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MISGUIDED SOULS
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A Thief 2 Fan Mission
by Nick Dablin (nicked)

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Title : Misguided Souls
Author : Nick Dablin (nicked)
Game : Thief 2
Contact info : nickdablin@gmail.com
Date of release : 13th November 2024
Version : 1.0
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When Cavador started spilling his guts, he didn't know when to shut up. At least, according to the
Pagan who contacted me last night to thank me for the whole Soulforge debacle. It's been two months
since I foiled Karras' plans. Two months since the truth got out. Two months since the public
hysteria, the lynchings, the start of the official trials, the Hammerites returning in force to cry
heresy and call for harsh justice. The Mechanists are finished.

But according to this Pagan, there's a secret Mechanist facility in the mountains just outside the
City, a facility that only a few high-ranking Mechanists even knew existed. Even Cavador didn't
know much about what went on there, only that the whole place was built to hide some discovery they
found there after following directions from a long lost precursor tome buried deep in the KD site.

Apparently, by the time I got to Soulforge, the Mechanists in the City hadn't heard from their
brethren at the site for some weeks. Now no-one seems to know if the facility is still up and
running in isolation, ignorant of the winds of change from the outside world, or if some disaster
has struck the place.

Precursor artifacts are always in demand from collectors, even if a certain Lord Gervasius is
unlikely to be in the market now that he's been disgraced for his associations with the Order. If
I can get my hands on whatever the Mechanists found up there before anyone else stumbles upon the
place, I should stand to make a tidy profit...

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Notes and Known Bugs
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- This is a small mission for the 1st Speedbuilding Jam.
- The most relevant Jam themes I used were Cursed and Isolated.
- The mission mostly uses stock resources.
- You may encounter some AIs getting temporarily stuck on corners. Classic Dark engine...

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Play Information
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File names : miss17.mis, mech.gam
Difficulty Settings : Normal/Hard/Expert
Equipment store : No
Map/Automap : Yes/No
New graphics : Yes
New sounds : Yes
New models : Yes
EAX Support : Yes
Multi language support : Not yet - please message me if you are interested in translating.
Briefing : No

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Construction
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Base : Scratch
Build Time : About 2 months

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Credits
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Many thanks to my beta testers for helping get this mission into the best possible shape:

- DirkBogan
- marbleman
- Mat99
- RippedPhreak
- skacky


- Flame Bitmap files from Thief Gold.
- Couple of textures modified from stock textures.
- Custom objects and AI meshes all made by me or modified from stock objects. Object textures are
all modified from stock textures.
- Some audio modified from stock sounds.
- Some scripts by NamelessVoice and Telliamed.

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