Sneaksy_Bugger on 15/4/2000 at 19:01
Well, I think we all have a story of some kind of dumb luck or dumb thinking that just resulted in us getting killed. I've got a good one that I don't think can be topped...
My first time playing through Jailbreak at Cragsleft back in Thief: TDP, I went up the elevator to the top floor. Well, I'd heard there were Zombies in the game but I hadn't expected to see THAT... I had already jumped off the elevator and two of the buggers were heading for me. Deciding to make a strategic retreat (AKA run like hell) I started to back away... I suddenly found myself falling, having managed to walk over the slight gap between the elevator and the floor. Well, I hit the second floor for a second... resulting in half my health being taken from the impact.. and then I slipped and fell all the way to the bottom of the shaft, with one or two health bars left.
I thought to myself "Well, at least I'm still alive... and then I heard a high pitched chittering... like some kind of beast... a hungry kind of beast... before I can so much as turn around, I see two spindly arms strike me in the darkness and as I fade to black, I see a giant spider me, doing a little victory dance....
Survives a four story drop just to become Spider chow.... try and top that.
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gifSoulman on 15/4/2000 at 19:18
In the Lost City (Thief TDP) there is a building with a square hole on the roof (on which I was walking). The hole had sloped edges, making it a bit difficult to look what was down there, but when I leaned forward I could just make out some lava below. "I wonder if this was used for some sort of sacrifices," I thought, and moved a little closer to get a better look. Did I mention the edges were sloped? So... well, let's just say that curiosity killed the cat burglar...
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/wink.gifThiefScout on 15/4/2000 at 21:27
I lost control a fire arrow
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Hanse on 15/4/2000 at 22:37
This happened to me just a few hours ago...
I was playing LotP, and I was at the part where the four archers are yelling at each other. Well, after they all killed each other, the one remaining archer was one of the two in the tower. So I go over there, and I stick a vine arrow in one of the eaves, so I can get up to the top without getting into the light. While I'm still clinging to the vine, I decide to throw a frog egg over to him to take him out. Well, apparently, the vine stopped the egg, so the frog "hatched" right on top of me. No problem, right? Because the frog's on my side? Well, throwing the egg alerted the archer, who shot the frog... well, you can guess the rest...
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"...you are forgiven of all you may have done up to this day, Hanse. You aren't a quintuple murderer, are you?" asked the prince.
"I've never killed anyone, Highness," said Hanse.
"I have! This very night."
"Pardon, Highness, but killing's the business of them that rule, not thieves...," replied Hanse.
Whisper on 15/4/2000 at 23:04
The stupidest way I've ever died is from the Garrett's infamous "heart attack". Just walking down the stairs...whistling to myself, and all of a sudden - blam! Dead.
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Singing Dancing Moose on 15/4/2000 at 23:42
The stupidest way that I can remember has to be when I had just got the Eye in Thief 1. I had jumped onto the Hammer, alerting everyone, but this was part of my plan. When they all gathered round the hammer, I dropped a mine. I figured with all them around the hammer, one would have to trigger it. Nothing happened. I figured I would jump back to the room to the east and ythe whole mass of undead would follow, and then one would absoulutly have to trigger it. I backed up for a running start and . . .
step step jump BOOM!The mine had landed on top of their heads, and I had triggered it jumping over!
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/redface.gif can't remember if I survived the explosion, but it didn't matter if I did, I still would have fallen into the mob of all the zombies and Haunts in the Cathedral. I did eventually get this tactic to work, but it took a while.
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I'm a singing dancing moose! I'm a singing dancing moose! I'm a singing, I'm a dancing, I'm a singing dancing moose!
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nygeekgirl on 15/4/2000 at 23:59
In RTC of T1, I was creeping along a beam and went to turn, and accidently hit the slide key. I fell, and was hacked to death by the haunts.
In Blackmail of T2, I was in the bathroom with the toilet thing. I crept around to the right of the toilet to look for loot and as Whisper said, Blam, infamous "heart attack."
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Garboshnik on 16/4/2000 at 01:42
Well, I didn't die but my attempt at professionalism did. It was Eavesdropping, after I heard the talk between Karras and Truart. Up till this point I hadn't killed anyone (was playing on normal though in case I was forced to). I knocked out a guard outside and evidently that big robot (my good old fusion assault bot from Shock2) saw him go down. I tried to ambush it a few times, but it used its all-seeing powers to side-step facing me so I couldn't hit the back. I finally got fed up when I thought I finally had him and my IM thing popped up and minimized Thief
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif I then decided to go to a high ledge so I could "snipe" him safely. Have you ever seen Hot Shots Part Deux, where the guy tries to shoot the Iraqi guard with a bow but keeps missing because the guard accidentaly bends over, leans left. etc. ? That was what happened to me, he would turn around while the arrow was in mid-flight every time!!
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/mad.gif I swear that thing was psychic. I finally trapped it on some stairs with crates and took it down, broke it, and threw its head off the building. I then had to take out my frustration by putting broadheads into the rest of the guards...sigh.....
Viper6 on 16/4/2000 at 02:00
T2, Masks.
I'm on the beams over the exhibition hall hunting guards. These froggie bombs are a real hoot, watching guards incredulous reaction to them. Drop a couple of froggies into the hall. Guards come over to investigate, "What the hell is that?!" etc. I was laughing so hard I fell off the beam from 3 floors up and died.
BMX on 16/4/2000 at 02:52
Thief 1. The Lost City.
You all know where the fire talisman is stored right? I use a rope arrow to get from the outside of the building to the top floor, firing it from a very high ledge on the side of the Tower of Fire.
Everything was going smoothly, I got to the ledge, fired a perfect shot into the wooden rafter, and all I had to do was grab the rope. Easy huh?
Not with me. Instead of actually jumping and grabbing the rope, I actually jumped........and completely MISSED the bugger. I dont know how, but I managed to send Garrett on a once in a life time rope-free bungee jump from the 2nd to top floor of the Tower of Fire! Needless to say, he didnt want a 2nd go! :P
