T2 FM: The Ritual (Dec. 4, 2000)

LEGION on 12/12/2001 at 21:16

Aaaaaaaaaahh! Yeah! Right, Lady Jo! Now I understand! You mean this black staff, right? <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Silver Sorrow on 13/12/2001 at 00:55

Ah...the crowbar. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">

Norman Druart on 17/1/2002 at 07:42

OK, I'm missing something major here playing on “Cutpurse” (Hard) setting. Where the heck is the kid I'm supposed to be rescuing? I think I've cleaned out all the major areas including the big altar room that's guarded by the outrageous number of patrolling guards, activated the lever in the teleport room to raise the big door at the top of the altar room ramps, even raided all the tombs. Where can she be? <img src="confused.gif" border="0">

Ekim on 17/1/2002 at 12:03

Bad news.

She's in the altar room.

Auriga2us on 17/1/2002 at 15:41

She should be located on the sacrificial table in the middle of the room, she is smaller since she is a kid, maybe you missed her?

Norman Druart on 17/1/2002 at 18:32

She's definitely not in the altar room; only full-sized cult members in there. I even swam around the water area to see if she had fallen in. I'll restore from an earlier save and try the whole altar room sequence again.

Thanks!

[One 8 minute Thief session later...]

I replayed the sequence starting with bonking/evading the patrolling guards. <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Spoiler:</font><div style="background-color:#000080"><font color="#202080">Reconnoitered the altar room from the ground and by teleporting above before engaging and there are only 5 AI's there: 2 guards in the entrance, 2 priestesses and 1 priest.</font></div></blockquote>

I assume this is a bug since previous posts mention problems with interacting with Merimee. I don’t feel like replaying the whole mission since I found parts of it bothersome (4 cops guarding a dead end street??) so would someone please do me the favor of spoiling the ending? This is what I assume happens:

<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Spoiler:</font><div style="background-color:#000080"><font color="#202080">You grab Merimee or get her to follow you and open the gates near the catacomb entrance by placing weights (bodies) on the pressure plates. That puts you in the park next to town. Anything else happen?</font></div></blockquote>

Ekim, I’m interested in your comment about<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Spoiler:</font><div style="background-color:#000080"><font color="#202080">“You'll regret knocking all those guards out pretty quick.”</font></div></blockquote>Something in the end sequence perhaps?

Thanks for any info.

[ January 17, 2002: Message edited by: Norman Druart ]</p>

Auriga2us on 17/1/2002 at 21:51

When you get back outside, you will have teh girl following you, but once you get to town you will see that it is over run byt the Brotherhood, any cops you left alive would be dead, that's why you don't have to kill them in teh begining since they will get killed later. So now with the girl following your ever step you need to avoid/kill Brotherhood men, and make it back to where you started from. <img src="eek.gif" border="0">

Auriga2us on 18/1/2002 at 01:36

As for the bug that alot of people have with the girl dissappearing it happened to me too. I think it is because unlike Garret she cannot fit into the secret tiny hole that connects the exit from the brotherhod to the town through which you have to crawl. Because once I went to town after she disappeared on me she magically appeared behind me and started following me.

Norman Druart on 18/1/2002 at 01:38

Thanks Auriga2us. Sounds a lot like the ending to <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Spoiler:</font><div style="background-color:#000080"><font color="#202080">The Karrassinian Threat</font></div></blockquote> which I just finished so no great loss there.

Do the cult members <blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Spoiler:</font><div style="background-color:#000080"><font color="#202080">explode</font></div></blockquote> outside of the catacombs as the note from the cult priest intimated? It seemed farfetched but feasible. <img src="graemlins/thumb.gif" border="0" alt="[Thumbs Up!]" />

Auriga2us on 18/1/2002 at 01:58

Something funny does happen to them, I once killed a guy (which is rare for me since I am a knockout freak), and he kinda did explode, there was like a heart left or something, with this blood flying around it, which might have been a bug or not, since I did not try it again cause killing them drew to much attention. <img src="graemlins/erm.gif" border="0" alt="[Erm...]" /> <img src="mad.gif" border="0"> <img src="graemlins/eww.gif" border="0" alt="[Eww...]" />