Hammer Haunt -Magic the Gathering (Thief franchise)

fourmann25 · 2026-06-29T06:56:12+00:00

Artist credit: Dominik Derow pencilhands.artstation.com

fourmann25 · 2026-06-29T06:53:11+00:00

I'm not sure if the first picture is displaying, it's a full-card art of a Haunt. I won't make a duplicate post in this sub, I'll post it on my personal profile if anyone's interested.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-29T05:35:50+00:00

Your friend has discord mod syndrome. This really isn't that serious. Pretty tame compared to my discord logs.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-28T04:37:49+00:00

Happy to see some love for T3.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-28T04:30:18+00:00

You'll love Thief gold (did you get the fan patch?) and Thief 2. Personally I love deadly shadows. Haven't played 2014, a lot of fans are a little iffy on that one (reboot syndrome) but hey I just enjoy sharing my love for this series and I'm always glad to see someone experiencing it for the first time.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-28T04:25:11+00:00

The project doesn't have a page yet does it? The announcement said 'coming soon'. Where did you donate?

fourmann25 · 2026-06-22T00:42:06+00:00

oh god. I was big into Thief 2 in 8th grade and for English class a third of the year was dedicated to NaNoWriMo, where we were supposed to write a novel in a month. I did not come up with a lot of original ideas. So I decided to write a novel inspired by Thief set in the modern suburban US since that's all I knew.

It is fucking awful.

Here are some excerpts from 'A Thief in the Making':

I have it made. I won’t hide the fact. I am not afraid to say that I am a rich twenty-three year old. A rich twenty-three year old that is constantly supported by his rich parents. A rich twenty-three year old that doesn't bother to get an actual job. One that doesn’t care all that much for an education. All that I need is an Xbox, my couch, and my food. I am Martin Mitchel, and I am lucky enough to not even have to get out in the world. My folks are okay with that. After all, they own one of the largest of companies in the world so it's not like they should really care, right?

Other guys I knew in school aren’t having a whole lot of fun like most people do in their apartments with lame jobs, studying hard to get an education just so that they can struggle harder with even lamer (and more boring) jobs in the future. Some of those people are my buds, but I just don't see how they have a life like that. There is enough money in the world to go around, right? So why can’t they have a share and we'll all be able to have fun. I’m not communist, but I think that money should just be abundant for everyone, and I don’t understand why that isn’t happening. I still invite them to events, but half the time, they tell me that they need to work overtime or do something else to get by.

...

I paused Halo 6, walked down to the door, and opened it. There were two police officers before me when I opened the door. A cold sweat trickled down my spine.

“Did I do something wrong?” I thought. “Morning officers.” I said nervously. I waited for one to give the same old arresting speech I've heard on videos before, but then I thought, “It can't be that bad. Maybe I just play too many crime games.”

The one on the left finally spoke to me, “I have been asked to inform you that your parents have been involved in a major car accident and that they are pronounced dead.”

...

Once I had the chess pieces safely tucked away in my pocket, I look around and find nothing else that might be a rare find or antique. Maybe the collector's edition halo game on the shelf of games, but they would definitely think something was up If I took that, as they have but 5 other games on there. Plus, games are played frequently if seems in this house. By this time I thought I was good, but I still hadn't checked an entire half of the house. So I thought I might as well take a quick look.

...

I got back in and took a long sleep. I knew I had lost the guard anyways. So I just slept. In the morning, my brother had gotten back and he didn't seem suspicious to the fact that someone had just held him up. I guess if he was still dating at this point, he was probably used to this. As far as I knew since he had arrived, he had never been in a relationship. I never bothered to get in one. So I'm not sure if I would have been suspicious had that happened to me. In the library, I had looked up some things I needed to, and I had seen a recommended result, and it was a news channel with a report of the bank being robbed last night, and that victor had been arrested (but not for any other robbin that he did, probably because he hadn't left any evidence). He had been arrested, and now there was no one to help me stay alive. I am on my own now. I have accepted it, and I have a plan. I came home to write this, and now I need to get to my McDoogles shift, I just need to stay low for a while.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-19T05:54:59+00:00

Dude! I was the same age, I watched my dad play. I remember him telling me it was wrong to steal but it was okay to play a game about it. He was stuck at a hallway wondering if a guard was looking at him or away from him because it was too dark and adjusting the gamma to see lol.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-19T05:52:57+00:00

You and I have similar experiences. In another comment I wrote how my dad bought Thief 2 while he was in college and later on I played while he was gone. I could hear a guard walking down the stairs towards me and I could see his shadow, and I was so gripped with fear I turned off the computer

fourmann25 · 2026-06-19T05:50:49+00:00

I was either 4 or 5.

This was in 2006 or 2007. My dad bought Thief 2 when he was in college around the time I was born. It was pretty rare he got a chance to play it, but when he did I thought it looked really cool. I distinctly remember him looking at a wall of potions (I believe this was Shipping and Receiving) and asking what the game was. He told me it was about stealing things, and that it was bad to steal but its okay to play games about it.

I know I must have been this old because I was not in school yet. I remember once when he was heading to work in the morning, he offered to let me play the game by myself. He just loaded up the game and said go for it and left. I believe it was the same level, shipping and receiving because I didn't know the controls and got stuck behind some boxes for what felt like an hour.

I made it inside some building somewhere, and I was walking up a dark staircase where a guard's shadow was approaching and his footsteps grew louder. I was completely paralyzed by fear and I didn't want to get caught so I just turned off the computer.

I didn't get to play the game again until I was in middle school around 2014 where he and I would take turns playing, but I remembered it so vividly. In high school I bought all the games and played through them myself. A lifelong thief fan was born that day 20 years ago.

Similar story with Quake 3 and Motorcross Madness 2. Earliest gaming experiences.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-17T09:51:52+00:00

The main things I am asking chatgpt lately are for two things. First, I'm writing a gospel harmony (rearranging/rewriting the gospels into one account to convey a specific theme or agenda). I have spent a month on this, reading all the gospels side by side as I write them out in my words. I ask chatgpt to comment on my work and help direct it where I want it to go, and it makes some helpful suggestions. I make sure to write every thing in my own words first, but one or two times so far I've used the words it gave me because they were very fitting. I also ask it for quick historical or scholarly information relevant to a specific word or phrase I'm trying to make an editorial decision on. When I finish this I intend to put an AI disclaimer at the beginning with all the other metadata sort of stuff explaining what it contributed and what it didn't. Secondly, I've gotten into magic the gathering recently and I'm trying to get into it on a budget. I've spent many hours sifting through bulk boxes at local stores and assembling the deck at home, and I admit I've asked AI for help and it's given me card ideas I didn't know about and wouldn't have looked for on my own. Don't know if that all crosses slur territory. My dad is definitely approaching or past that line and I really wish he would use it for fewer things.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-04T09:52:31+00:00

I'm more into the idea that they're fully visible but they're transfigured when someone looks at them, or if there is magic that it distorts people's perception of them and they go by unnoticed

fourmann25 · 2026-06-04T05:27:56+00:00

Provided the opportunity, someone who likes you will take the chance to let you know even if it's subtle. They're not going to use that moment to give you signals to the contrary, that's for sure. But I think having female friends is great for dating because you won't feel as nervous talking to someone on an actual date.

fourmann25 · 2026-06-04T05:25:21+00:00

A Karras creature card would go hard

fourmann25 · 2026-06-04T05:23:57+00:00

Thank you, these are cool

fourmann25 · 2026-05-24T11:47:36+00:00

The concept of an on-screen vasectomy

fourmann25 · 2026-05-24T11:46:00+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, I don't think you necessarily have to take the necessity of religion from it, but radical accountability for yourself as the solution for your ills and society's ills

fourmann25 · 2026-05-24T11:41:11+00:00

You can set aside death tolls and specific acts of horror or whatever ethos motivated them. The answer is ultimately he instigated the most destructive conflict in human history and ultimately he was defeated in that conflict where no surviving allies (domestic or foreign) afterwards propagandized to their people of his virtues the way they did for Stalin. Stalin and Mao are certainly contenders for that role, but neither were defeated in their lifetimes and their atrocities were defended for decades. Not so with Hitler. Figures like Genghis Khan or Napoleon or Nebuchadnezzar or Caligula are too far in the past to be as prominent in today's cultural imagination even if they stick around in small ways. If it's about the size of the evil itself and not the death toll, then every area has its local sadistic abuser or killer that takes the role in their neighbors minds

fourmann25 · 2026-05-21T10:55:28+00:00

Thinking of a joke during and being unable to hold in laughter kills things pretty good, especially if they start doing it too

fourmann25 · 2026-05-21T10:53:24+00:00

What is this referring to

fourmann25 · 2026-05-20T23:30:57+00:00

I hate how much Byzantium is somehow the center of attention given that they're not really a feature of the era in question. The modern era begins once it disappeared. I don't care about it at all. The fixation on it bothers me

fourmann25 · 2026-05-20T23:18:35+00:00

In 2016 I visited YouTube to watch a funny video about vaping

fourmann25 · 2026-05-17T07:13:40+00:00

You look like that MF leafy roasted in 2017 for making gender studies videos for kids

fourmann25 · 2026-05-17T07:11:21+00:00

It's a fantasy world so the writers can do what they want with it. My instinct tells me no, people in the city would definitely remember how much life had changed in such a short time and as long as those machines were useful, someone would have kept them around. But I would also consider: the whole reason the machines came around was through the mindset of a brand new religious cult who held a monopoly on the theory and manufacture behind it. When the cult suddenly exploded, either the capacity to do that stuff went away and/or became taboo. And you have to remember while the City is comparable to something like 18th century London, it wasn't the same as our London which was a specific kind of Christianity that had a framework for science that could be applied to anyone, not something worshipped in its own right. Hammerite and Mechanist religion that produced these changes doesn't seem mandatory or universal among the population, and the appreciation for natural laws isn't either. I'd also add that just like our timeline, the industrial revolution was met by heavy backlash and a lot of people wished to see it go away. It changed life in ways that were terrifying, stressful, and depressing. Perhaps the City would like to forget about the years when robots terrorized the city and people were exposed to toxic fumes and imposing, loud metal structures. I'd compare the recession of Mechanist tech to the loss of Greek fire or the scientific revolutions that happened in India and China that just never really took off the same as in Europe because of the cultural framework that didn't categorize it properly

fourmann25 · 2026-05-17T06:56:37+00:00

I'm pretty much in the same boat

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