Thief: The Dark Project v1.33
FAQ v0.1 by The Brigadier (brigadier@sprint.ca)
NOTE: This is my very first FAQ/Walkthru. All input is appreciated,
especially regarding what you liked, and how I can improve it. Please
send comments, suggestions, etc., to brigadier@sprint.ca
This is ONLY for the first level (Lord Bafford's Mansion). If I get
enough positive response, I will try to continue this FAQ to cover the
entire game. HOWEVER, I am a University student, and have personally
only completed the first two levels completely. So you may have a bit of
a wait ahead of you. :(
This FAQ, unlike others I have seen for this game, is geared towards
having you complete each level with the maximum amount of treasure
possible, on top of completing all of your quests. Each level is done at
the EXPERT level, and all statistics are given for that difficulty
setting (ie: what you find, where, how much, etc.). I have not tried
playing these on the lower level, but I have heard there ARE
differences. (For example, on level 2, Cragscleft Prison, behind the
flag you cutdown you find some treasure. On the easier levels, this is
apparently a quick way off the premises.)
A note about patrols: Some areas have guards (of one sort or another)
moving around in them, and sometimes moving from one area to another.
This makes it difficult to say for sure when a certain task you may be
told to perform should be done. In these areas, it's a good idea to save
your game. (This will be noted at the proper areas.)
A note about bodies and bloodstains: According to the manual, leaving
bodies out in the open where they can be seen, or not cleaning up
telltale bloodstains (by shooting a water arrow at them) is inviting
discovery. While there are certain points in the game where just leaving
your victims where they fall may be all right, for the most part, you
should tidy up after yourself. After telling you to take out someone,
this FAQ is going to assume that you have the prudence to hide your
handiwork.
A note about doors: This FAQ also assumes that you will know enough to
try to open doors before walking through them, and to close them behind
you.
Occasionally, I will note an area where some more experimentation could
be done. For example, the first area so noted is in Lord Bafford's
Manor. I take out the guard noted as a precaution against a future
endeavor. However, I am not sure that this is actually necessary, and
have not tried to complete the level without doing so. If anyone cares
to experiment in the noted areas, I would be interested in hearing the
results.
Final Note: (Lots of notes, aren't there? ) This FAQ/Walkthru is
based on the PC version of the game. Does another version exist? I don't
know.
Level 1: Lord Bafford's Manor (My best time on expert: 29:37)
Objectives: Normal
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor and case the place. The well house in
back is your best bet, if you can get the key from the guard --
blackjacking or pickpocketing him would be quietest.
2. Find Lord Bafford's prized jeweled scepter, and redistribute it...to
yourself. Try to do it without causing too much commotion.
Objectives: Hard
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor and case the place. The well house in
back is your best bet, if you can get the key from the guard --
blackjacking or pickpocketing him would be quietest.
2. Find Lord Bafford's prized jeweled scepter, and redistribute it...to
yourself. Try to do it without causing too much commotion.
3. In addition to pinching the scepter, steal 350 worth of valuables
while you're in the manor.
4. Don't kill any of the servants; they're harmless.
5. Once you've achieved your other objectives, get out of the manor
house and back to the city streets.
Objectives: Expert
1. Sneak into Lord Bafford's Manor and case the place. The well house in
back is your best bet, if you can get the key from the guard --
blackjacking or pickpocketing him would be quietest.
2. Find Lord Bafford's prized jeweled scepter, and redistribute it...to
yourself. Try to do it without causing too much commotion.
3. In addition to pinching the scepter, steal 700 worth of valuables
while you're in the manor.
4. Don't kill anyone while you do the job. No servants, no guards, no
pets...no one.
5. Once you've achieved your other objectives, get out of the manor
house and back to the city streets.
You start off facing the house you plan to burgle. However, this
entrance is guarded too well for you to attempt entry. Turn to your
right, until you are facing down the street, and move ahead. If you want
to shave some time from your final clock score, running is all right at
this point. Ignore your first turning to the left...continue on ahead.
Follow this path for a while. Pass by the clock...now, just past the
lamppost, the street starts to rise. Once you are on the rise, turn to
your left, and you'll see a little alcove. Hidden inside this alcove are
some arrows: 12 broadheads and 4 water arrows (you will have to look
down or back up to see the water arrows). [NOTE: You can probably ignore
these arrows...I find that I get through the entire mission with only
using at most 5 water arrows, and none of the broadheads.]
(NOTE: At some point around here, a servant will come walking down the
street. Hide from him, or don't, or blackjack him if you like. I have
never found that doing ANYTHING with this particular individual
changes the game.)
Continue up the street. Shortly you will find a sewer entrance. Climb
down the ladder into the sewer. Move forward, and take the first right.
When you reach the four-way junction, continue straight ahead. There
will be a left-hand turn. Once you've taken that turn, stop before
reaching the next intersection (which is just ahead). Turn right, and
you'll see a door. Go through it, turn to the right. There is a lever in
the wall here. Go up to it and pull it. Turn around, but before you
leave, look down and search the floor. Someone dropped some treasure
here for you. Pick it up, it's worth 200 to you (Treasure Count: 200).
Now, leave the way you came.
Once out in the sewer again, turn right and proceed ahead. Now, turn
right, and follow this tunnel. Climb up this ladder, and exit the
sewers.
Turn left once you're out. This is the way you want to go, but be
careful....there is a patrolling guard in the area as well as the
drunken lout attempting to sing. (You'll want to start walking here, if
you've been running up until now.) Sneak behind Sinatra, and filch the
key from his belt. Turn 180 degrees, and use the key on this door to
unlock it. Go through, and you're in the wellhouse. Jump up onto the
edge, and then dive in.
Once you surface, turn to face the direction that the water flow is
moving you in. Move forward (you can run again), until you enter a
circular room with water dripping down. Turn to your left, nearly 180
degrees, and swim down to the opening below. Swim through the tunnel,
then surface. You're in a small pool with some floating barrels. Turn
until you see a chest guarded by some spiders. Now, turn again, and
climb out of the pool on a side with no spiders on it. Look down, then
run over to the chest. Open it, get the ring out of it (100, Treasure
Count: 300), and then get back in the water fast before the spiders
start attacking. Once in the pool, swim back out the way you came.
Back in the circular room with dripping water, continue following the
flow until you see a climbable area on your right (quite a ways down the
tunnel). It will be better lit than the other areas down here. Climb
into the room with the barrels, and you've entered Lord Bafford's
basement. Go through the door. (I'd start walking again if I were you.)
Once you open the door, there is a chest partway across the room, almost
directly ahead. It contains a healing potion. Once you have that, turn
left, and head towards the exit. Uh oh! Voices! Hug the wall, and listen
until the guards move away.
Ease yourself out of the exit by moving sideways, and watch the guard
walk down the hall. Once he turns the corner and is out of sight, it is
safe for you to walk down this hallway (don't worry about the other
guard...he's not in a position to see you at this point). When you reach
the end of THIS hallway, ease around the corner again, and watch the
guard disappear again.Move forward. Hmm...metal clanking, yet you're
walking on stone. Sounds like the guard you're following is walking on
some sort of grating. Once you climb the small set of stairs at the end,
you'll be walking on carpet. If you were fast enough, you can probably
see the guard walking if you turn to your left. DON'T FOLLOW THE PATH HE
TOOK! Instead, turn back to face the way you were when you entered.
There are several doorways to go through here...head towards the one
that has a lit torch in it. When you get there, peer around the side.
You should still see the guard moving out of the room. Wait until he's
gone, then head for the exit he used.
Uh oh. He's blocking your patch. Whip out your blackjack and say
goodnight. As he falls, you'll note a chest ahead. Inside you'll find
two flash bombs. Now, turn left, and head down this corridor to the
stairs, and take the stairs all the way to the top.
At the top, you should see an exit. However, in this room, directly
across from the exit, are two more chests for you. One is flat on the
floor, the other propped against the wall. Open the propped one to find
a stack of coins (5, Treasure Count: 305). Ignore the other one, it
contains a vase that makes a LOUD noise when you drop it. Turn around
and exit the room.
EXPERIMENT AREA! Now let's take care of a future problem. Later on, when
you try to leave the manor, you will take a path that will put you in
this guard's line of sight. To avoid that later, we'll put him to sleep
now. Turn left, then left, then right, then left again. This corridor
should end in a darkened area with a door. Open the door, and blackjack
the drunkard. Now turn around and go back through the door you entered.
Take this corridor to the end, turn right. Keep going forward, ignore
the first turn to your left, and take the next left turn. At the end of
this corridor, turn right, past the room with sleeping beauty, and turn
at the first right. At the end of this hallway, you can turn either left
or right. Take the right, and enter the dead end.
Turn to your left, and there's a door to the kitchen here. Enter, and
you should see some shelves in front of you. On the top one is a golden
vase (100, Treasure Count: 405). Be careful in here! There is a servant
preparing a meal. Leave the way you came.
Once you're back out through the door, turn right and follow the
corridor all the way, and turn right. As before, this should end at a
darkened area with a door.
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is a patrol area. There is a guard SOMEWHERE behind
this door, walking his rounds. We want to give to him the gift of
slumber.
Open the door. With luck, your timing will be such that he is just ahead
of you, walking away. (If he's walking towards you, he'll most likely
see you and attack....I hope you saved your game!) If he's not there,
then wait for him. You'll see him before he sees you. Once you see him
coming around the corner ahead, shut the door again. Now, count to about
8, 9, or 10 (depending on how fast you count. I count "One 1000, Two
1000, Three 1000..." After about eight, I open the door, and he's JUST
turning around.). Sneak up behind him and send him to dreamland. Now, go
forward into the next room, turn left, and take the SECOND left you
see...it should lead into a carpeted area. Head down to the end of this
area just BEFORE the doorway. This is where we wait for the next guard.
(You may want to save here too.)
If you're feeling daring, you can peer around the corner and watch for
him. Be careful though...although I've only seen it once, I HAVE seen a
servant walking around the area. The guard you're waiting for will be
coming through the door directly across from you. When it opens, jump
back, and wait. Listen to his footsteps. Once they start receding, you
can sneak out, and bruise this guard's ego with your blackjack.
(Alternatively, instead of relying on your ears, which I find is not
always accurate, turn around and head back so you're looking out of the
room from the entrance you came in from. This way, you'll see the guard
walking away from you, and you can sneak up on him then.)
Okay, I'm a bit turned around here now, and you might be too. So use
your compass. You want to be in the room where you KO'd the last guard,
and you want to head west (remember, the red point on your compass
always points to the north).At the end of this room you should find a
set of stairs leading up into a small, circular room. Take them. In this
room on a bookshelf is another gold vase (100, Treasure Count: 505).
Ignore the other set of stairs. Turn around and go out the way you came.
Once you're back in the other room, you should see two metal doors: one
across from you, and one in the wall to your left. Go through the left
one. In this room, turn to your right, and at the end there will be a
bench, with a goblet sitting on it. Take the goblet. (15, Treasure
Count: 520). Leave the room the way you came, and now head through the
other metal door you noted previously. (You may wish to save your game
again, to avoid the roaming servant.)
Head to the other exit of this room, but before you reach it, turn to
the right and examine the items on the shelf...there are two you are
interested in. A gold plate (50, Treasure Count: 570) and a gold carafe
(50, Treasure Count: 620). Now, leave through the new exit, and you will
find yourself in another large room like the patrolled one before.
There is a door in the wall to your left. Go through it, and head down
to the end. On a table to your left, you will find a stack of coins (12,
Treasure Count: 632).
SAVE YOUR GAME! This is another patrol area, and it could get
interesting here. Leave this room the way you came in. In large room
your in now, you should see an exit on your left with some stairs. Take
this. Before getting to the top of these stairs though, stop. Pull out
your bow and extinguish the torch with a water arrow. Now, enter the
room, hugging the right wall, until you come to the opening with the
stairs leading up. Wait here. (Be sure you are waiting on the RIGHT hand
side (as you're facing the staircase)....while I've successfully done
this on the left hand side, it only worked once.) Eventually, a guard
will come down the stairs. Consider him blackjack practice.
Once the guard is unconscious, head to the opposite end of the room,
between two tables, where you'll find a chest. Inside is a bottle of
wine (50, Treasure Count: 682).
EXPERIMENT AREA! If you're fast enough, you MIGHT be able to knock the
guard above out without extinguishing the torch first.
SAVE YOUR GAME! You may want to start saving your game at regular
intervals now, if you haven't already. The uppermost floor here is
patrolled, in several areas.
Go up the staircase, then turn right and go down the smaller stairs into
a hallway. Turn left, and go through door at the end into the library.
In here there are a few items of interest, but most can be ignored. The
one that you are interested in is on a table against the wall, the
furthest one from where you entered (200, Treasure Count: 882). Now, go
through the door opposite the one you entered, and be ready for some
fancy legerdemain.
SAVE YOUR GAME! In this hallway, there are two guards patrolling. If you
see one approaching, just wait...he can't see you. As he gets closer,
he'll turn and go down another corrider. Watch him...when he turns
again, that's about the time the next guard enters this hallway at the
far end. NOW is when you want to move.
Move forward, towards the lighted doorway, and hide in the shadows to
one side. Now wait. When this guard comes through, remove the key from
his belt. Now wait. The second guard will come along shortly. Remove the
key from HIS belt. Wait again. When the next guard (actually the first
guard who's key you lifted) comes around, club him. After you've hidden
the body (be quick about it!) return to your hiding spot, and take out
the second guard when he returns.
[NOTE: If you want to speed things up a bit, and don't care about
picking pockets, you can simply club the guards the first time through,
then get their keys while they're unconscious. But I like to be
thorough. :) ]
Okay, time for some more pilfering. Turn back the way you came...you may
have noted a door in the wall as you came down here. Open it, and step
inside. Against the left hand wall is a table, upon which sits a
bracelet (125, Treasure Count: 1007), and four stacks of coins (12, 12,
12, 12, Treasure Count: 1019, 1031, 1043, 1055). Now, leave this room.
Remember when you watched the first guard approach, then turn? Well, you
want to go down that corridor now. When you reach the end, turn left,
and stop when you come to two doorways, one on either side of you. Take
the one on the right. This is a fairly long trip with a few turns, but
no choices. So just continue on down until you come to a doorway through
which you can see a tile floor. Move into that room. Turn to your right,
and you should see a key on the wall. Grab it. Now look down, and open
the chest at your feet. You should find a bottle of wine (50, Treasure
Count: 1105). There's also a book on the table if you'd like to peruse
it, but it's not necessary. Leave the way you came, taking that long
journey back.
At the top, enter the corridor again, but go through the next door into
the bathing room. Move around the bath (either side, it doesn't matter),
and exit the room through the door opposite the one you entered. Across
from you, you should see a small, circular area at the bottom of a few
steps, with two doors. Enter that area.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Open one of the doors (you will need one of the keys you
picked from the wandering guards). It doesn't matter which door you
open. Sneak inside, and look into the next room. There is a lone guard
in there. From your position here, use water arrows to take out two of
the torches. Now, leave the way you came, and go through the other door
you DIDN'T go through the first time. Take out the remaining two torches
with two more water arrows. Now that the room is in darkness, sneak up
behind the guard. The floor is alternatively carpet and tile, so he may
hear you a couple of times. Just wait until he stops looking for you
before continuing. Once you're close enough to him, lift the key from
his belt. You should also be close enough, or just about, to use your
blackjack on him. Do so. [NOTE: One time, for some reason, I could not
get close enough to blackjack him. He always heard me and called for
help. If that happens to you, wait until he's facing off to the side,
and throw a flashbomb there. Then you can send him off to sleep with
your blackjack.]
[NOTE: An alternative method to the above is, instead of using water
arrows to douse the flames, just throw a flashbomb into the room. Be
sure he's looking toward you when you do it. While he's disoriented, run
up and club him. While faster, and uses fewer arrows, you don't get the
"honourable mention" of picking his pocket.]
With the guard properly dispatched, go through the door he was guarding.
To the left, on a shelf, is the object of your quest: Lord Baffor'd
prized jeweled scepter. Liberate it.
[NOTE: At this point, you have enough treasure to meet your quota. If
you just want to leave, jump down to the section marked Leaving the
Manor.]
Go back to the circular room with the two doors, and climb up the steps
back into the corridor. Turn left, and move forward until you find a
door on your left. Go through it. Inside, to your right, is a table
against the wall. In the centre of this table you should find two
bottles of wine (50, 50, Treasure Count: 1155, 1205). Now leave the
room, turn left, and go forward until you find the door on your right.
Go through it.
In this room, there is a door directly opposite the one you entered. To
your left, against the wall that contains that door, is a shelving unit
with a candle on top. Go there, and you will find what is probably the
hardest treasure to find on this level: a ring (100, Treasure Count:
1305).
SAVE YOUR GAME! Another patrol area. Sometimes when you open this door,
there is a guard right outside.
Open the door, and if you don't see the guard, wait until you do. If he
is moving away from you, sneak up behnd him and club him. If he starts
moving towards you, close the door. Save your game at that point, and
try opening the door periodically to see if he's turned around yet. When
he does, put him to sleep.
Once the guard is taken care of, move down this hallway. Take the first
left (stairs flanked by statues). On the table in this room you will
find another gold vase (100, Treasure Count: 1405). Turn around, and go
back down the stairs you entered by. Turn left, follow the corridor to
the end, then turn right. Walk forward until you find the first opening
on the left.
SAVE YOUR GAME! There is a guard past this opening that patrols between
two rooms. Once he's out of sight, enter the room, turn left, and take
the stairs up. Work your way around the debris to a chest at the far
side. Inside you'll find a stack of coins (12, Treasure Count: 1417). Go
down the stairs, watching out for the guard, and exit the way you came
in.
SAVE YOUR GAME! Turn left, head down the hallway. Ignore the first
opening on your left. Go instead to the second one. This is like the
previous room, with a guard patrolling. When he's out of sight, enter
the room, and climb the stairs on the right. Up here are some bunkbeds,
with a chest for each. You want the far chest on your right hand side.
It holds another stack of coins (12, Treasure Count: 1429). Go down the
stairs, watching out for the guard, and exit the way you entered.
LEAVING THE MANOR
You've now got all the treasure you can find in here. So, in the hallway
you've just entered, turn left. Move forward, and take the right turn.
Continue forward until you can turn left, and then do so. Up these
stairs, turn left, and go down the flight of stairs here. (These are the
ones you entered the upper level by.) In the darkened room at the
bottom, turn left, go down the stairs into the large room below, and
turn left again.
Enter the first room on your left here. There are two paths to take
here...one goes back into the manor again, the other leads out. If you
can see it, you want to head towards a lever in the wall, right next to
a torch. Pull the lever, then continue on in the same direction. The
lever has opened an exit to the street. Once your on the street, you've
completed all your tasks. Congratulations!
Please send all comments, suggestions, praise, etc. to:
brigadier@sprint.ca
