Mr.Mojo on 25/4/2000 at 15:07
1. I was walking towards the edge of a chasm (can't remember which level) to look down it and I was low on health, so I was walking and taking a health potion at the same time but I accidentally took a speed potion instead. I think you can guess what happened.
2. Recently when I was playing Cargo I was being chased by a guard on the north side of the pier (where there is another chasm), and in my desperation I threw my flashbomb in the wrong direcction blinding me but not my foe. I started running in wild panic and fell down the very steep slope, down towards the rocks below.
Avalon on 25/4/2000 at 16:43
I have some rather odd tales to tell. Some are just sad.
The first would be in Bafford's, in T1. Yes, you heard me, Bafford's place. In my very first attempt at ever playing a Thief game, I had decided to skip the training level. With my manly instincts I thought, "I don't need instruction!" So, attempting to learn the controls all on my own, I found myself walking right into the guards place in front. "Oops," said Avalon as he Garrett out of the entryway, hearing a remark about "... out of here, taffer! This is no place for you."
Well, in my newbie phase, I thought I would kill them. Yes, kill them all. So I started looking for a way to do some sniper work, with my sword out. I bumped into that patrolling Guard as I did, and as it turned out, none of the four guards were pleased with Garrett's sword. I managed to run to the little shack guarded by the drunk, before Garrett became a spot of red on the pavement. Alas, had I put the sword away, I might have gotten away.
Note: It is possible to go in through the front entryway, believe it or not. Run straight to it, ignoring the guards, and peer into the entryway. Though you can't see it, you can pull the lever that opens the gate. Needless to say, another red puddle appeared in there, as apparently they have gone in style around Bafford's joint.
RTC, Thief 1. Another story of being on top of the hammer where the eye is, and the haunts and ghosties had me surrounded. Well, I thought I found another way off of the thing, that wouldn't hurt as much as having a Haunt tear Garrett's guts out, and wouldn't require navigating the hallways of the place. Thinking I had seen a spot of wood exactly above where I wanted to be, I fired what I thought was a rope arrow. Unfortunately, Garrett had no rope arrows at the time. I had fired a broadhead. But, this didn't click in to me, and I still jumped for it. The impact just about killed Garrett, and the Haunts weren't happy to see him up close.
Yes, most of these deaths were caused by stupidity. I have a lot of stupidity to spare.
Level 1, Thief 2.
Well, without a training mission to skip, I was forced to play the first mission. Following the trail Basso would take, I pulled out my blackjack and prepared to KO an archer in one of the hallways. Well, timing it wrong, I jumped out just as he was turning around to
look at me. He pulled out his arrow, and was just about to fire when I ran up to hit him. No effect, except that he ran away instead of shot me. Good grief! So I followed him. He ran and ran, and then as I'm running, it occurred to me that I had a follower. No, two of them. I had made enough noise following him, that one guard had come investigating. And the other, I had run right in front of. Oh well, I had learned to run in Thief 1, so I jumped and ran after the archer, hoping to catch him the moment his awareness stepped down. He turned around instead. *Bang!* said Avalon, as he ran into him. "Ah!" said Garrett, as the guards did, too.
LotP, Thief 2.
It happened so fast. I had entered a small room, where a guard was sleeping, so I could get some loot to meet the expert loot goal. Making too much noise, the guard awoke. Running like the chicken I was, I flung myself out of that room. Right off the rooftop, too, I had never stopped running. Oh well, reload!
I was going to show him who was boss. I pulled out my blackjack, and attempted to KO him in his sleep. BAM! Missed, hit the box. How could I have missed? Well, the guard didn't start moving immediately. Out with the sword. Hitting the third mouse button on accident, I blocked. Unfortunately, that slowed Garrett down enough so that the minute I unblocked, Garrett's head was split in two. Though there was still more than half health, I ran. And got stuck on the window. Chop chop, said the butcher to the slab of meat.
Precious Cargo, Thief 2.
After finding that treasure in the ship, I went back on deck, knowing something would be there. Yes, there was, a ghost. With a sword. Thinking he wasn't solid and I wouldn't be able to kill him, I ran. And thought Garrett tripped or something, but no, his foot has sunk into a small hole in the ship. And then he had his well-known 'heart attack'. Apparently, Garrett is more of a coward than I am.
The last one. Sabotage at Soulforge, Thief 2. Factory Bay D, the Sealing Machine.
I was pretty sure I had disposed of all of the machines in the area. So I went to throw some gadgets into the machine, when I heard... "Please be warned... a misguided soul... All should hear the words of Karras, the words of Karras..." I turned around. Just a little robot! And he was running! And I followed. Everytime I caught up, I blackjacked his rotten little boiler. Until I hit the 'big one'. Those huge robots that could only be described as missile launchers with feet and military intelligence. Run and Jump was the word of the day. So, I ran right back to the Sealing Machine, avoiding artillery fire. Threw the stuff in, and went to leave... and Garrett was stuck. I had jumped into one of the Sealing Machine inputs, and because of how I had done it, my feet were stuck. Permanently. Moments before hitting relaod, Garrett's face became the home of a cannonball.
Sad, eh?
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HolyWhippet on 26/4/2000 at 04:02
The first time I encountered one of the guard robots I was in the bank. I walked around a corner while exploring and onto a short "bridge" off to my right I suddenly noticed one of the guard bots through a window. I stopped to look him over and was thinking, good thing he can't get me from there. About the same time that the robot noticed me my brain finally realised that glass can't stop cannonballs.
In the library for the Casing mission I thought that the ghost would be killable by same means as apparitions from Thief 1. So I hid in the shadows and readied my sword. As the ghost walked past I readied an overhead chop and ran forward. Then ran straight through him, apparently he is completely intangible but not harmless as he tossed a skull magic into me.
I learnt the hard way about being careful in unfamiliar territory. I was clearing the route for Basso when I passed by a guard post. Thing was the guard wasn't coughing or complaining so I didn't hear him like I normally do. I only heard him when he yelled at me just before attacking.
Finally not a death but still humerous. I was playing sabotage at Soulforge and I found myself following one of those four legged turret monsters. I accidently made a sound just as I was nearing the lift that takes you up near the A/B plug machine. Swerving and dodging I managed to get to the lift and hit the up button before it shot me to death. After reaching the top floor and catching my breath I hit the down button and hopped out through the second doorway. After a long while I happened to be coming back that way and as I passed by I heared the sound of whirring machinery. What's that I wondered and moved to investigate. Apparently after failing to kill me the roving turret tried to chase me and ran straight into the elevator shaft. It was sitting there pinned in place by the lift which couldn't finish going down because of the turret bug beneath it. I don't think it was actually dead but it didn't or couldn't respond when I approached it.
Lucky Hand of Glory on 26/4/2000 at 06:15
OK, this is the Lucky Hand of Glory's way to die:
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http://www.ttlg.com/forums/ubb/cool.gif1)Hide in the shadows of the level for about 15 minutes, casing the enemies walk-path.
2)Use up 6 or 7 water arrows to make sure you are heli-invisible, no matter where you go.
3)Shoot Moss Arrows all over the place to make absolutely certain NOTHING will hear you when you move to strike.
4)Play in EXPERT mode, cuz your a cocky bastard. This means no arrows fly. Use only the blackjack.
5)Make copious and detailed notes at the end of the MAP sections to make sure every guard, haunt, civi, monster, or creatures walk-path is covered so that you will be able to continue on your way after you have swiftly bonked everything out with you stealth-like expertise and have hidden the unconscious body in the shadows.
6)Wait until the unsuspecting rube walks into your shadow of attack.
7) Soundlessly pull out your blackjack.
8)Stand up straight from you hiding crouch to get ready to run up behind the rube quickly...swiftly...silently...stealthly.
9)Raise the billy-club....and move forward...
10)Completely, silently run up behind the object of your dis-affection with hand raised.
11)Watch as lag/frame rate confuses your perspective of encounter.
12)As computer crunches for 20 seconds or so, all you see is a frozen screen...
13)After what seems like an eternity, the screen catches up; you are mobile again...
14)Rube is gone...where has he/it gone!?!?!?!
15) Enemy is behind you...
16)You have run past the object of your blackjack, and the object is giving you your last rights as the screen fades to black with the screams of Master Thief Garrets final breath rings in your ears...
17)You go empty the dishwasher as you wait for the game to reload. Might even have time to put a load in the washing machine. Oh yeah, you got plenty of time to put a load in the washing machine. Got time to fold the stuff out of the dryer, too. And make a phone call. And a sandwich.
18)Computer hums its familiar tune, promises to reload the "Perfect Mission", and promptly crashes....hmmmmmm.
(Repeat Step #18 at least two more times.)
19) Turn off game and go outside to take frustration out on dandilions.
Now THAT is the way a thief of Garrets calibre should die.
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Ressiccan on 26/4/2000 at 08:58
This is going to sound REALLY stupid, and it has happened more than once which makes me REALLY stupid! Ok, your going though the game and for some reason you die...no problem, your a cautious player and you QuickSave your games on a regular basis....only this time( half way through the death scene ) you hit the QuickSave key insead of the QuickLoad key....and you now have to start the entire mission from the begining....
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Starrfall on 26/4/2000 at 09:20
~~Cragscleft, my very first encouter with a zombie happened about 1 in the am (insomniac speaking)I was thinking I was really cool because I found the elevator, was trying to find my way when I hear this moan. I freaked out and started turning in circles to find out where it was coming from, could'nt see it so I ran around a corner RIGHT INTO IT!!,I literally screamed and ducked, which of course did not help poor Garret
~~Lost City, tried to run from fire elementals, hid in a shadow, the damn thing came towards me and lit up the freakin shadow I was hiding in, then in my hurry to kill it before it made Garret s'mores I pulled a fire arrow.....note to self: fire arrows make elementals bigger
~~RTC, I got the eye and had flash bombed the undead into oblivion, but the zombie that walks around on the second level was alive and had seen me. I ran back through that door and started to go up the stairs, met the Zombie coming down, ran the other way, tried for another flash bomb, got a mine instead and threw it in front of me, lost half my life, ran back out the door to the main hall towards the front doors, LOCKED!!! argh! so the last thing I hear is the eye telling me to find another way out, which as it happens, I did.......
~~RTC(again) got the eye, went through the door to the garden, What the hell is that?(Murus) sat there for about 20 min. trying to kill him, eventually attracted the other undead in the garden but I had run..out..of..ammo....
~~RTC(I should mention that I use this mission to scare the hell out of my friends now) Went exploring in the building right across from the broken stairs(name?) fell down the broken elevator shaft, made noise, a zombie came after me, I ran into the first door I could find-which happened to be a tiny confession-booth thing.
~~Maw of Chaos, my nature being what it was(is) I just had to inspect those blue crystals, especially with the warning.....curiosity killed the....well me.
~~Maw(i swear this happened) after the ice styff theres an exploding frog...one came after me and I shot it MIDAIR with a broadhead, unfortunatley this happened about 2 inches in front of my face.
~~Maw(most aggravating one)I had one! life piont thing left, and The trickster had just sprung the booby trapped eye, and, my nature being what it is, I went over to him to gloat, and maybe jump up and down on him a few times, I caught some kind of after-shock thing and died.
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Wynne on 26/4/2000 at 19:18
My motto: Always save almost all the time, but NEVER EVER QUICKSAVE!!! I never even touch the F9-F12 keys.
New stupid death for me: In LOTP, I was utterly fascinated by the hilarious conversation between the guards on the balconies, so I crept closer. Accidentally stepping into the light, I noticed they didn't pay any attention to me as they continued their passionate argument. I presumed they were so involved they didn't notice me. Hopping up onto the edge of the wooden balcony I was on, I leaned forward to watch their movements and get a better earful. At the end, I knew it was coming--they were going to shoot each other--"Have at thee!" when all of a sudden, at exactly the same moment, they pulled out their bows... AND SHOT ME! Four arrows to the gut simultaneously, and I was dead.
Forsythe on 26/4/2000 at 20:36
*chuckle* Okay, here's one... in Bank, there's a room w/ a watcher and turret, with a switch nearby to deactivate the watcher. I figured I could run by, and even if the watcher turns red I can get around the corner to the switch before the turret can hit me.. and then hah! that turret will be off as well! I went back around the corner to gloat at the watcher, afterward... and got splattered across the floor by the still-active turret
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SparQy on 26/4/2000 at 21:16
Yeah I was playing Thief 2 while taking a bath and the whole computer just fell in the tub and electrocuted me to a crisp. Boy was I shocked when that happened. I felt pretty dumb afterwards...
Fearless Fish on 27/4/2000 at 17:57
Lucky hand of Glory, I know that feeling.
Especially when on LOTP trying to do a difficult jump and die. Then quickload (return from making tea) and die again then quickload (return from making something else) and die yet again, then quickload....
