dethro toll (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} dethtoll) wrote,@ 2008-11-03 01:58:00 |
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thief2x: the grand hotel
big, big, big mission, reminiscent of a couple of missions in thief 2.
zaya returns from her trip to volari's and informs malak of what she's discovered about kedar. we know that he was held by the free traders for a while before being handed over to truart, but then he was turned into a mechanist servant somehow. malak leads her to the overgrown garden behind his mansion, and uses the old fountain to show her what happened to kedar: kedar was dragged into a room where he was essentially lobotomized had some kind of device bolted to his forehead, and finally the golden mask was placed over his face.
malak wants to get rid of truart for truart's crackdown on pagans and their sympathisers, but zaya doesn't care- she just wants to save kedar. truart can come later.
truart's diary mentions that he had passed kedar on to the grand hotel, preferring to let the manager, finkle, deal with kedar's incessant crying. the book that malak had zaya steal weeks before had a blueprint of the hotel; the hotel itself is very old, though it's been renovated with lots of extra security measures and continues to be a prime hotspot for the city's elite, truart included. zaya needs to get in, find kedar, and get out.
she manages to break in through a side door, and evades the guards, the watcher masks (mask-like security "cameras") and the gigantic steam bots as she looks for clues as to kedar's whereabouts. a conversation between the guard captain and a lesser guard reveal that anyone who steals from the hotel loses a couple of toes, and incidentally finkle has been acting extremely nervous around the captain. notes scattered around the place reveal that finkle keeps shutting off the watchers in the lobby at night, and has demanded the accounting office to be kept under guard at all times.
zaya figures finkle would know where kedar is, so she needs to approach him- and blackmail him. first she manages to shut off the watchers (and knock out the desk clerk who comes to turn them back on), sneaks into the lobby and gets the key to finkle's office; then she goes to the accounting office and finds evidence that finkle has been stealing money from the hotel to finance his gambling habits- and he's one shitty fucking gambler. threatening finkle in his office with the tip of a sword and the blackmail evidence, he reveals that though he didn't know any of the mechanist servants had names, one kept mumbling "sayer" or "sire" or some nonsense, and it bugged him so much he put it to work in the basement; he gives her the key to the basement and promptly dies of a heart attack.
pussy.
zaya heads to the basement and finds kedar- reuniting with him after over a year. but it's like that scene in one flew over the cuckoo's nest, where jack nicholson comes back after his lobotomy; he's just not the same. zaya puts him to sleep with a gas arrow, and then finds a secret passage in back of the wine cellar that allows her to get kedar out into the streets. mission complete.
next up: the cure.
big, big, big mission, reminiscent of a couple of missions in thief 2.
zaya returns from her trip to volari's and informs malak of what she's discovered about kedar. we know that he was held by the free traders for a while before being handed over to truart, but then he was turned into a mechanist servant somehow. malak leads her to the overgrown garden behind his mansion, and uses the old fountain to show her what happened to kedar: kedar was dragged into a room where he was essentially lobotomized had some kind of device bolted to his forehead, and finally the golden mask was placed over his face.
malak wants to get rid of truart for truart's crackdown on pagans and their sympathisers, but zaya doesn't care- she just wants to save kedar. truart can come later.
truart's diary mentions that he had passed kedar on to the grand hotel, preferring to let the manager, finkle, deal with kedar's incessant crying. the book that malak had zaya steal weeks before had a blueprint of the hotel; the hotel itself is very old, though it's been renovated with lots of extra security measures and continues to be a prime hotspot for the city's elite, truart included. zaya needs to get in, find kedar, and get out.
she manages to break in through a side door, and evades the guards, the watcher masks (mask-like security "cameras") and the gigantic steam bots as she looks for clues as to kedar's whereabouts. a conversation between the guard captain and a lesser guard reveal that anyone who steals from the hotel loses a couple of toes, and incidentally finkle has been acting extremely nervous around the captain. notes scattered around the place reveal that finkle keeps shutting off the watchers in the lobby at night, and has demanded the accounting office to be kept under guard at all times.
zaya figures finkle would know where kedar is, so she needs to approach him- and blackmail him. first she manages to shut off the watchers (and knock out the desk clerk who comes to turn them back on), sneaks into the lobby and gets the key to finkle's office; then she goes to the accounting office and finds evidence that finkle has been stealing money from the hotel to finance his gambling habits- and he's one shitty fucking gambler. threatening finkle in his office with the tip of a sword and the blackmail evidence, he reveals that though he didn't know any of the mechanist servants had names, one kept mumbling "sayer" or "sire" or some nonsense, and it bugged him so much he put it to work in the basement; he gives her the key to the basement and promptly dies of a heart attack.
pussy.
zaya heads to the basement and finds kedar- reuniting with him after over a year. but it's like that scene in one flew over the cuckoo's nest, where jack nicholson comes back after his lobotomy; he's just not the same. zaya puts him to sleep with a gas arrow, and then finds a secret passage in back of the wine cellar that allows her to get kedar out into the streets. mission complete.
next up: the cure.
