File Name : The Folly of Youth.zip
Author : The_Dude (Phil Shepherd)
Contact info : I’ll Be Hanging Around the Forums
Date of release : February 29th 2004
Version : 1.0

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Story

This FM is set when Garrett was a little younger. The Hammers are just a disparate group of
loosely interlinked religious units and are not the all pervasive force they will become.

"Garrett awakes his head thumping & his throat drier than a Burrick's armpit. As the mists clear
& the hammering subsides to a gentle drum, Garrett recalls attending the Randy Burrick the
previous evening and meeting a distracting young ingenue called Charity. Under her doe-eyed
gaze (and the effects of too many pints of Blackjack Ale) he became unusually loquacious and
perilously ingenuous, bragging of glories past and future. The evening ended with a return to
his current lodgings to show her the tools of the trade and a rather drunken coupling ensued.

The dawn reveals not only that Charity is long gone (leaving a short note thanking him for the
previous evening) but also that his equipment is missing (the note also apologises for this &
promises its speedy return).

Two days later there is still no sign of Charity. Later in the Crayman's Crotch Garrett comes across
Cutty who has some disturbing information. Last night he overheard two local Hammers discussing
a recent attempt to steal a sacred icon from their church. The local Bluecoats have not been informed
so it looks like the Hammers have dealt out their own form of justice. Garrett vaguely remembers
Charity mentioning a valuable Hammer Icon which is currently stored at the local church St Catherines.

Time for Garrett to pay a visit to find out what happened to Charity. This is not going to be easy. St
Catherines sits on the top of a hill overlooking the town. By all accounts it is well guarded and the
Hammers will be on high alert after the recent attempted break in. Garrett is also missing the normal
tools of his trade.


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Play Information:

Game : Thief 2: The Metal Age
Level Name : The Folly of Youth
File name : miss20.mis, Serendipity.gam
Difficulty Settings : Make, Your, Choice
Equipment store : No
Map/Automap : No
New graphics : Yes
New sounds : Yes
New conversations : No
New models : Yes (Dedx + assorted others)
EAX Support : No
Multilanguage support : Nein/ Non.
Briefing : Do you often suffer short term memory loss?
Objectives : See in-game.

Please note that there are many important clues contained within the readables so read them! Who knows you
might enjoy them as well. Don't throw things away. If they go in the inventory then hang on to them as they
may be useful.


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Construction:

Base : From scratch
Build Time : I have no life. Dromed has sucked it out of me.
Map Size : Small.



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Loading Information:


Runs from Dark Loader. Leave the file ZIPPED - DO NOT UNZIP this file,
but put the whole "The Folly of Youth.zip" file into your Thief 2 mission folder
then in Darkloader setup, point to thisfolder, and the mission should show up
in the Darkloader main screen.


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Credits:

Thanks to everyone who helped create the Thief universe and keeps it alive today. You all
had a hand in creating this mission . Thanks especially to Komag for his tutorial (without
which this mission would not exist – so you can blame him!) and to all those who answered
my endless questions on the forums, you know who you are….

Many thanks to my beta testers. To Katy (kfort) for getting things rollings and making it playable.
To sluggs for breaking everything and Nightwalker and ffox for bringing some sanity to
the project.

Particular thanks to sluggs and Nameless Voice for making custom models for me. To Flecha
de Sombra, Nielson74, Glen, Nameless Voice, RSoul, schwaa, Targa, The Watcher, Vigil, Von
Eins, Yandros and everyone who contributed to Dedx for allowing me the use of custom objects. To
Nieson74 for teaching me basic Anim8or. To Redface for the title page picture. To Nameless
Voice for his scripts. To Don and Lizanneh for the voice acting (sorry I didn't use them in the
end!). To Rob Hicks for Dedx. And everyone else I have forgotten (hopefully no one!).


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Copyright Information:

This level is ©2004 by its author. Anyone who distributes this level without my permission
will be shot. I will hunt you down like the dog you are.

This level was not made by and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos
Interactive.


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