Thief Side Mission: Shark Bait

Once you're inside Eddy Levack's office, use focus. You'll notice that there are two pressure plates on the floor, and no switch in sight. The idea is to crotch, HUG THE LEFT WALL, and swoop. Unfortunately, I had started the mission, made it past the plate unharmed, and realized that I forgot to turn on the recorder. The second time around, I forgot to hug the wall, and you can see in the video what happened.

Inside the bureau is a vase. If you look closely, you can see that something is behind it. Smash the vase, and use the switch. This opens the door that leads to the electrical box. Once the wire is cut, the office is totally safe for you to crack the safe, and grab everything in the office.

Thief Side Mission: The Disappearing Poet

This is not a hard mission, just mildly annoying. For instance, one of the pieces of paper that you're looking for is under a bag of food. If you're at full health, and have a full inventory, you can't pick the food up.

All of the pieces are shown in the video that accompanies this post. The three that you're most likely to miss are the one under the food, the one on top of the bureau, and one hidden behind the lid of an open chest.

If you're stuck, just use focus to highlight anything that you can interact with in the area. 

Thief Side Mission: Saving Face

Wait for the two men patrolling the street to pass. Pick the lock on the door, and close it behind you. Head downstairs, and use focus. Unscrew the plate, and press the off button for the trap. The bust is straight to your left, on a smell shelf. Grab it and you're done.

Thief Side Mission: Fit For A Queen

You will need a few rope arrows in this area. There is a secret room to your right as you head down the stairs. Activating the button on the wall opens a trap door above your head. Shot a rope arrow at the beam to access the secret area.

After you've finished in the room, leave and use focus, There are two beams that you will need rope arrows for. One is just outside the window that you want to enter. If you haven't upgraded your bow, you might not be able to hit it until you're closer.

Near the bottom of the stairs that you used to reach this area is another beam. Shot it, and climb up to the platform, and hop across the gap to the brightly lit balcony. Climb over the railing, and turn left. Enter the window, and turn right. Exit through the window, and climb over the short wall. Turn right immediately, and you'll find a locked door on your right. Pick the lock, and head inside.

Cut through the apartment and look out the window. If you haven't already done so, use a rope arrow on the beam. Grab the rope, and head down to the next level. Inside is Little Lucy, and a note about the necklace. Head back to the rope, through the upper apartment, and enter the dark apartment you were in earlier. This time, go through the other window, and turn right.

Take the next right, and walk until you need to hop down to the ground. Climb the wall on the other side of the street, and turn right yet again. Climb the wall, and jump across the gap to the next window. Inside is a woman crying over a dead body. She will ignore you, so just take what you can, grab the item, and leave.

Thief Side Mission: Casing The Cargo

There's a lot of light in the area, and three guards that move around a lot. If you take one out, the others will know right away. There is also a caged dog in the area. Besides a lot of patience, you will also need a rope arrow and two water arrows to get this mission done.

First off, use focus to highlight the beam for the rope arrow. Wait for the guard to approach. After a few seconds, he turns and walks back to where he came from. This is your chance to shot the beam and climb up. Follow the ledge to where you can jump across.

The windows are barred, so use your focus. You'll notice that the wire box is down below the window that a guard likes to stand near. Shot out the flames, to give yourself some darkness. There won't be a lot, but it will help.

Time the guard that walks along the wall. There is a cart between him and the wall that you can use for cover. Hop down, and snip the wires. The other guards in the area can still see you when they pace, so be careful. If you're spotted, do the best that you can against them.

If you are having trouble with all three, you can thin the crowd a little. Instead of going straight for the wires, stay on the ledge where you climbed up the rope. Wait for the guard to pass by, and do an aerial take down. Run back to the roof that you dropped down from to get to the area, and wait for the other two to leave.

Once the wires are cut, you need to climb back up the rope, and get to the windows. Next to the safe on your left is a painting that has two hidden switches. Pulling the switches reveals a button that opens a hidden area in the floor boards. Open the safe, grab everything in the room, and leave.

Thief Side Mission: Writing Wrongs

In order to enter the shop, you have to squeeze through a few crates. Once inside, there's a lot of stuff to grab. Don't miss the cash register as you loot. Just hop over the counter to get it. Afterwards, examine the books on the shelf. Find the hidden switch, and a trap door opens. Hop back over the counter, and head down.

On the table in the back is a manuscript. This is the item that you need. Grab it, and everything else you see, and leave once you see the mission complete prompt.To leave, just go back upstairs, and squeeze past the crates.

Thief Side Mission: Slick Willy

When you enter Willy's townhouse, you're on the upper level. There's not much to loot here, but there is more downstairs. Before heading down, examine the picture of the naked woman on the wall. Find the hidden switches, and a secrete panel opens. A dead Willy falls from the ceiling, and has an item to grab on him.

Head downstairs, and loot everything. Climb up the ladder inside the secret area, and head up. Open the chest, and grab the watch (as well as the coins). When you see the mission complete prompt, you're done.

Thief Side Mission: Taking A Fence

For this mission, you will need four arrows. Two rope, and one blunt. As always, follow the cursor until it points to a window that you can't climb to. Use focus to reveal a beam that you can shoot a rope arrow at. It may be out of range, so don't shoot yet. Instead, walk down the street to another beam. You will know you're headed the right way if there are two windows on your right, neither of which you can reach yet.

Shoot a rope arrow up to the second beam, and climb up. Open the first window, and enter the apartment. There's loot galore in there, so grab everything that you can. And no, the deer head doesn't come off the wall. Exit through the second window, and look up for a pulley. Shoot it with a blunt arrow, then shoot the beam with the second rope arrow.

Climb up the rope, and jump off at the next level. Walk to the end of the ledge, and jump across the gap to the window that you want to enter. Use focus again, and you will see a push switch on the far wall. Shoot it with your second blunt arrow, and the bars to the window open. You can now loot away. After you have everything, you get the mission complete prompt.

Thief chapter 5: Meet Basso At The Siren's Rest

This is pretty straight forward. Just follow the cursor through the town, until you reach the docks (the area where you have to keep taking out the guard that shoots you if you enter the lit window). Instead of hopping over the railing, this time sneak across the dock, and enter the building.

Inside, you get a cut scene that fills you in on the next part of the story. Afterwards, you can either:

a) start the next objective - Get to the Boat

b) get a new job from Basso

Since Basso has so many to offer, I personally decided to accept all of them (instead of going back and forth when I finish one), and did them in no particular order. Actually, I wanted to do them in the order they were listed by Basso, but when you take them all at once, they don't appear in your objectives in the same order.

Quite a few of them just involved grabbing items that you missed (or didn't come across) in the game play. I recognized at least one of them from earlier in the game, before I had the razor. I am not going to include these in this guide, because all you have to do is follow the cursor, and collect the item.

I will, however, include the jobs that have a puzzle, or just a badly designed entrance to the area. Areas that you have to squeeze through crates, for instance. Please remember that I am playing these for the first time. I don't play the game, write notes, and then re-play for this guide. As such, there will be some areas where I pause to think things out. I do attempt to edit them out, however. No reason for a five hour video for a mission that only takes 10 minutes.

Thief Side Mission: Hand Tailored

You can do this side mission without any extra tools. HOWEVER, if you do NOT have the wire cutter, do not do the second side quest from Ector. The game will not let you abort the mission, or leave the area until the mission is complete. Unfortunately, there is no way to complete the mission without the cutters.

To start this mission, follow the cursor to Ector's Emporium (a.k.a., the pawn Shop). This will not be as easy as it sounds, since you have to climb through a window to get from one part of the map to another. You will then have to find several crates to squeeze past. And of course, the crates look just like every other crate in the game. Bad game designers. BAD!

Once you pass the crates, slide down the ladder, and enter the shop. Inside, approach Ector for your mission. After you accept the mission, rob him blind, and head out the door. You now have to back track through the crates, and follow the cursor to the tailor shop.

Enter inside, and sneak or snipe as you see fit. There's a lot of loot scattered around, so be sure to grab everything that you can. Once you're done, head down to the basement, and pick the lock on the safe. Open it, take out the hand, and head back to Ector. It's really that simple.

Thief Chapter 4 Part 1

This clip is basically all cut scene, with a little bit of traveling from point A to point B. Essentially, you're doing maintenance on your gear, when you get a message via bird. The message lets you know that something bad is happening at the Broken Barrack, so you go there A.S.A.P.

Not much of a blog post, but I'm trying to make shorter clips, due to long upload and "editing" times. You'll also see that there's a lot of game play omitted from this part of the guide. I did a lot of misc traveling/exploring while capturing, and it had nothing to do with the storyline. I also started a side mission, which I'll write up separately.