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DarthEnder
05-11-2009, 07:30 AM
I came up with this back when Thief: DS had just come out for how I would have liked Thief 4 to go.


In Thief 4, Garret will be retired. You will play an up-and-coming thief in the city, and will run into Garret's female apprentice several times in the game.

The game will revolve around the awakening of an ancient god. The Pagans will find that for some reason, their magics can no longer animate the dead. Through the course of the game, it will be learned that the glyphs destroyed by Garret held one of the gods in slumber beneath the city. The new diety, a god of death and entropy, won't actually be up and walking around, but rather exists much like the trickster, and once released begins speaking in the minds of necromancers and the like. A new cult will form around him that refer to him as The Devourer, and they call themselves Ghouls(though they are not undead ghouls, the cultists themselves are humans). Conflict erupts in the streets between The Trickster's Pagans and their beastmen, The Builder's Hammerites and their newly redesigned automatons, and The Devourer's Ghouls and their undead minions. All the while this is happening the City Watch has come under control of a secret society, which turns out to be the remnants of the Keeper Enforcers, who have supplemented thier lost glyphs with some more traditional arcane magics.

During all of this you will be running around, trying to make your fortune stealing, and basically taking advantage of all of the sides of the conflict, all the while you will be unaware that The One True Keeper, Garret, is manipulating you into maintaining balance in the city by pitting you against all sides through his apprentice.

And also, Garret wears The Eye in the place of his mechanical eye for some mysterious reason.

ozlay
06-05-2009, 11:00 AM
maybe add some compation like someone you need to kill maybe the apprentice maybe add two endings one where you fall in love with her maybe she could be garret and marla madisons (from thief 3) child Or you could kill her and garret wanting revenge hides in the shadows ready to atack add citys more then parts of citys more hammer heads then pagons maybe necromance shrines of the dead

nydusordos
06-05-2009, 01:36 PM
No two endings! Not if you want a sequel that makes bloody sense (Knights of the Old Republic II anyone?).

Darth, that isn't a horrible storyline. The end of DS really leaves open a lot of possibilities. Given that both the Pagans and Hammerites (well, Mechanists I guess) have had their turn at being the badguys, I think perhaps a new enemy is called for.

I personally have always liked the zombies, I would like them to return on a large scale. Although as the main villians they leave a lot to be desired:

Keeper: Why are you doing this?!

Zombie: Rarrrr!!

Keeper: It was you all along, wasn't it?!

Zombie: Urrrrghh?

Garrett: Dude, it's a zombie, it has no capacity for higher thought...

- Ordos

Drackulis
06-06-2009, 04:30 AM
It's like the city is occupated with zombies!

esme
06-06-2009, 08:58 AM
I had a similar story but I linked the eye to the cyclops statue in the museum of TDS which became animated in the final scenes, I also had the final glyph destroying mans ability to read and write which meant opening combination safes and reading clues became impossible and the Keepers were using magic from memory to hold back creatures from the maw but couldn't pass this magic to trainee keepers as it was a written language not spoken so the keepers were slowly becoming exhausted and when they finally collapsed the world would end, so Garrett had a time limit

DarthEnder
06-06-2009, 09:45 AM
I also think it would be cool if your character had like a mechanical hand because he was actually caught when he was younger and the Hammers cut off his hand.

esme
06-06-2009, 09:50 AM
oh they wouldn't cut it off, they're not barbarians, they'd flatten it on an anvil with a 10lb sledgehammer and send them on their way .... the character would then have to cut it off

I can be evil at times :D

clock12345
06-06-2009, 10:00 AM
actully i liked the mechanical eye it was as a nightvision thief 3 was my favourite

DarthEnder
06-06-2009, 10:27 AM
oh they wouldn't cut it off, they're not barbarians, they'd flatten it on an anvil with a 10lb sledgehammer and send them on their way .... the character would then have to cut it off.Actually, Hammerite scriptures specifically say that thieves' hands should be cut off.

Hypevosa
06-06-2009, 11:20 AM
Actually, Hammerite scriptures specifically say that thieves' hands should be cut off.

isn't that the thieves hands and liars tongues one? There weren't any mutes in any of the thiefs that I know of, so I don't think they take it that literally.

Taffer17
06-07-2009, 06:48 AM
And also, Garret wears The Eye in the place of his mechanical eye for some mysterious reason.

lol for some mysterious reason. anyone else think that's funny? :D

huzi73
06-07-2009, 07:28 AM
I dont see why this idea deserves its own thread, it should be merged into the other starting point/ plot ideas thread