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Summary Greetings dear friends! To celebrate the tenth anniversary of the release of my FM, I have published a (hopefully) worthy update to it. Version 2 of my FM called "Sneak & Destroy" uses many new features that have been added to TDM over the years, fixes numerous bugs that were overlooked at the time, but the FM still remains true to the original one. So if you had problems playing this FM lately, if you never played this FM or if you wish to revisit a tiny but lovely part of the TDM history, this update is for you! Download the latest version via the in-game downloader and celebrate the past 10 years with me together! Improvements Visual improvements to city area and interior rooms Enriched the scenes with additional audio Fixed critical bugs that were introduced as TDM was updated Added triggered Conversations for NPCs Added EFX support to all areas Changed multiple aspects of the map in terms of better gameplay and progression Corrected and inserted new writings in books and notes Reduced amount of loot necessary to end mission Added lantern and looking glass to inventory Made use of new particle effects to enhance visual quality Screenshots Credits Thanks go to: bikerdude for being on call to bugfix and improve the map with me Dragofer for pushing ideas for scripting things jysk, Baal & datiswous for finding even the tiniest bugs Springheel for reintroducing me to DR after almost 10 years with his tutorials Greebo for working on the newest tools to update my rusty FM Grayman – I hope I made you a little bit proud Have fun! SeriousToni - 12.04.2012 - 17.11.2022

The Rats Triumphant (Halloween Contest 2015 Mission) Download links: MEGA (11 MB) ...and the mission downloader Design notes: The idea for this mission came from an old house in a side street where I go to my daily work. It had been dilapidated as long as I can remember, first as a home for beggars and some fairly disreputable people, then condemned and its windows bricked up, and now finally in the process of being demolished. As I went to my work and back, I could watch it disappear day by day, exposing its layers of construction until finally only one wall remained. But for all its ruined state and inhabitants, it had a simple elegance, and I decided to preserve it in the form of a fan mission. (more on building the mission later) Special thanks: to Bikerdude for multiple performance-related and aesthetic fixes. My playtersters, Bikerdude (again), nbohr1more and Premier.

Male Voice Actor on Call with Dark Mod Experience Hi, I am Andrew Bartmess, a talented voice actor, who would like to do some work for you. HISTORY: You can find examples of my work on my website, www.everybodyandme.com. I have “done voices” all my life for church shows, my own amusement, and for D&D gaming, but am now getting traction professionally. My website has many faux-mercials, comedy bits, characters and my radio commercials for WDJO as well, showing off a variety of voices and styles. I am a 58-year-old man, but can be whomever you need: Major Bumble, Ben Franklin, Pirate Pete, Winston Churchill, you name it. I am an excellent mimic, and have done lines in the styles of some of the Dark Mod Ai characters...would LOVE to do a Hammer! The best are on the main page, with other stuff in the Archives page. THIEF WORK: I am a LONG TIME THIEF fan, back to the original, and have been doing work for several mission authors on The Dark Mod, appearing in a dozen-plus missions so far. I have done drunks and lords, guards and sailors so far. I can do everything from refined twits to gruff lockpicks. You can hear a full voice real of my Dark Mod / Gold work at The Dark Reel on YouTube. And I do a great classic Garrett...check out my homepage. I love to donate work for Thief missions, as it is great vocal training and great fun to make characters come alive! MISSIONS: You can hear me in Dragofer’s “Down By The Riverside”, Sotha’s "Coercion", Goldwell’s “Lord Edger’s Disappearance”, Cambridge Spy’s “Murdering the Markets”, LarryG’s “Finals at the Academy” and Gort’s “Rebellion of the Builder 2”. Some additional missions have been Death's Cold Embrace, The Black Parade, Snowed Inn, The Eye, & In and Out, and dozens of others. I was in 8 of the 23 entries for the 20th Anniversary contest a while back. CONTACT AND STUDIO SPECS: Best contact is andy@everybodyandme.com (carbon arcadewizard@cinci.rr.com just to be sure), as I don't always check here. I have a daytime mundane job, but have my own studio booth, and can turn most work around in a few days, overnight if it is limited. I work ProTools Lite with a Spark microphone, can send you MP3, .wav or .ogg files as you like. Under 20 Meg I can email, over that I have sent by Zippyshare and WeTransfer, or you tell me how best to get them to you. I LOVE doing voices; I am a frustrated actor with NO memory, so I would have been great in radio theater, and this is as close to that as it gets. Give me a challenge, some rough guidelines and a script, and I will give you back several treatments to see what you like. I would also like any work in any other games you have a hand in…SF or other kinds of stuff. I just want to get the experience on the way to doing this for a (part time) living, but I think you will like what you hear. Thanks. BARTMESS_Garrett.mp3

Winner: The Rats Triumphant (Melan) Rankings: 1) The Rats Triumphant (Melan) 87.333% 2) Thief's Remorse (Airship Ballet) 82.738% 3) Golden Skull (Sotha) 80.667% 4) Spring Cleaning (Goldwell) 75.067% 5) Dead Drunk (Stumpy) 59.545% Calculations:

Halloween Speedbuild 2 Contest 2014 Winners: 1st place: Briarwood Cathedral (author buck28) 76.44% 2nd place: Exhumed (authors Airship Ballet and Kyyrma) 75.80% Calculations: No offense buck28 but this result was a bit of a surprise with your mission up against the combined efforts of Airship Ballet and Kyyrma. That said the real deciding factor were the 6 top votes for gameplay in Briarwood vs only 2 in Exhumed. It'll be interesting to watch the votes after the contest and see how these fair over the years. Right now the sample data is so low this might as well be a tie (but that could also be said of most of our contests, I guess).

What do you guys think? If we started a contest next week, would we have some entries finished before Halloween? Do we have any interested mappers?

So the Unusual Gameplay contest idea seems to be the most popular and would allow most of the other popular choices such as Assassination missions to be part of the fun. Now we need to know what terms folks prefer and when they can participate. You can also pre-signup in this thread if you are confident you will participate no matter what terms are given.

Per popular demand and fllood's great work collecting these ideas, I am opening a poll to see which is the preferred contest. There were no respondents previously about whether anyone was ready to join a contest but at least we can settle on the theme now and perhaps another poll for the desired time-table. Here is a link to fllood's post that has further links to descriptions of each theme: http://forums.thedar...post__p__300358

Winner: Sneak & Destroy (Author: SeriousToni) Rankings: 1) Sneak & Destroy ( SeriousToni ) 73.95% 2) In Remembrance of Him ( RPGista) 70.85% 2) Rightful Property ( jysk ) 69.58% Calculations: Congratulations to all participants! Like Melan and many others have stated, all three missions were so good they can hardly be considered "beginner" at all. Edit: I have amended the results per RPGista's request.