OldPoorman on 18/11/2024 at 23:36
I thought Mission 1 was pretty good, little did I know what was coming in the Hotel!
Incredible job guys, what an experience. You might just have subtracted some years off my life, but I'll take it! :)
Thanks to all involved.
PerfectlyDark on 1/1/2025 at 22:09
I'm late to the party, but great mission. Truly wonderful atmosphere. Thank you!
I am however missing one of the Bishop chess pieces (not the one in the crypt). Not sure which clue it is as I found the Riddle book after I'd found most of them already.
pukey brunster on 1/1/2025 at 23:43
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I'm late to the party, but great mission. Truly wonderful atmosphere. Thank you!
I am however missing one of the Bishop chess pieces (not the one in the crypt). Not sure which clue it is as I found the Riddle book after I'd found most of them already.
The two bishops are
fairly near each other, and since they are I'm not sure which one you have. The two clues are 1) If me you'd steal, seek heaven's peal, and 2) A little angel, heaven bless'd, hath took me to eternal rest.Hope that helps and glad you're liking the mission!
PerfectlyDark on 2/1/2025 at 12:54
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The two bishops are
fairly near each other, and since they are I'm not sure which one you have. The two clues are 1) If me you'd steal, seek heaven's peal, and 2) A little angel, heaven bless'd, hath took me to eternal rest.Hope that helps and glad you're liking the mission!
Ahhh I was so close! I was almost certain it was the
heaven's peal quote and I had guessed that meant a bell, most likely in the Chapel, but I never noticed that one!Thank you so much, and yes I loved the mission. I had a lot of fun searching around, but still missed exactly 1000 loot! Going to try Morbid Curiousity next :)
pukey brunster on 2/1/2025 at 17:48
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Ahhh I was so close! I was almost certain it was the
heaven's peal quote and I had guessed that meant a bell, most likely in the Chapel, but I never noticed that one!Thank you so much, and yes I loved the mission. I had a lot of fun searching around, but still missed exactly 1000 loot! Going to try Morbid Curiousity next :)
Glad to hear it! SC is quite a long mission, but def was a labor of love for us both to make - really glad you enjoyed it, and hope you like my very first mission MC too!
<Username> on 3/1/2025 at 09:47
Since the authors are currently active in this thread, I thought I have a chance to ask again:
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One question to the authors:
The ghost of Elizabeth Blackwell and the evil entity both appeared as colored mist when I played v2. I seem to remember they had visible bodyparts in v1. Was this changed? If yes, why?Tannar on 4/1/2025 at 01:41
First, thanks for playing BOTH versions, we know that's quite an undertaking, lol. And we hope you enjoyed it. And also, good question!
To answer your question, yes, this was changed in version 2. The idea behind the change was that we wanted to make the evil entity scarier and more clearly represent her being under the scarlet cascabel curse because the "evil entity" is, in fact, Elizabeth, or rather her tortured soul suffering under the curse. Our original idea was to make the entity have the red mist that you saw, but inside it would be the actual "physical" form of Elizabeth's ghost, recognizable as her, but she herself would be moving in slow motion while the entity as a whole was moving quickly. We just were never able to pull it off in a way we were satisfied with and eventually just left it as the mist.
PerfectlyDark on 4/1/2025 at 11:50
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Glad to hear it! SC is quite a long mission, but def was a labor of love for us both to make - really glad you enjoyed it, and hope you like my very first mission MC too!
SC was brilliant, thank you. I started playing FMs a very long time ago (you can see from my reg age - I'm just not very active!). SC is definitely amongst my favourites.
MC was great too. I was happy to find the
treasure key at the end, but despite nearly 4hours of play still missed 1007 gold and 2 secrets! Your level design is top knotch, great balance of challenge.
<Username> on 4/1/2025 at 22:37
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First, thanks for playing BOTH versions, we know that's quite an undertaking, lol. And we hope you enjoyed it. And also, good question!
To answer your question, yes, this was changed in version 2. The idea behind the change was that
we wanted to make the evil entity scarier and more clearly represent her being under the scarlet cascabel curse because the "evil entity" is, in fact, Elizabeth, or rather her tortured soul suffering under the curse. Our original idea was to make the entity have the red mist that you saw, but inside it would be the actual "physical" form of Elizabeth's ghost, recognizable as her, but she herself would be moving in slow motion while the entity as a whole was moving quickly. We just were never able to pull it off in a way we were satisfied with and eventually just left it as the mist.The mission is a masterpiece. I greatly enjoyed both versions. In the second one, I appreciated the additional content. At the same time, I preferred the look of the evil entity in the first one. Thought I was experiencing a bug when I saw its altered appearance in the second version. It was nowhere near as intimidating. I am surprised this was an intentional change.
Vitro13 on 24/4/2025 at 22:18
I see that A Very Thiefy Christmas Special isn't the first fm that Pukey and Tannar have knocked out of the park...
NM, figured out what was doing wrong. =)
