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United Bank of Auldale (UBA) After giving the old mission a play through last week I made 50 items to look into and make desired changes. Some of them are high priority updates because they negatively affect game play and the rest are really just things that could be edited to improve overall game play and atmosphere. There are a lot of continuity issues and other random pointless things that could be deleted or changed to fit into the mission and Thief game world a bit better.  After getting into editing again I think that setting a Christmas eve release date achievable if I buckle down and get to work. The trouble is building myself up to dealing with the Dark Engine's DromEd editor again after all those years have passed. I should be working on a new mission but updating this one should help me to get my mission building skills built up again so I can create a new fan mission that's been on my mind. I don't know if I should continue with the new one because it'a alre...

United Bank of Auldale (UBA) It's been 17 years since I released my second fan mission (FM) for the video game Thief II: The Metal Age. The FM was posted on thiefmissions.com (Cheap Thief Missions) first on Christmas Eve, then mirrored elsewhere, like The Keep of Metal and Gold (KOMAG). There were a lot of things I didn't like about the mission, but everything worked as it should have, with the exception of two items, so that's not bad. One item was a key that should have appeared on a guard's belt but was invisible in the game. That didn't stop anyone from completing the mission, though. The other issue is a set of doors on the third floor of the cafe that disappear when opened. I don't remember them doing that during the final game test, but strange things happen when you zip a file and upload it to a server. When I started building UBA, it wasn't supposed to be Christmas-themed but ended up that way. I don't even recall what I was thinking exactly whe...

When I'm bored or just out and about, I often stop by thrift stores to have a look around at all the odds and ends that people give away. Depending on which store you go to in different neighborhoods, you get different levels of used items. Oftentimes, where I live, you find a lot of nice items for a few reasons. One is that it's an affluent neighborhood, and people just replace things regularly because they can afford it. Another reason is that people often move in or out of the neighborhood and dispose of items, whether they are coming or going. Sometimes people give away items that they hauled all the way from another state and find that those items no longer fit in bigger houses or new lifestyles. Then there are the older folks who either pass away or move into smaller retirement communities. Regardless, there are a lot of fairly nice items at one of my favorite locations. One of the more common items is the ubiquitous personal water bottle. I'm not usually prone to usi...