Warning **Warning **Warning **Warning **Warning **Warning **Warning **Warning ** This FM contains content that may not be suitable for some people (or any) If you have a problem with reading material that you would normally find objectionable please select the Censored difficulty. There is no profanity or indecent acts, but some of the texts might wreck havoc on your stomach. This is just how the story goes, but none of this is to disrespect anyone. Do not eat while playing this FM. If you have a problem with viewing feces or any activity involving feces then please play on the Censored difficulty. Any other content in this FM is no different than found in the OM or other FM's. miss35 does NOT have censored content and will not play automatically. It can be played through dromed. It can be completed easily by pressing the R button near the front door. The manor lord Ramirez is not the same as the one from Thief I. Ok, this FM involves about nine conversations. Please let the conversations take place. There are places where invisible barriers are placed. I'm sorry about this, but this prevents any situation where there is more than one Mr. Oh Dear visible at once. It also allows the conversations to run where breaking the conversations would break the FM. It is possible to access the roof, but there is nothing up there, and there is no advantage to climbing up there. Anyway the poly counts will exceed the max, so please stay off of the roof. :) =================================================================================== Title : A Servant's Life (V 1.1) Author : John Denison Contact Info : jdenison1@houston.rr.com Homepage : http://www.geotities.com/john9818a/thief2.html Date Finished : September 5, 2006 Briefing : Mr. Oh Dear was incarcerated at Cragscleft in the early years. When Cragscleft closed, all of the prisoners were sold to the nobles as imprisoned servants. Mr. Oh Dear is the sewer cleaner at the Ramirez manor, and must complete seven years before he can become an indentured servant. At that point he will have to work his lifetime at the manor, and must not leave the manor for any reason. Escaping the manor leads to great consequences that are far from pleasant. Normally indentured servants become free after they have fulfilled their contract, however the contracts drawn up by the manor lord state that the indentured servants are bound to the land forever. Mr. Oh Dear is a very bad man, although his appearance, wimpiness, and feminine voice hardly qualifies him as a man. He wears a traditional burgandy tunic & hood, white leggings, and burrick hide shoes. The tunic & hood are made of the poorest materials, the only materials this servant could afford. Mr. Oh Dear's tunic is dirty and bloody, and his leggings are worse. Mr. Oh Dear always has a frown on his face due to the pathetic life he endures. Even before he went to Cragscleft Mr. Oh Dear was always sad and hated to be a servant. He had always endured the worst of everything, at least he thought so until he arrived at the Ramirez manor. Serving his seven years as an imprisoned servant, Mr. Oh Dear has been picked on, hit, stabbed, rolled in sewage, put on the racks, frozen, cooked, nearly drowned, and has been denied any contact with his family. A coincidence, his brother happens to be an indentured servant at the same manor. His brother Jack is short, pudgy, and creepy, but otherwise is the same as Mr. Oh Dear. Mr. Oh Dear spends the day cleaning the sewers and unclogging the cesspool, and at night he stands in his personal jail facing the wall. If he is good then he is allowed to sleep on the floor of his room. Mr. Oh Dear's room is an old storage room with junk spewed about. The basement is relatively quiet, but Mr. Oh Dear's room has lots of noises including creaking wood, water running through pipes, a turbine, and a nearby furnace. Three rats live in the room with Mr. Oh Dear, and he has taught them to understand his words. He is able to see them now and then when they are in the light of the tiny candle in the corner. Mr. Oh Dear is about 1/2 the weight of a normal person. He is fed only two meals each day. His lunch is a soup which is almost inconsumable, and his dinner is not much better. [When he is bad he is denied his normal menu, and instead is forced to eat an alternate menu. He would rather opt-out of this alternate menu, but has no choice. (except on Censored)] Mr. Oh Dear gets the worst or least of anything and everything. His food is poor, his wages are next to nothing, and his land allotment is tiny in comparison to the other servants. When Mr. Oh Dear finishes his seven year term as an imprisoned servant, he then will become an indentured servant. He will then become the farmer's apprentice, and will no longer have to live in the junk room. He will however have to live in one of the stalls in the barn. He will lose his friendship with the rats, and gain friendship with the burricks. =================================================================================== * Playing Information * Game : Thief 2: The Metal Age Title : A Servant's Life File Name : miss34.mis, miss35.mis, miss36.mis, miss37.mis Difficulty Settings : No Equipment Store : No Map : No Auto Map : No New Graphics : Yes New Sounds : Yes Multi-Language Support : No Briefing : No Length : n/a Size : n/a Difficulty Level Info : Censored, Hard, and Expert * Construction * Base : Converted an early save of A Living Nightmare Build Time : ten months... v0.1 - First Beta version v1.0 - First Final version v1.1 - Fixed problem with voice on servant in torture room on expert, other minor corrections This is my eighth Thief mission. The extra missions are for amusement only. =================================================================================== * Loading Information * DarkLoader ready. =================================================================================== * Copyright Information * This mission is by John Denison (john9818a) I only take credit for the design of my mission. All of the textures, objects, scripts, conversations, etc. are original Looking Glass property, except for the custom objects made by: Dark Arrow Eshaaktar Nameless_Voice Nielsen74 OttoJ55 RSoul Schwaa Sluggs Targa Vigil von.Eins The Watcher Yandros The city scape textures were made by Nameless Voice. The custom gates at the garden were made by Yandros & Vigil. Thanks!! I tried to include everyone who made objects in this FM, so if I miss someone then I deeply apologize. Thanks to everyone at the TTLG forums for their help! Thanks to the beta-testers: Avallon Bikerdude Griffin Lightningline Maloo TheNightTerror and to Sluggs for previewing the html version of A Servant's Life! A special thanks is given to Epithumia for hosting FM's! Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package is kept intact. You may not include this level in 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. (This text file was ripped from a previous rip of somebody else's ripped FM info that was created with the Homemade Mission Text Wizard)