Title:Unnecessary Risk
Author: SlyFoxx
Contact Info: murkman@hotmail.com
Homepage: none
Date of Release: November 29, 2007
Version: 1



Description: A Thief 2 Fan Mission
This is the sequel to "A Friend In Need."
It's not necessary to play AFIN first but it is recommended.


Briefing: You've broken into the law offices of Dewey, Cheatem & Howe in order
to discover the location of Lord Bafford's new summer residence. Now that
you have it, it's time to pay the place a visit. It's really an unnecessary risk
as you don't need the money...but hey...it's another chance to piss off
Lord Bafford!

No sense in waiting...It's time to begin.


Note From SlyFoxx: If you cause a lot of commotion in certain locations and/or knock out
certain AI, you'll be missing out on key bits of information. So if you
plan to run around like this is Unreal Tournament don't be surprised if
you get surprised or can't find most of the loot! That said, there are things
in this mission that you can only experience if you are a bloodthirsty taffer
who likes to slice people up!

If you get up in the guard towers and look back towards the main house
you'll be getting a view that will test the limits of the game engine. I have
experienced no crashes but do suggest a quick save before doing so.

There are some AI conversations in this mission. They are triggered by
something called a Bounds Trigger. The trigger is destroyed almost
immediatly after it does its thing so the conversation only plays once.
What that means to you is that if you keep moving while inside the
trigger area before it gets destroyed the conversation will keep starting
over. So if you just hold still for a few seconds everything will be good.

As is often the case the pick pocket stats at the end of the mission are
incorrect. The correct total is 9.

This mission is not very difficult. It's not supposed to be. It almost didn't
get finished but I had promised a sequel to "A Friend In Need" and I do
my best to keep my promises. It also served as a learning experience as to
how to implement more "fancy DromEd stuff." So though the game-play
is on the easy side this is by far the most complex and challenging mission
I have ever released from a design standpoint.






CONSTRUCTION

Base: My Contest 5 mission..."Bafford's Bone Collection"

Build Time: I don't know but my butt is sore.



Credits:

Custom Textures: Vigil http://thief.washboardabs.net/news/
Nameless Voice http://www.geocities.com/nameless_voice/
MaJiC Tudor house textures


Custom Objects: Nameless Voice
Vigil
Sluggs
Rob Hicks (DromEd Deluxe)

Helpful Tech Help: R Soul
Nameless Voice
Yandros
Sluggs
John9818a

Bafford Archers & Map provided by Digital Nightfall

Custom Voices: SlyFoxx

AVI & Music: SlyFoxx

Custom Scripts: Telliamed. tnhScript Copyright (c) 2003-2005 Tom N Harris

All Rights Reserved. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED
"AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.



Testers: Nightwalker, Digital Nightfall, Peter (smithpd) Smith & Nameless Voice

Special thanks to: Saam Tariverdi & Daniel (Digital Nightfall) Todd for
that little chunk of cyberspace known as www.ttlg.com

MsLedd (TTLG Server Goddess) for the extra time.

Jason (epithumia) Tibbets...for Thief Missions...may he return to us soon.

All the good folks from Looking Glass Studios

The Keeper Of Metal And Gold

The Circle Of Stone And Shadow

W.T. Smithers...burgers, beer & happy hour mayhem

Frobber, Purah, Belboz, Saturnine, AsyluM, Doaal,
Gaetane, Silent Sleep, Kung Fu Gecko, Trimfect, Lord Alan,
The Gingerbread Man, Sledge, Thorin Oakenshield,
Shadowspawn, Lady Rowena, Don Mazur, Uncadonego,
Eshaktaar, Thiefs_Pawn, Gumdrop, Sperry, Schwaa,
Banshee, Morrgan, Twisty, Metalhead, John D., Dark Angel,
Gonchong, William The Taffer, Apache, Yandros, R Soul, Totality
Sluggs, Sliptip, Fidical, The_Dude, Dashjianta, mad god, RiCh, Mokkis
Hit Diety, Hengist, Yametha and every other taffer out there who
had what it takes to wrangle a mission out of the evil little program
known as...(Nope! It's dangerous to even speak its name!)



Darkloader ready.
Do not unzip! -- Place in your Fan Mission folder and install using Darkloader.



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* Copyright Information *

Copyright (c) November, 2007 "SlyFoxx"

Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and the package
is kept intact. You may include this level in any map pack as long as this
copyright statement is distributed intact. If you were charged for this mission
contact me via email and provide the link or necessary information about who
sold it to you. Me and a few others will fix his/her little red wagon!

THIS FAN MISSION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF
ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED.

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