My name is Matt Elliott (you may be familiar with me as Jayle on the TTLG forum or as Jailbait on the Eidos forum). Over the past couple of weeks, I've been pounding out many ideas for DromEd levels, but one of the ideas, which has now become very complex, was better suited for a fan fic. The story, which is entitled In Shambles, is set shortly after the Keepers "adopt" Garrett. My plans with the story is to present it in the same format that the Dark Project was presented (in a set of three acts each containing 3 to four chapters along with quotes being placed at the beginning of each chapter). The story diverts for the normal of Garrett being the main character to the introduction of a new hero, Jason (Garrett's mentor throughout the story). I plan on involving alot of conspiracy and mystery into the plot with the culmination of the introduction of a new breed of creature that will rock the future of my following projects. Once I have obtained an adequate knowledge of DromEd, the Chapters will be made into levels providing if have time.

The author, scribe, bard, and burglar Thumper, has released the second edition of this document. It contains all that the original did, but much more as well. This intriguing documentary (it's also extremely funny at times - Dan) should be on the top of every thief's 'must read' list. (Or at least those of you who have won the game already, as it is jam packed with huge spoilers. - Dan)

As an added bonus, it contains a excerpt from the Novel Correspondence of Thieves, (from around part 27, I think, which was removed from the story due to the fact that it had almost nothing to do with the rest of the tale, and it suffered from a severe infestation of non-Thief lore. - Dan) divided into three parts, and integrated into the document.

Lord Jack the richest man of the town. He owns a very valuable Serpentile Torc and your objective is to steal it. Serpentile Torc is kept in the very high guarded trophy room of Jack's manor. Read Felix's note that you get started.

Intrigued, I took it upon myself to inspect this mission. I was thoroughly impressed with what I saw. Sending the urgency to get the word out as soon as possible, I took the time to review the mission myself, rather then having one of my staff attend to it. In a nutshell:

This is an awesome mission, reeking with atmosphere and jaw dropping visuals. If you like a simple & straightforward burglary, this is the mission for you! But watch out! It may cause your computer to gag!

I wasn't finished revising, though. The missions page is filling up, so I decided it was time to divide it up. The Bronze Hammer missions & Silver Hammer missions are now on two separate pages.

Review of "The Library"

What else is there to say, other then that this is a great mission!

Review of "The Odium"

This map is great on the one hand but sucks on the other. If the author would have invested 4 or 5 hours more to take care of the glitches and put in some sound effects, it would have been a great map.

Review of "Monastery of St. Fera"

All in all there isn't much new to this level except the various enemies at the end, but it is really good...hey, I'm quite busy and yet played through it twice, so that should say it all. Have fun.

After reading through the strategy sections, I think a few folks might like this. I've used this battle strategy immensely and have had a lot of success.

First, of course many players by now have discovered that you can circle around the side and back of your opponent often faster than he can react, assuming he's alerted to you. This is an easy kill.

But, I found a better approach than keeping the block key on all the time until you're ready to attack. I've killed many guards easily by the following. This assumes he's alerted to you and draws his sword. Watch his movements and you'll get a feel of when he's ready to swing. Maybe take a few steps back to see what he's doing. It's imperative that you raise your sword to the high power slash position. Make sure you're out of range and you'll have time to raise it. When you're ready to attack, rush in and time the release of your swing to where you hit him right as you move into range.

This heavy slash will hurt him, and a lot of times if you do this once or twice, some enemies will turn and run, allowing you to chase him down! Right after you hit, jump back out of range and raise your sword again, and repeat.

Raise the sword, attack, move out. Raise, attack, move out. I've used this to rack up a lot of kills, and this works against multiple opponents because you can strafe and move a little faster than they can. Several guards swinging their swords at you won't strike fear in you any longer!

Okay, the 1st one is easy. This site does indeed have a strategy section. I know that it's much more appealing to actually talk to someone and get the answer, but that's why we have the forums. The strategy section does have its own resident guides, but it also has a listing of other off-site guides, that are every bit as good (if not better!) then ours. So if you just take a casual glance at The Circle, and see that link at the very bottom, the path to your hits & tips should be fairly simple.... :)

The 2nd is a bit harder. Taffer. Tapper? Tafford? No, Taffer. The guards call you it, but they also call eachother it. So what does it mean? Well, we are pretty sure that it came from the nursery rhyme "Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a Thief..." As far as game-lore goes, "Taffer" is a dillusion of the word "Trickster." (Sort of like darn is to damn, and heck is to hell.) Insert "trickster" whenever someone says "taffer" in the game, and it should fit very well, both to the context & the situation.

It has come to your attention that a very valuable gem, the Morning Stone is being kept in a nearby Hammer monastery. The stone is reputed to be magical but what matters is that it will command a high price. Your sources tell you that the stone is hidden somewhere under the monastery. Break in and acquire it for yourself.

The time has come for me to once again take my place as a Spy, this time from my new outpost, Thief2-Metalage.com, located deep within the Hammerite controlled Industrial sector, where the seeds of the Metal Age are now taking shape.

A new level for the demon in all of us has arrived, and "Odium" is its name. Take a stroll into the depth of a Salvador Dali nightmare, a walk into the dreams of Vincent Price. A fairly well made level with a very dark twist, and a very good plot. Just bring along some spare Boxers....could get a little messy in there.