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Yesterday I've got this thought: in TDM is already implemented an invisible ink?

If not it would be nice to have an appearing "void" document/clue but can turn it readable with candle/torch heat!

Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

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Aha!

 

That reminds me there was such a document I suspected of being written in some sort of invisible ink... but at that point I had kind of forgotten how to drop things. So I never really did try water or flames or nothing. I convinced myself that it was just a mistake by the author(s). Where was that? I think I might remember. And I think I might go back and find it again with 1.02 (after verifying its existence in my 1.01 saves).

 

Thanks, lowenz; I'll let you know... or rather I'm sure someone else will sooner.

"A Rhapsody Of Feigned And Ill-Invented Nonsense" - Thomas Aikenhead, On Theology, ca. 1696

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Yesterday I've got this thought: in TDM is already implemented an invisible ink?

If not it would be nice to have an appearing "void" document/clue but can turn it readable with candle/torch heat!

This should be possible using a fire response or a custom response of some other kind, eg, use a special potion on the sheet. These can be used to trigger anything so it needs only use a simple script to delete the blank sheet and replace it with another (or possibly change the text it references.)
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Aha!

 

That reminds me there was such a document I suspected of being written in some sort of invisible ink

Precisely, for me too :D

Task is not so much to see what no one has yet seen but to think what nobody has yet thought about that which everybody see. - E.S.

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Mr Lemony Fresh

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The Thief 2 fan mission; 'Rose Cottage' which is a very interesting and unique fan mission to play, has a torch that imitates uv light, you follow it until you find a creepy doles head and some other things inside a box in a hard to find place... That was a interesting mission indeed :P

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Midnight

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The Thief 2 fan mission; 'Rose Cottage'... has a torch that imitates uv light...

 

That UV light was awesome. So was the ouija board. ohmy.gif

I once had to create an document that was supposed to look weathered / old, so I used a quill to write onto plain paper using lemon juice, and then using a flame the letters slowly appeared in a brown colour. Natural invisible ink.

 

I guess if this was done in a FM there wouldn't be a way to have the letters slowly fade in as heat was applied, but still, it would be interesting to see in a storyline (you've been given a map and you have to expose the hidden loot location using a candle flame!).

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Dark Phoenix

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I thought there already was invisible ink.. here's why.

 

 

In No Honor Among Thieves, 2nd mission, in the sewer at the end of the walkway (where the thieves are), there is a chest with a letter inside. It was blank. I tried holding it over a candle but nothing appeared. Well I'm playing the 3rd mission now, so if it's meant to come to light in the story I will see soon enough. Otherwise was this just a glitch?

 

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I thought there already was invisible ink.. here's why.

 

 

In No Honor Among Thieves, 2nd mission, in the sewer at the end of the walkway (where the thieves are), there is a chest with a letter inside. It was blank. I tried holding it over a candle but nothing appeared. Well I'm playing the 3rd mission now, so if it's meant to come to light in the story I will see soon enough. Otherwise was this just a glitch?

 

 

I was wondering about that paper. I figured it to be something overlooked and never considered trying to apply anything to it... maybe read it while underwater? Or was it a readable which you could not put into inventory... hmm I forget.

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Dark Phoenix

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I was wondering about that paper. I figured it to be something overlooked and never considered trying to apply anything to it... maybe read it while underwater? Or was it a readable which you could not put into inventory... hmm I forget.

 

It looked like it was supposed to be readable. In the beginning of mission 1 you can find a letter to thios person.. I took it as this may have been this persons reply mail. It was in inventory. I think it disappeared once you get to mission 3. I think, I'll ask in the NHAT forum.

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