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Title		: Father's Pride
Filename		: fatherspride.zip
Author		: MaJiC (a.k.a Mark Cole)
Contact info	: markjcole@cableinet.co.uk
Homepage	: http://www.mark-cole.co.uk/majic/index.htm
Date of release	: February 14, 2002
Version		: 1.1 (corrected blackjack problem)


Description:  

This mission was designed specificaly for my six year old son who loves 
watching me play Thief and wanted a not-too-scary and not-too-difficult mission to 
play. My ten year old son also enjoyed it! Here it is with more challenging options
(for you grown-ups!) under 'Normal' and 'Hard' levels.
You can customise this level yourself for your kids. The reasons why and the how-to
are at the bottom of this text file. Enjoy!


The Story:

With the Mechanists finished after Karras's failed plot, their collection of
arts and treasures at the Tower Gallery in North Quarter has been sold off to 
wealthy nobles across the city. Only one piece remains: the portrait titled 
'Father's Pride'. Thankfully it's one of the most valuable paintings in the City 
and now it should be one of the easiest to steal because the Mechanists have moved 
out of the Tower Gallery and its surrounding fort leaving only a small group of 
poorly paid guards.

An old 'friend' of yours, Annie, is seeing one of the guards, Kenny, and has
aquired a map for you. Kenny is on front gate duty tonight and, knowing he likes 
his drink, she has delivered some 'special' wine to him which should have him
snoozing like a baby by the time you arrive. On her last visit to Kenny she 
smuggled in and hid your bulkier equipment so that you don't get any unwanted 
attention on your way to the Gallery. And all she asks in return is that you don't 
kill Kenny. Well, that plus twenty percent of your haul!

You get to the Tower Gallery without any trouble then sneak in through the front
gate a few minutes after the day duty guards go home. Right on time the gate locks 
automatically sealing you inside!

First find your equipment and check on Kenny. Once you have the painting, plus
anything else you might find of value, exit the area via the sewers.
 
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* Play Information *

Game			: Thief 2: The Metal Age
Level Names		: Father's Pride
File names		: Miss22.mis
Difficulty Settings		: Yes
Equipment store		: No
Map/Automap		: Yes, No
New graphics		: Yes
New sounds		: Yes
New conversations		: No
New models		: No
EAX Support		: No
Multi language support	: No
Briefing			: No

* Construction *

Base			: None
Map Size			: Small
Build Time		: About a month on and off
Build Info			: Easy - For kids and those who like an easy life.
			  Normal - More loot to get, No Kills.
			  Hard - As Normal plus even more loot and secondary objective.

			  NB..All AI will die on one arrow shot even if they are alerted!

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* Loading information *

Use DarkLoader. Put this zip in your missions directory, and let the loader do 
the rest.

* Thanks To *

LGS for a fantastic game series! My two sons Rory (6) and Joshua (10) for 'spec-ing'
the mission and offering words of encouragement like "Dad, when is our level
going to be finished" every five minutes! and YOU for playing it. 
Oh yeah, and thanks to Taylors of Harrogate for great coffee.

* Copyright *

Copyright MaJiC (a.k.a. Mark Cole) 2002. For free distribution only! This level 
was not made and is not supported by Looking Glass Studios or Eidos Interactive.

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* Hints & Tips *

STUDY THE MAP and READ ALL SCROLLS AND SIGNS!! 

Grown-ups - you might have to help with the reading & comprehension.


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* Customisation for your kids *

The painting 'Father's Pride' is actually a photo of my kids.

To replace it with a picture of your own kid(s) do the following:

1. Unzip the mission with Darkloader.
2. Scan in or load a photo.
3. Use your photo editing package to crop/resize it so that it's 256 pixels wide 
   by 128 pixels tall.
4. Convert the file to Indexed (256 colour) mode using the appropriate pallette
   file that I've included in the zip file (painting.act if you are using Photoshop
   and painting.pal for most other packages). If you don't do this bit your picture
   will just look a mess.
5. Save as Ripoff10.gif overwriting the one in the Thief2\obj\txt folder

To edit the text on the plaque under the painting:

1. Load Thief2\books\english\fprideplq.str into Notepad, edit and save.

Alternatively, if you don't want to add your own photo but you want to get rid of 
mine, simply delete the file ripoff10.gif in the Thief2\obj\txt folder and you'll
get the original picture. 

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