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20/December/2007
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Title :The Suffer Catalyst
Filename :SC.zip
Author :Asgaroth
Contact info :masterbuilder@eircom.net
Homepage :None
Date of release :21/December/2007
Version :1.0
Other Info :This FM is dedicated to SLUGGS of TTLG

HINT : (IMPORTANT)Be careful with objectives, as if you don't finish one, and continue, you mightn't (depending on which objective) be able to get back to do it, thus you won't be able to finish the mission
: Pay close attention to books etc. you'll find some handy clues

:Expert players(people playing in expert), you will find somewhere in the mission, Robin Hood, if you do find him(He's a haunt archer, and the only one) run, run extremely fast.........

FOR BEST GAMING ENJOYMENT
:Turn off all lights and set the gamma (via options) to around 3/4, if your monitor is naturally darker, or lighter, then alter the gamma to suit. This FM is MEANT to be dark!


Storyline : "I've 'overheard' some interesting things from opposing thieves, they've set out to find the 'Suffer Catalyst', they don't know what it is, but they know how to get to it! Even the Hammers are looking for this, and they have been infiltrated by Mechanists, so it must be VERY valuable!
My mission starts in a cave somewhere; I'm not sure where so I'll follow the thieves! Once I'm in I'll give them a while to get ahead so I don't run into any.
The story of what I'm after is a strange one. A man named Faustus made a house a very long time ago his own, it was built in a time when it was feared that the builder had been angered and would set a rain of flame onto the world, the house(or the ?shelter of the apocalypse?) has thick walls, and few windows, so those within could survive the terror, though the rain never happened and so the shelter was abandoned. Several years later (still a very long time before the present) Faustus simply entered the house and made it his own, often having people over, as he hated being alone there.
Around a year after he had moved in, Faustus found to his horror, a graveyard in his back garden, and upon his first time entering his basement(which he didn't feel he needed) he found out, it was a crypt. It seems the house was built on the base of an old crypt and cemetery! To help himself forget about these, he broke the door to the 'basement' after locking it, he had the key destroyed.
The next surprise came to him when he found the keys to the two doors that lead to the attic, one to a stairway, another to the attic itself! When he entered the attic, he found statues of hammers with strange magical force between them, very brightly lit by an eerie red coming from the altar in the middle of the room! Upon the altar, lay some object, though this information didn't contain what the object was!
Faustus, in utter worry, called in the only people he felt he could trust, the hammerites. They were in awe at what they saw, and told Faustus to keep the door locked, until their return. Though upon their return, Faustus had hidden the keys and refused to let the Hammerites see the 'Catalyst' as they called it, so they left, but being the good willed people they are, they had their priest commit a sacrifice to the Builder (of an early mechanist priest who tried to infiltrate the hammers and preach.) he was sacrificed for heresy, though at the same time his body would protect Faustus from being attacked from the feared undead from the crypt, Faustus begged the Hammerites to do this, they did, though also, they had Faustus' house surrounded by a thick forest, so he would be stuck there. Recent documents of this have forced Hammerites to try and relocate what later became known as 'The Suffer Catalyst'. They successfully got a portal working, bringing them past the forest, and somewhere near Faustus' house, though none who they sent through the portal returned, so whether they died because of a portal backfire, or an unknown horror, remains unknown...
MY job is to make sure that neither the mechanists, hammerites nor thieves get their hands on whatever the 'Suffer Catalyst' is, so I have to go in, killing anyone in my way, and anyone that sees me(the last thing I need is to have the 3 biggest 'groups' around after my head because someone got away), since I've been taking a little 'break' the past while, I've been doing some research, and I know my places and a thing or two about ancient artefacts! The famous crypt beneath the furnished shelter of the apocalypse has plenty of items that will catch more than a pretty penny"

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*Play information*

Game :Thief II: the metal age
Level name :The Suffer Catalyst
File names :miss20.mis
Difficulty settings :yes (big differences between difficulties)
Equipment store :no
Map/automap :blank map! (Won?t crash the game!)
New graphics :Taken from dedex
New sounds :yes (Intro music composed by myself)
New Conversations :no
New models :yes (many textures courtesy of Bronze Griffon)
EAX Support :yes
Multi language support :no
Briefing :no

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*Construction*

Base :none (but I took a thing or two from dedex)
Map size :Average
Build time :1 year
Build info :Originally made for the Masters OF Horror contest 07, but I missed the deadline badly

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*Thanks to*

-The following for allowing distribution of their models/textures: Sluggs, Schwaa, Targa, Alun Bestor, Eshaktaar, Ottoj55, Bronze Griffon (and all involved in Dedex whose models/textures I may have used)
-Everyone that plays this mission
-Everyone at ttlg, especially those who have been of help to me for the past few years!
-Everyone that makes FM's
-And of course a HUGE thanks to beta-testers, Lightningline and Nightwalker

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*Copyright Information*

This FM is ? by Asgaroth

Distribution of this level is allowed in any non-commercial way, shape, or manner you wish. However, you must leave the mission intact and give me credit for it.

This level was not made and is not supported by Looking glass studios or Eidos Interactive

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