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| Monday - 06.28.1999 |
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Tower of Illusion by Wrichards, Maker of ESCAPE: TBP
- 6:30pm EST - Nightfall |
Wrichards, maker of ESCAPE: The Bear Pits, has finished the 2nd chapter of his ongoing saga. This time, the player is faced with the Tower of Illusion. Here's the descript:
Episode 2: Tower Of Illusion, After escaping the bear pits, you managed to get back the rosary beads. You race throughout the streets with the guards hot on your heels and make it to one of the towers suspected entrances. The tower is known to be a training ground for Hammer priests and also contains the Oblivion Gateway. Loot the temple, exit through the Oblivion Gate without killing the guards.The mission was given 5 bronze hammers. While the layout, architecture, and puzzles are good, the mission is all too often much too dark, and points of interest are few and far between. Overall, it's an enjoyable mission in spite of this.   |
| Sunday - 06.27.1999 |
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A New Thief Screensaver by Huckeye
- 5:00pm EST - Nightfall |
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I am pleased to annouce that The Circle is now in the possesion of a new Thief Screensaver, created by Huckeye, and featuring music supplied by LoneStar. I tested it out, and liked it quite a bit. If you try it, please give the author feedback so that he may improve it!
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ESCAPE: TBP has been updated
- 4:20pm EST - Jyre |
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A new version of the fan mission Escape: The Bear Pit by Wrichards is now available. It contains several major bug fixes.
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After Garrett Was There - The New Fanwork by Einherjer
- 3:15pm EST - Jyre |
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This is Einherjer's second contribution to the short tales collection and this time its a short poem set in Lord Bafford's manor. You can read it here
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Another Thief Loader Update
- 2:10pm EST - Nightfall |
Bed has another version of his great program, Thief Loader, up and out, with a few bug fixes and additions. What's new?
Thanks again, bed! As always, feel free to give him feedback. |
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Tag Viewer Available for Download
- 2:00pm EST - Nightfall |
Tom Leonard passed a file for Dromed users to me the other day. Here it is:
The attached executable allows one to view the contents of files that are in our compound file format (.cow, .mis, .gam). It isn't really that useful, but someone on the discussion board expressed interest in it.Download the tag viewer here. |
| Friday - 06.25.1999 |
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Equipment Store Tutorial - Dromed Guide by Silver
- 1:10pm EST - Nightfall |
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Equipment Store Tutorial , by Silver, is a tutorial that explains how to create an equipment store, in much clearer step-by-step terms then the official dromed tutorial did.
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Guide to Books and Other Readables - Dromed Guide by Kevin Goodsell
- 1:10pm EST - Nightfall |
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TEG has a new Dromed guide - A Guide to Books and Other Readables, by Kevin Goodsell. This tutorial is intended to teach the basics of creating books and the required elements. It will also explain how to apply those concepts to arbitrary objects, enabling you to "read" a loaf of bread, for example.
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The Art of Theving - Addendum by Brenden Tyo
- 12:40pm EST - Nightfall |
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The Thief tactics guide, The Art of Theving , has receaved an addendum, from Brenden Tyo, in the way of a guide to dispatching enemies. I hope someone will find it useful!
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Thief Loader - New Version Release
- 12:40pm EST - Nightfall |
Andrew Bednarz has released a new version of his Thief Loader program. In case you missed it before, Thief Loader is the program you need if you don't want playing fan-made levels to be a hassle. Here is what the new version has:
Thanks, Bed! Many taffers are in your debt! If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to email him |
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Smelting Guide Revision
- 12:20pm EST - Nightfall |
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The Smelting Guide has been slightly revised, with a few large errors fixed. Better late then never, eh ALM?
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Fate of Thieves
- 12:20pm EST - Jyre |
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This short story was written by Einherjer. I'll let him introduce it:
This was a long time ago...I cannot remember exactly when. But I do remember everything I went through. And you have to remember that you can listen to me now only thanks to that man...I may mistake, but I think he is known as Garrett...
Want to know more? You can read it here.
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| Thursday - 06.24.1999 |
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Correspondence Chapter 13
- 9:40pm EST - Jyre |
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Wanna know what Sheam and Ghost are up to? Eager to find out Lytha's latest movements? Then why are you still reading this post? Go read COT
Still here? I'm not going to give anything away. If you want to know what happens you're going to have to go and read chapter 13
Go on. Off you go. Shoo!
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| Tuesday - 06.22.1999 |
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DromEd related: List of scripts - A list of Thief's scripts
- 5:50pm EST - Trimfect |
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While it is still very incomplete, but in time, the list should contain most, if not all, the scripts. Read and learn.
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The Sorrowful Scepter, Part I - First part of at story by Night Visitor
- 2:50pm EST - Lytha |
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The first part of a short story about Garrett as he was a member of the Keepers. It is set at the northern coast of the City. In this part young Garrett gets the objective to achieve an item. Check it out.
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| Monday - 06.21.1999 |
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TTLG Forums Have Moved to Thier Own Server!
- 11:00pm EST - Nightfall |
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That's right, taffers, the Thief forums, and the rest of the TTLG forums are now separate from the rest of gameforum. They now reside at http://ttlg.gameforum.com. I have also been promoted to the level of Administrator, which gives me total power of all forum operations. I have appointed Trimfect as the moderator of The Editors Guild, and Lytha as the moderator of the Chat & RPG Forum. I placed Schechter in command of the Thief 2 Wishlist, to keep the place under control, and take out the trash when need be. Also note that we are currently voting on the new color scheme that the forum shall have. Join in!
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Servants Tutorial - Tutorial Mission by Tas
- 8:10pm EST - Nightfall |
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Tas has created, baised on a tutorial by JordanCS, a tutorial mission on how to make servants run when they see the player.
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Newbie's Corner - A FAQ for Thief by Lytha
- 5:40am EST - Lytha |
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Newbies: Check this out. This FAQ should contain all questions that someone new at the game might have. It contains the most commonly questions about strategy, usual ways to deal with the opponents, and about each mission of the game. So, if you are stuck somewhere in the game, go and check it out.
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| Sunday - 06.20.1999 |
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A Guide to Smelting, by A Little Mouse
- 10:00pm EST - Nightfall |
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TEG's resident mouse has written a tutorial on how to make a smelting setup like we used in RTC.
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A TEG First: A Multibrush Object, a Piano, no less!
- 10:00pm EST - Nightfall |
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The taffer known mostly as 'The_Thief' on the #thief IRC channel, also known as Kevin Telford, has created a piano mutlibrush, and wishes to share it. I hope that this is the first of many such objects that dromed users will create, and send to me so that others can download and use. It will certainly make the Thief Editing Community richer! If you have comments or suggestions about the piano, email the author.
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Mucho Macho Dromed Ref Guide - Update #3
- 10:00pm EST - Nightfall |
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The Mucho Macho Dromed Ref Guide, compiled by Chibboleth by scouring the TEG forum, and coded by A Little Mouse, is in it's 3rd version. The two guides have been put into one, and added to. There is now a table of contents for easy viewing of what's in there, and a quick link to it. Much thanks goes to those who's content is in the guide!
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| Friday - 06.18.1999 |
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Secret Doors and Pausing Guards - A Tutorial by Koobze
- 6:50am EST - Nightfall |
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Koobze has written a brief tutorial on how to make secret doors, and teach your guards to pause in thier patrol. Bravo man, Thanks!
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Torben the Traitor - A Very Good Fan-Mission by IonDo
- 6:40am EST - Nightfall |
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Torben the Traitor is a very well done mission. In this mission you play an assassin. It is brief, but not too brief. The architecture ranges from well done to outstanding, and guards are well placed. I could not find any bugs in it. The only shortcoming is that it's very linear. This one gets one silver hammer!
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Mice R Us - the New Demo/Fun Level From Trimfect
- 4:50am EST - Nightfall |
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You should expect that the author of Roller would come up with other wacky ideas, and he did not disapoint. His new mission really must be seen. It's just way too cool. Mice R Us is here.
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Blah.txt Has Been Slain!
- 4:50am EST - Nightfall |
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Yes! With much joy I deleted blah.txt just now! I could have done it weeks ago, but didn't realize it. If you don't know what I'm talking about, don't worry about it.... :)
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3DNow! Reviews Thief? Better Late Than Never!
- 4:50am EST - Nightfall |
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With the number of new members joining the forum each day, it should come as no surprise that some people are still playing Thief for the first time, and thus, we are still seeing new reviews. I wouldn't normally mention this, but the author of the review asked me himself to post about it, and, well, they have Thief the highest score possible. What more could you ask for? Check out the flattering review at 3DNow!
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| Thursday - 06.17.1999 |
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Additions to Short Story Collection
- 5:40pm EST - Jyre |
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When an oft abused slave boy is presented with an oppurtunity to escape he decides to test his luck...
Lightening in the Sky. is the first addition. This story is slightly larger than the others in the collection and, as well as being a tale in its own right, it would appear to be the beginning of a series of enjoyable adventures.
Also, from Garrett88 is Guards! A short tale written from the point of view of a guard who, after a run of bad luck, finds himself hired by Master Nightfall.
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New Tutorial: Creating Automaps, By Caeyr
- 2:20pm EST - Nightfall |
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TEG has a new guide, Creating Automaps, which explains how to make your map show the relative location of the player. It was written by Caeyr. Thanks!
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Thief.TheSiteMaker.com Update Report
- 1:10pm EST - Nightfall |
Jake Munsen is here with a report on the updates to his site, Thief.TheSiteMaker.com:
I have updated almost every page on my site over the last couple of weeks, but I just added new original content, so I thought I would let you know.Thanks, Jake! |
| Wednesday - 06.16.1999 |
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Keep Track of Koobze's Progress on His Site!
- 5:25pm EST - Nightfall |
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Koobze is making a mission for Thief, and has set up a small site on which to display screenshots of his progress. Go check it out!
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Correspondence of Thieves Chapter 12
- 5:20pm EST - Nightfall |
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The next chapter of COT has arrived! Last time, we witnessed Ghost's amazing rescue of Lytha from the rebuilt Cragscleft Prison. Now he goes to collect his pay, but finds Nightfall not at home. Sheam however, is there, and things get a little interesting! Read about that, and more!
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