cptsqweky on 16/4/2000 at 02:57

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I was playing the Thief 2 demo. I had shot a rope arrow and was trying to climb it. (i was messing around, the arrow itself was about 3 inches above my head.) I jumped to climb on, and died. I assume that my head was rammed up into the arrow shaft, sending it into my brain. (I assume.) Not learning from my experiances, I tried it again. This time I did some sort of Acrobatic feat. It acted like a spring, and sprung me back about, at least 100 feet. Normally, this isn't too bad. but, remember, I'm 5 stories up, above a cobblestone road, which I wit, hard. (I stopped messing around after that.)

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Jules, he doesn't have a log. He has a whip, that's why he's called the "Black Whip." If he had a log, he would be called the "Black Log."

juliebug on 16/4/2000 at 04:50

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I can't top that, myself. My brother can, however. He was playing LotP in T2. He was blackjacking guards and throwing them off the rooftops, enjoying the noises they make upon landing on the street.

Well, I'm sitting there watching him make his way through the city and he comes up to the really drunk guard on the roof, by Angelwatch, with like, 12 bottles near him.

My brother kills the drunk guard and leaps up to the far edge and is about to throw the guard off, just for the heck of it, since he's already dead... and he sees a body on the streets below.

"Oh look," he said, "another body I dropped!" I frowned and was about to explain that he hadn't yet been to that part of town when he leaned over the edge and fell.

Frantically trying to move Garrett's body in mid-air to land on the roof of the building below, he manages to right click and THROW THE DEAD BODY to the relative safety of the roof as he plunges to his death.

I found it way amusing. http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

That story and more at my website, BTW. (http://juliemartin.org/thief) http://juliemartin.org/thief http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Julie http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/cool.gif

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Julie :)
(http://juliemartin.org/thief) the dark corner
"When the Black Camel comes for me, I'm not going to go kicking and screaming -- I am,
however, going to try to talk him out of it, 'No, no, you want the other Walter Slovotsky.'"

BroacLanders on 16/4/2000 at 09:09

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haha

thats just like what I just did!


In the 2nd level on TII, (docks?). I sitting in ambush waiting for 2 of davidsons men to walk by off of the ship. I was hiding right next to the door to the wearhouse waiting for them. just as he came within black jack range and I was about to knock him over the head he opened the door. My blackjack smashed right into the door making a lound klang, which alearted both of them and several nearby guards.

It made me feel really stupid.

Alinestra Covelia on 16/4/2000 at 16:55

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Stupidest way I have ever died: Non-fiction, non-humorous.

I lose count of the number of times that I catapult myself off of ladders and ropes, landing somewhere with either enough kinetic force to kill me, or making enough sound to alert the umpteen extras hanging just off scene who begrudge my sneaking about.

It's become second nature for me to save just before I climb on a rope or a ladder - I've had so many bad experiences with both in Thief and in ThiefII that it would be madness to do otherwise.

The Dark Engine is a lot slower and more cerebral than those of other games, with a character who moves at realistic speeds for once. However, the ladders and ropes are exceptionally poorly handled, which is a shame with this game especially because Garret is supposed to be a really nimble guy.

I could understand climbing onto the top of a ladder and then suddenly plummetting down to your death if you were Gordon Freemen (who wears a bulky HEV suit), or perhaps the hero from Quake or Doom (hasn't figured out how ladders work because you don't shoot them to activate them). But Garret falling off of stuff is something I really do hate and can't overlook in a game that is so groundbreaking elsewhere.

On a humorous vein, there have been many times when I've escaped a zombie attack by climbing a rope only to find that I couldn't get off again because of the dodgy climbing mechanics of the game. So I had to do a bit of undead crowd surfing to escape, a habit which has yet to prove non-fatal for the practitioner.

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Thief: 1 (noun) he who thieves. 2 (verb, slang) to steal everything in sight that isn't nailed down, prise up everything that is, and steal that too.

Joeboy on 16/4/2000 at 19:10

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Actually, this is a sort of fatality-oriented story, though not entirely. It was, however, absolutely hilarious.

Blackmail, sneaking around the perimeter outside. One area to the side of the front entrance has a male guard pacing and a female archer watching, so you have to be careful with really staying unnoticed if you're going to pull anything with those two. After some time and effort, I positioned myself just perfectly to be able to blackjack the male guard far enough away from the female that she wouldn't notice. So as he turned on his path to return to her, I rapidly snuck up to him, blackjack poised, and....*BONG*. At first I didn't know what the heck was going on, he just just assumed this surprised stance, and he certainly wasn't falling unconscious. Then I realized that he was wearing a helmet! The ruination of all that careful planning, and most especially the look and the sound...it was too much. I literally fell off my chair laughing as he sliced me up and his partner filled me with arrows. http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif I have to admit, I still go back there occasionally and bong the bastard in the dark every now and then when I need some laughs. I mean, just the thought...being a guard, casually walking your patrol half-bored, then having your helmet just deafeningly gong in your ears without warning. Hee hee hee! http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

[This message has been edited by Joeboy (edited April 16, 2000).]