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Title: Unbidden Guest, The Author: Melan (Gabor Lux) Release: 09 Aug 2008 Description: Lay down thy hammer, friend, lay down thy awl Thy yesteryear trappings are splintered and old Now rise up thine mace! And sword thusly brandish! The Builder fuels those who unite against malice. -- from The New Scripture of the Master Builder Sometimes living in this city is more trouble than it's worth. There is a new sherrif in town, and he is waging his own personal war against crime. Dodging the law is part of the game, but Sherrif Gorman Truart's changed the rules... His men are on the hunt for suspicious individuals, and they are asking no questions. It was only by a hair's breadth that I escaped the ambush they set for me; this has left me without my usual contacts or a permanent address... Fortunately, with so many of the smaller wards empty after the recent calamities, there are vast areas to hide in as long as you don't venture into districts under guard so often. Sheriff Truart has enlisted the aid of a separatist sect of the Hammers called "Mechanists" - every bit as fanatical as Hammerites, and twice as industrious. They've been supplying the sherrif with some really nasty contraptions... mechanical eyes that seek out anyone his spies consider a threat to the safety of the City... Word has it that there are also plans for a new creation; so deadly it'll bring every honest thief in the City to his knees. Fortunately, I found some unlikely allies in these dark times: the Hammerites, more bitter about the schism in their ranks than the few small sins I have committed in the eyes of the Builder... and as their high priest outlined to me in the Old Quarter of all places, we have certain interests in common. Tonight, the Mechanists are throwing a posh banquet for the City nobility in their seminary to win supporters and hold a demonstration of their most recent invention, a beast of iron invincible and untiring... if they can get these things into production, I might as well find a new line of work. I am going to cross their plans by sabotaging the display. The Hammerites are supplying me with explosive devices I must plant in each metallic horror I come across. The streets are pretty hot these days, so I'll take to the rooftops and approach the seminary from above. If I cut through a building or two, I won't win any popularity contest, but then they don't call it the thieves' highway for nothing. Travelling light is a neccessity, since the districts in the area are full of the city's finest and well protected by security devices... I must trust the Hammers to deliver a few useful tools as they have promised - a power station south of the seminary is the supposed location of the cache. I will start in an old bell tower: one of the few friends I can still depend on will let me sleep in his attic for the evening; afterwards, it will be time to make myself useful. With the cream of the City in attendance at the Mechanist seminary and the wealthy households in the surrounding area ripe for picking, I will at last be like a kid in a candy store. And unknown to all but me and a trusted confidant, there may be yet more: the Mechanists are said to have in their keeping an old book studded with gemstones and gold, apparently an ancient Hammer text of some value... If I have the chance, I will make this book mine, and my new friends need never know... No point in waiting: it's time to begin. Forum: http://www.ttlg.com/forums/showthread.php?t=122952 Download: http://thiefmissions.com/m/UnbiddenGuest http://www.taffersparadise.co.uk/thief2mission/CTE_UnbiddenGuest.zip http://rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5237022