Nightwalker on 19/8/2005 at 14:10
Are you playing the first mission? If you walked along the pathway alongside the big garden that ends in a gate and managed to slip under the gate before it closed, you're someplace you shouldn't be. If you have the skull, you need to look in the gardens that are to your right as you walk towards the gate. Climb over into a small spot where you'll see the skull symbol on a rock. "Use" the skull on it to open a secret door.
The inscrutable po on 19/8/2005 at 19:27
Yes, I'm on the first mission and I found the spot you mentioned [SPOILER]on the right.[/SPOILER]
[SPOILER]I had a head before not a skull, but I tossed it someplace. Hope I'm not confusing this with some other mission. [/SPOILER]
Too much info there. I only had the corpse head which I think is useless.
[SPOILER]Doesn't work for opening the secret door.[/SPOILER]
Nightwalker on 20/8/2005 at 02:47
I think you need to do a bit more exploring as you seem to be missing an item. You might want to check out the (
http://thiefmissions.com/walkthroughs/Ruined.html) walkthrough for a few hints. The really sensitive stuff is covered so you should be able to browse through it fairly safely. These missions are very tough to figure out and I never would have gotten through any of them the first time without all the help here on the forum.
Garrett's Landlord on 20/8/2005 at 17:34
I have completed all of the objectives on expert except for small amount of loot(155).I had the gorge key from magi in water room but now it,s gone!Where did it go and can Iget it back?
nchw68 on 20/8/2005 at 22:51
Here's a bug:
In version 1.1 of this fm you can fly in the first part if you rope arrow down to the
[SPOILER]graveyard and then try to climb the collapsing ladder.[/SPOILER]
You can fly up or down until you press "jump" or touch a walkable surface. I'm set to jump to attach to ladders.
The inscrutable po on 20/8/2005 at 23:30
I'm about 400 short for the loot list. Has anyone any idea of commonly missed loot?
EDIT: I found the extra 400. If you're short this much most likely you've missed some of the following...
[SPOILER]Next to where Rupert is impaled on the fence at the beginning of the mission are five or six coins and an arrow.
The guards under the trellice have purses. I think the two of them are worth a hundred.
Then there's a niche in the water tunnels that has about 200 (see the walkthrough). It took me forever to find this with the walkthrough. Now where was that other place?[/SPOILER]
missing loot
easy to miss loot
nchw68 on 22/8/2005 at 03:40
About those two heavy skulls in part two:
[SPOILER]They are not needed to open the huge green door down in the lava area. Once you find the skulls and the objectives for them are checked off, you can drop them. They slow you down anyways if you carry them. The pedestals by the huge green door are just pressure plates that can be weighed down with any heavy object, such as the body lying next to them, yourself, or the piece of wooden rubble next to the red spider. If getting here is your last objective, be quick to grab the blue gems from the walls behind the door before this part ends.[/SPOILER]
The inscrutable po on 22/8/2005 at 08:51
Where is the lost library in part 2?
snowcap21 on 22/8/2005 at 09:07
library hint: Look around in the room opposite the kitchen (with the guard standing in front of it). You can reach this room also by climbing over a hedge in the garden.
more: There's a hand-shaped lock behind a cupboard. You'll need the hand of glory for it.
The inscrutable po on 22/8/2005 at 15:42
I'm now looking for...
[SPOILER]...the Saal key. It says in the walkthrough that it won't appear until that guy patroling the ramps is knocked out. I finally did knock him out (after disposing of everybody else on the level). I went up to where two guards are sleeping and then to the room with a single man sleeping on a bed. Looked at the big table in the room, but no Saal key. Looked on the chairs and around the chairs. Still no key.
I found the button that moves the mounted head, but there's nothing in there. Come to think of it, I grabbed something out of a wall a long time ago. Maybe this was it, but I don't have this key in my inventory. Can't get into Hall X.
Now I've bashed my way into Hall X, but there's just a drill bit and huge rock blocking the way to something. Am I supposed to be able to get in there? I still need ten loot too for that objective.[/SPOILER]
As usual, the main thing is I'm short of loot.
Finally got the loot. A good place to look for missing loot is...
[SPOILER]...upstair on a narrow balcony. There's a gold wine bottle on the floor next to one of the two tables. Easy to miss.[/SPOILER]
