Chapter III
More than just a *mere* thievan.
Previously on Thievan in the Night!
Liberal meets a very persuasive kebab salesman...
: The other two ugly bastards no doubt shat their pants on the spot. So they started running. I lobbed a grenade at them. Never knew batarians had so many guts inside of their bodies.
: Seriously bro, how is this disgusting shit supposed to make me fucking hungry and willing to buy your fucking kebab?
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He gets +2 to Thievan LARP by aquiring new armor...
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He has strange visions of events and people that seem familiar...
: I *am* loyal to my homeland. The government betrayed *me*, after it first betrayed the noble ideals upon which *my* homeland was built.
: Bah! Your people are fucking slavers and imperialist scum, what "noble" ideals you might have? I will not rest until you all burn.
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He uses his near maximum thievan to steal lots of valuables from the palace. Then he gets trolled by a crafting skill check out of all things...
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Finally Liberal decides to investigate the aurelian mining outpost for Dellar and house Daratan...
And now the continuation...
: I will become one with the shadows. These fools won't even know I was here.
Suprisingly unlike the palisade around the palace this is only a DEX check and not a combo DEX STR check.
After breaking into a palace in broad daylight and remaining unnoticed this isn't even hard.
Fear not dear Hivemind! For this is not a Wellerian Choice! Liberal will survive.
See? Liberal failed the check but he didn't get maimed, burned, impaled, crucified or otherwise killed... yet.
Vince&co in their mercy spared Liberal from certain unavoidable death within the Iron Tower Ultimate Action System(tm) and gave him an opportunity to use his thievan talents.
It better not be radioactive, last thing Liberal needs is cancer.
: 100 jewgold?! I've seen cheap Russian whores getting payed more for a blowjob!
Archeran and trapan are inclined further.
Liberal searches for adventure near the commercium's hall of zionism and greed.
: Of course good sir! I am definitely in the market for cheap illegal goods, it comes with the job description.
: FUCK!
Now actually fighting those two guys isn't hard, with a melee weapon and some dodge or block. All you need to do is run into the small room in the side and use the doorway as a chockepoint to fight them one by one.
If you kill them, you can kill Militiades or let him tell you of this great offer of his. Basically he tells you a noble will come soon and bring jewgold for some gems Militiades obviously did not have.
When the noble arrives though, he tells you that he already payed him and *you* were supposed to give him the gems. Naturally this ends in a fight unless you persuade him otherwise.
Killing the noble and his two guards is actually quite rewarding because the noble has a steel gladius IIRC. That and you get some more loot and 3 SP.
However Liberal cannot into close-quarters combat therefore he bails.
Liberal teleports back to the thievan guild and sells his hard earned loot.
: The best stolen armor a thievan can acquire in Teron and I'm only getting less than 1000 jewgold? Fuck you Kleitos!
There it is, the final component! Liberal equips his new thievan cloak and achieves MAXIMUM THIEVAN...
: I... I can feel the thievan... its power is majestic!
: What... what is happening?! ARGHHH!!!
: I... am reborn.
: Liberal? What just happened to you? You look... different.
: Liberal is dead.
: Yet you are standing right in front of me...
: I have become Glyphwright, master thievan of the many worlds.
: My name is Glyphwright you fucking inferior thievan!
This is the first *proper* thieves guild quest. Now the thievan Liberal did in the opening vignette does not count. This is the task Cado gives to any PC that can join the thieves guild. If you already joined another "guild" (the Imperial Guard counts as one) you cannot join the thieves guild.
AFAIK your character is not considered a member by AoD as long as you do not complete the first quest.
: No doubt the corrupt Russian Oligarchs are behind this most disgusting move.
This is the common persuasion and streetwise combo check I was talking about in one of the previous updates.
Bribing and getting information from these two guards is also part of the first proper Commercium quest. Although the goal in it is a bit different.
Now unfortunately the legendary charms of Liberal prevent him from doing this the easy diplomatic way.
Talking to the guards again doesn't yield any useful results.
Liberal returns to Cado who is emotionally engaged in some merchant diplomacy(tm).
A few things about this part. For one if your stats are sufficient you can suggest to Cado to forge a document.
That option is hidden with insufficient INT or crafting, it is definitely an INT check because the tag appears before the dialog choice.
It is also possibly a hidden crafting check because that is the only skill that I leveled on my other thievan (who had only one more INT than liberal).
Which makes sense because you need to get an old document with Antidas' seal (Feng can sell you one for 50 imperials), then write the document and apply the seal from Feng's document to your new document.
I also believe you can solve this by pursuing the "guard captain with a debt" path. With the other thievan he even got a journal quest entry about it, Liberal was not intelligent enough to get it I believe.
Unfortunately due to Liberal's not so great social skills we has to do this the hard way.
The guards are willing to reconsider out bribe offer. Tradan is not thievan so guess how that goes...
: By demanding such a high sum you deny food to the starving Georgian children in Ossetia. I hope you fuckers get mutated tuberculosis in a Russian prison, after the Russian inmates sodomize you and give you AIDS.
Jewgold pleases the guards.
This is just before the point of no return, Liberal should have done at least two other things now but I forgot or did not know about them.
Maximum trapan! Also archeran is inclined as is stealan.
: Think of all the potato we could buy with it!
So Antidas is plotting against the Imperial Guards eh? That sure is going to bite him in the ass if you ask me.
: I have gazed into the very fabric of thievan and saw Michael Bay. He gave me an idea, one that will ensure our thievan operation goes smoothly.
The point of no return itself, if you pick 1) it kicks off the Teron endgame for the Thieves Guild.
Hand-holding the player like he was some kind of consoletard by asking him twice?
: The thievan spirit of Michael Bay is with me. This cannot fail inferior thievan!
The Michael Bay solution to the merchant problem works like a charm. Trapan *is* thievan
Bros, here is another
shitty quality video epic recording of the MAJESTIC combat that took place.
As always you can just read the content below which has the excerpts of it.
: I am one with the arrow, archeran is thievan.
Mercenary is hit in ass and leg for crappy damage. However he is crippled, not bad for a 42% accuracy shot.
: Your end is near!
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I made the bad choice of going for the kill by using two fast attacks instead of shooting him once and retreating.
This caused the other guard to go after Liberal instead of the NPC meatshields. Fortunately one of the thievan guild bros knocked the merc down with his crossbow.
Liberal goes for the kill while aiming for the head...
kill stealing like a pro (you don't get SP if allied NPCs kill enemies, you need to be the one dealing the killing blow)
A 38% chance for a precise shot hitting. Liberal attempts it...
: My aim is augmented by maximum thievan asswipe!
Another pro kill steal by Liberal!
Liberal's thievan bros quickly mop up the remaining mercs thus achieve sweet victory.
IIRC the bottom of the text was just a "reputation gained, SP gained, jewgold gained" text.
Liberal has gained the "explosion expert" trait. Michael Bay would be proud, if he wasn't busy turning Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into aliens.
Archeran is inclined along with lockpickan and a few points in stealan. Liberal will need that archeran soon as you will see in the next and final Chapter of thievan in the night.
Chapter III will feature angry mobs, lots of archeran and fightan, the consequences that Liberal's actions had on Teron and postapocalyptic not-Rome along with the conclusion of the LARP meta-plot that nobody cares about.
Hopefully I'll post it within the next two days and finish this before leaving for the southern depths of potato land on friday.