cradle_curdled on 10/11/2006 at 01:59
Happy to concede that there's only so much you can infer from the tone of a book, and that yes, trials were certainly put together quickly (and mercilessly) in the Middle Ages, so why not Thief-world?
But still, while playing, it felt like at least a year had passed, to me. Mechanist recording machines displayed in a museum so quickly after the order's demise..?
Where's Terri Brosious when you need her? ;)
june gloom on 12/11/2006 at 00:24
it wouldn't be hard to stretch out keeper debate over garrett another couple of months, i think. i don't believe a whole YEAR would pass, otherwise garrett would probably just lose patience. but maybe 4-5 months.
it would also give enough time for mechanist machines, so wonderfully crafted but so very high maintenance, to fall out of circulation without anyone around to fix them and thus become museum pieces.
i always felt thief 2 took place in the fall, as nights are chilly- and the same applies to thief 3, where the worst of winter is mostly over but there is still a chill in the pre-spring air.
as for terri, she's busy making inconsistencies :p
The Woodsie Lord on 13/11/2006 at 20:22
And if the Cradle burnthing happened only five years before Garrett's birth, how do we explain the water down at the generator? I reckon Garrett is not older than 30 at most, and for water to get in there, it would take certainly more than 3 decades.
If we presume that Garrett is 30, and Inspector Drept is 60, and it happened when Drept was 10, it happened 20 years before Garrett was born.
Does anyone have any data on when the Cataclysm happened?
Beleg Cúthalion on 13/11/2006 at 21:01
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if we assume that the cradle stands on or near the border of the closed section, then it can be seen as part of the collective horror that is the barricades. they might even share a wall on the cradle grounds- remember, we never see the back area of the place, only the front yard, and the breezeway in the middle.
Well, I like those guys from the mapping-out-the-City-project and they still have a little space between the "evil" section and Shalebridge. Or Old Quarter...
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....and when it did, it was only made worse because of its proximity to the eye. [...]
i believe the cradle as we know it is the result of a number of things. first: the eye. the eye was not directly responsible for the disaster, but it likely exerted some influence on the results.
Well, from reading the interview with the cradle designer (Journey into the Cradle), I guess it was designed as a classical haunted house of it's own. We can always draw conclusions, but this time it's just that the eye could do
something similar... And why should it? The Eye always has an intention and something with bringing-Garrett-to-the-hauted-house-to-find-out-about-the-hag-and-leading-him-to-the-artifacts....seems to me far-fetched. And by the way....you should not believe in negative energy...I do not so either and it works well. :thumb: :rolleyes:
