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Steal the Scepter   (2025) TG FM

2025 End of Year Speedbuild Competition (Non-Contest)

5 minute Wonders Humour Mansion/Estate Novelty/Experimental OM Mod/Port Surreal/Bizarre

You have a simple job planned for this evening: steal Lord Bafford's scepter and escape. This is sure to go well and there is definitely nothing weird going on.

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info NOTES:     - THIS IS A THIEF GOLD MISSION! If you try to load it in Thief 2 it will get
mega busted.
- Please do not play this mission with any graphical mods or enhancement packs
installed.
- NewDark 1.26 or later is required.

A surrealist Thief experiment created for the 2025 year-end speedbuild jam. Have fun! :)

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You have a simple job planned for this evening: steal Lord Bafford's scepter and escape. This is sure to go well and there is definitely nothing weird going on.

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2025 End of Year Speedbuild Competition (Non-Contest)

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message   Hell yeah
peter_spy    Jan. 24, 2026, 9:14 p.m.

A fever-dream-like dissection (literal, at some point), of a cultural phenomenon that is Lord Bafford's Manor. We need more wild and fresh takes like that. Reminds me of a few other experimental games, like Cruelty Squad or Brazillian Drug Dealer 3. The explanatory readables were unnecessary IMO, they weaken the overall impact a little bit. It's...

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message   Perfect!
Thirteen1355    Jan. 23, 2026, 5:57 p.m.

This is my final Thief review (for real this time) until I play Godbreaker or something cool comes out. I consider this to be the perfect mission to play after playing all other fan missions. It brings things back to its basics while being a complete and unabashed love letter to the series we all know and love. Absolutely amazing journey. Gamepl...

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message   Refreshing to play
69Taffer69    Dec. 28, 2025, 3:56 p.m.

It's not really common nowadays see FM like this , this experience reminds me of Incubus. Really enjoyed playing this.
It more reminds me of some acid bad trip or fewer with temperature 39.8

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message   Amazingly surreal deconstruction of Bafford's Manor
Matt    Dec. 27, 2025, 9:38 p.m.

I love when fm authors go absolutely insane and don't care about conventions, or "nice" aesthetics. Xen did that, and the end result is a fantastic ride. Also, I love the respectful and enthusiastic nod towards "bad" missions (read the note in Bafford's basement office). I agree with Xen, there is a (probably unintentional?) surreal quality in t...

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message   Simple geometry done right
Taffy_Laughy    Dec. 26, 2025, 5:17 a.m.

This FM has so much character and is well executed for a linear-style mission, way to go!

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message   Steal the Scepter
Plibb    Dec. 24, 2025, 6:58 p.m.

Copypasting my message on the TTLG forums -

What an excellent mission. Enjoyed every moment and even tugged on a few heartstrings reminiscing on the lasting legacy that stealing Bafford's Sceptre created. Stuff like this is why Thief is the best series out there. I hope to see more missions from you in the future.
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I have a feeling a fair ...

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message   It's perfect
Mefix    Dec. 24, 2025, 4:29 p.m.

Way to capture the flow and spirit of speedbuilding ya taffer!

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message   W creativity!
thileger    Dec. 24, 2025, 12:17 p.m.

I really enjoyed this mission and its meta-humor.
It is far from your typical thief experience, which is
a testament to the creative process involved here.

ps. I could not imagine playing this without scrollwheel jumping/bhopping

6/10

Good Job!

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message   Very incredibly good, somehow.
whattheheeell    Dec. 24, 2025, 4:58 a.m.

Just a little note to the author, check out a fan mission called "Brainchild", you just might like it as much as I did! anyways, yeah, lovely stuff this was. I don't even know how to rate this. But it's good.

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message   Experimental, short and (actually) fun
Sapply    Dec. 24, 2025, 1:03 a.m.

The impossible geometry and never-before-seen health potions of gargantuan size make this a fun ride after finishing or starting a larger FM.

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