Niborius on 30/6/2015 at 15:22

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by Niborius
Requires Thief 2 v1.22 or higher

Find the artifact that has been haunting your dreams.

Hello fellow taffers!

For the last couple months I've been working on my second Fan Mission, called "The Artifact Returns". Players of my first FM should know which artifact this would be ;)
It is a combination mission of both a mansion where the player must find a certain amount of loot, and there are some horror stages too.

Story
90 years after the events of The Metal Age - Archaeologists found a writing in a tomb in Great Britain, that tells about an artifact of great power, which is believed to contain the souls of more than a thousand humans. The writing tells a small story about a prisoner who stole the artifact from a tomb nearby, and managed to escape because of the bad power of the artifact, without the prisoner knowing it was the artifact that helped him. Eventually, the prisoner learned about the Artifact and placed it back on its original pedestal, and he got cured from the curse of the object.

The writing goes on in a different handwriting, one that looked fresher and thicker: 'Because the location of the artifact was too unsafe, it had to be moved to a different location, as far away from any human possible. We have sent it deep underground, behind doors that are heavily guarded by souls from the artifact itself, the writing goes.
A few days after having found the mysterious writings, the archaeologists found out that they've been having similar dreams. All of which appear to be the artifact calling them for help, and the dream always takes place on the same location.

Of the group, only one archaeologist was willing to go to that location. Whilst the others thought he was crazy, the one archaeologist was so driven by curiosity, that he would go there illegally on his own if he had to. Not only because of his curiosity; he thought being the first man to prove existence of this artifact could help him get money for the family who need it so much.
And so he did.

A few days later when he arrived, a big mansion owned by a rich family, was standing there on the exact location of the where the artifact should be according to the dreams.
“I'm not a burglar, but I've come this far. It's time to investigate this place”

Official Trailer
[video=youtube;_p0qp_vy-10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p0qp_vy-10[/video]

Download links
(https://1drv.ms/u/s!Atl7j0ZAJWzAhcBkRWkRB0AEz3CjoQ?e=eA8HDt) OneDrive
(www.southquarter.com/downloads/2015/ArtifactReturns.zip) South Quarter


Have fun playing this mission!
I hope to see some Let's Plays of this too :)

If you have any questions, tips, suggestions or anything else to discuss about, please let me know in this topic.
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InfinituS on 30/6/2015 at 16:36

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Congrats! Gonna replay your first FM to get in the mood :D and then i'll dive right in the new one.

fortuni on 30/6/2015 at 17:26

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Superb news....downloading now :D

Niborius on 30/6/2015 at 18:44

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Thank you for the kind replies guys, I can't wait to hear your feedback.

The mission is a bit shorter than the average mission so please keep that in mind though, but it should still give you a nice adventure to remember.

Edit: If anyone can upload a mirror then that would be very helpful :)

fortuni on 30/6/2015 at 19:07

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Excellent....100% loot and you have just made my evening thank you :thumb:

The skeletons were just fantastic...think we'll be seeing more of those in other missions, the elevator at the end was brilliant. Overall a solid little fun mission :D