=================================================================================== 2nd October 2006 =================================================================================== Level Name : A Pirate's Downfall Author : Nick Dablin (nicked) Contact Info : nick@attitude.uk.com Homepage : N/A Date of Release : 2006 Description : Lord Abraham Smith has recently died, and left his entire estate, including his large cliff-top mansion, to the arrogant City Warden Lord Partridge. Cast into the street, his widow has been left with nothing. Partridge and his spoilt brat of a son have moved in already. Lady Smith knows that hidden somewhere in the old building is her husband's secret fortune - a valuable collection of artifacts amassed during his days as a trader at sea. If she could sell the collection, it would be enough money to get her back on her feet and off the streets. So she's turned to the one person who might be able to find and retrieve the priceless treasures - a certain master thief - me. I've tipped a few purses on the underground, and it seems Lord Smith was not as squeaky clean as he appeared. Turns out he was involved in some sort of smuggling ring using caves underneath his mansion. I'm guessing he was less of a trader and more of a pirate. I've got a map of the place, caves and all, from my fence. Normally I wouldn't dream of helping the nobility but the Lady has promised a 25% share of the wealth if I can help her out. Besides, it can't hurt to be owed a favour by a member of the nobility... Briefing : No =================================================================================== * Playing Information * Game : Thief II: The Metal Age Mission Title : Pirate's Downfall File Names : miss18.mis, miss35.gam Difficulty Settings : Yes Equipment Store : Yes Map : Yes Auto Map : Yes New Graphics : Yes New Sounds : Yes Multi-Language Support : No, but if anyone wants to translate it, they're welcome to! Briefing : No Length : N/A Size : N/A Difficulty Level Info : Simple, Tricky and Fiendish. All areas are accessible on all difficulty levels, but the full story will only be revealed on Fiendish... * Construction * Base : nothing Build Time : Dromed reports about 13 solid days, but that was spread over the course of a few months Known Bugs : Nothing life-threatening - there's rain in an indoor elevator shaft that won't go away, and there may be a problem with an archer's patrol route, but I think that's fixed now. =================================================================================== * Thanks * * Targa, for the Bath, Bath Faucet, Pile of coins, crystal ball, new wooden door, mechanist pews, the mirror, the eyeball, the dagger, the club guard, the peg leg guard, the stumpy arm guard, and the fat guard models * Telliamed, Nameless Voice and Gaylesaver for the scripts. I'm pretty sure I didn't use any, but certain objectives like to break when the script files aren't there... * Sluggs for the compass model * GORT for the claw hammer, toilet and wood saw models * Rob Hicks for the DEDX models - the blue gem, purple gem, playbill and radiator models. If these are by a different author, just let me know and I'll update this readme! * Schwaa for the green mushroom, red mushroom, fish, skeletons, thieves, and rowboat models * Yandros for the iron gate model * Nameless Voice for the barrel and lantern * R_Soul for the wheelbarrow, rake and watering can models * Vigil for the awesome custom textures and cloud images and the book models - check them out at http://www.washboardabs.net/thief/ and the new textures on Yandros' gates! * All the helpful people on the Thief Editor's Guild for helping me out with any questions I had. * Anyone who wrote a tutorial on Dromed Central! * Betatesters: Griffin, Mortal Monkey, ffox, TheNightTerror, Mikeys_Blade - these guys helped fix a lot of bugs! Special thanks to Mortal Monkey for figuring out what was causing arrows to crash the game - the mission number was too high! Extra special thanks to Mortal Monkey and TheNightTerror for enduring it one more time after I'd fixed the first lot of bugs! ;) * Louise, for her patience! It's not easy being the neglected girlfriend of a Dromed junkie! :p =================================================================================== * Loading Information * Darkloader compatible =================================================================================== * Copyright Information * This level is (c)2006 Nick Dablin Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package is kept intact. You may not include this level to any map pack without my permission. No one may edit and re-distribute this mission without my express permission. This level was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos Interactive.