It seems my little rendezvous at Lord Raven's Mansion got the Raven's
attention. My contacts have recently informed me that he has arranged a meeting
with the City Watch Captain tonight at his newly constructed mansion
conveniently located just a stone's throw away from Raven's place... which
seems very suspicious. They are obviously planning something but I don't know
what yet so what better to do then break into his house and do a little
snooping around and see if I can unearth any dirty little secrets they have
planned. The mansion is extremely large, even from a distance, I can see that
the funding Raven is provided the City Watch is going straight into protecting
the people. From where I am, I can see that the way in is very heavily guarded
but there seems to be a few crates stacked outside the entrance. Hope they are
dry inside..."
Avoiding Mistrust
A Thief 3 - Deadly Shadows Fan Mission
By DarkDragon
Author : DarkDragon
Contact Info : saleck@saleck.net
Homepage : Saleck.net
Version : 1.1.1
Date of Release : 17th August 2008
Scripts Required :
Description :
It seems my little rendezvous at Lord Raven's Mansion got the Raven's
attention. My contacts have recently informed me that he has arranged a meeting
with the City Watch Captain tonight at his newly constructed mansion
conveniently located just a stone's throw away from Raven's place... which
seems very suspicious. They are obviously planning something but I don't know
what yet so what better to do then break into his house and do a little
snooping around and see if I can unearth any dirty little secrets they have
planned. The mansion is extremely large, even from a distance, I can see that
the funding Raven is provided the City Watch is going straight into protecting
the people. From where I am, I can see that the way in is very heavily guarded
but there seems to be a few crates stacked outside the entrance. Hope they are
dry inside..."
Game : Thief 3 - Deadly Shadows
Mission Title : Avoiding Mistrust
Mission File Name(s) : AvoidingMistrust_Version_1.0.zip
Difficulty Settings : YES
Equipment Store : NO
Map : NO
Auto Map : NO
New Graphics : NO
New Sounds : NO
New Objects : NO
Multi language support : NO
Readme Language : English
Difficulty Level Info : Easy, Normal, Hard, Expert
Known Bugs : Once again, saving on Normal Difficulty is broken. I really hate T3Ed.
Video Briefing Length : N/A
Video Briefing Size : N/A
Base : Scratch
Build Time : 5 months and 7 days.
Notes :
0.10 (Build 0000) - Started in August 2006, Had main hall 70% constructed as
well as a first floor room.
0.15 (Build 0010) - Main hall done. 3 rooms constructed including Swimming area
(80% finished) library (95%) and storeroom (98%). Stopped in October 2006.
0.20 (Build 0020) - Restarted on 30th May 2008. Dining Room built (90%
finished), Kitchen started with poor design, 2nd Floor Master Bedroom Area
built (60%), Swimming area finished.
0.25 (Build 0030) - Master Bedroom area finished. Concentrated on 1st floor
adding alcoves with display cases. Corridors expended and added gradually.
Library was started (20%).
0.30 (Build 0040) - Library was 50% completed.
0.40 (Build 0050) - Library 90% completed. 2nd Floor corridors were added
(30%). Storeroom was constructed (100%) and Concept of Crawl Through Air Vents
was placed and tested.
0.50 (Build 0060) - Library 98% completed. Kitchen rebuilt and finished. Dining
room finished. More Air Vents were implemented (20%). Basement area was in
production (10%).
0.60 (Build 0070) - Basement 95% constructed. 1st floor corridors expanded
greatly to accommodate built rooms.
0.70 (Build 0080) - More corridors and rooms on the 1st and 2nd floors were
built. Doors added to main hall. 1st floor is 100% finished.
0.80 (Build 0090) - Editor beginning to grow sluggish. Air Vents were built
(90%). 2nd floor vastly improved. Brush reduction by about 30% across the
entire map. Ballroom built (90%).
0.85 (Build 0100) - 2nd floor rooms added (50%). Air vents connected rooms to
other rooms. 2nd floor bar room finished. Guards room built. Spiral Staircase
finished. Final corridors in place.
0.90 (Build 0110) - 4 rooms added on second floor and corridors connected to
the swimming area providing 2 entrances. Statues changed in swimming area.
0.92 (Build 0120) - Added pipes and rats to the basement. Bug and light fixing.
Began placement of loot. Was ready to start adding AI and packing for release
until...
0.95 (Build 0130) - Started construction of an outside area to the building
(was 70% done by this build). Connected several rooms (Storeroom and Showroom)
to the outside, completing them.
0.98 (Build 0140) - Replaces Trees with better ones. Built 2nd open area
connecting it to the library. Added more detail to the outside area adding
multiple points of entry and exit. Added guard hut in the corner.
1.0 (Build 0150) - Final Bug Fixing. Objectives Testing and finished on August
16th 2008. Release Time!
Version 1.1 - 17th August 2008.
Brought down Loot Total to 10,000 by lowering prices, removing a few items and
replacing a few items with stardard items.
Fixed a small wall in the second floor bar being too big, causing the fireplace
to look odd.
Fixed sparkly lighting effect in the spiral staircase poking slightly out under
the stair mesh.
Added a Window in the Master Bedroom corridor where there should've been one.
Altered texturing in the Master Bathroom.
Made it easier to use Rope Arrows to get onto the ledges in the library. (going
into 3rd person was, oddly enough, easier to get up there then 1st).
Fixed a small lighting problem in 1 of the air vents.
Version 1.1.1 (Build 0152) - September 5th 2008.
Fixed a Bracelet in Asceline Burguet's room being sometimes broken and
unfrobbable.
Fixed the position of a book in Asceline Burguet's room hovering in midair.
Added German Translation - Thank you Beleg Cuthalion.
Added Italian Translation - Thank you Krenim.
Thanks :
Thanks to everyone, family, friends and others who supported me throughout my
project. Let me know of any cosmetic errors you find around the place by PM'ing
me on TTLG or sending me an e-mail, Translations are welcome! Enjoy!Fleshworks
Wiki - For Guidance.
Potterr - GarrettLoader, Beta Testing.
Judith - For many clever ideas.
All the people at TTLG who aided me in my time of need.
Looking Glass Studios for Thief I, Thief Gold, Thief II and the System Shocks.
Ion Storm Austin for Deus Ex I, II and Thief III.
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Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package is
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Storm Austin or Eidos Interactive.
I recently played this mod. It's a nice mod -- the mansion is extremely large, TOO large. There is a lot of detail and MANY rooms but lots of the mansion hallways are also too repetitive. I played this mod on 'expert' difficulty level. As I always have been, I was 'thorough to a fault': I searched every nook and cranny of the mansion -upstairs, downstairs, cellars, etc. etc.
After looking everywhere, I was unable to find the final special loot item nor was I able to quite procure the "90%" of the loot required on expert difficulty level; hence, after hours and hours playing this map, I was ultimately unsuccessful and could not complete the mod -- hence disappointingly, this mod is not a 'keeper' for me...