Part 16

Guide to Thief 2: The Metal Age Mission 6: First City Bank and Trust. Includes objectives, loot (2284 max), secrets (2), and entry points.

• Obtain the Safety-Deposit Key.

Mission 6: First City Bank and Trust

Objectives:

• [OBJ 1] Get inside the Bank.
• [OBJ 2] Break into the Hall of Records and learn the number of the Mechanists' Safety-Deposit Box.
• [OBJ 3] Steal the Recording from the Vault.
• [OBJ 4] Exit the Bank after completing the other objectives.
• [OBJ 5] Kill no humans.

Details:

• Maximum Loot: 2284
• Secrets: 2
• Pickpockets: 18
• Secret #1: Lever in Hall of Statues
• Secret #2: Wooden balcony on Floor Two

Entry Points:

• Basement: Ground-level door on the eastern wall. Requires lockpicking. Allows access to Basement or climbing a ladder to the south-east corner of the Bank. Good for accessing Vault controls early.
• Counting Room: Mantle up to a balcony in the south-east, go through doors to find yourself north of the counting room east of the Lobby. Easiest to access but not ideal for tackling the rest of the level.
• Main Door: Large double doors east of the starting point. Unlocking them reveals the Lobby full of Watchers. Attempting to knock them out with fire arrows will trigger alarms and metal gates. Not viable.
• Meeting Hall (Roof): Run west, climb boxes and ledges to the roof. Go east towards the Meeting Hall, picklock glass doors, and use a rope arrow to descend to the Floor Two overlook above the Meeting Hall table. From there, go north to the Hall of Records. Costs one rope arrow.
• Great Hall: Double doors in the north-west, guarded by two swordsmen. Requires aggroing them away or knocking them out, then lockpicking. Leads to the room immediately west of the Great Hall. Very dangerous and not very useful.
• Great Hall (Floor Two): Access Floor Two room directly above the Great Hall entrance by reaching the roof and dropping onto the balcony. Not very useful.
• North-east Hall: Recommended entry. Requires running to the north-east. The single guard at the door is easy to blackjack or avoid, and the door is unlocked.

Outside:

• Two guard patrols circle the Bank's perimeter, each with two archers carrying broadheads.
• You can pickpocket all four archers for their arrows.
• The guards in the north can be pickpocketed by hiding behind the wall near the underground tunnel.
• From the start, run west and north, take the ladder down into the tunnel in the north-west to avoid guards at the Great Hall door.
• Continue east to the north-east door.

Hall Of Records:

• Sneak behind the guard or blackjack him to enter the north-east hall on Floor One [OBJ 1].
• Two small Children patrol this area.
• Going south, you can overhear a conversation between two guards. One will go on patrol, the other will block the route.
• Go up the stairs. In the corner, across some tiles, is a CUP worth 50 GOODS (0/0/50|50).
• Go east and shoot out the torch before opening the door, as a Watcher (camera) is present.