Garret - Hired to Track another Thief or keep safe a valuable item...

[SeaBisKit]

I would like to see 1 or more missions where Garret is hired to watch or track (Escort) valuable items...

seems once you got a rep... then someone might see your services as being valuable to protect an item...

maybe there will be an event (award dinner or whatever) and the item will be on display... and there will be many people with access to the item...

Garret would be hired to track the item being brought out to be displayed and then returned to it's vault... as well as while it is on displayed...

insuring there is no "Swap" for a fake or other methods of stealing the item...

Hardest Part... should be... Garret would need to hidden the entire time... because the owner would not want the handlers of the item to know he doesn't trust them....


- Sea

[Neb]

There would be no point in a 'watch' mission in which nothing happens, so you'd eventually be tracking the item. You wouldn't be able to step in and stop the theft (or whatever), but I guess it would fun to have to track an item that switches many hands, and then report back to your client.

I'll all in for new and interesting sneaksy scenarios.

[Herr_Garrett]

Hardest Part... should be... Garret would need to hidden the entire time... because the owner would not want the handlers of the item to know he doesn't trust them....


Erm... Have you played Thief before?

[Hypevosa]

95% of thief missions you can get seen during the mission. He's just proposing another one where you can't or you fail.

I think it's an interesting idea, but I think what would be more fun would be if I could KO the thief and then, for once, be the one to press the little red alarm button so that the guards come get him.

I would appreciate the irony very much...

[HeyLight!]

Good old guards running hell for leather to the alarm only to take 10 whole seconds to press it.

[Hypevosa]

lol so true.

Playing deus ex I've noticed that as a big problem, them bolting for the alarm but I usually KO them right when they start standing next to it XD

I love the police baton...

[Tryst]

Garrett never does anything for totally selfless reasons. If he's hired to "protect" a valuable item, it would only be so he can scout the security and figure out how to steal it the next night.

[jtr7]

It sounds like a secondary mission and sub-plot, where it starts out being a job, but so much more important stuff happens and distracts him and is uncovered as he goes about it. It sounds like an ACT II type mission.

[CavaliereNero]

Reminds me of an escort mission. Which I've always hated in games. :\ If he were simply tailing the item so he can swipe it later, that would be better, methinks.

[Dayen]

I'd prefer to avoid any of the infinitely frustrating shadowing/escort missions that frequent games these days. Garrett's modus operandi is to gather information, make his move, and get out. Moving away from that MO disrupts the flavor of the game. Hiring out to do guard work also hurts the flavor of the game.

[Tryst]

I'd prefer to avoid any of the infinitely frustrating shadowing/escort missions that frequent games these days. Garrett's modus operandi is to gather information, make his move, and get out. Moving away from that MO disrupts the flavor of the game. Hiring out to do guard work also hurts the flavor of the game.
I can almost hear Garretts voice saying this:
I did a job in an advisory capacity a short while ago. Some noble wanted advice from a professional in my trade to install "thief proof security". I noticed he had a few shiny baubles that would be better used putting food on someone's table than collecting dust in a display case. I did warn him that I may not be the best thief in the world and I could only advise to the extent of my experience. He seemed quite happy with that bit, as with any noble, his payment for the job was not what I would call generous. Well, enough time has passed since then and maybe now, the "better thief" should make an appearance.