TMA20AC Mission — The Pursuance Of An Inscrutable Reciprocity (Mar 24, 2020) - by Yandros
Galaer on 30/3/2020 at 07:08
I beat Mission 1 in 1 hour 42 min and collected 6171 loot, 2 secrets. But to be honest it didn't feel like I did too much. City is big and really feels empty. Loot objective is very easy to complete. Too easy. Despite number of loot I got, number of loot pieces is rather small, it's just these loot pieces are worth more. There is only 1 place I really liked - Eastside Shop, because amount of loot there was good (though I have no idea where is the key for stuff under counter, so I just used sword). Usually it's the same like in your Thief 1 Anniversary Contest entry - 1 piece of loot per 1 place, very rarely 2.
City lacks personality. Big, long and empty streets. Sewers really boring. There is few empty houses, sometimes they have only 3 furnitures in medium size rooms with nothing else (no loot, no item, not even readable). I was really disappointed that the statue isn't secret tunnel to the mansion. I only needed help with exit, because I somehow missed the key. I must say it's very misleading to unlock new area only to find out South Gate was behind door in previously explored area and there is really no indication that this door is important (I thought behind them is a secret).
I wasn't fan of hearing these text to speech voices. Transporting to a locked room when you use skip mission cheat was funny, but also rude. I wonder if it's even allowed to do something like this in this contest. I didn't like entry in mage's book - "entering Mage Guild in previous city". It really feels like he says: in previous mission. It really felt like breaking 4th wall. Just name the city instead. I'm sure this mage knows name of this "previous city". Also east from starting point is frobbable gate behind archer that leads outside of boundaries with one Keeper that I did not KO, because I was worried you will use him for something. It's very easy to fix it by making gate unfrobbable. For the hardest difficulty it was very easy. Small number of patrollers in this big city and only one shenanigan and I have been warned.
So Mission 1 was really weak and it reminded me RotB 2 a lot. I really hope Mission 2 is much better.
A.Stahl on 30/3/2020 at 08:01
Quote Posted by GORT
You guys are making the clock puzzle harder than it is.
Basically, the clock with the gear under it is your reference. The numbers at the bottom of the clocks are the digits of the code from left to right. The time on the clocks are your number, but you'll need to subtract the reference clock's time from it. That will give you the answer to the digits.
ex:
Ref Clock = 2:00
Numbered Clock = 5:00
Answer for that digit = 3You're crazy. In a bad way. :(
I refuse to continue.
Galaer on 30/3/2020 at 08:19
Quote Posted by Marbrien
Where is the second gem please?
GORT on 30/3/2020 at 08:53
@ A.Stahl
Of course, if you were in the library, you may have already found the code.
Marbrien on 30/3/2020 at 09:01
Quote Posted by Galaer
When you KO-ed running guy, gem fell on street near body.No it didn't. I have searched the ground thoroughly and there's nothing. Also replayed from an earlier save, still no gem. I'm playing v1.1 BTW.
Galaer on 30/3/2020 at 09:05
Weird, it happened to me that way. But maybe gem is actually in his hand and I never noticed. I don't know.
Marbrien on 30/3/2020 at 09:49
I put him on the raised ledge beside the street to check, and it isn't in either of his hands.
bari on 30/3/2020 at 11:58
For the first time I play this mission I broke it because I interrupted conversation and that's why I didn't get objectiv "gather more information..."
Now I'm playing once more on normal and I have colected two gems, and have two keys (westside shop money box and eastside door store key)
what am I supposed to do ? how to open rotunda house ? how to open door at the end of westside part of town
Azaran on 30/3/2020 at 13:13
Quote Posted by bari
For the first time I play this mission I broke it because
I interrupted conversation and that's why I didn't get objectiv "gather more information..."Now I'm playing once more on normal and I have colected
two gems, and have two keys (westside shop money box and eastside door store key)what am I supposed to do ?
how to open rotunda house ? how to open door at the end of westside part of townGalaer on 30/3/2020 at 14:37
So I managed to solve clock puzzle unintended way - grabbed gear through door. It's probably only possible on Tafferpatcher. Now I want to solve this puzzle the intended way. Speaking of which - Gort you have imagination, I would never figured out the solution on my own without your explanation.
So now I have 2 problems regarding this puzzle. I have found orange gear clock and clock with digit #1. I checked the whole mansion few times, but I never found other digits clocks. Where are the other 3?
And also I read book mentioning that woman drawn a picture of levers she used on wall in hallway near her room. Well, I checked walls near room with this book and also every other wall. Nothing. Where is this wall with levers drawing?
