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Thief: The Dark Project
WalkthroughSection: Strange Bedfellows |
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The Destroyed Temple
You begin in the same place where you began the Undercover mission, out in the streets near the Hammer temple. Everything seems to have changed. Death and destruction are everywhere. Bodies litter the streets, and everything appears to be destroyed. The doors of the Hammer temple have been ripped off the hinges, and no other living soul seems to be in the area.
Enter the temple, and explore the two rooms to the side. Grab the broad head arrows on the floor. You'll notice that your objectives change as soon as you enter the temple. Rather than finding someone in charge, you must now find whether the Hammers have survived the assault at all.
Open the door into the temple proper and look in. A few enemies are patrolling the area beyond. Step carefully into the corridor and grab the arrows, then head right and open the door at the end of the corridor. Grab some more arrows and move through the door across from where you entered, back to the balcony.
Now walk through the ruined Reliquary and move carefully into the hall beyond. You'll have to pick the lock on the door here, so keep a watch for the patrolling bugbeast in the room with the large stairs leading down. Enter the chapel area and again grab the arrows from the floor. Walk up to the remains of the altar and climb down the ladder into the sub-basement of the temple.
Finding the Hammers
The sub-basement is heavily patrolled by ratmen. You can kill them if you want to, but with care and patience, you can just avoid them all. If you stick to the shadows and move quickly across the brightly lit areas, you should have no trouble picking your way past them.
The carnage in the sub-basement is almost total. The bodies of dead Hammers and ratmen, and even an occasional bugbeast, litter the floors. To get to where you need to go, you'll be taking left passages for the most part. When there are no ratmen in the area, move away from the ladder and through the opening ahead of you and into the tunnel beyond. The Hammers have carved out a few rooms in this tunnel complex, but you don't have the luxury of hiding behind closed doors. A few barrels here can serve as an impromptu hiding place, and you'll often find a good number of deep shadows behind the columns holding up the ceiling.
Take every left-most passage until you find the dead Hammer under a cloud of insects. If you look beyond him, you'll see a fountain of holy water that has been toppled. There's nothing of value in that room, and a spider is lurking there, so avoid it. Instead, take the next passage to the right from there and continue moving forward. As you exit the room and look down the tunnel, you'll see a set of stairs leading down in the distance.
Again, wait for the ratmen to finish their patrols in the area, then make a run for the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs, you'll emerge into a large, circular area with three levels. You'll be on the top level along with the bodies of two dead Hammers. The next level down has a cross-shaped wooden walkway spanning the center. All the way at the bottom, you can see a couple of creatures, including another bugbeast, walking about.
Around to the right of where you entered this area is a locked door. You can't open this door with your lock-picks, so you'll have to get the key. Walk around the upper walkway to the opening on the other side and go through. This leads to a ramp heading down to the next level.
You emerge on the middle level in a small alcove with two tiny rooms off from it. In the right one, you can get a few moss arrows, while the one on the left holds some fire arrows. Get them, then lean out so that you can look at the walkway. The ratman patrolling the walkway must be dealt with. When he is dead, walk straight across the walkway, avoiding both the left and right crosspieces.
On the far side is another alcove with two rooms. The right room is a water area. Jump in and get the water arrows in the central dry area. The left room looks much like the void room back in the mission to retrieve Constantine's sword. Don't worry about entering, the floor is simply invisible. Snag the gas arrows here and leave, going through the tunnel that leads to a long spiral staircase heading down.
At the bottom of the stairs, you'll find yourself face-to-face with a Hammer guard. He recognizes you and tells you of the current plight of the temple. The high priest has been captured by the Trickster's creatures. The Hammers dare not risk an attack because the ratmen would kill the priest as soon as they were threatened. However, someone with your talents seems well suited to the task of rescuing the man. The guard will give you a key and a map and send you on your way.
Finding the Priest
After you have the key and the map, you need to get back to the top level of the circular area. Re-trace your steps all the way up to the locked door at the top and use your new key to open it. As soon as you do, back up just in case a ratman is patrolling in the area. This next area is quite dangerous and requires a lot of precision, timing, and patience.
Walk forward through the door and then through the opening ahead. Take an immediate left into the corridor beyond. A number of ratmen and bugbeasts are shuffling around in this area, so you must move carefully. When there is nothing in the immediate vicinity, shoot a water arrow to douse the torch on the left wall, and put the bow away. You're going to stick to the corridor here, avoiding the rooms in the middle so you don't have to worry about the bulk of the creatures. Each time you approach a torch, use one of your water arrows to douse it and darken the area.
As you walk, you'll frequently run across the patrolling ratmen. You can get into a fight with them if you wish, but there is no need. Fortunately, there are a number of privies along the left side of the corridor where you can hide when one of the ratmen gets close. Follow this corridor all the way to the end. Take the ramp down.
The Priest
There are three exits from the room at the bottom of the ramp. Go through the exit on the left. This room holds two ratmen. Fortunately, they are currently standing with their backs to you, facing a fire. Move in and hug the left wall, going as slowly as you can to make as little noise as possible. Keep going all the way to the opposite side of the room and go through the exit here. The next room also contains a pair of ratmen. You want the exit to the immediate right as you enter the room. You'll be heading into a room that has a cloud of insects in it.
The room to the right here, through the insects, has a bugbeast in it. Avoid an encounter by going straight through the room to the exit directly across from where you entered. You'll walk into a room with a skeleton on the floor. Turn left and go through the doorway in front of you again. This room, like many of the others, holds two ratmen around a fire. They're over in the left corner. You need to go all the way to the back and out the doorway on the right.
You're now on the opposite side of the room with the priest. Duck in and hug the left wall. Slide around until you get up close to the priest. Crouch down next to him and keep your eyes on the closest ratman. He'll regularly turn and face the fire, then turn back and look toward you. When he turns away, arm a gas arrow and drop him with it. Immediately start readying another gas arrow and aim for the area between the other two ratmen. They'll be alerted to your presence, but they won't know where you are. As they start searching for you, they'll get close to each other. When they are near each other, launch your second gas arrow and take them both out.
With the ratmen out of the way, pick up the priest and walk through the exit opposite the one you entered. This puts you back into the first room on this level. Rather than going across the room to the long ramp up, take an immediate left and go up the ramp here.
You'll emerge in a room that has a sort of makeshift dock area. Drop the priest on the raft here and climb aboard. When you're ready, hit the lever, and the raft will launch and start floating downstream with the current. Pick up the unconscious priest again and wait.
The raft will follow the stream along, eventually dropping down a very gentle waterfall. Let it carry you and the priest all the way to shore, then disembark and carry the priest over to the hammer-shaped window slit. Drop him here, and the mission will end successfully.
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