Galaer on 25/3/2020 at 07:48

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INSANITY'S CRESCENDO

Mission is split into 2 big areas: Mansion and Underground. In Mansion there is hidden bonus objective for KO-ing everyone except captain. If I do that, then my mansion run will not be any different from my test run. I decided to not unlock this hidden objective. Other hidden objective mention taking person from Mansion to Underground. Again I'm gonna skip this one to avoid KO-ing anyone, because objective doesn't even mention that I must KO this person.

MANSION - SECOND FLOOR

You are outside, so rope up to nearby window leading to 2nd floor. Grab glasses and Bedrooms Master key from box. Go behind archer, then go behind guard into corridor. Pass guard from left and enter balcony. Grab 2 goblets from table and ring from far plant. Captain has Machine Room key. Return to corridor and pass guard from left. Go to stairs and descend. Go left behind patrollers.

MANSION - FIRST FLOOR

First you have 2 rooms on both sides. Both are patrolled by 1 guard who has Entrance key, which you don't need. I went right to Library, hid in shadow in doorway and turned off light. Then hid in corner, so patroller could leave. In Library is purse from painter, 2 vases and ring on top of bookcase near painter. In SW corner on side of bookcase is secret switch for loot in NE part of Library. Go to 2nd room leading to Dining Room. Turn off light and take everything from table. Ignore Bar for now and return to corridor.

Next room is opened with Master key. Read book to get new objectives. Next is bathroom with ring on sink. North side of corridor has back door. It's good to cross it while crouching. Next room is WC with Dry Sponge in bucket. Next is priest's bedroom. Grab purse and Flask of Water near bed. Next room is closed with key hidden inside. Last room is Bar.

Go inside, block close door, so you can turn off lights without being seen. Get inside. Grab purse from noble, then go between woman and stationary guard and pass him during his turning animation. Grab another purse, 3 coin stacks from table and woman's goblet. Go on the other side of counter and grab everything from it. Then go behind bartender and grab Benny's Mead from wine rack. Return to corridor.

Last room is Kitchen. Quickly turn off light. There is plate near stove, 3 plates in sink, 8 plates on shelf and also Salt (3rd can on shelf). On very top of shelves is 7 more plates. Drop down and go near stairs. Wait for maid to enter Kitchen, you also need to time 3 patrollers downstairs and descend into basement.

MANSION - BASEMENT

Go across to Furnace Room. Grab Bellows and hide near boxes. Here are 3 patrollers, one of them has Armory key. They are patrolling Guards and Servants Bedrooms and stairs to Kitchen. First go left to Guards Bedroom. In 1st and 3rd chest is loot. Be careful patrollers can 2nd alert to picklocking sound. Under table are 4 coins. Lean to turn off light in next room. Read note on wall, grab 4 coin stacks from table and steal golden bottle from drunk guard. Backtrack and go across to Servant Quarters. In locked chest is loot. Then enter metal door to Machine Room.

Go through it and put Benny's Mead on tray. Then turn off turrets from Showroom. You can strafe run into Armory to grab extra equipment. Return to Machine Room, close doors and drop into water. Underwater you find 5 coins. Drop Salt to disable force field. Bow you need to time yourself with 3 patrollers. Drop Dry Sponge and quickly run to Furnace Room. Use Wet Sponge on cart of coal to get Dirty Sponge. This is a time event, so be quick. Return to Kitchen.

FINISHING MANSION

Go to front entrance and rope up to SE part of railing when archer is going left. Drop on carpet and quickly open door to Showroom. Inside you will find 6 masks and Fire Gem in box. Wait for archer and go behind him to Concert Room. Under sleeping woman are 2 coins. Wait for archer to go left and use Master key to enter Master Room at the top of stairs.

Use Dirty Sponge on book. Descend to Library. Wait for butler to pass and return to Master Room. Open safe. Inside is loot and Shed key. Return to Furnace Room, go on top of boxes and open door in ceiling. Return to shadow at starting point and go along south wall to Shed. Be careful, patrollers are crazy sensitive, so be sure no patrollers are in this part of outside area.

Inside Shed is tunnel and crate. Crate is indestructible, but there is event in which this crate will be destroyed. This means ghost bust in the place of intended use possible ghost bust from guards patrolling nearby the Shed. To minimize possibility of ghost bust I have decided to put crate on top of 3rd ladder going down.

UNDERGROUND - EAST TOWER

Another huge location. Unfortunately with some forced ghost busts. First douse torch on the left to get a hideout. First sneak to East Tower. There is gem. Go to 2nd floor and grab another gem. Go to side room with lever. There is window with haunt below. The intended solution is to block 1st gate with crate, but after entering behind 2nd gate crate gets destroyed no matter where it is. So I can't use it.

There is other way. Mantle diagonally on window, so you will be allowed to crouch. Drop on haunt, so you will not get hurt. There is also much harder way to try to mantle on torch below. This way you will quietly drop on floor. Pass haunt and go along right wall to Second Scroll. Out of 5. You need all of them to beat Labyrinth. 1st gate will open.

Time to climb to 3rd floor this time. Jump for gem. Side passage leads to Labyrinth, so ignore it. You aren't ready. Climb to 4th floor and jump for gem. Then rope up to wooden beams and go into beam passage. There is box with loot here. Other end of this passage leads to South Tower.

UNDERGROUND - SOUTH TOWER

Rope up to 1st beam, from it drop on torch and drop on floor. You are on 4th floor of South Tower. You can open gate to East Tower, but it spawns haunt, so don't do that. Grab 2 gems near statue and rope up to last beam. There is Fourth Scroll. Travel back to 1st beam, drop on torch and on floor. Descend to 3rd floor and grab another 2 gems. Side passage leads to place with very noisy ghost bust, so I don't want to mess with this place just yet.

Descend to 2nd floor.and grab 2 gems. Then go south through haunt corridor. Rope down, use 2 levers and grab loot from box. Shoot rope arrow into 2nd beam, so later you will rope up to 2nd beam. Leave both rope arrows and return to South Tower. Go east to open shortcut to 1st floor and from there grab 2 gems. Return to shadow near obelisk.

UNDERGROUND - EAST WATER PASSAGE

You need to shoot your last rope arrow into wooden beam close to First Scroll under obelisk. Grab it and slowly descend into water. You must strafe swim through water passage at east to air pocket indicated by your rope arrow. Climb on rope to get secret moneybox. Fall into water. Don't save while in rope. After loading I got stuck and Garrett refused to drop into water. Strafe swim for Fifth Scroll. Return to air pocket and strafe swim to obelisk. Mantle into shadow.

Leave rope arrow here. It will be there for a very long time and you will retrieve it after getting Blade. In other words at the end of this mission. For now return to haunt corridor and collect your 2 rope arrows. Don't close air pockets, they will be useful later, much later. Now it's time to go to 3rd floor of South Tower. It's time to get this last scroll and score our 1st ghost bust.

THIRD SCROLL

Here is haunt patrolling around brazier. Use Bellows on it, gate will raise. Go into corridor. See red light on floor? It's mines. You can't disarm it, you can't jump over either. The only way is jump in front of them to lure haunt on the other side to step on them and make explosion. That's the intended solution and there is no other way. There is no way to alert other 1st haunt to enter on mines. So it's impossible to lure them both.

Jump in place and lure other haunt here. Step back and wait for explosion. Quickly take body to corridor, which this haunt patrolled before death. So this whole event with mines is ghost bust #1. Wait for 1st haunt to calm down and grab Third Scroll. Also read scroll near fountain for new objective. Return to brazier. Go behind haunt, but not too close, because after explosion he's more sensitive. Leave and quickly go on the other side of tower along left side, crouch. When haunt pass go to ladders and go to 3rd floor of East Tower to entrance to Labyrinth.

LABYRINTH

Ride up and look through hole. Gate to Labyrinth will open and haunt will get spawn. Douse both torches. Drop on torch near gate and enter. Go left, straight, straight, right. That's the route for both ways. You are in Samoth's Lair. Read book, then grab Hans key. Super haunt will spawn and torches will lighten (if you doused any). There is no way to avoid him, he's immune to flash bombs and fast. So go through Labyrinth quickly and jump to elevator going up. 2nd haunt will alert too. So let's call this whole escape from Samoth's Lair one big ghost bust #2. Why every worst thing must happen on 3rd floors?

Wait for both haunts to calm down. Super haunt will return to Samoth's Lair. After few minutes descend and go back to Labyrinth. Warps vanished, so you can explore it and grab 2 loot boxes. Time to leave and go to 2nd floor of South Tower to locked door.

HANS HIDEOUT

Go down. Here is haunt on short patrol going in and out small room.You can pass him on his right in both directions. There is Eye of Wrath on desk, use banner and press switch. You probably have time for only doing one stuff at the time, so you will need 3 round to do everything. Go upstairs to secret passage. Grab Hans Safe key and Hans Secret Diary. Time to leave this place for now and return to Mansion.

RETURN TO MANSION

Again sneak to starting point and rope up to 2nd floor window. Behind wardrobe is lock. From secret stash grab Teleport Control and Teleport Receiver. Receiver you throw somewhere, then you use Teleport Control to teleport there. So teleport yourself outside. Open window near entrance to basement and teleport inside. There is 30 plates and ring behind south coach. Teleport outside. Time to return to Underground.

FUN STUFF WITH TELEPORT DEVICE

Put Receiver on ground and go into water. Go back to 5th scroll, new passage is open, so strafe swim to secret moneybox. Teleport back. Grab Receiver and go into water. Under obelisk on north side is hole. Throw Receiver there, wait few seconds, then teleport to secret place. Grab Receiver and huge purse, also take 2 gems. Then go upstairs and drop healing potion and on top of it Receiver into hole to teleport out of this place.

Leave Receiver on ground and go into water. Go west this time to 1st exit out of water. Go on the left side of haunt. When he will turn around, go closer to Fountain and use Flask of Water. Teleport back and go to fountain near Third Scroll. Use Magic Water on fountain to get Plant of Life.

Go up and rope into beam passage. Behind box is hole, teleport there and grab 4 secret boxes. Go to entrance to Labyrinth and go up where you were looking into statue. Statue gone, so teleport there for secret box. Descend and return to obelisk.

WARLOCK LAIR

Shoot rope arrow into wooden beam visible in hole above double door. Then go into west water passage. This time swim to the end and climb ladder up. 4 wraiths will spot you (ghost bust #3). Run and climb rope, use Eye of Wrath to freeze wraiths. On SE beam is secret gem. Now go forward and throw Receiver into hole.

From now on I received a lot of crashes up until the end of mission. First crash was after teleporting not into Warlock Lair, but into some broken wall. From there I received a lot of crashes from loading saves. Sometimes they work, but most of the time they crash this game. It never happened to me during my test run when I KO-ed and killed everyone. I guess there is just so many enemies that game starting to break. So yeah, it's not a good mission for ghosters.

Teleport on top of north column and read book. Warlock will spot you. Drop down and when Warlock will come closer, teleport back to the book. Throw Receiver closer to SE column on the left and teleport there, grab Receiver and throw it on top of SE column. Teleport there and throw a switch.

Builder will come to destroy Warlock. Later will teleport super haunt and other 4 monsters. But killing Warlock will also destroy them. Also stay as far as possible away from fighting giants. Once I managed to get hit by them while being on column. Super haunt and 4 monsters may spot you or just one of them. Or no one. It's also possible for them to not attack Builder at all if both giants are fighting in corner of room. It happened to me once, but I needed to reload, because I got hit. I could experiment with this, but crashes are annoying. So all even with Warlock is ghost bust #4.

EXIT

Go forward and grab Blade. Time to retrieve rope arrows. You do that by putting Receiver in safe place on floor, climbing on rope, taking it and quickly teleporting. Leave Underground to Shed. Now you need to get to Front Gate near fountain. Of course patrollers are still crazy sensitive, so wait for them to vanish, then run to gate. I had luck and did it on my first try. That's good, because I loaded my save and it crashed the game.

STATS:

Time: 2 hours 2 min 5 s; Loot: 17700/19872
Pockets Picked: 5/12; Locks Picked: 8
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0
Iron Beasts Destroyed: 0; Disabled: 0
Secrets: 7/7

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE
PERFECT GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE
SUPREME GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

Galaer on 27/3/2020 at 08:01

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DOWN WE GO!

Another easy mission. Rope up to wooden building and jump on wall, then drop to area. Then you need to shoot rope arrow into wooden beam above pit. Unfortunately I was unable to drop on rope without scoring 1st alert (supreme bust #1). All enemies have crazy range of view, there are 2 groups of 3 guards patrolling whole area far away each other and there are 3 guards on completely random patrol route. It feels nearly impossible to supreme ghost this area.

Grab rope arrow and rope down. You can't grab rope arrow without scoring damage and you will not be able to grab it later, because mission ends too early. So that's a supreme bust #2. Go very slowly to ghost merchant and grab Serpentile Torc. Return the same way. When you return to cave with rope arrow, mission will end, so be quick with closing door.


STATS:

Time: 9 min 12 s; Loot: 350/985
Locks Picked: 0
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE. Rest of loot is in heavily guarded building. Impossible to ghost.
SUPREME GHOST: FAILED

Galaer on 27/3/2020 at 08:04

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HERO QUEST

Choose to play Elf, because he has access to water arrows. First pair of orcs can be ghosted by dousing torch. The same you can go with third orc guarding locked door and pass him very slowly. To get a key I'm forced to KO one of orcs (ghost bust #1). You can close door and KO him through it. Orc patrolling key can be ghosted by passing him on the end of his patrol route.

After opening 2nd locked door you will get parade of ghost bust. First I doused torch in corridor. Second - kill haunt (ghost bust #2). He's in the way in a very narrow corridor. Impossible to ghost. Afterwards there will be no shadow to hide and orcs looking at you. First - 2 orcs to KO (ghost bust #3), next orc mage (ghost bust #4). Then single orc (ghost bust #5) and last room has another orc (ghost bust #6). Then go to exit.

STATS:

Time: 14 min 9 s; Loot: 625/640
Locks Picked: 0
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 6
Damage Dealt: 21; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 1

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE
PERFECT GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE
SUPREME GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE

Galaer on 27/3/2020 at 22:03

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ORDER OF THE DEW

STREET

Mission is short, but quite tricky. From the start you must hide in shadow in doorway. Then rope up to pipe above your head for loot. Drop, on the right is terrace above your head, rope up there. There is another high pipe with loot, but you need to be fast and time your climb with patroller. Next is house, outside is patrolled by 2 guards and you need to rope up to it's attic. There is loot including ring behind bed and 2 keys.

Go outside. Ignore Bar door and go through gate. Above Church is another high pipe with window leading to room with 3 coin stacks and purse on shelf. Then fall on stone slope of Church. Enter Church.

CHURCH

Loot is near entrance, on the right side and on altar. You can go along right wall without dousing torches, but you need to be fast. Stationary Hammerite is looking at you. On the back of altar is switch leading to golden skull and ring on bone hand. Go upstairs for candlestick near vent. Enter Bar.

BAR

Sneak into shadow in corner and picklock the door for loot. Go to stairs. When guard will go away, go to merchant and steal his goblets. Go downstairs. Douse 3 torches. Grab goblet from left table, mantle on table and grab candlestick. Then go over counter for 3 golden bottles. Go to right table, grab golden bottle and candlestick from fireplace.

Go to kitchen. There is golden bottle on shelf, 4 water arrows and goblet and plate in sink. I had problem with plate from sink. To avoid using water arrow I nudged kitchen lady right near door. Use white door to get downstairs.

SECRET SOCIETY

Go behind guard into shadow. Douse chandelier (shoot into ceiling to be sure you douse all candles), both torches around entrance, 1 torch on the left and both torches on the right. Sneak left and picklock locked door. Inside is key and loot. In 2nd room is more loot. Then go right to mage room.

Go through vent or dousing the torch may easily 2nd alert them. So just douse fireplace and slowly sneak on table. Grab everything. Be careful to not stand on plate - dropping from it will make noise and 2nd alert mages. Leave and open treasury room. Inside is Magic Scepter and 3 pieces of loot. Leave through Bar front door and return to starting point.

STATS:

Time: 26 min 56 s; Loot: 2881/3005
Locks Picked: 5
Back Stabs: 0; Knock Outs: 0
Damage Dealt: 0; Damage Taken: 0; Healing Taken: 0
Innocents killed: 0; Others killed: 0

GHOST: SUCCESS
PERFECT GHOST: POSSIBLE
SUPREME GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE. Locked room with Treasury key is guarded by patroller on short patrol in very well lighten corridor and also there is noble looking in direction of door. No way to ghost it without dousing some torches.

Galaer on 27/3/2020 at 22:06

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THE KILLING TIME

Demo of never finished mission. It can't be finished. I couldn't find any loot too. You must kill 12 enemies to progress demo, but there is no objectives that could excuse that. So that's ghost bust #1-12. First 2 guards can easily be killed without any alert. The same goes with green spider. But small spiders can't be ghosted (ghost bust #13). Luckily you don't need to kill them.

From that point every kill is necessary and impossible to ghost. So small spider with burrick is ghost bust #14. Then single guard (ghost bust #15), another single guard (ghost bust #16). In next room are 2 guards, but they are far away from each other, so that's ghost bust #17-18. Another guard in corridor (ghost bust #19). Then 2 guards at once (ghost bust #20).

Next room is kitchen with 3 guards and servant, but it doesn't open any door. That's the end of demo, so you can leave them alone. I don't show my stats, because my killing abilities are quite weak. I received a lot of damage. Mission can't be ghosted.

GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE
PERFECT GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE
SUPREME GHOST: IMPOSSIBLE