Complete Part 27 of Thief 2: The Metal Age, finding two Ruby Stones and navigating the Gathering Place.
Walkthrough
- 1Turn right to find a flash bomb beside two Mechanist maces.
- 2Jump into the water and follow it east, past the flowerbed, to find another moss arrow hidden beside a flower to the south.
- 3Go back and climb out at the flowerbed. You will be treated to another apparition, and there is a poem of sorts on the tree nearby.
- 4Go behind the large house to find a patrolling Mechanist and a RUBY STONE tucked against the wall.
- 5Go inside the big house, shooting out the torch to help you to hide. There's a Mechanist in here, and he is guarding another notice, a single broadhead, and a Papyrus which explains something about the Gathering Place. You need two RUBY STONES. There are some apples up the ladder.
- 6Cross the river to another house. Inside you'll find a letter, some vegetables, another ghostly cutscene (a cutscene is an in-game cinematic), and 3 PAIRS OF COINS worth a combined 60 GOLD (990/0/0|990).
- 7When you leave this house, turn slightly left and look across the water to find the other RUBY STONE on a little riverside ledge, behind a green plant.
- 8The other hut, in the south-east, contains three broadheads.
- 9Avoid or blackjack the Mechanist mage patrolling the bridge, then follow the blood north.
- 10Walk up the hill, keeping an eye out for two flash bombs by the base of a tree.
- 11Two more Mechanists are walking around the Gathering Place at the top of the hill. One of them is wearing a golden metal helmet, making him impossible to blackjack.
- 12You can find Birch's dead body on the grass.
- 13There's an Invisibility Potion by another dead body inside the Gathering Place.
- 14Approach each of the EYES on the big FACE, and insert a RUBY STONE into each one. This opens a PORTAL in the MOUTH, which you can jump into by climbing the stairs.
- 15You can return through the Portal to reach the Gathering Place again. The nearby dead Mechanist was carrying a flare. You have a new Map (a map is a visual representation of the game world, often displayed on the HUD (heads-up display — the on-screen icons showing health, ammo and the minimap) or as a separate item).
- 16Follow the blood down the hill to find the eyestalk cave, and check the pools for water arrows, and the Mechanist's body for a Healing Potion.
- 17You will come to a junction (where the rats are) where you can go east or west. Go west, picking up a broadhead and a new vine arrow, and avoiding those big bottle plants.
- 18Follow the blood and the path until you come to another spot where you can go down a hill to your right / west, or uphill to the left / east. Go down to the right, to the edge of the swamp, to find 2 PAIRS OF COINS worth a combined 40 GOLD (1030/0/0|1030).
- 19Climb the hill to the east and look down to see a valuable gas arrow. You can drop down the slope under the next bridge, grab it, and climb back up.
- 20Go up the tunnel, still following the blood, and turn right at the end, ignoring the blood. This takes you up to a platform where there are 3 ADDONIZIO CRYSTALS (1030/75/0|1105).
- 21You can fall from this clifftop, using your Slow-fall Potion, and land way down below in a back corner, where you can find a SILVER NUGGET worth 50 GOLD (1080/75/0|1155), as well as a broadhead and a Healing Potion.
- 22If you go all the way west from the crystal clifftop, past more monkey men, you should come to a gap over those clifftops, where you can jump across to find another CRYSTAL (1080/100/0|1180), as well as a noisemaker.
- 23Go back to where the monkey men are guarding the passageway, and use water arrows on the torches to help you sneak past.
- 24Cross the magic bridge and look at the floor of the first tree cave, where you can find a letter to the Pagans from Mosley.
- 25In the next area, Spring, cross to the west wall to find 3 NUGGETS OF GOLD worth 300 GOLD total (1380/100/0|1480).
- 26Go along the bridges to the south-east to find more correspondence from Mosley, as well as a Speed Potion.
- 27Look carefully at the floor immediately behind the Speed Potion to find another tiny RING worth 100 GOLD (1480/100/0|1580).
- 28Go east to find two more monkey men.
- 29Go west to find a SILVER NUGGET worth 50 GOLD (1530/100/0|1630).
- 30Against the south wall of the Summer area, down the ramp, you can find another SILVER NUGGET and a GOLD NUGGET, worth a combined 150 GOLD.
Tips
- There are lots of trees and treehouses in this half of the map, and since they're all made of wood there are lots of opportunities to skip by using your single vine arrow.
- Use a Speed Potion and at least one Healing Potion to get back across the swamp after collecting the Silver Nugget.
- The monkey men are not hard to circumvent.
- The purple fruits (plums) found in the Spring area are just curatives.
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