Thief — an All Difficulty Level complete-loot walkthrough (Original Thief and Thief Gold)

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The house offer many different routes that every walkthrough I read uses a different route. I ended up choosing one very different from any I read. In fact, I changed my mind many times when I am writing this very walkthrough.

In Thief Gold, you have two more coins (worth a total of 20) to collect and one extra pick (a Healing Potion from a guard). If you correctly set the verion information in the drop boxes above, the cumulative loot and pick count will be adjusted accordingly.

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Note that the owner of the mansion is just Constantine. He doesn’t carry a title, he doesn’t have a relative, he doesn’t have a history. Just a rich man recently moved to the city, he acquired ownership of the estate abandoned by Barak. He commissioned the architect Lionel Karthman to reconstruct the mansion to its current queer look. This renovated mansion is adorable. You couldn’t have imagined such fun when you pick up the mission.

There being so many different paths in the house, I really cannot pick one that goes everywhere (for my tourist delights) without unreasonably many detours. Instead, I will present the walkthrough like this. I will describe the main route like a regular walkthrough. Then at certain points I will mark excursion routes. At these points, if you want to have a look (and you should), save your game and follow the route. Click the excursion heading in this color and style to expand the route. After the voyage, just reload the game you saved at the Excursion starting point to continue the main route (note that many excursions do not bring you back to the starting point). For those who don’t bother to go (I do not understand why anybody should want to skip the excursions), just ignore the milestone and continue straight on.

Buy all Water Arrows and buy as much Moss Arrows and Flash Bombs as you can. If you are following the Main Route below, you probably only need to buy a handful of additional Water Arrows because you actually do not need a lot, while there are many to be picked up. However do buy a lot for your excursions.

You are at the South West corner of Level 1. Level 1 has three main, long and straight corridors: West (running N-S), South (running E-W), and East (running N-S). Open the door and you can see the West Corridor right in front of you (going to your left) and the South Corridor slightly to your right (going away from you). One guard is patroling each corridor, so you should be careful of both guards at the intersection.

Note the patrol path of both guards. When it is safe, sneak into the room opposite. Too bad the coffin has nothing special. Go to the far pillar and examine the North side of its base. Pick the lock and get a Gold Plate (50;0;0) and a Healing Potion. Now save the game, open the South door and we start some Guard-Knocking.

Stand at the shadow next to the fire, so that you can clearly see what is outside the door. When the guard walks past the door to the right (West), move quietly to the right side of the doorway (still inside the room) and crouch there. If you have not picked his Guard Key at the Front Gate, do it now. When the guard moves past you towards the left (East), club him. All Guard Keys in this mission are the same, and you need at least one of them. Repeat for a similar opportunity to club him. When he walks past the second time to the East, crawl towards the carpet and walk up to club him. Take his body back to the Coffin Room and close the door.

Open the West door to look back to the West Corridor. Save game. Count the doors on the East side of the corridor. Starting from the South, the first one is the Coffin Room. The guard leave the corridor by the second door, takes a long walk and comes back via the third one. When the guard leaves the corridor, get yourself into the corridor. Walk to the carpet, close the door, turn right (North) and walk to the last door on your right (East), skipping over the two doors used by the guard. Enter the last door very quietly. If you want to be doubly safe, hide first in the doorway on your left, which is the Level 1?2 West Staircase, wait the guard to reappear, re-disappear, and continue to the last door.

If you have the time, look up while you walk. It is something you should always be doing. Near the second door (the door the guard enters), the ceiling is missing and you can have a glimse of the level above. By the way, you can climb up using a Rope Arrow, except that the noise made by the arrow will likely attract the nearby guards.

You are in the Kitchen. Be very careful, depending on your walking speed, the guard may be right in front of you. Just inside the door is a big pillar. Place it between the guard and you. The guard enters via the doorway on your right, goes to the door on the far end (North East), walk a few steps outside and retrace his path back to the doorway.

Douse the torch on your right, making a good shadow on the left of the doorway. Move there when it is safe. When he walks by, pick his Purse (50;0;0) and then knock him out.

Take the Purple Vase (0;0;50) opposite the doorway. Look through the doorway into the Dining Room. Wait till you see a guard walking towards your left. Enter the doorway. On your right you can now see the two doors you skipped: both of them leads here. Use a Water Arrow to shoot out the torch between the doors.

When you are in the Dining Room, be quiet. Walking is OK, but if you make too much noise (such as running a lot or jumping around), you would attract the guard upstairs to come down and examine.

Examine the patrol path of the other guard. He is patrolling the Dining Room, and the Courtyard to the East, and the Bar Room beyond. Crouch in front of the door at the South East corner, just beyond the end of the carpet. Wait till he comes near you to pick the Guard Key from his belt.

You may walk (do not run) forward to club him. Or try this alternative. First grab the Gold Candlestick (50;0;0) on the dining table. Use a Rope Arrow to jump on top of the dining table (I never succeed to mantle up the table otherwise). Walk towards the south edge of the table and wait till the guard walks past you. Drop from the table to the carpet and knock him down.

We are leaving Level 1 now. Remember that we have yet not visited the Bar Room (East of the Courtyard).

This is a long section. After so many missions, you should have found out that the ceiling and floors do not isolate sound very well. When a guard in the next room may not hear you, a guard above or below you will nearly always be aroused by your footsteps. Therefore, we had better get upstairs to get rid of the 2/F guard first.

And on 2/F we have the same problem. The East and South parts of 1/F is still well guarded so it is very dangerous to visit the East or South part of 2/F. So we confine ourselves to the Level 2 West.

Instead of returning to 1/F, we take the opportunity to use the North West tunnel to Sideways Room on 3/F. And to avoid repeating the return path, we take another path to visit the Garden West. However, the Garden East has to wait, because we need a key from the Level 2 East to access the Cellar in the Green House there.

Now we get upstairs. Climb on the table again and retrieve the rope. Look at the roof above: you start to learn about the interesting architecture of this house. So that’s what Viktoria means by “the mansion is confusing to navigate in”.

Slide open the door above the table. Use a Rope Arrow to climb upstairs. The room above is part of a patrol area (that is why the guard can hear you if you make noises down in the Dining Room). So listen to the footsteps before popping out your head. Climb to the floor and use Water Arrow on the two torches on the walls.

I call this room the Music Room, because of the interesting music that starts playing everytime you get here. The guard will enter the room by the NW doorway and leave by the NE doorway. Wait next to the table, and knock him out next time he arrives. Remember to collect back you Rope Arrow and take the Green Vase (0;0;50) on the table.

There is only a single guard on 2/F, and he only patrols a small part of the whole building. Why? Having played so many missions, you should now understand what it means. It can only mean the rest of the places are full of traps.

Whenever you see a big face on the wall, or a hole the size of a fist, or any strange protrutions, it is likely to be a trap. Stand before it (or close enough to it) and it will shoot you. So watch out.

Start at the Music Room. Close the floor-door first, lest you drop accidentally down to the dining table below. Look upwards: there is a door on the ceiling as well. Save your game and open the ceiling-door. There are two Faces on the wall above. Shoot a Rope Arrow at the bottom of the right (South) Face. That one allow you to climb down, shoot another Rope Arrow to the ceiling above the right Face to climb up.

Climb the ceiling Rope Arrow and drop to the floor on the right side of the faces. Retrieve the ceiling Rope Arrow and look around: many of the tiles are pressure plates, rewarding you with an energy ball from the faces on the wall. That means as long as you do not stand in front of the faces, you are safe (note that the explosive barrel is not in the line of fire). Move forward (West), stepping on the pressure plates and watching the fireballs. When you reach the first Chest, get the Gemstone (0;100;0) inside. Turn right and pick up the Land Mine on the floor between the Chests, and from the other Chest get a Gem Ring (100;0;0).

Carefully crouch in front of the face with the Rope Arrow. Save your game. While still crouched, run towards the rope: you will drop but before you hit the floor below you will grab the rope to prevent taking damage. Climb further down, retrieve the rope and drop to the floor safely. Save again.

Go to the only door on the South side of the Music Room. When you are on Level 2, never open a door when you are standing in front of it. Crouch and stand on the side, open and wait. An energy ball flies by. This is the Two-Face Room, each Face faces a door. Now walk inside to get a Gold Nugget (100;0;0) under the face.

On the West side of this room, you can see a staircase beyond a gap. It is the Level 2?1 West Staircase, going down to the West Corridor (the one outside Dining Room). You can also see the Level 2 West Corridor (broken by the gap) going left and right. By jumping to the staircase area, you can jump to the Level 2 West Corridor, but we will go there via another way in the Excursion: Level 2 West Corridor

Go back to the Music Room.

Leave the Music Room by the North doorway (the one through which the guard enter the room) to a crossroad. You enter the crossroad from the South East, and we will visit each of the other three branches in turn.

Time for a big excursion. The North East branch leads to the Level 2?1 Central Staircase, and we will take the opportunity to go all the way to the Level 4 Exhibition Area in Lower Exhibition Area Excursion, because the Main Route doesn’t go there.

From the crossroad (you remember to retain your saved game made at the crossroad, don’t you?), go South West. On the left, you will find the room with the Fly Swarm, and ahead, a bedroom. First enter the Fly Swarm Room. There are two Fly Swarms, behind them a Chest on the ceiling-floor. While it is possible to open the Chest empty handed, you have several Fire Arrows and have no other use for them. Stand at the doorway and aim at the ground below the Fly Swarm near you. It will disperse it. Walk along the left wall to open the Chest without getting near the other Fly Swarm. A Gemstone (0;100;0) will drop to the floor-ceiling — take it.

The door behind opens to the Level 2 (broken) West Corridor and we have already been there in an earlier excursion. Reader MSB taught me an interesting thing you can do with this room. If there are guards around on 1/F and 2/F, you can make noises to attract them. Run to the West Corridor and jump across the gap (to arrive behind this door). The guards cannot jump the gap, so they will instead find their way through the Fly Swarm Room. Then they will get trapped by the hole in the center of the room, and cannot come back out. They may try to climb out, but they will be attacked by the Fly Swarm. So they will either be trapped or killed. Before you try this, note however that you can lose some picks if you let guards with stuff on the belt to be killed this way.

So leave the Fly Swarm Room and turn left to a bedroom. Read the Purple Book on the table. It is a piece of notes that makes me angry: it talks about the plants that negates the magic power, leading me to carry those red plants around but never find the chance to use it. Anyway it shows Constantine is deeply interested in magic. Next to the bed find a Water Arrow. Through the other door to enter a bathroom and get another Water Arrow inside the bathtub. Go back to the crossroad.

We are here for the last time. Take the North West exit.

The corridor bends left and the wooden floor ends. On the right is a tiled ramp going up. At the junction, look carefully — a trap is on the floor.

P1ague pointed out that the trap in TDP is the same as in TG (a Glyph). Somehow I got the impression that in TDP it was an armed Land Mine. If anybody finds an armed Land Mine here, please let me know.

Cling to the right wall to walk past the corner. Up the ramp to a plant, where you find a (natural) tunnel opening on your left. Follow the (natural) tunnel to arrive at 3/F. At the end of the tunnel, you find the wooden ceiling below your feet. Here is the Level 3 Inverted Area. Save game and go back to see the trap in this 2/F Floor Trap Excursion.

You are in a short hallway where you can go either left or right. We need to go left, but first have a look on the right side. There is a corridor with a greenish wall. Move a few steps towards it and you should recognize the Greenish Doorway you visited during your Excursion from Level 2 West Crossroad to Level 4 Exhibition Area. Turn left instead and mantle through the opening (an inverted doorway) into the Sideways Room.

There is a doorway (looks like a big hole to you) on the floor. The treasure is below this floor-doorway, but look up first. There is another doorway (a hole on your ceiling) above, the starting point of an excursion. Save your game to join Excursion: Level 4 North Area.

Now to the treasure below the Sideways Room. Shoot a Rope Arrow at the carpet on the wall-floor above the floor-doorway and climb down. Retrieve your arrow and drop to the bottom. Collect the Gold Candlestick (50;0;0). Note a sideways doorway near the bottom of the East wall: crouch and enter. Open the door on the floor. Crouch and drop (make less noise this way) down to a small room.

We are now in the West part of the 1/F Garden. Leave via the doorway into a dark corridor. Hide at the (North West) corner and turn left (South) to look down the corridor. When the guard is away, move forward. At a niche (or window) on your right, get a Fire Arrow. Ahead, the 8-point Star Garden (you have already seen it from above) is on our right. Ahead on our left is a bath house. And if you continue straight ahead, the path returns to the main building.

From your corner, move forward and turn right into a dark area. After you turned into the dark area, look at the wall on your right. Find a Fire Arrow at the wall near the corner, it is a little above your eye level, standing there like a torch. Wait for the patroling guard to pick his Guard Key and knock him down. Now the 8-point Star Garden is safe. From the shelves, get a Flash Bomb and a Land Mine. Look at the metal “chair” on the West side (the only metal object around, the only object here other than the two shelves). It is difficult, but if you mantle on the chair, you can jump and grab a Moss Arrow resting on its top.

Do you want to see the whole picture of Level 1 West? Save your game to join Short Excursion to complete Level 1 West.

Back at the 8-point Star Garden. Go to the bath house on your East. Find a Water Arrow inside the tub of water in the center of the bath house. From the East side of the bath house, there are two exits. Listen and when the guard ahead is far away take the left (North) one.

Two steps ahead and you see the stone corridor turns to the left (North), and slightly ahead is a piece of grass going right. The guard will come from the left and turn at the corner to continue on the grass. Stay just before stepping on the left going corridor (it is dark enough there) and wait. When the guard turns left in front of you, knock him (he does not have anything to pick from). Go to the grass ahead and turn right. Soon you are in the open, and you find the South exit of the bath house on your right. There is a Rose Garden on your left (East) ahead and a well ahead of you (South). We will be there later. Go back to where you knock the guard and go North along the stone corridor.

At the North end of the long narrow corridor, you find two pillars with faces and the end of the river. Jump across the river to the wooden steps. Follow the path and unlock the double doors. At the far side of the Shrine, collect Four Gold Goblets (25;0;0) and a Fire Arrow behind the table. Note there is another door in the room. It is one of the six doors you cannot enter. For now, leave the room and go back to the river.

Drop into the river. Collect a Water Arrow near the right (North) end of the river. Thief Gold player skips the rest of this section (Garden West) and move the to the next (Gulliver’s Travel), because the next section is Thief Gold only. The rest of this section will bring Original Thief players to start the section after next at the proper location.

So you are playing Original Thief. Swim along the river until you have to dive under a bridge (a bridge, not walls). When you have passed the bridge, surface and mantle up the left bank. Skip the next section and proceed to Garden West (continued). Note: Thief Gold players collect 20 Gold in the next section. From now on, your cumulative loot will be 20 less than the value shown, because the cumulative values are calculated for Thief Gold. Thief Gold players also pick a Healing Potion from the belt of a guard. So similarly, your cumulative pick count will be 1 less than shown, because the cumulative pick count is also calculated for Thief Gold.

This section is only available to Thief Gold. From the wooden steps, jump across the river and mantle back to the side with two pillars. Look at the faces on the pillars. The North one has a tongue, which is a handle. Flip it and the iron grates on your left (down in the river) opens. Drop into the river, swim North and save your game. It is easy to get drown in the next bit.

Turn left and dive. Follow the waterway and swim fast. Keep away from the walls around you, because they will slow you down. When you finally surface without damage, save again. Move forward and the water drain down a slope into a river.

When you reach the valley, climb to the left bank and move up the bloody hill on your left (West). Note that the trees are big obstacles and often you find that what you thought to be a walkable path is blocked by a tree. Move to the North West corner uphill and wait. A guard will come, and when he is leaving the valley, run up to him to pick his Healing Potion and knock him down. From the center of the pile of stones, take a Breath Potion (although you no longer need one). Leave the valley and go North. By the way, did you noice that the trees in the valley are rather short and the river narrow?

Welcome to Lilliput! Nobody is around so visit the houses as you wish. When you are done, mantle the big grey rock on West side to drop into water. Enter the tube on the opposite side, run forward to the end. Dive into water and enter another tube there. Swim forward. The tube will go straight and then dive down. When you reach the big gold ring (it does nothing), swim up to the surface before you suffocate. Swim to the South coast, mantle up to the rim and look around. Welcome to Brobdingnag. What you haven’t read Gulliver’s Travels? Go read it online at Unversity of Toronto English Library.

There are two shelves on top of you. From the rim of the sink, shoot two Rope Arrows, one at each shelf. Climb up the first rope to the lower shelf. Retrieve the Rope Arrow and climb the second to the upper shelf. Note that after you have climbed to the lower shelf, you can no longer shoot at the edge of the upper shelf — that’s why you need to shoot both from the sink below. On the top shelf is a pot of water.

Note also that the ceiling is so high that any Rope Arrow shot there is effectively lost. Instead, retrieve the Rope Arrow and do a running jump and mantle up to the rim of the pot. Dive inside to get a Water Arrow under water. Before reader Michele L. Worley who pointed out to me that such a Water Arrow is sitting there, I didn’t realize that the water pot is climbable. Thanks Michele.

Mantle back to the rim and try to come down. It is not too difficult to climb up here, but getting down is tough. Fortunately, you can drop into the water without getting hurt. Move carefully so you really drop into water instead of at the rim or to the ground.

From the South rim, shoot a Rope Arrow at the table on your South. Shoot high, near the top. Save your game and run towards the rope. Garrett (most of the time) holds the rope and stop the fall. Climb to the top and retrieve the rope. In this whole area, retrieval your rope as soon as you climb up to a surface — I hate climbing down ropes because it is too easy to drop dead. And save your game when you feel like it, because it is not difficult to get killed here. Go to the other (South) side of the table top. Do the same thing to the stool.

From the South West edge of the stool, look up and locate the four shelves. Shoot a Rope Arrow at the nearest you (the lower East one). The rope should be dangling right in front of you nose. So climb it up and retrieve it (I will not remind you to retrieve Rope Arrows next time).

The two lower shelves have nothing to offer. Go to the West side of the East shelf and find a thread there. Climb up to the upper East shelf. Get three Rope Arrows from the pin cushion. Do a running jump to the upper West shelf. Go to the South side of the red box and mantle up to its top to find out what it is. Drop into its inside to collect four Fire Arrows. Do a running jump towards the red outer box to get out (you may need a few tries). By the way, have a good look at the whole room from this vantage point. You should be able to see one of the guards standing idly.

Do a running jump back to the East shelf, but how to get down? Go to the East end, save your game and run North. Dropping into a tub of water on the floor (or else you are dead on the carpet). Get three Water Arrows under water, and mantle up the rim of the tub. Drop down the outside of the tub to the carpet.

Go West a few steps and get a Rope Arrow standing on the carpet. See the sofa on your North, with its bed towards you? Go to the East side of the sofa, and climb up to its arm. Look at the three seat cushions — the one nearest you is moved out a bit. Drop to the seat cushion, and on its South edge drop carefully down the gap. Turn right and locate the two big wheels. Run up to them and grab them — they are two Giant Coins (10;0;0). Climb on the die (no doubt dice rarely appear in the singular), then mantle on the edge of the lower cushion and to the top of the cushion. Time to meet a guard.

Fortunately they are of your size. From the cushion, move to the coffee table. Pull out two Moss Arrows from the cake. Since the guard has nothing to offer, you can ignore him. Otherwise, crawl up behind him (the area is bright, but all you need is to move very quietly) and Blackjack him. Go back to the cushion. Climb up the arm of the sofa using a Rope Arrow, and then climb on top of the back of the sofa. Locate the tub of water and do a running drop into it again.

If you want to, visit the fire place on the North of the coffee table but we can do nothing there. From the tub, walk on the carpet to the West. At the corner, see an opened door on your left. Two guards are on the far South, and one by one they walk towards you (keeping close to the door) all the way into the room. There is no good places to hide, but they only look forward. So crouch at the corner and wait for they to knock them down. If you have not yet got both, you need to walk a bit to the West or to the South to start them.

When they are done (just ditch them anywhere) there are no more guards. Go South to the chair. First climb up to the chair. Shoot a Rope Arrow high at the chair back so that you can climb up and jump to the top of the table (this is the first Rope Arrow you cannot immediately retrieve). Read the big Poster Scroll on the table. It satisfies your mission objective to find some incriminating information about Constantine. In Thief Gold, there are two lettres that can satisfy this objective, and any one of them will do.

From the top of the bottle of ink, get two Water Arrows. Now the tough part — getting down. Run to the rope on the chair (the one you didn’t retrieved) and climb down. To retrieve the Rope Arrow, you need to shoot one more Rope Arrow at a lower position. Climb the lower rope, retrieve the upper one, descend half way, retrieve the lower rope and drop down. Two steps should be sufficient here, if you want it safe, use three.

From the chair, look South East. The inside of the table is also wood. Shoot there a Rope Arrow to descend to the floor. Shoot two more to retrieve them like you did with the chair back.

The East side of the table is empty. Turn North East and run into the gap between the opened door and the wall. After the right turn, you arrive at the bedroom. On your right (South), get a Speed Potion from the skeleton at the mouse trap. There is a Foot Locker at the foot of the bed. Climb up with a Rope Arrow. Shoot a Rope Arrow to the inside of the opened lid and climb down to the inside of the box.

Collect three Noisemaker Arrows and two Rope Arrows scattered in the Foot Locker. Use a Rope Arrow to climb back to the rim of the Foot Locker. Getting out is difficult. Walk along the rim to the West side and face South. Lean right and shoot a Rope Arrow on the outside edge of the opened lid. Save game and climb down. It is ok to retrieve the Rope Arrow halfway and drop to the floor.

Go near the Southern end of the bed and climb up from West side of the bed. Look towards the opposite (North East) corner of the bed and find a Moss Arrow near the center line of the bed. To the East is a Sewer Spider (the small ones you saw in the tunnel under the Thieves’ Guild). It is too small for your Sword, so shoot Broadhead Arrows at it. And if you miss, the arrow is retrievable because the bed is soft. If you find it too difficult to aim at, you can get nearer to it, because usually it cannot see you. After it is dead, get the Moss Arrow it is guarding. Go North and from near the North East corner of the bed get another Moss Arrow. There is another Sewer Spider near the North West corner, but you may as well ignore it since it is not guarding anything.

From the North end of the bed, use a Rope Arrow to climb up to the bed frame. Save your game and run towards to open lid. You land safely on the slope of the lid. Walk down to the rim of the Foot Locker. Shoot a Rope Arrow at the bed frame so that you can climb down to the floor (and retrieve it midway). Turn left (East), there is a mouse hole on the wall. Get inside to a long narrow hall.

Look up, there is a ledge on the opposite wall. Shoot a Rope Arrow and climb up there. Turn around and find another ledge above you on the opposite (West) wall. Shoot a Rope Arrow, save game and do a running jump to it. If you successfully grab the rope, you can climb up to the ledge. One more jump and you arrive at the top ledge on the East wall. Turn right and at the far South end is a doorway. It is safe here, so just run along the path (no options here) until the dead end. Press the red button on your right and you arrived back to the room under Sideways Room.

Pass the sideways doorway near the bottom of the East wall. Crouch and drop through the floor-door down. Follow the dark path to the 8-point Star Garden, turn left to the bath house, leave via right exit to the Rose Garden.

Now both versions arrive at the Rose Garden. There is a guard patrolling the courtyard on your East. Walk quietly to the opening on North East. Hide at the opening (it is dark enough) and wait for the guard to walk near you. Pick his Purse (100;0;0) and Blackjack him. Now all the area is yours.

The big tree root has nothing. Enter the doorway on South East into Hanging Rose Bed Room: a tall room with a hanging rose bed. Go to the other side (East) of the rose bed. Shoot a Rope Arrow at the edge of the hanging rose bed to climb up on it and get a Moss Arrow. Drop back down and leave the Rose Bed Room via a tunnel on the North.

When you arrive at a T-junction, go right and follow tunnel until you reach a big tree. Look down at the plant in the middle of the path. Get the Gold Nugget (100;0;0) inside the plant.

Walk around the tree if you like, and into the tree to pick the growing mushroom. From the Gold Nugget bearing plant, look North and you can see light through a short tunnel. Go there. Here is where you would have been if you had turned left at the T-junction. On the other side of the short tunnel is another big tree. Go to the North East side of the tree to find a tunnel (on the stone around the tree, not the big hole on the tree). Near the end of the tunnel, find a Moss Arrow hidden under the plant. Go to the other side of the big tree, where you find another tunnel. From there, go West two steps and you more or less step on some roots. Look up, there is a hole up there (difficult to see, move about to locate it). If you shot a Rope Arrow into the hole, you will find that the rope doesn’t extend to your eye level. Yet you can jump and grab it, and climb up there (I used to think that it were impossible, because I kept shooting at the tree instead of into the hole). It is from a tunnel near the Fun House and we will see it in an excursion later.

Leave via the tunnel near you (not the one you came from, but the one with part of the grass inside the tunnel brightly lit). It leads you back to the big tree root (garden outside Hanging Rose Bed Room). On the opposite (South) end of the courtyard you will find the other end of the river. Jump down to collect a Water Arrow and swim back to the bridge. Before you swim under the wall, pick up another Water Arrow from the river bed. This part is optional: we are going to the other pools to get more Water Arrows. The entrance is below the wall — swim forward and dive into the entrance. It leads to a hidden opening under the big pool (the pool under the big tree) and gather two Water Arrows (on opposite sides outside the central round thing). On both East and West are rivers: each of them ends at a well. Swim to the two wells to collect two Water Arrows (one from each). I have never succeeded to climb out of the well. So dive back to the Rose Garden.

Mantle back to dry land. Go West towards the bath house and turn left to pass the well to a dark area. You can now see the big tree and the big pool on your left ahead. Look up, there are three niches high up there surrounding the tree (on South, East and West), but they are small and empty. On your right a corridor faces the tree. This is the East Corridor. The last Garden guard is patroling this area. Wait till he comes and goes and does a right turn into a doorway. Sneak into the tiled corridor.

Now we are going to wipe out all the guards in the Level 1 of the Main Building. Then we can safely explore Level 2 where we get a key required at the Green House (in the East part of the Garden). To reduce backtracking, we will go further up and leave the Garden East till the end of the Mission. So from Level 2, we go up to the top to collect the Sword, and then back down to the Garden and finally leave via Front Gate.

Walk quietly. Listen carefully before making a right turn. After the right turn, peek into the doorway on your left. Use Water Arrows on the two torches at the Level 1 East Stairwell. Hide in the shadows and wait for the guard to come back. Pick his Guard Key and knock him down. Go downstairs to have a look. Yet another door we cannot enter, not until in a future mission. Back to 1/F and leave the stairwell via other doorway (on the West) and enter the door in front of you to enter the Bar Room.

Move behind the bar. Grab two Bottles of Fine Wine (0;0;50) on the shelf on the far (South) side. Turn around and crouch down to find a secret door in the bar to find three Gold Goblets (25;0;0).

Now a Short Short Excursion to complete Level 1 North East.

Leave the Bar Room via the East door and turn right. There are two more doors ahead. Enter the left one first. It is a long room with a table on the far side. Take the Indigo Vase (0;0;100) on the table and leave the room. Enter the last door on the East Corridor. It is the East Coffin Room. Grab two Purple Goblets (0;0;15) on top of the coffin (note that while Looking Glass Studios called it purple, it looks more like gold and black; reader RampagingKestrel told me the black is actually a purple, with the color of red wine).

Save your game and leave via the other door into the South Corridor. We are now for the final guard in the Main Building. No loots here, but if you do not knock him out, he will hear you when you explore Level 2. Opposite you is a doorway leading to a small room with stone walls. Walk very quietly to the doorway. Put out the Torch and enter the South Doorway very quietly. Turn to the right to see the small Front Gate Guard Room. A guard is on a very short patrol path. Do not bother with the Torch in his room. Time your hit and Blackjack him. Get a Healing Potion from the Chest.

Leave the Front Gate Guard Room and go further West towards the Front Gate. Examine the brazier on your right. Get the Fire Arrow at the fire. Go back to the Level 1?2 East Stairwell. Go upstairs to Level 2. Unlock the double door to enter the Level 2 East Corridor.

Be very careful because there are traps everywhere. From the double door, go South and open the first door on your left. Collect two Purple Goblets (0;0;15) from the table on the left, one on each side of the plant. The Papyrus on the other table isn’t interesting, but the other door is — opens to a face on the wall (there are several such doors in the house). Leave the room and enter the doorway on your left.

Don’t rush to the Chest on your right. Look around first. The face on your left does nothing other than distraction, but the other one facing the Chest fires when you open the Chest. So stand at an angle and lean to open the chest for a Gold Nugget (100;0;0). And turn around. You have seen fireplaces in this game before, haven’t you? Get into the fireplace but stick to the left wall to avoid being burnt. Once inside, turn left and mantle up to get the hidden Gold Nugget (100;0;0).

Now time for a short Excursion to Level 2 South, where you will get a Healing Potion en route.

Now turn North: there are three doors on your left. Enter the first door, it is the Bedroom. Collect a small key next to the bed (for original Thief only). This key opens the Cellar in Green House. See two gems on the right side of the bed? Hope you see the face on the wall as well. Stay clear of the face to grab two Silver Nuggets (50;0;0). And in Thief Gold, the face fires at you when you get near, stay alert! Enter the door on the South to get a Papyrus on the table to read: a hint that something is hiding the in Green House in the Garden. In Thief Gold, the Cellar Key is on the table and the Papyrus beneath the table. Enter the door on the North to enter the bathroom. Strange that no Water Arrow is here. Take the boulder in the bath tub and leave via the door there back to the East Corridor.

One last door on the left, and a tilted window before it. And before the tilted window is a strange object on the wall. Examine it and sometimes the face on your right will send three fireball down the corridor.

Peek inside the room through the tilted window next to the door. See the face? When you open the door, it will shoot at the door, and the face on your right will shoot 3 fireballs along the East Corridor. Stay next to the door while avoiding the corridor center line. Drop the boulder for use later. Lean and open the door. Wait for the fireball to come out, and the three fireballs from your right had past. Then walk inside. The room seem empty. Run up the slope on the right side of the face. Keep trying until you see something on top of the face. Grab the Silver Nugget (50;0;0) there. The room has two exits on the West, both going to the central area of Level 2. The North one goes to the the Level 2?1 Central Staircase; the South one goes to the big octagonal hole overlooking the Courtyard downstairs. Just go and have a look and come back to the East Corridor.

Carry the boulder to go north till the end. Turn right up the ramp, and the traps will wake up. A face is shooting two lines of fireballs towards the North from your right, and one shooting West from the far corner. Look at the floor, there is a pressure plate near the ramp. Place the boulder on the plate to stop the trap. Pick the lock to get the Gemstone (0;100;0) from the Foot Locker. Take the Flash Bomb lying on the floor next to the Foot Locker. Backtrack to the East Corridor.

One last door we have not yet opened. Use the Guard Key to unlock the first double door on your left. It is Level 2?3 East Staircase. Ride it up.

Open the double doors to enter Level 3. Nobody is around. Turn left and again left at the corner. There is one more left turn where the corridor goes South to a dead end, with a tunnel opening on the floor. It just loop back to the double doors, and we will visit that tunnel on our return trip. Follow the tunnel in front of you to continue go East.

You have probably already noticed this before entering the tunnel. Ahead of you slight to the right is the starry night sky. When you exit the tunnel you see the Fun House on your right. Let’t do a short tour having fun: short Excursion from Fun House to Vine Corridor.

Follow the walkway and you are in Outerspace. A lovely sight, but deadly: fall and you die beyond rescue. Walk slowly to the end of the walkway: it is so easy to fall forward when you are descending the last few steps. Look down and get a hard-to-see Gemstone (0;100;0). Turn to your left: there is another walkway floating the Outerspace. Save your game and do a running jump to the other walkway (if you are afraid of jumping, you would see an alternatvie shortly). On the new walkway, find a Gold Nugget (100;0;0). Take the walkway and enter the tunnel ahead. Turn left and crouch to get back to the tile area.

Nobody can hear you so just run forward. Soon you see a ramp and the Fun House on your left. So if you wish to avoid the Outerspace jump, go through the Fun House, turn right and crouch pass the tunnel to get the nugget on the second walkway. For now, just follow the corridor.

After a right turn, there is a window and a doorway on your right. Look down: below is the Hanging Rose Bed Room. Turn around to continue on the corridor into a tunnel. There is a big barrier from lower right to upper left, the tunnel is behind. Another short tour into some narrow space: short Excursion to Garden West.

Although we have got the Sword, there is one very interesting place we have not been to. So we will visit it in in transit. And more important, one of the mission objectives is still outstanding. You nee some incriminating evidence and it is to be found in the Green House of the Garden.

We are leaving via the tunnel on the East side of the grass area. Descend slowly until you see the end of the tunnel and a vine is dangling ahead. Here is the Vine Corridor again, and we are arriving from the fourth way now (other three are Exhibition Hall, tunnel from OuterSpace, Level 4 North Area in three different excursions). Save your game here, because in case you miss the vine you will be heard.

Jump to the vine and listen carefully: there is a guard patrolling the corridor on your left (West). For Thief Gold, the corridor under the vine is also part of the patrol path so be doubly careful. Wait till he comes and goes (leaving the Vine Corridor before moving. He has a large patrol path so more often than not he is not near by. Drop to the floor quietly and walk slowly to the wooden floor on your East. If the exhibition area guard is returning, just stop moving and crouch. Although it is brightly lit here, the guard out there is unlikely to look this way. On the other hand, he is very likely to hear you if you continue to move (or try to hide).

At the end, turn right and you are rather safe by now. Walk slowly (you are still on hard tile) and reach a wooden door after two more turns.

An interesting location. Go throught the door and close it. You can make all sorts of noises now. Go all the way through the straight corridor there. Before you enter the tunnel, turn around. There are three more corridors connecting from here. Visit them all and see where they lead. I told you there are six doors you cannot open, did I?

Follow the tunnel and when you return to tile, turn left to go back to the double doors of the Level 3?2 East Staircase. You may notice that the tunnel has a side branch on your left (which is even brighter than the main tunnel going straight forward). If you follow that, you emerges from the floor at the end of a corridor. Follow the corridor and after two right turns you also arrive at the double door. In short the corridors and the tunnels form a closed rectangle.

From the double door, descend to 2/F, and go through the other double door on your left to descend to 1/F. Save your game here, because we are going to meet the last guard. Turn right to leave the wooden floor area via the North doorway. Walk very slowly and stop at the left turn.

Peek past the corner and listen carefully. Wait for the guard to come and leave. When the guard is far enough away (some 10 seconds after he appeared: his footsteps will change from grass-walking to stone-walking), walk quietly North into the Garden. Once on the grass, turn right There is a doorway far away on our East. The area behind the doorway (where the Eastmost well is) is brightly lit so you can easily locate it. Stand on the left (North) side of the doorway to wait for the guard to walk through the doorway to pick his Purse (100;0;0) and knock him out. Now the Garden is all yours.

From the doorway you are hiding, go West and turn left into the doorway the guard entered. This is the North Green House. Past it and go South to the South Green House. If it didn’t occur to you that you should look up, you are not yet a very good thief. Shoot a Rope Arrow up to the wooden rafter above the pool. If you shoot at the plank just above the water, it is not easy to jump from the rope to solid ground. On the other hand, if you shoot at the beam near the ceiling, you may have difficulty jumping up to the rope. You may consider using two Rope Arrows: one at the plank, one at the beam.

Climb up and jump to the floor above to get a Green Vase (0;0;50) on a table. Look up. The beams meet at the center, and there hides three crystals. This isn’t easy, so save your game first. Retrieve your Rope Arrow at the plank and shoot one at the side of a beam (is not easy, because they are so thin) near the center (too near and you cannot pop up your head there). Do no mantle up to the beam, from the rope collect a Fire Arrow, a Water Arrow, and a Moss Arrow lying where the beams meet. Climb down and retrieve the Rope Arrows half way, dropping to the floor. Climb the Rope Arrow above the pool to the ceiling, retrieve and drop to the pool. Dive and drop back below.

In a patch of shadow at the rear left (South East) corner, find two Stacks of Gold Coins (25;0;0). Go back to the North Green House. Turn right and when you meet the East wall find a Green Vase (0;0;50). Leave via the arch on the North East into a stone corridor running towards North.

Get inside the opposite arch into the East Green House. Immediately have entrance, look down on the ground on your left to locate a Moss Arrow. At the opposite corner to find stairs going down. The door down there cannot be picked, but the key you found in the Bedroom of Level 2 opens it. The cellar is unguarded so you can explore it yourself. Turn right and enter a star shaped area. Leave on the East, turn right and enter a second star shaped area. Go pass the barriers to the center of the area.

Collect a Purple Goblet (0;0;15) and a Bottle of Fine Wine (0;0;50) on the left (East) table. On the other table, read the Trickster Book on Tome of Magic. Under that table, read the Papyrus, which is a letter from his architect. This is the incriminating information you needed (that Constantine has a large unexplainable supply of gold). Thief players must get this to complete the mission, while Thief Gold players can fulfil the objective by reading one of the two increiminating information (the other is at Brobdingnag).

Leave the East Green House, turn right, and there is a wooden door a little ahead on your left. Use a guard key to unlock the door to get two Gold Vases (100;0;0). Now we completed everything. Go back to the Main Building and leave via the Front Gate to end the mission.