-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- July 2nd, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors: Team Calendra is: Purah (Anthony Huso) Totality (Triston Attridge) Thumper (Gary Barton) Loanstar (Paul B.) & Deep Qantas (Teemu Salmela) Contact info: See homepage for contact info to all Team Members. Homepage: http://www.aros.net/~purah/calendras.htm Version: Official Release Date of release: July 2000 "I'm all dressed up with nowhere to go walkin' with a dead man over my shoulder.." -Oingo Boingo, "Dead Man's Party" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************ Please Read This Page *********************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BACKGROUND: This is your city. A black-caped lord, you survey your domain from the rooftops with pensive, cynical eyes. They are analytical eyes. Like camera shutters, they slice and assess every footfall on the midnight cobbles below. You time every pendulous swing of the lanterns and evaluate every fitful throw of shadow from one end of the street to the other. Your ears unconsciously decipher the sullen echoes of voices, machinery and wind. This is a city of metronomes where chimney pots sway to the ancient gurgle of pipes whose forlorn songs rise from throats of incurable decay. You gauge the lonely armored scrape of each city watchman as a matter of habit, for there is machination in thievery. And timing is everything. You have internalized the rhythm of movement and non-movement, the play of shadows, down to your very own pulse. You chuckle sardonically, amused to find yourself thinking of the Keepers. But you have good reason tonight. Mercedes was a hard minded, hard bodied acolyte who left the Keepers shortly after you. Though your relationship lasted longer than that of most thieves in the city, you're not exactly a family man. Besides, Mercedes started dabbling in sorcery and had her own agendas. But that's all in the past. And loneliness can be delicious in its own way . . . especially on the rooftops at night. Her letter arrived yesterday. You have it tucked in your breast pocket and it reminds you of the times you spent together as acolytes. It mentions a party, a job, strictly business it would seem . . . But you don't think so much about the letter's content as you do on the familiar handwriting. And then you decide that it is an interesting proposition after all. Not the money so much as the challenge of stealing something more abstract than lucre or relics. A theft of time and a little company to remind you of your fading youth. Such delicate and unpredictable prizes fall outside what you've memorized of this clockwork city. At the thieves' guild you once heard an old rogue say that the thief's burden is not his bag of loot but the endless desire to possess what he does not have. Tonight you meet an old friend . . . for you, a splinter of what might have been is gleaming like a jewel under museum glass . . . and opportunity makes the thief. BRIEFING LETTER: "Garrett, I know we agreed not to see each other, but there's a party tomorrow night and you're the only man thief-enough to be my escort. You've heard of the Weeping Angel Tavern? It's near my new apartment on the south side of town. I heard the owner, Lady Calendra, is closing the tavern early in order to throw a lavish party. An elite few are invited and among them, a count seeking payment for his delivery of a certain ill-gotten relic taken by crime from swamps in the utter south. I don't know much about it really, but as far as the party goes, we're 'invited.' I'll expect you in the Weeping Angel's wine cellar by midnight. I overheard there is a secret door there to the place the party is being held. As Always, Mercedes P.S. I think it's formal dress so...I'll be wearing black." ====================================================================================== KNOWN BUGS: 1) There are some spots of architecture that the AI's just don't like. You may see a funny occurance from time to time, (blame it on the AI's being drunk at the party) :) but not very often...and we think we have erradicated 99% of the bugs. 2) ****IMPORTANT**** We have overwritten the Success.avi for this mission. This means you will get the Calendra's Cistern Success.avi when you complete other missions. To recifty this: BEFORE you install Calendra's Cistern, copy the original Success.avi from your Movies folder into a different folder. When you are done playing Calendra's Cistern, you can then move it back. ====================================================================================== CREDITS TEAM CALENDRA: Purah: Design/story/art/achitecture/skins/overall design coordinator Thumper: Additional story/subplot/architecture/objectives/technical guru/head voices Totality: In-game store/traps/puzzles/special projects/finalized bug fixes Loanstar: Many recordings/sound FX/movies/music Deep Qantas: Conversations/skin tweaks/maps Special thanks to: Wes Morrison for the reskinnable objects! And a very very special thanks to LGS studios. There is a dedication in-game near the Weeping Angel tavern. Without the folks at LGS, we would have never found the shadows. Huzzah! Also a special thanks to Janet Turner for her art in one of the briefing shots and to Maria Curcic (who will undoubtedly be either loved or hated) as the voice of Mercedes. Beta Testers: MaD-SaM, Blaze Pureheart, Tim Ewers, Daniel Kessler, Shadow Runner, Chris Csernica, Andrew Dagilis. If I forgot anyone, then you didn't post to the "sign-in" section of our forum...sorry. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Play Information * -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Game: Thief: The Dark Project Mission Title: Calendra's Cistern File name: miss20.mis Difficulty Settings: yes Equipment store: yes In-game store: yes Map / automap: yes/yes New graphics: yes New sounds: yes New monsters: yes EAX support: yes Multi language support: no...and don't ask :) Briefing : yes Difficulty levels: Foot Pad=Normal, Thief=Hard, Garrett=Expert * Construction * Base: From scratch. Build Time: 1 year + -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Loading information * With Thiefloader: Copy the calendra.zip into your thief/missions folder. Run Thiefloader, select calendra from the list and press play. Without Thiefloader: We don't recommend it but you can unzip calendra.zip into your thief directory, run Thief, start a new game, and select "Calendra's Cistern". If you don't use Thiefloader, keep in mind this warning: *** WARNING *** The archive includes various files that will overwrite the original ones if unzipped without prompting. Backup your Thief directory first if you do not wish to lose any files. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Copyright * Copyright (c) June 2000 by each member of Team Calendra Permission is granted to freely play and distribute this level providing it remains whole and intact. Mission designers: Please ask one of us before using the custom elements of this mission. This level was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos Interactive.