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April 7, 2008
April 1, 2008
  • New T2 FM - We miss you, Bob!, by Monastiri. "Garrett's old friend Lady Agutt needs help at saving her kidnapped baby boy, Bob, from EVIL guy Lord Marboby, who lives in his manor."

March 30, 2008
  • New T2 FM - Counter-Thief.zip, by Gambit. This is his first offering, a small mission inspired by the Counter-Strike "Assault" map, with one objective, an assassination.

March 16, 2008
  • Updated Thief - The Flying Age to v1.17. Sterlino fixed a few things for v1.16 and now fixed a final bug for 1.17.

March 14, 2008
March 10, 2008
  • Updated All for a Night's Sleep to v1.1. Vigil has fixed a bug and added more details and other fixes, properly finishing the map.

March 7, 2008
  • "New" T2 Campaign - Deep Trouble: City Under the Sea, by Dark Assassin. This is another update and compilation of John D. FMs, this time "Deep Trouble" and "Deep Trouble 2" (which itself had two parts), forming a new three part mini-campaign.

March 6, 2008
  • New T2 FM - UnMasked, by Nielsen74. It's a small "lunchbreak" "grab and get out" mission.

March 2, 2008
February 28, 2008
  • New T2 FM - All for a Night's Sleep, by Morrgan. It's been a few years so it's nice to see something new from this amazing author!

February 23, 2008
February 22, 2008 - Missions Mirrored!
  • I've begun to set up the main FM archive so that every mission has two file hosts, the main one here at www.keepofmetalandgold.com and then mirrored at www.komag.net. As of now all but the largest FMs are mirrored (please let me know of any bad links, thanks).

    This should help those of you who have trouble connecting to one host or the other, especially when a mission is new and being downloaded a lot.

  • Updated Rowena's Curse to v3. Lady Rowena has spent a month updating architecture, textures, and objects.

February 20, 2008
  • "New" T2 Campaign - Dark Beginnings, by Dark Assassin. This is actually an update and compilation of the original John D. missions "Burglary in Blackbrook", "Shadows of the Past" (now "A Spooky Interlude"), and "Quick Cash".

February 19, 2008
  • Updated Vadrigar's Prison to v2. cardia1 has fixed various issues and made this the final release.

February 18, 2008
  • Updated Broken Heart to v2. cardia1 has fixed various issues and made this the final release.

February 11, 2008
  • Updated Brawl in the Tombs to v2c. Dark Assassin has revamped this older John D. mission quite a bit.

February 9, 2008
  • Updated Sly's UT Arena 2 to v1.1. This adds a few inventory items to help you survive a fall.

February 8, 2008
February 6, 2008
February 5, 2008
February 4, 2008
January 31, 2008
  • Updated The Folly of Youth to version 2. This fixes a guard getting stuck bug and adds Italian and German translations.

January 29, 2008
January 27, 2008
  • Updated Thief Trinity to a bug-free v3.0 (it was already v3, c'est la vie). This update fixes bugs and also changes some aspects of the mission.

January 24, 2008 - Sabotaged Links at TTLG
  • It has come to my attention that many of the links posted recently on the ttlg.com Thief forums pointing to this site and to ShadowdarkKeep.com (posted there by Shadak who is helping out the with the sites lately) have been sabotaged to point to http://www.ttlg.com/forums/magicbeans. This is unfortunate and disappointing.

    What's happening is this - the links are being edited by someone at the forums with the authorization to edit others' posts. In the Thief Fan Mission forum for instance, the moderators epithumia and Nightwalker could do it, but I'm quite certain it's neither of them. That leaves the TTLG Forum Admins: Gingerbread Man and David.

    C'mon guys. You banned me over a year and half ago. Are you ever going to let it go? I'm sure someone has gotten a nice little snicker out of this quaint trick, but I suggest that it's time to let bygones be bygones, as I have. Links about the recent missions being hosted are for the forum users' benefit, and I would humbly ask you to please leave them be. That's reasonable, isn't it?

  • EDIT - The links all appear to be fixed now, thank you.

January 20, 2008
January 17, 2008
January 16, 2008
January 12, 2008
  • Updated Seven Sisters, The to version 2. This fixes a few small issues such as Basso freezing and some readables errors, plus adds some new objects.

January 8, 2008
  • New T2 FM Time for Culture by cardia1. This is the updated version that fixes a palatte issue, especially in conjunction with the Thief Enhancement Pack.

January 2, 2008
  • Updated Thief Enhancement Pack again, fixes another bug in the installer.

    Details and discussion can be read on the TTLG.com Thief forums here

January 1, 2008
Shimmering Light!

December 31, 2007
  • A Thief Enhancement Pack has been released which updates the models and textures for Thief 1,G,2. All instructions are included in the zip (it is very simple to install). Enjoy!

December 28, 2007 - Dark Mod Contest, HELP!
  • The Dark Mod is the future of Thief FMs. Right now they are in a major contest for best mod in the world! YOU CAN HELP!!! Here is a quote from their development team:

  • Update on the moddb contest: As I write this, TDM is #40! Wow! The top 5 is in sight, but we need your help to make it there!

    We made it into the top 100 thanks to everyone who voted before. But now there's a second round of voting, in which previous votes are not automatically counted. So if you want to help us out, please vote again!

    As for how to vote in this second round, it (confusingly) can't be done from The Dark Mod's own page on moddb. You have to go here:

    http://www.moddb.com/events/2007-mod-of-the-year-awards/top100

    Scroll down to "Best Upcoming Mods & Indie Games of 2007" - it's a few screens down the page. Click on "Doom III" to expand it, and then click the "click here to vote" button next to The Dark Mod.

    As before, votes from registered users count for a lot more than anonymous votes, so please log in to moddb if you have an account. Or create one if you don't have one (it's free).

    Thanks for your support! And if we do get into the top 5, well... I'm sure we would find some way to express our gratitude.

    Hint. Hint.

  • New T2 FM - Doom, by Ricebug. This is a recreation of the first two levels of the classic Doom PC game (E1M1 and E1M2).

December 27, 2007
  • Updated T2 FM - Thief - The Chain Project, by multiple authors. This is just an old update that I missed last April.
  • Fixed some older news links.

December 26, 2007
  • Updated T2 Campaign - Dracula, by Sensut. It is now the final version 1.4.
  • Updated T2 FM - Thief Trinity, by Theker, to version 3
  • Updated T2 FM - Elizabeth Bathory Chapter 1, by Sensut, to final version 2.
  • Fixed some other minor issues.

December 24, 2007
  • New T2 Campaign - Seven Sisters, The, by Lady Rowena. This is a highly anticipated mini-campaign with three missions from the author that brought you the acclaimed "Rowena's Curse".
  • New T2 FM - United Bank of Auldale, by mxleader. He notes that this mission has sound bugs and broken bits like bad keys, but just to try to enjoy it anyway.

December 23, 2007
  • New T2 demo FM - St. Francis' Folly, by Yandros. This is just a tiny one-room demo "mission" which recreates a classic Tomb Raider scene.

December 21, 2007
December 20, 2007 - Over 20 FMs! 666? Merry Christmas!
December 19, 2007 - New Missions!
  • New T2 FM - Ura, Turi Robert. This FM actually contains two more missions in his long "Haddur" series.
  • New T2 Campaign - Dancing with the Dead, by Gregorius. This small two-mission campaign includes an updated "A Rift in the Loot" and a new second FM "Deep Analysis".
  • New T2 FM - Mystery at the St. Anne Inn, by eepcat.
  • New T2 FM - Bloodmist Tower, by Kfort.
  • New T2 FM - The Unknown Treasure, by GORT.
  • Updated T2 FM - Reflections, by Ricebug. This just fixes an old objectives problem.
  • Updated T1 FM - Gold in Fort Knocks, by DarthsLair. This adjusts the ambient lighting and fixes a couple other minor issues.
  • Updated T1 FM - Lord Bafford's Manor CE, by sNeaksieGarrett.
  • Updated T2 FM - Snowstorm, by Theker. This update contains a full English translation (by Mirko) of the previously German-only snowy mission.
  • Updated T2 FM - Playground of Doom, by cardia1. This fixes a few things and is the final version.

  • I Added back into the archive the 8 FMs that were missing due to being banned from the Komag DVDs (I was keeping sync with my mission folders, but I've reorganized some things). The archive should now be pretty much complete after I've gotten caught up with recent months.

  • Also, I made a separate "bundle" available for people to get those 8 missions in a single download, listed at the bottom of the Komag DVDs page, or Here (50MB).

  • Changed the table sorting default to Ascending first, then click again for Descending (I think it usually makes more sense this way)

September 13, 2007
  • New T2 FM - Playground of Doom, by cardia1.

  • I know there are quite a few missions over the past month that I haven't put up yet - I will soon!

August 4, 2007 - New Contest!
  • Yandros has recently released a great "Hammerite Mission Development Kit" for Dromed 2, and is now preparing to host a Hammerite themed contest (sounds like a GREAT idea to me!), and he has asked that anyone who is interested in entering please contact him so he can get an idea of how many authors there might be.
  • See this thread on the TTLG forums HERE

July 30, 2007
July 8, 2007
June 26, 2007
  • New T2 FM - Escape From the Planet of the Robots, by Sliptip. I recompiled the zip to include the needed version of "gen.osm" (although most of you already have it).
  • New T2 FM - Rebel, by john-the-begger. This is a very simple small mission which he calls a "demo".

June 22, 2007
  • New T2 FM - Snowstorm, by Theker. I have already integrated the separate patch that was available. This is a German mission, but is playable even if you don't know the language.

    Thanks to balbaro, here is a translation of the objectives:
    - You need four objects to be able to enter the fortress, One of the objects is the "Raibber", find it!
    - The "Flaight Stab" should be found in the Hammerite church, you dreamt, its being guarded by a statue, steal it also!
    - The black stone of "Falken" can be found in the Police outerpost, steal it aswell!
    - In the city, there is a abandoned house, something terrible happend there, you'll have to go there to steal the "Lebenstalismann".
    - Steal another 5000 so you'll have enough money to buy your equipment for the next mission.

June 20, 2007
  • Updated T2 FM - Teddy Bear's Curse, by cardia1. This update fixes some readables, adjusts an AI hit points, and adds and Italian translation

June 16, 2007
  • New T2 FM - Teddy Bear's Curse, by cardia1.

June 15, 2007
  • New T2 FM - Love Story III, A, by John Denison. This mission requires Nameless Voice's NVScript v1.09, available below...
  • New Essentials File - Nameless Voice Scripts. Most places around the net, including Nameless Voice's own website (hint hint), only have v1.07 from 2005!

June 14, 2007
June 6, 2007
June 4, 2007 - Masters of Horror Contest!
  • A new contest has been completed, spawning four new small missions, called the Masters of Horror Contest.
  • New T2 FM - The Dead of Winter
  • New T2 FM - The Island
  • New T2 FM - Last Caress
  • New T2 FM - Torn Apart

  • Also, New T2 FM - The Radiant Garden, by Theker. This mission is originally German, so the English translation is known to be a little sketchy.

May 30, 2007
  • New TG Campaign - Golden Book, by Zontik. This is a compilation of his three Thief Gold missions (Golden Book of Keepers, The Last Page, The Eternal Candle), which have been renamed, fixed up, and tied together nicely for a more wholistic Thief experience. I've removed the individual FMs from the archive.

  • Updated A Dark Night, by JewelThief, to v1.1. This just adds an Italian translation.

May 28, 2007
May 20, 2007
May 19, 2007 - How Many FMs? (Around 620)
  • New T2 FM - Underneath, by Charlybegood. This mission is also known as "La Mine" in French, and has both English and French texts.

  • The Keep is missing exactly 8 missions due to authors' requests to not include them on the Komag DVDs (I use the same file folders to make the discs as I do to maintain my Thief sites, so I've found it works best to keep them in sync). But counting zip files may seem to indicate that the Keep is missing a lot more FMs.

    The thing is, I try to maintain the FM archive well, including filtering out individual missions when the full campaign becomes available. For example, if you count zips at ThiefMissions.com you'll find six by frobber, but five are just incomplete variations of "A Keeper of the Prophecies", and I only carry the one zip of the full campaign. Same thing for Christine Schneider, around 20 zips there, just a few here.

    However, if there are any other missions that I really am missing, please let me know and I'll try to get it fixed quickly! ;-)

    By the way, though it's tricky to count FMs (due to campaigns with multiple missions, demos which don't really count, etc), I count around 620 overall for Thief 1/G/2

May 15, 2007
  • Updated Lost Souls, by TheNightTerror, to v1.4. This March update fixes a couple minor but important bugs, and should be the last one.

May 14, 2007
  • Updated Temple of Death, by cardia1, to v1.1. This update adds Italian, fixes a couple things, and also increases the challenge on "Hard" and "Expert"

May 12, 2007
May 10, 2007
  • Updated T2 Campaign - Dracula, by Szabó Csaba. I've incorporated his latest patch so the campaign is now v1.3. This just fixes a "detonation arrows" problem in the second mission, and adds some blank book art files.
    - If you just want to download the patch and install it manually, visit his site here. (link removed)

May 9, 2007
  • New T2 FM - Temple of Death, by cardia1. This is the updated complete version.

May 1, 2007 - New Missions!
  • New T2 Campaign - Dracula, by Szabó Csaba. The first four missions were released individually over the past year or so, and now this 110 MB campaign download contains all 5 FMs plus a small bonus epilogue.
    - I've also recompiled it to include his 1.2 update patch release a few days ago, so the file is fully up to date and doesn't require you to do any manual patching.
  • New TG FM - The Eternal Candle, by Zontik. This is part three in his series.
  • New T2 FM - The Mountain Monestary, by Christine. It's from last fall but I somehow missed it!

  • Updated Assault at the Gas Station, by Sterlino, to v1.2. This update fixes a couple minor gamemplay issues.
  • Updated Pereira's Mansion, by cardia1. This update just adds an Italian translation.
  • Updated Citadel of Douro, by cardia1. This is a more significant update.
  • Updated Mysterious Invitation, by MH.TheFreak. This large update adds new areas and other things.

  • Added System Shock 2 Soundtrack as a temporary (a few months) download for all you fans out there. MysteryDev released this to the community recently.
  • Added Thief II The Metal Age Mix mp3 track, also provided by MysteryDev (who isn't too much of a mystery to the more observant taffer's out there!)

  • I'm pretty sure that's all the recent missions and that I'm not missing any, but if you know of one or two I missed please let me know and I'll get it updated right away!
  • With "ThiefMissions" being inactive lately, I'm going to try to keep the Keeps more regularly up to date with the latest missions.

April 24, 2007 - More Upcoming FMs!
April 20, 2007 - Upcoming Missions!
  • I've updated the Upcoming page more:
    - The Hammerite Imperium has received an overhaul (by Alexius)
    - Some "new" old pics of First Night Out, by EmperorSteele
    - Old (impressive) shots from Faceless, by Dario
    - A few more old shots of Blue Moon, by Sharga
    - Old shots of Dark Fortress, by Sharga
    - A few more old shots of Dark Hammer, by Kozmala
    - Some 2003 shots from The Seventh Crystal 2, by Saturnine

  • There's still a TON left that I have sitting in a folder. Perhaps I'll get them all done, and then work on putting up stuff that is actually current!

April 17, 2007
  • I've updated the Upcoming page a bit (with Phantom's help), also adding some color coding and status dates.

April 10, 2007
  • New Upcoming T2 FM A Keeper's Betrayal - Part 2, by The Immortal Thief

  • I haven't kept the Upcoming page up to date in years, and I'm not sure when (or entirely if) it will get all fully caught up. But if you notice any mistakes or you know of mission status changes, I would appreciate if you let me know.

    Plus if you are working on something and would like to see it added to the Upcoming page, let me know and email me some screenshots (or links to them), and I'll try to put them up quickly.

April 6, 2007 - New Missions!
March 3, 2007
Feb 6, 2007 - Komag's Ghost
  • Okay, last week I emailed Dave asking if I may be un-banned, promising I would behave myself on the forums. I figure that I've been banned for over 6 months now, that I've "done my time" so to speak, and that perhaps I can rejoin the community.
  • I never heard back, so I thought maybe the old email address I had was wrong. I also sent an administrator message, but I don't know if those get checked or if it worked.
  • So about a half hour ago I registered as "Komag's Ghost", figuring I'll just see how it goes. It didn't. I was suddenly banned after about 15 minutes. That's fast! There has been no communication, but I must assume it's a big "NO!" from the higher ups.
  • If you're reading this admins, can we have a change of heart, let bygones be bygones?

Feb 5, 2007 - Wow 40 New FMs!
  • Bunches of new missions! You can find them all on the FM Archive page, mostly from the past few months going back to about July!
  • There's always lots to do on the Keep, getting all those missions up is a big relief!

Jan 21, 2007
  • New T2 FM - A Debt Repaid, by Ottoj55

  • I have a bunch of other missions to add, hopefully soon!

Shimmering Light!

Oct 29, 2006 - Water Contest Results!
  • It's 11:58pm Eastern US and I've just finished the Water Contest results! Read and enjoy!

Oct 26, 2006
  • Just a quick update to let you know that the Water Contest results are being processed and should be out on Oct 29. By the way, good turnout - there were 72 voters, the most ever!

Sept 22, 2006 - Water Contest FMs Released!!!
  • The Water Contest missions are out! See the Water Contest page for all the details!
  • Download and print out the helpful Water Contest Pre-Voting Form. You can use this form to help you keep track of your ratings and thoughts as you play the missions.
  • Play all the missions!
  • When you're ready, go to the Voting Page to rate the Water Contest missions!   (Rating them in GarrettLoader won't contribute to the contest results.)

  • And the missions are...(drum roll...)...

  • A.K.A. Noah
  • Dangerous Conditions
  • In These Enlightened Times
  • Lost Souls
  • Sneaking through Venice
  • Temple of the Tides, The
  • What Lies Below

  • Email me if there are any problems. HAVE FUN!!!

Sept 15, 2006 - Water Contest!
  • Today's the deadline for your submissions. If you have any last minute fixes you need to work on, let me know via email what's going on (if you haven't already).
  • Now I'll work on getting everything set up, and next week all the missions will be officially released so the playing/voting can begin! Woohoo!

Aug 18, 2006 - New Contest Deadline Sept 15
  • For various reasons I have decided to push back the Water Contest final due date (and corresponding release date and voting deadline) by two weeks. The new deadline is September 15.
  • If you are already mostly done, now's your chance to really add some polish and sharpen things up.
  • Or, if you haven't started anything, you could still manage to create a descent mission in the next four weeks!

August 6, 2006 - Banning Explained
  • My ttlg banning has garnered some attention lately, and a lot of folks are curious, so I've written out a long explanation of events as openly and accurately as I can recall. You can read it Here.

July 17, 2006
  • New FM Portisco Head for Thief 2.

July 16, 2006 - BANNED!
  • The guys at the ttlg forums have decided to show me the door.

    If you're curious about why, see this thread (link removed)

  • Don't worry, the Water Contest is still proceeding as planned :-)

July 12, 2006 - Water Contest - There's Still Time!
  • New FMs The Storm for Thief 1 and A Lovely Night for Thief 2.

  • You still have about 7 weeks until the final deadline for the Water Contest! Even if you started now, you could easily finish a cool little mission in time! Join us! Join us NOW!

June 28, 2006 - Over 60 New FMs!!!
  • Holy Crap! I just spent the last few days working on getting the main FM Archive updated with all the recent missions over the past few months.
  • Feel free to browse the archive and download all the new missions you want!
  • If anyone (especially mission authors) notices any errors or finds bad links, let me know, thanks!

June 25, 2006 - Large FMs, Water Contest
  • Updated the main FM Archive links for most of the largest missions (Calendra's Legacy, Gathering at the Inn, Night Falcon, etc).

    Now you can download them directly as single files instead of multiple "chunks" which require unzipping, unraring, etc. Hopefully it will make things a bit easier

  • Keep working on those Water Contest missions - I hear some of you have some interesting FMs in the works for this! You still have over two months to build these, plenty of time for a good small mission!

June 14, 2006
  • I've updated the Komag DVDs, especially Komag DVD 3 with new game demos (Hitman: Bloodmoney, Fear, a few more), plus a folder of "Classic Demos" such as Doom 95, Duke Nukem 3D, Starcraft, etc. See the Komag DVDs page for details.

June 12, 2006
  • The Water Contest has been updated with far more flexible size layout rules. See the Water Contest page for all the new options!

June 9, 2006 - Water Contest!
  • I'm starting the Thief 2 Water Contest today! You have the whole summer until the deadline, a large working space, and generous rules! See the Water Contest page for all the details!

March 27, 2006
  • Added ALL the missions titles to the new screenshot pages (whew!) and fixed many mis-sized thumbnails
  • Updated Komag DVDs (I'll be mailing out any recent requests now, sorry for the delay!)

March 9, 2006 - New Screenshot Format
  • I've updated the screenshot format to be much better behaving and looking.

    The new screenshot pages will show any size up to 800 pixels wide, or if it's larger (such as 1280x1024) it will show a reduced image and give you the option to click to see the original large size pic. This is similar to how popular internet image hosting sites operate, and is a good comprimise.

    I also shrunk the thumbnail size on the left and removed all the other junk taking up space, so the new format is clean and clear and very functional.

February 7, 2006 - Updated Komag DVDs
  • I've reorganized the Komag DVDs. After adding a few recent missions, Komag DVD 1 has gotten too big!
  • Now Komag DVD 1 will just be for Thief 2 FMs, and Thief 1G FMs have been moved to Komag DVD 2 (I removed the game movies folder)

January 7, 2006
  • New T2 Mission: Under Templehill, by The Pixie

Shimmering Light!

December 30, 2005
  • New T2 Mission: A Night in Rocksbourg 1 - A New Beginning, by DrK
  • New T2 Mission: A Night in Rocksbourg 2 - Discovery, by DrK

December 17, 2005
  • New T2 Mission: The Den, by Gaëtane (L'Arsene series mission 4)
  • New T1 Mission: The Dark Temple, by BG Taffer

  • Updated Right Up There in the Mountains, fixed a lag problem

November 21, 2005 - ShadowdarkKeep.com! Vote!
  • Visit my new website ShadowdarkKeep.com, a sister-site to the Keep, focused on Thief 3 and the upcoming Dark Mod.
  • I've transferred everything relating to Thief 3 over to Shadowdark, including Contests 6 and 7, T3Ed, and KomagTutT3. Be sure to update any direct links out there.
  • I've integrated the news at Shadowdark to include all past news items that related to Thief 3
  • The name of the new site is an amalgamation of "Deadly Shadows" and "The Dark Mod", the games it covers. This is the same way the Keep was named, a combination of "Thief Gold" and "The Metal Age".

  • You only have four (4!) days left to vote on the Contest 6 Missions! We're up to 28 votes at this point, and I KNOW there are at least a dozen of you out there that have played the contest missions but didn't vote yet! Please do the right thing, sacrifice a few brief minutes, and excercise your democratic right to vote!

November 13, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre15 (95%)
  • All versions of the tutorial, including the Online Version, now have links from the brief outline at the beginning and the full outline at the end to all the sections in the tutorial, for nice quick navigation.

November 10, 2005 - Please VOTE!
  • Updated FM Archive with a few new Thief 2 Missions
  • Be sure to remember to vote on the Contest 6 Missions! You have two weeks left! I only have 19 votes at this point, far under the 50+ for the last contest. Please take a few minutes and vote!

November 9, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre14 (93%)
  • The tutorial is nearly finished now. I have to finish a few sections, format the end sections, and add all the remaining screenshots and summaries.
  • Also updated is the Online Version of the tutorial. It's exactly the same, so you won't miss anything if you can't do the download.

November 2, 2005 - Tutorial Update!
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre13 (90%)

  • There are now screenshots sprinkled throughout about half of the text to help you see what I'm talking about! More to come later.
  • I've also started adding a brief summary at the beginning of each small section, to give you a super quick preview of what you'll be doing. The summaries could also be used as reminders after you've already worked through the tuturial once, or for advanced users who don't need the step by step help.
  • The tutorial is in both Microsoft Word 2003 doc format and Adobe PDF format, both included in the download.

  • I'm also testing out an Online Version of the tutorial. Let me know if there are any problems, thanks!

October 30, 2005 - CONTEST 7!!!
  • I'm starting Contest 7 today! You have about four months until the deadline, much larger working space, and easier rules! See the Contest 7 page for all the details!
  • Contest 6 is not over yet, be sure to play the missions and vote!

October 28, 2005
  • Added 59 FMs to the FM Archive! I'm almost all caught up now.
  • Awarded and shipped out a new copy of Thief Gold to Gregorius in Poland, as a bonus prize for his Contest 5 FM "Fate of the Art"!   Better late than never :-)

October 27, 2005
  • I've added all the Thief 3 missions released thus far to the FM Archive, for your direct downloading pleasure!
  • Updated the Essentials page to include GarrettLoader
  • Tweaked a few other things around the site, did some "housekeeping"

October 25, 2005 - CONTEST 6 PUBLIC RELEASE!!!
  • Contest 6 Missions are out! See the Contest 6 page for all the details!
  • Download and print out the helpful Contest 6 Pre-Voting Form. You can use this form to help you keep track of your ratings and thoughts as you play the missions.
  • Download and install the latest GarrettLoader program to play missions with.
  • Play all the missions!
  • When you're ready, go to the Voting Page to rate the Contest 6 Missions!   (Rating them in GarrettLoader won't contribute to the contest results.)

  • And the missions are...(drum roll...)...

  • Creature Clash Thief 3
  • The Crypt
  • Defender of the Crown
  • Forgotten Stash
  • Skulduggery
  • Starting From Scratch

    Email me if there are any problems. HAVE FUN!!!

October 9, 2005
  • Contest 6 Beta's are due! But I'm not going to be strict with this deadline, so if you are trying to pull things togeter and make it GarrettLoader ready and having troubles and it takes a few days, no problem.

  • When it's ready, you can upload files to me via FTP with the following settings:
    Address:      ftp.keepofmetalandgold.com
    Login:            anonymous@keepofmetalandgold.com
    password:    whateveryouwantblahblah

  • You can upload files to the "incoming" folder, but you won't see anything there, including the file you just uploaded, so just trust it's there or check with me to make sure I got it.

  • If you are having FTP problems you can also try uploading to Jason Tibbits (ThiefMissions.com) and I'll get it from him. Or you can always host the file on your own webspace or on one of the free file hosting services out there.

  • Keep working on your missions even after getting your beta's ready, you still have another week till the deadline! Please email me if you have any concerns at all about finishing on time, I'll try to work with you and help everyone so we can have a great contest public release in two weeks!

September 27, 2005
  • Contest 6 delayed two weeks! See the Contest 6 page for details. Betas now due Oct 9, finals due Oct 16, then public release will be Oct 23.

  • If you have ANYTHING in the works, please work hard and at least make it playable! At this point we're not looking for awesome perfect missions, just something to play and have a little fun with. There is even time to make a very simple mission start to finish, which would be very welcome. So decide now, be convinced, and DO IT!!!

  • GarrettLoader has been updated to v1.12 recently to help make playing missions easier as well, so be sure to make use of that. See the ttlg.com Thief forums for more details on GarrettLoader, especiall THIS thread

July 25, 2005 - CONTEST 6 BEGINS!!!
  • Contest 6 has begun! See the Contest 6 page for all the juicy details and rules, size limit, prizes, etc.
  • I strongly encourage anyone and everyone to join in the contest! Please support the long and hard fought release of the Thief 3 editing tools by diving in and using them for a contest submission! This will really boost the T3Ed community and ensure a strong future for Thief in general.

  • I'm back home in Boston from being in Seattle at a long family reunion, so I can now resume work on finishing up the tutorial soon.

July 7, 2005 - Tutorial Update, C6 July 25!
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre12 (85%)

  • Due to the tutorial entering the final phases, I am cementing the official Contest 6 start date as July 25th, no delays!

    At that time I'll announce the precise map size limits and other rules, but you can start gearing up, work through the tutorial, plan your story, map mechanics, etc. The map size will be small, but not tiny, if that helps.

  • So, in other words, you may officially begin! At east you can do the early starting stuff! Go to it!!! See the Contest 6 page for more details.

June 28, 2005 - Large Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre11 (75%)

    It's in the home stretch now, I can feel it!

June 21, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre10 (65%)

    From now on the .doc file is being make using Word 2003, so the formatting (especially numbering/lettering) should be more reliable. Let me know if things look funky or messed up, thanks.

June 10, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre09 (60%)

    This update also includes a major formatting overhaul, breaking instructions down better and making things much easier to follow. Hope you like it!

June 8, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre08 (55%)

June 4, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre07 (45%)

    Be aware that I'm not just adding to the end of the tutorial each time, but I often will rework earlier sections or include bits and peices here and there, sometimes rearranging whole sections for better flow or other reasons.

June 3, 2005 - Tutorial Update
  • KomagTutT3 updated to pre06 (40%)

June 2, 2005 - Tutorial Update, C6 Soon!
  • Get your updated KomagTutT3 now! I feel I'm about 1/3 done (33%). I wasn't able to work on it for a long time due to real life stuff, but I'm "in the zone" now and hope to finish it within a couple weeks.
  • Contest 6 will begin soon after the tutorial is finished, probaby starting in early July. Exciting times!

May 16, 2005 - T2X!
  • The Awesome and Huge (656meg!) "T2X: Shadows of the Metal Age" Thief 2 Mod has been released yesterday! Read a great review (no spoilers!) HERE.

    This unofficial expansion pack is AWESOME! it's 13 Full missions, basically a whole complete game! It's what Thief 3 should have been!

    I am offering my services for you to get a copy on a single CD-Rom. You can either send me a blank CD and return packaging/postage (see Komag DVDs page for address and general instructions), or you can donate just $3.50 via Paypal below.

    I'll send these anywhere in the world! In the US it will take probably only a couple or a few days to get it, international may take a week or two.

  • Contest 6 (TDS) is postponed until further notice - I will be working on and finishing my T3ed tutorial first, then the contest will resume with a new start date. Sorry about the delay!

February 26, 2005
  • I have started work on a new tutorial KomagTutT3.

    It is a work in progress, currently only going through setting up the editor with a dual-installation. Check back often to get the latest version - you can see the version number in the Tutorials section to the left here on the front page.

  • I have added a NoCD file for Thief: Deadly Shadows on the Essentials page. If you use this to play a pirated copy of Thief 3 I WILL hunt you down and steal everything you own!

February 23, 2005 - TDS Editor!!! Contest 6!
  • Huge News! The editing tools for Thief: Deadly Shadows have been released!!! Download from FilePlanet, or FileFront, or via BitTorrent, or from The Keep

  • Komag DVD 2 now includes the TDS Editor. Learn how to get Komag DVDs HERE.

  • In conjuction with the big news, I'm announcing Contest 6! After 3 months of learning the new editor, Contest 6 will start on May 25th and continue for 2 months until July 25th when the entries will be due. I will announce the exact rules and size limiations and such on May 25th (to avoid any unfair head starts).

  • Today is a good day for Thief fans! I'm personally very excited, as this will breath some great new life into the community and the game. Huzzah!

January 3, 2005 - Expanded Komag DVDs
  • There are now 3 Komag DVDs! That's over 12 Gigs of Fan Missions, Thief Extras, and other Goodies!

    I've also lowered the donation amounts to qualify for the DVDs as free gifts!

    See the Komag DVDs and Donate pages for details.

January 1, 2005 - Happy New Year!!!
  • I'm still here after more than 4 years now. The Keep started as my little Thief page back in the fall of 2000. Hopefully it will be around until 2010 and beyond!

  • 2004 brought us a lot of great new Fan Missions including those for Contest 5, as well as Thief: Deadly Shadows - a great game with some flaws here and there. We're all keeping our fingers crossed for the release of the new editing tools, but it's not guaranteed.

Shimmering Light!

December 19, 2004 - 23 New Missions!
  • New T2 Mission - Borrington's Castle, by Bronze Griffin
  • New T2 Mission - Konkurrenten, by Rostvogel
  • New T2 Mission - Old Bad Fellows, by Yohny C. Lia
  • New T2 Mission - Bafford's Last Stand, by John Denison
  • New T2 Mission - A Night Visit to the Natural History Museum, by Louve
  • New T2 Mission - Goblins, by Gaëtane
  • New T2 Mission - The Trickster's Castle, by Dark Ghost Lord
  • New T2 Mission - A Debt Repaid, by Ottoj55
  • New T2 Mission - Dead Flower, by Turi Robert
  • New T2 Mission - Damsel in Distress, by Dyald
  • New T2 Mission - Moth to a Flame, by madwolf
  • New T2 Mission - Ack! There's a Zombie in the Basement, by Polygon
  • New T2 Mission - Deep Trouble 2, by John D
  • New T2 Mission - Having a Ball, by madwolf
  • New T2 Mission - Bloody Ruins, by Christine Schneider
  • New T2 Mission - Heist Society, by AsyluM
  • New T2 Mission - The Shadow of Lord Rothchest, by Purah, conversion by John D.
  • New T2 Mission - Meeting, by Yohny C. Liar
  • New T2 Mission - Lady Lisa's Harbor, by BBB
  • New T2 Mission - A Servant's Revenge, by SlyFoxx
  • New T2 Mission - A Thief's Holiday 2004, by Yandros
  • New T2 Mission - The WaterWay Tunnel part 1, by Yohny C. Liar

  • New T2 Demo Mission - Gizmos, by Nameless Voice

December 7, 2004 - "Komag DVDs" Up To Date!
  • I have not abandoned The Keep!!!

  • Most importantly, the Komag DVDs (formerly "FM DVDs") are ALWAYS kept up to date, even if the website is not. I never burn a disc without checking if a new mission has come out, even that day!
  • The Komag DVDs are quite full, so with each few new missions I squeeze out less important things (odd Dromed files, lamo movies, outdated demos, etc) from them. Eventually there will be three DVDs, but sometime in the next couple years I plan to get a blue-ray disc or HD-DVD burner so I can get back to a single disc holding everything!

  • There are a lot of new missions to put up at the Keep, and I plan to do that next week while my wife is out of town for her sister's wedding.

  • In more exciting (slightly) news, I'm planning on opening up the Keep for you to have "FM Author" accounts, so that you can manage your own profile, upload screenshots, show off Upcoming projects, all on your own time instead of relying on me to get around to it. This should be good for both of us, since it will save me time and it will give you a great place to showcase your stuff without waiting!
  • I don't know when it will be operational, probably a few months away yet, but there is now an "interim" system that works like a wimpy version of the real deal. Just email me if you would like a screenshots page or to manage the one I already have for you.

September 5, 2004
  • New screenshot pages format!
  • I've added some scripts for an easier to manage screenshot format for all the missions. Now I'll be able to MUCH more easily add new screens for lots of new missions (I have a few hundred back-logged!)
  • In addition, those of you with Upcoming Missions, I can set up your screenshot page and then you can have "admin" access to keep it updated yourself! You can delete screens as they become outdated and replace them with more recent incarnations. E-mail me if you want a page for screenshots.

August 17, 2004 - 34 New Missions!
  • New T2 Mission - Gathering at the Bar, by Trimfect, Thief 2 version by Jimmy
  • New T2 Mission - Close Encounters, by P Forth
  • New T2 Mission - A Love Story, by John Denison
  • New T2 Mission - The Masque of Red Death, by raetsel
  • New T2 Mission - Mighty Joe Young, by BBB
  • New T2 Mission - Nightmares, by Five French Authors
  • New T2 Mission - Retaliation, by HipBreaker
  • New T2 Mission - By Order of an Unknown, by BlackThief
  • New T2 Mission - The Trickster's Castle, by Dark Ghost Lord
  • New T2 Mission - The Mystic Lady, by Christine
  • New T2 Mission - Borrington's Castle, by Bronze Griffin
  • New T2 Mission - Fletcher's Final Mistake, by SlyFoxx
  • New T2 Mission - TTGM 0: Training, by Belboz
  • New T2 Mission - TTGM 7,8: Chasm of the Lost 1,2, by Belboz
  • New T2 Mission - Coterie of Smokers, by Christine
  • New T2 Mission - TTGM 5,6: The Trickster Rift Gem Mine, Elsewhere, by Belboz
  • New T2 Mission - Just Friends, part 1, by bassmanret
  • New T2 Mission - Konkurrenten, by Rostvogel
  • New T2 Mission - Out for a Revenge, by Istvan Varga
  • New T2 Mission - McLeod's Revenge, by Oldweird
  • New T2 Mission - Moth to a Flame, by madwolf
  • New T2 Mission - Firefly, by Moghedian and Lobster
  • New T2 Mission - The Mystic Estate (to rob from), by GORT
  • New T2 Mission - Profane Ascension, by Tomi
  • New T2 Mission - Abysses, by Christine
  • New T2 Mission - Horns of Canzo: A Long Way Up, by Sterlino
  • New T2 Mission - Emilie Victor, by Gaëtane
  • New T2 Mission - So Long Hammers, by Ramirez's Old Fat Burrick

  • New T2 Demo Mission - The Lost City, by ANON
  • New T2 Demo Mission - Return to Cathedral, by ANON
  • New T2 Demo Mission - The Mage Towers, by ANON
  • New T2 Demo Mission - A Wonderful Reception, by Louve

  • New T1 Mission - Return to Bafford's Manor, by DarthsLair
  • New T1 Mission - Keeper of the Bell, by DarthsLair

  • New T1 Demo MIssion - Bloodflowers, by Paz

  • All of these new missions can be downloaded from the main FM Archive page

August 14, 2004 - Contest 5 FULL RESULTS!
  • All the votes/ratings for Contest 5 have been tabulated and formulated and calculated and any other ---lated you can think of, and the FULL COMPLETE results are available on the Contest 5 page for your viewing and sorting pleasure!

    Congratulations goes out to Morrgan or Vigil for Into the Maelstrom!

    I believe this was the best contest ever! Kudos to all the authors, no matter how the ratings fell!

July 22, 2004
  • Woops, I've been out of town for almost a month and then I've been busy getting back to normal life, so the Keep has gotten behind!

  • I finally uploaded all the Thief 1 FMs again to their new server and adjusted the links. They should all work again, including the Calendra's Legacy files.
  • I have updated my Prefix Removers on the Essentials page. They are for those of you who have gotten a FMDVD but don't like my alphanumeric prefixes (code for the release dates, to keep the missions in order). By removing the prefixes you can just have your missions in alphabetical order. Missions downloaded from the Keep don't have the prefixes.
  • Fixed the dates and some other minor things on the Upcoming page.
  • Final Contest 5 results and quotes should be up relatively soon
  • The FMDVDs are up to date (I always keep them up to date) with all the latest missions, even though the Keep itself is a few months behind again. Real Life is so pesky!
  • NEW MISSIONS:
    Gerrard's Temple (2003-10-03)
    Mixed Messages (2003-10-31) (those two were too large to host before)

May 15, 2004 - Contest 5 Results!
  • All the votes/ratings for Contest 5 have been tabulated and formulated and calculated and any other ---lated you can think of, and some preliminary results are available on the Contest 5 page for your viewing and sorting pleasure!

    There is much more to come, so check back and hopefully by next week I'll have the quotes/comments and a bunch of fun demographics on the voting categories, Excel files to browse if you're so inclined, breakdowns of your individually processed ratings (by email), and MORE!

May 13, 2004
  • Update on Hosting - It looks like I'll be able to renew one of the servers (almost have enough for that), but not the other. If that's how it ends up, I'll do my best to spread around the files I had on it to my other hosting servers, so it should be bearable (I think).

    If you can, I sure can still use any help, to finish up the amount for the one server and maybe start saving up for the next payment for the next server (a couple months away).

    I want to THANK YOU all very much for your support - it's what keeps the Keep alive!

  • Contest 5 Votes - I'm working on the results, and I hope to have them up in a few more days (so far the numbers I'm getting are very interesting!!!)

May 7, 2004 - I Need HELP!
  • I'm in a bit of a bind here guys, as two of my server subscriptions are coming due at the same time in a couple weeks and I may have to drop one or both of them, which would mean I couldn't host all the missions anymore! I'm trying to scrape up the cash, but a few extra donations right about now would help a TON!

    So, please, if you've gotten some fun out of the contest, or if you want to see the Keep stick around for at least another year, please HELP!. Overall I need about $300 in a jiffy, whereas right now I can only spare about $100. THANKS!

  • The Contest 5 Votes are wrapping up, and this time around you've already set a new record for most votes, 57 and counting! The previous record was Contest 4 with 49 votes, and Contests 1,2, and 3 all had around 20-30 votes.

    Go ahead and send in those last minute votes/corrections, and I'll even accept them tomorrow throughout the day, until about 8:00pm Eastern US. Sometime after that I'll reveal who the authors all are, and over the next few days I'll tally the votes and get a nice result page up, announcing the big winners and all that jazz. Exciting!

April 22, 2004 - Contest 5 Voting! Exclusive Discount!
  • Okay, the Contest 5 Voting page is up! Head on over and VOTE!
  • If you still haven't played the Contest 5 missions, grab them below, then VOTE!
  • You have until May 7 to get all your voting done, about two weeks time.

  • JUST FOR YOU GUYS my wife has set up a code for a nice discount at Dragon Wizards.com! Use this code to get 20% off your total purchase of $15 or more! Also, instead of just one use, she's allowing you to use it as many times as you want! (I convinced her, hehe)

    Code - 5D8RM43D

March 17, 2004 - Thief: Deadly Shadows Petition!
  • Thief: Deadly Shadows (FKA Thief 3) is due for release in a couple months, and word from company employees is that if we fans make a good enough showing, they will reconsider releasing a fan mission editor for the game! You know what that means?

    WE MUST UNITE! (www.thiefpetition.com)

    I'm serious folks, this is exactly what influenced LGS to initially release Dromed back in 1999 - a strong public showing via petition.

    So please, take about 2 to 4 minutes and SIGN THE PETITION!!! This is a serious petition that WILL get real results - so far we already have around 500 signatures. If we can get over 1000 signatures in the next couple months our chances of seeing an editor for TDS become very good!

    Links (removed): Petition Campaign Headquarters, The Petition itself

March 7, 2004 - CONTEST 5 with 19 Missions!!!
  • Holy Schmack, Contest 5 is here!!!

  • Contest 5 Scripts - (UPDATED MARCH 8th 8:30PM EST - If you downloaded this earlier today, get it again and unzip/copy over the previous files, thanks)

    First things first, you should download and install the latest custom scripts (both Gaylesaver's and Telliamed's) as these missions use them A LOT! You can get the normal scripting packages on the Essentials page, but for extra simplicity I have combined the most essential files into one quick download. Just unzip this and place all three files directly into your main Thief 2 directory (let them overwrite any previous ones, that's okay)

  • Contest 5 Pre-Voting Form - Next, download the Pre-Voting form. This time around voting is FAR more accurate and thus a bit more complex, so use this form to make it easy on yourself! For best results, print page 1, then flip the paper and print page 2. You can also edit the file directly on your computer if you wish.
    NOTE - You will NOT be submitting this when you actually vote! This is just to help you keep track yourself.

  • I will have detailed voting instructions and the actual online voting form up within a day or two. For now just use the form to keep track of things. You will have until the end of April to play through all the missions and carefully vote, so there's no hurry.

  • THE MISSIONS!

    (NOTE - Please don't use an accelerator to download these. If you use a resume program, just turn off the accelerator function, thanks.)

    You all are in for a TREAT! These are some pretty amazing missions, I think the best Contest EVER!

    The Adventures of Burrick Boy
    At The Royal Rumble
    Bafford's Bone Collection
    Fate of the Art
    The Focus
    Frozen Mines
    A Guard Called Benny
    Gussie's Dream
    The Haunting
    House of Random
    Into The Maelstrom
    Midday Escape
    Plagiarism
    Properly Paranoid
    The Relic
    The Saint
    The Summit
    Viktor Gaspar
    Working the Mines

February 19, 2004 - Contest 5 Approaches!
  • The deadline for your Contest 5 submissions is coming up (February 29th), so all those of you who are making a Contest 5 FM please email me and let me know your progress and any situation you might have.

    There are still 10 full days left until the deadline, so keep on Dromeding and it will all come together. Heck, there's even enough time to START and complete a decent contest mission if you worked hard!

February 14, 2004
  • New T2 Demo - Store in Game Demo

February 10, 2004 - 48 New Missions!!!
  • New T2 FM - Safe Haven
  • New T2 FM - Mistrz
  • New T2 FM - Lord Matt
  • New T2 FM - Skeletons in the Closet
  • New T2 FM - Shipment, The
  • New T2 FM - Diamond, The
  • New T2 FM - Murder in Featherstone
  • New T2 FM - Rowena's Curse
  • New T2 FM - Lord James' Retreat
  • New T2 FM - Gallery, The
  • New T2 FM - Worlds Collide
  • New T2 FM - Night Falcon
  • New T2 FM - Chronicle of the Metal Age: Ch 1
  • New T2 FM - Lord Fishkill's Curse
  • New T2 FM - Mad as a Hatter
  • New T2 FM - Friend Basso
  • New T2 FM - Hole, The
  • New T2 FM - Fortress by the Sea
  • New T2 FM - Easy Money
  • New T2 FM - Elevator T2
  • New T2 FM - Graduation Day
  • New T2 FM - Gerrard's Temple
  • New T2 FM - Mixed Messages
  • New T2 FM - Forgotten Forest: Pt 1
  • New T2 FM - Cop in the Shadow
  • New T2 FM - Betrayal: Voices
  • New T2 FM - Torner Island
  • New T2 FM - Garrett and the Beanstalk
  • New T2 FM - A Keeper of the Prophecies: Ep 4
  • New T2 FM - Skull of St. Yora, The
  • New T2 FM - Monestary of St. Fera
  • New T2 FM - Thief's Holiday, A
  • New T2 FM - Deep Trouble
  • New T2 FM - Circle of Strain
  • New T2 FM - Just Take a Look
  • New T2 FM - Prisoner's Revenge
  • New T2 FM - Prison of Garrett
  • New T2 FM - Undead Reckoning
  • New T2 FM - Cathedral
  • New T2 FM - Curse of the Falcon
  • New T2 FM - Retrieval of the Soul

  • New T1G FM - Short Sewer
  • New TG FM - Hellerhouse
  • New T1G FM - Returning a Favor

  • New T1G Demo - Killing Time, The
  • New T2 Demo - MISTRZ: Efekty Specjalne
  • New T2 Demo - Thieves' Guild
  • New T2 Demo - Fanatic's Arena

  • Combined the Demo FMs into the main FM Archive, with a "00" ratings links you can click to read a description
  • Combined the Reviews into the main FM Archive! Just click on a rating to read the brief review :-)
  • Combined the Authors info into the main FM Archive! You now have many fun new ways to sort!
  • You can do combo-sorts, by clicking more than one header in succession. For example, to see all the Female authors of Thief 2 missions, first click "G" (gender) then click "T" (Thief 1/G/2) and scroll down to the section of Thief 2 and F (female). However, this works correctly only in Internet Explorer, just partially with Netscape and Opera.
  • Added many sites on Links page (few details though)

  • No more Great Tree video, needed storage/bandwidth for the new missions!

February 8, 2004
  • New T2 Demo - The Two Towers by Komag (me) with screenshots - Last one folks! Now that I've converted this old demo mission (represents my first serious foray into the world of Dromed) I can now say I am 100% "Dromed-1-Free"! Hurray!

February 4, 2004
  • New T2 FM - The Great Tree by Komag (me) with screenshots - actually this is just a conversion of my old T1G mission, with new textures and a few tweaks. Enjoy!
  • New T2 FM - The Spider Caves by Komag (me) with screenshots - again, this is just a conversion of the original T1G mission, my first FM ever from three years ago! I ported this one in only about 3 hours today.

  • Great Tree Movie - A couple months ago I made a movie of myself playing the original T1G version of The Great Tree using only one rope arrow. In commemoration of releasing the T2 version, you can watch this short "masterpiece" (beware, the file is over 150 meg!) HERE

  • Contest 5 deadline is a month away, so keep on dromeding!

January 28, 2004 - Major Site Update
  • Major update for the Keep:
  • All new sortable tables - click on table headers to sort the column ascending, click again to resort descending.
  • No more yearly, alphabetical, or campaign FM pages - all FMs are now on the single FM Archive page, which you can sort to your liking!
  • Reorganized Authors page - try sorting by year of birth or location!
  • Removed all old crappy DIV tables, esp from Reviews page and the Contest pages - all new sortable tables work in all major browsers!
  • No more ugly navigation - new sleek nav bars at top/bottom of every page.
  • Got rid of Google ads - in 4 full months they brought in only about $9.00, worthless! I had hoped for better, but hopefully enough of you will continue to make some donations to cover the costs of hosting the Keep!

  • I will try to actually update the Keep's FMs and Author information in the coming weeks (I'm quite a few months behind!) before the Contest 5 deadline!

January 12, 2004
  • Happy New Year!

  • After a few months of monitering my bandwidth, I'm going to try making all the larger missions available at the Keep! Cross your fingers...
  • Added the 324meg Calendra's Legacy - it's divided into 18 segment which can easily be reconstructed after downloading
  • Added the 201meg Ruins of Originia - divided into 6 segments
  • Added the 114meg Gathering at the Inn
  • Added the 100meg A Keeper of the Prophecies Book 1 (parts 1-3)
  • Added the 58meg Karras' Diary, and the 24meg German briefing movies
  • Added the 81meg Shadow of Doubt

  • relocated 2002 Thief 2 FMs to new server (CustomDVDWorld.com)

  • Keep working on those Contest 5 missions!

Shimmering Light!

December 27, 2003 - Contest 4 Quotes!
  • True to my word on the Contest 5 info page, I've finally put up some quotes from the voting comments from Contest 4, nearly a year late! Check 'em out!

    I'll try to do the ones from Contest 5 in a more timely manner ;-)

December 22, 2003
  • Reorganized the main Keep page (hope you like it!)

December 3, 2003 - Dragon Wizards Update!
  • My wife has taken over and souped up the Dragon Wizards website!

    There are many new categories there and some great new items, so do a little fantasy Holiday shopping and have your items in time for Christmas!

November 26, 2003 - 2 FM DVDs!
  • I'v rearranged the FM DVD so that it is now 2 DVDs!

    DVD 1: FMs and Dromed
    DVD 2: EVERYTHING else - Thief 3, Deus Ex 2, Thievery, HL2, MORE!
    See the FM DVD Page for full details!

November 20, 2003 - Contest 5!!!
  • CONTEST 5!!! - WOW, I'm actually doing another Contest! See the Contest 5 Page for full details!
  • FM DVDs Starting again - You can mail me supplies again to my new address, shown on the FM DVD Page and the following order page.

October 23, 2003 - We're MOVING!
  • I'm moving to the Boston area over the next few weeks! No more Utah and crazy Mormons for me! (Hehe, just kidding, I'm actually LDS myself!) We're DRIVING and visiting family across the way, so I'll be out of touch for a while (though I'll try to check my email still, off and on).

    So don't mail off any FMDVD orders until around the middle of November, at which time I'll have my new address up for shipping (if you are planning to send all materials, etc).

  • The Keep will be getting a large update sometime soon after moving; thanks for your patience!

September 24, 2003
  • Ads at the Keep! - I love Google, and have been using their Google bar with my Internet Explorer for a couple months now (no more popups!), so I thought I'd try some Google ads.

    Please do NOT click on any ad unless you are seriously interested in the information, thank you.

September 7, 2003 - 237 new Screenshots!
  • 9 screens of Belboz's T2 FM Raid on Washout Central
  • 13 screens of Gingerbread Man's T2 FM Benny's Dead
  • 5 screens of Devilock's T2 FM Gheldorf's Towne House
  • 18 screens of Andrea Aleotti's T2 FM Lord Alan's Fortress
  • 11 screens of Schwaa's T2 FM The Search for Crom's Blade
  • 7 screens of Mokkis's T2 FM CoSaS 1: Gathering at the Inn
  • 15 screens of Komag's Contest 2 T2 FM Alchemic Allusions
  • 13 screens of Andrea Aleotti's T2 FM Lord Alan's Basement
  • 8 screens of Gonchong's T1G FM Hammerhead, The Docks 2
  • 10 screens of Shadowrunner's T1G FM Temple of the Forgers
  • 28 screens of frobber's T2 Campaign A Keeper of the Prophecies: Book 1
  • 6 screens of Gumdrop's T2 FM The Cistern
  • 11 screens of Jonquil's T1G FM Inheritance
  • 7 screens of Apache's T1G FM The Gauntlet
  • 6 screens of Gonchong's T1G FM The Docks
  • 6 screens of Datoyminaytah's T1G FM The Gem
  • 11 screens of Adramelech's T1G FM Unforgiven
  • 12 screens of Schwaa's T2 FM Relic: Left for Dead
  • 4 screens of Fred Chook's T1G FM Fall of a Chook
  • 21 screens of Eshaktaar's T2 FM Ominous Bequest
  • 11 screens of Garrettwannabe's T1G FM Awakening
  • 5 screens of Silent Sleep's T1G FM Friends in Shadow

September 6, 2003 - Fall Cleaning!
  • Added all my ratings and reviews of the Contest 4 missions two new "favourites" added - "The Burrick's Head Inn" and "Unfortunate Formulae"

  • Big reorganization of all screenshot directories and links
  • Cleaned up Links Page, added The Taffer's Tavern
  • Cleaned up Archives Page so the links work correctly
  • Cleaned up Upcoming Page and Cemetery Page
  • Cleaned up FMDVD Page and Donate Page
  • Fixed some series errors on Campaigns Page
  • Cleaned up Authors Page a TON, though it's still somewhat outdated and I need to work on it more.

September 5, 2003
  • New Review - "Ominous Bequest" gets another 11! Unbelievable! See the Reviews Page for more details

September 1, 2003 - Happy Labor Day!
  • New Review - "A Keeper of the Prophecies" gets an 11! See the Reviews Page for more details
  • I'm quite behind in updating the Keep, and it's probably going to stay that way for a little while yet. Eventually, however, I'll get all caught up, so don't lose hope!

July 24, 2003 - Expanded Reviews
  • I've reviewed a few more missions and have decided to enlarge most of my "brief" reviews to be longer and more explanatory. Someday I'll fix the reviews page so it works for more than just Internet Explorer.
  • The FMCDs have been retired now for a few weeks. Over the course of about 2 years I burned approxmately 600 discs! (mostly later when it was 4 and 5 disc sets) About 300 people ordered them (averaging 2 discs each).
  • The FMDVDs are still continuing for the time being. In the past year since I got the DVD burner I've burned about 100 DVDs for about 90 people.

June 21, 2003 - NO MORE FMCDs SOON!!!
  • IN 2 WEEKS THERE WILL NO MORE FMCDs!!! - You can mail me $25 to order a set of all 5 FMCDs before the final deadline, Sunday July 6.

    I've decided the FMCDs are too much of a bother since there are 5 of them, with the need soon to go to 6, which is rediculous.

    So for the next two weeks, if you want to nab one last set of FMCDs before they're gone forever, the old methods of sending me all the materials and postage will still work, and with the donation method you can just click below to donate $25 and I'll take care of everything and send you out a full set of all 5 FMCDs.

    See the FM DVD Page for more details.

  • LEGAL CONCERNS - I've received notice that some FM authors have "legal" concerns, but consider File Planet. You can order files from them on a CD for $10. That's part of their business to make real profits, selling CDs for $10 which contain illegal-to-sell files. They don't even offer the option of sending them all the materials to truly get the files for free. But they DO offer the files free for download (if you wait in line FOREVER), which is why they're legally safe.

    Since there is a clear way to get the files for free, it's obvious the $10 fee for the CD is not to pay for the files, but to pay for the service of having a CD burned and delivered to you. They could charge you $40 per CD and they'd still be legally untouchable.

    I, like File Planet, offer the files free for download, BUT I ALSO give you the option of sending me all the materials and I'll do it out of my own time for FREE, AND ALSO if you still want to just "buy" one you can donate and I only use the money for the website, NOT to make a flat out business profit like File Planet.

    And do you see File Planet getting sued left and right? Do you see FM authors having their missions removed from File Planet because they are being SOLD for PROFIT, even missions with the disclaimer "may not be contained in any map pack"? No, because their legal position is undeniable, clear cut and 100% safe, and MY LEGAL POSITION IS EVEN BETTER THAN THEIRS!!!

    (/Komag Rant)

June 12, 2003 - Check Out Dragon Wizards!
  • Rearranged the menu items a little, and added a link to Dragon Wizards, my new website! I am selling various dragon and wizard statues/figurines, the sort of thing you might find at a Renaissance Festival or something. Check it out!
  • Removed the Favourites page - I decided it was redundant, because you can see which FMs are my favourites in the archives already, the ones with the rating in white.

  • NO MORE "PASSWORD"! I ordered even more server bandwidth (still need to PAY for it, help!) so I don't need to restrict the recent files :-)

  • Added Island of Iron pt 2: Confrontation, by John D., for T2
  • Added The Burrick's Head Inn version 2, by Yandros, for T2
  • Added Jenivere De Ja Vu, by John Denison, for T2
  • Now Lord Ashton Series, by Christine, for T2, is available for download :-)

May 28, 2003
  • "Password" Test - I have reinstated all the 2003 Thief 2 FM links, but they are all WRONG!

    The correct links have a different directory name than the ones shown. For example, the link might say "http://www.komag.net/missions/gallery.zip" but the "missions" part needs to be renamed. To get the "password" (updated weekly) as to what to rename "missions" send an EMAIL HERE.

    Then, simply right-click the link and choose "copy shortcut", then paste it into your browser's address bar and then edit "missions" to the new name, and hit Enter - VOILA!

    I know this is a bother - that's the point, and folks who don't care enough to do it won't, saving my server host from shutting me down permanently!

May 24, 2003
  • Temporary hiccup in 2003 service - The Thief 2 missions for 2003 will be offline for a couple days, temporary only :-)

May 22, 2003 - Massive Hosting Update! Need Donations Urgently!
  • Added automatic Prefix Removers! Now you can quickly and easily get rid of all the alphanumeric prefixes on the FM files you got on your FMCDs or FMDVD. See Essentials.

  • I am now directly hosting most missions, but I need donations! I'm working my way to getting them all online as we speak, starting with T2 FMs. Please be gentle on the downloading though, avoid download accelerators and don't download more than 3 or 4 missions in one day please.
  • I'll be implementing some sort of download limits after I have everything up and running, so check back.
  • To do all this I'm signing up for more webhosting servers and bandwidth and such, and that's not cheap, so PLEASE DONATE! Order some FMCDs/DVDs or an Update CD or something! Thanks :-)

  • Added The Gallery, by David Letersky, for T2
  • Added Freiheit für Nepumuk (German FM), by Dennis, for T2
  • Added Emilie Victor (French FM), by Gaëtane, for T2

May 21, 2003 - New "Update FMCD"
  • UPDATE FMCD RELEASED! NOTICE - You do not need the update CD if you are going to order a whole set of FMCDs or an FMDVD.
    Get all the recent Thief stuff on an Update FMCD to keep your collection fully up to date! Details on the FMCDDVD and Donations pages
  • Added back the final Demos so that I am currently hosting them ALL!
  • Updated Christine's campaign "Lord Ashton Series" with the 8th mission! I haven't played this series yet, but I've heard nothing but good about it! The whole campaign is on FMCD 4 now, weighing in at 39.8m!
  • Updated info on Old Comrades Old Debts to note that Ernie also authored it along with Bukary

May 20, 2003 - Massive Update! Fixed Links! FMCDs Up To Date!
  • Whoa my gosh, this is a huge update, though there is still TONS to do!!!
  • Most of the new missions I "added" are not hosted, but they are on the FMCDs
  • A few of the update items I actually finished a while ago, but mention them now

  • Fixed all bad links (which were to Jason's hosted files)
  • Fixed all Contest pages - added missions links and fixed style formats
  • Fixed style formatting on Essentials page

  • Fixed screenshots for Zaccheus' The Restored Cathedral v1.1
  • Added to Upcoming section Zaccheus' The Mechanist Cathedral

  • Added the old Demo Mission Creature Clash, by kfgecko, for T1G
  • Added the old Demo Mission Creature Clash 2, by kfgecko, for T2
  • Added Demo Creature Clash Gold, by Weyoun, for TG
  • Added Demo Mission Fragalicious, by Targa, for T2

  • Added all the Contest 4 missions to the archives, 3 of them to the Demos
  • Added Hirvakia series to Campaigns page, fixed dates there too
  • Removed individual "Keeper of the Prophecies" missions - only the 2 pack now
  • Removed individual "Lord Ashton" missions - only the 7 pack now

  • Added WoodKey Resthouse, by GOB, for TG
  • Added Iron Man, by eepcat, for T2
  • Added Ravencourt's Mansion, by T Nagy Levente, for T2
  • Added Lord Ashton Series, by Christine, for T2 (through #7 "A Winter's Night)
  • Added Burglary in Blackbrook, by mmafreak, for T2
  • Added Mr Chuz, by Azrarhn, for T1G
  • Added Island of Iron 1: Fortress of Steel, by mmafreak, for T2
  • Added The Library: The Town, by wizard, for T2
  • Added COSAS 1: Gathering at the Inn, by Mokkis, for T2
  • Added Relic - Left for Dead, by Schwaa, for T2
  • Added A Keeper's Betrayal, by The Immortal Thief, for T2
  • Added Two Fathers, by Uncadonego, for T2
  • Added The Abominable Dr. Dragon, by Chiefdreams, for T2
  • Added The Library: The Basement, by wizard, for T2
  • Added Lord Maguire Estates, by Caradavin, for T2
  • Added Lord Alan's Fortress, by Andrea Aleotti, for T2
  • Added Hell's Motel 2, by Amievil?, for TG
  • Added The Bluecoat's Training Facility, by Thief13x, for T2

  • Created foreign missions folder on FMCDs (on Disc 2)
  • Renamed some missions on FMCDs to show English/Foreign translations
  • Removed the Dromed 1G Folder from FMCDs (to discourage Dromed 1 work)

  • I still need to do a ton, including updating the Upcoming, Cemetery, and Authors pages bigtime. For example, there are some Upcoms that have now been released whose screens I need to transfer.
  • I'm also still going to put in the Contest 4 quotes eventually - I know many of you have been waiting for those.
  • Patience, friends, but thanks for the support and kind words you've shown along the way :-)

April 19, 2003 - Hammerite Imperium need your help!
  • As you may know, I'm a big fan of the upcoming Thief 2 campaign The Hammerite Imperium. Some screenshots are here.
  • The following is a "press release" written by Ibsen’s Ghost of how the campaign is coming along, and they are currently still taking volunteers to be a part of this great project!

    Exciting times ahead for Thief

    Keen Thief fans will no doubt be aware that the 1st Cosas mission was released recently to great excitement. To make people aware that, once Cosas is released and played, we still have not one major fan campaign (Thief2x) but two (The Hammerite Imperium) to look forward to, I am just writing to inform the community that the latter is still looking out for major level designing talent and concept artists who have a good knowledge of the possibilities that Dromed is capable of and a desire to push them still further with ground-breaking new ideas.

    As the Hammerite Imperium will be one of the most ambitious projects yet, we are particularly on the lookout for technical innovators who can push those boundaries and make even our more outlandish ideas manifested in the game. This is why the exceptional quality of the contests has duly attracted our attention. We want to see what you can do to take Thief on to better and better standards. Our aim is nothing less than to attract the attention of Ion Storm for an officially recognised prequel.

    Besides recent progress made on the plot and mission-by-mission structure, the campaign already boasts a full new range of models from the Hammer, Precursor and Metal Orders to name but a few, a storyline drawing from not only a creation myth but thousands of years of Hammerite history, new sounds and creatures (including birds and fish) and much much more besides the impressive website produced by our leader, Alexius - www.hammerempire.cjb.net

    It also deals with the origins of such characters as Constantine and Victoria, staying true to the spirit of the original Thief game and taking the whole Thief universe into a new dimension. The theme of Imperium is clearly more focused on the Hammerite religion and chronicles its downfall. The scope is therefore very wide and brings in a more expansive sort of ‘Lord of the Rings’ setting with a nod towards the Arthurian inspiration of the original game. Its hero travels through major points in a disastrous period of history for the empire before the birth of Garrett. This project is presently written for up to a total of 10 missions with all central concepts being worked through for the main story arc, and looks set to cleverly assimilate much of Hammerite lore in a seamless fashion, whilst expanding greatly on the existing ideas. This is not to say, however, that your individual contribution will not be welcomed as we need very talented craftsmen to work within some guidelines on the mission design. These missions do permit a certain amount of individual flair mainly due to the densely populated world that is being created.

    We are hoping to make the gameplay of the Hammerite Imperium a little different as well, allowing the player to make choices and permit a bit more interactivity. This may make the player to do a bit more thinking than usual instead of simple exploration. Ideally, then, we are looking for a team of people to work on single fan missions with people specialising in architecture, special effects and the general look and feel of the mission. This is because the main character will be moving around a lot in the Thief world and each location will be quite different than the next. So come on, Thief community, let’s show Ion Storm what we’re made of!

    Above all, this is a project made by fans for fans and one of the most valuable qualities you can have is a passion for Thief. All those interested in the challenge should contact either Alexius at doctor_vit(at)hotmail.com or myself, Ibsen’s Ghost (aka the voice of Skarz in Cosas), at Ibsen3(at)msn.com.

April 3, 2003 - Contest 4 Results!
  • The Contest 4 Voting Page is now the Contest 4 Results Page! I have to still fill in the quotes after I get them all organized, and I also have to caption all the screenshots (getting them processed and put together was enough at this point). Sorry for the long delays, but 28 missions is just a whole lot more than 16!
  • Congrats to the big winning mission The Burrick's Head Inn, by Yandros!

February 27, 2003 - 5 FMCDs!
  • Heavily reorganized and updated the FMCDs. I included the Contest 4 missions and CoSaS mission 1 Gathering at the Inn. I've also brought back some of the Official Looking Glass Studios Demos and all the Havok physics engine demos (shows off what whe might expect from Thief 3).
  • Now there are 5 full FMCDs! Of course, all that Thiefy goodness still fits on a single DVD, but for how long? Head over to the FMCD/DVD page for details :-)

February 22, 2003
  • The Contest 4 Voting Page is up! You have until March 15th to play all the Contest 4 missions and vote on them, around 3 weeks left.
  • Replaced navigation buttons on the left with a more compact and quick loading navigation table.

February 5, 2003
  • The contest seems to be going well at this point, after ironing out all the kinks the first week. Remember, you have until March 15th (the "ides of March"!) to play all the missions and vote on them, over 5 weeks left.
  • I will be updating the Contest 4 page soon with the voting format and form, so if you've already played them all and are itching to vote, hold on for a few more days!
  • The voting will be more standardized than in previous contests, but I'll still give you space to add in any comments you'd like to make on any missions. Then I'll liberally quote from your comments in regards to the winning missions. :-)

  • BTW, I have tried over and over to get on the TTLG.com Thief forums with no luck for the past two weeks! Others have said they've gotten on at times, but for me it's never! So if there are any questions or anything directed toward me over there, I can't see them.

January 30, 2003 - Contest Notice - More Missions!
  • NOTICE - there has been brought to my attention a couple of missions that I missed receiving (my email had some trouble recently and I thought I had it all fixed, but I missed a couple files), so there will shortly be a couple additions to the contest and a couple corrections to broken missions already released. I'll keep you all posted!
  • Curiosity Shop
  • Careless Little Fly
  • Thievery
  • Taffer's Shooting Gallery
  • Mylokh's Tower

  • Also, I'll allow anyone to fix something if it needs fixing for a few days if you need to. You may not finish up something you just didn't finish, but if there is a glaring omission like you forgot a sound file or some such thing, send my a note and the fix and all and I'll take care of it.
  • A Mother's Love
  • No More Clients For Monty

  • This contest wouldn't be possible without the super help and bandwidth rich Jason Tibbits (Epithumia on the forums), so if you get a change, send out an email his way to give your gratitude and great praise!!!

  • By the way, a couple of the missions require the custom Gaylesaver scripts, which you can get here. In either case, just unzip the file directly into your main Thief directory, and you're all set forever.

January 28, 2003 - 28 CONTEST 4 MISSIONS!!!
  • I don't have all the voting format stuff ready yet, but I've gone ahead and uploaded the actual missions so you can start getting them and playing them! Make note of the voting categories listed on the Contest 4 page though.
  • I didn't have time to personally try out and test all the missions, so please report any problems to me or to the ttlg.com Thief Fan Missions forum (there will be a couple Contest 4 threads going there).
  • Play time and voting will last about 6 weeks, until March 15th, and then I'll tally all the votes and get the results posted and the prizes sent out! Good luck!

  • Amnesia
  • The Bar
  • Basic
  • Breakout From Apocalypse Prison
  • The Burrick's Head Inn
  • Careless Little Fly
  • Cashing In
  • Curiosity Shop
  • Debt To Nate
  • Dwelling Insanity
  • Father Hirvakia's Portal part 1
  • Father Hirvakia's Portal part 2
  • Father Hirvakia's Portal part 3
  • Father Hirvakia's Portal part 4
  • A Mission With No Name
  • A Mother's Love
  • Mylokh's Tower
  • Night of the Singing Potion
  • No More Clients For Monty
  • R G B
  • Secret Weapon
  • Taffer's Shooting Gallery
  • Thief Noir
  • A Thief Nonetheless
  • Thievery
  • Too Good To Be True
  • Unfortunate Formulae
  • Volcano Island Prison Facility

January 25, 2003 - Style, Housecleaning (in progress)
  • Added a navigation set at the bottom of each page
  • Adding image size info so pageloading doesn't cause shifting
  • Adding link style functions, such as color changes and underlining. The CSS style sheet saves on loading times too. See, I'm still learning HTML bit by bit!
  • Contest 4 missions DUE! I'll take stragglers through Sunday morning though, in case you have internet trouble or something - see what a nice guy I am :-)

January 11, 2003 - Contest 4 Extended!
  • Contest 4 Deadline Extention!
  • I am extending the deadline for the Contest 4 FM submissions 10 days to January 25th, 2003 (by midnight). Sorry to those of you who were anxiously awaiting the release of a bunch of new missions, you'll just have to wait 10 more days. Many of the current authors are feeling crunched for time to finish up their missions and get them properly tested and such, so I feel these extra days will really be a benefit to everyone, even the end players because you'll get higher quality missions in the end.

    For details on end-of-contest procedures, see the Contest 4 page.

  • So, to repeat, the new Contest 4 deadline is January 25th, 2003, by midnight.

Shimmering Light!

November 14, 2002 - 13 New FMs! Contest 4!
  • Contest 4 That's right, the next FM Contest is up and running! So all you authors out there better get Dromeding with your cool little mission ideas! The deadline is January 15, 2003, so you have plenty of time. See the Contest 4 page for full details.

  • New Favourites FM - Hammerhead - The Docks 2, by Gonchong, with a rating of 8. See the Reviews page for full details.

  • NEW T1G MISSION! - The Item, by Oszkár Winkler.
  • NEW T2 CAMPAIGN! - A Keeper of the Prophecies Book 1, by frobber. This pack includes both Hallucinations and Insurrection.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Tymoteusz, by Timon (Polish FM).
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - The Cistern, by Gumdrop.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - A Brawl in the Tombs, by mmafreak.
  • NEW T2 CAMPAIGN! - Ruins of Originia, by Ycatx.
  • NEW T1G MISSION! - The Restored Cathedral, by Zaccheus.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Garrett's Nightmare, by Deadwrite
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - In Search of Leon, by Christine Schneider (mission 5 in her series)

October 23, 2002 - FMCDs/DVDs Updated Further
  • I have rearranged the contents of the FREE FMCDs/DVDs extensively.

    Changes include shifting the order of FMs released on the discs and concentrating support files such as patches onto disc 3.

    See the FMCD/DVD page and the Donation page for full details.

  • There have been a few new missions and other things lately that I haven't got updated yet (though the FMCDs/DVDs are fully updated), so I'll try to get the Keep more fully updated ASAP :-)

  • Contest 4 is in the making as I type! For now, it's shaping up to be similar to Contest 2 in size restrictions, with a deadline sometime around the first week of January 2003 (plenty of time to make something from scratch for the contest, even if you start late like in December!). Details forthcoming... (don't start yet!)

October 7, 2002 - FMCD/DVD Distribution Update
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Something Up There, by Erik Willems.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - A Lesson Learned, by Balrog.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - A Keeper of the Prophecies: The Insurrection, by frobber.

  • I have fully reorganized the distribution of the FREE FMCDs/DVD. I have removed the option to simply pay me directly to order them. You can still cover all the various costs yourself and mail all materials to me and I'll make you free copies of whichever discs you like. I have also updated the donations page with some free gift offers as well. See the FMCD/DVD page and the Donation page for full details.

September 17, 2002 - VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!
  • There is a possible "Looking Glass Studios" book in the works, but they need a strong VOTE showing to go forward with it.

    Now, LGS is the company that brought us Thief 1 and 2, System Shock 1 and 2, Ultima Underworld, etc. Their untimely demise was one of the saddest unfortunate travesties that ever occured in gaming history, and their story deserves to be told and forever preserved. Please go and VOTE!!!

Sept 14, 2002 - 16 Missions! UT 2003 Demo!
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Last Stand, by Dark_sneaker.
  • NEW TG CAMPAIGN! - Shadow of Doubt, by Sperry. This is a big 6 mission campaign!
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - The Taffer's Tower, by Telliamed.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Makiko ver.0833731, by JIS.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - The Hashishans, by Ben Hur.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Garrett to the Rescue 2, by Apache.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Karras' Diary: Prophecies of Gold, by Thorin Oakenshield. While the mission already comes with the movies, you can also get the movies separately with German subtitles if you like. This mission has had over 1000 downloads already!
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Best Defense, by eepcat.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - L'Arsene, by Gaëtane.
  • NEW T1G MISSION! (Demo) - First Person Shooter, by Nameless Voice. This one is pretty cool!
  • NEW T2 MISSION! (Demo) - Throne Room, by T. Nagy Levente.

  • Updated Mission! - Resurgence: The Ancient Crown, by Ymochel. He has fixed many bugs and updated this mission a lot. If you haven't played it yet, now's the time! It's in the archives, but here's a quick link.

  • Determined that "Hammerite's Brutality" was indeed created recently, June 29, 2002 to be exact, and updated archives to reflect this correction.
  • Updated "Blackstone Crypt", Hit Deity's Contest 1 mission from last year. This fixes the objective problems and some other things.
  • Fixed some odds and ends.

August 22, 2002 - Housekeeping
  • Got rid of all the Circle ratings, just my own remain
  • Updated ALL the links on my entire Archived News page!
  • Reorganized some Upcoms, sent a few more to the Cemetery
  • A few more odds and ends to tidy things up

  • There are a few tasks which I dunno when I'll get to, but here they are:
    - Completely update the Authors page
    - Fix the sortable tables code so it works for more than just IE
    - Add navigation buttons to all pages so you don't have to always come back here
    - Make a sub-navigation set for the Contest pages
    - Reorganize the Essentials page, and perhaps add a minor Dromed page
    - Play ALL remaining missions, rate them, and get screenshots up for them ALL!!!
    - Whatever else I forgot :-D

August 21, 2002 - 245 Upcoms!
  • 30 screens of Alexius and Team's upcoming T2 Campaign The Hammerite Imperium
  • 7 screens (5 new) of Andrea Aleotti's upcoming T2 FM Lord Alan's Fortress
  • 5 screens of The Immortal Thief's upcoming T2 FM A Keeper's Betrayal
  • 6 screens of Zaccheus' upcoming TG FM The Restored Cathedral pt 2
  • 8 screens of belboz's upcoming T2 FM TTGM 5: Trickster's Rift
  • 2 screens of Gumdrop's upcoming T2 FM A Fist Full of Silver
  • 8 screens of BlackRuin's upcoming T2 FM Treasure Hunt
  • 7 screens of Kozmala's upcoming T1G FM Dark Hammer
  • 4 screens of amievil's upcoming TG FM Hell's Motel 2
  • 5 screens of Hex's upcoming T2 FM Cutty's Return
  • 4 screens of Saturnine's upcoming T2 FM Pirates
  • 7 screens of Hit Deity's upcoming T2 FM
  • 2 screens of JIS's upcoming T2 FM F2
  • 7 screens of lytha's upcoming T2 FM
  • 4 screens of Sliptip's upcoming T2 FM
  • 5 screens of Uncadonego's upcoming T2 FM
  • 1 screen of Sharga's abandoned T1G tomb mission
  • 4 screens of Polygon's upcoming T2 FM Insincerity
  • 8 screens of BlackRuin's upcoming T2 FM Dirty Deeds
  • 2 screens of ThiefGurl's upcoming T2 FM The Red Claw
  • 10 screens of Gumdrop's upcoming T2 FM Midnight Rogue
  • 12 screens of Gaylesaver's upcoming T2 FM Painful Reunion
  • 8 screens of doaal' upcoming T1G FM Sepulchre of the Sinistral
  • 72 screens (28 new) of ycatx's upcoming T2 Campaign Ruins of Originia
  • 12 screens (10 new) of Gumdrop's upcoming T2 FM Hammer and Hawthorne
  • 12 screens (8 new) of belboz's upcoming T2 FM The Barons Tower (Tower of the Moon)

  • Added a link on the Contest 3 page to another sortable results page, courtesy of our friend Jason Tibbits (Epithumia). Thanks Jason :-D

  • BTW, alhtough this was not my "conscious" intention, my wife was checking out this update and she says the layout of the Upcoms above looks like a certain part of a woman's anatomy! You can figure it out on your own ;-)

August 15, 2002 - Contest 3 Results!
  • Contest 3 Results are in! After over 16 hours of post-contest organization and other work, the results are finally ready to be published. See the Contest 3 page for all the juicy details!
  • 78 new screens of these contest missions!

  • 6 screens of AD-Cypher's upcoming T2 FM Captured

August 10, 2002 - 100,000 HITS!
  • 100,000 HITS! The Keep is has surpassed 100,000 hits! This was accomplished over the lifespan of about 20 months or so. This is a nice milestone for me and the Keep, so I had a little contest in which the 100,000th visitor got a free FMCD! I'm also sending a free CD to the runner up, so two lucky taffers will have some Thiefy goodness coming in the mail soon.
  • Here's to another 100,000 hits :-D

August 6, 2002 - 59 New Screens!
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Your Last Breath, by John D.
  • NEW T1G MISSION! - Ducal/Hammerite Asylum, by Sperry. This is yet another two year old mission that I only now have gotten into the archives!

  • The Thief 3 raffle has been cancelled, and refunds returned. There just wan't enough support for it, so I made a decision - sorry to those few who were excited about the raffle. But hey, Thief 3 will still come, regardless of whether we bet on it or not!

  • Here are a bunch of 1999 missions screenshots!
  • 9 screens of Goit's T1G FM Information
  • 7 screens of Gonchong's T1G FM Shunned
  • 6 screens of Fred Chooks's T1G FM Retreival
  • 4 screens of Vitus's T1G FM Prisoner's Revenge
  • 7 screens of Sneaky Shadow's T1G FM The Trickster's Return
  • 3 screens of Fafhrd's T1G FM N'lahotep's Tomb
  • 10 screens of Garotte's T1G FM The Treasury
  • 7 screens of kfgeckos's T1G FM The Library
  • 6 screens of Wrichards' T1G FM Oblivion

  • I haven't put up a bunch of Upcoms in almost 4 months! I have a bunch and I'll try to get them up within a few days :-)

August 5, 2002 - Vote Before August 12!
  • If you haven't already, hurry up and download and play all the Contest 3 missions so that you can VOTE on them! The voting deadline is August 12, so you only have one week left! See the Contest 3 page to get the missions and for voting details.
  • Everything's back online and going good :-)

  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Hammerite's Brutality, by T. Nagy Levente (his third mission, the other two?). Somehow this mission has just surfaced, though it was actually made over two years ago! Go figure, at least we have it now :-)
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Lord Alan's Basement by Andrea Aleotti. This is a revision of the original T1G version released last December 2001. Andrea says to just toss the old one - this T2 updated version is the final good version.
  • NEW TG CAMPAIGN! - Shadow of Doubt, by Sperry. You can find the individual missions HERE, and I'll get a proper link up here in the Keep archives when the one "big" package arrives complete with briefings and such.

July 18, 2002
  • Wow, you guys do it every time! You've eaten through many gigs of bandwidth downloading those contest missions! I've zipped them all up into one big ZIP file and put it on another server I have an account with, so you'll have to get them that way for a little bit :-) Get them HERE or from Jason HERE

July 14, 2002
  • 4 screens of Judith's upcoming T2 FM
  • 16 screens (2 new) of Bukary's upcoming Polish Project
  • 8 screens of Sharga's upcoming Blue Moon

  • Added in Friends section a new link to a highly recommended (by bukary) Polish Thief site - if you speak Polish, check out Thiefage

  • NEW T1G MISSION! - Secret Way, by Hengist.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Curiosity, by Demonreaver. This is his first mission, so check it out :-)

July 12, 2002 - 16 Contest 3 Missions!!!
  • The Contest 3 FMs are in! Just like in Contest 2, there are 16 of them, but these ones are much smaller. Download them all, head on over to the Contest 3 page, read the voting rules, play the missions, and VOTE!

    Just for interest, here is a list of Authors, in no particular order, who submitted missions:
    -Bukary
    -Komag
    -Yametha
    -THEthief
    -Cypher628
    -telliamed
    -Spitter
    -ChangelingJane
    -CookieDough
    -William the Taffer
    -Darkfire
    -Yandros

  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Quick Cash, by mmafreak. This is a small mission, but not part of the contest. Check it out :-)

July 11, 2002 - FOUR FMCDs!
  • I've rearranged the FMCDs again and updated them with the contest missions, Thievery UT, and some other things. They now span FOUR discs! Although it all still fits nicely on a single DVD, making the DVD option all the more economical. I've also made the ordering chart more simplified as well. Check out the FMCD/DVD page for details.

  • THIEVERY UT!!! As mentioned, you can now get the Unreal Tournament full mod Thievery on FMCD #2 or the FMDVD. At over 120meg it's a hefty download, so the CD might be the way to go for you.

    If you have the full game of UT, then this mod recreates a Thiefy environment with many custom missions and full multiplayer capability - be a Thief or a Guard and taff away!

  • Contest missions...mmm...soon... (maybe later tonight, we'll see)

July 10, 2002
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Revenge, by Christine Schneider. This is the fourth FM in her series, which can be found all together on the Campaigns page.

  • The contest missions are in and I'll have them all up and ready for playing and judging within a day or two :-D

July 1, 2002 - Deadline Extended to July 10
  • Due to some recent plans by my wifes family (grrrr)(just kidding, honestly), I will be going out of town for a little bit until July 10th, so the Contest missions won't be actually due until then.

    That's right, the deadline of July 4 has been extended to July 10, which should help some of you get some final things up and running and polished anyway. Everything else is the same though, but here is the link to the contest page anyway: Contest 3 Info Page

June 24, 2002 - Contest 3 FMs Due In Two Weeks!
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - The Hashishans, by Ben Hur
  • NEW T1G MISSION! - Brainchild, by Sperry
  • NEW T1G MISSION! - Awaken!, by Sperry
  • NEW T2 MISSION! - Sisterhood of Azura Pt 1: Estheridge, by Ben Hur

  • NEW T2 MISSION! (Demo) - L'anniversaire de Yan, by Lady Jo with help of еKŁZ
  • NEW T2 MISSION! (Demo) - L'anniversaire de Joelle, by Lady Jo with help of еKŁZ
    These two demos were actually made a year back in June and July of 2001 and can be found with all the other Darkloader-ready demos on my, you guessed it, Demos page.
  • NEW T2 MISSION! (Demo) - Mistrz, by Ernie
  • NEW T2 MISSION! (Demo) - Run thief...RUN!, by Gumdrop
    It's a race - go your fastest, record your time, and report on the forums!

  • Updated "The Ties That Bind" by Hit Deity - fixed a few odd things and a bug with some loot setting off the objectives, otherwise it's the same :-)

  • Thievery UT is coming out June 28 - This Friday! That means if you own Unreal Tournament you will be able to play Thief Multiplayer - be a guard or a thief and go at it! Details HERE

  • Now there's only TWO WEEKS left to make and enter your little contest missions! If you work fast you could make an entry even now, so head over t