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Broken Triad   (2008) T2 FM

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Arkford. A six days' march northeast of the City; far enough for me to keep a low profile. The events in and underneath Farrington Manor compelled me to leave my usual field of activity for a while... Read more

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info NOTES:     This mission takes place a few months after the events in Ominous Bequest. If you haven't played the prequel, I recommend playing it first.

IMPORTANT:

Due to a bug in the first mission that refuses to disappear, Garrett's feet tend to "slip" into the ground occasionally (it mostly happens at slopes). You can recognize this when his footsteps don't make any sound. If this happens, Garrett can't climb the slightest step. To get unstuck, you simply need to jump.

Gameplay Hints:

Your equipment will be carried over from mission 1 to mission 2. Unneeded items, like keys, will be discarded automatically.

Later on, you'll find a new kind of arrow that can be accessed with the noisemaker arrow's hotkey (default: 9).

A lot of what you can read contains hints to puzzles in the mission. If you are stuck, try to remember what you've read before. Especially, notes that go into your inventory most likely contain information you'll need later on.

One puzzle in the first mission requires you to identify a sequence of tones. If you have trouble solving this puzzle on your own, you can find a picture of the solution within your Thief 2 folder, inside a directory called BT_TonePuzzle.

The purpose of some items you pick up won't be apparent right away. Just keep them with you, as their use will be made clear later on. You shouldn't resort to using everything with everything in the hopes of triggering something.

In the first mission, try to get the security report as soon as possible.

Anything you discover in secret areas (message 'Secret Found') is optional and not essential for finishing the game.

Some elements of the mission are determined randomly at the beginning and might change on a restart.

Due to the missions' complexity, your inventory will grow quite a bit. Keep in mind that you can drop keys if you don't need them anymore. Every key in the first mission is clearly labeled to make it obvious when it is of no more use.

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Eshaktaar (Renzo Thönen)   Missions
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Briefing

Arkford. A six days' march northeast of the City; far enough for me to keep a low profile. The events in and underneath Farrington Manor compelled me to leave my usual field of activity for a while.

Arkford's citizens have high standards when it comes to their prosperity. Nobody asks you how you amassed your riches, though, which made me fit right in. Still, I don't plan on overstaying my welcome, and after three months I've seen about enough of this conceited town. Tonight's job will be my farewell present before I head back to the City.

A stone bust called "The Sleeper" is currently on display in the local museum, the Harrogate. The bust is as ugly a piece of art as it is a coveted item among collectors. Instead of being a useless dust gatherer, it would serve a much better purpose if it earned me some money, so I'm going to make it mine.

What makes this task interesting are the elaborate security measures surrounding the sculpture. The bust sits on a pressure plate that triggers the alarm at the slightest change of weight. I assigned a sculptor to create a replica of identical weight which I'm going to exchange for the original. For the time being, that's the only detail I know about Harrogate's security system.
Lucky for me, a renowned security inspector happens to be in town, and he has written a detailed report about the Harrogate's safety precautions. This report might prove useful in my endeavor. I also managed to befriend one of the museum's curators, Sheila Jennings, and persuaded her to borrow a few keys for me by tonight.

It's time for me to pay the museum a late visit. The quicker I finish this job, the sooner I get away from Arkford. This town is starting to give me headaches.


Campaign details

1. Broken Triad, Part 1: Arkford

Avg. rating:   8.56 / 10
by 16 players
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2. Broken Triad, Part 2: Tempest Isle

Avg. rating:   8.50 / 10
by 14 players
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message   *** SPOILER *** Flower card bug
plotz    June 21, 2024, 3:24 p.m.

*** SPOILER ***
If you try to read the flower card but your game installation is bugged, do the following :,

1/ go to the following folder :
\BrokenTriad1_1_0\books\english folder

2/ Open following files with a text editor (right-clic on the file's names)
- wname01.str
- wname02.str
- wname03.str
- wname04.str
- wname05.str

3/ on...

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message   Awesome but borked
veryepicthiefgamer    Jan. 18, 2024, 10:23 a.m.

I had a lot of fun with the first mission! Finding all the items, key hunt style, is a bit annoying but exploring the environment is really fun and I managed to get all the way up until the end. An issue I'm running into, though, is that the script for the cutscenes near the end break. After looking on TTLG I found people with similar problems, ...

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message   A classic 2-parter
ScipiO219    July 8, 2023, 8:35 a.m.

The setup and execution of the 1st mission in Broken Triad is one of my favorites ever. The atmosphere is cozy but there is a haze of dread in the air that only grows as you unravel the mysteries of the town block that is your initial playground. The gentle snowfall outside does little help assuage the tension that slowly grows and grows as you ...

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message   It will remain on your memory
Kubrick    Aug. 31, 2022, 4:19 p.m.

I checked my files and it was literally a year ago that I played this FM for the first time, and not only I remembered lots of it (not usual) but it's also one of those FMs that works better for me in a replay rather than the first time I try them. Middle to little town map (compared to stuff like Being Thief 2 and Feast of Pilgrims) but very i...

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message   Broken Triad
SPIDIvonMARDER    May 6, 2020, 4:27 p.m.

Recenzja z 29 lica 2012


Jest to pierwsza FMka w mojej karierze, która dostanie ocenę "10" za swój skill. Pracowicie zbierała plusy, że ostatecznie nie mogę przyznać innej oceny pomimo, że sam koncept misji nie jest jakimś wielkim odkryciem.

W mało której misji mamy tak rozbudowaną fabułę. Tutaj zachwyca ona nie tylko poprzez nieoczekiwan...

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