jericho on 15/9/2003 at 06:36

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Yes, I have the horn of Dloren, but:

[SPOILER]Where am I supposed to blow the horn? When I do it in the burricks area, no secret door appears, must be somewhere else.[/SPOILER]

As to part 4 of the diary:

[SPOILER]I was never good at finding all these secret switches, perhaps I'm too impatient. :) I noticed the secret door close to where Benny was, but I couldn't find a switch to open it.[/SPOILER]

jericho on 15/9/2003 at 09:33

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Thanks! I got that right now. Hmm, and what do you know, the game is not yet finished after the escape from burrick's arena mm hmm. :sly:

jericho on 15/9/2003 at 14:13

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I'm stuck again:

[SPOILER]I got out of the tunnels and got to the family tomb chamber. Now the necromancer seems to be resurrecting Elizabeth in the Hammerite Church and I can't go through the door, which are blocked by the blue particles. How to open the door?[/SPOILER]

Nightwalker on 15/9/2003 at 16:16

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jericho - [SPOILER] You can't get in that way. Go back through the ventilation shaft in Robert Farrington's tomb and climb the ladder, the same way you did to get to the room with the burricks. There's another door open there now and you'll find a way to get onto the elevator to the burrick pens in the house basement. Then you can go back to the church through the house. [/SPOILER]

Eshaktaar on 16/9/2003 at 11:16

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Thank you, jericho. I'm glad you enjoyed it :)

Here's some background info about the mission (probably more than you wanted to know ;)) Warning: Might contain some mild spoilers.

Since this was going to be my first FM, I decided to go for a manor mission, as they are easier to make than a city. At first, there was just the idea about Garrett using a testament as a "shopping list". As the manor grew, the plot evolved almost by itself: I spent a lot of time just walking through the mission, looking at the rooms and thinking what could have happened here. When I made the boarded-up door, I didn't know yet what exactly would be in the room behind it, or why it had been barred in the first place. I wanted the Farrington family to have a dark secret, hence the mission's title, but at that time I didn't know what it would be. Then I started building the church and the crypts. From then on it became quite clear to me that I had to provide some background story as to why there was an underground church beneath the manor, and who had built those catacombs.

The showdown was going to be in another plane of existence, similar to the maw, but then I found it more interesting to reuse the already existing architecture. That's where the idea about the three ritual chambers came from. During betatesting, Peter Smith helped me improving the story flow and make Garrett's motivations more clear.
Some people managed to find almost all required items without discovering the testament first. Makes one wonder how they knew what to look for without the shopping list ;)