Reply With QuoteI will play it tonight
Greetings, Taffers!
Today is the 25th anniversary of Thief 2 and I wanted to release something for it to show you all that I'm still around.
Yes, Broken Goddess is still in the works, so don't worry.
However, occasionally you need a break from work of such scale and a story idea came to me around in November of 2024 when I was thinking about Conall's origin.
Do we need a Conall origin story? No, probably not. Our own Garrett's origin is one or two sentences in the first cutscene of Thief.
However, I'd still like to tell one if you'll allow it. This is the opening mission to a small, far less ambitious campaign that I will occasionally work on when I need a break from BG development but still want to stay productive. I've chosen to utilize mostly stock and stock-derived assets, but haven't limited myself to them. I've chosen everything very carefully.
HD mods will not work with this map, so please disable them if you're using them. All it will do is update stock objects only, but leave the textures that I've assigned, which will probably clash and look terrible.
I'd like to give thanks to my testers as well as Yandros for helping me fix quite a few bugs.
Thank you to Tannar for creating the map.
A special thanks to Masterthief3 for reprising the role of Conall that only he can pull off, as well as MattDistraction for the voice of Master Jannes.
This map will be re-released with the full campaign with some updates.
Enjoy!
Download:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vxl...usp=drive_link
Mirror (courtesy of flying_hope):
https://0815x.de/thief/FMs/LapstoneHouse1.0.zip
Mirror (Taffer's Paradise):
https://www.taffersparadise.com/thie...neHouse1.0.zip
Last edited by Random_Taffer; 22nd Apr 2025 at 10:46.
I will play it tonight
will play it a bit later today, downloading it now, then i sleep, thank you for mission
Taffer go brrrr!
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Last edited by A.Stahl; 25th Mar 2025 at 09:55.
Downloading now! Thank you
Thanks for this!! playing now.
pwl
Very enjoyable, very well done!
Just finished great mission!
Thanks for making this
pwl
"Broken Goddess is still in the works, so don't worry." I needed to hear this. God bless.
Nice mansion mission, and a good prelude to "The Great Conall Adventures, Volume I".Thanks!
ok mission complete on expert 2615/2682,,9/9 pockets picked, 4/4 secrets found,, 57 min to complete
great mission, looks forward to the series
Just wanted to let you know that the link at Thief Guild links to the wrong mission ("Haunted").
Lapstone house is amazing. I couldn't find heart of the sea gemstone. Is it locked behind one of that doors in the garden?
Can't wait to play.
>I couldn't find heart of the sea gemstone.
Nah, it is very poorly hidden in the Master Bedroom
It is available at Thievery Customs Center, as well
i get a really strange error message starting with newdarkloader
maybe it only runs on angelloader?
then i redownloaded the mission and closed newdark and now it detects it and runs fine!
it was really strange cant wait to play it though im sure i downloaded the entire file...
any ideas what could cause newdark to crash if there is an error with a FM?
I'm not sure what would cause that. I use AngelLoader, but I don't think there's anything specific in this archive that would cause errors with newdarkloader or any other FM loader.Originally Posted by Orfeus21
i get a really strange error message starting with newdarkloader
maybe it only runs on angelloader?
then i redownloaded the mission and closed newdark and now it detects it and runs fine!
it was really strange cant wait to play it though im sure i downloaded the entire file...
any ideas what could cause newdark to crash if there is an error with a FM?
where is the pagan scroll?
It is included in your starting gear. A green scroll.
Lovely! Great to see you still active. Might be just the mission I need to get myself back into Thief.
Congrats on the release Rob!
this is a beautiful mission! lots of little touches, like the smoke plates over torches, make it feel real and lived-in.
Having a few helmeted guards is keeping me from running around like crazy, which is keeping the atmosphere going.
I was able to get on the roof pretty easily via the master bedroom balcony, though from lack of footsteps and falling through the game room dome I don't think that was intended.
questions:
I've found and used the decrepit key and there's a hint I know I'm missing - I tried using a fire arrow and my lantern to light the torches but nothing happened.
I'm still looking for the idol and one more piece of evidence. Sometimes evidence seems to appear and disappear from my inventory, so maybe I found it but it didn't register and I dropped it? Or maybe they are the same thing?
There's also an outbuilding I feel like I should be able to get into (by the sea gate), but maybe not?
finished missing ~300g and one secret
Last edited by MrMunkeepants; 26th Mar 2025 at 15:33.
Thank you Random_Taffer for this new FM. I played on expert and got all objectives, but was 82 short of full loot. I'll have to play this again sometime to try to get it all. It was refreshing that there were not an obscene number of AI. It was also clever to add in a few non-KO guards. I do wish that I could have been able to explore the docks, but I figure that's for another time. Recorded play time was about an hour and 1/2, but real play time was about 4 hours on and off over 2 days. A fun FM to play on a day off.
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