DeceasedCrab plays Trilby: The Art of Theft - Part 8 of 8

Well, here it is. The ending. Enjoy.

Well, turns out she did kill her husband after all...and became a full agent of the Company. Then, she was chosen to lure Trilby in and make him part of the Company as well, since Threnody's photographic operation failed. Whaddya know?!?

Trilby then leaves the XJ Unit on a flagpole and leaves Elizabeth high and dry. If you beat the game with the Trilby hat rank, you'll find out he left America and headed back to England.

Anyway, you get a bonus heist - all seven heists in the game, all in one sitting, and you only get seven tasers and seven alarms before you're forced to abort the whole thing and start it all over. Give it a try.

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It's time to do some damage to The Company...

Heist 7

The Company Headquarters

Larry can't stop leaving notes about how to get past security. Moron.

Push the third brick to the left of the second outlet pipe to access the underground base.

The security guard in the cell only thinks he's a security guard. Also, cut the red and green wire in the electrics box for the second area. Just remember to cut the green wire before cutting the red one, because that guard will alert everyone else to your presence and sound an alarm.

The third area has a sphere in the background and is covered will vertical lasers that will definitely spot you unless you hide behind the boxes. The first two digits for the security code (260) are in the last area, while the final digit is near the start of this one.

For the fourth and last area, go to the T section and loot it to get the Trilby file. From there, ransack the C section for a file on the Company and E for Elizabeth Perota's file. Now get the hell out of there.

If you check the Y section, you'll get a file for Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw, who created the whole Trilby series.

Of course, when you try to get out, some guy will activate the Battlesphere from inside. Yeah, that sphere in the background that had all those lasers around it earlier. Hit the loose wiring that comes out of the sphere with your taser, and try not to either touch the fireballs or get roasted by the grey block that flies around. If you lose all 100 hit points, you're dead. When you hit all the pieces of loose wiring that come out, you'll destroy the Battlesphere.

You now have one minute to get out of here. Just make it back to the beginning, pick the lock (again), and then get the crap out of there.

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Heist 6

Davenport Farmstead

The three notes at the beginning add up to a random number when you read them all.

When you enter the basement of this house, you'll find a bottle. Pulling it will reveal a hidden keypad. Enter the random number. This reveals a full light area, and a lot of this heist will be full of them, so you'll definitely need to know what you're doing. Cut the blue wire on the electrics box.

For the next area, avoid the guards and cut the red wire on the electrics box. This cuts a tremendous amount of the light in this area out.

For the third area, cut the red wire. Be careful near the lasers, as they'll just malfunction as opposed to stop working altogether.

At the lower-left corner of the third area, you'll find the XJ unit. Grab it, then get the crap out of there once you have $700 in loot.

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Ha, ha. Stupid rich people.

Heist 5

Kroner Avenue

Ha, ha. Kroner.

Anyway, it's time to rock the residential districts and steal stuff from the residents of a wealthy neighborhood.

Another toilet with loot in it. "What is this? The new trend in home security?" certainly says it best.

Sidle by the sleeping people so they won't wake up. If you haven't bought the Sidle technique from the newspaper stand at the Workshop yet, you'll definitely want to do that before this mission.

There's a note that says to pull the lever at the end of Act 3...and that there's real diamonds on the Star of Beauty. You'll have to cut the red wire on the electrics box, head down, all the way to the right, down again, and to the left to get the Star of Beauty before the spotlight turns back on.

Another note hints at a safe. The safe code is in two halves, and they're both hidden in books. The first half is hidden in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to C++." 83. The name of the other book - "Passion's Awakening" - is behind Toby's washing machine. 5. 835 is the safe code for the door to the safe in the lower-left corner of the left screen.

Don't forget to get on the rooftop and yank the bag. That has more loot and more Reputation.

Loot the fridge for caviar, fine wine and a really hilarious message.

The note near the sleeping person has a rather hilarious message on it as well.

The Classics section of the bookstore has a original gold leaf copy of "The Amateur Cracksman." Pick it up for more loot and Reputation.

The right screen is your ticket out. The blue wire cuts the security monitor.

Go down the fire escape at the right end of the right screen. You'll meet the woman who killed Dominic Perota. It's his wife, Elizabeth, and not only did she not kill Dominic, she was also the one discovered the body. She also knows about the Company and wants to help you. She also tells you that the Company killed him for lack of usefulness as well as to get to you.

Elizabeth then hands you a file containing the location of a secret Company research facility. It also contains details of a small, lighweight object known as the XJ Unit. Trilby goes along with the plan and tells Elizabeth to meet him somewhere in three nights...and be there.

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Yeah, this wasn't a good idea.

Heist 4

Unknown Building

In this abandoned building, you'll meet up with this mysterious group of people and figure out what's going on. Or rather, they'll grab you and taze you before tying you up in a chair. 

You'll find out that these people are known as the Company, and that they're pretty much like the Mafia and control all of Chapow City from the underground.

There are two letters below the screen that says "Submit": Z and X. Repeatedly tap the one that's flashing red to resist submitting. If the picture of Trilby turns into a skeleton, you're pretty much dead.

Once you're free, you'll be able to escape with the emergency lockpick that the Company failed to take off your hands.

Cutting the green wire in the electrics box in the center of the first screen allows you to cut off the security cameras. In the second one, it's the blue wire.

Despite the fact that you have unlimited taser use, you still want to go for a zero-taser use run here to get a higher rank as well as more Reputation Points.

Workshop

When you return to the Workshop and read the newspaper, you'll be framed for the murder of Dominic Perota. Uh, oh.

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Yeah, I'll just steal from these people and OH CRAP WHAT DID I JUST WITNESS

Heist 3

Golden Waters Health Resort

Well, if it's any indication, Perota's in on the sudden drop someone got on you. At the same time, people are about to get their luggage robbed. This is going to be fun.

There are two screens to this hotel: the left half and the right half.

The toilet in the bathroom in the left half contains treasure. I kid you not. While we're at it, there are other things to steal, such as the bag of laundry in the laundry room and the paintings on the wall.

One of the rooms in the right half contains a pair of pants on a table. Search it for a Rolex and Reputation Points. Who leaves their Rolex in a pants pocket, anyway?

There's a room in the lower-left corner of the left half that you have to take the long way to reach, but it contains a note that shows who is in what room and whether they're either in or out. Rooms 1 and 3 have people, as do Rooms 4 and 5. Rooms 2 and 6 are empty, so be ready to loot those rooms like no tomorrow. Dominic Perota and his wife are in Room 5.

When you enter Room 5 to meet with Dominic Perota, you'll see a woman stabbing him. What's going on? Is this woman his wife, or some random person? Why did Dominic get stabbed and killed?

Workshop

When you check the newspaper, it'll say that Dominic Perota has been murdered.

Also, you may have used your Reputation Points to increase your skills after the last two points, but the third heist is a treasure trove for them! 

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"Oh, Dominic, you dark horse."

Heist 1

Protocorp Secure Records Facility

Dominic Perota, CEO of Protocorp, is not only amoral and very wealthy and successful, he's also got a records facility that's ripe for the picking.

The upper-left corner of the screen shows how many alarms (the red ! icon) and tazers (the yellow lightning bolt icon) you can take in the current mission. If you fail to meet these requirement, the mission's over. So watch it.

Don't forget to press the Tab button if you need to double-check your stats.

Open the filing cabinets to find stuff and increase your score. You'll find out that Protocorp has not only been in arms with bikini girls, but they're also in bed with the government...literally.

I'm loving this game already.

You can disable security cameras the same way you can cut the wires on the electrics control boxes. Cut the red wire on the only security camera in the level.

The highest rank you can get in a level is the Trilby Hat, which works like an S rank. You'll have to be pretty good and pretty fast to get this.

Workshop

Check the newspaper when you get back. Oh, how Protocorp has been exposed.

Heist 2

Chapow City Art Museum

Well, Dominic's got all his money accounted for. All of it. He even uses some of it to buy some fine art. The museum's displaying his collection, and they've recently beefed up the museum's budget - and security - to protect it all. The harder it is to get, the better it is.

This game is getting better. I'm not even being sarcastic.

The guards wear ID badges so that the lasers won't recognize them as intruders. Well, at least the game explains something that no other game does. Then again, I guess lasers were good enough to read bar codes on badges as far back as 1991. You can also shut down the lasers from the top floor security office.

The note in the upper-right room says the security code is 384.

Belive it or not, you can drop down from the electrics box room and stand on the chandelier below. Nice.

When you beat the level, you get tripped by a mysterious man who gets a picture of your true face. He and some mysterious others will know everything about you in 24 hours. If you don't come to a certain address within a week, the authorities will bust you. Oh, boy.

Workshop

Check the newspaper again. They know Trilby's at it again in America.

Also, Level 2 and Level 3 Locksmithing are the best skills to earn at this point, and the faster, the better. This way, you can replay the earlier levels to lockpick the doors you couldn't and get higher scores.

DeceasedCrab plays Trilby: The Art of Theft - Part 1 of 8

Well, since the Chzo Mythos is all wrapped up, it's time to check out a slightly stand-alone game where instead of dealing with an evil pain elemental and other macabre things, we go back to 1991 - a few years before the Chzo Mythos series - and see Trilby in his real element.

Workshop

The two icons on the upper-right are the ones you'll need to understand and understand quickly. When the light bulb is on, you're in full light. When it's dark, you're in either medium light or in low light. This is where the eye icon comes in. If it's red, you can still be seen. If it's green, congratulations. You're in low light and invisible to any cameras and guards.

The computer on the lower-right end of the tutorial level will tell you if you're doing it right. Just press X to hug the wall, and press X again to stop hugging it.

Cameras can see you in full light even if you hug a wall.

Press the Space Bar when you're under a thin platform to use the umbrella as a grappling hook, and launch yourself up a level. Hold Down on the Arrow Keys and press Space to go down.

Press up in front of an electric control box and you'll be able to open it up. Use the Arrow Keys to choose which wire to cut, and press either X or the Space Bar to cut it. Cut the green wire here, and remember - if you cut the wrong wire, you'll set off an alarm.

Hold Down and press X to crouch. From here, you can crawl underneath the fluctuating laser beam.

All vertical beams and most horizontal beams can be avoided by hugging against the wall, with some exceptions.

Press Z to hit someone with a taser if you need to. This will temporarily stun enemies.

Press Up on the Arrow Keys in front of a safe, and press X or the Space Bar to insert the lockpick when the gap is in the center. You'll have to do this twice to open the safe. Cracking safes gives you cash and Reputation Points. You can use the latter to buy upgrades and increase your skills.

To pick locks on doors, use Left and Right to maneuver the lockpick, and press X or the Space Bar to insert it when you're under the gap.

If you see a note on a wall, press Up while in front of it to read it. Here, you'll just get the names of the game testers.

Press Up in front of the desk to save and load games. The wardrobe next to the desk contains other wardrobes that you can wear, but you'll have to unlock them first.

The newspaper stand allows you to see how many Reputation Points you have, and also allows you to upgrade your skills. It also allows you to read your deeds.

Walk into the car to take off. You can also revisit old levels if you want.