Thief: The Dark Project - Game Mod - Calendra's Cistern - Download

Calendra's Cistern is a fan made adventure for Thief:The Dark Project created by Team Calendra.

BACKGROUND INFO:

This is your city. A black-caped lord, you survey your domain from the rooftops

with pensive, cynical eyes. They are analytical eyes. Like camera shutters, they

slice and assess every footfall on the midnight cobbles below. You time every

pendulous swing of the lanterns and evaluate every fitful throw of shadow from

one end of the street to the other. Your ears unconsciously decipher the sullen

echoes of voices, machinery and wind. This is a city of metronomes where chimney

pots sway to the ancient gurgle of pipes whose forlorn songs rise from throats

of incurable decay. You gauge the lonely armored scrape of each city watchman as

a matter of habit, for there is machination in thievery. And timing is

everything. You have internalized the rhythm of movement and non-movement, the

play of shadows, down to your very own pulse.

You chuckle sardonically, amused to find yourself thinking of the Keepers. But

you have good reason tonight.

Mercedes was a hard minded, hard bodied acolyte who left the Keepers shortly

after you. Though your relationship lasted longer than that of most thieves in

the city, you're not exactly a family man. Besides, Mercedes started dabbling in

sorcery and had her own agendas. But that's all in the past. And loneliness can

be delicious in its own way . . . especially on the rooftops at night. Her

letter arrived yesterday. You have it tucked in your breast pocket and it

reminds you of the times you spent together as acolytes. It mentions a party, a

job, strictly business it would seem . . . But you don't think so much about the

letter's content as you do on the familiar handwriting. And then you decide that

it is an interesting proposition after all. Not the money so much as the

challenge of stealing something more abstract than lucre or relics. A theft of

time and a little company to remind you of your fading youth. Such delicate and

unpredictable prizes fall outside what you've memorized of this clockwork city.

At the thieves' guild you once heard an old rogue say that the thief's burden is

not his bag of loot but the endless desire to possess what he does not have.

Tonight you meet an old friend . . . for you, a splinter of what might have been

is gleaming like a jewel under museum glass . . . and opportunity makes the

thief.

BRIEFING LETTER:

"Garrett,

I know we agreed not to see each other, but there's a party tomorrow night and

you're the only man thief-enough to be my escort. You've heard of the Weeping

Angel Tavern? It's near my new apartment on the south side of town. I heard

the owner, Lady Calendra, is closing the tavern early in order to throw a lavish

party. An elite few are invited and among them, a count seeking payment for his

delivery of a certain ill-gotten relic taken by crime from swamps in the utter

south. I don't know much about it really, but as far as the party goes, we're

'invited.' I'll expect you in the Weeping Angel's wine cellar by midnight. I

overheard there is a secret door there to the place the party is being held.

As Always,

Mercedes

To load the adventure use The DarkLoader program.

• Last update: Sunday, May 18, 2014
• Genre: Action
• File size: 32.9 MB