Gathering at the Bar

Gathering at the Bar

Your task... steal the Baffor Sceptre that Garrett stole from the manor and then sold to a second hand merchant. He is your target.

June 10th, 1999

=================================================================================== Title : Gathering at the bar

Filename : gatbar.zip

Author : Toni "Trimfect" Hollming

Master Nightfall's voice: Daniel "Digital Nightfall" Todd

Sheam's voice & Betatest: Beate "Lytha" Gerwin

Contact info : [email protected]

http://www.ttlg.com

Date of release : June 10th, 1999

Version: 1.1

Description : "Remember when that Thief Garrett stole the scepter of

fat Lord Bafford? Well I have a place for it in my

circle, and I need you to go get it for me."

-Master Nightfall Idea was to make a more flexible map than the normal Thief

levels. Whole level is a single building that you can get

in various ways. Its up to you to decide how and from where

you go in. Briefing:

"If you have followed my instructions, by the time you read this, you should be well

on your way to the Grieving Burrick Inn. Remember when that Thief Garrett stole the

scepter of fat Lord Bafford? Well I have a place for it in my circle, and I need you

to go get it for me.

Garrett peddled it off and it eventually came to the possession of a nobody merchant.

Now, there is going to be some type of scepter convension tomorrow. Some of the

attendees will be staying at the inn tonight. The man who has the Bafford stick will

be there. Grab it, and couple of other scepters to throw everyone off to your true

objective.

You might want to take a souvenier or to two for yourself while you are in there -

just remember the Bafford's scepter is mine. When you have the stick, meet the

courier by the fountain, he'll take it the rest of the way to me. Oh, one last thing. Killing the power should make things easier, that is, if you like

things easy. I know it's been a while since you've done anything new, so good luck. Sincerely,

Master Nightfall" Note: Text differs from the one in the briefing. Special thanks to Looking Glass Studios for releasing the editor and everyone who

signed the petition.

===================================================================================== * Play Information * Game: Thief: The Dark Project

Level Name : Gathering at the bar

File name : MISS15.MIS

Difficulty Settings : Yes

Equipment store: No

Map / automap: Yes / No

New graphics: Yes

New sounds: Yes

EAX Support: Yes

Multi language support : No Briefing: Yes

Total length / size : 1min 12sec / 6.5MB Difficulty level info : Normal

Get Bafford's scepter

Loot worth 600gp

Return to extraction point

Equipment:

Sword, Blackjack, 12 Broadheads, 7 Water, 2 rope, 4 moss,

2 noise Hard

Get Bafford's scepter

Loot worth 900gp

Find Golden Scepter

Do not kill anyone

Return to extraction point

Equipment:

Sword, Blackjack, 8 Broadheads, 4 Water, 1 rope, 2 moss,

1 noise

Expert

Get Bafford's scepter

Loot worth 1300gp

Find Golden Scepter

Find jeweled scepter

Do not kill anyone

Return to extraction point

Equipment:

Sword, 4 Broadheads, 2 Water, 1 moss Known bugs: -When someone bangs the gong, guards might get stuck in the

cellar.

-Assassinating Cedric on "normal", makes the mission

impossible.

-Some doors don't work always.

-Sheam sometimes doesn't turn to face the player when she speeks.

Other info: Just remember, everything that glitters is not gold, and

even if can't see a ladder, it doesn't mean you can't

climb it. Also note that normal Thief Levels have max of 300-400

polgons simultaneously on screen, this level has a place

where there are over 800 polygons visible, so the system

requirements are higher than normal. High-poly-areas are

not essential, just scenery, so it does not effect the

gameplay itself. * Construction * Base : None.

Build Time : About 2 months ======================================================================================= * Loading information with Thief Loader* Put the gatb11.zip in the thief/missions folder. Rename the file 'Gathering at the Bar.zip'

(without the quotes)

Run Thief Loader, and select it from the list. * Loading information without Thief Loader* To load this Thief map:

Unzip files in the archive to ..\thief

Start Thief normally.

Start new game, and select "Gathering at the bar". To install the 6.5MB briefing, let it overwrite b15.avi in ..\movies -directory. * Starting up GatB in more detail by Lytha * Problems starting the GatB? Here is a way described to get it working (at least, how it

worked on my computer) 1.) Download the patch, the dromed, the briefing of the GatB, the GatB. Save them somewhere

in a safe folder on your harddisk. 2.) Go into your Thief-folder, and rescue old savegames into the same safe folder on your

harddisk. If you have already downloaded the items named in top 1, skip this point of the

Howto. The safe folder should *not* be in your Thief-folder. If you have any screenshots in

your Thief-folder, save them, too. 3.) Click in the Windoze-exploder on your CD, find the setup, and install the game in your

former Thief-folder. It will overwrite the entire folder. Make a full installation of the

game, if you have enough free space. 4.) Now you have a new and cool Thief folder. Admire it shortly, and go to the next tops. 5.) Patch the game with the patch, as usual. (patching allows you to sneak perfectly silent,

if you are crouching and speed toggled and walking and moving slowly) 6.) Unzip the dromed into your new Thief-folder. Let it overwrite what it wants to overwrite

(this prevents the bug that you can't use anything or grab the people) 7.) Unzip the gatb.zip into your ..\thief folder. Let it overwrite whatever it wants to. 8.) Unzip the b15.zip into your ..\thief\movie folder. 9.) Start Thief. Click on 'New Game', Click on 'GatB'. Admire it. * Uninstall information * Run the "remove_gatbar.bat" to remove all the Gathering at the bar -files.

Note: Directories are not removed. If you want to keep GatB, but want to play normal Thief Mission, rename the

"\strings\missflag.str" file to something different. To play GatB again, rename the

file back to "missflag.str".

If you don't want to see the "Gathering at the bar" option in New game -menu, rename

file "\intrface\english\newgame.str" to something else. *** WARNING ***

The archive includes various files that will overwrite the original ones if unzipped

without prompting. Currently, with Thief ver 1.33, there are no files that are

overwritten, so its safe for that version, but future patches might include some of

those files. * Copyright * This level is (c) by Toni Hollming 1999. Distribution of this level is allowed as long as it is free and

the package is kept intact. You may not include this level to

any map pack without my permission. This level was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos

Interactive. Keep on thieving... - End of gatbar.txt -