#thiefposting

[darkflamethief]

what if i was the cute thief in your party but i was mechanically interesting rather than just having a Steal ability with a low success rate. like i had the a sealed version of somethting you later discover is the cursed power so if anything i was like a mage dodgetank but but im. a thief.

and we held hands.

[chesthighwater]

the original thief games are on sale for 97 CENTS on steam ❗❗❗

thief gold is 97 cents! the metal age is 97 cents! deadly shadows is 98 cents for me for some reason BUT STILL THIS IS CRIMINALLY CHEAP. that is less than a pack of gum nowadays!!!

go buy thief do it now

and get tfix for thief gold, t2fix for metal age, and sneaky upgrade for deadly shadows. AND GO EXPERIENCE THE BEST STEALTH GAME EVER MADE

[rad-roche]

saving the meat of it for a bigger post but i'm Thinking about thief again and i have 'charlie pointing at red string pepe silvia' tier thoughts about garrett and karras and how their characters are constructed and play off one another

i'd love love love to dig into the parallels karras and garrett share with one another because the game sets them up as foils and it's really good and well considered. both break from their initial order to do their own thing (the keepers, the hammers), both are self-obsessed, both are mired completely in their own pride. but where garrett has, and develops, begrudging connections to other people and a sense of duty at least a little beyond 'i want more money' and 'i need to pay rent', karras turns completely inward to the total exclusion of everything, even the god of the religion he is spearheading.

karras gets a lot of flak at soulforge for ranting down a mic at length for minutes at a time, talking about himself, but consider that almost all the dialogue in thief 1/2 is garrett talking to himself about himself, for his own self-interest. in soulforge garrett will quip something now and then in response to a rant, but these men can't hear one another, this isn't a conversation. man there's so, so much there, especially karras' fascination bordering on obsession with garrett. it's easy to take it as dastardly villain fixated on the only person who can stop him, which in part it is, but an angle i think is interesting is that karras' self-absorption is so all encompassing that he recognises himself in garrett and fixates on him as a result. when karras is about to wipe out all life to fill the world with mechanical simulacra of himself, speaking in his own voice, with his own face, the only thing that ends up stopping him is that a petty, selfish man walks back a petty, selfish choice for the sake of someone else

[darkflamethief]

i’m a villain and you should defeat me. i’m a villain and you shouldn’t defeat me. i’m a powerful adversary and you should fall before my power. you should flick my forehead and have it shut me down entirely. i’m a cute party member you should be kind to and save when the darkness within her takes over. i’m a cute party member you have to mercykill when the darkness within her takes over. i’m a princess. i’m nice. i’m wicked and evil and all powerful. i’m cute. you love me. okay?

[chesthighwater]

i do understand the appeal of the inherent conflict between thi4f garrett, who is so deeply against killing, and high chaos corvo, who does murder for breakfast, but have you considered:

og garrett who thinks corvo is not so much morally bankrupt, but rather just a complete amateur. really? he's so bad at sneaking around that he has to kill people and leave a huge mess? can't get in and out without alerting the guards? could not be me.

essentially it would be less "the man i love has done things i find morally reprehensible, i'm not sure if i can live with him for what he has done or live with myself for still loving him" and more "sooooo there's this guy............. yeah he's a 10 but he's like painfully cringefail incompetent 🙄🙄🙄🙄"

[chesthighwater]

Someone said Thief crossovers?

oh yes. i did, it was me.

jokes aside, i really only found dh via my obsession with thief. TG and T2 are, other than being some of my favourite games ever, also the best stealth games of all time in my eyes. i was just looking for something that might come at least a little close to the experience i had playing those, and that's when i got dh recommended to me.

so yes. thief crossovers? very cool. i quite like the idea of garrett having to deal with the rather unkind setting of dh, making his way into mansions and being snarky about the state of dunwall's elite. and discovering what the hell the outsider is about, with that same resigned tone of "there i go being involved with supernatural world-ending shenanigans yet again". and he's such an interesting character to me- i think he'd have some pretty fun interactions with corvo.

[kirbyddd]

Preview 2 of Comic #1 “New Uniform”

Still coming this weekend!  Probably...

[kirbyddd]

Preview of Comic #1 “New Uniform”

Coming this weekend!  Probably...