Thank you so much, Yandros for offering us the chance to play the last fm from Lady Rowena... Wonderful and priceless Christmas gift.
Home Sweet Home
A Fan Mission for Thief 2
by Lady Rowena (R.I.P.)
Release: v1.0, Dec 24 2017
Language Support: English, French, Italian, Russian
Requires NewDark v1.25 or higher
Briefing
Hey, it's been awhile since I set foot inside here. This place has seen better days. I'm not here to stay, anyway, just long enough to take care of a little job.
A man called Sebastian has come to me with a tempting proposal. He wants me to steal an ancient artifact, the Unknown God, from the house of Mercuzio who owns a pharmacy in Wayside. Besides being rich, the guy is also an art collector. Just out of curiosity, I dug up some information on this Sebastian, as I've never heard of him before. It turns out that he's the partner and the right arm of Alexandros, a rather bizarre character, a stranger who appeared in the City one day out of nowhere.
He purchased and restored the manor which once belonged to Constantine, and made a Gentlemen's Club of it. Eh, I wonder what Constantine would say about that! But I don't really give a damn. As long as I get paid, I'm not going to ask where the money is coming from or why they want that item so badly. Mercuzio's house is inacessible and well guarded, but its weak point is the pharmacy, which is attached to the manor. It's protected by a gate with a strong lock, but Zack, an old buddy, promised to provide me with the key for it. The authorities announced a curfew was in effect for some reason... but do they even need a reason? I suspect that they do it every now and then just to keep things under control.
By the way, Reuben Varden, the new Sheriff, is another sinister villain, even worse than Truart was, if that's even possible. Anyway, a curfew has never slowed me down, so I'm not going to change my plans. I'm just waiting for Zack to bring me the key, then I'm ready to go.
Mission Information
This is the first of a 3-mission campaign that Lady Rowena was working on when she passed away. Luckily a benefactor who had been testing it decided it should be released, but the other two missions are lost. We do have some texts and the briefing for the second mission; these are included in a file named Unused Books.zip in the mission archive. Lady Rowena posted a handful of screenshots from the lost missions on TTLG; we have included those in an Easter egg area. Can you find it?
Gameplay Notes
The mission will end once you complete the main objective, so if you intend to complete the optional objectives, you should do so before proceeding to the pharmacy. Also, because this was to be the first of three missions, it ends on a bit of a cliffhanger. Rather than change the ending to something which might be more typical and satisfying, we decided to leave it as is out of respect for her legacy.
Credits
Completion, Packaging and Bugfixing: Yandros (although the mission was about 99% complete when it was given to me)
Testing: Random_Taffer, Nightwalker, marbleman, fortuni, FreddyFox, nickie, Tannar, Goldwell and PukeyBrunster
Resources: Mostly unknown. If any of your objects, sounds or textures are being used, notify Yandros at TTLG and he will update the readme at a future time. No attributions were documented by Lady Rowena so I don’t know any of the sources, other than an ambient taken from “End Titles” by Atrium Carceri.
Translations
English proofreading: Tannar, fortuni, Yandros
French: Athalle
Italian: piesel
Russian: Soldi, Dront, MoroseTroll, Fernan
Downloads
DarkFate: http://download.darkfate.org/fan-mis...e/HSH_v1-0.zip
South Quarter: http://www.southquarter.com/downloads/2017/HSH_v1-0.zip
Thiefmissions: http://thiefmissions.com/m/HomeSweetHome
Taffers Paradise: http://www.taffersparadise.co.uk/thi...n/HSH_v1-0.zip
A complete lootlist and locations of all keys is in this Google doc, compliments of fortuni:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...1D4/edit#gid=0
Last edited by Yandros; 27th Dec 2017 at 10:37.
Thank you so much, Yandros for offering us the chance to play the last fm from Lady Rowena... Wonderful and priceless Christmas gift.
Thank you so much!
Good to see this mission revived. Thanks Yandros and everyone else who was involved. Lady R would have been proud to see this!
Thank you Yandros for giving us this treat, it will be very much admired by Lady Rowena's many fans.
An amazing Christmas present to the community, Yandros!
Thank you Yandros for the chance to experience this great mission, as an italian guy it feels special that Rowena is still in some way with us.
Thank you for this gift.
How wondrous!...a Christmas gift!...
Lady Rowena in Heaven ,Yandros and anyone who made this happen.
Thank you so much!
.....and a Happy Christmas everyone!
Praise the Builder, a gift from beyond!
Bless our Lady R's soul
Wow! What an unexpected holiday treat. I never expected this mission to see the light of day. Thank you all who made this possible!
I did very little and didn't change anything in most cases where her intentions were clear, so this is really 99% Lady R's creation. The mission was practically in a releaseable state when I got it, we mostly just shored up the bugs and added translations.
Oh frabjous day, callooh callay!
I will fire it up tonight
Thank you Russ for a great present. I think Lady Rowena is looking down and smiling. This community never ceases to amaze me. I play all missions sequentially but may have to make an exception for this one.
BBB
Nice
There's a bug with Zacks Key
Don't frob his note twice or his key isn't in the inventory any more. If you already did that: go the the evidence room and frob the note again.
I have to say, this is one of the most beautifully designed FMs I have ever played. The architecture is wonderful, as is the atmosphere - it feels like sneaking through a district of Venice, with all the canals.
New Thief Fanmission!!! And I mean no disrespect but could someone explain who lady rowena exactly was? As a person I mean. I've read her name a lot, and played some of her missions which are amazing!
What a Christmas gift Yandros! Thank you very much for this special release.
Enhanced Thief Fan Missions Archive (ETFMA): [TTLG thread]
DromEd Level Editor Developer Textures Kit (DLETDK): [TTLG thread]
What a lovely Christmas treat, and remembering Lady R and her fine FMs. Thank you all involved.
Thank you so much for a lovely Christmas gift.
Wishing all those involved a very Merry Christmas & a Joyous New Year!
Textures are a bit iffy.
They look as if grainy and they have some flicker.
Converted some of the dds textures to png and those look perfect now.
Unna, thanks for finding that bug. I'll fix it in the v1.1 update, which will get released as soon as I have the German translation.
bassoferrol, I'm not sure what you mean unless you're having an issue with your drivers or video card dealing with the DDS files. Everything looks fine to me, in fact it's one of the nicest looking missions I've ever seen.
Last edited by Yandros; 24th Dec 2017 at 21:43.
wow this was very nice,completed mission but can i get a location for all safety box key,i am missing some,also i only got 2/8 secrets can i get a list of those
and why is there snow falling on board :P