missions are always among those that I await for with the greatest of anticipation, and this one didn't let me down, either! Now, to find that darn harp, and then on to "A Winter's Night". Can't wait!

- Mika L

Harder?? It can't get harder with all those marble floors Christine loves so much! :D If anything I would say that is something I'd suggest to put less in .. Or rather I should go yell at the programmers for making the AI's hearing so sensitive to Garrett walking on it :joke: Basically only that and small cities with few inaccessible buildings get to me. But I'm sure in many cases we'd love if builders spent time to make the city more immersive.. So it should be their choice whether or not they let us get in every building. As I think I've said before, I would definitely get Christine (and Bukary!) to design the architecture of my house if I were having one built! It would be so luxurious :)

Best of wishes Christine and I hope this isn't the last we've seen of you ;)

deadman.

Hawklette on 17/12/2002 at 16:25

Thanks Christine for another wonderful and beautiful mission. I also had trouble finding that key and stood right over the lever and still missed it. I hope when you say Winters Night is the last mission you don't mean forever. Just the last of this series. Please say I'm correct!!!!!!!!!! Thanks again. :cheeky:

Christine on 17/12/2002 at 17:52

Thanks to you all, I'm glad that you liked the missions :D

@ Hawklette

It is the last mission in my series.
I'm working on the Night Falcon, a German Teamproject, a campain for Thief 2. I don't know how long it will takes until we are ready.... (it will contain 3 or 4 Missions by me)

And I won't make any new fanmission after that......

Nimon on 17/12/2002 at 21:36

I played them in the wrong order, as I greatly prefer Winter's Night. Sir Stephan has some nice work, but just doesn't have the same realistic feel that WN did. Ah well, looking forward to the campaign you are working on. I hope you're doing the interiors.

Oh, and the footsteps under water were pretty amusing. :)

--Nimon

jericho on 18/12/2002 at 22:45

Tonight I finally had time to sit down and play Christine's new missions. I played and finished Sir Stephan now. Very good mission, I liked it a lot and so did my girlfriend. :thumb: Great job Christine, now I only have Winter Night left, I already begin to miss your missions... :D

Anyway, great, great job!! Christine, you are a true genius as fas as architecture and decore goes! There were also some new objects and skins, not much really, but nthe lighting and atmosphere was.... mmmm mmmm, what can I say?... Christine's missions are Christine's missions and they are very nice to play.

You didn't place the photo of your kids, but there were other great "rteplacements". :D Christine's Kinder play room was a pleasant surprised. I went in and I got crazy, I felt like a small kid for a moment, tossing teh balls and teddybears around. :cheeky: Just look what I did :cheeky: :ebil:

Inline Image:

http://emblems.utopiatemple.com/pic68594.jpg

There was also a nice small photo near the safe, the photo of a vampiric lady. And red burricks were sort of nice surprise as well.

OVerall, we enjoyed the mission tremendously! Great job!

StarCStar on 19/12/2002 at 03:22

[SPOILER]I have found the Mystic's Soul (the one in the sewers) and now can't find the other stone. I have cleared out everyone everywhere except for the tavern in town. I have been through the Thieves Guild and found nothing except some valuables. Have I overlooked something? I really don't know where else to search. I keep thinking there should be some spiders somewhere, or maybe something worse, because of the hints in the journals about Stefan's "darlings." But I haven't stumbled across them yet.[/SPOILER] Any help would be most appreciated, as always. Christine, I love your missions, just in case I haven't said that enough.

*C*

Nightwalker on 19/12/2002 at 04:14

StarCStar - [SPOILER]In the Thieves area, did you find Sir Stefan in his rooms? In that same room there's a fireplace with a couple of gold skulls on the front. Try frobbing them. [/SPOILER]