T2 mission by SlyFoxx: Unnecessary Risk (Nov. 29/2007)

shadows on 5/12/2007 at 01:17

Quote Posted by The_Dude

[SPOILER]There is another golden bone in the attic but I'm not sure how or if you can get there.[/SPOILER]

Not sure, but i think someone mentioned that there's another secret room apart from the one that most people have found, perhaps it's this attic area?

pavlovscat on 5/12/2007 at 01:33

Here's a little help, Gloria!

Garrett's Song:
Garrett was singing a song from "Song of the Caverns", one of the missions added for Thief Gold.

Dewdrop:
[SPOILER]Stand on the ledge just outside the hole & look across the valley to the tall rock. You may need to zoom in to see her. Once you see her, there are at least 3 different ways to get up there.[/SPOILER]

Secret Room:
[SPOILER]Stand on top of the wall around the house, and you can jump over to the chimney with a speed potion, but you will lose health points when you fall down. There is an easier way into the secret room in the downstairs display room. Look near the banner. There is another secret area inside the secret room.[/SPOILER]

redleaf on 5/12/2007 at 04:56

This is an incredibly nice fm for being just an obligation fulfillment to the aurhor. Thank you, Slyfoxx! I only played on 'Hard' because I'm waaay too fond of bean-bopping to let go of my trusty blackjack. :ebil:

Found all the goodies, but needed help with finding the [SPOILER]key to open the booze box (doh!)[/SPOILER] And Ahhh, Gloria dear, sorry but I'm so tired from trying to reach DewDrop that I have to lie down and rest for a bit. In my alternate Thiefy universe, she'll have to stay where she is for now.

Shaz on 5/12/2007 at 05:21

redleaf,

Could you (or anyone?) give me a little hint as to where that key is? Drove me batty, being unable to open that. I still need to go back in and get that open, and rescue Dewdrop, since my previous *splat* attempts were *splat* very *splat* unsuccessful.

Thanks!
~Shaz
....*splat*.

SlyFoxx on 5/12/2007 at 05:58

Quote Posted by Shaz

redleaf,

Could you (or anyone?) give me a little hint as to where that key is? Drove me batty, being unable to open that.
Thanks!
~Shaz
....*splat*.

It's in the most obvious and convenient place imaginable. You can even look directly at it depending on where you stand.
:sly:

Just to add. It was a bit of a go around on how to handle the loot requirement for expert difficulty. In the end I decided that only loot in plain view would be required to win the mission. The rest is there for those players who are true scroungers or just plain damn good. I like fulfilling objectives that have no clues and wish more missions contained such things. The tough finds in this mission are not meant to annoy. They are meant to reward the seasoned veteran (like me). :grin:

The_Dude on 5/12/2007 at 07:52

[SPOILER]Top of the door to the bathroom[/SPOILER]

Shaz on 5/12/2007 at 10:53

Oh, I fully agree with you, SlyFoxx! I'll frequently set myself personal goals in missions just for the fun of it, and I adore it when I do something as one of my goals (like getting to really hard to get to areas!), or just because 'it makes sense'/'it feels right', that winds up being a hidden/bonus objective. I really, really love those!

And my going splat a lot shooting for Dewdrop wasn't annoying. :) I think I just put myself in a 'THIS is the way I'm gonna get to her!' mindset, and the way my mind was set in is not the way you get to her. Ergo, much splatting was to be had, hehe.

I probably had a hard time finding that key because I'm unaccustomed to ghosting. I love my blackjack and I love being able to freely scour every inch of a place, without dodging servants. I did it though, quite successfully, using hardly any water arrows at all, and felt really proud of myself for it! :)

SlyFoxx on 5/12/2007 at 18:07

One of my goals with AFIN and UR was to make two missions that were not too difficult to ghost or at least semi-ghost. There is a special satisfaction that can only be had by getting by with just lock-picks, rope, head, hands and feet.

In earlier alpha and beta versions most of the patrolling AI were set to patrol at random. It made it even a challenge for the designer because even I couldn't be sure where they were going! But since I used as few patrol points as possible the pathfiniding was a bit buggy at times so I went with standard patrols for the release version.

If anybody wants to try the mission that way grab the mission file below.
The mission is exactly the same as the original release save the change to the AI's patrol behavior.

(http://rapidshare.com/files/74505611/UR_V1_RandomPatrol.zip)

1) Make a copy of the original (UR_V1.zip) zip file.
2) Rename it to something else ...say Mod_UR_V1.zip
3) Extract the contents of the new zip.
4) Rename the file UR_V1_RandomPatrol.mis to miss20.mis.
5) Replace the old miss20.mis file with the new one.
6) Zip the contents of Mod_UR_V1 back up.
7) Play through Darkloader.
:sly:

clearing on 5/12/2007 at 18:26

Interesting. Thanks!

Gloria Creep on 5/12/2007 at 23:40

Can you be specific where to enter the secret room[SPOILER] (look near a banner) through the displayroom downstairs. [/SPOILER]I tried jumping to the chimney with a speedpotion, but I never reached it.

I can see Dewdrop now, tried rope arrows, never got there. :grr: :p It's tough. Any further hints?

Gloria Creep :angel: