Thief Side Mission: The Carnal Connoisseur

Now that the skull is back with Vittori, you need to help him get back his eight legged cat. After you arrive to your next destination, look around and grab a throwable item, if you need one. Head downstairs, and open the door. Don't go through yet, since there's an alert guard. Wait until he lights his pipe, then swoop behind him. Take him out, and head down the narrow passage. Near the end, there's a climbing wall. Climb up, and grab the poppy. If you're full, use one that you have, if you're low on focus.

Hop down to get the goblet on the barrel, then climb back up. Follow the walk way on your left to the open window. The room is very well lit, and there's someone inside. Wait for your chance, and sneak attack. Inside, there's a ton of stuff, so have fun, you kleptomaniac, you. There are no other people on this floor, nor are there any traps. Explore the other rooms, then head downstairs.

And yes, that is the head of a kimono dragon, or some other large lizard on the wall by the window. I tried to zoom in, but the feature (press RS) didn't work here.

Pick the lock on the door at the bottom of the stairs, if you want the experience. Otherwise. turn around and enter the first door on your left. Opening the door will attract the guards attention. If you go back out the door, there is a switch just past the second (already opened) door on your left. Unfortunately I didn't see it until after I fought the guard. It would have made sneaking easier.  The room doesn't have much in it, but the cabinet does have some food, as well as a slightly less ugly painting than the previous ones.

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Head back upstairs, and out the window, You can hear the guards talking. Drop attack the first, but watch out for the second. I encountered him coming out of the wine cellar, which is a very well lit area of the yard. Once he's dealt with, head down the stairs. Examine the painting, and find the two switches. There is a combination switch behind it. Enter 8 1 2, to reveal the door hidden behind the wine racks to your left.

There is a light switch to your left as you enter the vault. For a change of pace, turn the light on, instead of off. Head left to find the cabinet with the cat in it. To your right is a very large, square push switch. This opens up a secret room downstairs.

Once you're done there, simply head back up the stairs, cut through the Collector's Lodge, and leave the area. Just climb up the wall next to the open door (the one you opened to take out the pipe smoking guard), and climb through the window.

The Second Half

The Epilogue 

Thief Side Mission: Happy Medium

You start with a cut scene. Lenny has hidden the skull somewhere in the area. You not only need to find it, but you can't be detected at any point in the mission. If you are detected, you have to start from the very beginning. I am adding a "blooper reel" with this post, so you can see some of my failed attempts at doing this.

First off, you have to decide how to handle the two men walking around, talking to Lenny. If you choose to sneak, you have to sneak past both. If you want to snipe one, you have to take them both out. The survivor WILL find the other body, and the mission is blown. Also, DON'T TAKE OUT LENNY! You need to follow him around.

Swoop to the area where you see the two candles. Grab what's on the table, and even blow out the lights IF you want. Use the crate to get to the top of the wall, and hop over. Open the gate for Lenny. Don't worry about the guards until you let him in.

As Lenny walks towards the guards, hop the crate next to the wall you just climbed over, and head to a release valve. Turn it, and a jet of fire shoots out, trapping the guards where they are. Lenny moves on to his next area, and you need to follow. But remember, Lenny can't see you, and neither can anyone else.

Grab everything that you see as you sneak through the alley way. The coughing man will find you if you attempt to snuff his candle. Instead, sneak around the kiosk that he's leaning against, and grab the treasure on the barrel. Head back around to Lenny, who's trying to gt a freebie from a hooker.

Grab everything that you can (but not the prostitute), and sneak ahead to unlock a gate. Then head back towards Lenny and his friend, and look for another valve. Turn it, and the lady drops out of sight. Literally. Lenny will now go past the gate you opened, and towards a door in a very well lit area. Either stay back, or crotch behind the crate.

Soon, a man answers the door, and lets Lenny in. Fortunately, he isn't smart enough to close the secured door afterwards, so you can just sneak on in.  Lenny is chatting with the man, so you still have some sneaking to do. Feel free to try any path that you want. Personally, I hopped down into the basement (just past the door that Lenny entered), and worked my way up. There is, of course, a lot of goodies around as well.

There is a guard downstairs, so decide to sneak or snipe. He likes to walk around, so I find it simpler to just snipe in these situations. Maybe if I had a chance to play these games full time as a job, I'd sneak more. Maybe.

Head up the stairs, and wait for Lenny to move out of your way. You can then slowly sneak up on the guy standing next to all of that bright light, and take him out. If you need one, there's a few throwable items around. Otherwise, there's a small 15G item in one of the drawers.

Head up the next level of stairs, and sneak up on the guard. Once he's out, you're home free. There are three chests in the area. The one that you have to pick open has the skull. Grab it, and listen to its inane banter. For that matter, it doesn't shut up, even when there's a guard nearby as you head back to The Siren's Rest.

Exit the area to get the mission complete message. Return it to Vittori for your next assignment.

The Mission

Epic Fails

Epilogue 

Thief Side Mission: Carnivalesque

This is actually part one of the Vittori carnival missions. All you need to do here is go to The Siren's Rest, and talk to Vittori. You watch (or skip) a cut scene, and leave the building to start your next mission in the series. I only put this clip here to complete the set.

Thief Side Mission: A Lady's Bequest

There are guards paroling the area, so either work fast as you pick the lock, or take them out and be leisurely about it. Loot everything that you see, and head downstairs. Loot everything... I think you get the idea by now... and crotch down to enter a duct.

Inside the hidden room is a barrel with a switch disguised as a cork. Push it to open a secret room inside the secret room. There's some more stuff down there, but it isn't where the quest item is. There is, however, another ugly painting to steal.

Head back up and through the duct, to where there's a small, round grate on the floor. IGNORE THE GRATE. Garrett couldn't fit down there no matter how hard he tried. Instead of trying to mess with the grate, turn around, and look for an old bureau that you can climb. There's a small space between it and the stairs, that has another bureau tucked away in it. Grab Lady Christina's Will, and your mission is over.

Thief Side Missions

I'm currently working on the side missions for the guide. I am not taking them in any particular order. As of last night, I have nine videos to add at YouTube.

Technically, the videos are being added today. I started the uploads around midnight Central time, and they were still uploading at 5:00 AM, when I got up for work. This "part-time" job is taking full-time energy.

Included in the new batch are some of the Vittoli(?) missions. I returned the talking skull, and have retrieved the eight legged cat. I just need to get back to The Siren's Rest.

I hope to write up the walk through later today, and get the videos published, including some "epic fails" for one of the missions.

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.