You are the thief hired to infiltrate into the former builders/now thieves fortress somewhere in the mountains and steal some blueprints of new weapons and at the same time you are to find out what's happened to your "colleague" here. And here begins your journey during stormy night.

While the scenario is relatively thin, this mission propose...

NOTE: I played this mission on Expert. One of my biggest issues with this map - the incredibly aggressive loot goal - may not be as big of an issue on lower difficulties.

There are a lot of things this mission does well:
* amount of content (took me ~105 minutes to complete)
* attention to detail
* variety in environments
* rope a...

When I say short, I just mean relative to a large mission. It took me right about an hour of gameplay (not including loads) and didn't feel short and I found none of the secrets!

I really like the soundscape and there is plenty of loot to find and the mission fits together really well, it just doesn't "sprawl" which is fine with me. It hit t...

This mission is very enjoyable and has the main points that I look for in a great dark mod mission

Excellent writing.
The right amount of difficulty...I needed to be careful going around every corner.
Rewards for thorough exploration...you won't want to blaze through this one.
Plenty of secrets

I can't wait to play the next two in the s...

If you've played the previous Rocksbourg missions, you'll remember the brief otherworldly sections that tear you out of the city and to place you in someplace else entirely. It all culminates in "Ink and Dust". After pulling off an exceedingly dark and moody city theme, DrK creates a brand new and fully realized variation of the Keeper theme.
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Rocksbourg's facade has crumbled. The "invasion" is here. Martial law is declared. Civilians are being herded into "safe zones," while elsewhere the various armed factions of the city fight to keep the undead at bay. After saving Garrett's life, the Keepers task him to run some errands in the locked-down part of Rocksbourg, one of them will send...

An excellent three-mission pack. As it's a sequel to the earlier FM "Calendra's Cistern," I recommend you play that first along with Purah's first mission, "Autumn in Lampfire Hills." The story here is that Garrett needs to pawn off the artifact he stole in "Calendra's Cistern," which proves to be a lot more complicated than he expected.

The ...

Banshee was one of the early pioneers of FM design. He left us with two gems that hold up to this day. In "Lord Edmund Entertains", Garrett is gatecrashing into a secret meeting organised by Lord Edmund. He has to figure out how to break into Lord Edmund's Mansion and discover what this meeting is about. This is not a very long mission (you can ...

It's a good fan mission. I feel like the author's "Lord Edmund Entertains" was a bit better in terms of gameplay and story, but "The Vigil" is a solid creation that will keep you entertained for some time. Even though there are no ambient loops (room brushes are correctly set) in most places, the silence felt appropriate. In the first part of th...

Small mission with 4 floors and few guards. What makes it interesting is that the guards randomly patrol their floor, so you always keep on your toes. I encountered a few bugs with light switches and ai not being able to switch lights back on. However I had fun and can recommend this mission.

Fantastic campaign. It features so many environments known from original Thief levels (mansion, mines, Lost City, tombs, sewers, towers, Keepers' area, etc.) and polishes them to perfection - "Greatest Hits" with an individual tint. Garrett has to steal a valuable gemstone called "The Widow's Ire". The path to this objective is not easy and stra...

DrK is one of the Thief scene's heavy hitters, responsible for "Lost Among the Forsaken" which is one of my all-time favorite FMs and one of the most popular of recent years. But long before that his first series of maps, A Night in Rocksbourg, was already accorded classic status, and they were in fact among the first FMs I played back when I wa...