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The 7th Crystal (2001) T2 FM

Mansion/Estate Mystery/Detective Phobic (Spiders/Heights) Tombs/Catacombs/Crypts Winter/Snow

I'm at the Saturnine Mansion this evening and let me tell you, the circumstances of my inevitable leaving are indeed bittersweet.I'm afraid I've just run through the place and made quite a mess (bo... Read more

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Saturnine (David Tonkinson)   Missions
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Briefing

I'm at the Saturnine Mansion this evening and let me tell you, the circumstances of my inevitable leaving are indeed bittersweet.I'm afraid I've just run through the place and made quite a mess (boots tracking snowmelt and such) and its probably best if I'm not here when the lord of the house gets home. Hence I'm going to be quick about this here introduction.

The Seventh Crystal has finally arrived. And yes, I'm a happy beta tester.I won't be giving much away if I say its a cold winter's night in the city. And I'll only be telling the truth if I say you haven't played a dark and forbidding mission until you've played the 7th Crystal. "Yeah, yeah," you say. "I've heard that before."

I smile and recall my time on the Saturnine grounds. The lush reds and purples of the rooms seem a blur now. The gold I stole is inconsequential. And it certainly feels like something more (something I never even saw) still haunts this house of many gables. You see there's a secret left untold and its still here, hanging in the air.

After my moment of surprise, when my fingers left the keyboard and my heart stood still, I gazed in wonder andswallowed with difficulty. A whispered explicative of disbelief left my lips and then a faint smile replaced it.

Now I am left to ponder whether anything that really happened tonight will ever come to light. I wonder if Saturnine or the police or anyone else will ever know the truth. I wonder if I will ever know the truth of the whole story.

Yes I was there, in Lord Saturnine's room. But what I am left with after the fact is nothing but a dark empty pit in my stomach and the knowledge that it would have been better to stay home tonight than creep through the snow and into the warm indigo parlors of Lord Saturnine.
Good luck taffers. And welcome to the Alfred Hitchcock thriller of all Fan Made Missions: the 7th Crystal.

-Purah, Nov. 1st 2001


Campaign details

1. The 7th Crystal: Acts 1 & 2

Avg. rating:   7.50 / 10
by 6 players
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2. The 7th Crystal: Acts 3 & 4

Avg. rating:   4.00 / 10
by 5 players
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message   I wish I could skip the cutscene
Danman7    Feb. 11, 2024, 12:45 p.m.

This is one of the earliest FMs that gained popularity. It certainly was one of the very few snow missions at the time. It's a short campaign to be precise, but the first of 3 missions is a prolonged not skippable cut scene (innovative, but annoying). And the last mission is very short. Still the middle mission is good enough for a high rating.

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message   An early favourite which remains enjoyable
andyln    Feb. 11, 2024, 12:27 a.m.

I remember having a lot of fun with that back in the day, and looks like the old gem still got it.
Surely there are several aspects which wouldn't impress today, but one has to respect the breakthogh it represented 20+ years ago.

And the number one reason it's still great fun is its classic Thief gameplay - remaining stealthy, avoiding guard...

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message   Great Mission
hinotoumei    Oct. 18, 2021, 6:22 p.m.

This mission is utterly amazing. A lot of effort seems to have been put into making this. The detailed stories in the books you find are highly professional and fit into the atmosphere of the franchise. There is a wonderfully written poem you find later in the story that , while admittedly being hard to understand , is still really well done.
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message   7th Crystal Review
page    Jan. 26, 2021, 3:06 p.m.

What we've got here is, essentially, one of the most legendary FMs ever conceived. Originally released in late 2001, read: infancy of Thief modding, it surely influenced whole community, raising the bar for all future mapmakers - we're talking of Inverted Manse, Smuggler's Request or Calendra's Cistern kind of impact. For this reason alone it's ...

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