Melan on 31/10/2015 at 10:12
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v198/Melan/Darkmod/therats_title_zps1q3jja16.pngThe Rats Triumphant(Halloween Contest 2015 Mission)[/CENTER]
Quote:
Three weeks ago the Builders condemned Whitechapel Row... They hammered and sawed, and erected their barricades of timber and stone...
Over those weeks, I dreamed of great iron machines that swallowed the sky, thundering and shouting to defy the winds. I dreamed of nitrous vaults undisturbed, forgotten for the counting of years...
At the end of the third week did I awaken in cold sweat, for on that night, I would procure a certain letter from an old house I have not visited in many years...
Jacques Mortegris was his name, and I left him in anger, renouncing my lineage and wealth to live a life of knavery and deceit. But now, I would return for those fever-dreams of gold, and a family inheritance.
(
http://www.thedarkmod.com/missiondetails/?id=103) The TDM site (11 MB)
...and the mission downloader
Design notes:The idea for this mission came from an old house in a side street where I go to my daily work. It had been dilapidated as long as I can remember, first as a home for beggars and some fairly disreputable people, then condemned and its windows bricked up, and now finally in the process of being demolished. As I went to my work and back, I could watch it disappear day by day, exposing its layers of construction until finally only one wall remained. But for all its ruined state and inhabitants, it had a simple elegance, and I decided to preserve it in the form of a fan mission.
(more on building the mission later)
Special thanks: to Bikerdude for multiple performance-related and aesthetic fixes. My playtersters, Bikerdude (again), nbohr1more and Premier.
Note: This mission has been released for the 2015 Halloween Speed-Building Contest, and had a build time of two weeks. In the following two weeks, you can vote for it (
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17512-fan-mission-the-rats-triumphant-by-melan-20151031/) here. Also check out the other missions:
(
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17497-fan-mission-the-golden-skull-by-sotha-20151024/)
The Golden Skull by Sotha
(
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17510-fan-mission-spring-cleaning-by-goldwell-20151030/)
Spring Cleaning by Goldwell
(
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17511-fan-mission-dead-drunk-by-stumpy-20151030/)
Dead Drunk by Stumpy
(
http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/17509-fan-mission-thiefs-remorse-by-airship-ballet-20151030/)
Thief's Remorse by Airship Ballet
(and maybe more contestants, and after-contest latecomers). Note that all of these were built over only two weeks, so play and judge accordingly.
Beltzer on 31/10/2015 at 11:04
Thank, but the link does not work for me.
skacky on 31/10/2015 at 13:37
Really damn cool mission, Melan! Thick atmosphere all around. I especially loved the bricked up city gates with the tools still lying around.
Tannar on 31/10/2015 at 13:50
Congratulations of the release, Melan!
Beltzer on 31/10/2015 at 15:03
Thanks for the link :) So many new fms, both Darkmod and Thief :thumb:
Azaran on 31/10/2015 at 16:20
5 Halloween missions...
Christmas came early this year! :D
Marbrien on 2/11/2015 at 17:22
In one of the attic rooms, the one that contains the exit key, I heard a woman's voice from behind an unfrobbable door. Can she be reached?
Melan on 2/11/2015 at 20:31
Marbrien: You can't.
